The Coalition of Progressive Electors (COPE) is a municipal political party in the Canadian city of Vancouver, British Columbia. It has traditionally been associated with tenants, environmentalists, and the labour movement. COPE is generally guided by democratic socialist principles following the split of its social democratic wing in 2014 to form OneCity Vancouver, and has a long history of advocating for issues such as improving public transit and investing in affordable housing. It last held a majority government on city council from 2002 to 2005. COPE describes itself as being committed to environmental sustainability and generally supports measures and legislation to reduce municipal greenhouse emissions and to enact other environmental reforms. COPE cites climate change as a threat to the planet and to future generations, and much of its platform is based upon opposition to development that could contribute to climate change or endanger the city from an environmental perspective.
The Non-Partisan Association (NPA) is a municipal political party in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It was established by the city's business leaders on November 13, 1937, to counteract the growing influence of the democratic socialist Co-operative Commonwealth Federation. The party is generally perceived as centre-right within the Vancouver political spectrum and historically has drawn its strongest support from the business community and "corporate downtown".
Vancouver City Council is the governing body of the City of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The council consists of a mayor and ten councillors elected to serve a four-year term. Monthly, a deputy mayor is appointed from among the councillors. The current mayor is Kennedy Stewart, who sits as an independent. City council meetings are held in Vancouver City Hall. The most recent election was on October 20, 2018.
The Electors' Action Movement (TEAM) was a centrist political party from 1968 to the mid-1980s at the municipal level in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It fielded candidates for the office of mayor as well as for positions on the City Council, School Board, and Park Board. It was most successful in the 1970s when it held the majority of council seats from 1972 to 1976. Political veteran May Brown told Pat Johnson of the Vancouver Courier that "TEAM radically altered the face of city government." TEAM's Art Phillips' four years as mayor "were pivotal in changing the face of Canada's third largest city, just when it seemed to be headed for pell-mell, American-style development that was ruining so many cities south of the border", according to Rod Mickleburgh of The Globe and Mail.
Sam Sullivan, CM is a Canadian politician who previously served as the MLA for Vancouver-False Creek. Previously, he served as the Minister of Communities, Sport and Cultural Development with responsibility for Translink in the short-lived BC Liberal government after the 2017 election, as well as the 38th mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and has been invested as a member of the Order of Canada. He is currently President of the Global Civic Policy Society and Adjunct Professor with the UBC School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture.
Vision Vancouver is a green liberal municipal political party in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Vision was formed in the months leading up to the 2005 municipal election.
Mark Allan Marissen is a Canadian political strategist and principal of Burrard Strategy Inc., a strategic communications firm he founded in 1998. Marissen is also a Senior Advisor to McMillan Vantage Policy Group, affiliated with McMillan LLP, a Canadian business law firm.
Vancouver, unlike other British Columbia municipalities, is incorporated under a unique provincial statute, the Vancouver Charter. The legislation, passed in 1953, supersedes the Vancouver Incorporation Act, 1921 and grants the city more and different powers than other communities possess under BC's Municipalities Act.
The 2008 Vancouver municipal election was held on November 15, 2008, filling seats on the Vancouver School Board, the Park Board, the Vancouver City Council, and the position of Mayor of Vancouver. It was held at the same time as municipal elections throughout the province. Three major civic parties were represented: the Coalition of Progressive Electors, the Non-Partisan Association, and Vision Vancouver. The Green Party of Vancouver fielded one candidate for Park Board commissioner.
The Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation, commonly referred to as the Vancouver Park Board, is the elected board with exclusive possession, jurisdiction and control over public parks in Vancouver, British Columbia. Established by section 485 of the Vancouver Charter, the Vancouver Park Board is the only elected body of its kind in Canada. It has seven elected commissioners who are charged by the Vancouver Charter with determining the policy direction of the Park Board. The board has a mandate to "provide, preserve and advocate… to benefit people, communities and the environment." Commissioners are elected at-large every four years, with a chair and vice-chair elected by the commissioners every year.
The Green Party of Vancouver, founded in 1984, is a municipal political party in Vancouver. It is affiliated with both the provincial Green Party of British Columbia, and the federal Green Party of Canada.
The City of Vancouver held a municipal election on November 19, 2011, along with other municipalities and regional districts in British Columbia. All local government elections were for a three-year period. The ballot elected one mayor, 10 councillors, nine school board trustees and seven park board commissioners. A $180 million capital borrowing plan was also put to a vote.
Neighbourhoods for a Sustainable Vancouver (NSV) is a centrist municipal political party in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada promoting sustainable development. It is consensus-based, is run by a steering committee, rather than having an individual as leader, and does not ascribe to an ideology.
The 2014 Vancouver municipal election took place on November 15, 2014, the same day as other municipalities and regional districts in British Columbia selected their new municipal governments. As with previous elections, voters elected one mayor, 10 councillors, nine school board trustees, and seven park board commissioners through plurality-at-large voting. Voters also voted on whether to approve a capital budget.
A municipal by-election was held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on October 14, 2017. One empty seat on city council and all the seats on the Vancouver school board were filled.
Hector Bremner is a Canadian politician, who served as a member of the Vancouver City Council in Vancouver, British Columbia from 2017 to 2018.
OneCity Vancouver is a municipal political party in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It was founded in 2014 by David Chudnovsky and Rafael Joseph Aquino, former members of the left-wing Coalition of Progressive Electors (COPE).
Coalition Vancouver is a municipal political party in Vancouver, British Columbia, created on June 21, 2018 by former Conservative MP Wai Young. It supported the mayoral candidacy of Young in the 2018 municipal election, and ran on a populist platform.
Pete Fry is a Canadian politician and business owner in Vancouver, British Columbia, who has served as councillor on the Vancouver City Council since 2018. He is a member of the Green Party of Vancouver.
Vancouver 1st is a municipal political party in Vancouver, British Columbia. It supported the mayoral candidacy of Fred Harding, a retired West Vancouver police officer, in the 2018 municipal election.
