Our final wrap-up includes key takeaways from party platforms and last-minute promises.

Jen St. Denis is The Tyee’s Downtown Eastside reporter.

Published on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022

https://thetyee.ca/News/2022/10/13/What-Vancouver-Parties-Promising-Housing/

We took a closer look at an intriguing claim from a Vancouver mayoral candidate.

Akhila Menon is a journalism fellow with The Tyee through Journalists for Human Rights inaugural Enhanced Access for BIPOC Youth in Canadian Media program.

Published on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022

https://thetyee.ca/News/2022/10/13/Are-Highrises-Really-Bad-For-Health/

We created tools to gauge candidates’ resolve on affordable housing this election. Glad to share.

Jill Atkey is CEO of the BC Non-Profit Housing Association. Thom Armstrong is CEO of the Co-operative Housing Federation of BC. Margaret Pfoh is CEO of the Aboriginal Housing Management Association.

Published on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022

https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2022/10/13/Housing-Human-Right-Give-Politicians-Tests/

A swarm of bots skewed a vote for Alaska’s bulkiest bruin. Is democracy doomed?

Written by Steve Burgess who writes about politics and culture for The Tyee.

Link to the story, published on Oct 12, 2022:

https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2022/10/12/Please-Advise-Bear-Scandal/

“Serving up cakes and lattes with a social purpose.” Read about Simon Fraser University’s Non-Profit Management Certificate program, which has led Corrie Corfield down a path of managing the 30-year-old Nanaimo Bakery and Café and simultaneously generating revenue to support the Island Crisis Care Society’s housing and outreach programs.

This is a Tyee Presents story, sponsored by SFU's Non-Profit Management Certificate Program. Written by Kim Mah.

Published on Oct 12, 2022:

https://thetyee.ca/Presents/2022/10/12/Local-Bakery-Addresses-Homelessness/

Mayoral candidate Ken Sim says Mayor Kennedy Stewart will tax every car driving downtown. Stewart’s team accused Sim of “U.S.-style misinformation politics.” Kate Helmore explains the wars.

Kate Helmore is a Tula Foundation Immersive Journalism fellow with The Tyee.

Link to the story, published Oct 12, 2022:

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2022/10/12/Vancouver-Road-Tax-Wars/

A anonymous Facebook account called Squamish Voices has spent more than $70,000 on a smear campaign against Squamish’s mayor and some city councillors. The campaign could transform the future of the city. Kate Helmore reports.

Kate Helmore is a Tula Foundation Immersive Journalism fellow with The Tyee.

Link to the story published Oct 12, 2022: https://thetyee.ca/News/2022/10/12/Squamish-Election-Poisoned-Secret-Attack-Campaigns/

Breen Ouellette hopes to join incumbent COPE Coun. Jean Swanson on council. Here’s what the party wants to accomplish.

Written by Josh Kozelj who is the inaugural Hummingbird Fellow with The Tyee.

Published on Oct 11, 2022:

https://thetyee.ca/News/2022/10/11/COPE-Agenda-Vancouver-Council/

More support for public health would save lives and money. Where’s the political urgency?

Written by Tyee contributing editor Crawford Kilian who blogs about the pandemic at https://crofsblogs.typepad.com/h5n1/

Link to the story, published Oct 11, 2022:

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2022/10/11/We-Elected-Pandemic/

About 1,000 workers from unions, who are not themselves on strike, have refused to cross tugboater picket lines — leaving them off the job and without pay for more than a month.

It’s threatened shipping ops with no clear end in sight. Zak Vescera reports.

Zak is The Tyee's labour reporter.

Published Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022.

https://thetyee.ca/News/2022/10/11/Strike-Shaking-Vancouver-Port/