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Vision Vancouver

12:16 am, May 16, 2012
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Notice of Annual General Meeting
We’ve had another amazing year and we have our members and supporters to thank for it.

We would like Vision Vancouver members to join Mayor Gregor Robertson and the Vision Vancouver team at our 2012 Annual General Meeting.

Annual General Meeting: Thursday, May 24, 2012.
BCIT Downtown Campus, 555 Seymour St.

Registration will open at 6:15 PM and the meeting begins at 7:00 PM.

The AGM will be a chance for members to elect Vision Vancouver’s next Executive and go over any other party business. The meeting will feature a keynote speech from Mayor Gregor Robertson and updates from school and park boards.

We are thrilled that this year’s AGM will feature a partnership with Pecha Kucha Vancouver. Pecha Kucha presentations – speakers backed up by 20 slides shown for 20 seconds each- have spread to 518 cities around the world. Vancouver’s Pecha Kucha nights bring together some of Vancouver’s best ideas, and we’re proud to partner with them for our AGM.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Denise Taschereau and Stepan Vdovine
Co-Chairs, Vision Vancouver
Posted by:
Vision Vancouver

11:10 am, May 8, 2012
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Vision in action this week
This has been a busy week for your elected Vision Vancouver team, and I wanted to quickly bring you up to date on some of our recent work and accomplishments.

In a 9-1 vote last week, City Council passed my motion for city staff to develop a bylaw that would protect Vancouver from the immense costs and risk of potential oil spills in or near our harbour. In light of Kinder Morgan's plans for five-fold increase in oil tanker traffic through Vancouver (300-360 tankers per year by 2017), it's important that Vancouver takes every step possible to ensure that local taxpayers and small businesses aren't on the hook for the potentially enormous costs of a worst-case oil spill.

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Vision Vancouver

12:56 pm, May 4, 2012
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Vision Vancouver invites you to our Spring Fling!

Vision Vancouver proudly presents our SPRING FLING!

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Posted by:
Vision Vancouver

12:38 pm, May 4, 2012
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Help stop the expansion of tanker traffic in Vancouver!
Target: National Energy Board
Sponsored by: Vision Vancouver

Take action and help stop the expansion of tanker traffic in Vancouver!

Texas-based Kinder Morgan wants to expand the Trans Mountain pipeline to ship more Tar Sands oil through Vancouver. The proposed expansion would increase tanker traffic fivefold, dramatically increasing the chances of a devastating oil spill. A spill in Vancouver Harbour, Burrard Inlet, or the Fraser River would devastate iconic Stanley Park and local species and breeding habitat, have a disastrous impact on our tourism industry, and threaten port jobs.

Vancouverites do not want to see our city become a huge oil port. The expansion of the pipeline and tanker traffic is at odds with our identity, our values, the economy we have and the greener future we are building. The risk of an oil spill threatens the livelihood of our city and the splendor of our surroundings. Let’s keep Vancouver green!

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