Dan Fumano: 'Bridge-builder' launches bid to become Vancouver mayor

As a young girl, Shauna Sylvester had diverse career ambitions. She wanted to be either a nun or the prime minister.
She studied for a time, as a teenager, with nuns at a Vancouver convent, but didn’t pursue the calling. More recently, Sylvester’s been approached over the years about running for political office, either municipally or federally, but she didn’t.
And in the decades since she left the convent, Sylvester’s pursued other endeavours: She’s attended Cold W