Four things you need to know about the 2014 Vancouver civic election

Advance voting for Vancouver's 2014 Civic Election is now open.  If you didn't know about the election, you are probably not alone.  If my newsfeed is any indication, Vancouverites know way more about Toronto’s mayoral candidates and recent election than our own.  This is not a new phenomenon.  In Vancouver’s last civic election, voter turnout was abysmally low at 34.6 per cent.  That is even worse than the turnout for our last provincial and federal elections at 58 per cent and 61.1 per cent respectively.