Resounding win for OneCity and COPE in last night's Vancouver by-election! And an equally resounding defeat for ABC. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... - ThreadSky

stewartprest.ca • 25 days ago

Resounding win for OneCity and COPE in last night's Vancouver by-election!

And an equally resounding defeat for ABC.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-byelection-1.7503150

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stewartprest.ca•25 days ago

Turnout also up considerably over 2017's by-election. In short, it's a clear a call for change as you can get in by-election. It will be fascinating to see how ABC and Mayor Sim respond.

toddindeed.bsky.social•25 days ago

He’ll just smirk and say “hodl”

richardengelhardt.bsky.social•25 days ago

Full Trump.

Burn it down and hock what's left before you lose power.

stewartprest.ca•25 days ago

It's impossible to ascribe a precise meaning to any particular election result, the vote certainly reflects growing frustrations around a number of issues—police-first approach to social policy, arbitrary and autocratic decision-making, and lack of accountability, and ineffectual tax increases.

kwardvancouver.bsky.social•25 days ago

"a police-first approach to social policy"

240gordie.bsky.social•25 days ago

You didn't mention the much maligned expanded Broadway Plan with its indiscriminate construction of homogeneous and unaffordable 20 story towers in established communities with abundant affordable rental properties. This is a major issue and the current mayor and council aren't listening.

stewartprest.ca•25 days ago

It is also a strong repudiation of the campaign run by Stephen Carter, the hired gun out of Alberta that ABC brought in. In hindsight, his comments here seem remarkably tone-deaf, to say the least. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-mayors-candidate-for-city-council-by-election-forced-to-apologize-for/

stewartprest.ca•25 days ago

I hope the election result is also seen as a strong repudiation of overly close links between council and the police—an issue that I discussed a number of times in connection with the candidacy of Ralph Kaisers, who finished seventh in the vote.

stewartprest.ca•25 days ago

Finally, while the Greens still have one member on council, both they and TEAM cannot be thrilled with the result. For the moment, at least, opposition is clearly crystallizing around the most unapologetically progressive parties in the city.

toddindeed.bsky.social•25 days ago

The Green campaign felt very thin, but TEAM ran a very robust one and I was surprised to see such low numbers for them. I’m not sure where they go from here with two clear losses in a row.

stewartprest.ca•25 days ago

Oh, and finally, finally, given that turnout was only about 15% above 2017, City of Vancouver clearly has a lot of work to do restore its electoral machinery. There's simply no reason to have three-hour lineups in a well-run election.

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