Vote Vancouver candidate for the School Board, ballot number 319.
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Amarys Joseph, ballot number 319 for School Board in Vancouver, Vote Vancouver. Profile focus: School-based childcare and service coordination.
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This record covers what Vote Vancouver's campaign pages say about Amarys Joseph, the party platform items that touch the School Board, the VoteMate profile, the small amount of independent reporting that names Joseph as a candidate, and three independent pages not written for the campaign that confirm or test parts of Joseph's stated background: Surfrider Vancouver's team page, the Vancouver Community College Faculty Association's own newsletter, and a 2018 LinkedIn post signed by Joseph. Each item names its source.
The score counts how complete and checkable the published plan on this issue is. Whether the plan would work is a separate question, left to the reader. Measured October 4, 2026. The same seven points apply to every candidate for this office.
“to shape the way education services are delivered in Vancouver”
Stated by the candidate.
Candidate page, Amarys Joseph“Restore accessible school programs that have been lost in recent years, particularly the Britannia Hockey Academy”
Stated by the candidate.
Candidates' Questionnaire Week 1: Meet Your School Board Candidates, And Find Out Why They're RunningNo number for what would exist or change.
No cost or funding source.
No date or term milestone.
No dated public action on this issue found.
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
Vote Vancouver’s platform on schools: 5 commitments, at least one with a number. Party text earns the candidate the position point only.
What this office controls. The Board of Education runs Vancouver public schools, sets catchment boundaries and approves the district budget. Teacher pay and the provincial funding formula are set by the province.
Every School Board candidate on schools, scored the same way
No position found by voche.me as of October 4, 2026.
No statement to read.
No statement to read.
No statement to read.
No statement to read.
No dated public action on this issue found.
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
What this office controls. Council, the Park Board and the Board of Education each set their own meeting rules, committees, public consultation and reporting. The Vancouver Charter and the School Act create the three bodies and set their powers, and only the Province can change those acts.
Every School Board candidate on governance, scored the same way
Party platform; candidate not quoted. Vote Vancouver publishes 1 commitment on this issue.
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
No dated public action on this issue found.
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
Vote Vancouver’s platform on taxes and budget: 1 commitment, none with a number. Party text earns the candidate the position point only.
What this office controls. The Board of Education approves the school district’s operating and capital budgets. The Province sets the funding formula and the school tax.
Every School Board candidate on taxes and budget, scored the same way
Party platform; candidate not quoted. Vote Vancouver publishes 4 commitments on this issue.
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
No dated public action on this issue found.
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
Vote Vancouver’s platform on public safety: 4 commitments, none with a number. Party text earns the candidate the position point only.
What this office controls. The Board of Education sets safety policies for its schools and decides whether police liaison officers work in them. Policing itself is the Vancouver Police Department’s.
Every School Board candidate on public safety, scored the same way
“she’ll advocate for families who need reliable, affordable daycare”
Stated by the candidate.
Candidate page, Amarys Joseph“Expand child care and before- and after-school care on VSB property”
Stated by the candidate.
Candidates' Questionnaire Week 1: Meet Your School Board Candidates, And Find Out Why They're RunningNo number for what would exist or change.
No cost or funding source.
No date or term milestone.
No dated public action on this issue found.
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
Vote Vancouver’s platform on child care: 1 commitment, none with a number. Party text earns the candidate the position point only.
What this office controls. The Board of Education decides how school buildings and land are used, including child care on school sites. Licensing and operating funding are provincial.
Every School Board candidate on child care, scored the same way
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No upcoming public appearance by Amarys Joseph is confirmed in the sources checked on October 4, 2026.
Checked October 4, 2026 · All event times are Vancouver local time. Recheck the organizer before travelling.
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Amarys Joseph appears on the City of Vancouver's final 2026 candidate list for School Board, with ballot number 319. The City records the affiliation as Vote Vancouver.
The campaign says Joseph works as an office manager in post-secondary education, managing staff, inventory and project planning. The campaign says Joseph has owned and run a business with product designs Joseph created, and has worked in legal administration and collective bargaining support. The campaign says Joseph chairs the Workers of Colour Caucus and is secretary on the board of directors for Surfrider.
The Vote Vancouver candidate page says Joseph works as an office manager in post-secondary education and has earlier experience in legal administration, in running a business with its own product design, and in supporting collective bargaining.
The same campaign page says Joseph chairs the Workers of Colour Caucus and is secretary on the board of directors of Surfrider.
Daily Hive reported on May 25, 2026 that Vote Vancouver named its first nine candidates and described Joseph as a post-secondary education manager and a Surfrider board member, running for school board.
Vote Vancouver's candidate list shows three school board candidates: Tasha Doucas, Amarys Joseph and Mandy Potter.
Surfrider Vancouver's own team page independently confirms the secretary role. It names Joseph as Secretary and carries a bio in her own words saying she currently works as an office manager for a teachers' union and has been an active Surfrider member for three years, taking part in shoreline cleanups. The page shows no date for when she joined the board.
The Vancouver Community College Faculty Association's fall 2023 letter to its members, published October 19, 2023, independently confirms the office manager role. It says the union hired Joseph to take over the office after the retirement of longtime staff member Audrey Vickaryous. This identifies the campaign's general "post-secondary education" description as work for a faculty union at Vancouver Community College, a detail the campaign page itself does not state.
A March 13, 2018 LinkedIn post signed by Amarys Joseph as "President & Founder" of Quinnie Clips independently confirms the campaign's account of running a business with a proprietary product design: a patented clip that holds back seatbelts on infant and convertible car seats. The company's website no longer resolves.
voche.me searched for the organization behind the "Workers of Colour Caucus" the campaign page names. The BC Federation of Labour publishes a differently named caucus, "Racial Equity and Justice," for workers who identify as people of colour, but its own page names two other people, not Joseph, as that caucus's representatives. No organization confirming Joseph's stated chair role was found.
Joseph appears on the October 17, 2026 school board ballot at number 319 for Vote Vancouver.
In her answer to The Griffins' Nest questionnaire of September 22, 2026, Joseph says she was born and raised in Vancouver, went to both private and public schools in the city, and graduated from Lord Byng Secondary. Her own volunteer bio on Surfrider Vancouver's team page says she holds diplomas in business administration, legal administration and paralegal studies from Vancouver Community College. voche.me has not checked either statement with the schools.
voche.me assembled this profile from the official candidate list, the campaign material linked under Sources, and material Joseph published herself outside the campaign: a Surfrider volunteer bio and a 2018 business post. The campaign itself has not been contacted.
Published positions and selected commitments, separated by election cycle. Status labels describe the evidence reviewed, not a numerical score or a complete audit of the platform. Council approval is different from delivery.
13 commitments shown · Checked Oct 4
Change how Vancouver delivers education services in its schools.
This is Vote Vancouver's position, given by mayoral candidate Rebecca Bligh: decisions the school board makes about technology in schools, including artificial intelligence tools, should be made in consultation with students, families and teachers.
The campaign says Joseph would speak for families who need daycare that is dependable and affordable.
This is Vote Vancouver's platform: expand childcare through additional municipal capital investment, use of City-owned and school facilities, and advocacy for provincial $10-a-day funding.
This is Vote Vancouver's platform: improve school nutrition, student mental-health supports, extracurricular access and school facilities in partnership with the Vancouver School Board and the provincial government.
This is Vote Vancouver's platform: provide a free transit pass to Vancouver residents under 18 through a 2027 pilot with TransLink.
Joseph wrote that she would restore low-cost school programs lost in recent years, naming the Britannia Hockey Academy, and that cost should not stop students from playing sport.
Joseph wrote that she would push for more school support assistants, because enrolment has grown faster than staffing, so that students with disabilities and different learning needs get steady, individual support in class.
Joseph wrote that the district should add child care and before- and after-school care on school property, by finding unused school space and working with the Province, the City and non-profit operators to pay for turning it into licensed child care.
Joseph wrote that she wants child care hours changed where they do not match parents' working hours, and that she hopes to end the lottery systems families use to get a space.
Joseph wrote that seismic upgrades should continue, with schools rated H1 first, and that the history of older schools should be kept where possible when they are renewed. H1 is a rating the district's capital plan uses for school buildings at high risk in an earthquake.
Joseph wrote that AI chatbots in classrooms should be paused until their effect on student learning is understood, that AI should support learning without replacing critical, creative or independent thinking, and that any later use should deal with privacy, environmental effects and academic honesty.
Joseph's VoteMate profile lists a Vote Vancouver promise to push for more provincial funding for school counsellors. This is party text with no candidate name on it.
Each entry below names its source. Campaign material is the candidate's own account. Nothing here is presented as a verified outcome unless the entry says so.
The Vancouver Community College Faculty Association's fall 2023 letter to its members told faculty the union had hired Joseph to take over the office, succeeding Audrey Vickaryous, who was retiring at the end of November 2023.
An independent record of the office manager role the campaign page describes only as post-secondary education work. It touches no issue scored for School Board.
A LinkedIn post signed "Amarys Joseph, President & Founder - Quinnie Clips" on March 13, 2018 describes a patented clip that holds back seatbelts on infant and convertible car seats.
An independent, dated record of the product-design business the campaign page describes without naming it. It touches no issue scored for School Board.
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In answers published by the Eric Hamber Secondary student newspaper, Joseph said she grew up in Vancouver and is running with Vote Vancouver. She listed four priorities: bring back low-cost school programs such as the Britannia Hockey Academy, add school support assistants for students with disabilities, add child care and before- and after-school care on school property, and continue seismic upgrades.
Joseph said AI tools are already part of schools through search engines and websites, and that AI chatbots in classrooms should be paused until their effect on learning is understood. She said AI can give wrong or biased answers, so students must learn to check it, and that any later use should deal with privacy, environmental effects and academic honesty.
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A dated reading list from independent publishers. The headings below are voche.me summaries; follow each link for the original article, context and any corrections.
Rebecca Bligh's new party named its first nine candidates. Joseph was the only school board candidate in that group and was described as a post-secondary education manager and Surfrider board member.
Katie Hyslop asked all seven Vancouver parties about artificial intelligence in schools and about data centres. Joseph is listed as one of Vote Vancouver's three trustee candidates. The party answer came from Rebecca Bligh.
The ballot for October 17, 2026 places Joseph at number 319 for school board under Vote Vancouver.
Sources checked October 4, 2026. Official records establish decisions; campaign material establishes stated positions; reporting adds investigation and context. None alone establishes every claim.
City of Vancouver
City of Vancouver
City of Vancouver
Vancouver School Board · June 24, 2024
Vote Vancouver
VoteMate
Vote Vancouver
Vote Vancouver · May 25, 2026
Vote Vancouver
Daily Hive · May 25, 2026
The Tyee · August 11, 2026
CityHallWatch · September 22, 2026
Daily Hive · September 22, 2026
Surfrider Vancouver
Vancouver Community College Faculty Association · October 19, 2023
Amarys Joseph, via LinkedIn · March 13, 2018
BC Federation of Labour
The Tyee · July 8, 2026
The Griffins' Nest (Eric Hamber Secondary student newspaper) · September 22, 2026
The Griffins' Nest (Eric Hamber Secondary student newspaper) · September 28, 2026
For Our Kids Vancouver and PACES Vancouver · September 25, 2026
voche.me could not identify the organization behind the "Workers of Colour Caucus" the campaign page says Joseph chairs. The BC Federation of Labour publishes a similarly themed caucus, "Racial Equity and Justice," for workers who identify as people of colour, but its own page names two other people as that caucus's representatives, not Joseph, and no organization using the exact name on the campaign page was found. Joseph's personal LinkedIn profile returned only a login wall to a direct read; a separate, self-authored 2018 LinkedIn post about her earlier business, Quinnie Clips, was readable without logging in and is used here instead. Surfrider Vancouver's own team page shows no date for when Joseph joined its board, so only the role, not its start date, is independently confirmed. Vote Vancouver has not published a school-board-specific section of its platform, so the school board commitments recorded here come from the candidate page and from CityHallWatch's summary of the party's wider platform. The candidate page's raw HTML was checked for a hidden caption of the kind found on running mates' pages; none exists for Joseph beyond the visible text and the label "FOR SCHOOL BOARD." Checked again on October 4, 2026: a new search found no organization named "Workers of Colour Caucus" that lists Joseph, so that claim is still unconfirmed. The October 6 For Our Kids Vancouver and PACES Vancouver forum invites all School Board candidates without naming who will attend. The City's candidate list shows no social media or contact route for her.
Evidence reviewed again on October 4, 2026: the campaign page, the VoteMate profile, the party's news page, Surfrider Vancouver's team page, the City's school trustee candidate list (read through a reader service, because the City's site refuses automated reads), The Griffins' Nest questionnaires of September 22 and 28, 2026, the For Our Kids Vancouver forum listing, a July 2026 Tyee report on the Britannia Hockey Academy and a 2024 Vancouver School Board capital plan report.
Evidence reviewed on September 26, 2026: the campaign page, the party's news and nomination pages, the VoteMate profile, the party's platform pages, a CityHallWatch summary of the party's platform, a Tyee report on AI in schools, two Daily Hive reports, and three independent pages not written for the campaign: Surfrider Vancouver's team page, the Vancouver Community College Faculty Association's own newsletter, and a 2018 LinkedIn post signed by Joseph.
Campaign material and the independent pages above were read on September 26, 2026. 2 stated positions in the candidate's own words and 3 independently confirmed background facts are recorded here, each checked against a quotation from the page it came from.
Checks still to do: identify the organization behind Joseph's stated "Workers of Colour Caucus" chair role, and ask for a cost, a number of child care spaces and a date for her child care and school support assistant positions.
The ballot name, office, ballot number and party label come from the City's final candidate list. Everything described as campaign material is the campaign's own account. The office manager role and the earlier Quinnie Clips business are now independently confirmed, as is the Surfrider secretary role; the Workers of Colour Caucus role has not been confirmed by any source found.
The campaign page lists staff management, inventory oversight and project planning as part of the work. The Vancouver Community College Faculty Association's own October 2023 newsletter names Joseph as the person hired to run its office, which independently identifies the employer as VCCFA, a faculty union representing teachers at Vancouver Community College.
Candidate page, Amarys JosephThe campaign page and Daily Hive both name this role. Daily Hive repeated the description supplied when the party announced its slate. Surfrider Vancouver's own team page independently confirms the secretary title and carries a bio in Joseph's own words about her volunteer work on shoreline cleanups.
Candidate page, Amarys JosephA patented product business making clips that hold back seatbelts on infant and convertible car seats. A LinkedIn post signed by Joseph as "President & Founder" on March 13, 2018 independently confirms the campaign's account of running a business with a proprietary product design. The company's website no longer resolves.
Candidate page, Amarys JosephJoseph's own volunteer bio on Surfrider Vancouver's team page says she holds these three diplomas from Vancouver Community College. This is her own statement; voche.me has not checked it with the college.
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Amarys Joseph is number 319 on the City of Vancouver's official 2026 ballot for School Board.
Amarys Joseph ran for School Board with Vote Vancouver.
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The 2026 Vancouver municipal election, including the School Board race, was decided on October 17, 2026.
Added her answers to The Griffins' Nest questionnaires of September 22 and 28, 2026, and six commitments taken from them: restoring lost school programs such as the Britannia Hockey Academy, more school support assistants, child care on school property, child care hours and lotteries, seismic upgrades, and a pause on AI chatbots in classrooms. Added a Vote Vancouver party promise on school counsellors that VoteMate now lists, her own statement of her college diplomas from her Surfrider bio, and an online forum on October 6. Removed the October 3 advance voting day from the calendar because that date has passed.
Read the updateThe campaign page describes Joseph's current work only as "office manager in post-secondary education." The Vancouver Community College Faculty Association's own October 2023 newsletter names Joseph as the person hired to run its office, identifying the specific employer. Surfrider Vancouver's own team page independently confirms the secretary role the campaign page states. A March 2018 LinkedIn post signed by Joseph as founder of Quinnie Clips independently confirms the campaign's account of a proprietary product-design business. voche.me could not confirm the campaign's separate claim that Joseph chairs a "Workers of Colour Caucus"; the BC Federation of Labour's similarly themed caucus names two different people as its representatives.
Read the updateA commitment describing childcare "through the school system" repeated the same advocacy position already recorded as "reliable and affordable daycare," so it was merged into that entry and removed as a duplicate. A separate commitment that combined a childcare item, a school-nutrition item and a free-transit item from CityHallWatch's platform summary into one pledge was split into three, each tagged to its own issue. Every remaining commitment is now tagged to the candidate's own words or the party's, and to the School Board issue it falls under.
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