Get Your Vote On

Happy New Year! Here is a fabulous video from voting day in Vancouver on Saturday, November 19. Thank you all (volunteers, sponsors, researchers, event planners, graphic designers, tandem bike riders, coffee shop experts, … the list is long) for your support, energy and encouragement.  We did big work together in getting Vancouver to the polls! For [...]

Not Unreasonable by The Tomorrow Society This song was written in hot anticipation of the upcoming Vancouver Municipal Election, by International Tomorrow Society (Vancouver’s newest glam folk band). The lyrics are an arrangement of other peoples’ words, sent to the band via Facebook, e-mail and text message. Friends and Cyber Contacts were asked to write [...]

SAY WHAT? A Voter Primer for Young Folks is a place where voters can read, tweet, and share what the candidates stand for on issues that matter to them. Each party and each independent candidate have been asked to state their platform on the same 10 issues (listed below). Get Your Vote On will be [...]

  The BILTMORE CAUCUS CABARET & DEBATE MONDAY, 14 NOVEMBER, 2011  Biltmore Cabaret Doors at 6:30pm Show at 7:00-10:00pm Door by Donation // REGISTER HERE // Come out for a pint or two to whet your political appetite with a mix of musicians, artists and City Council hopefuls. The evening will feature the Candidates for VISION, COPE, [...]

COPE @COPEVancouver COPE supports the creation of community gardens wherever possible and encourage community supported agriculture across the city. COPE has called for permanent infrastructure support Vancouver’s burgeoning farmers’ markets and plans to create an urban farming hub to support markets year round. COPE is also calling for the Avalon Dairy lands to be preserved and [...]

COPE @COPEVancouver COPE public transit commitments involve putting more buses on Vancouver streets, increasing service hours, and looking at innovative ideas including longer double-articulated B-line buses. COPE would also champion the “C-Pass” a bulk buy public transit pass for neighbourhoods, similar to the “U-Pass”. COPE supports an enhanced Master Cycling Plan that will look at [...]

COPE @COPEVancouver COPE trustees know that smaller class sizes mean more individual attention. Students and Parents can count on COPE School Board trustees to work to make our schools inclusive of every child and their family. COPE supports the right of every student – including and especially students with special needs – to educational programs and [...]

COPE @COPEVancouver COPE is committed to working to make Vancouver the greenest city in the world. Making housing affordable make it possible for people to live where they work is crucial to limiting car trips. On top of improved bus service and expanding Vancouver’s cycling network, COPE would ensure renovation permits include an energy reduction strategy, [...]

  COPE @COPEVancouver On School Board, COPE continues to support Mandarin emersion programs and wants more support for ESL students in Vancouver schools. COPE will launch a review of all historical bylaws to ensure those deemed racist or otherwise discriminatory are repealed. For example: there are still racist property deeds which state that certain land [...]