Cambie Report

04/11/2024

Parties aren't just fundraising in Vancouver: Money is flowing in Surrey and New Westminster's opposition is raising more than the current governing party.

The City of Vancouver isn't the only place in BC where local political parties are actively fundraising in advance of the 2026 local elections. There are stiff fundraisings races in Surrey, New Westminster and Richmond, while parties in Langley and Burnaby are well ahead of their competition. In thi...

04/09/2024

ABC is a fundraising powerhouse but OneCity has an impressive donor base too. Read more in our analysis of the annual returns of Vancouver's political parties

Dive into the financial health of each party with a look at their 2023 annual reports.

04/09/2024

New from us: We go through Vancouver's municipal civic parties' annual reports. While ABC massively out raised their opponents, they were reliant on a smaller number of maxed out donors. OneCity actually had the most donors of any party.

Also, Forward Together is deeply in debt, the Greens and Team are mirrors of one another, COPE has a solid base and the NPA had fewer donors than Vote Socialist.

Read the full analysis on our website.

02/10/2024

In this week's episode (E3-982 We elected fifth graders), we discuss our latest FOI results that found shockingly little on the plan to abolish the Vancouver Park Board. In fact, it seems no one prepared any briefing notes in advance of Ken Sim's December 6, 2023 announcement.

New documents obtained by Cambie Report raise questions about how seriously the provincial government and the Mayor’s Office considered the abolition of the Vancouver Park Board before Ken Sim’s surprise announcement in early December. Mayor Sim announced his plan to bring a motion to Council to...

08/25/2023

Hey look, we can still post here!

Also we have a new episode out.

The latest threat to neighbourhood character: Young children

12/02/2022

We're on Spotify

08/06/2022

There's a heck of a lot going on this summer. https://www.cambiereport.ca/e-71-coupar-quits/

05/13/2022

Fresh content: https://www.cambiereport.ca/e-155-lego-blocks-dropped-from-the-sky/

04/25/2022

We dig a bit further into what the rules for local political parties are in an interview with Elections BC.

Our report on the finances of Vancouver’s political parties last week left us with a number of questions about Elections BC’s rules. We followed up with Andrew Watson, Elections BC’s […]

04/21/2022

Some feedback and disagreement from past guest/friend of the pod Gord Price.

What do you think about the MST proposal for the Jericho Lands?

If you have a more-than-average interest in municipal and regional politics, I’d recommend Cambie Report – the podcast in particular – for background, insight and interviews on lo…

03/07/2022

OneCity is first out of the gates with its slate.

OneCity members nominated 12 outstanding candidates for Vancouver City Council, School Board and Park Board this weekend. OneCity is the first municipal party to decide who will run for office in the October 2022 elections.

03/02/2022

Hear from some of the people wanting to run for OneCity Vancouver in this fall's municipal election before members get a chance to vote on Thursday and Friday.

Hear from people seeking nomination from OneCity Vancouver

12/18/2021

We got to sit down with Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart for a wide ranging interview. It's our must listen episode to finish 2021.

We speak to Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart about his first three years in office and how he's setting up for his re-election bid next year.

09/24/2021

Choo choo

Coyotes, Vision, patios and railways

07/07/2021

It's too dang hot.

Heat waves, Team Kennedy, horse races, Burnaby byelection and NIMBYs unite in West Van.

06/03/2021

Just 500 days left people. Maybe it's about time these councillors learn about a thing called politics?

Green councillors tank nonprofit housing and bikes on Commercial Drive, drinking comes to Vancouver parks and Port Moody embraces the chaos

04/23/2021

And then there one NPA city councillor and two park board commissioners left as three more councillors and the entire NPA school board caucus leave the party to sit as independents.

We break it down plus more Charts on a Podcast!

And then there was one as three more councillors (and their entire School Board caucus) leave the NPA.

04/21/2021

The good news is the NPA can now hold caucus meetings without violating any restrictions on public gatherings.

04/16/2021

There's still 18 months of this to come people.

Ken Sim pledges to abolish the Park Board. He will probably run with the new party A Better City Vancouver. Mark Marissen is running for mayor. And the election is still 18 months away.

04/06/2021

THE RACE IS ON.
Emergency pods are back.
But alas, democracy is dead.

The NPA Board drops a bombshell by announcing 18-months out that Park Board Commissioner John Coupar will be their mayoral nominee.

03/20/2021

Remember the report that found that Vancouver Green Councillor Michael Wiebe should resign? We got it.

"We have some concerns" wrote City lawyers on Cllr Wiebe's alleged conflict of interest. And the full Young Report

03/06/2021

A taste of our latest. Download it now wherever you get your podcasts.

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01/28/2021

New episode is out! Put it in your earholes https://www.cambiereport.ca/e-626-that-little-purple-hatchback-has-seen-horrors/