After 11 years of bringing you local reporting, the team behind the Vancouver Observer has moved on to Canada's National Observer. You can follow Vancouver culture reporting over there from now on. Thank you for all your support over the years!

Mark Latham

Mark Latham is a financial economist and founder of VoterMedia.org -- follow twitter.com/votermedia. He holds a master's degree in finance from UBC and a PhD in finance from MIT. He was assistant professor of finance at U C Berkeley, and a derivatives arbitrageur on Wall Street. He left Wall Street in 1995 to work on reforming corporations. This project has expanded to include reform of democracies and co-ops – see votermedia.org/videos/3 and votermedia.org/publications. In 2009 the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission appointed Mark to their Investor Advisory Committee, to represent individual investors.

We want our co-ops back

We can all help solve global problems, by taking a stand for informed democracy in our local organizations -- especially co-ops and credit unions. This month, members are voting at Mountain Equipment...