Vision launches progressive platform for the Vancouver School Board less than a month before the civic election
Vision Vancouver to deliver an annual City-Wide Large-Item Removal Day
While other parties focus on wedge issues and sensational fear mongering on hypothetical policies, Vision Vancouver is working to provide practical solutions to everyday problems faced by residents in every corner of the city.
Today, Vision Vancouver is announcing that, if elected, it would work to introduce a publicly funded city-wide large-item removal day by Spring 2023.
City of Immigrants
Honieh Barzegari هانیه برزگری is a Vision Vancouver candidate for council.
Last week, I was getting ready to go to my flamenco dance class. All of a sudden, I received an email from the City of Vancouver’s chief election officer. The email was to notify me that the city had filed an application with the B.C. Provincial Court to challenge my nomination.
Vision Vancouver calls for low, mid-rise housing in all neighbourhoods
Council candidate Lesli Boldt: ‘I feel like there's a broad consensus not just at the political level, but with the public to allow more of this kind of housing’
Increase climate ambition, expand safe cycling and urban forests, prioritize health and safety for citizens: Vision’s Climate Plan
Vision builds on Greenest City; will restore Vancouver’s place as climate leader
Vision Vancouver released its climate and environmental agenda today, with a series of actions that respond to the impact that the climate crisis is having on Vancouverites and reposition Vancouver as a global green leader.
“Extreme heat, wildfire smoke, and erratic weather events have all impacted people in this city in real and damaging ways,” said Vision Vancouver council candidate Lesli Boldt.
Vision Vancouver: vote on city-wide zoning reform within 90 days of taking office
Vision releases five-point housing agenda to take bold, swift action on housing, end delays
Vision Vancouver council candidates released a five-point plan on affordable housing today, with a focus on ending zoning bans on apartments, increasing affordable housing supply and protecting renters. Vision Vancouver’s first priority will be to introduce a motion directing City staff to bring forward policy within 90 days on city-wide zoning reform, to open up all neighbourhoods to low- and mid-rise 'missing middle' housing options.
Vision Vancouver statement on the Court Petition by the City’s Chief Electoral Officer
Veteran Vision Vancouver School Board Trustee Allan Wong 黃 偉 倫 and Vancouver City Council candidate Honieh Barzegari هانیه برزگری are dismayed to learn that their unique usual names are at risk of being removed from the ballot — names these candidates are known by to large groups of voters.
Vision Vancouver to eliminate natural gas heating systems from Vancouver schools by 2035
School trustee candidates promise urgent action to prepare schools for climate impacts
If elected, Vision Vancouver school board trustees would move swiftly to work with the BC government to get natural gas out of all public schools by 2035, and provide retraining for any impacted staff as a result of the change. Vision would incorporate climate resiliency into all future school designs, and it would explore opportunities to retrofit existing school sites with updated cooling systems so they could be used as cooling centres in the coming years.
Vancouver schools need to be better designed for the warming climate
Hilary Thomson and the Vision Vancouver School Board team are committed to building climate ready schools for our warming world. Read her op-ed in the Daily Hive here.
All elementary students should have access to free swim lessons as part of their education
Every child has the right to be safe in the water, yet accidental drowning is the second leading cause of death in children. And all those deaths are preventable.
As summer draws to a close, many parents are thinking about how to strengthen their kids’ swimming skills with those important fall swimming lessons. But swimming lessons at public facilities are hard to come by, and it has become even harder to find lessons in the COVID years. The only alternative is private lessons, which are expensive and out of reach for many parents.
The current system for swimming lessons is not working. We need a new approach to teaching children to swim.