He s coming up on his 10th year as an elected politician by Charlie Smith on April 5th, 2021 at 9:20 AM 1 of 1 2 of 1
For the first time in three elections, Vancouver s Non-Partisan Association will field a mayoral candidate with elected experience.
The centre-right party nominated three-term park commissioner John Coupar to be its standard-bearer in the 2022 election.
Coupar was president of the courier company Novex Delivery Solutions for nearly four years before leaving this position in April of last year.
As a park commissioner, he played a key role in retaining and improving the Bloedel Conservatory. He also was among the commissioners that voted to phase out the public display of cetaceans in Stanley Park.
Recent appointees add to the number of party directors who’ve espoused far-right views.
Melanie Green is a Vancouver-based journalist who has worked as an associate producer for the CBC and a reporter for the Star Vancouver. SHARES Current Non-Partisan Association board member Angelo Isidorou in 2017, flashing a symbol favoured by hate groups and wearing a Trump supporter’s hat at a protest against Trump at Jack Poole Plaza that happened the same day as the Trump International Hotel and Tower Vancouver opened.
Photo by Jennifer Gauthier.
Photos taken in 2017 show Angelo Isidorou, now a director of the Non-Partisan Association municipal party in Vancouver, wearing a MAGA hat and using a symbol widely considered to mean “white power.”
Inside Vancouver City Hall’s Housing Wars
Voters demanded action on affordability. What they got is so weirdly split we tried to map the mess.
Doug Ward is a freelance writer and previously a reporter at the Vancouver Sun. SHARES Mayor of Splitsville? Kennedy Stewart faces a fractured council when it comes to housing reforms.
Collage by Christopher Cheung. Building images via Google Street. City hall photo by popejon2 via Wikipedia, CC BY 2.0.
When Vancouver voters last went to the polls, the most pressing issue for two out of three was the housing crisis. Tight rentals and skyrocketing home prices were shutting out younger and lower-income residents, and the Vision Vancouver government was due for a shellacking given that 85 per cent of those surveyed said the job it had done was either “bad” or “very bad.”