Blair Coleman, ballot number 309 for School Board in Vancouver, TrueBlue Vancouver. The party describes Coleman as focused on public safety, park maintenance and public transit access, and has published no biography.
Blair Coleman is a Vancouver School Board candidate running with TrueBlue Vancouver at ballot number 309. The party publishes no biography for this candidate, so this record covers the official ballot listing, the party's one-line description of the candidate and the party platform.
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.
Schools and student support1/10
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A position in the candidate’s own words
Party platform; candidate not quoted. TrueBlue Vancouver publishes 1 commitment on this issue.
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Names a mechanism the office controls
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
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States a measurable target
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
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States a cost or funding source
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
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States a timeline
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
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A dated, sourced action on the issue
No dated public action on this issue found.
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Answered the voche.me question on the issue
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
TrueBlue Vancouver’s platform on schools: 1 commitment, none 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.
No position found by voche.me as of October 4, 2026.
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Names a mechanism the office controls
No statement to read.
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States a cost or funding source
No statement to read.
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States a timeline
No statement to read.
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A dated, sourced action on the issue
No dated public action on this issue found.
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Answered the voche.me question on the issue
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.
Party platform; candidate not quoted. TrueBlue Vancouver publishes 2 commitments on this issue.
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Names a mechanism the office controls
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
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States a measurable target
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
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States a cost or funding source
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
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States a timeline
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
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A dated, sourced action on the issue
No dated public action on this issue found.
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Answered the voche.me question on the issue
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
TrueBlue Vancouver’s platform on taxes and budget: 2 commitments, 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.
Party platform; candidate not quoted. TrueBlue Vancouver publishes 1 commitment on this issue.
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Names a mechanism the office controls
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
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States a measurable target
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
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States a cost or funding source
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
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States a timeline
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
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A dated, sourced action on the issue
No dated public action on this issue found.
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Answered the voche.me question on the issue
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
TrueBlue Vancouver’s platform on public safety: 1 commitment, 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.
No position found by voche.me as of October 4, 2026.
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Names a mechanism the office controls
No statement to read.
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States a measurable target
No statement to read.
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States a cost or funding source
No statement to read.
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States a timeline
No statement to read.
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A dated, sourced action on the issue
No dated public action on this issue found.
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Answered the voche.me question on the issue
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
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.
On dates without a confirmed appearance the public schedule is unknown; the candidate may still have activities that day. This static page changes only when its research is updated.
01 / Introduction
About Blair Coleman
Blair Coleman appears on the City of Vancouver's final 2026 candidate list for School Board, with ballot number 309. The City records the affiliation as TrueBlue Vancouver. The City's list, read on October 4, 2026, gives no social media accounts for Coleman.
The party's home page lists Coleman as one of four TrueBlue candidates for the Vancouver Board of Education. The party said on Instagram on September 16, 2026 that one of those four, Jason Xu, had withdrawn. The City's list, read on October 4, 2026, shows three TrueBlue Vancouver candidates for School Board: Travers Fenton, Blair Coleman and Naomi Chocyk.
The TrueBlue Vancouver home page lists Blair Coleman under School Board with a single line saying TrueBlue candidate for Vancouver's 2026 Board of Education election. No biography, work history or education is given, and the party site has no separate page for any individual candidate.
On September 5, 2026 the party's Instagram account introduced Coleman as "Focused on public safety, neighborhood park maintenance, and expanded public transit access." The post said the party would introduce each candidate in more detail in the weeks ahead. The party's six most recent Instagram posts, read on October 4, 2026, include no longer introduction of Coleman.
Coleman appears on the October 17, 2026 ballot at number 309, listed with TrueBlue Vancouver.
TrueBlue Vancouver's about page, read on October 4, 2026, says the party is in formation, is not yet registered as an elector organization with Elections BC, and is not linked to any federal or provincial party. Elections BC's own register, dated October 3, 2026, lists TrueBlue Vancouver as a registered elector organization for Vancouver and the Vancouver School District, and an Elections BC news page gives August 4, 2026 as its registration date.
A web search for the candidate's name alone returns people in other cities and fields, including a bankruptcy trustee and an Instagram account, none confirmed to be this candidate. voche.me did not use anything from those results.
voche.me assembled this profile from the official candidate list and the campaign material linked under Sources. The campaign has not been contacted, and no candidate-supplied content appears on this page.
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.
14 commitments shown · Checked Oct 4
2026 · Public safetyCampaign pledge
Public safety
The party introduced Coleman on Instagram on September 5, 2026 as focused on public safety.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
This is the party's one-line description of the candidate, posted on the party's own account, with no words from Coleman. The post speaks of work at City Hall. It names no number, cost or date. The post does not mention schools, and policing in the city is run by the Vancouver Police Department under a budget set by Council, so this sits outside a school trustee's own power.
What still needs checking
Whether Coleman means safety in schools, which the Board does set policy on, and what change Coleman would propose.
The party introduced Coleman on Instagram on September 5, 2026 as focused on neighbourhood park maintenance.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
This is the party's one-line description of the candidate, posted on the party's own account, with no words from Coleman. The post speaks of work at City Hall. It names no number, cost or date. Vancouver's parks are run by the Park Board, a separate elected body, so this sits outside a school trustee's own power.
What still needs checking
Whether Coleman means school grounds and fields, which the Board does control, and which sites would get work.
The party introduced Coleman on Instagram on September 5, 2026 as focused on expanded public transit access.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
This is the party's one-line description of the candidate, posted on the party's own account, with no words from Coleman. The post speaks of work at City Hall. It names no number, cost or date. Public transit in Metro Vancouver is run by TransLink, so this sits outside a school trustee's own power.
What still needs checking
What change to transit access Coleman would ask for, and from which body.
The party's platform lists a school commitment called Bullying & Bigotry: enforce strong rules against bullying, threats and harassment, and apply the same standards to every student.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
This is one of six named school commitments in the party's full platform, also shown on Coleman's VoteMate profile labelled as a TrueBlue promise, not Coleman's own words. It names no number of incidents, no cost and no date.
What still needs checking
Whether Coleman would change how the district enforces its current code of conduct, and what would count as success.
The party's platform lists a school commitment called Indigenous Schooling: teach accurate Canadian and Indigenous history, end mandatory land acknowledgements and reject collective guilt.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Party platform text, also shown on Coleman's VoteMate profile as a TrueBlue promise. It names no curriculum change, no cost and no date.
What still needs checking
What specific change to the curriculum or to land acknowledgement practice Coleman would ask the Board to make.
The party's platform lists a school commitment called Media Literacy & Critical Thinking: teach students to question sources, examine evidence, recognize misinformation and debate different viewpoints respectfully.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Party platform text, also shown on Coleman's VoteMate profile as a TrueBlue promise. It names no grade level, course or cost.
What still needs checking
Which grades or courses would carry this, and what it would cost.
The party's platform lists a school commitment called Neurodivergent Students & Support: provide practical classroom supports and learning accommodations based on each student's individual educational needs.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Party platform text, also shown on Coleman's VoteMate profile as a TrueBlue promise. It names no staffing number, no cost and no date.
What still needs checking
How many new support positions or spaces this would add, and how it would be paid for.
The party's platform lists a commitment called Mental Health in Schools: focus school mental health resources on practical counselling and student wellbeing while keeping parents informed and involved.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Party platform text, in chapter 5 of the full platform and on Coleman's VoteMate profile labelled as a TrueBlue promise, with no words from Coleman. It names no number of counsellors, no cost and no date.
What still needs checking
How many counselling positions or hours the party wants, and how the district would pay for them.
Priority 8 of the party platform is Better Schools & Parental Involvement: promote safe schools, practical student supports, critical thinking and parental involvement, while supporting police liaison programs and giving students ways to take part in school issues.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
This priority appears on the party's home page and platform page as a one-paragraph summary of the six named school commitments. It names no candidate.
What still needs checking
Which of these items the party or Coleman would act on first, and at what cost.
The party's platform lists a school commitment called Police in Schools: support police liaison programs in Vancouver schools to improve safety, build relationships, and respond to violence, gangs, weapons and serious threats.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Party platform text, also shown on Coleman's VoteMate profile as a TrueBlue promise. It names no number of schools, no cost, no date, and does not say whether the Board or the Vancouver Police Department would pay for it.
What still needs checking
Which schools would get a liaison officer, and who would pay for it.
Priority 3 of the party platform is Safe Streets & Strong Policing: support properly funded police, address repeat crime and serious public disorder, and keep Vancouver's streets and public spaces safe.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
This is a general city policing commitment on the party's home and platform pages. The city's police budget is approved by Council, not the Board of Education, so beyond the school liaison program listed separately above, this sits outside a school trustee's own power.
What still needs checking
Whether the party publishes a police budget figure for its council candidates to run on.
The party's platform lists a school commitment called Student Involvement & Engagement: give students meaningful ways to comment on school issues while keeping elected trustees accountable to parents and voters.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Party platform text, also shown on Coleman's VoteMate profile as a TrueBlue promise. It names no specific consultation process, meeting rule or reporting change.
What still needs checking
What form of student input the party wants the Board to set up, and how trustees would be held to it.
Priority 9 of the party platform is Accountable & Transparent City Hall: publish clear information about City spending, hold elected officials and departments accountable, and give residents a stronger voice before major decisions are made.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
This commitment names City Hall and City departments specifically. The Board of Education is a separate elected body with its own meeting rules and reporting, so this sits outside a school trustee's own power.
What still needs checking
Whether the party publishes a matching transparency commitment for the Board of Education itself.
Priority 2 of the party platform is Lower Taxes & Responsible Spending: control property-tax increases, audit City Hall spending, and cut wasteful programs and bureaucracy so taxpayer dollars are focused on essential municipal services.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Property tax is set by Council, and this commitment names City Hall spending specifically, not the school district's own operating and capital budgets. This sits outside a school trustee's own power.
What still needs checking
Whether the party publishes a separate spending or budget commitment specific to the school district.
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No reviewed entries have been added to this section yet. This is a research gap, not a finding about the candidate.
Recent appearances / Read and watch
Talks, interviews & statements
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Accountability / Findings, disputes and responses
Controversies & public scrutiny
Records are labelled by type, including official findings, civil proceedings and political disputes where applicable. Each entry identifies the response found in the sources and the latest status verified for this page.
No reviewed entries have been added to this section yet. This is a research gap, not a finding about the candidate.
News coverage / Original publishers
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Reporting
Daily Hive
Vancouver's 2026 civic election candidate list is set: All 130 names in ballot order
Full ballot listing for October 17. Coleman appears at number 309 with TrueBlue Vancouver. The article names the candidate and the party and gives no other detail.
Sources checked October 4, 2026. Official records establish decisions; campaign material establishes stated positions; reporting adds investigation and context. None alone establishes every claim.
For Our Kids Vancouver and PACES Vancouver · September 25, 2026
No biography, work history, education, interview, questionnaire answer or personal statement in Coleman's own words was found by voche.me on October 4, 2026. VoteMate still shows only the party platform and says Coleman has not added a biography. The City's list gives no social media accounts for Coleman, and no personal campaign website was found. The party's September 5, 2026 Instagram post describes Coleman's focus in one line and says more detail would follow; no later introduction was found. The party's X and Facebook accounts need a login and were not read. The Griffins' Nest questionnaires of September 22 and 28, 2026 list neither Coleman nor TrueBlue Vancouver, among either the candidates who answered or those who did not. A web search for the name alone returns a bankruptcy trustee, an Instagram account and a Facebook profile, none confirmed to be this candidate, so nothing from those results is recorded here. Whether Coleman will take part in the October 6 For Our Kids Vancouver and PACES Vancouver forum is not known. No public office is on record for Coleman, so no Board minutes apply, and no independent record of a vote, a motion or a dated public action by Coleman was found, so no program entry is recorded.
Research status
What voche.me has checked
Evidence reviewed on October 4, 2026: the City's School Board candidate list, Elections BC's register of elector organizations, the party's website, platform document and Instagram posts, VoteMate, two student newspaper questionnaires and a forum listing.
The ballot name, office, ballot number and party label come from the City's final candidate list. Everything described as party or campaign material is the party's own account and has not been confirmed by an independent source.
Checks still to do: a biography, statement, interview or questionnaire answer in the candidate's own words, and whether the candidate takes part in any public forum.
03 / Background
Experience & community
Background not supplied
Work, public service and community involvement will appear here when supplied. No experience has been added to this profile.
04 / Questions & answers
Questions for the candidate
Proposed questions for a future interview. They have not been sent to the candidate, and no answers have been supplied.
What relevant experience and three specific Board proposals should voters assess?
No response has been submitted.
How would you balance student learning support, facilities and staffing within the district’s available funding?
No response has been submitted.
Have your own question?
Ask Blair Coleman directly. We send it to the campaign, and publish the reply here if we get one.
05 / About this page
Questions about this page
Facts voche.me can state about Blair Coleman's page itself, answered directly rather than left blank.
Is this an official page for Blair Coleman?
No. This page is researched by voche.me from public sources, listed below, and is separate from Blair Coleman's own campaign.
What is Blair Coleman's ballot number for the 2026 Vancouver election?
Blair Coleman is number 309 on the City of Vancouver's official 2026 ballot for School Board.
What party did Blair Coleman run with?
Blair Coleman ran for School Board with TrueBlue Vancouver.
Does Blair Coleman currently hold public office?
Not according to this profile. voche.me has not listed a current public office for Blair Coleman.
How many sources does this Blair Coleman profile cite?
This profile lists 2 sourced references, each with the date voche.me checked it, in the Sources section below.
Has Blair Coleman filed nomination papers for the 2026 election?
voche.me has not yet added a nomination record for Blair Coleman. This does not mean no nomination paper was filed, only that voche.me has not completed that research yet.
Why do some questions on Blair Coleman's page show no answer?
The "Questions & answers" section on this page lists questions voche.me would put to Blair Coleman in a future interview. They have not been sent yet, so the page says plainly that no answer has been supplied instead of leaving the section blank.
When was the election Blair Coleman ran in?
The 2026 Vancouver municipal election, including the School Board race, was decided on October 17, 2026.
06 / Candidate contributions
Space for campaign updates
Added the party's introduction of Coleman, the party's registration, a missed school commitment and an October 6 forum
Read the City's School Board candidate list through a reader service, because the City's site blocks automated reads. It lists COLEMAN, Blair at number 309 for TrueBlue Vancouver, with no social media accounts. Added the party's September 5 Instagram post that describes Coleman as focused on public safety, neighbourhood park maintenance and expanded public transit access, as a priority and three party commitments with no words from Coleman; all three are outside the Board of Education's powers. Added the party's Mental Health in Schools commitment, which is in the party's full platform and on Coleman's VoteMate profile and was missed on September 26. Elections BC's register of elector organizations, dated October 3, 2026, lists TrueBlue Vancouver as registered for Vancouver and the Vancouver School District, with an August 4, 2026 registration date on an Elections BC news page; the biography now gives that beside the party's about page, which still says the party is not yet registered. Replaced the line saying the party runs four School Board candidates: the party announced on September 16 that Jason Xu had withdrawn, and the City lists three. Removed the word first-time from the introduction because no source shows it. Added the For Our Kids Vancouver and PACES Vancouver online forum on October 6 as unconfirmed, because the organizers name no candidate. Removed the October 3 advance voting day from the calendar because that date has passed. The Griffins' Nest questionnaires of September 22 and 28 do not name Coleman or TrueBlue Vancouver.
Read the party's home, platform and about pages, the full platform document, Coleman's VoteMate profile and the party's page on VoteMate, and a web search for independent reporting. Confirmed the party site has no page for any individual candidate: its sitemap lists only the home, platform, about, donate, volunteer and contact pages, and /candidates and a guessed candidate URL both return a not-found page. VoteMate's own note says Coleman has not added a biography, and no personal website or campaign social account was found; a web search on the name alone returns unrelated people in other cities, none confirmed to be this candidate. Split the party's six named school commitments and its taxes, safety and governance priorities into separate, issue-tagged commitments, all party text with no quote from Coleman found anywhere. No dated public action, interview or personal statement by Coleman was found.
