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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The Young Report
“We have some concerns” wrote City lawyers on Cllr Wiebe’s alleged conflict of interest. And the full Young Report