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Cambie Report
by Ian Bushfield, Matthew Naylor
Vancouver's new local politics podcast. Covering the 2018 municipal election. Hosted by Matthew Naylor and Ian Bushfield. Email us [email protected] | Support the show at https://patreon.com/cambiereport
Episodes
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E4-1462 Kick the Bums Out
We have results and they tell us that people wanted change! Maybe they wanted someone leftwing, others wanted someone rightwing, many just wanted someone uncontroversial. A few were very happy though. We go through what happened across the region and a few places around the province. Links BC…
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E3-0 Election Day!
Ian and Matthew are up bright and early to celebrate covering our third municipal election! We power through Vancouver and its environs, sharing some thoughts on (almost) every municipality's race and who we'd support if we had to. Some are enthusiastic, others are extremely begrudging. Just make...
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E3-24 The politicians are politicking
A provincial election threatens to disrupt our regular programming, just like COPE's "Evict Ken Sim" campaign is hurting Ken Sim. Challengers drop off, paving the way for Mayor Pete Fry, if the polls are to be believed. The cops stay "neutral" and the aquatic centre is coming down. Vancity...
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E3-58 A bold strategy Cotton
Ken Sim taks a page from Danielle Smith's books and decides we need to vote on some things, facts be damned. Will it be enough to save him from the polls? Stewart Prest fills in on this one. Links Check out Stewart's Substack: Politics, Explained Council adds plebiscite question to Vancouver...
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E3-92 Ephemerality
A busy council agenda but not before they break early for the summer. Ken Sim flip flops on the park board once more while making vague threats against the province. Metro Vancouver's CAO is out and Richmond's speeds are slowing. Links Opposition cries foul as Vancouver council scrubs last…
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E3-128 The credulous mayor
The left remains fractured as the VDLC backs William Azaroff and OneCity. Ken Sim and ABC face scrutiny over reversing the natural gas ban, blocking Vision Zero speed reductions, dismissing code of conduct violations and shuttering a proposed Yaletown overdoe prevention site. But at least we have...
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E3-184 The math doesn't add up
Vancouver's centre-left has reached a unity deal that ensures they can still split the vote. Elections BC releases the parties annual reports, giving us a glimpse into everyone's financial situation. Candidates are lining up to be mayor in New West, Surrey and West Van. Vancouver council agrees…
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E3-204 We called Councilor Orr and Apologized
Ken Sim maybe told people Sean Orr is a drug dealer based on a dodgy photo but he's really sorry. Candidates are announcing their intention to run for election. Some housing is going ahead, some isn't and Vancouver impedes on Maritime Law. Links Matthew on Global BC Today Vancouver councillor…
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E3-240
William Azaroff wins the OneCity mayoral nomination and his first act is a “progressive primary” ultimatum to COPE and the Greens. The Liberals pick up another candidate and nominations for council seats are underway. Lucy Maloney wants councillors to attend in person, the Olympic Village school…
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E3-261 Greenlight the Green Mayoral Candidate
We're back and this time intend to stay back as this election is shaping up to be chaotic with Ken Sim seeking re-election, Pete Fry launching a bid for mayor and the Vancouver Liberals getting their first caucus members in 90 years. Sim is praising his zero percent property tax increase budget…
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E3-281 OneCity's mayoral candidates
OneCity Vancouver is in the midst of their mayoral nomination contest, so we spoke to the two candidates: William Azaroff and Amanda Burrows about why they want to lead the city. Learn more: William Azaroff Amanda Burrows
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E3-366 Interesting races in an interesting region ft Patrick Johnstone
Just one year to go until voters across Metro Vancouver go to the polls to elect their next mayors and city councils. New Westminster Mayor Patrick Johnstone joins Ian to preview the races to watch across the region, and whether Vancouver is facing a referendum or not. Life After Cars event on…
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E3-388 A true efflorescence of political parties
Did you miss us? We're back to talk UBCM, the preponderance of parties that will participate in next year's election, the war of the Langleys and the wizard in the park. Links UBCM convention shows drift from 'compassion fatigue' to concern over crime and disorder | CBC News Codes of conduct and...
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E3-457 Purest centrism
What's in: Finance reports and new parties. What's out: Speeding, garburators, disabled housing, Pride, Stanley Park Train and the Mayor's Gym Links Byelection finance reports Administrative Monetary Penalties Posted Online | Elections BC Vancouver has a new civic party — the Vancouver Liberals...
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E3-499 Backing down and loving it
An emergency motion for a Lapu Lapu Day tragedy memorial event surprises even Filipino BC. The Kitsilano Coalition is happy to see the city concede on the planned supportive housing project. The Vancouver Renters' Office also isn't coming back anytime soon. Metro Vancouver and the Langleys debate...
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E3-530 Byelection: ABC ate shit
We mourn with everyone who lost friends and loved ones at the recent Lapu Lapu tragedy. In the coming months, we'll be sure to follow the ongoing political fallout of the failures that led to this event. In the meantime, support the Kapwa Strong fundraiser. Looking back at the byelection, it…
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E3a-4 People are definitely bringing their D-game
"I'm sorry" - Ken Sim about five times in the last month. Also featuring Annette Reilly of the Vancouver Green's statement. Links Vancouver byelection: Seven candidates from five parties make their pitch Vancouver sees 2,876 ballots cast on first day of advance voting for byelection Byelection...
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E3a-11 Hear from the candidates
We turned the mics over to the candidates for the Vancouver byelection so you can hear directly from them. Featuring Lucy Malone (OneCity), Colleen Hardwick (TEAM), Sean Orr (COPE), Jaime Stein (ABC) and Theodore Abbott (TEAM). Unfortunately, we didn't receive clips from Ralph Kaisers (ABC) or...
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E3a-38 Not a core value fit
With 38 days until the Vancouver by-elections, we delve into the DUI allegations against Mayor Ken Sim, which were reportedly dismissed by police investigations. We discuss Task Force Barrage, a new initiative targeting organized crime and public safety. As well: Rebecca Bligh and is out of ABC,...
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E3a-58 The mayor is a petulant child
Byelection candidates, supportive housing pause, Metro Van boycott and the Delta Police spark an international incident. Links OneCity candidate - Lucy Maloney: OneCity Vancouver By-election Candidate COPE - COPE Nominates Local Housing Activist and Writer Sean Orr as By-Election Candidate — COPE...
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E3a-72 Democracy isn't free
Two byelections at the same time folks. With Vancouver's longest-serving councillor, Adriane Carr, stepping down and Christine Boyle's election to the BC Legislature, Vancouver needs two new councillors. We look at the race and everything else that's happened recently. Links Vancouver Coun.…
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E3-709 Summer and Chip Wilson Day
Two-years of Ken Sim, Crab Park residents evicted, some upcoming byelections, Burnaby affordable housing requirements axed, New West mayor chastised and Surrey gets its first weed store. Links Q&A: Ken Sim reflects on two-year anniversary as Vancouver mayor Chip Wilson Day Vancouver's CRAB Park...
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E3-721 The Wild West of Fucking Procedure
Sarah Kirby-Yung is mad at Rebecca Bligh. Pete Fry is mad at Ken Sim. Everyone is acting like children. It's the council we know and love. But at least with a majority, they passed most everything they wanted (for better or worse). And at least Vancouver's mayor hasn't been deemed likely to leak...
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E3-741 A feather made of helium
ABC backtracks on the city's integrity commissioner, while ending City Hall lighting for (foreign) national holidays. Burnaby signs a gag order with TransMountain. Police in the region are over budget and saying some wildly bigoted things. A quirky by-election in Harrison Hot Springs. The Park...
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E3-765 Lisa Southern is not an airplane
Pete Fry foils Ken Sim's effort to put the Integrity Commissioner's office into a medically-induced coma. The Park Board releases a legal opinion suggesting a mid-term abolition may be unconstitutional. Surrey wants a Charter. A North Van chemical company runs an astroturf campaign. The People's...
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E3-814 Did a Global News question kill the Park Board?
Council controversies: Brian Montague's integrity commissioner review, Vancouver's rollback on climate action policies, and the city's purchase of an almost completed market rental building. Delayed suicide prevention barriers on Granville Bridge, TransLink's funding crisis, and the debate over...
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E3-842 Cribs city hall
Ken Sim expropriated a City Hall boardroom for a personal gym because that's what winners do. Meanwhile, the cops are using their extra budget to tackle the chaos that is people watching the sunset from the beach. Mandatory upzoning is progressing, with some notable squeaky wheels that are…
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E3-869 Surrey as performance art
At some point Brenda Locke should get tired of losing, but today is not that day. It does inspire us to think of Surrey as a grand collective delusion that we're all experiencing. Importantly though, voting isn't speech and the constitution still doesn't recognize municipalities. In Vancouver,...
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E3-893 Small Petty Bullshit
No fun city? Unless you want to gamble. Surrey policing drama. Mayors behaving badly. Links John Coupar runs for BC Conservatives Vancouver mayor cautious about organizing Canucks watch parties | CBC News Vancouver mulls viewing area for ’amazing’ Canucks’ fans | The Province Roxy Fever…the...
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E3-919
Christine Boyle defeats Andrea Reimer in the battle of Little Mountain, meaning we're likely headed to a council byelection later this year. Last year's annual report fundraising gives us some insight into how well each party might do. Surrey meanwhile, doesn't want money. Vancouver will be…
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E3-950 Unforced errors
The municipal becomes the provincial as two friends-of-the-pod compete in the race to replace an outgoing MLA. Mike Klassen asks the city for money for a Junos trip, Ken Sim asks a park board commissioner for forgiveness and the MST Nations are going to ask the province for everything. We also…
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E3-982 We elected fifth graders
Park board abolition, budget task force and naming rights, car-free gastown and more. Links Muni Ministry - Park Board MMA-2023-33456.pdf Vancouver Mayor - Park Board 2023-763 - res.pdf “the province is not going to be surprised” Sim says Vancouver Park Board 'not fixable' Park commissioners…
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E3-995 Join the Movement
Denis Agar, founder of Movement, a transit advocacy nonprofit organization, discusses the challenges and solutions for improving transit in Metro Vancouver. We cover the issues with the 49 bus route, the need for bus lanes and other transit improvements, the importance of community engagement…
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E3-1044 The break up on your behalf service
Ken Sim proposes abolishing the Park Board, shocking half of the ABC Park Board caucus who are now in open revolt. Can the right decisions be made for the pettiest of reasons? Ken Sim also saw the City Hall walls and wanted them painted...with the Rolling Stones logo. New regulations from the...
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E3-1058 Manufactured wood arcologies
BC's new housing laws mean major shakeups for city councils but maybe that's a good thing since we are in a housing crisis. Plus cities try to make themselves useful in the meantime. Except Surrey and especially except Harrison Hot Springs. Links Legislation introduced to rein in short-term...
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E3-1080 Pray Holborn doesn't alter the deal further
Social housing at Little Mountain continues to be the most aggravating story in the City of Vancouver, and it just got worse. Boyle wants red light and speed cameras in the city, but ABC wants further study. The cops are using their political capital. The Park Board is protecting golf courses.…
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E3-1100 Frustration after frustration after frustration
Surrey sues the province, who's about to crush them with legislation. Vancouver seeks a new city planner to build the homes Ken Sim is hoping his new plan will allow, if he's not too busy filing complaints against political rivals. Burnaby allows laneway houses but misses out on federal funding…
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E3-1149 Density is necessity
The latest threat to neighbourhood character: Young children. Also: Paying people to speak at public hearings, selling off school board land, staffing the mayor's office, banning Hookah shops, developing Coquitlam and Burnaby. Links Vancouver graffiti for climate change action (inspiration for…
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E3-1184 Government by complaint
We can't have nice things: We can't have a spa, we can't have the polar bears, we can't have a mural, we can't have the RCMP in Surrey, we can't have temporary modular housing and we can't have water. But we can have a beer at Khatsalano. Links Vancouver mayor shotguns beer at outdoor festival |...
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E3-1198 Who among us
Surrey policing drama, disqualifications, ethics issues, car-free pilots and mean girls. Links Olivia Chow requests to take office July 12, says first order of business is housing Surrey mayor threatens to call for inquiry into policing transition after Farnworth’s ultimatum Surrey mayor levels...
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E3-1250 Trapped in John A Macdonald's fever dream
A jury convened by a Coroner's Inquest has deemed the death of Myles Gray to be a homicide, seven years after he was dead following an altercation with Vancouver Police. But this is only the latest in a long history of challenges for policing in Vancouver. Meanwhile, the province has recommended...
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E3-1283 A rathaus of mayor brains
Ken Sim clears Hastings Street and has thoughts on housing. Brenda Locke stands by her interpretation of a meeting. Links Vancouver police, city staff begin removing encampment on East Hastings Street | CBC News City of Vancouver document calls for using police to speed up clearing DTES street...
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E3-1298 Vancouver the group art project
The Globe and Mail's exclusive claims China attempted to interfere in Vancouver's 2022 election and councillor Lenny Zhou is in the crosshairs. The Broadway Plan is up for a series of votes, ABC wants grant recipients to be nicer and a roundup of other recent news. Links China’s Vancouver…
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E3-1322 Community Charter obscura
Vancouver passes a budget that "sucks" and kills the Living Wage. Progress Vancouver admits to breaking election financing laws. And the City is clearing tents and considering a new hotel. Meanwhile, Burnaby is running an "alternative approval process" for a green waste facility, Surrey cops…
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E3-1337 This City Council could've been an email
Elections BC has released the financial reports from the 2022 municipal elections and we can see how efficient each party's spending was. Meanwhile, the staff report from the Climate Emergency Action Plan is pretty bleak and ABC opted to slash the climate justice charter from its further...
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E3-1357 Happy News Years
Whether Gregorian or Lunar, Happy New Year. We're back to look at missing middle initiatives in Victoria and Vancouver. Plus what's hot and not for ABC. Surrey won't have an answer on policing anytime soon. And Kennedy Stewart is in the news once more. Links Victoria council adopts divisive…
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E3-1401 ABCs of party discipline
Motions are passing unanimously at council but marginally more controversially at Park Board. The planning department is a mess, as is policing south of the Fraser. And sculptures! Links Boyle nonprofit housing motion passes Vancouver City Council approves exploring expediting social housing up…
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E3-1415 Shrub of reasonable doubt
Doug McCallum is a free man, having been found not guilty of mischief. Ken Sim began his stint as Mayor of Vancouver with a trip to Qatar to watch the world cup. But he was back in time for budget debates, where he questioned the revenue generating possibilities of the library. There's lots more...
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E3-1436 Scaly Faced Motherfucker
Everyone is on trial this week as Doug McCallum is in court, the VPD put themselves in the hotseat attempting to press the case against social spending in the DTES and council faces its first tests. Kennedy Stewart quits Twitter Witness at outgoing Surrey mayor's trial testifies she told him she...
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E+1 SimCity
Ian and Matthew react to the results of the 2022 Vancouver municipal election and check in across the environs. 2022 Election unofficial results - chart view 53 Years Ago, Vancouver’s Very Own Fool Turned This City Upside Down | MONTECRISTO
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