Election Headlines, Nov 17 – Nov 19

• The Straight Slate for the 2011 for the municipal elections across Metro Vancouver
• Business partners lock horns over mayoral candidates
• Georgia Straight questionnaire: Vancouver council hopefuls state their views
• Candidates for mayor tweet their campaign slogans
• Who should you vote for?  A guide to the attack dogs, workaholics, and more of Vancouver city council
• Vancouver’s Creative Space Crunch
• Vancouver housing authority proposed by COPE
• You candidates’ answer to out arts and culture survey
• Local publications offer political endorsements:  Round two
• How Anton turned Occupy Vancouver into an election issue
• Vancouver civic election “compass”
• Polls open Saturday for the 100th election in the City’s 125-year history
• Suzanne Anton bases her politics on the free-enterprise model

Election Headlines, Nov 14th – 16th

• If this is Monday, there must be another Vancouver election poll. Or Three.
• Municipal spending grows four times faster than population
• Ex-NPA campaign manager Bob Ransford and former mayors Harcourt and Campbell endorse Mayor Gregor Robertson
• Election issues overshadowed by the Occupy protest
• Vancouver and Housing Affordability
• Interview – Neighbourhoods for a Sustainable Vancouver’s Randy Helten
• Parties talk spending as Vancouver election looms
• Vancouver’s Top Election Issues, if not Pre-Occupied
• Tax and shift
• Arts advocates want answers from candidates
• Vision pegs NPA’s promises at estimated $390 million
• Intelligent, arrogant and out of touch: Vancouver residents on Robertson, Anton
• “De-growth” makes its debut on the Vancouver civic election ballot
• Meet Vision Vancouver park board candidate Niki Sharma
• Video:  Park candidates put Vision Vancouver on the defensive
• Vision, NPA both demonstrate need for remedial math as they issue scare stories about out of control spending
• Three solutions to Vancouver’s housing and homelessness crisis
• Mayor Gregor Robertson promises expanded bus service and late-night transit

Election Headlines, Nov 7 – Nov 10

• Occupy Vancouver protestors disrupt mayoral debate on housing
• Mayoral candidates debate against the public
• Occupy Vancouver camper wins Last Candidate Standing election debate
• Central Park: NPArks
• Why we (still) don’t bike
• Running against developers in condolandia
• COPE releases Vancouver civic election platform
• NPA candidate Sean Bickerton concerned about gay bashing in Vancouver
• Advance polls open today (Nov. 9)
• NPA Candidate calls for moratorium on laneway housing
• Vision promises free family days at pools and rinks subject to economy improving
• Interview: Vision’s Geoff Meggs on the affordability crisis, Occupy Vancouver, and Operation Solidarity
• Get your municipal vote on
• Sandy Garossino: independent solutions to partisan problems
• Explainer:  Voting in Vancouver
• Gregor Robertson’s Planning Policies meet opposition from Neighbourhoods for a Sustainable Vancouver.

Election Headlines, Nov 3 – Nov 6

• Two former Vancouver mayors back Suzanne Anton
• It’s not like Philip Owen and Sam Sullivan were going to endorse Gregor Robertson
• NPA unveils ‘common sense’ election platform
• Can a game show – like debate inject fun and interest into the municipal election?
• Park board candidate wants referendum on future of Cambie Street Grounds
• Affordability Economics 101: high demand + low supply = costly housing
• “Apocalyptic chicken coops”: Mayor’s complete speech from Westin Bayshore Vision Vancouver Gala
• Transit latest election pawn in Vancouver
• Anton advocates moving museum downtown
• Gregor Robertson on the deteriorating Occupy Vancouver situation
• Neighbourhoods for a Sustainable Vancouver endorses six more council candidates
• Vancouver parks need more accountability, programs, and water access
• Mayor orders eviction of Occupy Vancouver

Election Headlines, Oct 27th – Oct 29th

ARTICLES:

• COPE firebrand Tim Louis launches a political comeback
• Anton calls for ‘tent city’ tear down
• In Vancouver, Occupy protests have become a major election issue
• Occupy Vancouver dominates city’s mayoral race
• Cope slate may gain Neighbourhoods for a Sustainable Vancouver endorsement
• Suzanne Anton’s Occupy Vancouver plan will result in ‘civic disturbance,’ Chris Shaw claims
• Mayoral Candidates unleash economic plans
• The October Revolution
• Show me the money in Vancouver civic election
• Green candidates Adriane Carr proposes some bike-free streets in Vancouver
• Vancouver mayoral candidate Dubgee has plans to fix 99 B-Line
• NPA park board candidate proposes boat and bike rentals in city park
• Editorial:  Mayor must stand up for regular citizens

VIDEOS:

• All Candidates Debate – False Creek Residents Association
• Ending Occupy Vancouver
• Candid Candidates:  Supervised Injection Sites

Election Headlines, Oct 24th – Oct 26th

ARTICLES:

• COPE backs discounted bus passes
• Vision focuses on neighbourhoods platform
• Robertson, round two
• Suzanne Anton and Tim Louis disagree over underground transit line along West Broadway
• Vancouver civic election:  the issues you won’t hear about
• Municipal elections 2011:  Vancouver council candidates’ commentaries
• Dubgee raps on the Vancouver mayoral campaign trail
• Vancouver’s NPA: Why it’s dominated city politics for so long and expects to do so again
• Election questions and polling numbers

VIDEOS:

• Candid Candidates:  Greenest City by 2020