Cambie Report

Nov 07 2024 15 ep. 43 mins 244

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Vancouver's local politics podcast. Hosted by Matthew Naylor and Ian Bushfield. Email us [email protected] | Support the show at https://patreon.com/cambiereport

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E3-709 Summer and Chip Wilson Day

Nov 07 2024 36 mins

Two-years of Ken Sim, Crab Park residents evicted, some upcoming byelections, Burnaby affordable housing requirements axed, New West mayor chastised and Surrey gets its first weed store. Links Q&A: Ken Sim reflects on two-year anniversary as Vancouver mayor Chip Wilson Day Vancouver’s CRAB Park residents left with few options as eviction looms | CBC News 13 local politici

E3-814 Did a Global News question kill the Park Board?

Jul 25 2024 56 mins

Council controversies: Brian Montague’s integrity commissioner review, Vancouver’s rollback on climate action policies, and the city’s purchase of an almost completed market rental building. Delayed suicide prevention barriers on Granville Bridge, TransLink’s funding crisis, and the debate over Vancouver’s view cones. Cities try to meet the deadline to

E3-1149 Density is necessity

Aug 25 2023 41 mins

The latest threat to neighbourhood character: Young children. Also: Paying people to speak at public hearings, selling off school board land, staffing the mayor’s office, banning Hookah shops, developing Coquitlam and Burnaby. Links * Vancouver graffiti for climate change action (inspiration for the song Heat Dome) * Dan Fumano: How a Vancouver neighbourhood fought, and defe

E3-1184 Government by complaint

Jul 21 2023 28 mins

We can’t have nice things: We can’t have a spa, we can’t have the polar bears, we can’t have a mural, we can’t have the RCMP in Surrey, we can’t have temporary modular housing and we can’t have water. But we can have a beer at Khatsalano. Links * Vancouver mayor shotguns beer at outdoor festival | CBC.ca * Councillor doesn’t regret s

E3-1198 Who among us

Jul 07 2023 58 mins

Surrey policing drama, disqualifications, ethics issues, car-free pilots and mean girls. Links * Olivia Chow requests to take office July 12, says first order of business is housing * Surrey mayor threatens to call for inquiry into policing transition after Farnworth’s ultimatum * Surrey mayor levels allegations of bullying and misogyny as policing debate shows no sign of ending

E3-1283 A rathaus of mayor brains

Apr 13 2023 40 mins

Ken Sim clears Hastings Street and has thoughts on housing. Brenda Locke stands by her interpretation of a meeting. Links * Vancouver police, city staff begin removing encampment on East Hastings Street | CBC News * City of Vancouver document calls for using police to speed up clearing DTES street camps * Back on Vancouver’s Hastings Street with no tent, no mattress and nowh

E3-1322 Community Charter obscura

Mar 07 2023 49 mins

Vancouver passes a budget that “sucks” and kills the Living Wage. Progress Vancouver admits to breaking election financing laws. And the City is clearing tents and considering a new hotel. Meanwhile, Burnaby is running an “alternative approval process” for a green waste facility, Surrey cops allege conflicts of interest and Harrison Hot Springs appeals to th

E3-1337 This City Council could’ve been an email

Feb 19 2023 46 mins

Elections BC has released the financial reports from the 2022 municipal elections and we can see how efficient each party’s spending was. Meanwhile, the staff report from the Climate Emergency Action Plan is pretty bleak and ABC opted to slash the climate justice charter from its further implementation. This prompted a question of whether ABC is predetermining outcomes of cou

E3-1401 ABCs of party discipline

Dec 16 2022 37 mins

Motions are passing unanimously at council but marginally more controversially at Park Board. The planning department is a mess, as is policing south of the Fraser. And sculptures! Links Boyle nonprofit housing motion passes Vancouver City Council approves exploring expediting social housing up to 12 storeys Text of the Klassen amendment Hardwick abstained from speaking

E+1 SimCity

Oct 17 2022 56 mins

Ian and Matthew react to the results of the 2022 Vancouver municipal election and check in across the environs. 2022 Election unofficial results – chart view 53 Years Ago, Vancouver’s Very Own Fool Turned This City Upside Down | MONTECRISTO