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 [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Mayoral candidates Peter Ladner (NPA) and Gregor Robertson (Vision Vancouver) both performed musical numbers at the Creative City Cabaret in Vancouver, a week before the civic election. Held at the Roundhouse Community Centre, the event was put on by arts management group Left Right Minds as an attempt to raise awareness for the arts. The [...]
By Erin Empey Canada’s political parties have embraced the digital age in the upcoming election through slick flash animated websites and social networking sites, yet the new technology has done little to update time-tested political strategies. While ridiculing opponents, taking images and quotes out of context and using suggestive imagery are nothing new to election [...]
By Rebecca teBrake Oct. 14 will be the first time Stefani Zhu can vote as a Canadian citizen, but as she heads to the ballot box, China is on her mind. Zhu, 22, moved to Vancouver from China with her father six years ago and attends classes at UBC and Langara College. She received her citizenship [...]
By Heather Amos Kyle Noftall is disappointed in his first federal election. The University of British Columbia student was excited to be able to vote for the first time on Oct. 14, but he is getting discouraged by what he sees as the “juvenile” nature of the debates and party dialogues. Noftall has been researching [...]
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