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	Coalition of Progressive Electors
		The Coalition of Progressive Electors - COPE - is a democratic, community-based coalition of individuals and organizations.
		COPE is part of a proud tradition of citizen groups, labour unions, socialist parties, and other reform organizations determined to elect progressive representatives to civic office.
		COPE is committed to social justice, democracy, open and accesible government, environmental sustainability and economic security for all Vancouver residents.
	www.cope.bc.ca /about.htm (311 words)

	Coalition of Progressive Electors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Originally formed as the "Committee of Progressive Electors", COPE was formed in 1968, when a number of left-wing community groups and social justice organizations joined with the city's Labour Council to organize more effectively against the Non-Partisan Association -- a centre-right political party that had dominated civic politics in Vancouver.
		COPE is generally guided by social-democratic principles, and has a long history of championing issues like improving public transit and investing in affordable housing.
		In 1988, COPE entered the election an equal partner with the newly-formed Civic New Democrats, a party directly affiliated with the BC NDP; led by anti-poverty activist Jean Swanson, the coalition made few gains but under the leadership of Jim Green in 1990, it came close to winning the election.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Coalition_of_Progressive_Electors (1208 words)

	CAW - TCA CANADA : What We Do
		As the strategy was to broaden the coalition politically, we invited a broad cross section of the community in terms of their politics, which included centralists that held strong social beliefs to far left militants.
		COPE set up a fund to assist women candidates with their campaigns, recognizing that single mothers needing childcare, or youth or women in low paying jobs have less resources and need more financial assistance to run.
		COPE won Mayor, 8 of 10 city councilors, 5 of 7 parks commissioners, and 7 of 9 school trustees.
	www.caw.ca /whatwedo/women/conference/woodcock_speech.asp (2193 words)

	Coalition of Progressive Electors (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		The Coalition of Progressive Electors ('''COPE''') is a municipal political party in the Canadian city of Vancouver, British Columbia.
		In 2002 Vancouverites elected their first COPE mayor, Larry Campbell along with a majority (eight out of ten) of the City council seats.
		COPE was founded with the assistance of the city's Labour Council in 1968 to compete with the conservative Non-Partisan Association which dominated municipal politics.
	coalition-of-progressive-electors.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888 (159 words)

	Zoocheck Canada Inc. - About Zoocheck Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Coalition spokesperson Annelise Sorg told the Straight that she wants the board to close a legal "loophole" that permits the importation of cetaceans into parks if they were born in captivity or if they were captured from the wild before September 16, 1996.
		COPE commissioners Anita Romaniuk and Loretta Woodcock --who were elected last November as part of a new COPE majority--were quoted in a March 23, 2001, COPE news release as saying they wanted the park board to "tighten restrictions" on the importation of dolphins into the aquarium.
		In a public presentation to the board on March 26, 2001, Woodcock, then cochair of COPE's parks and environment committee, claimed that Vancouver residents want to ban the import and trade of dolphins and whales.
	www.zoocheck.com /news/?articleId=163 (606 words)

	Progressive party — Infoplease.com
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		Progressive party: Election of 1924 - Election of 1924 The success of the Conference for Progressive Political Action, sponsored by the...
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0840233.html (285 words)

	COPE politicians say they'll stay the course \| Straight.com Vancouver
		With 51,155 votes, Cadman is the sole survivor from the COPE slate that won a majority on Vancouver's city council in 2002.
		COPE was formed as a left-of-centre alternative to the NPA in 1968.
		But she said COPE is in no way destined for the garbage pail.
	www.straight.com /content.cfm?id=14362 (890 words)

	Civic Results in Vancouver (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		COPE answered with a surprise candidate, Larry Campbell, former coroner and the model for the popular television character, Domenic Da Vinci in the weekly CBC drama Da Vinci's Inquest.
		And COPE was able to focus attention on the problems of the Downtown Eastside, an issue on which Campbell seemed more forceful than his opponents.
		The COPE victory marks the first time since the organization was formed in 1968 that one of its candidates has won the mayoralty.
	www.knowbc.com /IEBC/feature_civic2002.asp (354 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 2003430775 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		This history of Vancouver's Coalition of Progressive Electors (COPE) examines the processes and pitfalls of coalition building at the urban level.
		COPE is examined as a microcosm illustrating two central tensions in leftist politics: the problem of building coalitions between diverse social organizations and the role of electoral politics in broader leftist projects.
		COPE's involvement in recent urban elections in Vancouver shed light on the success of leftist agendas.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/ipg051/2003430775.html (179 words)

	The Republic :: New diet COPE, or COPE Classic?
		COPE representatives on the GVRD are evenly split on this issue, effectively reducing their voting power to zero and eliminating their voice in this crucial area of core policy.
		All this sets an ominous backdrop to the upcoming COPE general membership meeting set for Saturday, April 3 rd at the public room in the Vancouver Public Library.
		With big labour upset over recent votes on Translink and gambling and with their formidable organizing machine and their clout within COPE, the meeting promises to be a fiery confrontation between Diet COPE and COPE Classic, the right and left side of COPE, respectively.
	www.republic-news.org /archive/85-repub/85_eurchuk_cope.htm (524 words)

	Passe-temps.ca - Temps Présent - Letters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		The Vision Vancouver group has announced that the negotiations with the Coalition of Progressive Electors to share a unity slate for the upcoming civic election are over (Unbridgeable COPE rift spurs.....
		The members of the Coalition of Progressive Electors were presented with a proposal to share a unity slate with Vision Vancouver, to accept.....
		We are COPE members, we voted for COPE and work for COPE, but from time to time we wonder if some of the COPE councillors or the mayor forget who voted for them, the 30,000 additional voters who came.....
	www.passe-temps.ca /letters/letters.php?atheme=vancouver (649 words)

	COPE, Communists and Vancouver (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		COPE won eight of 10 city council seats and also swept the park and school boards.
		When COPE–originally known as Committee of Progressive Electors–was in its heyday in the early ‘80s, a huge public outcry, led by a Jewish rabbi, forced the news media to identify COPE for what is was, Communist.
		In describing the COPE victory on the Globe and Mail’s Internet site on Sunday, reporter Jane Armstrong describes the party as "a left-of-centre party that has been shut out of power at city hall since its inception in the 1960s.
	www.canadafreepress.com /2002/ed111802.htm (478 words)

	Coalition of Progressive Electors
		You made COPE’s Annual Issues Conference a great success.
		Under a deluge of correspondence in favour of Ethical Purchasing, NPA councilors reversed an earlier decision to remove staff support and pulled back an amendment that would have severely watered-down the policy.
		Your support will help create a city that is environmentally sustainable, socially just and with equality for all.
	www.cope.bc.ca (364 words)

	An Impregnable Fortress
		He did not compromise his progressive stance by moving to the political centre, nor does he stand rooted in an unassailable left wing ideology.
		Once the strategic elements were lined up and the COPE electoral machine took advantage of their position almost nothing could stop them, including the conservative media, which launched a last minute campaign to protect the NPA—and, to absolutely no avail.
		A progressive party needs to have a well oiled machine that is ready to pull the vote; and, it needs a charming, honest and determined leader that comes forward with a vision that addresses the social and democratic concerns of all Canadians.
	www3.telus.net /public/pcoombes/LCampbell.htm (627 words)

	David Cadman, The Tyee Interview :: thetyee.ca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		When Vancouver's Coalition of Progressive Electors chose not to run a mayoral candidate against Jim Green, the breakaway COPE councillor who now heads the Vision Vancouver slate, they helped a former colleague but hurt their ability to get their own message out.
		Chances are that David Cadman, a COPE mayoral candidate two terms ago who tried to bridge his party's divide, is the COPE councillor most likely to represent the party in a way his party colleagues won't dispute, so The Tyee talked to him last week in his city hall office.
		Prior to the last election COPE was touting green initiatives, the most important of which, to me,was the proposal to phase out and eventually ban chemical herbicides/pesticides for cosmetic use.This is in fact more a public health issue than anything else.
	thetyee.ca /News/2005/11/17/DavidCadmanInterview (3899 words)

	Coalition of Progressive Electors
		COPE Trustees will continue this process of meaningful dialogue with all stakeholders to help make the most informed local decisions, and continue to bring our communities’ voice to the attention of key decision-makers in provincial and federal government.
		COPE Trustees understand that inclusive schools are good for students, their families and the community.
		COPE’s goals of quality public services, livable neighbourhoods and social and environmental sustainability are being met and enhanced through the School Board’s dynamic and critical role.
	www.cope.bc.ca /issues-school.htm (1078 words)

	Canada \| 981206
		The Coalition For No Whales In Captivity and the Coalition of Progressive Electors base their argument on a motion passed by a previous parks board on Dec. 4, 1995, which states that any plans should be put to the public during the next civic election.
		She appreciated a condition that no part of the expansion can be used to house cetaceans, but questioned whether that rule would hold up in the future.
		Sorg and COPE member Time Louis called the 17-year lease unfair because it binds the hands of the six future boards.
	www.whaleprotection.org /articles/canada/981206.htm (579 words)

	Vancouver, British Columbia
		It is situated at 49 degrees, 16 minutes north, and 123 degrees, 7 minutes west.
		The current mayor is Larry Campbell, Coalition of Progressive Electors.
		Vancouver is adjacent to the Strait of Georgia, a body of water that is separated from the Pacific Ocean by Vancouver Island.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/va/Vancouver.html (376 words)

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		Now that COPE has enough votes on city council to move ahead with its major election promises, safe injection sites for drug addicts are promised to be implemented by the first week of January in the coming year.
		With such an overwhelming amount of support in the public’s vote for COPE leadership, Vancouverites have clearly expressed their desire for change and a reduction in the rate of HIV transmission related to injection drug use on the city’s streets.
		Nettie Wild, director of the documentary Fix: the Story of an Addicted City speaks to this effect by her comment that, “It is a real vote for action [on the drug issue] … The council is going to have to rise to a really high bar set by the community” (November 16, The Vancouver Sun).
	www.geog.ubc.ca /courses/geog331/student_project/current.htm (349 words)

	Caucus Member - Tim Louis
		He was a founding board member of the B.C. Coalition of People with Disabilities, and co-founded the Public Interest Advocacy Centre - a law centre that takes on precedent-setting legal cases.
		A prodigy of the Coalition of Progressive Electors (COPE) political party, Louis continues to give credence to his mentor, Harry Rankin, and to represent and bring forward a progressive viewpoint to politics and to public service.
		While there, Louis met city councillor and COPE (Coalition of Progressive Electors) party founder Harry Rankin: the man who would be his mentor.
	www.reachdisability.org /member_tim_louis.html (799 words)

	Seven Oaks Magazine.
		On the left, the Coalition of Progressive Electors (COPE) campaign seeks to retain its majority on the school and park boards, while running to re-elect its five city councilors, Anne Roberts, Fred Bass, Ellen Woodsworth, David Cadman and Tim Louis.
		Education: The COPE school board was the first in over a decade that hasn’t cut the number of teachers in Vancouver.
		Aaron O’Keefe is a 24 year-old environmental scientist, and a member of the Coalition of Progressive Electors.
	www.sevenoaksmag.com /commentary/84_comm2.html (484 words)

	Think Democracy!
		As a follow-up to the 2004 innovative Peoples' Report submission to the Vancouver Electoral Reform Commission, Think City created the 2005 Vancouver Civic Election Survey based on the 11 "Grade A" recommendations that were overwhelmingly supported by Think Democracy participants.
		All Coalition of Progressive Electors, Vancouver Green Party and Vision Vancouver candidates responding scored high marks and unanimously called for scrapping the at-large electoral system.
		Coalition of Progressive Electors: Fred Bass, Jane Bouey, Al Blakey, David Cadman, Sharon Gregson, Spencer Herbert, Omar Kassis, Angela Kenyon, Mel Lehan, Tim Louis, Kevin Millsip, Anne Roberts, Anita Romaniuk, Allan Wong, Loretta Woodcock, Ellen Woodsworth
	www.thinkcity.ca /think_democracy.html (562 words)

	ESR \| January 20, 2003 \| Canada's socialist "third party": The NDP's influence in Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Furthermore, the NDP was able to set policy directions in Ontario in the coalition with Liberal David Peterson (1985-1987), and finally held power in 1990-1995.
		The turning of the Ontario electorate to Mike Harris and the Progressive Conservatives in 1995 and 1999 has not seen any major, neo-traditionalist social and cultural shifts -- indeed, many important social sectors of the province appear to be in near-permanent revolt against Harris's policies -- and those of his more moderate successor, Ernie Eves.
		The strength of the left in urban regions is also attested to by the November 2002 triumph of the Coalition of Progressive Electors (COPE) in the Vancouver municipal elections.
	www.enterstageright.com /archive/articles/0103/0103ndp.htm (1298 words)

	Seven Oaks Magazine.
		Ellen Woodsworth is a Vancouver city councillor with the Coalition of Progressive Electors.
		Well, the two slogans that I heard at the conference that I really liked were the globalisation of struggle and also the globalisation of hope.
		I think that social movements are absolutely essential to the election of progressive city, municipal, provincial, and federal governments.
	www.sevenoaksmag.com /questions/01.html (1142 words)

	Legacy Corridor Committee Web Site : News - Jan. 31, 2003 - Vancouver Mayor Larry Campbell endorses Richmond Transit ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		The letter, dated Jan. 21, was sent shortly after Campbell's new Coalition of Progressive Electors council voted to spend $20,000 to get an independent review of the controversial plans for the line, which critics have said could cost an unnecessary $2 billion and drain the region of money for more needed transit improvements.
		Campbell insisted his signature on the letter didn't commit the city to anything and that all the options are still open, including a rapid bus system that environmental groups and councillors like Fred Bass, Anne Roberts and David Cadman have argued might be the better option.
		During the recent election campaign, COPE candidates, including Campbell, frequently questioned why so much energy was being put into planning a Richmond line, when the expansion of the Millennium line was needed more and had originally been the higher priority.
	www.vpsoftware.com /legacy/p192.htm (1189 words)

	Mayor's seat up for grabs
		COPE Chair David Cadman gives Matthew Burrows a map to the minefield leading to November
		Seasons change, and the season is now turning on the civic Vancouver Non-Partisan Association, said Coalition Of Progressive Electors external chair and former mayoral candidate David Cadman Friday.
		He said he is "definitely confirmed as a candidate," and that his party would further discuss the issue at the May 26 COPE general meeting, with an executive decision expected in September.
	www.republic-news.org /archive/34-repub/repub_34_1.html (864 words)

	The Guardian
		When the new Coalition of Progressive Electors (COPE) led council immediately gave its support to the anti-war movement, the idea of reviving the city's former peace committee soon arose.
		One of COPE's new city councillors, Ellen Woodsworth, moved quickly to initiate a new Peace and Justice Committee, including prominent local figures in the movement for peace and global social justice, such as StopWar co-chairs Jef Keighley and Irene MacInnes.
		As the Preparatory Conference progressed, the mood of delegates went from a mixture of interest and scepticism, towards eager anticipation of convening a massive, colourful global dialogue on the difficult issues confronting humanity.
	www.cpa.org.au /garchve05/1215wpc.html (676 words)

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