How a climate-activist-turned-city councillor, helped lead the charge for climate-emergency action in Vancouver. Erica Ifill Updated
(Illustration: Vivian Rosas)
Christine Boyle is a climate-activist-turned-city-councillor with OneCity Vancouver, a progressive political party she co-founded in 2014. She may be the party’s only member in city hall, but in her two and a half years in office, she’s pushed Vancouver to declare a climate emergency and helped lead the charge to adopt a climate-emergency action plan. Here’s how she gets it done.
Why did you switch from advocacy to politics?
As someone who has worked outside the system for a long time, I see how much it matters to have people at the table who are working on the same issues in collaboration with social movements.