Cambie Report

Derrick O'Keefe is running with COPE for Vancouver City Council

Wade Grant is an independent candidate for Vancouver City Council

Paul Hendren, Election Outreach Lead for the City of Vancouver joins us to talk about the City's efforts to make it easier to learn about and to vote in this year's election. Then we discuss the Making Room proposal, Peter Wall's admission that he funded the Hector Bremner billboards, the Rental Housing Task Force, Brandon Yan's request to have his Chinese name on the ballot and why Wai Young continues to argue about what distracted her while driving. Remember to get your tickets for our October 4 live show at cambiereport.eventbrite.com

We recorded live from the City of Vancouver's ballot draw

Following Ian Campbell's decision to pull himself out of the race for mayor, Vision formally announced it will not be running a mayoral candidate this year. Nevertheless, the official lists show 21 people are still running for Mayor of Vancouver and hundreds more for council, park board and school board. Plus, the controversial group behind the pro-Hector Bremner billboards Facebook group disappeared and Kennedy Stewart announces a bizarre approach to electoral reform. Then Ian speaks with Nadia Stewart and Tom Davidoff about last week's all-candidates housing forum and how each of the candidates did. Finally, in this week's Vancovueratta, we talk about Salish Sea human foot discoveries. Make sure to support us on Patreon to get access to our full interviews with the mayoral candidates and to get early access to tickets to our next live show.

This is a recording of the September 12, 2018 candidates forum hosted by UBC Centre for Urban Economics and Real Estate. The high cost of housing continues to dominate headlines in the lead-up to municipal elections throughout Greater Vancouver. How do the parties running for Vancouver's City Council and Mayor plan to address housing affordability, high commercial taxes, and a regulatory process in need of streamlining? Panelists include: Christine Boyle, OneCity Hector Bremner, Yes Vancouver David Chen, ProVancouver Pete Fry, Green Party Ken Sim, NPA Kennedy Stewart Jean Swanson, COPE Shauna Sylvester Diego Cardona, Vision Vancouver Moderators Ian Bushfield, Cambie Report Nadia Stewart, Global BC Introductory Remarks Tom Davidoff Director, Centre for Urban Economics and Real Estate Associate Professor, Strategy and Business Economics UBC Sauder School of Business Prefer video? Watch the livestream. Want to hear more from the candidates for mayor? Support Cambie Report on Patreon to get access to our full-len

Ian Campbell ends his bid for mayor of Vancouver days before the nomination deadline, two polls suggest it's still anyone's game, the UBCM is in full swing, Delta's current mayor announces she's running for council on the slate of the former city manager and what does an Ontario court ruling mean for municipal representation in BC? StarMetro Vancouver reporter Jen St Denis helps us break all of that down. Plus, we're joined in the second half by data analyst Jens von Bergmann to get an understanding of the effects of the City of Vancouver's enforcement of AirBnB licensing. Recorded live at the Dubh Linn Gate Be the first to hear about our October live show by supporting the show on Patreon.

A cut of our full interview with Shauna Sylvester, independent mayoral nominee. To access the full interview, become a supporter on Patreon.

A cut of our full interview with Ken Sim, mayoral nominee for the Non-Partisan Association (NPA). To access the full interview, become a supporter on Patreon.

Our next live show is coming up on Tuesday, September 11 at the Dubh Linn Gate pub. Show starts at 7:30pm. Get your tickets today! North Shore News reporter Brent Richter (@brentrichter) joins us to talk about the politics of the City of North Vancouver, the District of North Vancovuer and West Vancouver. Plus we look at the possible impact of the Federal Court of Appeal's crushing the approval of the TransMountain pipeline expansion on Vancouver's election, a series of anonymous attack ads that appeared on Facebook this week, Surrey First's implosion over gun policy and early signs that the real estate market is cooling in Vancouver. We also have a series of interviews with Vancouver's mayoral candidates that will start coming out this week. Join our Patreon to get access to the full interviews.

Caitlin Shane is the Community Engagement Lawyer with Pivot Legal Society and works on multiple campaigns, including drug policy and homelessness, to ensure that community input remains at the heart of Pivot’s reform efforts. She joins us for the first half of the podcast to talk about her work and what cities can and should be doing. She wrote in the Vancouver Sun that drug prohibition is the true radical policy and it's time to talk decriminalization and regulation. In the news, we talk about Shauna Sylvester's raft of platform planks, the Green's decision not to endorse anyone for mayor, COPE's campaign office launch, the Burnaby First Coalition, Chuck Puchmayr's run for New Westminster Council and we preview the UBCM's annual meeting. And this week's Vancouveratta is the Vancouver Special. Support the show at patreon.com/cambiereport to get access to our patron Slack channel and to get first access to tickets for our next live show - tentatively on Tuesday, September 11. Photo credit: Flickr/ Kenny McDona

We catch up on the latest news before talking polls and charts with Mario Canseco (@Mario_Canseco). You can see Ian's charts here. Then we talk to social justice and urban advocate Katelyn McDougall (@katemac22) about engaging people in cities. Finally we take some audience questions and close out the episode with candidate statements. Be the first to know about our next live show and join our Slack channel by becoming a supporter on Patreon. Thanks to Dubh Linn Gate for hosting us and for everyone who came out.

Live show: Our next live show is Tuesday, August 21, 2018 at 7pm at Dubh Linn Gate on Main Street. RSVP on Eventbrite or Facebook. On this week's show: Peter Ladner endorses Shauna Sylvester, which begs the question: Do endorsements matter? Mike Howell muses about transition allowances, which we all agree are a good thing. A Surrey political party unexpected implodes, while a media Darling steps up to run in Port Coquitlam. A crow might just be Metro Vancouver's unofficial ambassador (vote in the final 4) and British Columbians are very supportive of using red light cameras to capture speeders. Finally, in our Vancouveratta, Matthew talks about the time Warren G Harding came to Vancouver and how that trip possibly led to the end of his life. Remember to support us on Patreon

Matthew Naylor is on holiday this week but instead we have political scientist and Twitter commentator Stewart Prest (@stewartprest) joining us to talk about his take on the Vancouver election. Then we get into the nine council candidates the NPA has chosen to run, and whether that's too many names for us to keep track of. The City of Vancouver announced the expropriation of the Regent and Balmoral, two SRO buildings run by the Sahotas. We look at a good news piece from The Globe and Mail about how the lives of the former residents have improved since they've been moved to better housing. From good to bad, we then look at the death of an orca calf and what the city and residents can do to keep the Salish Sea healthy. West Vancouver faces its first contest mayoral race in a decade and the competition between two women has brought out some uglier commentary. And in the City of Langley, former MLA Peter Fassbender announces he's angling to return to his position as mayor. Finally, Patrick tells us about the Stan

CBC Vancouver Social Media Editor Tamara Baluja joins this week's episode to talk about the social media discussions happening in this election. Baluja and Metro Affairs Reporter (and past guest) Justin McElroy together launched Metro Matters, the new CBC municipal politics newsletter. Subscribe: www.cbc.ca/metromatters Also in this episode: Yes Vancouver announces its election slate The Mayor's Council approves Translink fare changes (and Seth Rogen as the new guest voice - intro audio via @Translink) PavCo vs Vancouver view cones OneCity candidate Brandon Yan accused of deleting tweets OneCity's Windfall Power land value proposal And this week's Vancouveratta: The Dyke March. Find more details at vancouverdykemarch.com For access to our Patron-slack and an early invite to our next live show, support the show at patreon.com/cambiereport

Live from The Belmont in Vancouver. Patrick Condon and Ken Clement both announced they're not intending to run this year following health issues. The Vancouver & District Labour Council released it's endorsements for the upcoming election. ResearchCo has a new poll showing Ken Sim and Kennedy Stewart in a statistical tie in the race for mayor. Over in Burnaby, the city looks set to take a radical turn from its demoviction approach and will instead become the first BC municipality to enact rental-only zoning. The race may still be tough for incumbent mayor Derek Corrigan as Burnaby Green Joe Keithley drops out of the mayoral race to endorse challenger Mike Hurley. Finally, in Surrey Rich Coleman backs out of the mayoral race while former mayor Doug McCallum announces his return to civic politics. McCallum's first priority would be to scrap the Surrey LRT while the left-wing Proudly Surrey would see the city leave TransLink. It's all enough to drive Matthew Naylor into a pro-transit rant. After the break, w

In our first extended look at the Burnaby race, we have Kelvin Gawley come on who recently started reporting for the Burnaby Now community newspaper. We talk firefighters, the punk rock band DOA, demovictions and pipelines. We also chat about the Vision race, the interesting way in which they worked their ballot and the different ways party members vote in nomination races. To the surprise of the Vancouver Green Party, Nicholas Chernen is involved in some lawsuits, and that has resulted in him resigning from his candidacy for their party. In our Vancouveratta this week, Patrick shares his childhood memories at Reifel Bird Sanctuary with his now departed Grandmother, and they talk about the peculiar Al Capone style way in which the bird sanctuary came to be. Follow us on Twitter & Facebook for for details very soon on our next live show July 19th at the Belmont and please support us on Patreon for the earliest updates.

Live Show Announcement Our next live show is on Thursday, July 19 at 7pm at The Belmont Pay-what-you can tickets on EventBrite or RSVP on Facebook Patti Bacchus is the Georgia Straight K-12 Education Columnist and past Vision Vancouver School Board Trustee and the VSB's longest serving chair. She joins Patrick and Ian to talk about what the role of trustees and the school board are and what some of the past and current issues. This interview was cut down for time. To hear the full interview, join our Patreon. In the news, we catch up on chaos at the Vancouver Green's nomination meeting, the launch of Hector Bremner's Yes Vancouver (not to be confused with YES! Vancouver), Jean Swanson getting arrested, the proposed gas tax increase, the New Westminster & District Labour Council's decision to endorse Mike Hurley over incumbent Burnaby mayor Derek Corrigan and whether the German report has sunk Rich Coleman's mayoralty hopes. Finally, in Vancovueratta, Ian talks about the Templeton Five. Support Cambie Repo