By YOLANDA COLE, Georgia Straight January 24, 2012 Vancouver city council will discuss a motion next week aimed at making changes to the city’s municipal election rules. A motion from Vision Vancouver councillor Andrea Reimer calls for the B.C. Ministry of Community, Sport and Cultural Development to update the Vancouver Charter to allow the city [...]
Read more →By CHERYL ROSSI, Vancouver Courier January 20, 2012 Vancouver renters may soon be able to make more informed choices about the suites they live in or want to rent. City council unanimously passed a motion forwarded by Vision Vancouver Coun. Tim Stevenson Jan. 17 to have staff report back on the creation of an online [...]
Read more →By YOLANDA COLE, Georgia Straight January 17, 2012 Vancouver city councillors unanimously voted in favour Tuesday (January 17) of asking staff to report back on creating an online rental database in the city. Vision Vancouver councillor Tim Stevenson, who introduced the motion, said the online database will bring “transparency” for renters. “I think it’s going [...]
Read more →(This post by Ellen Woodsworth originally appeared in the Vancouver Observer) So here we go again, it is 2012, and Vancouver has only four women councillors, six men and another white male Mayor. After 125 years, you would think it would be time for a change in Vancouver. But no, another city election and three [...]
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