Now that Vision Vancouver has self-actualized as a political party, it’s time to see if they’ll now address some longstanding democratic deficits. The complexion of the city changed markedly last night as Vision elected all its candidates, the Greens got a seat on council, the NPA increased its representation and all of COPE’s candidates lost [...]
BC Civic Election Returns
It’s one thing to lose a referendum on a regressive tax that came in on a lie, that was a tax shift from businesses to real human beings, and that removed PST exemptions on real necessities or awesome products like cloth diapers, kids shoes, food, smoke alarms, child car seats, bikes and fire extinguishers. But it’s [...]
I wish that this was a satirical piece. In sort of a break from the ever-so-boring federal election coverage that we’ve been bringing you lately, the City of Vancouver and its maybe-progressive governing party Vision Vancouver and former NDP MLA and now VanCity mayor (and Gordon Campbell endorser) Gregor Robertson have (almost) decided that any [...]
On Saturday, I posted an open letter to Vancouver city council arguing that they resist the neoliberal urge to continue the NPA goal of shifting taxes from corporations to real human beings. Bob Laurie, who may be the co-chair of the Vancouver Fair Tax Coalition commented on how wrong he felt I was. My rebuttal is [...]
