According to the Vancouver Sun:
https://vancouversun.com/news/local-...onsored-debate
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Recent polling conducted by Research Co. for the Vancouver and District Labour Council is predicting an extremely close election. Among decided voters, the poll predicts Stewart ahead with 36 per cent of the vote, followed by Sims with 34 per cent, Hardwick with 14 per cent, Marissen with eight per cent and Harding five per cent. The VDLC is backing Stewart.
Progress Vancouver shared results Monday of recent polling commissioned by the party and conducted by Pollara, showing that among decided voters, 33 per cent planned to support Sim, Stewart was in second place with 29 per cent, Marissen in third with 17 per cent, followed by Hardwick at 11 per cent, and Harding at five per cent. Close to half of respondents were still undecided.
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By all indications, it is gonna be close race down the final stretch between the two KS (and that is what I believe as well). Die hard fans of Colleen Hardwick believe (and citing its own sources) it is either a 3-way dead heat between Stewart, Sim, and Hardwick, or Sim and Hardwick neck-in-neck, with Stewart having a slight lead. But IMO, the Hardwick supporters are suffering from confirmation bias.
IMO, both KS are shxtty choices. But since I know how delusional, incompetent, and absolutely disastrous Kennedy Stewart is and how much I want to get rid of him, I am willing to put my ballot behind the other KS devil.
You should also bear in mind that Kennedy Stewart has a major fallout with the VPD, and things are so bad between them that for the first time in a long time (or possibly first time ever), the police union is backing Ken Sim as their candidate of choice. Sim's platform claims to hire 100 additional officers and 100 mental health nurses, and while I think he sounds every bit like a sleazy used car salesman, I'd expect him to at least partially make good of his promise to the VPD / mental health workers. In that regard, the VPD should have some additional resources to tackle crime and mental health issues.
(FWIW, I also think VPD is very poorly managed under Chief Palmer, and much of their financial woes is their own fault.)
Another really important bit to keep in mind is -- the mayor is but 1 vote among the CoV City Council. At the municipal level, city councilors carry a lot of weight too, which is why picking out all 10 councilors on your ballot is important.
As a last bit of spreading my own municipal propaganda, I am going to put 1 of my parks board commissioner vote to Tricia Barker (TEAM). She is campaigning on a platform to restore Stanley Park to pre-Covid status and access, and that is exactly what I want because I think the current setup with 1 lane permanently given to cyclists + blocking off the exit to Beach Ave is absolutely ludicrous. Last year I was stuck in gridlock for something like 1.5 hrs between Prospect Point until I got out of the Park at W.Georgia with a hungry and very cranky young child in the back of my car, and this insanity just needs to end.
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Originally Posted by Rallydrv
Vancouver election is right around the corner.
I want to focus on shit /crime happening in Vancouver (and its vicinity), to the point that i rather have a shitty mayor (who might focus less on transit/development/bike lanes) but who will (have the highest possibility) clean up the city. This is not a homes issue. It's addiction drugs issue
not going to vote Kennedy S. . wheres everybody at on this?
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