It is totally shameful of Suzanne Anton to be gloating about this riot.

She is acting as if the riot is the best thing that could have happened for her political aspirations. Instead of trying to place the blame on Mayor Robertson we should be placing it on the people that chose to riot. After all we just invited 200000 people into Van for Canada day and there was no riot shouldn't we be praising Mayor Robertson for that if everything that people do is always his responsibility.

Suzanne is quoted as saying that there would be no riot right before it happened. Just like she isn't responsible for the rioters actions neither is Mayor Robertson.

*YAWN* If this is the best the NPA have to offer they are going to be trounced the fall.

Thanks for reporting on this, Charlie. To your point about our Canucks boosterism – guilty as charged. My proposal about inviting families to Rogers Arena for a ten bucks a head surcharge (donated to charity) was taken up by the folks at Orca Bay, and I salute them for it.

The fan zones were Gregor's alone. It was his responsibility. Robertson had the information about what happened in 1994 at his fingertips. He had control over all the resources the city could throw at this event, and didn't bring it to city council for their input.

Liking the concept of fan zones and controlling the event are two completely different roles. The Mayor should rightly be accountable for what happened on June 15th.

@Mike Klassen

You and Anton were totally clueless. Instead of bringing up questions about the fan zone on the morning of the riot, you had this ridiculous press event with overalls and pitch forks complaining about front yard wheat. Clearly you and Anton are not able to even be an effective opposition let along lead the city.

Nice try Klassen, stop trying to deflect the personal responsibility of the individuals that participated in the riot onto the mayor. The riots were caused by people being to drunk and all the hype in the media about the 94 riot getting the youth worked up on the idea of rioting.

Stop blaming the Mayor because individuals weren't responsible enough to have fun in a appropriate fashion.

You and the NPA are just exploiting the riot to try and score cheap political points, it is disgraceful and disingenuous on your part.

tit-for-tat politics (Dix request for a debate about HST)
Retire Anton. THen Christy can appoint you to the riot inquiry

It had been days since Anton's last release. This was to be expected, but sorry Ms. Anton, still not getting traction, in spite of the headline writer's hopes.

And Mike, you're not doing your cred any good by hitching it to this pony.

You two should try to get the jump on the competition in some other way. Why not stand by the now-crowded bike lane on Hornby and clue in to the fact that in spite of the screaming by a vocal and intemperate minority (in large part from the still-car-dependent burbs) residents of Vancouver are wanting more bike infrastructure. That's right, rather than Anton's weird and unsupported statements about business's on Hornby going bankrupt, get out there and point out the ever increasing bike traffic as evidence that the city wants more bike lanes, not less, or |to move" the Hornby lane as Anton quixotically suggested recently.

Gwyn Morgan and Mike Klassen both want to blame the riots on Robertson, rather than alcohol. Gee, ... I wonder who the Premier wants to pin the blame on?

If this NPA hack wants to place blame, then she should certainly include the CBC, other media outlets (you-just-have-to-be-there!), Translink, the NHL, the downtown bars, for their involvement. She suffers from "selective memory syndrome", whereas the NPA was around during the 1996 riot event.

I have a bird's eye view of one from my office. In the last 10 mins I counted 2 bikes going down them. Not really crowded.