Vision Vancouver ran on a platform of ending homelessness. After they were elected, they wiggled out of their promise by using the cynical semantics we’ve all become accustomed to from Vision. Their new promise was to end street homelessness. Even this weaker promise has been spectacularly broken. Under Vision Vancouver, the total homeless have grown…
Author: Tim Louis
Underground Skytrain Oxymoron Puts Vancouver on the Wrong Track
This August marked the 5th birthday of the most expensive transit project in Vancouver’s history, the Canada Line. As thousands of commuters wait too long to board the 99 B-Line to UBC, Vision Vancouver and select media blow their horns about the “wildly successful” Canada Line, hoping to drown out the controversy and reckless spending the construction…
ONNI Developer Destroying Green Space in East Vancouver – with photos
I received this letter recently and am sharing it here with you. I’m very concerned at the brazenness Onni shows. Regular citizens face consequences when they cut down heritage trees without a permit, but not developers with friends in high places. Even more disturbing is the complete lack of response or concern from the City….
Kirk LaPointe’s Flip-Flop
Today, I would like to address the issue of transit along the Broadway corridor. As we all know, Mayor Gregor Robertson and his Vision Vancouver colleagues are promoting a subway down Broadway out to UBC. That’s pretty much all we hear from them these days — let’s build a subway down Broadway, the developers want…
Heading to 12th and Cambie Together!
Hello friends, I’m so excited to be part of the best COPE team I’ve ever been part of! Sunday, September 7th, COPE nominated the strongest, most diverse group of candidates in its history. Thank you so much for helping put me on the team. Without your help, it would never have happened. Here are the…
Let’s Not Let the City be Railroaded Again – Tim Louis on Expropriation of Arbutus Corridor
It’s not often that I agree with our current mayor, but when Gregor Robertson recently accused the Canadian Pacific (CP) of “bullying tactics” in its efforts to force the city to pay well above market for the long contested Arbutus Corridor, bulldozing some of the community gardens that city residents have nurtured along the…
Longtime City activist Tim Louis ready for November 2014 election – calls for expropriation of Arbutus Corridor
These are the highlights of my speech this morning. Friends and the media joined me at the Arbutus Corridor as I announced my bid for a COPE nomination to run for City Council in Vancouver’s November municipal election. I will be running for a nomination at COPE’s Nominating Conference Sunday Sept. 7th. — I am here…