Profile

CivicScene is a new voice on the Vancouver municipal bloggging scene that aspires to provide informative, balanced and interesting viewpoints on the most pressing issues in municipal politics and policymaking.

The blog will be managed by a team of progressive voices from across North America who will be able to bring forth new ideas and perspectives from a variety of cities, including Vancouver, San Francisco, Toronto, Portland, Ottawa and Chicago.

Jonathan Ross

Jonathan is a communications consultant who has worked in Canadian politics for the past fourteen years.  An avid writer, Jonathan once garnered a healthy and influential national audience for his TDH Strategies online political commentaries, and has worked on a variety of federal, provincial and municipal campaigns across the country that are far too numerous to count.  He is a native born Vancouverite with a longing for many of the qualities of his beloved second hometown of Montreal.  Jonathan does not own a car but is a regular user of public transit, and has just moved downtown where through his window he looks out at the social experiment known as the Dunsmuir bike lane.