Scores of young Vancouver residents won’t be heading to the polls on November 15th, but it won’t be apathy keeping them away – it will be the law. To cast a ballot in the upcoming municipal election, voters must be Canadian citizens at least 18 years of age. They must also have lived in Vancouver [...]
President of the Vancouver Pride Society Ken Coolen is working on a documentary called The Big Gay Movie with Transmission’s Bob Christie. Due for release in Spring 2009, it aims to depict the truth about discrimination against homosexuality. Coolen explained that the Pride Festival wasn’t just about the celebration but about the fight for equality [...]
Advance polls in Vancouver’s civic election point to a substantial increase in turnout, just a few weeks after participation in the federal elections reached an all-time low. When advance polls closed in the evening of November 12, a total of 15,188 early ballots were counted, up from 8,763 in 2005. This amounts to a 73 [...]
The Non-Partisan Association’s Peter Ladner and Vision Vancouver’s Gregor Robertson have differing perspectives on the Downtown Ambassador program. The Downtown Ambassadors are private and semi-private security guards, partly funded by Downtown Vancouver’s Business Improvement Association, and by the city. They have no law enforcement capacity, and unlike police, are not bound by the Police Act. [...]
Who says politics can’t be fun? Vancouver’s civic candidates let loose at the Creative City Cabaret on Saturday evening – singing, dancing, and making their political points. Local arts management group Left Right Minds hosted the event at the Roundhouse Community Centre. They were hoping to address issues in the arts community and collect donations [...]
Fringe candidates in Vancouver’s municipal election face an “uphill battle,” according to UBC political scientist Fred Cutler. These candidates have a difficult time changing policy because it is hard for them to get their views on to the mainstream agenda, said Cutler, who studies elections. An all-candidates debate on November 9th highlighted this problem when [...]
The Work Less Party of Vancouver want people to drive less too. They are hoping to encourage people out of their cars and onto their bicycles by creating a network of bike-only streets in the city. “We have to change our transportation priorities in this city,” said Dr. Chris Shaw, party spokesperson and candidate for [...]
You won’t just be voting for a new mayor in Vancouver on Saturday. You’ll be asked to approve a project that might just give the city a $31 million dog pound instead of a library in one of its poorer neighbourhoods. It won’t be obvious at the voting booth. The dog pound is buried inside [...]
Community leaders are dreaming of what they could do with $100 million following last week’s revelation that the City of Vancouver had offered a loan guarantee for that amount to developers of the 2010 Olympic Village. A national newspaper revealed last week that Vancouver’s City Council had unanimously agreed in a secret meeting to bail [...]
The next mayor of Vancouver will oversee a pilot project to allow at least 100 homeowners to knock down their garage and replace it with a revenue-generating miniature house. But some residents of Dunbar, including at least one former city councilor, are fighting the plan. Both the Vision and NPA parties say that laneway houses, [...]
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