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Katie-Ellen Humphries is a nationally-touring stand-up comedian, writer, and performer. She is a frequent contributor to CBC's "The Debaters". She is one of the creators of The Lady Show, a regular variety show in Vancouver performed by a troupe of comedic lady talents. She is also a three-time Canadian National Open Water 5k Swim Champion.

Brynn Peebles and Brianna Wiens (collectively known as Girl On Girl Humor) are the creators of “Girls vs. The City”, an award-winning web series now available on Telus Optik TV and YouTube.

This is VANCOLOUR recaps all the drama of the 2018 Vancouver Civic Election with two superstar guests: Ian Bushfield and Graham Cook. Ian Bushfield is a local podcaster. He is one-third of the Cambie Report and one-half of PolitiCoast. Graham Cook is a project manager in Vancouver's tech industry and ran for Vancouver City Council as an independent candidate.

Dr. Mark Tyndall is the Executive Medical Director of the BC Centre of Disease Control (BCCDC), the Deputy Provincial Health Officer of BC, and a professor in the University of British Columbia (UBC) School of Population and Public Health.

Adrian Crook is an independent Vancouver City Council candidate. He blogs at 5 Kids 1 Condo about raising five children in downtown Vancouver. He made national headlines when the provincial government of British Columbia barred his children from riding the bus without adult supervision. He is also a founding member of Abundant Housing Vancouver and Abundant Transit BC.

Derrick O'Keefe is a city council candidate for the Coalition of Progressive Electors (COPE)

Sarah Blyth is a founding member of the Overdose Prevention Society, a former Parks Boards Commissioner in the City of Vancouver, and an independent city council candidate for the City of Vancouver.

ProVancouver is an upstart political party in the upcoming 2018 civic election in the City of Vancouver. David Chen is their mayoral candidate and Raza Mirza is one of their city council candidates.

Shauna Sylvester is an independent mayoral candidate in Vancouver's upcoming civic election. She was the Executive Director of Simon Fraser University's Centre for Dialogue and the founding director of the Institute for Media, Policy, and Civil Society. She also sat on the boards of the Vancouver Folk Festival, VanCity Capital Corporation and VanCity Credit Union, and Mountain Equipment Cooperativ...

Christine Boyle is is a community organizer, climate justice activist, and United Church Minister. She is running for City Council with OneCity Vancouver, a civic party to which she is a founding member.

Born and raised in South Vancouver, Ken Sim is a homegrown, self-made entrepreneur and one of the leading candidates to become the next Mayor of Vancouver. He is the founder of Nurse Next Door and Rosemary Rocksalt, and now he is representing Vancouver's oldest civic party, the Non-Partisan Association (NPA), in the upcoming municipal election. He addresses housing affordability, city congestion (...

Dress for Success Vancouver (est. 1999) is a registered charity and affiliate of the worldwide organization, Dress for Success. DFS Vancouver empowers women back into the workforce by providing them with professional attire, career services, and skills development programs. YES! Vancouver (est. 2007) is a volunteer arm of DFS Vancouver that creates awareness in the community for DFS Vancouver thro...

Carey Dillen is the President of YYOGA - one of Metro Vancouver's most prominent wellness companies offering yoga-centric fitness across 12 locations. With a community of over 50,000 yogis, she leads YYOGA in their vision of making the world a better place.

David Vertesi is the co-founder of Create Vancouver Society, a non-profit group that promotes art and culture which provides meaningful art and culture experiences with tangible outcomes. One of Create Vancouver Society's most high-profile projects is The Vancouver Mural Festival, which is Vancouver's largest annual free public art celebration. He's also the bassist for the indie-pop band, Hey Oce...

Juno Award-winning stand-up comedian, writer, and actor, Ivan Decker, chats about his journey, Vancouver's comedy scene, rebooting Becker, being an alien of extraordinary ability, Bumble, and how social media and the Internet has changed the entertainment landscape. You've seen him on Conan, you've heard his comedy album "I Wanted To Be a Dinosaur", you'll be streaming him on Netflix very soon, an...

Kennedy Stewart may be the most high-profile and experienced mayoral candidate in Vancouver. Scholastically, he completed his Masters in urban politics and policy at Simon Fraser University and his PhD on world cities at the London School of Economics. He has advised governments and the United Nations about cities and housing. In 2011, as part of NDP's monumental Orange Wave, he was elected as a M...

Ahmed Danny Ramadan is is a Syrian-Canadian author, public speaker, storyteller and an LGBTQ-refugee activist. Since his arrival to Vancouver in 2014, Danny's community contributions as a storyteller and activist are a testament to the strength of diversity in our community. As an activist, he has been involved in coordinating online and on the ground efforts to support Queer and Trans identifying...

Vancouver mayoral candidate, Patrick Condon, wants to be the "Bernie Sanders" of Vancouver as he makes Metro Vancouver's housing crisis the central focus of his election campaign. He breaks down the causes of the housing crisis, what the crisis means for people who live and work in Vancouver, his solutions (including increasing non-marketing housing in Vancouver and implementing Vancouver's very f...

Megan Edwards and Janet Reynolds, collectively known as THE UND8ABLES (@TheUnd8ables), kick off This is VANCOLOUR, with an exploration of the often treacherous dating terrain in Metro Vancouver. We went over time talking about dating rules (or lack thereof), first date etiquette, dick pics, coffee dates, catfishing, and more, unfiltered and unapologetically. Their collection of stories about unsuc...

A preface for "This is VANCOLOUR": a podcast about the creative class in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.