Carol Reardon (she/her) [email protected]
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Lawyer, Masters in City Planning, MIT, interested in politics, land use planning, human + workers rights, environmental issues. Likes a good laugh.
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I’ve decided to undertake a fall quest in search of the best happy hours around Vancouver. By “best” I mean good food and drink at bargain prices. Went to Joe Fortes yesterday; lively, convivial atmosphere, good service + reasonably met both my requirements.
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Maybe we should all post this picture of Angelo Isidoro, campaign manager for the BC Cons, flashing the white nationalist symbol whilst wearing his MAGA hat every day until the B.C. provincial election lest we forget who these people really are.
#BCPoli
#BCFarRight
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I came across something very cool today: a cycling group that visits long-term care homes and takes residents for a bike ride. It’s called Cycling Without Age. Today, they were conducting trial run in the West End.
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The bigger question here is why any Mayor, whose title is ceremonial + has no more legislative authority than a Councillor, needs 8 personal staff + $1.5 million budget?
#VanPoli
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim turns boardroom into gym: Councillor | Vancouver Sun
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The VPD spend $149,000 of taxpayer $$ on a study that even Mayor Sim agreed was not useful, and now he wants the VPL to start charging fees to use the Library? There is something not right here.
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“Mayor Ken Sim asserts it'll go ahead anyway next year when the Park Board is abolished.”
Isn’t this a good reason to get rid of Ken Sim as Mayor and replace him with someone who’s prepared to be accountable to the public?
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@VancouverPD
It’s unprofessional for the VPD to publicly go after established DTES community groups like this. If you have an issue with what they are saying, you should have contacted them directly and sorted it out. That would have way to support community.
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🧵 In light of the implosion of the B.C. United Party, I decided to take a look at the BC Conservative Party platform. As suspected, it generally tracks with the Alberta United Conservative Party platform, including mandatory addiction treatment:
#BCPoli
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Unbelievable. We (apparently) can’t afford a new Aquatic Centre or Kitsilano Pool, and Ken Sim has the nerve to request a transfer of $80,000 from public services to his personal staff. Talk about tone deaf.
#VanPoli
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Mayor Ken Sim: “Unfortunately, we do not live in La-la land where we have unlimited resources, and so we do have to prioritize.” And ABCs priority, before it was even elected, was to blow all our money on a police dept that isn’t accountable to Council.
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John Rustad and company say that the B.C. Conservative Party is not connected to the Conservative Party of Canada. Does anyone seriously believe that? If Poilievre is elected PM, the Death Star will become operative in BC, AB and NB for sure.
#BCPoli
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As I said at the time, ABC moved quickly to dish out huge budget and salary increases to the VPD at the beginning of its term, making it inevitable that there would be service cuts + deficits throughout the rest of the budget - like we wouldn’t notice.
#VanPoli
Information Bulletin: Kitsilano Outdoor Pool to remain closed this summer
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Last night at the Van Park Board: “Don’t let the only way to bike safety in Vancouver be on a Peloton in City Hall.”
"Don't let the only way to bike safely in Vancouver be on a Peloton in City Hall" 🤣- speaker after speaker coming out OPPOSED to allowing 2-way traffic on Beach Avenue and adding more cars to Stanley Park.
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Based on everything I’ve seen, heard and read, I don’t think I could bring myself to vote for any COV Councillor who votes against the 129 units of housing proposed for lower and shelter income residents at 8th and Arbutus.
#VanPoli
#Vanelxn2022
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Ken Sim campaigned for Mayor saying he was an accountant who would sharpen his pencil and find ways to save lots of taxpayer $. Doesn’t look like his “own background” has stopped the FIFA costs from skyrocketing.😅
#VanPoli
A Michael Scott moment from Vancouver 's mayor:
Ken Sim: "I'm just basing it on my own background and how I feel..."
Reporter: "Hold on. You're basing this on a feeling, not because you've crunched any numbers?"
Sim: "No no. Look. It's not my job to crunch numbers."
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@BrianVMontague
@VisionZeroYVR
If you read through the thread, it looks like Vision Zero has marshalled lots of evidence to support their position. Where is your evidence to refute what they have presented? Your unsupported bloviating does not = convincing argument.
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"When you look at the entirety of the mayor's office budget, it equates to literally less than a penny for each resident in the city of Vancouver."
The Mayor’s budget is $1.5 million or 150,000,000 pennies.
The pop. of COV is 737,216…
#Swaggermath
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ABC really outdid itself today in the political cynicism dept, pulling an audacious bait + switch by voting down a 30-plan to protect English Bay from rising sea levels, then amending it to vote in favour of a road expansion project at Beach/Denman.
Well, it's official. ABC has killed the "West End Waterfront Parks, Beaches, and Transportation Vision", but is re-introducing two way car traffic to Beach Ave west of Denman.
Note that Bligh voted against B the restoring-two-way-car traffic part!
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Residential neighbourhoods used to be allowed to prohibit people of colour from moving into neighbourhoods for reasons based on character stereotypes. Why do we still allow them to create barriers to poor people moving into neighbourhoods
based on character stereotypes?
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Why is it that ABC had no problem “finding” the money to make the VPD the highest paid police force in Canada, but can’t afford to pay a Living Wage to low-income workers providing services to the City? Starving Peter to pay Paul?
#VanPoli
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Where to start…
Is this what the VPD is doing with its grotesque budget increase, I want my money back.
Why does the VPD focus on people like pedestrians, cyclists + and people escaping the night heat on the beach?
#VanPoli
VPD sweeping beachgoers at English Bay Beach after the 10 pm closure and to enforce liquor laws. Is this excessive?
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@Vote4ABC
@ParkBoard
“More access for more users again…” I take it ABC does not consider cyclists users of the Park? As these pictures demonstrate, there is no need for two lanes of for car traffic. One is enough.
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ABC Park Board could have voted in favour of a permanent bike lane option that cost $550,000 that could be implemented right away; instead they voted in favour of considering a “permanent” bike lane that will cost $20-100 million dollars. Is this fiscally conservative?
#VanPoli
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ABC is like the US GOP: proud to be anti-environment and pro-fossil fuels. First they vote down the West End Waterfront Plan to protect English Bay against rising sea levels, and now this:
Council just voted on an amendment by Clr Montague to allow fossil gas for heating and hot water in new construction - rolling back
#Vancouver
leadership on climate. Mayor Sim was absent until called in for the vote. Dinosaurs rule.
#vanpoli
#Climate
#ClimateCrisis
#vangreens
#fb
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@KenSimCity
This is what happens when the Mayor announces that he’s getting g rid of the Park Board, then realizes that he doesn’t have the jurisdiction + spends the rest of his term competing with the Park Board for attention like a child.
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Park Commissioner remuneration is $18, 743.38; the Chair gets $23, 428.65 - total $135,888.93.
The salaries for Ken Sim’s 10 political staffers add up to almost $880,000 - and they’re not elected.
Maybe Sim can eliminate duplication by getting rid of some of his staff?
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Stockholm to ban petrol and diesel cars from centre from 2025
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Vancouver Park Board Rejects Reinstatement of Stanley Park Bike Lane by Spring 2024.
It was obvious from the beginning that ABC no intention of fulfilling its promise to restore the bike lane.
#VanPoli
#Stanley
Park
#SPBikeLane
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🧵 “Two Vancouver-area First Nations have declined to sign a letter of unconditional support for Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim’s quest to dismantle the city’s elected park board.”
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Not sure why we should be impressed that ABC underfunded the Park Board + only did “essential” band aid repairs after the pool breached and got shut down.
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I am so sick of hearing about the “Road Tax.” We have a housing crisis. We have a rampant overdose crisis. We have a climate crisis. It’s socially irresponsible for ABC to try to make this election about an imaginary tax.
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#Vanelxn22
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@KenSimCity
So this is essentially an endorsement of the Federal Leader of the Opposition, Pierre Poilievre, who currently has no ability to work with the COV to facilitate more housing. Shouldn’t you be using the powerful land use levers already at your disposal to take steps right now?
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@RicAcuna
@maxfawcett
Further to your point, the contributions are made by individuals, not provinces. How many people who worked in the AB oil fields over the years came from the Atlantic Provinces and retired there? How many Albertans have retired in BC, etc?
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8th/Arbutus hearing: Nan Gregory from the Unitarian Church is a breathe of fresh air. “There are lots of peer reviewed studies that show that people with more wealth have less empathy.”
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It seems strange to me now that it was only a matter of weeks ago that COV Council unanimously approved a social housing building in East Van that is almost identical to the building proposed at 8th/Arbutus that will be voted on tonight. No mad neighbours, no Dr. Somers
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Is the Vancouver Sun going to be around much longer? Here we have a story based on someone else’s Twitter post; acknowledges that most commenters supported the barriers; only provides comments from 2 people against the barriers: Lazy reporting or what?
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Our ABC council majority recently voted down the 30-year West End Waterfront Plan intended to protect the shoreline from climate change, describing it as a “fantasyland” dream, demonstrating how out-of-touch ABC is with the very real financial liability of doing nothing.
#VanPoli
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@KevinNimmock
@jvipondmd
I know there are lots of smart and good people in Alberta. How does the Province end up with such terrible governments?
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The Independent/Green Park Board Commissioners deserve serious kudos for showing real character and doing the right thing by rejecting ABCs road expansion project at Beach Ave.
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Can someone please explain to me how having one lane for vehicular traffic into Stanley Park is a denial of accessibility to the park for seniors and disabled people? Wouldn’t they have the same access to the park as every other person driving through the park?
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@sarahkirby_yung
More amateur owner/landlords renting out their basements is not the solution to our existing lack of rental housing crisis. We need more purpose-built rental buildings with professional management.
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@KenSimCity
You legalized drinking alcohol in Vancouver Parks. This statement is hypocritical and opportunistic.
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@sarahkirby_yung
You were aware when elected that there was a huge deficit regarding aging infrastructure but went ahead and gave the VPD a whopping raise + budget increase, making them the highest paid police force in the country. Your priorities are clear.
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@KenSimCity
On the contrary, the Park Board listened to West End residents + refused to support your irrational plan to significantly widen and relocate a road thru Morton Park in a constrained, high pedestrian area + move a sidewalk into a park.
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The new Coal Harbour Elementary School w childcare center and 60 affordable homes above is well on its way to completion. 😀
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The BC Media needs to ask the B.C. Conservative Party whether it intends to follow Alberta’s lead and declare that the right to life starts at conception.
#BCPoli
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For all of the trolls saying that this is just an “OK” sign, read this:
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@KenSimCity
This is embarrassing. I haven’t got anything against the Rolling Stones, but going gaga over a concert that City Council had nothing to do with… it makes ABC look like the Beverly Hillbillies.
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I wonder how long it will take ABC to announce that they’re getting rid of the separated bike lane on Beach Ave? Will it be before or after they announce that the only permanent bike lane option they’ll consider for Stanley Park Road is too expensive and won’t proceed?
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TEAM is shocked that One City is proposing as-of-right zoning for 6-storey apartment buildings throughout the COV. Yet, when asked what they want instead of towers, they say they will accept 6-storey apartment buildings. Go figure.
#VanPoli
#Vanelxn2022
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Andrew Weaver has reached the Rudy Giuliani stage of Geezerdom.
What next? Complaints about low flow shower heads?
#BCPoli
Former Green leader pans B.C. Premier Eby as out-of-touch elitist | Vancouver Sun
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@peteremcc
The AB Heritage Fund was est’d in 1976 to collect a portion of its oil revenue for future generations. The fund Currently has $21.6 billion in assets. The Norway Oil Fund was est’d in 1990 and has US $1477 billion in assets. Enough said about AB asset management.
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Why is ABC so desperate to get rid of the elected Park Board without ever having put forward a business case for doing it in the first place? The public was not asking for it. And restructuring is very expensive. Who stands to benefit from this?
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Vancouver police predict $486M operating budget by 2028 - Vancouver Is Awesome
How much longer can we afford 20% increases to the VPD budget every year???
#VanPoli
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Apparently, Mayor Sim and City Manager, Paul Mochrie consider working out at a personalized gym part of the “regular operations of the Mayors Office.”
Who seriously believes that Vancouver tax payers should pay Ken Sim to work out (and not attend Council meetings)?
#VanPoli
Speaking of Mayor office, transparency, & infuriating behaviour
This was a board room where Councillors did City business, met delegations, etc
It was inexplicably expropriated for “regular operations” by Mayor office in January
Last week forgot to lock door:
It’s now a gym?
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“Soon after Sim filed the complaint in March, Southern asked him if he would be open to an informal resolution. Sim declined, so the matter proceeded to a formal, months-long investigation.”
And how much did this formal process cost COV Taxpayers?
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@j_mcelroy
The very best outcome of the recent COV municipal election is that Hardwick and her party not only lost but got obliterated. Her views do not represent the majority of Vancouverites.
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The chickens are coming home to roost:
Vancouver integrity commissioner releases reports detailing troubling work environment in mayor’s office
#VanPoli
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“Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim says city won’t get rid of any parks, just the board.”
#VanPoli
If this is true, why didn’t ABCs motion protect *all* parks in Vancouver not just those legally designated “permanent parks?” That wasn’t a mistake.
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@Trev_Ford_North
@Vote4ABC
Let me explain: The Stanley Park Bike lanes made it possible for people to access the park without fossil fuel driven vehicles, thus contributing to a reduction in green house gas emissions. Green house gas emissions significantly contribute to climate change. Clearer now?
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@oconnor322
- since you’re the architect of the ABC bike lane policy, just thought I’d follow up + ask when we can expect the permanent Stanley Park bike lanes promised by ABC during the election? What’s happening with that?
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@christineeboyle
It’s sad that Mayor Sim has resorted to weaponizing the Code of Conduct to file what appears to amount to a SLAP suit against you, Christine, as evidenced by the fact that he didn’t even bother to participate in the rest of the process. He should have to pay your legal fees.
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@sarahkirby_yung
Gee, why didn’t ABC think of this before it increased the VPD budget? Who knows how much money the City could raise if it allowed companies to advertise on the sides of police cars, for example?
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@keithbaldrey
@maxfawcett
In Vancouver, there were about 50 anti-SOGI protesters in front of Victoria’s Secret on Robson vs. about 1,500 counter-protesters nearby at the Art Gallery. What is significant is not just that the protesters were so outnumbered, but that there were so few.
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How is it that so many Vancouverites are more concerned about what tourists may think about our City because they can see our shameful homelessness problem than they are by the fact that we have a shameful homelessness problem?
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When you look at the ABC track record so far, the Party seems to be operating from a playbook with one page that reads: “undo all the good stuff and stop any new good stuff.”
#VanPoli
Only
@Vote4ABC
could take a 30 year plan to revitalize our prized waterfront and protect it from climate change, and turn it solely into a plan to add another vehicle lane beside the beach LMAO. These people are not serious
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@VancouverPD
@sarahkirby_yung
What about dangerous drivers like this one last week in on Alberni Street?
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I think I struck a nerve with this Ken Sim fanboy….
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@zakvescera
What difference would it make to ordinary Canadians if Lululemon left Canada if they’re not employing Canadians? If people want Lululemon they can order it online.
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Sarah Kirby Yung on Bus Lane Motion: Alternative Transportation Advocates should stop politicizing and publicly criticizing ABC in advance of motions like the Bus Lane Motion because they already have the support of ABC.
Why didn’t ABC bring this motion forward then? 🧐
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Did Mayor Ken Sim run for the wrong political office?
Given his disinterest in addressing critical issues facing City Council compared with his obsession with Park Board issues like rebuilding Jericho Pier and the Christmas train, maybe he should have run for Park Board? 😉
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It’s Monday, September 18, and somehow the city-owned and operated concession stand at Second Beach manages to stay open (unlike the privately operated Prospect Point Cafe).
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@hellosarahgreen
@SimonTownsley
@PaulNuki
@Telegraph
@TelGlobalHealth
“This piece was a long time coming.” you spent 4 days in Vancouver shooting poverty porn. I guess you’re not so busy over there in London now that the Conservatives got their butts kicked by the Labour Party.
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It’s very clear that ABC thinks that bike lanes are a luxury for recreational use, not an integral part of the transportation system.
#VanPoli
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Justin has hit the nail on the head. Pt Grey wants to have its cake and eat it too. Decades of opposition to even laneway houses and they wonder why the neighbourhood has turned into a sterile retirement village for wealthy people.
Put a less charitable way, Point Grey residents and Vancouver planners saw UBC build an entire commercial district that was much more vibrant/convenient for 90% of UBC students, did absolutely nothing for 20 years in response, and the free market did what the free market does
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ABC voted to exempt old fountains from the water conservation regulation + allow them to use drinking water to operate, even during drought conditions.
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ABC response to climate change: “Who needs a West End Waterfront Protection plan?”
Stanley Park seawall replacement cost estimated at $250-300 million - BC |
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The Conservative Party Press Conference:
Kevin Falcon says that nothing is more important for the next generation of BCers than defeating the NDP.
He and Rustad will work together over the next few weeks to put together a team that will defeat the NDP.
What a gong show
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Mayor Ken Sim says that Vancouver doesn’t have unlimited resources + must prioritize. Well, the same is true for the significant percentage of Vancouver residents who have decided not to own an automobile and use alternative transportation instead. What about them?
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To all of those ABC trolls who attacked Kennedy Stewart during the 2022 election for having 2 Chiefs of Staff: how do you feel about your man, Ken Sim, now?
#VanPoli
Vancouver mayor's budget ask comes under fire | CTV News
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Kevin Falcon has not resigned as leader of the B.C. United Party + the Board has not dissolved the party; they’ve simply announced that they’ve suspended the election campaigns of all the BCUP candidates. Put another way: they totally shafted their own candidates, including MLAs.
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Further proof that Mayor Ken Sim and the court jesters in his Office lack the knowledge, skills and temperament to run the City of Vancouver:
#vanpoli
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Refresh my memory: why are Vancouver tax payers paying the wages of an ABC Political Party enforcer? Shouldn’t ABC be paying for their internecine party stuff themselves?
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48 units of social housing… wasn’t the original deal that Holborn would provide 240 units?
Many said it would never get built.
Yet within 2 years of
@KenSimCity
and ABC taking office, ground has broken on the Little Mountain social housing project.
ABC is working to ensure all Vancouverites —regardless of income — have a place to call home.
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Just listened to Christine Boyle + Tieleman housing debate on CKNW from yesterday. Interesting to hear Tieleman pivot from TEAM wants “Paris everywhere” to TEAM wants spot rezoning hearings everywhere, something they formerly vehemently opposed.
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@raytomlin
@kitscoalition
@jakking49
@fabulavancouver
@fumano
@george_affleck
@kirklapointe
@j_mcelroy
@charliesmithvcr
@LinseaO
@bramham_daphne
This post is a disgrace. You are an out-spoken Colleen Hardwick/TEAM supporter, and it is incumbent upon TEAM to denounce and disassociate itself from this misogynistic and offensive character assassination of Cllr Christine Boyle.
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@globeandmail
Why do people believe that real estate is not just a risk-free but also a cost free investment?
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At Lost Lagoon: someone took the time to create this mosaic for others enjoyment. 😊
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I just stumbled upon this 2022 post by ABC Cllr Mike Klassen promising a new bike lane on Stanley Park Road by 2023.
#VanPoli
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The B.C. Cons have committed to cutting 4 $billion from the health care system. This is going to put some services currently covered by MSP at jeopardy. If not IVF, which services do they intend to privatize?
#BCPoli
I don’t know why you feel the need to try to mislead people like this, David.
You’ve already been called out by Globe and Mail for this... This is why people lose their ability to trust in government and politicians.
Children are a gift and a joy. I support and have always
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Does any of this make sense: Hardwick repeatedly abstained from or voted against social housing even when 100% subsidized by the NDP Govt.; she has no experience in “delivering” affordable housing that TEAM can point to, and TEAM has no viable housing policy.
#VanPoli
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@pwaldkirch
This process + decision is cynical even by ABC standards. The city was required by the province to develop a plan to protect the Englisb Bay waterfront from sea level rise. ABC has trashed the plan but inserted + approved a road expansion project. Disgusting.
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The issue of affordable housing will be a dominant issue in the Oct. 15 municipal elections. The counter-narrative presented by TEAM is “livability.” But what does “livability” mean? And does it necessarily include affordable housing?
#VanPoli
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I’ve heard it said that Mayor Ken Sim does not have a mandate to abolish the Vancouver Park Board. The situation is worse than that. He expressly stated during his mayoral campaign that he would NOT abolish the Park Board. That was his mandate: to NOT abolish the Park Board.
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Just wondering how those people who thought we needed a one party majority on Council feel about that now. This “New Right”- driven council is more interested in destroying our public institutions than serving the public interest.
#VanPoli
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Something I find annoying about ABC Council + Mayor: they underfund the Park Board, making it difficult for the Park Board to maintain Parks + Rec services, and blame the Park Board for that; but they always seem to find the money when they want to meddle with Park Board juris’n.
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