Jennifer Reddy
@reddyforchange.bsky.social
@VSB39 Trustee with @OneCityVan. Equity in policy and in decision-making (she/her)
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Trustee @reddyforchange.bsky.social, a labour council group and a parents' rep are disappointed after requests to improve Vancouver school board transparency resulted in... private meetings and deletion of meeting recordings. #vanpoli
Reporting by @kehyslop.bsky.social thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
Reporting by @kehyslop.bsky.social thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
Asked to Improve Transparency, School Board Keeps Private Meetings | The Tyee
Updated policies don’t reflect requests to improve access to democratic process, says one Vancouver school trustee.
thetyee.ca
November 6, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Trustee @reddyforchange.bsky.social, a labour council group and a parents' rep are disappointed after requests to improve Vancouver school board transparency resulted in... private meetings and deletion of meeting recordings. #vanpoli
Reporting by @kehyslop.bsky.social thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
Reporting by @kehyslop.bsky.social thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
Reposted by Jennifer Reddy
Rebecca Bligh voted to slash wages for workers, to block rental housing in wealthy neighbourhoods, and to oppose common sense tools to properly fund our schools.
We need a progressive mayor on the ballot to deliver the change Vancouver needs. And we’ll get one. More soon.
We need a progressive mayor on the ballot to deliver the change Vancouver needs. And we’ll get one. More soon.
Vancouver councillor Rebecca Bligh makes official she will run for mayor next year under a new banner of “Vote Vancouver”.
Bligh was first elected in 2018 with the NPA, left them, joined Sim’s ABC Party and was re-elected, before she was booted from ABC, mostly on divisions over social issues.
Bligh was first elected in 2018 with the NPA, left them, joined Sim’s ABC Party and was re-elected, before she was booted from ABC, mostly on divisions over social issues.
September 22, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Rebecca Bligh voted to slash wages for workers, to block rental housing in wealthy neighbourhoods, and to oppose common sense tools to properly fund our schools.
We need a progressive mayor on the ballot to deliver the change Vancouver needs. And we’ll get one. More soon.
We need a progressive mayor on the ballot to deliver the change Vancouver needs. And we’ll get one. More soon.
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Bligh has a decent amount of support from the province and feds (more than Sim or Allam at this point), which could help.
But her 6 years being a supporter of Ken Sim, and getting elected under both the NPA and ABC banners, means it’ll be difficult to get support from local left-wing parties.
But her 6 years being a supporter of Ken Sim, and getting elected under both the NPA and ABC banners, means it’ll be difficult to get support from local left-wing parties.
Rebecca Bligh voted to slash wages for workers, to block rental housing in wealthy neighbourhoods, and to oppose common sense tools to properly fund our schools.
We need a progressive mayor on the ballot to deliver the change Vancouver needs. And we’ll get one. More soon.
We need a progressive mayor on the ballot to deliver the change Vancouver needs. And we’ll get one. More soon.
Vancouver councillor Rebecca Bligh makes official she will run for mayor next year under a new banner of “Vote Vancouver”.
Bligh was first elected in 2018 with the NPA, left them, joined Sim’s ABC Party and was re-elected, before she was booted from ABC, mostly on divisions over social issues.
Bligh was first elected in 2018 with the NPA, left them, joined Sim’s ABC Party and was re-elected, before she was booted from ABC, mostly on divisions over social issues.
September 22, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Bligh has a decent amount of support from the province and feds (more than Sim or Allam at this point), which could help.
But her 6 years being a supporter of Ken Sim, and getting elected under both the NPA and ABC banners, means it’ll be difficult to get support from local left-wing parties.
But her 6 years being a supporter of Ken Sim, and getting elected under both the NPA and ABC banners, means it’ll be difficult to get support from local left-wing parties.
ABC back room decision making doesn’t stop at City Council.
My motion to restore democracy and transparency at the Vancouver School Board is an attempt to address this.
This motion tries to address the following problems that I, alongside unions, believe are an obstacle to good governance:
👇🏾
My motion to restore democracy and transparency at the Vancouver School Board is an attempt to address this.
This motion tries to address the following problems that I, alongside unions, believe are an obstacle to good governance:
👇🏾
September 8, 2025 at 8:44 PM
ABC back room decision making doesn’t stop at City Council.
My motion to restore democracy and transparency at the Vancouver School Board is an attempt to address this.
This motion tries to address the following problems that I, alongside unions, believe are an obstacle to good governance:
👇🏾
My motion to restore democracy and transparency at the Vancouver School Board is an attempt to address this.
This motion tries to address the following problems that I, alongside unions, believe are an obstacle to good governance:
👇🏾
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Vancouver’s Integrity Commissioner has found Mayor Ken Sim and ABC councillors broke the code of conduct on multiple occasions for coordinating amendments to controversial motions in separate private online conversations ahead of public council meetings
August 25, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Vancouver’s Integrity Commissioner has found Mayor Ken Sim and ABC councillors broke the code of conduct on multiple occasions for coordinating amendments to controversial motions in separate private online conversations ahead of public council meetings
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VPD was aware of the intense public interest – and also of the “fear and anxiety” news of stranger assaults was causing in 2022. VPD issued at least 52 releases mentioning stranger assaults, but provided no updated data about the frequency of these crimes. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
‘Fear and anxiety’: What our police FOI requests uncovered about Vancouver’s stranger assaults scare
Internal emails obtained through Freedom of Information requests shed light on the Vancouver Police Department's media strategy related to stranger assaults ahead of the city's 2022 election.
www.ctvnews.ca
August 21, 2025 at 2:12 AM
VPD was aware of the intense public interest – and also of the “fear and anxiety” news of stranger assaults was causing in 2022. VPD issued at least 52 releases mentioning stranger assaults, but provided no updated data about the frequency of these crimes. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
Last night we sounded the alarm 🚨 People are being shut out, uninvited, made to feel outside of, the decisions of public education that impact them👇🏾
Wild times at the @vsb39.bsky.social board meeting. @reddyforchange.bsky.social likens the actions of board to muzzling her - shows the muzzle for effect. Where is the public voice and advocacy that used to be present at board meetings? #bced #bcpoli #vanpoli
June 24, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Last night we sounded the alarm 🚨 People are being shut out, uninvited, made to feel outside of, the decisions of public education that impact them👇🏾
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At the @vsb39.bsky.social board meeting. Trustees denied adding @reddyforchange.bsky.social’s amendment to the agenda. #bced #bcpoli
June 24, 2025 at 6:14 AM
At the @vsb39.bsky.social board meeting. Trustees denied adding @reddyforchange.bsky.social’s amendment to the agenda. #bced #bcpoli
Reposted by Jennifer Reddy
Wild times at the @vsb39.bsky.social board meeting. @reddyforchange.bsky.social likens the actions of board to muzzling her - shows the muzzle for effect. Where is the public voice and advocacy that used to be present at board meetings? #bced #bcpoli #vanpoli
June 24, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Wild times at the @vsb39.bsky.social board meeting. @reddyforchange.bsky.social likens the actions of board to muzzling her - shows the muzzle for effect. Where is the public voice and advocacy that used to be present at board meetings? #bced #bcpoli #vanpoli
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Thanks @sharongregson.bsky.social for your constant leadership with the @$10aDay Child Care campaign.
Expand $10aDay child care. Provide more spaces. Implement fair wages. Build new programs and spaces - in schools and post secondary. #bced #bcpoli #vanpoli @publicedbc.bsky.social
Expand $10aDay child care. Provide more spaces. Implement fair wages. Build new programs and spaces - in schools and post secondary. #bced #bcpoli #vanpoli @publicedbc.bsky.social
June 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Thanks @sharongregson.bsky.social for your constant leadership with the @$10aDay Child Care campaign.
Expand $10aDay child care. Provide more spaces. Implement fair wages. Build new programs and spaces - in schools and post secondary. #bced #bcpoli #vanpoli @publicedbc.bsky.social
Expand $10aDay child care. Provide more spaces. Implement fair wages. Build new programs and spaces - in schools and post secondary. #bced #bcpoli #vanpoli @publicedbc.bsky.social
I am so proud to bring forward 2 important motions informed by community leaders. First, a motion to establish a school food committee, we are inching closer to a universal school food program and #VSB is a key partner!
June 20, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I am so proud to bring forward 2 important motions informed by community leaders. First, a motion to establish a school food committee, we are inching closer to a universal school food program and #VSB is a key partner!
Update on the VSB budget process:
At last night’s budget meeting trustees voted on what to include as priorities in next year’s school board budget. Here’s what they voted against 👇🏾
At last night’s budget meeting trustees voted on what to include as priorities in next year’s school board budget. Here’s what they voted against 👇🏾
May 2, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Update on the VSB budget process:
At last night’s budget meeting trustees voted on what to include as priorities in next year’s school board budget. Here’s what they voted against 👇🏾
At last night’s budget meeting trustees voted on what to include as priorities in next year’s school board budget. Here’s what they voted against 👇🏾
Looking toward the 2025-2026 VSB budget I’m glad to share my top 3 budget priorities, I will share more soon!
✅1. VSB Commitment As Living Wage Employer
I want to ensure that the VSB maintain its status as a living wage employer.👇🏾
✅1. VSB Commitment As Living Wage Employer
I want to ensure that the VSB maintain its status as a living wage employer.👇🏾
April 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Looking toward the 2025-2026 VSB budget I’m glad to share my top 3 budget priorities, I will share more soon!
✅1. VSB Commitment As Living Wage Employer
I want to ensure that the VSB maintain its status as a living wage employer.👇🏾
✅1. VSB Commitment As Living Wage Employer
I want to ensure that the VSB maintain its status as a living wage employer.👇🏾
We have been budgeting to be a living wage employer since 2022. As the cost of living increases, so too does our responsibility to pay a living wage.
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
April 16, 2025 at 3:20 AM
We have been budgeting to be a living wage employer since 2022. As the cost of living increases, so too does our responsibility to pay a living wage.
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
I was so proud to support VSB to become a living wage employer in 2022. Just a couple years with ABC-dominated board & we are looking at deep cuts to the wages of bus drivers & food service workers as the living wage status is no longer. Read more from IUOE963 here: www.iuoe963.ca/wp-content/u...
April 11, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I was so proud to support VSB to become a living wage employer in 2022. Just a couple years with ABC-dominated board & we are looking at deep cuts to the wages of bus drivers & food service workers as the living wage status is no longer. Read more from IUOE963 here: www.iuoe963.ca/wp-content/u...
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WE DID IT! We SAVED the bus!
TransLink's 2025 Investment Plan is out, and it confirms that our collective efforts have paid off: no bus cuts until 2027 and a 5% increase in bus service starting this September!
TransLink's 2025 Investment Plan is out, and it confirms that our collective efforts have paid off: no bus cuts until 2027 and a 5% increase in bus service starting this September!
April 10, 2025 at 7:35 PM
WE DID IT! We SAVED the bus!
TransLink's 2025 Investment Plan is out, and it confirms that our collective efforts have paid off: no bus cuts until 2027 and a 5% increase in bus service starting this September!
TransLink's 2025 Investment Plan is out, and it confirms that our collective efforts have paid off: no bus cuts until 2027 and a 5% increase in bus service starting this September!
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30 PERCENT OF THE POLLING STATIONS ARE IN
HUGE LEAD FOR ONECITY'S MALONE AND COPE'S ORR CONTINUES
WE DON'T KNOW WHERE THESE POLLING SITUATIONS ARE FROM BUT IT'S LOOKING VERY VERY GOOD FOR THEM NOW
HUGE LEAD FOR ONECITY'S MALONE AND COPE'S ORR CONTINUES
WE DON'T KNOW WHERE THESE POLLING SITUATIONS ARE FROM BUT IT'S LOOKING VERY VERY GOOD FOR THEM NOW
April 6, 2025 at 6:10 AM
30 PERCENT OF THE POLLING STATIONS ARE IN
HUGE LEAD FOR ONECITY'S MALONE AND COPE'S ORR CONTINUES
WE DON'T KNOW WHERE THESE POLLING SITUATIONS ARE FROM BUT IT'S LOOKING VERY VERY GOOD FOR THEM NOW
HUGE LEAD FOR ONECITY'S MALONE AND COPE'S ORR CONTINUES
WE DON'T KNOW WHERE THESE POLLING SITUATIONS ARE FROM BUT IT'S LOOKING VERY VERY GOOD FOR THEM NOW
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OneCity doing the necessary work in our municipal institutions to uphold democracy and good governance. Don't be fooled by the branding... ABC is not in control of anything, they are amateurs.
We have a problem practicing democracy at the #VSB and I am hoping to work with Trustees to fix it. My motion on democracy has been in front of the #VSB since November 2024, it will next come before the Board on May 26th at 7pm. Read more here: thetyee.ca/News/2025/03... #bced #vanpoli
Closed Door Meetings, a Police Call, a Stalled Motion | The Tyee
Vancouver School Board trustee Jennifer Reddy’s popular call for more transparency has become a political ping-pong ball.
thetyee.ca
March 19, 2025 at 8:32 PM
OneCity doing the necessary work in our municipal institutions to uphold democracy and good governance. Don't be fooled by the branding... ABC is not in control of anything, they are amateurs.
We have a problem practicing democracy at the #VSB and I am hoping to work with Trustees to fix it. My motion on democracy has been in front of the #VSB since November 2024, it will next come before the Board on May 26th at 7pm. Read more here: thetyee.ca/News/2025/03... #bced #vanpoli
Closed Door Meetings, a Police Call, a Stalled Motion | The Tyee
Vancouver School Board trustee Jennifer Reddy’s popular call for more transparency has become a political ping-pong ball.
thetyee.ca
March 18, 2025 at 6:53 PM
We have a problem practicing democracy at the #VSB and I am hoping to work with Trustees to fix it. My motion on democracy has been in front of the #VSB since November 2024, it will next come before the Board on May 26th at 7pm. Read more here: thetyee.ca/News/2025/03... #bced #vanpoli
Reposted by Jennifer Reddy
Where is the public voice? thetyee.ca/News/2025/03... Attended the March VSB public delegation meeting and apart from 3 presenters, was only person in the gallery! #bced #bcpoli @publicedbc.bsky.social @reddyforchange.bsky.social
Closed Door Meetings, a Police Call, a Stalled Motion | The Tyee
Vancouver School Board trustee Jennifer Reddy’s popular call for more transparency has become a political ping-pong ball.
thetyee.ca
March 13, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Where is the public voice? thetyee.ca/News/2025/03... Attended the March VSB public delegation meeting and apart from 3 presenters, was only person in the gallery! #bced #bcpoli @publicedbc.bsky.social @reddyforchange.bsky.social
Some of the most bold, creative, and innovative housing models are supportive.
I think of the youth I’ve referred to homes that have support services built-in, ones that help them re-build their lives. 👇🏾
I think of the youth I’ve referred to homes that have support services built-in, ones that help them re-build their lives. 👇🏾
March 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Some of the most bold, creative, and innovative housing models are supportive.
I think of the youth I’ve referred to homes that have support services built-in, ones that help them re-build their lives. 👇🏾
I think of the youth I’ve referred to homes that have support services built-in, ones that help them re-build their lives. 👇🏾
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Vancouverites have public safety concerns. We deserve leaders who will invest in services that prevent crime, and don't just invest in enforcement after it's already happened.
@lucymaloney.bsky.social will fight for investment in these services, like Peer Assisted Care Teams.
@lucymaloney.bsky.social will fight for investment in these services, like Peer Assisted Care Teams.
February 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Vancouverites have public safety concerns. We deserve leaders who will invest in services that prevent crime, and don't just invest in enforcement after it's already happened.
@lucymaloney.bsky.social will fight for investment in these services, like Peer Assisted Care Teams.
@lucymaloney.bsky.social will fight for investment in these services, like Peer Assisted Care Teams.
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ICYMI, cuts to fed funding for newcomer supports hurts people already here in B.C. My @thetyee.ca piece on how thetyee.ca/News/2025/02...
‘It’s a Crisis’: Cuts Hit Immigrant Settlement Support | The Tyee
As of March 31, services for newcomers, including children and youth, will be slashed in BC.
thetyee.ca
February 18, 2025 at 11:28 PM
ICYMI, cuts to fed funding for newcomer supports hurts people already here in B.C. My @thetyee.ca piece on how thetyee.ca/News/2025/02...
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ICYMI - Video recording of Vancouver DPAC's Inclusive Education Report Presentation. Please share and help advocate for better learning conditions for VSB's diverse learners #bced: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKe2...
January 27, 2025 at 5:43 AM
ICYMI - Video recording of Vancouver DPAC's Inclusive Education Report Presentation. Please share and help advocate for better learning conditions for VSB's diverse learners #bced: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKe2...