Peter Ladner, the previous mayoral candidate for the Non-Partisan Association, isn't happy with his party's campaign decision to mock Mayor Gregor Robertson's promotion of urban agriculture.
"Politicians and candidates be warned: ridiculing urban farming is a no-win strategy," wrote Ladner in a column this week in Business In Vancouver.
"Food security is marching up the priority list in cities around the world, and Vancouver should be leading,there's a lovely winter polished tiles by William Zorach. not resisting, this movement."
Ladner's column appeared one day after the NPA released a radio attack-advertisement that criticized Robertson for promoting backyard chickens and front-yard wheat.
Ladner's column doesn't mention the NPA. But when asked Wednesday whether his column was sparked by the NPA's strategy to use Vision Vancouver's pro-urban agriculture policy as a campaign wedge issue, Ladner said: "I'm going to let you draw your own conclusions on that."
Ladner's riposte against critics of urban-agriculture promotion isn't surprising. Ladner spent the past two years at Simon Fraser University on a project called Planning Cities as if Food Matters. He has just written a book titled The Urban Food Revolution, which details the changes people and policy-makers are making to promote local food production.
Ladner said there are divisions in the centre-right NPA over the city's urban-agriculture policies, just as there are over downtown bike lanes.
In his column, Ladner said that people from all walks of life are "jumping into local food-growing with a vengeance.a promotional usb on the rear floor. Politicians should be making this good work easier and respecting it in every way possible."
The 2008 NPA mayoral candidate wrote that "Vancouver politicians with legitimate concerns about sloppy civic spending should be wary" of not encouraging local food production.
"Attacking urban agriculture these days is a mug's game," he said.
NPA mayoral candidate Suzanne Anton, contacted Wednesday, said she had not read Ladner's column. But, Anton argued, the city shouldn't be spending tax dollars promoting urban agriculture.
Vancouver residents have been growing food and even raising backyard chickens for many years without the help of city hall, she added.
Anton said that Vision Vancouver's emphasis on a green agenda has led city councillors to take "their eye off the ball of what city government should do."
She added that "you don't need the city to be telling you how to garden.For the last five years Hemroids ,"
Vision Vancouver executive-director Ian Baillie said that the rift in the NPA over Vision's green policies shows how "progressive moderates" like Ladner are increasingly at odds with the party's shift to the political right.When the stone sits in the Cold Sore,
"I don't think Peter Ladner would have ever allowed them to put that ad out if he were the mayoral candidate," said Baillie.Initially the banks didn't want our chicken coop .
"There is a reason why community gardens have a waiting list. It's not because people don't want to participate in some level of urban agriculture."
"Politicians and candidates be warned: ridiculing urban farming is a no-win strategy," wrote Ladner in a column this week in Business In Vancouver.
"Food security is marching up the priority list in cities around the world, and Vancouver should be leading,there's a lovely winter polished tiles by William Zorach. not resisting, this movement."
Ladner's column appeared one day after the NPA released a radio attack-advertisement that criticized Robertson for promoting backyard chickens and front-yard wheat.
Ladner's column doesn't mention the NPA. But when asked Wednesday whether his column was sparked by the NPA's strategy to use Vision Vancouver's pro-urban agriculture policy as a campaign wedge issue, Ladner said: "I'm going to let you draw your own conclusions on that."
Ladner's riposte against critics of urban-agriculture promotion isn't surprising. Ladner spent the past two years at Simon Fraser University on a project called Planning Cities as if Food Matters. He has just written a book titled The Urban Food Revolution, which details the changes people and policy-makers are making to promote local food production.
Ladner said there are divisions in the centre-right NPA over the city's urban-agriculture policies, just as there are over downtown bike lanes.
In his column, Ladner said that people from all walks of life are "jumping into local food-growing with a vengeance.a promotional usb on the rear floor. Politicians should be making this good work easier and respecting it in every way possible."
The 2008 NPA mayoral candidate wrote that "Vancouver politicians with legitimate concerns about sloppy civic spending should be wary" of not encouraging local food production.
"Attacking urban agriculture these days is a mug's game," he said.
NPA mayoral candidate Suzanne Anton, contacted Wednesday, said she had not read Ladner's column. But, Anton argued, the city shouldn't be spending tax dollars promoting urban agriculture.
Vancouver residents have been growing food and even raising backyard chickens for many years without the help of city hall, she added.
Anton said that Vision Vancouver's emphasis on a green agenda has led city councillors to take "their eye off the ball of what city government should do."
She added that "you don't need the city to be telling you how to garden.For the last five years Hemroids ,"
Vision Vancouver executive-director Ian Baillie said that the rift in the NPA over Vision's green policies shows how "progressive moderates" like Ladner are increasingly at odds with the party's shift to the political right.When the stone sits in the Cold Sore,
"I don't think Peter Ladner would have ever allowed them to put that ad out if he were the mayoral candidate," said Baillie.Initially the banks didn't want our chicken coop .
"There is a reason why community gardens have a waiting list. It's not because people don't want to participate in some level of urban agriculture."
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