This record covers Christopher Lee (李基鵬), ballot number 325 for the Vancouver School Board with OneCity. Most of what is known comes from the party and the candidate's own campaign site. One independent item exists: Lee was one of seven candidates named in a court application over the use of Chinese characters on the ballot.
1 upcoming public event were found in the sources checked on September 22, 2026. An event being scheduled does not mean this candidate will attend. Attendance is marked separately.
Checked September 22, 2026 · All event times are Vancouver local time. Recheck the organizer before travelling.
Attendance is identified for each event. Unconfirmed listings are not confirmed candidate appearances.
6 to 9 pm
Public forumAttendance unconfirmed
All Candidates Meeting: Park Board and School Board
Britannia Community Services Centre, Gym D, Vancouver
The listing names the Grandview Woodland Area Council as organiser and says the meeting covers the Park Board and School Board races. It names no individual candidates, so attendance is not confirmed.
A public meeting for candidates running for Park Board and School Board, listed by Women Transforming Cities in a roundup of Vancouver election debates published on September 17, 2026.
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01 / Introduction
About Christopher Lee (李基鵬)
Christopher Lee (李基鵬) appears on the City of Vancouver's final 2026 candidate list for School Board, with ballot number 325. The City records the affiliation as OneCity.
The campaign says Lee founded the Helping Hearts Youth Foundation and brought together thousands of Vancouver students around food security and education.
Lee appears at ballot number 325 in the School Board race as a OneCity candidate, with the Chinese characters 李基鵬 beside the name, in the ballot order Daily Hive published on September 22, 2026.
The Wikipedia page for the 2026 Vancouver municipal election lists Lee among OneCity's five School Board candidates and describes the candidate as the founder of the Helping Hearts Youth Foundation.
The OneCity candidate page says Lee founded the Helping Hearts Youth Foundation and organised Vancouver students around food security and education.
The campaign site says Lee leads Helping Hearts, which it describes as running 35 secondary school clubs across British Columbia, five of them in Vancouver School Board schools.
The campaign site says Lee received the Medal of Good Citizenship and calls it the province's second-highest honour, awarded to one of the youngest recipients. No provincial record confirming this was opened, so it stands as the campaign's claim.
The VoteMate profile, filled in by the campaign, says Lee draws on five years of youth engagement work and wants student voices heard in board discussions.
The Georgia Straight, reporting OneCity's slate on May 11, 2026, named Lee as the founder of what it called the Helping Hands Youth Foundation. Daily Hive, reporting the same slate on May 12, 2026, named Lee without describing the role.
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.
5 commitments shown · Checked Sep 22
2026 · Student supportCampaign pledge
More counsellors and support staff in schools
The campaign site says Lee would hire more counsellors and support staff, bring back and widen specialised programs, strengthen school food programs, and send resources first to the students who need them most.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The campaign site sets out the aim. It gives no staffing number, no cost and no source of money, and most school funding is decided by the province.
What still needs checking
How many counsellors the district has now, and what an increase would cost against the district's budget.
The campaign site says every full-time school district worker, from education assistants to custodial staff, should earn enough to live in Vancouver.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The campaign site states the aim. Wages for these staff are set through collective agreements, and the page does not say how a trustee would change them.
What still needs checking
Which bargaining units this covers and when their agreements expire.
The campaign site says Lee would expand low-cost childcare by using school district property and partnering with community organisations, treating childcare as public infrastructure.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The campaign site states the aim without naming a site or a number of spaces. OneCity's platform page makes a matching claim for the party, saying the School Board can open thousands of affordable childcare spaces.
What still needs checking
Which school sites have space, and how many childcare spaces the district has opened in the past four years.
The VoteMate profile says Lee wants student voices heard in board decisions, and says Vancouver students deserve quality programs, strong resources and well-maintained buildings.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The profile states the aim. It proposes no specific change to how the board takes student input.
What still needs checking
Whether Lee would change the student trustee role or add another channel for student input.
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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.
Campaign dispute
Court application over Chinese characters on the ballot
Vancouver's chief election officer and city clerk, Jason Twa, filed an application in B.C. Provincial Court asking whether seven candidates could put Chinese characters in their ballot names, on the question of what counts as a candidate's usual name under the Vancouver Charter. Lee was one of the seven, alongside Lenny Zhou, Iona Bonamis, Lorraine Lowe, Shirley Sio, Alfred Chien and Chris Qiu. The application was about the form of the name and made no allegation against any candidate.
Candidate or party response
No published response from Lee was found.
Verified status and limits
CTV News reported on September 19, 2026 under the headline that Vancouver candidates won the right to include Chinese characters on the ballot. The ballot order Daily Hive published on September 22, 2026 shows Lee's name with the characters 李基鵬.
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Reporting
The Georgia Straight
OneCity Vancouver announces council, school board, and park board candidates
Reported OneCity's slate and listed Lee among five School Board candidates, describing the candidate as the founder of a youth foundation. The article carries no quotation from Lee.
OneCity confirms 13 candidates for Vancouver civic election, including Frances Bula
Reported the same slate and named Lee among the five School Board candidates. The only quotation is from OneCity's mayoral candidate about the slate as a whole.
City of Vancouver goes to court Sept. 16 over Chinese candidate name controversy
Reported that Vancouver's chief election officer had asked a court to rule on whether seven candidates could use Chinese characters in their ballot names. Lee is named as one of the seven.
Sources checked September 22, 2026. Official records establish decisions; campaign material establishes stated positions; reporting adds investigation and context. None alone establishes every claim.
The Medal of Good Citizenship award could not be confirmed. The B.C. government pages that would list recipients returned errors or were not found, and no news report naming a Christopher Lee as a recipient was opened. Two sources disagree on the organisation's name: the campaign site and the OneCity page say Helping Hearts Youth Foundation, while the Georgia Straight wrote Helping Hands Youth Foundation. The domain helpingheartsyouth.org loads only a placeholder page, so the club and student figures on the campaign site could not be checked. The full text of the CTV News report on the court ruling could not be read, so the record here rests on that headline plus the ballot list.
Research status
What voche.me has checked
Evidence reviewed on September 22, 2026: Current campaign material; biographical claims require corroboration.
Campaign page read on September 22, 2026. 1 stated position and 1 background fact recorded here, each checked against a quotation from that page.
Checks still to do: Verify the organization and project results; preserve the Chinese name shown on the ballot.
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 and has not been confirmed by an independent source.
03 / Background
Experience & community
About five years, dates not given
Founder and leader, Helping Hearts Youth Foundation
The OneCity page and the campaign site say Lee founded and leads this youth organisation, which the campaign site describes as running 35 secondary school clubs in British Columbia, five of them in Vancouver School Board schools. The organisation's own website was reachable but carried only a placeholder notice, so none of these figures could be checked against it.
