Mayor Sullivan Welcomes Incoming Police Chief

Mayor Sullivan Welcomes Incoming Police Chief

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Mayor Sam Sullivan today welcomed incoming Vancouver Police Department (VPD) Chief Constable Jim Chu to City Council chambers. As Chair of the Police Board, Mayor Sullivan announced Deputy Chief Chu’s appointment at VPD headquarters last week.

“On behalf of all Councillors, I want to congratulate Deputy Chief Chu on his new appointment,” said Mayor Sullivan. “The next five years will be the most important in our city’s history. With the appointment of a new Chief, we are marking a new era in policing for Vancouver.”

Mayor Supports Proposed Motion to Establish Greenhouse Gas Emission Targets

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Resolutions support goal of environmental leadership

Mayor Sam Sullivan today announced he will support a proposed motion to establish greenhouse gas (GHG) emission targets for the City of Vancouver. Councillor Peter Ladner is expected to introduce the motion at today’s City Council meeting.

“Enhancing Vancouver’s reputation for environmental leadership is one of the goals I have established for my government,” said Mayor Sullivan. “By fighting urban sprawl, Vancouver’s EcoDensity plan will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve our quality of life. I want to congratulate Councillor Ladner for his work on this file.”

Local & Regional Elected Officials Invited to Participate in 2007 Vancouver Pride Parade

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Mayor Sam Sullivan and City Councillors Tim Stevenson and Elizabeth Ball today invited local and regional elected officials to participate in the 2007 Vancouver Pride Parade. This year’s event takes place Sunday, August 5 – proceeding from Denman Street to Pacific and Beach Avenues to Sunset Beach.

“The Pride Parade demonstrates our community’s commitment to inclusiveness and human rights,” said Mayor Sullivan. “I want to encourage all of our municipal colleagues to celebrate these values and join us for this year’s event.”

Mayor Welcomes Hotel Purchase

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“Homeless Action Plan” SRO targets more than doubled: Sullivan

Mayor Sam Sullivan today welcomed the City of Vancouver’s purchase of the Drake Hotel to help increase access to affordable social housing in the city. Today’s announcement will help achieve Vancouver’s Project Civil City goal to reduce homelessness by a minimum of 50% by 2010.

“Delivering compassionate solutions to our social challenges is one of the goals I have established for my government,” said Mayor Sullivan. “Project Civil City is an opportunity to use the 2010 Winter Olympics & Paralympic Games as a catalyst to solve many of the housing challenges facing our most vulnerable citizens.”

Reinventing the asylum

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New uses for old mental hospitals are innovative but highly controversial
By Ken MacQueen
Macleans.ca
The massive old Crease Clinic of Psychological Medicine — on the southern fringe of the grounds of the Riverview Psychiatric Hospital in the Vancouver suburban of Coquitlam — exudes the sort of ominous aura that raises hairs on the back of your neck even on a glorious June day.
This vague unease isn’t helped by a crew on site from the science fiction TV series Battlestar Galactica filming a particularly creepy episode. “Terrified Man” and “Child in Cage” — two of the labels on mobile dressing room doors — hint at the fictional mayhem inside the decaying four-storey brick pile.

Vancouver seeks 2008 Paralympic torch

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By Jeff Lee
Vancouver Sun
Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan hopes to convince the organizers of the 2008 Beijing Games to bring the Paralympic torch relay to Vancouver.
The mayor announced today he’s had some discussions with the Beijing Organizing Committee, which is considering mounting an around-the-world relay for the Paralympic torch.

Motion to Promote Vancouver as Possible Host of 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games Torch Relay

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Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan today welcomed a proposal to promote Vancouver as a possible host of the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games Torch Relay. A formal motion will be introduced to Vancouver City Council this month by Councillor BC Lee.

“Hosting the 2008 Paralympic Games torch relay could help promote Vancouver as one of the most accessible cities in the world,” said Mayor Sullivan. “In addition to promoting tourism, the torch relay will also help build community spirit in advance of 2010. I want to congratulate Councillor Lee for his work on this file.”

Mayor & Councillors Support Insite and CAST

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Mayor and Councillors Support Safe Injection Site and Chronic Addiction Substitution Treatment Research Trial Principles & Objectives

Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan and City Councillors today voted for a City Council resolution to support two important drug policy measures, including:

  • Vancouver Coastal Health Authority’s federal application for a 3.5 year extension of Vancouver’s safe injection site
  • the general principles and objectives of the Inner Change Society’s Chronic Addiction Substitution Treatment (CAST) research trial

Panel looks at how Vancouver ranks as a business city

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Byline: Don Cayo
The Vancouver Sun
If all you knew about Vancouver’s business climate came from my columns, which tend to focus on things like tax inequities or land-use conflicts, you might think the city is a terrible place.
It isn’t.
But if your source was City Hall promotional material — things like a Pollyannaish posting, “Myth and Fact”, that appeared on the Web in April shortly after I wrote about the dearth of affordable workspace in the city — you might think everything’s perfectly fine.
It isn’t.