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In front of a crowd of supporters, independent Vancouver councillor Rebecca Bligh announced her intention to run for mayor in next year's municipal election with a new party called Vote Vancouver.

It's not a huge surprise—rumors have swirled around whether Bligh would seek the mayoral chair after she was kicked out of her former party, Mayor Ken Sim's ABC, earlier this year. That decision came after she didn't support the party's ban on supportive housing.

"People don't see leadership at City Hall," Bligh said in the Helena Gutteridge Plaza, directly in view of the institution she was talking about. "City Hall isn't working for them. Ordinary people are being ignored while backroo

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