As consumer-owned electric vehicles begin to hit Canadian streets, some candidates vying for a seat on the city council are considering Vancouver’s readiness for the cars and the charging infrastructure they require. Dealerships across the lower mainland began to sell Canada’s first widely available electric car models this fall. On Nov. 5, the provincial government [...]
Vancouverites are showing little interest in the city’s new $10,000 iPhone app developed for the municipal elections. The Vancouver Votes app was released on Oct. 27, to encourage more people to vote. By Nov. 14, it had only been downloaded 1,000 times, even though the city has 400,000 registered voters. By comparison, a similar app [...]
Sean Bickerton, a Non-Partisan Association (NPA) candidate running for the Vancouver City Council, believes putting more police on the streets in Davie Village on Friday and Saturday nights would help curb gay bashing in the area. Twenty-eight years ago, two men attacked 27-year-old Bickerton on Davie Street as he walked home after a night of [...]
“It’s asking for death” says Nigel Pease, a Vancouver bus driver who regularly sees pedestrians darting across Main Street in heavy traffic. The six-block stretch of Main just south of the Punjabi Market is home to a neighbourhood community centre, six busy bus stops, a handful of businesses and many residential homes. Yet there is [...]
Vision Vancouver’s proposal for an online apartment database is intended to pressure negligent landlords to clean up their act. But Downtown Eastside housing activists are worried that forced renovations in single-room occupancy (SRO) hotels could result in higher rents, evictions and a loss of low-income housing units. The proposed database is based on a successful model from [...]
Advocates of the Little Mountain social housing site and local MPs are calling on the B.C. government to stop selling off public lands as a strategy to fund social housing. The Community Advocates for Little Mountain (CALM) held a news conference at the site near Main and 33rd Street on Nov. 9. The date marked [...]
Plans by Vancouver’s major political parties to improve transit along the Broadway corridor have some worried about the fallout on their businesses. City transit is a top priority in election platforms, with the parties putting forward proposals to increase capacity and speed up service along Broadway. The route stretching west from Broadway-Commercial station to UBC [...]
Vancouver politicians are sparring over the terms of upcoming community plans for Grandview-Woodland, the West End and Marpole. City planners said the new plans, now under consultation, replace existing ones, some as old as 20 years, which are out of tune with neighbourhood needs for amenities and housing. The status quo has left gaps in [...]
Adriane Carr is running for Vancouver City Council for the first time, but she is no stranger to campaigning. This will be Carr’s eighth attempt at winning an election. While the positions she’s tried to secure over the years have varied, her party has not. She’s once again running on the Green Party ticket, the perpetual [...]
Occupy Vancouver in front of the Art Gallery. Occupy Vancouver has ended up being one of the most important issues in the run-up to the municipal elections, ranking right up there with housing in terms of what concerns the city’s voters the most. Its organizers view housing as one of the local arm of the [...]
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