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Vancouver-Langara
Vancouver-Langara is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. History This riding has elected the following Members of Legislative Assembly: 1999 Redistribution Changes to the Vancouver-Langara electoral district in 1999 include: *Addition of the area bounded by 33rd and 41st Avenues, and Main and Granville Streets *Removal of the area bounded by Granville Street, 41st Avenue, 57th Avenue, and the Arbutus rail line Member of Legislative Assembly This riding is currently held by MLA Michael Lee, who was elected in the 2017 Provincial General Election. He represents BC United, previously called the BC Liberal Party. From 2009-2017, the riding was held by Moira Stilwell, who represented the BC Liberal Party as well. Stilwell was appointed Minister of Advanced Education and Labour Market Development in June 2009. Previously, the MLA was Carole Taylor, former chair of the CBC and former Vancouver City Councillo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vancouver-Langara 2001
Vancouver-Langara is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. History This riding has elected the following Members of Legislative Assembly: 1999 Redistribution Changes to the Vancouver-Langara electoral district in 1999 include: *Addition of the area bounded by 33rd and 41st Avenues, and Main and Granville Streets *Removal of the area bounded by Granville Street, 41st Avenue, 57th Avenue, and the Arbutus rail line Member of Legislative Assembly This riding is currently held by MLA Michael Lee, who was elected in the 2017 Provincial General Election. He represents BC United, previously called the BC Liberal Party. From 2009-2017, the riding was held by Moira Stilwell, who represented the BC Liberal Party as well. Stilwell was appointed Minister of Advanced Education and Labour Market Development in June 2009. Previously, the MLA was Carole Taylor, former chair of the CBC and former Vancouver City Counci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Lee (Canadian Politician)
Michael Lee ( zh, t=李耀華; born ) is a Canadian politician who has represented the electoral district of Vancouver-Langara in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia since 2017. A member of the British Columbia Liberal Party caucus, he serves as its Critic for Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation. He ran for the party's leadership in 2018 and 2022. Background Born in Vancouver, Lee is the son of immigrants from Hong Kong. His mother and father worked as a nurse and a pharmacist respectively. He attended the University of British Columbia, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in biology in 1986, Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in political science in 1989, and Master of Arts in political science with a focus on environmental regulations in 1992. He subsequently attained a law degree from the University of Victoria Faculty of Law, then practised business law in the resource sector, eventually becoming partner at Lawson Lundell LLP. Lee is married with three young adult childr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moira Stilwell
Moira Stilwell (born 1953 or 1954) is a Canadian politician, who was elected as a member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in 2009 to represent the riding of Vancouver-Langara until 2017. She was appointed parliamentary secretary for industry, research and innovation to the Minister of Jobs, Tourism and Innovation on March 14, 2011. She served as Minister of Advanced Education and Labour Market Development in the government of B.C. from June 2009 to October 2010 when she was appointed Minister of Regional Economic and Skills Development. She resigned her cabinet post in November 2010 to stand for election as the leader of the British Columbia Liberal Party, but withdrew from the campaign on February 16, 2011. The election subsequently occurred on February 26, 2011 and was won by Christy Clark. She was formerly the Minister of Social Development (2012). Biography Stilwell graduated from the University of Calgary Medical School, and received further training in n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 British Columbia General Election
The 2005 British Columbia general election was held on May 17, 2005, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) of the Province of British Columbia (BC), Canada. The British Columbia Liberal Party (BC Liberals) formed the government of the province prior to this general election under the leadership of Premier Gordon Campbell. The main opposition was the British Columbia New Democratic Party (BC NDP), whose electoral representation was reduced to two MLAs in the previous provincial election in 2001. The BC Liberals retained power, with a reduced majority of 46 out of 79 seats, down from the record 77 out of 79 in 2001. Voter turnout was 58.2 per cent. Under amendments to the BC Constitution Act passed in 2001, BC elections are now held on fixed dates: the second Tuesday in May every four years. This was the first provincial election for which elector data in the provincial elector list was synchronised with the National Register of Electors. Coincidental with the ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 British Columbia General Election
The 2017 British Columbia general election was held on May 9, 2017, to elect 87 members (MLAs) to the Legislative Assembly to serve in the 41st Parliament of the Canadian province of British Columbia. In the 40th Parliament prior to this general election, the British Columbia Liberal Party formed the government under the leadership of Christy Clark, while the British Columbia New Democratic Party (NDP), under the leadership of Adrian Dix and then John Horgan, formed the Official Opposition; the Green Party of British Columbia were also represented in the legislature with sole MLA and later leader Andrew Weaver. It was the first election contested on a new electoral map completed in 2015, and the total number of constituencies had increased from 85 to 87. New districts were added in Richmond and Surrey, while the boundaries of 48 existing electoral districts were adjusted. The election saw no party win a majority of seats for the first time since the 1952 election: the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Val Anderson
Val Anderson (1929–2006) was a politician in British Columbia, Canada. He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in the 1991 general election, as a candidate of the BC Liberal Party, and reelected in 1996 and 2001. In his youth, Anderson was a member of the Saskatchewan Older Boys' Parliament (now the Saskatchewan Youth Parliament). He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Saskatchewan and a Bachelor of Divinity from St. Andrew's College. He has a Master of Theology degree from Princeton Theological Seminary and has completed two years on a doctoral program at Boston School of Theology. Prior to serving as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA), Anderson was a minister in the United Church of Canada and a former professor at the Vancouver School of Theology. He was coordinator and editor of Canadian Multi Faith Action. Anderson was active in community work. He was the founding chair of the Vancouver Vancouver ( ) i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carole Taylor
Carole Taylor, (born Carol Goss on November 16, 1945) is a Canadian school chancellor, journalist and former politician. She also served as the Chancellor of Simon Fraser University from June 2011 until June 2014. She previously served as British Columbia's Minister of Finance from 2005 until 2008 in the government of Liberal premier Gordon Campbell. TV career Taylor was Miss Toronto 1964, and co-hosted CFTO-TV's ''After Four'', a show for teenagers. She later appeared on several other CFTO shows, including ''Toronto Today'', ''Topic'', and her own ''Carole Taylor Show''. She and Percy Saltzman were the first co-hosts of ''Canada AM'' when the show premiered on CTV in 1972. She has also been the host of ''W-FIVE'' and ''Pacific Report''. Her career in journalism lasted for over 20 years. Political life In Vancouver, she served as an independent member of Vancouver City Council from 1986 to 1990. She served as chair of the Vancouver Board of Trade from 2001 to 2002. She was ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vancouver
Vancouver ( ) is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the city, up from 631,486 in 2016. The Greater Vancouver area had a population of 2.6million in 2021, making it the third-largest metropolitan area in Canada. Greater Vancouver, along with the Fraser Valley, comprises the Lower Mainland with a regional population of over 3 million. Vancouver has the highest population density in Canada, with over 5,700 people per square kilometre, and fourth highest in North America (after New York City, San Francisco, and Mexico City). Vancouver is one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities in Canada: 49.3 percent of its residents are not native English speakers, 47.8 percent are native speakers of neither English nor French, and 54.5 percent of residents belong to visible minority groups. It has been consistently rank ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1996 British Columbia General Election
The 1996 British Columbia general election was the 36th provincial election in the Province of British Columbia, Canada. It was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. The election was called on April 30, 1996, and held on May 28, 1996. Voter turnout was 59.1 per cent of all eligible voters. The election is notable for producing a "false-winner" outcome, rewarding a party that got second in the popular vote with a majority government. New Democratic Party leader and provincial premier Mike Harcourt had resigned as the result of a fundraising scandal involving one of the members of his caucus. Glen Clark was chosen by the party to replace Harcourt. Clark led the party to a second majority government, defeating the Liberal Party of Gordon Campbell, who had become leader of the Liberal Party after Gordon Wilson had been forced out of the position because of his relationship with another Liberal member of the legislature, Judi Tyabji. After Wilso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2001 British Columbia General Election
The 2001 British Columbia general election was the 37th provincial election in the Province of British Columbia, Canada. It was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. The election was called on April 18, 2001 and held on May 16, 2001. Voter turnout was 55.4 per cent of all eligible voters. The incumbent British Columbia New Democratic Party (BC NDP), in office since 1991, had been rocked by two major scandals—the Fast Ferries Scandal and a bribery scandal involving Premier Glen Clark. With the NDP's ratings flatlining, Clark resigned in August 1999, and Deputy Premier Dan Miller took over as caretaker premier until Ujjal Dosanjh was elected his permanent successor in February. Dosanjh was not, however, able to restore the party's public image, and the BC NDP suffered a resounding defeat at the hands of the British Columbia Liberal Party (BC Liberals), led by former Vancouver mayor Gordon Campbell. The BC Liberals won over 57% of the popul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Politics Of Vancouver
Politics (from , ) is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status. The branch of social science that studies politics and government is referred to as political science. It may be used positively in the context of a "political solution" which is compromising and nonviolent, or descriptively as "the art or science of government", but also often carries a negative connotation.. The concept has been defined in various ways, and different approaches have fundamentally differing views on whether it should be used extensively or limitedly, empirically or normatively, and on whether conflict or co-operation is more essential to it. A variety of methods are deployed in politics, which include promoting one's own political views among people, negotiation with other political subjects, making laws, and exercising internal and external force, includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1991 British Columbia General Election
The 1991 British Columbia general election was the 35th provincial election in the Province of British Columbia, Canada. It was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. The election was called on September 19, 1991, and held on October 17, 1991. The incumbent Social Credit Party of British Columbia, which had been beset by scandals during Bill Vander Zalm's only term as premier, was defeated by the New Democratic Party of Mike Harcourt. Liberal Party leader Gordon Wilson surprised observers by leading his party to winning one-third of the votes cast, and forming the official opposition in the legislature. The new legislature met for the first time on March 17, 1992. The election was held at the same time as a referendum on recall and initiative. It was also the first British Columbia general election with only single-member districts. Background Under Vander Zalm's leadership, Socred's control shifted from urban fiscal conservatives to social con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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