By election day on Nov. 19, several million dollars will have flowed through the campaign coffers of Vancouver’s mayoral and council candidates. But the public won’t know an exact total, or who footed the bill, until well into 2012. Vancouver voters often take it for granted that big campaign cheque-writers pull the strings in council [...]
Vancouver’s at-large voting system creates a tougher race for minorities and leaves parts of the city without adequate political representation, says municipal councillor Raj Hundal. Hundal was the only South Asian candidate elected in the 2008 municipal election and is not running this year. He said that under the current system, in theory, every councillor, Vancouver [...]
Sara Moghadamjoo is a young well-educated Iranian-Canadian, who recently graduated with two masters degree from Simon Fraser University and is only a year away from getting her PhD from the University of British Columbia. She decided to stand in the upcoming municipal elections for the district of West Vancouver as she wanted to represent the [...]
RJ Aquino is Vancouver’s first Filipino candidate for city council. He’s one of the 41 people vying for a seat. “I made a decision to run but I wasn’t thinking I should run because I am Filipino,” said Aquino. This is Aquino’s first foray into politics. He is running under the COPE banner as a [...]
The ”UniverCity” lands are part of an undemocratic system that needs reform, according to candidates for the area’s elected representative. Four new contenders are challenging the incumbent director Maria Harris on the issue of governance of Electoral Area A – a scattered set of regions around Vancouver that are not part of any municipality. They [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
