Cambie Report

Patrick interviewed Vancouver's Transportation Manager, Dale Bracewell, as well as long time climate activist Tzeporah Berman to talk about what the recent climate change report at the City of Vancouver will mean. The full interviews were released to our Patreon subscribers at patreon.com/cambiereport 0:00 - Rebecca, high school student, speech at council 4:47 - Dale Bracewell City of Vancouver 32:07 - Tzeporah Berman, Climate advocate The Report approved by council: https://council.vancouver.ca/20190424/documents/cfsc1.pdf

This episode is a bit delayed due to some issues editing, however we go through a number of issues including the fallout from 420, the ongoing scandal with the Whitecaps and a number of transit issues, including the movement towards free passes for youth and low income individuals. Our Vancouveratta this week is the ongoing fundraiser for The Dude at Dude Chilling Park, check out the Indiegogo campaign here: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/dude-chilling-park-return-of-the-dude#/

Burnaby

Matthew and Patrick sat down earlier in the week to talk about topics from Rental 100 in Vancouver to school dress codes in Chilliwack, with a healthy dose of Burnaby in between. Topics include: Port Coquitlam demoviction District of North Vancouver killed another social housing project Maple Ridge's battle with the Province over Anita Place homeless tent city Chilliwack School Board's vote on school dress codes The latest news on Vancouver council's tussle over Rental 100 and terminating funding for Vancouver Rape Relief The battle in Burnaby within the Burnaby Citizens Association, and just what do you call a resident of Burnaby? We conclude with our Vancouveratta, where we chat about what each municipality's demonym should be! Let us know how you think your city residents should be referred to!

Patrick sat down with Matt Horne (@HorneMatt) at the City of Vancouver to talk about the range of ways the City tackles issues of climate change, including how to communicate it to residents, what works and what doesn't and what successes the city has had. Mentioned in the show: Map sea level rise in your community: http://ss2.climatecentral.org Vancouver climate change strategy: https://vancouver.ca/green-vancouver/climate-change-adaptation-strategy.aspx Vancouver Emissions Targeting: https://vancouver.ca/green-vancouver/goals-and-target.aspx

Vancouver City Councillors Christine Boyle, Jean Swanson and Pete Fry and New Westminster Mayor Jonathan X Coté share their 2019 New Year's Resolutions and what their hopeful for in the coming year. Call and give us feedback at (778) 806-4120

Patrick went down to City Hall (technically it's up from his home in elevation) and spent the day watching the show. At issue was Councillor Boyle's motion on a land value capture tax, more modular houses and Councillor Bligh's motion calling for an end to the provincial school tax on homes valued above $3 million. Includes interviews with Councillors Boyle, Bligh and Fry.

Renovictions, land value capture tax, budgeting, transit and Surrey

Politics & Podcasting Panel from the 2018 Vancouver Podcast Festival

A look at the first substantive Vancouver Council Meeting and chaos at the Mayor's Council

Council is back and so is the Cambie Report

Live from Subculture at Creative Coworkers, Ian, Patrick and Matthew digest the results of the local elections as they come in around 11:30 PM. Thanks to Dear City Council for co-hosting with us and to Main Street Brewing for sponsoring the event.