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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Gordon Price of the NPA became the first openly gay member of Vancouver City Council in 1986, where he served until 2002. Related: NPA candidate wants more police in Davie Village Q: During your years as a city councillor, what was done to curb gay bashing? A: Nothing that I can recall. No issue rises [...]
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 battle for the UBC Farm is seen as a test for democracy on the campus, as the university decides on how to develop this valuable land. The potential loss of the farm has spurred staff, students and aspiring politicians into action. The farm represents some of the last undeveloped property on the campus and [...]
Experts are predicting high participation at the Vancouver municipal election November 15, due to increased turnout at advance polls. Early voting has surged 73 per cent since the last municipal race in 2005. Some argue the American election results have inspired Vancouver voters to incite government change, while others maintain convenience has encouraged participation. The [...]
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