In the past two weeks, two prominent Vision Vancouver representatives have announced to the public that they are putting their names in the hat for the upcoming provincial election. Last Sunday the chair of the Parks Board, Constance Barnes, announced that she is running for nomination as the NDP Vancouver False Creek candidate. On Friday,…
Vote COPE, For Responsible City Government
This year, Vancouver heads to the polls to choose the type of Vancouver they want to see going forward into the future. At the Coalition of Progressive Electors (COPE), we’ve been listening to Vancouverites from across our city, so we know that in the next term of City Council, the citizens of Vancouver want to…
COPE’S Tim Louis Proposes Remedy for Improved Transit Service / New Affordable Housing Supply
November 13, 2011: COPE candidate for Vancouver City Council, Tim Louis, speaks at WERA’s All-Candidate’s meeting, held this past Sunday afternoon at the Empire Landmark Hotel, on Robson Street, in the West End. Affordable and social housing and an improved transportation system, specifically bus transit service, have emerged as key issues in Vancouver’s 2011 civic…
COPE Works To Preserve Vancouver’s Heritage
The Vancouver Heritage Register is acknowledged as the cornerstone of the Vancouver’s Heritage programme. Adopted in 1986 by Vancouver City Council, the Heritage Register constitutes an important policy document, a registry of heritage sites that currently includes 2,150 buildings, and 131 landscapes, monuments and archaeological sites. A key policy and planning tool designed to guide…
Transportation: Bike and Pedestrian Safety
As a transportation alternative to travel by bus or car, for urban commuters cycling or walking has emerged as the transportation mode of choice for many of us who travel to work, or simply wish to get around the City in a healthy, inexpensive, socially responsible and environmentally sound manner. A central tenet of COPE’s…
Transportation: Buses Are The Backbone
Photo courtesy, Yolanda Cole, The Georgia Straight A key tenet of COPE’s 2011 campaign for Vancouver City Council calls for easily achievable and innovative changes to the way TransLink delivers bus service. “Too often transit riders are waiting for transit service, as buses pass them by. Transit riders can count on COPE to work towards…
Avalon Lands: Preservation of A Heritage Site
The oldest continuously operating dairy in BC, Avalon Dairies, in an announcement issued last spring by the dairy’s owners, informed the public of their intention to list for sale the two parcels of land at which the dairy has long operated — the lands situated at 2595 East 43rd Avenue and 5805 Wales Street. Colliers…