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E3a-58 The mayor is a petulant child
Byelection candidates, supportive housing pause, Metro Van boycott and the Delta Police spark an international incident.
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OneCity candidate – Lucy Maloney: OneCity Vancouver By-election Candidate
COPE – COPE Nominates Local Housing Activist and Writer Sean Orr as By-Election Candidate — COPE Vancouver
Greens – Annette Reilly – Green Party of Vancouver beats Pamela Dudas – Green Party of Vancouver
TEAM – Colleen Hardwick and Theodore Abbott
Vancouver mayor rejects new supportive housing pro
E3a-72 Democracy isn’t free
Two byelections at the same time folks. With Vancouver’s longest-serving councillor, Adriane Carr, stepping down and Christine Boyle’s election to the BC Legislature, Vancouver needs two new councillors. We look at the race and everything else that’s happened recently.
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Vancouver Coun. Adriane Carr resigns, setting up 2-seat byelection | CBC News
Vancouver council confirms details of 2-seat byelection on April 5 | CBC News
Team promises 2 candidates
Hardwick confirms her interest
E3-709 Summer and Chip Wilson Day
Two-years of Ken Sim, Crab Park residents evicted, some upcoming byelections, Burnaby affordable housing requirements axed, New West mayor chastised and Surrey gets its first weed store.
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Q&A: Ken Sim reflects on two-year anniversary as Vancouver mayor
Chip Wilson Day
Vancouver’s CRAB Park residents left with few options as eviction looms | CBC News
13 local politicians were elected to the B.C. Legislature. Not all are giving up their municipal roles | CBC News
E3-721 The Wild West of Fucking Procedure
Sarah Kirby-Yung is mad at Rebecca Bligh. Pete Fry is mad at Ken Sim. Everyone is acting like children. It’s the council we know and love. But at least with a majority, they passed most everything they wanted (for better or worse). And at least Vancouver’s mayor hasn’t been deemed likely to leak confidential documents via Staples print centres again.
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F-bomb dropped in heated Vancouver city council exchange
The video (shoutout Spencer Powell)
Pete Fry told to “live with it”
On procedure
Ju
E3-741 A feather made of helium
ABC backtracks on the city’s integrity commissioner, while ending City Hall lighting for (foreign) national holidays. Burnaby signs a gag order with TransMountain. Police in the region are over budget and saying some wildly bigoted things. A quirky by-election in Harrison Hot Springs. The Park Board’s existential plea, legal battles over tree removal in Stanley Park, and the return of the ghost train serve as the lighter notes.
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01:20 Integrity Commissioner Controversy
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E3-765 Lisa Southern is not an airplane
Pete Fry foils Ken Sim’s effort to put the Integrity Commissioner’s office into a medically-induced coma. The Park Board releases a legal opinion suggesting a mid-term abolition may be unconstitutional. Surrey wants a Charter. A North Van chemical company runs an astroturf campaign. The People’s Park defeats the fire station. And lots of housing – and little parking – coming to Vancouver’s east end.
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Vancouver council defers vote on integrity commissioner’s review | CBC News
Vancouver Par
E3-814 Did a Global News question kill the Park Board?
Council & Park Board drama, housing targets and no fire stations in my backyard
E3-842 Cribs city hall
Ken Sim expropriated a City Hall boardroom for a personal gym because that’s what winners do. Meanwhile, the cops are using their extra budget to tackle the chaos that is people watching the sunset from the beach. Mandatory upzoning is progressing, with some notable squeaky wheels that are playing chicken with the province. And a new audit is being launched into the ill-fated North Shore Waste Water Plant.
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Pete Fry’s tweet of the gym
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim explains why he turned a boardro
E3-869 Surrey as performance art
At some point Brenda Locke should get tired of losing, but today is not that day. It does inspire us to think of Surrey as a grand collective delusion that we’re all experiencing. Importantly though, voting isn’t speech and the constitution still doesn’t recognize municipalities.
In Vancouver, Council wants to keep property taxes low, there are squabbles at the Park Board but maybe we can sell off naming rights to our parks to solve our budget woes (spoiler: we can’t). Ken Sim will continue to o
E3-893 Small Petty Bullshit
Vancouver debates whether and how to have fun and mayors behave badly.
E3-919 Charts on a podcast: It’s all about the money
Fundraising data, Surrey policing, drug use and throwing bricks at cars
E3-950 Unforced errors
The municipal becomes the provincial as two friends-of-the-pod compete in the race to replace an outgoing MLA. Mike Klassen asks the city for money for a Junos trip, Ken Sim asks a park board commissioner for forgiveness and the MST Nations are going to ask the province for everything. We also get into BIA expansion controversies, calls to make the red Vancouver sign permanent, and the history of neon signs in Vancouver.
B.C. NDP nomination battle brewing between former and current Vancouver cit
E3-982 We elected fifth graders
Park board abolition, budget task force and naming rights, car-free gastown and more.
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Muni Ministry – Park Board MMA-2023-33456.pdf
Vancouver Mayor – Park Board 2023-763 – res.pdf
“the province is not going to be surprised”
Sim says Vancouver Park Board ‘not fixable’
Park commissioners unlock $20K to fight Vancouver mayor’s move to abolish board
Vancouver-area Indigenous groups refuse to endorse mayor’s plan to dismantle park board – The Globe and Mail
2 local First Nations support Vancou
E3-995 Join the Movement
Denis Agar, founder of Movement, a transit advocacy nonprofit organization, discusses the challenges and solutions for improving transit in Metro Vancouver. We cover the issues with the 49 bus route, the need for bus lanes and other transit improvements, the importance of community engagement, the funding challenges faced by TransLink, the potential of real estate development as a funding source, and the strategies for addressing different levels of government. The conversation discusses the cha
E3-1044 The break up on your behalf service
RIP Park Board, upzoning stress dreams, cop math and drink suggestions
E3-1058 Manufactured wood arcologies
What's the point of a city council given the province's new housing laws?
E3-1080 Pray Holborn doesn’t alter the deal further
Social housing at Little Mountain continues to be the most aggravating story in the City of Vancouver, and it just got worse. Boyle wants red light and speed cameras in the city, but ABC wants further study. The cops are using their political capital. The Park Board is protecting golf courses. The city wants to save Britannia Community Centre but possibly eliminate the Beach Ave bike lane.
Further afield, Metro plows ahead with development fee increases, Richmond goes all in on cars and Port Coq
E3-1100 Frustration after frustration after frustration
Everything is madness and local politics is stumbling its way through a crowded room.
E3-1149 Density is necessity
The latest threat to neighbourhood character: Young children
E3-1184 Government by complaint
We can't have nice things. We can't have a spa, we can't have the polar bears, we can't have a mural, we can't have the RCMP in Surrey, we can't have temporary modular housing and we can't have water. But we can have a beer at Khatsalano.
E3-1198 Who among us
Surrey policing drama, disqualifications, ethics issues, car-free pilots and mean girls.
E3-1250 Trapped in John A Macdonald’s fever dream
Cops. Huh. What are they good for?
E3-1283 A rathaus of mayor brains
Ken Sim clears Hastings Street and has thoughts on housing. Brenda Locke stands by her interpretation of a meeting.
E3-1298 Vancouver the group art project
China alleged to have interfered in the 2022 Vancouver election and Broadway comes back to a vote
E3-1322 Community Charter obscura
Budget day in Vancouver and fun facts about the Community Charter
E3-1337 This City Council could’ve been an email
Election spending data, climate inaction, procedural shenanigans, social housing, bike lane consultations forever, police funding and school board culture wars.
E3-1357 Happy News Years
Victoria and Vancouver look at missing middle upzoning. ABC is in on Chinatown but out on UBC SkyTrain, the renters office, VANDU and eco fees. And Kennedy Stewart wrote a book.
E3-1401 ABCs of party discipline
Governing is easy when you have a majority
E3-1415 Shrub of reasonable doubt
Doug McCallum walks, Sim in Doha and libraries should be free
E3-1436 Scaly Faced Motherfucker
The trial of Doug McCallum, the police and Vancouver's new council
E+1 SimCity
The results are in. There's 1,462 days to go until the next one.
E-2 Surrey you must be joking
Our last look before election day, including the races to watch
E-8 The Endorsement Show
A recap of how the campaigns have gone and who we think deserves a vote in Vancouver.
E-16 The North
Brent Richter brings us the News from the North Shore
E-23 I, Me, Myself, Individual
The candidate lists are finalized and Vancouver voters once again have over a hundred names to choose from.
E-29 Hot Pink Podcast
Breaking down the race through rose coloured glasses
E-36 (Almost) everyone wants more houses
Mario Canseco talks his latest poll and a look at competing YIMBY housing plans
E-43 We just want a better city
NPA chaos, court rulings and a look to the burbs
E-50 Everyone is coming unhinged
Doug McCallum is promising unicorns.
E-57 Things are getting out of hand in Surrey
Competing policies to deal with the situation in the DTES, details about Senakw and lots of changing nomination news
E-65 Nowhere to go
The removal of tents began on Hastings but ended with a clash between activists and police. Kennedy releases donors and Progress announces 2 candidates.
E-71 Coupar quits
Coupar quits and Chip Wilson pays money to stop socialism
E-93 Not a sleepy summer
Wiebe loses at the Court of Appeal, PoCoexit, Beach Logs, Pools, candidates and so much more
E-103 Eternal hearings
Just make them stop
E-129 Slush funds
Brian Kelcey (@StateOfTheCity) joins us to talk political slush funds. Plus the latest goings on in Metro Vancouver politics.
E-155 Lego blocks dropped from the sky
The Broadway Plan is the next threat to life as we know it - or part of the solution to our housing crisis
E-176 The Vancouver Plan: Won’t someone think of the horses?
The latest council drama plus dives into the Vancouver Plan and housing in the federal budget
E-190 An even less partisan slate
Vancouver Plan, Jericho towers, what to watch at council and an interview with Bowinn and Boyle of People's Pod
2022 COPE Nominations
Meet the people seeking nominations from COPE
2022 Van Greens Council Nominations
Meet the Vancouver Greens council candidates
E-211 Taxation Without Representation
The VPD get their money, Carr mulls the mayor's chair and it's nomination season
2022 OneCity Nominations
Hear from people seeking nomination from OneCity Vancouver
E-303 Mayor Kennedy Stewart
We speak to Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart about his first three years in office and how he's setting up for his re-election bid next year.
E-316 That’s not how budgets should be considered to work
It's budget time in Vancouver again
E-327 What in particular is wrong with Vancouver?
Public hearings.
E-351 True hopes for False Creek
All decisions and actual developments are deferred to a future date
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More Transit
Interviews on Transport 2050 and employer transit subsidies
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Ep 261: Anthropomorphized Facebook Comment Sections
Aaron Gunn is officially wants to be in the race for leader of the BC Liberals but other contestants are divided over whether he should get the green light.
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E-365 Revisiting the doomed campaigns
12 months to go
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E-372 Free Parking
Kennedy Stewart abandons a key plank of the city's climate policy just like a contractor has abandoned work on a north shore wastewater facility.
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E-386 Coyote railways
Coyotes, Vision, patios and railways
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E-401 Stop feeding the coyotes
Bill Tieleman wants to kill coyotes and the Surrey Police
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E-448 Wiebe walks
We break down the Michael Wiebe conflict of interest case and more
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E-466 It’s a cruel, cruel summer
Heat waves, Team Kennedy, horse races, Burnaby byelection and NIMBYs unite in West Van.
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E-486 Arborist industrial complex
The mayoral race is on, we have polls and the climate is on the agenda.
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E-500 Cars over bikes
Green councillors tank nonprofit housing and bikes on Commercial Drive, drinking comes to Vancouver parks and Port Moody embraces the chaos
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E-514 Finally slaying the cat democracy
Democracy takes another hit in the City of Vancouver (or maybe people might just get somewhere to live)
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E-540 Hubris is the nature of municipal politics
And then there was one as three more councillors (and their entire School Board caucus) leave the NPA.
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E-547 The latest victim of the cetacean debate
Ken Sim pledges to abolish the Park Board. He will probably run with the new party A Better City Vancouver. Mark Marissen is running for mayor. And the election is still 18 months away.
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E-558 DEMOCRACY DIED (emergency pod)
The NPA Board drops a bombshell by announcing 18-months out that Park Board Commissioner John Coupar will be their mayoral nominee.
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E-563 A win for rental housing
Rental-only zoning bylaws live to fight another day, as does the Olympics and the bike lane in Stanley Park.
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E-575 The Young Report
We got our hands on the Young Report alleging Michael Wiebe should resign from council
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