{"id":37873,"date":"2025-02-16T10:00:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T18:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/?p=37873"},"modified":"2025-02-16T12:01:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T20:01:59","slug":"ucs-41-the-dismissal-of-councillor-bligh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2025\/02\/16\/ucs-41-the-dismissal-of-councillor-bligh\/","title":{"rendered":"UCS #41: The Dismissal of Councillor Bligh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/UrbanCartoonSyndicate.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-36965\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/UrbanCartoonSyndicate-600x72.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"72\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/UrbanCartoonSyndicate-600x72.png 600w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/UrbanCartoonSyndicate-300x36.png 300w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/UrbanCartoonSyndicate-768x92.png 768w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/UrbanCartoonSyndicate-940x113.png 940w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/UrbanCartoonSyndicate.png 1250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>See our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2024\/05\/20\/urban-cartoon-syndicate-introduction-and-call\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Launch and Introduction<\/a> about the launch of the \u00a9 Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the <a href=\"https:\/\/cityhallwatch.wordpress.com\/2024\/05\/20\/launch-of-urban-cartoon-syndicate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announcement by CityHallWatch<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><em>Related Readings:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Vancouver Sun \u2013&nbsp;<em>Disappointed, but \u2018not surprised\u2019: Vancouver Coun. Rebecca Bligh ousted by ABC party.&nbsp;<\/em>\u201c\u201dTime and again, Councillor Bligh has shown that she is not a core value fit with ABC Vancouver,\u201d party president Stephen Molnar wrote in an email.\u201d&nbsp;(14-Feb-2025) \u2013&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/vancouversun.com\/news\/vancouver-city-councillor-rebecca-bligh-out-of-abc\">https:\/\/vancouversun.com\/news\/vancouver-city-councillor-rebecca-bligh-out-of-abc<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Vancouver Sun \u2013&nbsp;<em>Vancouver to face double byelection with Adriane Carr retiring<\/em>. \u201cStephen Molnar, president of ABC Vancouver, meanwhile said \u201c\u2026&nbsp;<strong>ABC Vancouver is a big tent party<\/strong>, so we are very diversified in terms of neighbourhoods throughout Vancouver, different political backgrounds \u2026 \u201d (14-Jan-2025) \u2013&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/10958259\/vancouver-byelections-adriane-carr\/\">https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/10958259\/vancouver-byelections-adriane-carr\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See our&nbsp;Launch and Introduction about the launch of the \u00a9 Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the announcement by CityHallWatch. *** Related Readings: Vancouver Sun \u2013&nbsp;Disappointed, but \u2018not surprised\u2019: Vancouver Coun. Rebecca Bligh ousted by ABC party.&nbsp;\u201c\u201dTime and again, Councillor Bligh has shown that she is not a core value fit with ABC Vancouver,\u201d party president Stephen<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2025\/02\/16\/ucs-41-the-dismissal-of-councillor-bligh\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;UCS #41: The Dismissal of Councillor Bligh&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8579,"featured_media":37874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spacing"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>UCS #41: The Dismissal of Councillor Bligh - Spacing Vancouver<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2025\/02\/16\/ucs-41-the-dismissal-of-councillor-bligh\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UCS #41: The Dismissal of Councillor Bligh - Spacing Vancouver\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"See our&nbsp;Launch and Introduction about the launch of the \u00a9 Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the announcement by CityHallWatch. *** Related Readings: Vancouver Sun \u2013&nbsp;Disappointed, but \u2018not surprised\u2019: Vancouver Coun. 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