Peter Ladner

Peter Ladner

Peter Ladner (born 1949-02-12) is a Vancouver city councillor, first elected as a member of the Non-Partisan Association in 2002 and re-elected in 2005.

Ladner is descended from the eponymous founding partner of what has now merged into Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, a prominent Canadian law firm, and grew up in the Shaughnessy neighbourhood of Vancouver. His ascendants also originally settled and gave their name to the eponymous community of Ladner, British Columbia. He briefly attended the nearby St. George's School, before graduating from the prestigious Shawnigan Lake School on Vancouver Island, and proceeding on to the University of British Columbia where he obtained a BA in Sociology and a Master in Urban Planning.

Ladner founded the weekly newspaper "Business in Vancouver" in 1989 and continues as Business in Vancouver Media Group's vice-president. Ladner joined the "Vancouver Sun" as a journalist after university but was fired in 1969. [ [http://www.peterladner.ca/npa-leader-ladner-most-unnpaish.html Peter Ladner for Vancouver Mayor ] ] He later worked at newspapers on Vancouver Island and was editor of the Victoria alternative weekly "Monday Magazine" from 1981 to 1986. He has written for "The Globe and Mail", "Canadian Business" and "Saturday Night".

Ladner has been a director of TransLink and is currently a director of Metro Vancouver, the Regional District. He commutes by bicycle and has been an advocate of cycling issues on City Council, although he withdrew support for a bike lane on the Burrard Bridge before the last election. [cite web| title = Cycling Councillor Wants to Run for Mayor | work = Momentum | url=http://www.momentumplanet.com/blog/adanac/cycling-councillor-wants-run-mayor]

On 2008-06-08, he won the Non-Partisan Association's mayoral nomination for the 2008 municipal election, defeating incumbent mayor Sam Sullivan in a surprise upset. Ladner defeated Sullivan by 1,066 to 986 votes, after convincing NPA members that Sullivan would be defeated in November.

References

External links

* [http://www.city.vancouver.bc.ca/ctyclerk/councillors/ladner.htm Peter Ladner]
* [http://www.peterladner.ca/ PeterLadner.ca]


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