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Mayor Gregor Robertson petitions against Kinder Morgan's TransMountain Pipeline request

Mayor Gregor Robertson expresses deep concern and opposition to the expansion of US oil giant Kinder Morgan's $5 billion plan to twin its TransMountain Pipeline from Alberta to Burnaby. "...

Harper’s Canada: A local and provincial politics fact sheet

Fourth in a series documenting key events and issues in Canadian politics. Here’s a look at how Conservative policies are affecting change at the local and provincial level.

At COPE meeting, RJ Aquino narrowly wins over Tim Louis

A packed meeting of over 300 members and another 50 onlookers gathered on Sunday for the Annual General Meeting of COPE (Coalition of Progressive Electors). The meeting was alive and...

Mayor Robertson and Counc. Carr busted in 'greenest city' Scottification scam

Secret tapes reveal shocking hidden cultural agenda for Vancouver.

Nathan Cullen calls for progressive voters to re-think party line politics

2011 NDP race: BC candidate wants Liberals, NDP to hare ridings to defeat Tories.

Vancouver's mayor and new council sworn in: slideshow

Top priority is affordable housing and an end to street homelessness.

Head shaking polls got Vancouver voters so wrong

Polling is one of our great democratic tools -- unless it's used to confuse and mislead voters.

Vision Vancouver's young party

Almost anyone who made it by the NPA and Vision Vancouver's parties on election night would have been struck by the different demographic in the two rooms. At the NPA party, it was mainly middle-...

Is the future Green? Adriane Carr thinks so

2011 Vancouver Civic Election: Representing the newest party on Vancouver City Council, Adriane Carr culminated 30 years of vying for office with a surprise win on Saturday.

NPA got mad when they should have gotten smart

So it is over. And the result was predictable. Predictable, that is, if you don’t pay attention to the media’s predilection to focus on the small beer like the “Occupy Crisis”.  Polls over the...