OneBC candidate for MLA in Penticton-Summerland, who ran for the Conservative Party of BC leadership until April 12, 2026.
Warren Hamm is the OneBC candidate in Penticton-Summerland, one of four candidates on the Elections BC list stamped October 3, 2026. He entered the race to lead the Conservative Party of BC in December 2025 and withdrew on April 12, 2026, saying he would support Yuri Fulmer. His OneBC page describes him as a contractor, licensed aircraft maintenance engineer and small-business owner, and says his message is to cut the red tape. In January 2023 the Supreme Court of British Columbia ruled for four companies, all linked to him, in a dispute with the City of Rossland over tree removal permits. voche.me found no public office held by him on 2026-10-03.
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A researched record of Warren Hamm's OneBC candidacy in Penticton-Summerland, his 2025 to 2026 run for the Conservative Party of BC leadership, a 2023 court ruling that names him as a leading person behind four companies, the statements on his OneBC page, and the OneBC plan. voche.me found no public office held by him, and so no voting record to review, on 2026-10-03.
No public appearance by the candidate was confirmed on 2026-10-03. The two voting dates come from Elections BC.
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Elections BC lists Warren Hamm as the OneBC candidate in Penticton-Summerland. The other three accepted candidates in the district on the copy stamped October 3, 2026 at 2:00 p.m. are Bradley Sean Bartsch (BC Green Party), Tina Lee (BC NDP) and Tracy St Claire (Conservative Party). The Penticton Western News reported on October 3, 2026 that Hamm has not previously run for office in the riding, and that the incumbent, Amelia Boultbee, said the week before that she would not seek re-election. The Western Standard reported on September 17, 2026 that OneBC had named him.
In December 2025 the Rossland Telegraph reported a press release saying he would seek the leadership of the Conservative Party of BC. The release says he was the first to announce a candidacy after John Rustad's resignation, and Castlegar News reports the same. On April 12, 2026 he withdrew and said in a post on X that he was supporting Yuri Fulmer. Castlegar News reports that he also replied to a post saying he might consider running as an MLA.
On his OneBC page he says he is a contractor, licensed aircraft maintenance engineer and small-business owner with more than 30 years of experience in aviation, construction, resources and emergency response, including helicopter maintenance that supported firefighting. He says he was born in Vancouver, raised in the Cariboo and lived more than 25 years in the West Kootenay before moving to the South Okanagan.
The Supreme Court of British Columbia decision of January 16, 2023, Hammer Head Equities Inc. v. Rossland (City), says four petitioner companies share a common principal, Warren Hamm, meaning a leading person behind them. The court ordered the City of Rossland to grant their four tree removal permits. The entry under accountability gives the details and the City's response.
voche.me has not confirmed his aircraft maintenance licence or his business history with the bodies that would know. voche.me has not contacted the campaign.
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His OneBC page says his message is to cut the red tape, get government out of the way and put builders in charge of getting British Columbia moving again.
His OneBC page says he believes British Columbia needs to get back to building more homes.
His OneBC page says British Columbia needs a resource economy that creates opportunity and prosperity.
OneBC's plan lists: an audit of British Columbia's more than 176,000 regulations to reduce bureaucratic bloat.
OneBC's plan lists: a 25 percent tax cut for every tax bracket, including corporate tax.
OneBC's plan lists: 2 percentage points off the provincial sales tax.
OneBC's plan lists: balanced budgets within 4 years, with part of later surpluses used to pay down debt.
OneBC's plan lists: eliminate the Step Code, which the plan says raises housing costs with green building requirements it calls unnecessary.
OneBC's plan lists: block municipal rent control programs, which the plan says discourage new rental homes.
OneBC's plan lists: increase the yearly allowable cut of timber, lower stumpage fees (the fees companies pay to cut timber on public land) and speed up permit approvals for the forest industry.
OneBC's plan lists: approve a pipeline to the Port of Prince Rupert or Kitimat to move Canadian energy to foreign markets.
OneBC's plan lists: private health care alongside fully funded public health care, and moving administration spending to frontline workers.
OneBC's plan lists: bring back standardized testing in reading, writing and mathematics, remove SOGI 123 material from classrooms, and adopt a Parental Bill of Rights.
OneBC's plan lists: eliminate safe supply and drug consumption programs, roll back decriminalization, and provide involuntary treatment and housing for people with severe addiction.
OneBC's plan lists: repeal DRIPA, and declare UNDRIP to have no force and effect in BC. The plan uses these short names and does not spell them out.
His work history comes from his own OneBC page. The dated public record found on 2026-10-03 is his leadership run and the 2023 court ruling, and neither is a vote or a public action in office, so no entry earns a score.
The Rossland Telegraph reported a press release saying Warren Hamm would seek the leadership of the Conservative Party of BC. The release says he was the first to announce after John Rustad's resignation, and Castlegar News reports the same.
The date is the day the Rossland Telegraph published the report. A party leadership race is no public office, so this entry earns no score.
Castlegar News and Voice Online report that he withdrew on April 12, 2026 and said he was supporting Yuri Fulmer. Castlegar News reports that the race had five candidates left, and that he replied to a post saying he might consider running as an MLA.
His reason is the one he gave in his post, quoted under talks. A party leadership race is no public office, so this entry earns no score.
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The Rossland Telegraph quotes his release as saying British Columbia needs a team builder who can unite people around practical solutions, and a government that works for the people who actually build the province. The release is the campaign's own account, and the Telegraph reports that he could not be reached for comment that day.
Castlegar News and Voice Online quote his post: "BC needs real change" and leaders who understand business, budgets and results. The post says Fulmer is the only other builder in the race.
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Four companies (Hammer Head Equities Inc., 0897306 BC Ltd., 0708752 BC Ltd. and Rock Cut Neighborhood Pub Ltd.) asked the Supreme Court of British Columbia to review the City of Rossland's August 9, 2021 refusal of their development permits for tree removal. The court says the four share a common principal, Warren Hamm. It says none of the proposed tree removals was linked to any imminent building project. In a sworn statement summarized by the court, Hamm said much of the timber on one parcel was dead or dying and that he had hired a professional forester. The court says the Council's doubts about the logging motivated its refusals, and that it ruled on whether the City reasonably applied its own community plan and its duties of good faith and fairness. On January 16, 2023, Justice Lyster found the refusals unreasonable and found that the City acted in bad faith, because it refused the permits and then adopted a new tree bylaw that would have stopped the work had the refusals been overturned.
In March 2023 the City of Rossland said it accepted the decision and would not appeal. It said its Mayor, Andy Morel, had noted that Council believed refusing the permits was in the community's best interest, to protect natural resources for future generations, and that the bad faith finding was made under the legal rules that govern government decisions. voche.me found no published statement from Hamm about the case.
The court set aside the four refusals, ordered the City to grant the four permits, and ruled that the earlier tree bylaw governs the work for 24 months. It said the companies were entitled to their court costs and could ask for a hearing on extra costs. voche.me found no later decision on extra costs on 2026-10-03. The bad faith finding applies to the City.
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Lists the four candidates on the ballot, says Hamm has not previously run for office in the riding, and says incumbent Amelia Boultbee announced she would not seek re-election.
The subtitle calls him a former Conservative leadership candidate who once backed a pact to stop the right from splitting. The body of the article did not load for voche.me, so the pact is not described here.
Reports that he left the race, quotes his post backing Yuri Fulmer, and says he replied to a post saying he might consider running as an MLA.
Reports his withdrawal on April 12, 2026 and quotes his post on X.
Reports the press release announcing his leadership run and quotes it.
Publishes the City's statement that it accepts the court decision about the five lawsuits brought by four companies it describes as associated with Warren Hamm.
Sources checked October 3, 2026. Official records establish decisions; campaign material establishes stated positions; reporting adds investigation and context. None alone establishes every claim.
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Supreme Court of British Columbia · January 16, 2023
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Penticton Western News · Logan Lockhart · October 3, 2026
Western Standard · Alex Zoltan · September 17, 2026
Rossland Telegraph (reporting a campaign press release) · December 11, 2025
Castlegar News · Jim Bailey · April 13, 2026
Voice Online · April 12, 2026
City of Rossland, published by the Rossland Telegraph · March 4, 2023
No campaign website was found. The domains warrenhamm.ca and warrenhamm.com answer with a placeholder page that names no candidate, so voche.me used nothing from them. OneBC's pages link to no social media account of his. News reports quote posts on his X account but give no address, so voche.me used those posts only as quoted. The name search tool hit its usage limit, so the name search used Google News results, a Bing page that returned only unrelated results, and each of the Rossland Telegraph, Castlegar News, Voice Online and Western Standard site searches. The body of the Western Standard article of September 17, 2026 did not load. Castanet, CBC and CTV pages returned no readable text, so voche.me used nothing from them. A My Kootenay Now headline of October 24, 2025 about a settled lawsuit against Rossland politicians appeared in a name search. voche.me could not open it and found nothing tying it to him, so it is not used. His aircraft maintenance licence, his companies and his claim to have been the first to declare for the Conservative leadership were not checked with the licensing body, the BC Registry or the party. His positions beyond the OneBC plan, all-candidates meetings in the district, campaign finances and endorsements were not found on this date. The Elections BC list closed to new nominations at 1 p.m. on October 3, 2026.
Evidence reviewed on 2026-10-03: the Elections BC candidate list, Elections BC's page of key dates, OneBC's page on him, its candidates and plan pages, reporting from the Penticton Western News, the Western Standard, Castlegar News, Voice Online and the Rossland Telegraph, and the text of the Supreme Court of British Columbia decision of January 16, 2023.
No campaign website or social media account of his was found. News reports quote posts on his X account, and voche.me used those only through the reports. The statements on his OneBC page are his campaign's own, and the party's plan page does not name him, so its pledges are listed as the party's. The body of the Western Standard article of September 17, 2026 did not load, so only its headline and subtitle were read. An empty section records what voche.me did not find on this date.
Listed by Elections BC with the affiliation OneBC. The Western Standard reported on September 17, 2026 that OneBC named him.
Elections BC candidate listAnnounced in December 2025 by a press release reported by the Rossland Telegraph. He withdrew on April 12, 2026 and said he was supporting Yuri Fulmer, according to Castlegar News and Voice Online.
Castlegar NewsHis OneBC page says he is a contractor, licensed aircraft maintenance engineer and small-business owner with more than 30 years in aviation, construction, resources and emergency response. voche.me has not confirmed the licence or the business history.
OneBC candidate pageThe Supreme Court of British Columbia decision of January 16, 2023 says four companies that sought tree removal permits from the City of Rossland share a common principal, Warren Hamm.
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Warren Hamm is running for MLA with OneBC.
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