Author: Stuart Mackinnon

Megan Stewart / Vancouver Courier August 25, 2015 Megan Stewart / Vancouver Courier August 25, 2015 02:34 PM – See more at: http://www.vancourier.com/news/zipline-brings-in-crowds-cash-and-controversy-1.2040416#sthash.Nq2gj9bn.dpuf An attraction for day-tripper and tourists, the zipline at Queen Elizabeth Park has drawn a steady stream of foot traffic to the 75-year-old park and a steady

Janet Fraser, Green Party of Vancouver School Trustee   Children walk to their bus on the first day of school on Tuesday, Sept. 8.Photograph by: Errol McGihon , Errol McGihon/Ottawa Sun   My first eight months as a Vancouver School Board trustee have been an incredible experience. As I have met and

With files from CTV Vancouver’s Scott Hurst A parking lot was built over a nearby watershed for geese in 2013, and the birds have been migrating over to the monument ever since. (CTV). CTV Vancouver Published Wednesday, September 9, 2015 3:22PM PDT Last Updated Wednesday, September 9, 2015 3:27PM PDT

By Michael Mui, 24 Hours Vancouver Wednesday, September 9, 2015 2:14:22 PDT PM Geese at Thornton Park in Vancouver caused problems because the geese like to use the memorial’s pools to drink water. Michael Mui, 24 hours Geese are becoming a huge problem for a Vancouver memorial honouring female L’Ecole

Vancouver’s park board is trying to do something about the geese in Thornton Park where a monument pays homage to the 14 women murdered at École Polytechnique. Courtesy of the Women’s Monument Committee Goose excrement has defiled a Vancouver monument dedicated to girls and women murdered around the world. By:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Vancouver BC July 29th 2015 On October 3rd 2014, residents of the Stamps Place Housing Complex were informed the BC Housing was immediately putting our housing up for sale to a private nonprofit. Despite repeated requests to BC Housing that tenants be involved in any decisions about

Dedicated bins like those in Pacific Spirit Regional Park urged Doo’s & don’ts:  By Cheryl Chan, The ProvinceJuly 1, 2015 Raymond Greenwood is hounding the city to fix a crappy situation. He has a bone to pick with all the plastic-bagged dog feces discarded in garbage containers in Vancouver. With

An interesting article from In These Times on a neighbourhood in Chicago pushing back. Why We Organized to Kick Riot Fest Out of Humboldt Park  Pushing the punk rock festival out of the park was a victory against gentrification and the privatization of public spaces.  BY Lynda Lopez, In These

by Travis Lupick on May 26th, 2015 at 6:18 PM  Park commissioners have said they are saddened to learn another cetacean will live in captivity at the Vancouver Aquarium. The Green Party’s Stuart Mackinnon suggested animals deemed unfit for release could be relocated to protected sea pens. “Another creature from

This blog has been very quiet for the past five months. I wanted to give the new Park Board a chance to find it’s feet. It isn’t easy being a newly elected. When a Board of seven Commissioners has a turn-over of six, it is even harder. I have the

By Thandi Fletcher Metro, April 28, 2015  A Green party commissioner is accusing the Vancouver park board of rushing approval of a temporary zipline in Queen Elizabeth Park this summer without properly consulting nearby residents and businesses that operate in the park. The park board voted in favour Monday night

NOTICE OF MEETING BOARD OF PARKS AND RECREATION PARK BOARD COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA Date: Monday, February 2, 2015 Time: 7:00 pm Place: Park Board – Boardroom 2099 Beach Avenue Vancouver, BC V6G 1Z4 PRINTABLE AGENDA  PLEASE NOTE: For more information, or for speaker registration, please call the Park Board Meeting

NOTICE OF MEETING   BOARD OF PARKS AND RECREATION REGULAR BOARD Meeting   AGENDA   DATE: Monday, January 19, 2015 TIME: 7:00 pm PLACE: Park Board – Boardroom   ROLL CALL   CHAIR’S OPENING REMARKS & REPORT   ADOPTION OF MINUTES   1.                Park Board Inaugural Meeting – December 1, 2014  

From the City of Vancouver website: http://vancouver.ca/your-government/vacancies-for-advisory-boards-committees.aspx Vacancies on civic agencies, boards, and committees occur periodically throughout the year. If you are applying as a representative for another agency (for example, as the SUCCESS representative on the Chinatown Historic Area Planning Committee), apply through that agency. Current vacancies We are currently accepting

It seems strange to me that I haven’t had much to blog about since the election on November 15. The new Board was inaugurated on the 1st of December and yet since then the Board has not met openly. A meeting was scheduled for the 7th of December but the

After a frantic couple of months I am starting to catch my breathe and come to a bit of understanding of what the results of last Saturday mean. I am incredibly humbled and grateful to the voters of Vancouver for their trust. I made some promises which I intend to

“Thank you Vancouver for electing me to the Board of Parks and Recreation. An awesome responsibility that I accept with humility and gratitude. Vancouver’s natural beauty is worth protecting. Neighbourhood services are worth preserving. And you agreed” That quote was from 2008 when I was first elected to the Vancouver

“Remember something, if you will, about voting: Voting is not a horse race, you’re not going there thinking “Gee, I gotta pick the winner so I can brag to my friends ‘Oh, I picked so-and-so and he or she won’”. Voting is voting your heart and voting your conscience and

By far the most e-mail I received as both a Commissioner (from 2008-2011) and as a candidate (past and present) is about dogs. This is also the hottest button issue at the Park Board and has been for some years. Mostly it is advocates of off-leash areas who write, but