{"id":39780,"date":"2022-10-28T01:54:42","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T08:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=39780"},"modified":"2022-10-27T14:07:32","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T21:07:32","slug":"civic-election-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2022\/10\/28\/civic-election-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Civic election results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Jonathan Lerner, left, Christine Boyle and Dan Ruimy were among the winners in the recent municipal elections. (PR photos)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Municipal elections across British Columbia brought numerous surprises and a number of defeats for incumbent mayors, notably in both of the province\u2019s largest cities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ken Sim defeated Kennedy Stewart, Vancouver\u2019s incumbent mayor while, in a far closer race, Surrey\u2019s mayor Doug McCallum was defeated by Brenda Locke.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most of the community members featured by the <em>Independent<\/em> Oct. 7 were not successful in their races, with two exceptions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jonathan Lerner, a Jewish community member who has worked with organizations including the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre, Hillel BC and Jewish Family Services, topped the polls on his first foray into elected office. He was elected to district council in Lantzville, which is north of Nanaimo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Christine Boyle, who asked to be included in our coverage as part of a mixed family, was reelected to Vancouver city council as the sole successful candidate for the OneCity group, withstanding the onslaught of the overwhelming sweep by Sim\u2019s ABC slate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Former Liberal member of Parliament Dan Ruimy, a son of Jewish Moroccan immigrants to Canada, was elected mayor of Maple Ridge. He was inadvertently not included in our pre-election coverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Lerner, left, Christine Boyle and Dan Ruimy were among the winners in the recent municipal elections. (PR photos) Municipal elections across British Columbia brought numerous surprises and a number of defeats for incumbent mayors, notably in both of the province\u2019s largest cities. Ken Sim defeated Kennedy Stewart, Vancouver\u2019s incumbent mayor while, in a far [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39781,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[21808,5161,4304,3249,1862,21757],"class_list":["post-39780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","tag-christine-boyle","tag-dan-ruimy","tag-democracy","tag-elections","tag-jonathan-lerner","tag-municipal-politics"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}