Question: How can we address infrastructure challenges while maintaining reasonable tax burdens for residents and businesses?

Question about how we can balance development and environmental protection.

Question: What else do you want to talk about?

Question: What thought do you want to leave the audience with?

About a quarter of Oak Bay residents are renters. We should have renter protection bylaws, including renoviction protection.

Most residents aren’t interested in blood sport politics and us versus them. Here’s to you, Oak Bay!

Tonight is the last all-candidates event before the municipal election! Meet candidates for Mayor, Council, and School Board Trustee tonight at the Oak Bay United Church on Granite, 7-9.

What’s so scary about filling our a community group’s questionnaire?

Candidate’s concluding statements: what idea do you want to leave people with?

Final question to candidates: what is something that you want to talk about, but haven’t had a chance to?

Fourth question to candidates: how would you balance development with environmental protection?

Third question: concerning built infrastructure and taxes.

Second question for candidates: concerning their perspective on housing.

First question to candidates: concerning their support of the 2025 Official Community Plan.

Candidate introductions.

A resident said I don’t talk about the budget. Is it that I don’t talk about the budget … or that some like what I have to say?

I respect the organizations that worked on the Livable CRD survey. Even if I didn’t, I’d still fill it out—because our job as candidates is to be open and help voters make an informed decision.

Deer: the most divisive issue in Oak Bay?

Don’t forget about the SD61 trustee race! Oak Bay will have one representative in the new ward system. What do YOU want to ask the candidates?

Talk about stark weather, am I right?

This one’s for my dog pals: why CAN’T we have a dog park?

This morning I took a load of cardboard to the new Beyond the Curb recycling hub at Cadboro Bay Road & Cranmore, a bike-, foot- and car-friendly place to take your recyclables (including the usual suspects plus styrofoam, light bulbs, electronics, and soft plastics). Love this CRD program to make our lives easier.

We’ve declared a climate emergency. Let’s get serious about climate action.

My candidacy announcement was published in the Oak Bay News today. It made me think of the last time the local media sought me out.

Doorstep conversations about housing have been interesting. Lots of residents are thinking about what kind of housing they DO want to see, and where they think it’s needed.

I’m looking forward to a revitalized Carnarvon Park … someday!

I’m running for Council in Oak Bay for lots of reasons. Here’s the top three on my mind this evening.