Sarah Kirby-Yung is mad at Rebecca Bligh. Pete Fry is mad at Ken Sim. Everyone is acting like children. It’s the council we know and love. But at least with a majority, they passed most everything they wanted (for better or worse). And at least Vancouver’s mayor hasn’t been deemed likely to leak confidential documents via Staples print centres again.

Links

• F-bomb dropped in heated Vancouver city council exchange
• The video (shoutout Spencer Powell)
• Pete Fry told to “live with it”
• On procedure
• Just a very busy meeting
• Gastown pedestrian pilot staff report
• Vancouver’s non-ABC councillors set to be stripped of extra roles and pay
• Vancouver passes motion granting police traffic camera access
• Amendment to subject camera plan to charter review passes with ABC split
• Vancouver councillors call for lobbyist registry at city hall
• MOTION – Establishing a Community Policing Centre in Gastown and Area to Enhance Safety and Security
• Sim amends his own motion
• MOTION – Protecting and Enhancing Greenspace for the East End, Chinatown, Hogan’s Alley and Strathcona – Standing Committee on
• ABC Vancouver’s promise to hire 100 mental health nurses sits at 35
• No rezoning: Vancouver could expedite new social, supportive housing | Urbanized
• Vancouver city council allows developer to delay major Oakridge project
• Contentious natural gas decision could test unity of Vancouver’s ABC majority
• Questions raised about role of Vancouver mayor’s adviser in controversial natural gas vote
• After B.C. election, what happens next as Christine Boyle vacates her Vancouver council seat?
• Park Board to raise revenue for upgrades by charging extra fees for Vancouver events and attractions
• Burnaby thwarts provincial transit-oriented housing laws — again
• Mayor Hamer-Jackson leaked documents in April; investigation ruled it unlawful | iNFOnews | Thompson-Okanagan’s News Source
• Vancou’d have been: Spanish Banks and Point Grey were nearly turned into a gigantic industrial port
• How a proposed airport at Spanish Banks almost changed Vancouver forever | Globalnews.ca
• The Grand Campus Washout – UBC Centennial