Mike Howell
Reporter at Vancouver is Awesome
Longtime Vancouver Courier civic affairs reporter now member of Glacier Media’s Central Team. Cover Vancouver & region. Reach me at [email protected]
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1 week ago |
biv.com | Mike Howell
Newly elected Vancouver city councillors Sean Orr of COPE and Lucy Maloney of OneCity were officially sworn in Tuesday at city hall. Orr and Maloney took the oath of office in the council chamber before family, friends and an audience that included Musqueam Indian Band Chief Wayne Sparrow, Fire Chief Karen Fry and former councillors Peter Ladner, Ellen Woodsworth and Jean Swanson. Both councillors then participated in their first council meeting.
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1 week ago |
biv.com | Mike Howell
Mayor Ken Sim says his continued push to have Vancouver become a bitcoin-friendly city is “a hill that I’m willing to die on” as he awaits a city staff report on whether the digital currency could one day be integrated into the City of Vancouver’s financial strategies and systems. Since he successfully introduced his motion to council in December, Sim has been on a crusade of sorts in making people understand his motivation behind what for many is a complex and mystifying concept. What is bitcoin?
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2 weeks ago |
timescolonist.com | Mike Howell
Vancouver councillor-elect Sean Orr’s party issued a news release Wednesday accusing Mayor Ken Sim of collaborating with Jewish groups in a “bad faith attempt” to smear Orr for controversial social media posts he made before he was elected Saturday.
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2 weeks ago |
timescolonist.com | Mike Howell
The Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver and the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs say they are “deeply disturbed” by social media posts Sean Orr made before he was elected as a councillor Saturday in the Vancouver civic byelection. The organizations issued a statement Tuesday calling for Orr to apologize and to commit to “engaging in serious education about antisemitism and the harm he has caused” for posts made in 2021 and 2023 on the X social media platform. On Aug.
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2 weeks ago |
biv.com | Mike Howell
The Vancouver park board has hired an “attendance management advisor” to address the ongoing concern of employees not showing up for work. The hiring comes after the park board saw absenteeism rates increase from an already concerning percentage of 23.7 average days per employee in 2022 to 24.8 in 2024 — a rate much higher than the 18 for Vancouver police and library staff, for example.
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