Cambie Report

Katherine Ramdeen is an independent candidate for Vancouver City Council. Follow her @ramdeen4vancity

Our last regular show before the election!

Our interview with outgoing Mayor Gregor Robertson

Ian speaks with Rob McDowell, who is running an independent bid for council

Pete Fry is running with the Vancouver Greens for Vancouver City Council.

Brandon Yan is running with OneCity for Vancouver City Council.

Erin Shum is an independent candidate for Vancouver City Council

Patrick, Ian and Matthew's top picks for Vancouver City Council

Frances Bula joins us for our last live show before the election.

Adrian Crook is an independent candidate for Vancouver City Council

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-length interviews.

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 McDonald CC-BY

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 Stanley Park 9 O'Clock Gun for this week's Vancouveratta. Support us on Patreon to get access to our private Slack chat and to be the first to find out when our next live show will be held.

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, we're joined by Gordon Price and Sandy James, co-editors of the Price Tags municipal affairs website. Gordon Price was a six-term city councillor and director of The City Program at SFU. Sandy James is a city planner and director of Walk Metro Vancouver. We talk to Gordon and Sandy about rezoning, walkability and bike lanes. Support the show at patreon.com/cambiereport

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 Report on Patreon

In our first look into the environs, we get a tour of Surrey municipal politics and who's running in this upcoming election. Then we turn our sights to the controversial decision by developer Boffo to pull the plug on a proposed social housing project with local charity The Kettle Society. Next we have a few updates from the Vancouver race, including some policy discussions, Kennedy Stewart's campaign disclosures and nomination races that will soon be wrapped up. Finally we spend some time on the chaos that was the Wai Young mayoral announcement and the Tweet storm that followed. In our Vancouveratta this week: Why have so many Metro Vancouver municipalities voted against themselves? Follow us on Twitter & Facebook for for details very soon on our next live show (tentatively the third week of July) and please support us on Patreon for the earliest updates.

Patrick reports from OneCity's nomination meeting as to who their council and school board candidates will be. Raymond Louie becomes the latest Vision Vancouver councillor to announce his plans not to run for reelection, leaving Heather Deal as the sole remaining Vision councillor seeking re-election. The BC Civil Liberties Association and Union of BC Indian Chiefs launched a complaint against the Vancouver Police Department following reports of street checks disproportionately targeting black and indigenous communities. Here's the Daily Xtra article Matthew mentioned. And we take a look at the newly released Vancouver housing strategy. And for this week's Vancouveratta, we look at the Arbutus Greenway. Support us on Patreon

Announcement: We're launching a Patreon! You can now support the show at patreon.com/cambiereport. In our first segment, Squamish Nation Councillor Khelsilem (@khelsilem) joins us to talk about Squamish nation politics, Jean Swanson's latest rally, the COPE nomination meeting, Ian Campbell's acclamation as the Vision mayoral nominee and randomized ballots. Then sitting city councillor Andrea Reimer (@andreareimer) and past councillor Ellen Woodsworth (@ellenwoodsworth) come to talk about the work of city councillors, advancing gender equity policies and some Vancouveratta. Thanks to everyone who came out! Stay tuned to our Twitter and Facebook pages for our next live show (sometime in July).

Live Show: We're doing a live show on Monday, June 11 at 7pm (doors at 6) at The Emerald (555 Gore). RSVP on Facebook or Eventbrite In a surprising result, Ken Sim won the NPA mayoral nomination defeating sitting Park Board Commissioner John Coupar and populist Glen Chernen. We break down who Sim is, what this means for the NPA and where Chernen may end up. Then we discuss a mixer held by the Bremner team on the day after and try to read the tea leaves about who was there and what it means. On the progressive side, the VDLC has reached agreements with the various parties and it's somewhat of a mess. We try to sort out what happened and why pretty much everyone is disappointed (which might mean it's a good compromise). Justin McElroy (@j_mcelroy), CBC's municipal affairs reporter, joins us. Find Justin at justinmcelroy.com Note: Apologies for the short bits of electronic noise in the first few minutes of the podcast. We're planning to upgrade our mics in the near future (or at least properly shield them).

This week we look at the race for Vision Vancouver's mayoral nomination between Chief Ian Campbell and former federal Liberal candidate Taleeb Noormohamed. Then we have an interview with Hector Bremner and discuss the possibly YesVancouver slate he's pulling together. Finally, we speak to some Vancouveratta about Stanley Park. Glen Chernen (and Ken Sim), if you're listening, we'd still love to talk to you. And mark June 11 in your calendar's as we're planning to host a live show that evening. Links mentioned in the show: Bringing the Squamish Nation into the global market An unnatural history of Stanley Park Send tips and corrections to us at [email protected] and leave a review on Apple Podcasts

Ken Sim, John Coupar and Glen Chernen are the final three vying for the NPA mayoral nomination but who are these men who would be mayor? It turn out it can be a bit hard to find out! We look at a new video from Ken Sim, Ian spoke with John Coupar and we try to figure out what's up with Glen Chernen. But first, we speak with data analyst, political scientist and pro-housing activist Jennifer Bradshaw about her hopes for the Vancouver municipal election. Follow Jennifer @amoraexcyna Finally, we follow up with the latest from Hector Bremner, the VDLC negotiations and end with some Vancouverrata about Japantown. As always, keep telling your friends about us and leave a review on Apple Podcasts. We loved FO's review that said we're better than the last Star Trek movie.

Non-profit developer and Hogan's Alley advocate Stephanie Allen (@builtjustice) joins the podcast to talk about her work, Hogan's Alley and racial justice in Vancouver housing. Then we get into the ongoing pickle that is the NPA mayoral race as the #SupplyBros and Gregory Baker continue to get into public fights over Hector Bremner's declined mayoral bid. Plus we spend some time on how racist the NPA is and who little Jenna might be. We then talk about the state of the progressive race (prior to any rumours we may have leaked last night about Vision kiboshing talks with the other parties) and include an interview Matthew did with Shauna Sylvester (apologies for the background noise). Finally, we introduce a new segment: Vancouverrata, where we bring in a historical and less political fact from Vancouver's history. Today's story comes from Stephanie about Vie's Chicken & Steaks. Check out this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_khoX5h2FkQ Also: Our mistake, there were 4 women on the NPA board and 2 remain following the resignations this past week.

Right after finishing recording our next episode we heard a rumour that Vision Vancouver has walked away from Vancouver District & Labour Council talks with COPE, OneCity, Greens and Team Jean. We wanted to get this out right away as this is shocking news that suggests a very divided field going into this fall's municipal election. We'll have a full episode (recorded before this news) that we recorded with Stephanie Allen tomorrow (May 14).

Burnaby South NDP MP Kennedy Stewart announced this afternoon that he'll be resigning as a Member of Parliament and is launching an independent bid for Mayor of Vancouver. Stewart is hoping progressive parties will line up behind him and support his bid. Ian and Matthew were there at his press conference to record his introductory remarks and ask a few questions. Ian then spoke with ResearchCo pollster Mario Canseco about the state of the increasingly fractured Vancouver mayoral race and a couple of his latest releases. We realize this is our third episode in a week and we really don't plan to be doing this so frequently. If this is too much content coming at you (or not enough?) let us know. Get at us on Twitter @cambiereport or email us [email protected]

Hector Bremner announced today that the NPA board had rejected his bid to run for mayor, despite the green light committee recommending he be approved. Ian spoke with Hector by Skype and then calls in Patrick for reactions. This is an ongoing story, so expect more soon.

Vancouver's progressive parties jockeyed in advance of the Vancouver District & Labour Council's meetings to try to reach a unity consensus. Ian reports from Jean Swanson's The City We Need platform launch and Patrick reports from the Crossroads conference where he spoke with mayoral hopefuls Shauna Sylvester and Kennedy Stewart. Then we take a preliminary crack at the state of the NPA race - hours before the entire thing fell apart. Nevertheless we presciently discussed what the possible ramifications of a premature end to Hector Bremner's NPA mayoral bid might be. Finally, we touch on the School Tax revolt, changes to the city's liquor laws, some local podcast recommendations (SOLD! and Metro Conversations) and how you can work on the Vancouver election. Please rate and review us, Follow us on Twitter (@cambiereport), tell a friend and look forward to another episode within the week (given the pace of #vanpoli this week).

Ian Bushfield and Patrick Meehan are joined by StarMetro's Jen St Denis (@jenstden) to catch up on the latest news in Vancouver politics. First, we look at the conflict of interest claims filed against NPA councillor Hector Bremner and how the party says it won't not use a loophole in municipal campaign finance laws. Then we go into the latest independents to come forward for the "progressive" side and how close Adriane Carr is to announcing her own bid for mayor. Finally, we touch on some electoral mechanics changes including randomized ballots, a request to the province to let permanent residents vote and a weird story about a Facebook poll that purports to tell you who your ideal mayoral candidate would be. As always, please keep telling your friends about us, share our episodes on social media, leave a review where you found us and send any feedback to us at [email protected]

Frances Bula has been covering urban issues and city politics in Vancouver since 1994. From drug policy to bike lanes to billion-dollar development projects to homelessness to garbage debates and more, Frances has covered it. Today her work can be found in the Globe and Mail and she's previously written for Vancouver Magazine, BCBusiness and over 20 years at the Vancouver Sun (plus many, many other publications). She's also prolific on Twitter @fabulavancouver We spoke with Frances about her career as a journalist, covering city hall, how the city has changed in her time covering it, how this election is different and we ask a number of questions from our Twitter followers. Find more of Frances' work at www.francesbula.com We know there's a ton of news about campaign finance laws, the NPA's newest mayoral candidate and electoral system, Morgane Oger's possible mayoral bit and more. We'd actually planned to talk about all of this but we ended up covering so much with Frances that we'll have to get back to it in our next episode, likely next week. And please remember to subscribe, tell friends about us and leave a review.

Mario Canseco (@mario_canseco) is a pollster with the new company Research Co. His first poll looks at the popularity of several potential mayoral candidates. Ian, Matthew and Patrick talk with Mario about polling, his new company and the state of the race.

Shauna Sylvester has launched an independent bid for mayor of Vancouver but is she a Vision plant? Meanwhile on the left, COPE is reportedly urging UBC urban designer Patrick Condon to seek their nomination. And on the right, John Coupar seems to be sucking all the air out of the NPA nomination race. Finally, we revisit the ongoing remuneration row going on at the Metro Vancouver board and we look once again into our mailbag. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter @CambieReport Email us: [email protected] And please tell others about the show and leave a five-star review wherever you found us.

Ian, Patrick & Matthew look at the state of the Vancouver mayoral election, the Metro Vancouver board's decision to vote themselves a pension increase, more mayors who aren't running again and finish off by responding to the incredible feedback from episode 1!

In the first full episode of Cambie Report, Ian Bushfield and Patrick Meehan are joined by Erin Reddekopp (@reddekoppter) from The Tipsy Archives (@TipsyArchives) podcast to dive into the history of Vancouver politics, break down how municipal elections work in the city and look at the state of the race. Follow us on Twitter or Facebook Send us an email: [email protected] Follow Ian Follow Patrick Find Ian's ongoing spreadsheet of declared candidates