Editorial: A chaotic start to Vancouver's civic election campaign

The civic election is still five months away but it is already shaping up to be one of more unusual contests the City of Vancouver has seen in some time. Under normal circumstances, the dominant political parties — most recently, Vision and the Non-Partisan Association — would hold nomination meetings where paid-up members would cast a vote for the candidate they believed would be most successful in carrying the brand for the party.
This time around, the field appears to be largely p