Iain Hunter / Times Colonist May 19, 2013 Oak Bay-Gordon Head Green Party of B.C. candidate, Andrew Weaver, speaks to supporters at his election campaign headquarters at the Oak Bay Beach Hotel. Photograph by: LYLE STAFFORD, Times Colonist An oldster I met in my neighbourhood on Wednesday had a
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BetterParks for Vancouver: NDP’s loss not Greens’ fault, says candidate
By Sandra Thomas, Staff writerMay 16, 2013 1:49 PM Vancouver Courier Stuart Mackinnon: “This was about the NDP not getting their vote out, that’s what did them in at the end.” Photograph by: Dan Toulgoet , Vancouver Courier B.C. Green Party candidate for Vancouver-Fraserview Stuart Mackinnon doesn’t believe his
Continue readingBetterParks for Vancouver: Another successful campaign
The ballots have been counted, the signs have been collected and the dust is starting to settle. Thank you to my incredible team of Ann and Byron, to my friend Susan and my colleagues Joanne and Donald who came out to help. Thanks to the Killarney Service students who helped
Continue readingBetterParks for Vancouver: A message from Elizabeth May to voters on the eve of the BC election
Dear fellow British Columbians, During my campaign in 2011, nearly everyone outside of my team and supporters said there was no way I could win. Even as polls were closing, the media was still saying I didn’t have a chance. I recall one interview (with CKNW in Vancouver) days before
Continue readingBetterParks for Vancouver: If not now, then when?
The following is from the Straight: by Stuart Mackinnon on Apr 22, 2013 at 11:59 am People ask me why they should vote Green. I answer because we need change. Real change. And if we don’t vote for change now, then when? Voting for the Green party means voting for
Continue readingBetterParks for Vancouver: Stuart Mackinnon running for Greens in Fraserview
By Sandra Thomas, Staff writer Vancouver Courier, April 16, 2013 Photograph by: File Photo, Dan Toulgoet Former park board commissioner Stuart Mackinnon has been named the Green Party candidate for Vancouver-Fraserview to run in the May 14 provincial election. I wasn’t surprised by the news because even though Mackinnon had
Continue readingBetterParks for Vancouver: Why I Do What I Do
For those of you who don’t know it, I am a secondary special education teacher. I have a program for grade 8 and 9 students with severe learning disabilities. I teach them their academic subjects and hopefully prepare them for reintegration to the regular stream for grade 10. Working with
Continue readingBetterParks for Vancouver: Stuart Mackinnon is the Green Party of BC candidate for Vancouver Fraserview
For Immediate Release 12 April 2013 Vancouver – The Green Party of BC is pleased to announce that Stuart Mackinnon will represent the party in Vancouver Fraserview in the May 14, 2013 provincial election. Stuart is a former Vancouver Park Board Commissioner who represented the Green Party from 2008 to
Continue readingBetterParks for Vancouver: Aren’t Pipelines Supposed to be Safe?
With all the Enbridge advertisements flooding our airwaves I think it’s time to show another kind of flood. This is footage of the oil spill in Mayflower Arkansas. This is not what I want for British Columbia. This is what Reuters had to say: Exxon cleans up Arkansas oil spill;
Continue readingBetterParks for Vancouver: Old Vision Vancouver hands raging over park board mess
By Allen Garr, Columnist Vancourier.com February 14, 2013 Just so you know: a battle has been raging for the past couple of weeks in the back rooms of Vancouver’s governing party. A number of old Vision Vancouver hands are livid over the damage being caused to the party’s reputation
Continue readingBetterParks for Vancouver: ‘Have-not’ community has idea to solve Vancouver park board saga
February 13, 2013 By Emily Jackson Metro Vancouver Sure, it’s down at the bottom on Vancouver park board’s “have-not” list, and yes, it’s all for a little more equality between community centres. But the Marpole-Oakridge Community Centre, the centre in Vancouver’s poorest neighbourhood according to a city ranking, still isn’t
Continue readingBetterParks for Vancouver: What is the ultimate purpose of life?
“What is the ultimate purpose of life? It is to give. Start giving. See the joy of giving.”Narayanan Krishnan
Continue readingBetterParks for Vancouver: Is it time to phase out Vision’s Penny?
By Allen Garr, Columnist Vancouver Courier February 7, 2013 There is at least one penny a growing number of people in Vancouver would be happy to see taken out of circulation. That would be Penny Ballem, Vancouver’s city manager. Vancouver Vision operatives insist it’s nothing but NPA political
Continue readingBetterParks for Vancouver: Vision pokes hornet’s nest at community centres
By Allen Garr, Vancouver Courier February 1, 2013 It is hard to imagine just how much political trouble Vision Vancouver is in right now. The pushback over its attempt to put its hands into the pockets of the city’s community centres makes past protests over spot zoning or the
Continue readingBetterParks for Vancouver: City must quit making enemies of volunteers
By Stuart Mackinnon, The Province February 1, 2013 The rhetoric is heating up. Tempers are flaring. There seems to be a showdown shaping up. How did things go so terribly wrong? The battle over control of programming at Vancouver community centres has begun in earnest. For most community-centre associations,
Continue readingBetterParks for Vancouver: Community centres protest Vancouver park board plan
Public meeting at Killarney turns ugly after commissioner’s rant By Sandra Thomas, Staff writer Vancouver Courier January 30, 2013 Photograph by: Dan Toulgoet, Vancouver Courier Approximately 400 concerned citizens turned out for the Kerrisdale Community Centre Association’s meeting Jan 29. Almost 400 seniors showed up to a hastily called
Continue readingBetterParks for Vancouver: New city policy puts Vancouver community centre programs at risk
Opinion: Majority on park board wants to radically alter what has been an enduring partnership. By Eric Harms, Special to The Vancouver Sun January 29, 2013 Let’s call her Marietta. When she arrived in our community, Hastings-Sunrise, as a recent immigrant from her native Trinidad, she brought along her aging
Continue readingBetterParks for Vancouver: The Community Strikes Back!
Tonight I witnessed a remarkable event. About 350 citizens from their neighbourhood filled the gymnasium at the Killarney Community Centre to voice their opposition to the Park Board take over of their facility. I understand an even larger crowd filled Kerrisdale Community Centre to speak out for their neighbourhood–the second
Continue readingBetterParks for Vancouver: The Girl Effect
VERY IMPORTANT! Please watch. And DO something about it. Girls + Education = REAL CHANGE.
Continue readingBetterParks for Vancouver: Killarney Community Centre Association pitches ‘call to action’
By Sandra Thomas, Staff writer January 24, 2013 Provoked by conditions included in the park board’s proposed joint operating agreement, the Killarney Community Centre Association has called an emergency meeting for next Tuesday evening. Keith Jacobs, past president and current treasurer for the association, said the park board’s general
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