Mark Marissen: Tents will be with us until we build the housing and support services we need
Before I decided to run for Mayor of Vancouver, I met with residents of the Strathcona Park encampment to hear their stories Most of the folks who I spoke with had previously...
It’s a Municipal Election Year. In Vancouver, Homelessness Is Top of Mind
Mark Marissen is a political strategist who worked on former B.C. premier Christy Clark’s campaigns as a volunteer. He’s running for mayor. Marissen said he’s been visiting SROs...
Stewart, Hardwick and Marissen lead Vancouver mayor race: poll
Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart leads a crowded pack of mayoral candidates ahead of the October 15 municipal election with 17.1 per cent support from those surveyed, according to...
Progress Vancouver Dinner – Pink Pearl Restaurant
“We need to re-establish Vancouver as the social, economic and cultural centre of the Lower Mainland.”
VIDEO: Vancouver Mayoral Candidate: Mark Marissen
Known as a public affairs strategist and entrepreneur who founded Burrard Strategy in 1998, Mark Marissen first started his career in Ottawa as the National Youth Director of the...
Mark Marissen: Vancouver’s housing crisis is getting worse under Kennedy Stewart
Vancouver’s housing crisis is getting worse under Kennedy Stewart because he doesn’t understand his role as Mayor and refuses to build the coalition on council required to solve...
Mark Marissen officially nominated
This past weekend, I was officially nominated -- at Denny's at Broadway and Burrard -- as Progress Vancouver's candidate for Mayor of Vancouver. Check it out!The election is on...
Mark Marissen: Grow Vancouver. How to fight climate change
The man who hopes to run for mayor with Progress Vancouver says that under the current mayor and council, the city's population actually shrank last year. As mayor, I want to...
Mark Marissen: Family-friendly initiative could push back downtown tide of crime and neglect
Our downtown core is in rough shape. It wasn’t always like this. Vancouver’s downtown is home for over 100,000 residents and 13,000 businesses, making it one of the most densely...
Mark Marissen: Don’t blame anti-Asian sentiment on the COVID-19 pandemic
A Vancouver mayoral candidate says the seeds were being planted in his city for many years Vancouverites have long thought of our region as one of the world’s most welcoming...
Mark Marissen: Let’s fix this Vancouver housing crisis with open hearts and open minds
Healthy cities require a strong middle class. Unfortunately for us, Vancouver is well on its way to becoming a city for the very rich and the very poor. If, like me,...
Three Quick Questions for Mark Marissen
Join Viewpoint Vancouver for a quickie! Introducing our new Election podcast feature: Three Quick Questions, where, in under ten minutes, Gordon puts civic candidates on the spot with three unusual questions designed to reveal who they are and what really makes them tick.
