Urban Vancouver

Assessing aboriginal education in B.C. - Report Card Kootenay Columbia school district ranks as a B.C. leader in aboriginal education in a study released today by the C.D. Howe Insitute. The district earned top marks because aboriginal students in its...

Our Secret Handshake: 2002 vs 2008 VSB Election results...

Report Card Vision Vancouver dominated in the board election as it did at city hall. All four of its candidates were elected, with Patti Bacchus leading the polls. (Her count was second only to Gregor Robertson and Raymond Louie.) The...

Parent activist Patti Bacchus tops the polls with 64, 451 votes, outdistancing her closest competitor by a couple of thousand votes and the ninth candidate elected by nearly 20,000 votes. Patti exemplifies the type of parent who gets involved...

University Town parents and community members identified five top choice candidates for school board. The local issue of new schools was a driving factor behind many University Town voters. Through a community-based process candidates who had demonstrated their concern and...

I look forward to hearing back from Trustees with their answer to the following question. Trustee candidates are invited to respond using the comment feature or by sending me an email directly cmenzies[at]interchange.ubc.ca. This issue and the apparent lack of...