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Vision Vancouver

Meet Vision Vancouver park board candidate Niki Sharma

2011 Vancouver Civic Election: Sharma is a multi-faceted candidate whose passions range from sustainability to aboriginal issues.

Meet Vision Vancouver park board candidate Sarah Blyth

Vancouver municipal elections 2011: Blyth's priorities are healthy, affordable community spaces and finding a creative way to make things happen in tight financial times.

Vision and COPE school board candidates to NPA: will you be voting to close more schools?

It's time to stand up to provincial underfunding of the system, slate argues.

Vision, COPE push "rent bank" to prevent evictions

Interest-free loans the answer when more than half the city rents, and rents are sky high, candidates say.

Vision Vancouver argues its platform is "fully costed"

Vancouver municipal election 2011: NPA spending plans are reckless and candidates divided, Robertson argues.

Trevor Loke: Vision's new kid on the block

Vancouver Municipal Election 2011: Vision's youngest candidate has been involved in politics a lot longer than people might think.

Candidates who totally sort of look like these celebrities

Vancouver municipal election 2011

When voting in the municipal election, mind your ABCs

2011 Vancouver municipal elections: Could being first on the ballot make a difference in Vancouver’s Nov. 19 showdown?

Vision salutes the arts: slideshow

Vision Salutes the Arts event at the Canvas Lounge.

Vision Vancouver skeptical about NPA poll results

2011 Vancouver municipal election: Even the Sun’s writer, Jeff Lee, commented in his civic affairs blog that reporting on internal polls can be “sketchy business”.