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Mayor · Vancouver 2026

Colleen Hardwick

Candidate for Mayor of Vancouver.

Colleen Hardwick’s 2026 Vancouver mayoral profile: housing, safety and tax proposals, public appearances, interviews and nomination records.

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TEAM for a Livable Vancouver2026
Colleen Hardwick, from TEAM campaign.
Colleen HardwickMayorBallot no.50
Image: TEAM campaign
Candidate research / September 22, 2026

An editorial profile based on the sources linked below. Campaign proposals are distinguished from completed work. Missing evidence is identified explicitly.

10Commitments2Programs2News articles20Sources
Public schedule / Through election day

Where can you hear Colleen Hardwick?

The organizer confirms a September 23 appearance. Other days without a confirmed listing remain unknown.

Checked September 22, 2026 · All event times are Vancouver local time. Recheck the organizer before travelling.

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Sep 23

Public appearance confirmed

Metro Vancouver Alliance election assembly · 7 to 9 pm

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Public forums and announcements

Attendance is identified for each event. Unconfirmed listings are not confirmed candidate appearances.

7 to 9 pm
Public forumAttendance confirmed

Metro Vancouver Alliance election assembly

St. Andrew’s-Wesley United Church, 1022 Nelson St.

The organizer names this candidate as confirmed.

Housing and climate proposals will be discussed. Attendance does not establish agreement with each proposal.

7 pm
Public forumAttendance unconfirmed

Last Candidate Standing

York Theatre, 639 Commercial Dr.

All mayoral candidates are invited; individual participation has not been verified.

Consult the organizer for tickets, access arrangements and any changes.

Voting dates

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  • Election day

8 am to 8 pm at official Vancouver voting places. These dates apply to every voter and are not candidate appearances. Find your voting place

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01 / Introduction

About Colleen Hardwick

Colleen Hardwick served on Vancouver City Council from 2018 to 2022. The City lists her as TEAM’s mayoral candidate, number 50 on the 2026 ballot. She is the only 2026 candidate who also ran against Ken Sim for mayor in 2022.

She was born in Vancouver in 1958 and grew up in Kitsilano, where she still lives. Her father, Walter Hardwick, was a University of British Columbia geography professor and a Vancouver City Council member in the early 1970s. Her grandmother, Iris Hardwick, sat on the Park Board in the late 1950s. Her campaign biography lists a bachelor’s degree in geography and political science from UBC in 1983 and a master’s degree from UBC in 2011.

From the mid-1980s to 2000 she worked in film and television production and founded New City Productions. A later company, MovieSet Inc., raised venture capital and closed in 2011. In 2010 she founded PlaceSpeak, an online platform that lets local governments consult residents by where they live. The company received B Corporation certification in 2021.

She first ran for Council in 2005 with the Non-Partisan Association and placed thirteenth. In 2018 she ran with the NPA again and won a seat, placing fifth among council candidates. She left the NPA in April 2021 to sit as an independent and joined TEAM for a Livable Vancouver in September 2021. TEAM named her its mayoral candidate in March 2022. In the October 2022 election she placed third with 16,769 votes, 9.97% of the total.

In the April 5, 2025 Council by-election she ran for TEAM and placed third with 17,352 votes, 25.53%. She announced her 2026 mayoral run in April 2026. During her Council term she wrote an independent report that led to the creation of the City’s Auditor General office and voted against several major rezonings, according to a May 2026 Vancity Lookout interview. She is married to the actor Garry Chalk and has two daughters and two grandchildren.

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Promises / Commitments and evidence

Commitments and the available evidence.

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.

10 commitments shown · Checked Sep 22

2026 · HousingCampaign pledge

Replace the development plan

TEAM proposes replacing the Official Development Plan with neighbourhood plans.

Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Published campaign proposal; implementation has not been established.
What still needs checking
What housing capacity, infrastructure commitments and adoption dates would each replacement plan contain?
2026 · HousingCampaign pledge

Protect older rentals and expand co-ops

Proposes protecting existing rentals and supporting more co-operative housing.

Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Published campaign proposal; implementation has not been established.
What still needs checking
How many homes would be funded, on which sites, and under which tenant protections?
2026 · HousingCampaign pledge

Create a renters’ office

Would establish an office for renters.

Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Published campaign proposal; implementation has not been established.
What still needs checking
Publish its mandate, staffing, budget and authority.
2026 · HousingCampaign pledge

Simplify development permits

Would simplify permitting and renovation reviews.

Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Published campaign proposal; implementation has not been established.
What still needs checking
Publish service standards and safeguards, then measure actual processing times.
2026 · BudgetCampaign pledge

Limit tax increases to inflation

Proposes inflation-linked property-tax increases and a detailed spending review.

Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Published campaign proposal; implementation has not been established.
What still needs checking
What services, fees and staffing assumptions support the proposed limit?
2026 · TransportationCampaign pledge

Improve bus access

Supports more bus service in underserved neighbourhoods.

Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Published campaign proposal; implementation has not been established.
What still needs checking
Which routes, funding agreements and TransLink decisions are required?
2026 · TransportationCampaign pledge

Restore parking requirements

Would restore minimum parking requirements in new development.

Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Published campaign proposal; implementation has not been established.
What still needs checking
How would this affect housing costs, accessibility and transportation goals?
2026 · SafetyCampaign pledge

District-based community policing

Proposes neighbourhood policing and a standard for responding to victims.

Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Published campaign proposal; implementation has not been established.
What still needs checking
What new staffing and Police Board approvals are required?
2026 · SafetyCampaign pledge

Create a women’s safety lead

Proposes a City women’s safety lead and an intimate-partner-violence task force.

Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Published campaign proposal; implementation has not been established.
What still needs checking
Which functions are municipal, and how would progress be reported?
2026 · Health and safetyCampaign pledge

Expand recovery housing partnerships

Proposes staffed recovery homes and provincial treatment-capacity agreements.

Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Published campaign proposal; implementation has not been established.
What still needs checking
Publish the costs, clinical responsibilities, locations and access criteria.
City programs / Scope and delivery

Policies, budgets & programs

Selected past work and proposed programs. A proposal is not an operating City program; delivery needs funding, authority and approval.

Past Council work described in an interview

Independent auditor general office

The interview describes Hardwick’s role in establishing an independent auditor general during her Council term.

Scope, limits and sources

An office created by Council is a collective institutional decision. The original motion and subsequent audit results still need a separate review.

Campaign proposal

Proposed review of Downtown Eastside spending

TEAM proposes reviewing public spending and service outcomes with input from residents and service providers.

Scope, limits and sources

The document does not establish that an audit has been commissioned, funded or completed.

Recent appearances / Read and watch

Talks, interviews & statements

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Debate coverage

UBC housing debate

Hardwick discussed neighbourhood planning and the distribution of supportive services.

Interview

Interview on planning and democratic participation

Discusses public consultation, a possible ward system and oversight of City decisions. This date is the article’s publication date.

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.

Policy dispute

Neighbourhood control and housing supply

Hardwick argues residents should have more influence over rezonings and rejects the description that she opposes housing.

Candidate or party response

Her published platform proposes co-ops and rental protection alongside replacement neighbourhood plans.

Verified status and limits

A policy disagreement. This profile has not independently calculated the housing capacity of the proposed replacement plans.

News coverage / Original publishers

Read the reporting

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.

Research / 20 linked sources

Check the evidence

Sources checked September 22, 2026. Official records establish decisions; campaign material establishes stated positions; reporting adds investigation and context. None alone establishes every claim.

Official record 4 sources
Campaign 7 sources
Reporting 5 sources
Interview 2 sources
Event organizer 2 sources

Individual Council votes, campaign finances, endorsements and handwritten nomination details need further review. No complete daily campaign itinerary has been verified. Additional photographs need usable source files and reuse rights.

Documents / Research status

Finances, endorsements and voting record

Campaign spending returns, donors, endorsements and a complete vote-by-vote record have not yet been verified for this profile. These gaps do not mean that no records exist. A nominator is not automatically an endorser.

Official candidate and nomination records
Editorial independence

Candidate responses and corrections

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Official documents / Nomination

Nomination papers & nominators

The nomination papers are the form Colleen Hardwick filed with the City to get on the ballot. Nominators are the electors who signed it. A signature says the signer supported putting this person on the ballot; it does not establish a current endorsement, a donation or agreement with any policy.

Open the official PDF Find it on the City’s candidate list
Name on the form
HARDWICK, COLLEEN ELIZEBETH
Name chosen for the ballot
COLLEEN HARDWICK
Office applied for
MAYOR
Candidate consented
August 31, 2026page 1
Declaration sworn
September 1, 2026 at Vancouverpage 8
Financial agent
Douglas Johnstonepage 8
Elector organization
TEAMpage 8
Document
C2 Nomination Documents, 11 pages, read September 22, 2026

37 names on the form

Nominators listed on the form 30

Entries crossed out on the form 7

A line has been drawn through each of these entries on the page. They are recorded here because they are visible in a public document, and they are not counted as nominators. The form does not say why any entry was crossed out.

  • Colleen HardwickPDF page 3

    The entry is crossed out with a single diagonal line. It is the candidate’s own name.

  • Jonathan WeismanPDF page 4
  • Raj Mundra (Rajinder Singh)PDF page 4
  • Clifford Allan James FawleyPDF page 4
  • Amanda Ruth BogganPDF page 4
  • Alex TkachPDF page 4
  • PaynePDF page 4Reading not settled

    Only the surname is legible. The given names are written over the strike-through line.

How this was read, and what it leaves out
  • The package runs to 11 PDF pages: the eight-page C2 nomination form, then a three-page Statement of Disclosure under the Financial Disclosure Act.
  • The City has redacted every residential address, postal code and mailing address on the form, marking them s.22(1) Personal & Confidential. No address is recorded here.
  • Every entry on PDF page 4 is crossed out. Each of those six names also appears elsewhere in the same package, five of them on an entry that is not crossed out.
  • Clifford Allan James Fawley appears on two entries that are not crossed out, on PDF pages 3 and 6.
  • The nominee’s middle name is typed ELIZEBETH on the form. It is recorded here exactly as the form prints it.
  • The form is stamped “This form is available for public inspection” on every page.

Names are written by hand on a scanned form. Each one was read from the page image and is printed exactly as it appears, so a name may differ from the spelling that person uses elsewhere. An entry marked “Reading not settled” could not be resolved and should be checked against the PDF page. Residential addresses, postal codes and signature images are on the official form and are not copied here; the City redacts addresses under section 22(1) of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. To ask for a correction, use the contact route on the editorial approach page.

03 / Background

Experience & community

Before and after Council

Film production and public consultation

Her biography describes film production and founding PlaceSpeak.

Campaign biography
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.

Will you publish a dated public campaign calendar through election day?

No response has been submitted.

How many homes would your replacement neighbourhood plans permit?

No response has been submitted.

What is the annual cost of the public safety and recovery proposals?

No response has been submitted.

Which services would change if taxes are limited to inflation?

No response has been submitted.

Will you provide a complete, sourced record of your Council votes?

No response has been submitted.

05 / Candidate contributions

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