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Denise Ryan Vancouver Sun Published on: May 27, 2018     Vancouver is still fighting to recover $550,000 in costs incurred by the city to clean up after the MV Marathassa spilled 2,700 litres of bunker fuel in English Bay three years, Mayor Gregor Robertson said on Sunday. Vancouver’s concerns about oil

  Vancouver Park Board News Release May 25, 2018     The beach is calling …. and this year two of Vancouver’s most popular beaches will be fully accessible to people with mobility challenges.      It’s the second phase of the Vancouver Park Board’s commitment to a better, more inclusive

Vancouver Park Board   Information Bulletin April 23, 2018     The Park Board will attempt to have Sunset Beach park and field open to the public in six weeks, by early June. This revised estimate of field impacts after the 4/20 marijuana event comes after a full inspection of

Commissioners take on mission to ‘decolonize the Vancouver Park Board’ Jessica Kerr / Vancouver Courier April 19, 2018 10:26 AM The park board’s reconciliation planner, Rena Soutar, will work with the board and City of Vancouver to advance mutual goals and create relationships between municipal government and Indigenous communities. It’s

by Stuart Mackinnon on April 17th, 2018 at 6:20 PMStraight.com Last night, the Vancouver park board unanimously approved chair and commissioner Stuart Mackinnon’s motion directing staff to analyze the organization’s “colonial roots, as well as current practices” and report back with recommendations “to acknowledge any and all injustices uncovered as

 Here is my statement on presenting my motion at Park Board last night. The motion passed unanimously. Post-impressionist artist Paul Gauguin famously asked in his 1897 painting: Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?  These questions are as relevant today as they were more than

Areas affected include near English Bay, Sunset and Second beaches, Brockton Point Courier staff / Vancouver Courier April 12, 2018  One of Vancouver’s crown jewels is getting some love. The Stanley Park seawall is in the midst of the largest restoration effort in its 101-year history and crews have already

Vancouver Park Board   News Release April 5, 2018     The Park Board will invite an external advisory committee to assist in developing a revised version of VanSplash, the Board’s long-term aquatics strategy for Vancouver. This decision follows an 18 month city-wide consultation which surfaced a wide variety of

After a thorough staff review the Park Board has decided it will not introduce seasonal pay parking at Spanish Banks this summer. Staff have advised that for this year, the revenue from Spanish Banks parking is not required to balance the budget, so plans for the introduction of pay parking

If you are interested in getting involved in my campaign for re-election to the Park Board, please visit the stuart4parks website. The first step is securing an endorsement from the Green Party of Vancouver. You can join the party which will enable you to vote at the nomination meeting in

Last fall when I introduced my motion to ban balloons from public parks, some people thought I was full of hot air. Well, here are 99 reasons why balloons are a danger to the planet. A fisher scooping up downed balloons in the Strait of Juan de Fuca. (Thanks to

At the Green Party of Vancouver AGM on Sunday 11 March 2018 I stated my intention to seek another endorsement for Park Board Commissioner from the party. It has been a honour and a privilege to be an elected Green  representative on the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation twice:

 Jessica Kerr / Vancouver Courier March 14, 2018 11:34 AM They were celebrating at Ray-Cam Co-operative Community Centre Wednesday morning as the push to upgrade the centre got a boost from city council, but now the real work begins. Council adopted Green Coun. Adriane Carr’s motion to have staff review

Vancouver Park Board News release March 2, 2018       The Vancouver Park Board has filed an appeal of a B.C. Supreme Court (BCSC) ruling of February 9, 2018,in which the Court determined that a by-law restricting cetaceans in city parks is inapplicable to the Vancouver Aquarium’s operations in

Jessica Kerr / Vancouver Courier February 22, 2018 02:33 PM The park board is on board with Vancouver’s bid to be a host city if the World Cup comes to North America in 2026. Commissioners earlier this week unanimously approved a series of staff recommendations needed for Vancouver to be

Last November, in the 2018 Park Board budget deliberations, seasonal parking fees were introduced at Spanish Banks beach. This is the last beach in Vancouver to have parking fees, and the community, not unexpectedly, reacted negatively. No one likes to pay for parking. Nobody likes additional charges.  I get it.

Vancouver Park Board News Release January 18, 2018  The Vancouver Park Board applauds the announcement today by the Vancouver Aquarium that it will end the importation and display of live cetaceans in Stanley Park. In May of 2017, after thousands of community submissions on the issue and a number of

Adam Nanji / Vancouver Is Awesome December 29, 2017  Chipping Stations The City of Vancouver, along with the Lions Club, is organizing four tree recycling stations across the city. They also encourage you to bring a non-perishable food item; they will be distributing donations to local charities. Tree chipping stations

City of Vancouver Information Bulletin December 22, 2017     In response to continued cold weather and as part of the City of Vancouver’s Warming Centre Program, an additional warming centre will open tonight in Kitsilano. Warming centres are activated as a life-saving response for people living on the street

Jessica Kerr / Vancouver Courier December 20, 2017 01:00 AM Those waiting to hear what park board commissioners think of the proposed long-term plan for the city’s pools, beaches and aquatics amenities will have to wait a little bit longer. At the final meeting of 2017 Tuesday night, the board