Category: Strategy

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to those who supported my campaign and voted for me. Over the last few months, I and the NPA team worked hard to highlight the need for new leadership in our city. Voters clearly agreed that change is needed. Both @kensimcity and I share a concern for…

What is Alberta’s Proposed Sovereignty Act? Danielle Smith, Alberta’s newly minted premier has identified that her top priority is to protect Alberta’s sovereignty. To protect Alberta’s sovereignty Smith proposes the drafting of an Alberta Sovereignty Act that would allow Alberta to act as a nation within a nation, as Quebec has done for years. Ideally,…

Don’t just take my word for it. Here is what renowned author Stevie Cameron wrote about Elaine’s work and advocacy on the Downtown Eastside in her national best-seller On The Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver’s Missing Women: Elaine Allan was the coordinator of WISH [a drop in centre for women…

Elaine Allan – City Council Candidate  On September 9, 2022, I registered as a candidate for Vancouver City Council under the NPA Vancouver banner. Challenging My Right to Use My Chinese Name A few days later, on September 13, 2022, the Chief Election Officer for the City of Vancouver, Rosemary Hagiwara, filed an application in…

Vancouver’s City Hall is one of the city’s most beautiful art deco buildings.  Construction began in 1935 partly as a make-work project during the depression.  In the end, Vancouver’s City Hall cost $1 million to build and took 330 days to complete.  The building was officially opened as Vancouver’s new City Hall in 1936. Art…

Al & Toby I met Al Arsenault and Toby Hinton in 1998 while working at the WISH Drop-in Centre on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. The WISH Drop-in Centre, then located at the back of the First United Church on East Hastings provided dinner and respite for the neighbourhood’s sex trade workers. Al and Toby were well-respected…

Our city is no longer safe, and Vancouver is in desperate need of leadership at City Hall. Sadly, we are seeing increased violent stranger attacks on innocent people in our city. For example, on August 19, 2022, DH Vancouver’s headline read, “Stabbed while walking”: Three stranger assaults took place in under three hours in Vancouver…

When I began working at the WISH Drop-in Centre, on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, I knew little about addiction, street life or the sex trade.  Up until this point my career had been focused on communications and technology start-ups where I spent the bulk of my time behind a computer. Working At WISH Working at WISH…