What kind of a City do you want? Part 2
The City of Vancouver has entered its second phase of consultation on the 2015-2018 Capital Plan. Here is a blog posting I wrote earlier this year. The link at the…
Stuart Mackinnon
Stuart Mackinnon hopes for another term on Vancouver Park Board
Andrew Fleming / Vancouver Courier August 12, 2014 01:46 PM Stuart Mackinnon. Photo Dan Toulgoet Former Green Party park board commissioner Stuart Mackinnon wants to get his old job back.…
Green Party of Vancouver announces Park Board and School Board nominees
Posted by Green Party of Vancouver on August 07, 2014 · With 100 days to go to the civic election, Green Party of Vancouver Chair Jacquie Miller is pleased to…
Former park commissioners: Cetacean captivity at Vancouver Aquarium has outlived its usefulness
From the Straight Editor’s note: Four former Vancouver park board commissioners have signed this letter addressed to the current park board, which on Thursday (July 31) voted to prohibit the…
Come celebrate diversity and equality at the 36th Annual Pride Parade
This coming Sunday will mark the 36th annual Pride Parade in Vancouver (August 3 @ 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm). Vancouver Pride describes the event as “attracting crowds of more…
And the race is on…
Courtesy of someone from Facebook.
July? Must be the silly season in Vancouver politics
Being an election year, this summer is a lot more political than usual. In non-election years the local press often has difficulty finding stories of interest on the civic scene.…
Beluga battle: Vancouver Aquarium defends captive whales as good science
Amid calls that whales and dolphins in captivity are “cruel” – the Vancouver Aquarium showcases research aimed at improving belugas’ lives in a warming Arctic Mychaylo Prystupa Posted: Jun 26th,…
Letter of the week: I’ll vote based on my dream for a far better Vancouver
The Province June 22, 2014. • Section: Opinion Imagine a better city. Imagine a civic government that engaged citizens as partners rather than adversaries. Imagine a city where the civil…
Will the Seniors Centre be the loser with all the political bickering?
Last night the Southeast Vancouver Seniors Arts and Cultural Society held its AGM at Killarney Community Centre. The SVSACS is the community organization pressing for a Seniors Centre attached to…
Proposed park by Fraser River a ‘100-year opportunity’
Salmon streams or bus parkade? Stanley Tromp / Vancouver Courier June 20, 2014 11:07 AM Terry Slack would like to see a vacant industrial lot turned into a new park.…
I believe in better parks and recreation for Vancouver.
It is strange to think that the ideas I was fighting for in 1999 are still the issues 15 years later. Below is from the original BetterParks site that I…
300 postings on making Better Parks for Vancouver
This marks the 300th posting since 2008 on this incarnation of the BetterParks blog. I originally started this blog in 2001 on an old Telus members site, and migrated over…
Summer starts in Vancouver with the opening of outdoor pools and beaches
Well…here’s a press release we’ve wanted to see for a while. Seems like summer has started at Vancouver Parks! Vancouver Park Board News Release May 14, 2014 Starting this Victoria…
What kind of a City do you want?
In the 9 May 2014 edition of the Vancouver Sun in a section called this day in history, they ran an article entitled “The failed industrial plans for Spanish Banks“,…
No Campaign Finance Reform This Year
With a vote of 9-1, Cllr. Adriane Carr’s motion for campaign finance reform was defeated at City Council this past week. Surprise? Not really as all 9 dissenting votes came…
The Courage of Her Convictions: Cllr Carr calls for plebiscite on whales in captivity
City Counsellor Adriane Carr has submitted a notice of motion for a plebiscite to be held during next November’s civic election in Vancouver on keeping whales and dolphins in captivity.…
The time has come to phase out whales and dolphins from Stanley Park
The time has come for a change at the Aquarium. It is time for them to phase out the containment of whales and dolphin (cetaceans). If they won’t do it…
What is a park?
The development at Oakridge is just a little bit controversial. This new plan will see the corner of Cambie and 41st Avenue transformed from a low rise mall into a…
Our elected leaders need to talk less and listen more.
As we all watched the bizarre proceedings in the city of Toronto, and the consequences of the mayor’s behaviour, I think these events are symptomatic of a larger problem in…