Punk legend by night, city councillor by day, Joe Keithley has plenty of tips for council newcomers, including this one: Disagreements are fine, but confrontation won’t get you far.
Punk legends D.O.A., fronted by the aging but still raging Joey Shithead, play the Victoria Event Centre this Saturday.Same guy. And, he says, same ideals. It’s all about chasing justice, fairness.
“I hid the front of the newspaper up in my room,” he recalled Thursday. When his dad asked where it was, teenaged Joe blamed the paperboy. Still, the jump from shouting-from-the-sidelines activist to on-the-field player was remarkable enough to make Keithley the subject of a documentary, Something Better Change, following his first Burnaby council victory as a Green Party candidate in 2018.
Learn the process, how bylaws are built, where the limits of decision-making powers are. Outside of Vancouver, which has its own charter, municipal powers are more limited than many realize. Keithley has learned that when people demand council act on a problem, sometimes the only reply is: “We can’t, but we’ll talk to the provincial government.”
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