Renowned Journalist LaPointe to Run for Vancouver Mayor

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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Vancouver’s mayoral race has gained new momentum after a veteran journalist, Kirk LaPointe, announced his decision to participate in the race for mayoral position under the NPA banner. Locally popular as the former managing editor of the Vancouver Sun, LaPointe, has held several senior roles at various news organizations across Canada and currently serves as adjunct journalism professor at UBC.

LaPointe stated that “I am entering this campaign to focus on constructive ideas that will make our great city greater, and to cast aside the harmful politics of division.” He added that there is a “strong appetite for change” at City Hall. According to LaPointe, “as a journalist, I fought to get the answers people wanted. As mayor, I will fight to create the solutions Vancouverites want.” LaPointe promised that if he’s elected as the mayor, he will provide free Wi-Fi across the city, first in low-income neighbourhoods. Additionally, LaPointe promised a freeze on property taxes and to reduce break-and-enter and property crimes. He also promised to an “end to the politics of division between cyclists and motorists.”

LaPointe confessed that he’s an underdog, but promised to lean on his experience in the media. He said that “this is a great city but we can make it greater. I am here as an outsider today, and an underdog. And I am under no illusions how our opponents are better financed from here and abroad, with the advantage of incumbency — but I’m also a fighter.”