All Vancouver mayoral candidates were invited to spend a night in the Crab Park tent encampment, but only one candidate accepted that invitation: Mark Marissen. The Vancouver...
Opinion: Why a well-known activist joined Mark Marissen’s Progress Vancouver team
“How could you be working with that person?” This question keeps coming up from progressive friends wondering about why I am at Mark Marissen’s side, running for Council with...
How your Vancouver mayoral candidates plan to help the Downtown Eastside (VIDEOS)
We recently sat down with all the major Vancouver mayoral candidates and asked how they plan on helping the Downtown Eastside. The Vancouver civic election is less than two weeks...
Progress Vancouver party promises new safe and secure public bike parking
Vancouver’s rampant bike theft problem is one of the greatest deterrents to getting more people to consider cycling for getting around. The very real concern over whether a bike...
Vancouver mayoral candidate promises to double the number of food truck permits to 200
Just over a decade ago, the City of Vancouver overhauled its food truck policy to enable a wider quality and quantity of food trucks and carts — beyond the average hot dog...
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...
New university campus for 3,400 students to open at Vancouver House
When University Canada West‘s (UCW) new campus within the base of Vancouver House opens next year, it will mark the single largest new post-secondary institution expansion in...
Canada first country in the world to declare a Sikh Heritage Month
Canada is officially the first country in the world to adopt formal legislation to recognize April as Sikh Heritage Month.The private member’s bill was brought forward by Sukh...