I appeared at the Vancouver Food Policy Council’s Town Hall meeting on Oct. 15th at the Roundhouse. I have been a food security + justice activist for a long time. When I was last on City Council (2002-2005), I spearheaded the VFPC’s creation, as I strongly believe that we need to work together to stay…
Category: Election 2014
Homelessness and Affordable Housing – False Promises from Vision Vancouver
We live in one of the richest cities in the world and in one of the most affluent and wealthiest eras of humankind. There cannot be any excuse for homelessness. Vision Vancouver came to power in 2008 on the backs of the homeless – promising to end homelessness by 2015. In his inaugural speech Gregor…
No Respite from Vision’s Broken Promises
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…
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…