Yearly Archives: 2005

By Peter Wilson, Vancouver Sun,  21 November 2005 Despite a strong showing by challenger Ben Isitt, Victoria Mayor Alan Lowe was returned for his third straight term in B.C.’s capital city. Although Lowe was expected to keep his mayor’s chair, the race was much tighter than most observers had expected and this was shown by results … Continue reading »

By Tom Hawthorn, Globe and Mail, 21 November 2005 Alan Lowe hugged supporters and choked up while thanking his son as he celebrated election to a third term as Victoria’s mayor. Not normally known for public displays of emotion, the architect seemed relieved to have survived a campaign that was in many ways a referendum … Continue reading »

By Jack Knox, Victoria Times Colonist, 12 November 2005 So, for a moment I think I’m in that Star Trek episode with the parallel universe, where everyone has an alter ego and the good Kirk ends up duking it out with the bad. Here’s Victoria Mayor Allan Lowe’s platform, and it sounds like something you’d … Continue reading »

Victoria Times Colonist, 9 November 2005 Victoria Mayor Alan Lowe is an architect not a planner. Perhaps that’s why Lowe fails to mention urban planning goals in his re-election campaign literature or his platform for a “vibrant and sustainable” city. The mayor is expected to announce a new planner for the city this week. That … Continue reading »

By Rob Shaw, Victoria Times Colonist, 6 November 2005 Victoria’s left-wing mayoral candidate Ben Isitt unveiled his election platform Saturday — a mixture of “immediate” ideas such as a public market, “medium-term” plans for a performing arts centre, and “advocacy” issues promoting free post-secondary education and higher minimum wages. Isitt, the NDP-affiliated Victoria Civic Electors’ candidate, said he … Continue reading »

By Malcolm Curtis, Victoria Times Colonist, 1 November 2005 For whatever reason, sewage treatment has suddenly moved up the agenda as a high priority in Victoria, even if politicians in neighbouring municipalities — and the provincial government — don’t see the need for it yet. Today, it’s hard to find a Victoria candidate who is even opposed … Continue reading »

By Malcolm Curtis, Victoria Times Colonist, 24 October 2005 Victoria Mayor Alan Lowe’s main rival in the Nov. 19 municipal elections says there may be grounds to tear up the operating agreement between the city and the developer of Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre. Ben Isitt, mayoral candidate for the Victoria Civic Electors, says the taxpayers got … Continue reading »

Victoria Times Colonist, 23 October 2005 Mayor Alan Lowe has dismissed as a gimmick a challenge to a televised debate from mayoral candidate Ben Isitt, who has been endorsed by the NDP-affiliated Victoria Civic Electors, called for the debate last week. “If someone was willing to put air time on it I would think about it,” … Continue reading »

By Malcolm Curtis, Victoria Times Colonist, 18 October 2005 The City of Victoria’s downtown advisory committee wants to see a permanent public marketplace in the city centre. Two earlier attempts 20 years ago failed in part because too few people lived downtown, but that trend is changing. The advisory committee cites Seattle’s Pike Street and … Continue reading »

Victoria News, 14 September 2005 The Victoria Civic Electors endorsed 27-year-old Ben Isitt as their mayoral candidate in this fall’s municipal elections, despite a recommendation to the contrary from the VCE executive. About 135 of the 230 members who attended Saturday’s nomination meeting voted in favour of a motion to have Isitt carry the VCE banner in … Continue reading »

Victoria Times Colonist editorial, 13 September 2005 The Victoria Civic Electors organization has named Ben Isitt as its candidate to become the mayor of Victoria — a move that will shape the marketing of all VCE candidates. In the 2002 election, when he did not have VCE support, Isitt took one-third of the votes cast for mayor. That … Continue reading »

By Malcolm Curtis, Victoria Times Colonist, 11 September 2005 Ben Isitt is promising to give Mayor Alan Lowe a run for his money after winning a surprise endorsement Saturday from the Victoria Civic Electors to run for the City of Victoria’s top job. The executive of the VCE, a municipal farm team for the NDP, had recommended … Continue reading »