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According to the survey, 57% of respondents believe Vancouver is on the “wrong track,” with an overwhelming 81% choosing “mostly because of poor choices made by those at City Hall.”
When Abacus Data asked who they would vote for today as the Mayor of Vancouver, independent incumbent Kennedy Stewart and Ken Sim are neck-to-neck at 13% and 14%, respectively. This is followed by Green Party councillor Adrianne Carr at 6%, independent councillor Sarah Kirby-Yung at 3%, and independent councillor Colleen Hardwick and former Vision Vancouver councillor Andrea Reimer each at 2%.
Mark Marissen and NPA Park Board commissioner John Coupar have also launched their own mayoral campaigns, with each individual polling at 1%. Sim, who narrowly lost to Stewart by under 1,000 votes in the 2018 civic election, while representing the NPA at the time, announced his plan to run earlier this spring.
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SHARES Shoulder to shoulder during rush hour in Toronto in October 2020. Long commutes on crowded public transit that increase the spread of COVID-19 result from failed housing policies, writes UBC professor of urban design Patrick Condon.
Photo by Nathan Denette, the Canadian Press.
Sick City: Disease, Race, Inequality and Urban Land
Patrick Condon
Creative Commons (2021)
Patrick Condon looks at those hit hardest by the pandemic and concludes, as have many others, that COVID-19 has starkly exposed and exploited inequalities in our society. Essential workers, many of them immigrants, risking their health often for minimum wage, are bearing the brunt. And their exposure to the virus puts others at risk, most dramatically the elderly in long-term care.
by Carlito Pablo on April 25th, 2021 at 9:49 AM 1 of 2 2 of 2
The City of Vancouver cites affordability as reason for allowing more homes in low-density neighbourhoods.
This was the case in 2018, when the Vision Vancouver administration, in one of its last actions in office, permitted duplexes in most areas zoned for single-family homes.
The succeeding council led by newly elected Mayor Kennedy Stewart affirmed the policy in the same year.
The property at 2884 Yale Street is an example of a single-family home that was turned into a duplex.
Whether the redevelopment resulted in greater affordability is a question that one might want to ponder.