Ryan Clayton and Kaitlin Burnett traveled to Victoria, B.C., late last month to meet with Minister of Education George Abbott. During their meeting, they handed him 250 letters written on purple paper, each one asking that a sexual orientation and gender identity policy aimed at stopping homophobia, transphobia and heterosexism in schools be implemented province-wide. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The city needs to improve Aboriginal education, says Vancouver School Board (VSB) chairperson and municipal candidate Patti Bacchus. “The graduation rates are fairly abysmal and school completion rates for students who complete high school are shockingly low relative to non-aboriginal students,” she said. As of 2009, 47 per cent of Aboriginal students enrolled in grade [...]
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 [...]
By Faiza Zia Khan Amber Afaq, a recent immigrant from Pakistan, is suffering from first-time voter panic. Afaq, a childcare worker, became a Canadian citizen last year and will be voting for the first time in this federal election. Her challenge is two-fold: how to understand the issues and processes and then decide which candidate [...]
The UBC Graduate School of Journalism hosted a debate between the four candidates competing for the Vancouver-Centre riding – Hedy Fry (Liberal incumbent), Lorne Mayencourt (Conservative), Adriane Carr (Green Party) and Michael Byers (NDP). Student journalist Erin Empey live blogged the event:
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