Seeking Office

Vancouver municipal party OneCity, has endorsed independent candidate Kennedy Stewart for mayor.

OneCity council candidate Christine Boyle explains some of the subtle differences between her party and Vancouver's other left-most party COPE, as well as why OneCity chose to endorse Kennedy Stewart, rather than run their own mayoral candidate.

The most recent poll published by Research Co. found that Vancouverites have more confidence in the Green Party and independent candidates than any other party or group. We discuss how these results relate to B.C.'s new campaign finance limits and the past decade of Vision Vancouver rule with Research Co. president, Mario Canseco.

Will increasing supply solve both Vancouver's housing crisis and its social woes? Yes, Vancouver's Hector Bremner thinks so.

With reporting from Yes, Vancouver's July 28th Candidate Selection Meeting, we put Hector's fiscally conservative, socially liberal strategy to UBC economics professor Kevin Milligan for comment.

There's been a lot of buzz about the new billboards promoting Hector Bremner. And mysteriously, the group who paid for them, hasn't been answering phone calls or emails.

What level of transparency are third party advertisers required to provide to the public? And what defines a "third party"?

In this episode we discuss the significance B.C.'s new legislation, which bans union and corporate donations, is place on third party advertisers in Vancouver's 2018 civic election.

Average-citizen-turned-election-expert Ian Bushfield has been graphing and tallying Vancouver's municipal parties and candidates through open-source information sharing and public survey. In this episode, Ian talks about his participatory research methods and provides an overview of Vancouver's increasingly complex, 2018 civic election.

Vancouver's Civic Government

Vancouver isn’t like other major Canadian cities. Unlike the majority of Canada, Vancouver has political parties at the local level and elects councillors to the city at-large, as opposed to specific wards, or geographic areas. And both of these unusual civic features relate and perpetuate one another.

So why is Vancouver so weird and has it always been this way? Not only that, why does this all matter in the context of our 2018 municipal election?

Jean Swanson recently served four days in prison for breaking a court injunction on Kinder Morgan’s Burnaby tank farm facility. Jean speaks with CiTR's News Collective about her run for city council with Vancouver’s Coalition of Progressive Electors (COPE), as well as how she plans to follow in Harry Rankin’s footsteps as an “activist-councillor.”

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Wondering what Wai Young's Coalition Vancouver wants to do besides remove bike lanes? The News Collective gets a preview of this new civic group's housing plan and learns about its self-described centrist values from Coalition Vancouver president and former NPA board member, Peter Labrie.

This episode also contains a five minute bonus interview with Peter, focused on a provocative retweet he posted on August 15th.

This interview was originally broadcast as part of Democracy Watch on CiTR 101.9 FM. It has been edited for clarity.

This April, ProVancouver joined an already crowded race for office in Vancouver's 2018 civic election. ProVancouver, lead by mayoral candidate David Chen, aspires to build strong communities, increase rental housing and improve transparency and efficiency at city hall. ProVancouver also claims to be neither a right wing nor left wing party. And they actually aren't even a party.

This episode features a live radio interview with mayoral candidate David Chen who breaks down what his party is all about.