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Article content B.C.’s municipal elections next year will look a little different than the last time, with new rules that will likely affect things like union-funded electioneering and developers anonymously buying billboards. The 2018 municipal elections were the first after the B.C. NDP government introduced stricter campaign finance rules, banning corporate and union donations and setting $1,200 donation limits. The NDP proclaimed its 2017 reforms would end the “era of big money” in local and provincial elections, but the lead-up to the 2018 municipal elections featured confusion and controversy over what the new rules allowed. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. ....
Article content Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart recently called the opioid overdose epidemic “one of the greatest policy disasters in the history of the province.” Listening to him, it’s hard for some people not to conclude that the violence and dysfunction on the city’s Downtown Eastside would largely disappear if only we had: decriminalization of all drugs for personal possession, a safe supply of drugs to every addict, and “wraparound services” for those with the most severe addictions and mental health problems. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Daphne Bramham: Vancouver mayor hangs re-election hopes on drug decriminalization and safe supply Back to video ....
Article content There is good news for anyone who has ever wanted to hold an audience with the Mayor of Vancouver while wearing pyjamas at home on the couch. Later this month, Mayor Kennedy Stewart will host a “Winter Invitational,” but of course, with COVID-19 putting a damper on all kinds of public gatherings, the event will be held online, via the video conference platform Zoom. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Dan Fumano: The $1,239 Zoom call: Political fundraising in Vancouver during a pandemic Back to video Some of Stewart’s supporters recently received an email from Team Kennedy Stewart, the mayor’s re-election campaign, inviting them to the Zoom call on the evening of Feb. 25. ....
Inside Vancouver City Hall’s Housing Wars Voters demanded action on affordability. What they got is so weirdly split we tried to map the mess. Doug Ward is a freelance writer and previously a reporter at the Vancouver Sun. SHARES Mayor of Splitsville? Kennedy Stewart faces a fractured council when it comes to housing reforms. Collage by Christopher Cheung. Building images via Google Street. City hall photo by popejon2 via Wikipedia, CC BY 2.0. When Vancouver voters last went to the polls, the most pressing issue for two out of three was the housing crisis. Tight rentals and skyrocketing home prices were shutting out younger and lower-income residents, and the Vision Vancouver government was due for a shellacking given that 85 per cent of those surveyed said the job it had done was either “bad” or “very bad.” ....