# Peter Ladner
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peter ladner (born February 12, 1949) is a former Vancouver city councilor, Metro Vancouver vice-chair and business owner.
Ladner has more than 40 years of journalistic experience in print, radio and television; is the author of The Urban Food Revolution: Changing the Way We Feed Cities, published by New Society in November, 2011; and is a frequent speaker on business, food, community and sustainability issues. From 2009–2011, he was a Fellow at the Simon Fraser University Centre for Dialogue, researching, teaching and organizing public events around the theme Planning Cities as if Food Matters.
Why Canada Needs Trained Bike Mechanics Now
Your bike doesn’t become “unrideable” when a chain wears out or a wheel goes out of true. It becomes unrideable when you can’t get it fixed quickly and affordably by someone who has the necessary skills. That person is becoming ever harder to find, and that’s the gap we dig into with Zoé Kruchten, …
Putting Nelson on the Map: Bikepacking for All in the West Kootenays
Bikepacking is active transportation at its most adventurous, and it's far more accessible than it looks from the outside. The real magic, as today's guest explains, is how quickly it becomes doable once you understand the basics.
We sit down with Moe Nadeau, Nelson, BC route builder and newest mem…
The Road Nobody Repaves: Rural BC Highways and the Active Transportation Gap
What rural road maintenance means for active transportation, and why it matters in BC communities where the highway is the only route.
A freshly "maintained" road shouldn't make a stroller unusable or shred a bike tire. But that's exactly what can happen when seal coating replaces repaving on rural…
Riding Toward Reconciliation: The Indigenous Youth Mountain Bike Program
We sit down with Patrick Lucas, founder and director of the Indigenous Youth Mountain Bike Program, to unpack how riding and trail building can become a doorway to confidence, health, and a renewed relationship with the land. What starts as kids building “stupid looking jumps” turns into something …
How a First Nation Saved a Rail Trail—And Changed the Region
We talk with Phil McIntyre-Paul, a key organizer behind the Splatsin to Sicamous Corridor—a 50-km rail trail and active transportation greenway running parallel to Highway 97A between Sicamous and Armstrong in the North Okanagan.
You'll hear how CP Rail's 2009 abandonment kicked off a long, messy a…
How The City of North Van is Beating Bikelash
Bike lanes can feel like a simple street design choice, so why do they set people off like a cultural lightning rod? We sit down with City of North Vancouver Councillor Tony Valente, who’s been on the front lines of active transportation advocacy and the backlash that comes with it, to unpack what’…
From Penny Farthing to E-Bike: A Local and Global Bicycle History
Peter is joined by Gordon Hobbis, who now, in 'retirement', runs his own bicycle museum in Maple Ridge. Gordon is the son of Cap Hobbis, founder of Caps Bicycles of BC — once the largest chain of bike dealerships in Canada.
Gordon takes us on a wild ride linking early two-wheel transport to clima…
Dutch-Inspired, Bike-Friendly Street Design for British Columbia
BC keeps getting compared to the Netherlands, usually with a shrug: we've got hills, we've got rain, we are not Amsterdam. But scratch the surface and the similarities outweigh the differences — and the lessons are more transferable than you'd think.
This week, Roy Symons joins us on the podcast. H…
Women Changing Cities: A Conversation with Melissa Bruntlett
Melissa Bruntlett is a Canadian-born cycling advocate, author, and communications consultant based in Delft, the Netherlands, and co-author of Building the Cycling City, Curbing Traffic, and her latest book, Women Changing Cities: Global Stories of Urban Transformation.
In this episode, Melissa joi…
Progressive Unity? Rebecca Bligh Endorsers Challenge the Script
Former NDP politicians explain why they promoted Bligh for Vancouver mayor.
By Katie Hyslop.
Green Party of Vancouver mayoral hopeful Pete Fry is supposed to be the progressive voter's candidate of choice this election. After several meetings this summer, two other progressive parties — OneCity and…
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