ABC Majority Park Board Rolling Red Carpet For Two Lanes of Drivers on Stanley Park Drive One of the first rules of engagement in any municipal party coming into City Hall with a majority is…
A New Day, A New Council: City of Vancouver Inaugural Ceremony For Mayor Ken Sim On Monday the Orpheum Theater on Granville Street was host to the 2022 Inaugural Ceremony for the incoming City…
Vancouver ABC Party Sweeps School Board Elections, With Mandate for “Safe Schools & Excellence”Last week Viewpoint Vancouver covered the new ABC (A Better City) party’s new majority on Vancouver City Council and in…
Gordon Price and Sandy James Planner reflect on City Hall’s big turnoverCHATBOX is your chance to eavesdrop on Gordon Price and Sandy James Planner as they joust over our region’s features…
A New Day, A New Mayor: Back to Basics with Surprise ABC Majority on Vancouver City CouncilThe Vancouver Civic Election was on Saturday October 15 and the results were late, thanks to B.C. Hydro having a…
Vancouver Civic Election 1974 & The Case of Mr. Peanut For MayorThe Vancouver Sun’s John Mackie has written about performance artist Vincent Trasov running for Mayor in 1974. Vancouver’s Mr. Peanut…
Public Safety: Repeating HistoryBy coincidence, I was pursuing some clippings from the Vancouver Sun collected in the ’70s. And what should I notice…
Can We Just Make Vancouver Civic Elections Less Confusing?Let’s go back to the last century where it was a bit simpler to elect ten city councillors and one…
Price and Ladner place bets on Election ’22With a 10-day countdown to Election Day, Gordon Price pulls in ex-NPA-Council-crony-turned-urban-food-security-activist-and-all-around-mensch Peter Ladner for a frank talk on what…
“Last Candidate Standing” Chooses Sitting Councillor as Standout The Vancouver Public Space Network along with Simon Fraser University’s City Program and the Architecture and Landscape Architecture Programs…
Vancouver City Council race: 58 candidates, 10 parties, and … what’s the difference?CHATBOX is your chance to eavesdrop on Gordon Price and Sandy James Planner as they joust over our region’s features…
CHATBOX: Boomers vs Millenials: is this Election generational?CHATBOX is your chance to eavesdrop on Gordon Price and Sandy James Planner as they joust over our region’s features…
Policy and Politics in Park Board PlatformsTwo parties at different points on the ideological spectrum – ABC (centre right) and Greens (centre left) – put out…
Stanley Woodvine, Vancouver City Hall & the Spreadsheet Captains of DevelopmentViewpoint Vancouver has written about homeless writer Stanley Woodvine and his extraordinary talent not only with writing, but remarkably finding…
Dec. 19, 2022Vancouver’s “Dinosaurs Against Fossil Fuels” (DAFFS) Way Ahead of Their TimeSandy James Planner