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.
Mayoral candidate Mark Marissen’s mom wants voters to know how kind-hearted he is
He's not the first Vancouver mayoral candidate who sees his mother as an asset on the campaign trail—and he likely won't be the last. Over the years, Progress Vancouver mayoral...
Does Mark Marissen have any chance of becoming mayor of Vancouver?
Some who read this headline might be asking themselves this question: "Mark who?" Others who know Mark Marissen might say: "Are you friggin' nuts?" I'm here to say that...
Mark Marissen Progress Vancouver Nomination Launch Event
Mark Marissen hosts the largest in-person Vancouver municipal political event of 2021 to launch his nomination for the Progress Vancouver nomination.
Political operative steps forward to run for Vancouver mayor
Article on The Globe and Mail Read more here.
VIDEO: Political strategist Mark Marissen announces plans to run for Vancouver mayor
Mark Marissen announcing his plans to run for Vancouver mayor in the October 2022 election. Marissen is longtime political strategist who has worked on both mayoral and federal...
Dan Fumano: Wild days in Vancouver mayoral race
Opinion: A lot will likely change in the Vancouver mayoral race over the next year-and-a-half, but right now, the centre lane looks quite crowded. After the recent flurry of...
VIDEO: Vancouver Mayoral Candidate, Mark Marissen
Mark Marissen to run for mayor for city of Vancouver. Longtime political strategist hopes to unseat Kennedy Stewart in 2022 Vancouver election.
Road to Redemption: The Liberal Party of Canada, 2006–2019
Dion campaign manager Mark Marissen’s description of the choice faced by Liberals in the 2006 leadership race may well have been the most blunt, but his opinion was shared by almost all of Stéphane Dion’s key supporters.
