Archive of Events

27-JAN-2005 - The Knowledge Network will air tonight?a one-hour documentary on the Assembly. The broadcast is set for 9 p.m. Additional broadcasts of the documentary may follow in subsequent weeks. Watch the Knowledge Network website (http://www.knowledgenetwork.ca) for details.

25-JAN-2005 - Assembly chair Jack Blaney addresses a luncheon meeting of the Vancouver Board of Trade. The event is in the Versailles Ballroom of the Sutton Place Hotel, 845 Burrard Street in downtown Vancouver. Registration 11:45 a.m. Lunch and program: 12:15 ? 1:30 p.m. It's open to the public: $65 (+GST) for non-members and $49 (+GST) for Board of Trade members. Tickets from 604-641-1248. You can also register online at the Board of Trade website.

15-DEC-2004 - Assembly members Shoni Field and David Wills appear on the Rafe Mair show on radio station CKBD (AM600 in the Lower Mainland.) They'll be on the air from 9 - 9:30 a.m., and will take calls.

03-DEC-2004 - Assembly chair Jack Blaney speaks to a luncheon meeting of the Rotary Club of Vancouver Arbutus. Please note: This event is open only to Rotarians and their guests. The luncheon starts at 12:15 p.m., and Jack will speak between 1:00 and 1:30 p.m.

22-NOV-2004 - Citizens' Assembly chair Jack Blaney takes part in a panel discussion on electoral reform, 10 a.m. - noon, at Kwantlen University College, 12666 - 72nd Avenue, Surrey. Open to the public; admission free. For location, look for signs on campus for the Third Age Learning program.? Also on the panel: Nick Loenen, director of Fair Voting BC (http://www.fairvotingbc.com/).

17-NOV-2004 - Assembly members Wendy Bergerud and Diana Byford take part in a workshop on "To STV or not to STV", arranged by the Environmental Law Centre at the University of Victoria. It will include a mock election using STV. The event begins at noon in the Fraser Building, Room 152, at UVic. It's open to the public; admission free.

15-NOV-2004 - Assembly member David Wills will be answering questions on radio station CFRO (Co-op Radio) Vancouver, starting?at 6 p.m. The show is called "The Rational" and airs from 6-7 p.m. CFRO is at 102.7 on the FM dial, or you can listen live online at http://www.coopradio.org/listen/index.html

14-NOV-2004 - Assembly members wrap up the fifth weekend of their "Deliberation Phase", leading to a final report that must be produced by December 15. Meetings take place at the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue, 580 West Hastings Street, Vancouver. The agenda today runs from 9 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. If further meetings are necessary after today, they will be held Nov. 27-28. Please watch this website for announcements.

13-NOV-2004 - Assembly members begin the fifth weekend of their "Deliberation Phase", leading to a final report that must be produced by December 15. Meetings take place at the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue, 580 West Hastings Street, Vancouver. The agenda today runs from 9 a.m. through 4:30 p.m.

10-NOV-2004 - Ken Carty, the Assembly's director of research, is a guest on the Rafe Mair radio show on CKBD AM600, Vancouver. Ken will be on the air live starting at 9:30 a.m., and will explain the new STV electoral system being recommended to the people of B.C. by the Assembly members.