Mayor Kennedy Stewart

• Vancouver exploring legal action against health order-defying restaurant: Mayor

  On Friday night, Corduroy Restaurant held a rally opposing COVID-19 restrictions its owner says are devastating small businesses.

  Crime

  Apr 24, 2021
  
• Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart wants B.C. government to appoint homeless czar

  Working together, the province and BC Housing moved hundreds of people living in homeless camps in Vancouver and Victoria into more than 1,000 hotel spaces earlier this year.

  Politics

  Nov 10, 2020
  
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• Vancouver city council approves $30-million emergency COVID-19 housing action plan

  Mayor Kennedy Stewart is lauding city council's passage of the $30-million COVID-19 housing action plan to support unsheltered residents.

  Canada

  Oct 9, 2020
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• Vancouver city council passes motion to explore emergency shelters for homeless

  Staff have now been given five different options to look at.

  Sep 14, 2020
• Vancouver approves up to $50k in fines for ignoring emergency coronavirus measures

  City council has unanimously approved a bylaw amendment aimed at enforcing social-distancing measures.

  Politics

  Mar 23, 2020
• Park board ‘not equipped’ to handle Oppenheimer Park problems: Vancouver mayor

  Kennedy Stewart wants the city to assume temporary direct authority over the park in a bid to deal with an entrenched homeless camp.

  Sep 4, 2019
• Vancouver seeks safe drug supply, more federal funding to combat overdose crisis

  The eight new recommendations come from a specialized team of front-line workers, residents and city officials, staff noted.

  Jul 24, 2019
• Vancouver council to vote on looking at increase to Empty Homes Tax

  The motion, pitched by Mayor Kennedy Stewart, could be the first step toward his promise of tripling the one per cent tax on vacant homes.

  Politics

  Jan 25, 2019
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• Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart on goals for 2019: ‘I want this city to be an example to others’

  As he shuts the door on 2018, Stewart's focus turns to housing and opioids, which are his top two priorities moving forward.

  Politics

  Dec 22, 2018
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• Vancouver city council approves 2019 budget – property tax to rise 4.5 per cent

  This marks Kennedy Stewart's first city budget as mayor.

  Politics

  Dec 19, 2018