At a special general meeting this morning, Green Party of Vancouver members voted to officially endorse as candidates for Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation and Vancouver School Board the…
Enjoy a fantastic meal and help me launch my campaign for Park Board! Dine at Graze Restaurant on September 9th, and Graze will donate 20% of all dinner sales to…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
Courtesy of someone from Facebook.
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.…
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,…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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“,…
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…
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.…
