Frances Bula joins the OneCity nomination race
Plus: the list of OneCity nomination candidates
Russil for Council. I’m a OneCity council nomination candidate, seeking a nomination to run for Vancouver city council in October on the OneCity slate.
If you’d like to support my nomination campaign, and you live or work in the city of Vancouver, please join OneCity so you can vote in the nomination race, and ask one or two friends to join as well.
Upcoming events:
Tuesday March 17 - Housing Happy Hour. Portland Craft, 7 to 9 pm.
Friday March 20 - Big Tent Urbanist Event, Creekside Community Centre, 5:30 to 7:30 pm.
Saturday April 4 - Door-knocking with nomination candidates, 2 to 5 pm.
Friday April 10 - Deadline to join OneCity and be eligible to vote.
Sunday May 10 - Voting concludes in the nomination race.
Who are the nomination candidates?
Potential Candidates for the 2026 Vancouver Election. Christopher Porter has compiled a list of the potential OneCity, COPE, and Green candidates, with links to everyone’s websites and social media. It’s a useful reference: he’s planning to update it regularly.
His summary of the OneCity council nomination candidates:
I don’t have any inside information, but I expect that OneCity is likely to run either five or six council candidates. Lucy Maloney will definitely be on the ballot, so that leaves either four or five open spots.
Frances Bula joins the OneCity nomination race
The big news from last week is that Frances Bula has joined the OneCity nomination race. She’s a longtime municipal-affairs columnist with the Globe and Mail and the Vancouver Sun. Her deciding to run with OneCity is a major vote of confidence in OneCity and in William Azaroff.
Stephen Quinn interview with Frances Bula on the Early Edition, CBC News. Commentary by Stephen Quinn and Justin McElroy on the This is Vancouver podcast.
Veteran Vancouver city hall journalist looks to cross ‘thin line’ with first political run. Dan Fumano, Vancouver Sun.
We’re lucky good people still choose brutal politics. Adrienne Tanner, National Observer.
B.C. journalist Frances Bula to run for Vancouver City Council under the OneCity party. Kenneth Chan, Daily Hive.
Reddit thread. I commented:
Really glad to see this news! Whenever I read an article by Frances Bula in the Globe and Mail, I always find it really illuminating. For example: Vancouver’s affordable-housing plans sit unfulfilled, May 2021, describing how a number of non-market housing projects were struggling to get through institutional barriers. She and her husband also have first-hand experience with trying to build a laneway house - it took five years, with more than four years to get the approvals from the city.
I think that to be an effective councillor, you need to be a real housing nerd, to understand how City Hall works both in theory (as defined by the mass of policies which have accumulated over time) and in practice (as defined by how city staff interpret those policies). I think Frances Bula is one of the most knowledgeable people in Vancouver on this subject.