Peter Ladner

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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 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. ^[1] 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 is also a director of TransLink and the Greater Vancouver 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.^[2]

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.