Andy Yan

Turnout on the first day of advanced polling was a whopping 196% higher than in 2022, and turnout Wednesday was 139% higher.

Political lecturer Stuart Prest and political scientist Andy Yan in the Vancouver Sun today stated the political fault lines in Vancouver... are volatile.

As voters head to the polls, the stakes for the city's future are as high as they have ever been.

Today, I want to acknowledge that we come to you from Kemkemele, the land of many maples.

And we, you know, if we're elected in office, we will be voting on that in the fall or early winter.

Colleen, you spoke, as you often have, about the changes in vancouver this shift away from a resource-based economy to one that's largely dependent on the real estate industry and construction and development however it's also true that and you told a bunch of you know very vancouver specific situations around the expo lands and the sale of those and the development of those it's also true though over that same period of time that a number of cities desirable cities in canada the u.s other parts of the world have become much more expensive whether it's sydney auckland san francisco seattle toronto Did they all make the same series of mistakes that Vancouver did or are there other larger factors at play here?

Well, they are gateway cities and this has been well documented by academics like David Lay and Andy Yan and Josh Gordon.

So yes, it was the run of global wealth and local development building for that audience basically because we have to remember it is a housing production industry and they need a constant flow of customers.

I'm Mackin, first M. That's Mario, the second M, Mario Canseco, president of ResearchCo.

And that is the A, Andy Yan, the director of the City Program at Simon Fraser University, the Duke of Data.

And here we are.

This is the third quarter of 2026.

Uh, but it certainly looks like a better situation from the standpoint of what can happen with that progressive vote, and it certainly takes me back to 2018 when Kennedy Stewart was the progressive candidate even though he didn't have a, an actual party behind him, and Ken Sim was the de facto center-right choice running for the NPA.

So could we be in a situation where the two candidates get sort of 30% of the vote? What is going to happen with Kareem Allam? Um, how much of a factor are, uh, Rebecca Bligh and Colleen Harwick going to be in this election? And how much of this changes because of the fact that now we have competing elections, uh, at roughly the same time?

A- Andy Yan, do you think that this is perhaps a test case or an advertisement for Vancouver to adopt a ward system?

I, I wonder.