Guy Dubé, ballot number 151 for Vancouver City Council, no party affiliation listed. His 2026 VoteMate profile says he is running to support the Save Nelson Park campaign in the West End, and it adds faster openings for small businesses and a stop to new data centres.
This record covers Guy Dubé, ballot number 151 for Vancouver City Council with no party listed. Dubé also ran in the April 2025 council by-election. His 2026 material is short: a reason for running tied to Nelson Park, two promises on his VoteMate profile and his HUB Cycling survey answers. Most of the platform recorded here comes from the candidate-written profile and surveys from that earlier race.
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 3, 2026. The same seven points apply to every candidate for this office.
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What this office controls. Council sets zoning, approves rezonings and development permits, and makes rental and tenant-protection bylaws under the Vancouver Charter. The province sets rent increase limits and tenancy law.
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What this office controls. Council funds shelter sites, street cleaning and city outreach, and decides where supportive housing is approved. Health services, treatment beds and drug policy are provincial and federal.
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What this office controls. Council approves the police budget. The Vancouver Police Board, not Council, directs the police department. Fire and rescue services report to the city.
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What this office controls. The city owns and designs its streets, bike lanes, sidewalks and parking rules. Buses, SkyTrain and SeaBus are run by TransLink, a regional body the city does not control.
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What this office controls. Council sets the property tax rate each year, approves the operating budget, and approves the multi-year capital plan that pays for buildings and infrastructure.
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What this office controls. Vancouver has its own building bylaw under the Vancouver Charter, so Council can set energy and emissions rules for new buildings that other BC cities cannot.
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What this office controls. The city licenses venues and events, sets noise and business rules, and funds cultural grants and spaces. Liquor licensing is shared with the province.
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What this office controls. The city creates child care spaces through zoning, city-owned buildings and development contributions. Licensing, subsidies and operating funding are provincial.
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What this office controls. Council issues business licences, sets licence and permit fees, zones commercial and industrial land and approves business improvement areas under the Vancouver Charter. Employment law, sales taxes and income taxes are provincial and federal.
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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.
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01 / Introduction
About Guy Dubé
Guy Dubé appears on the City of Vancouver's 2026 candidate list for City Council, with ballot number 151. The City lists no party affiliation and no social media for this candidacy. voche.me read the list on October 3, 2026.
The candidate profile Dubé filed for the 2025 by-election says he ran the Coming Home Cafe in New Westminster for 17 years.
Dubé appears at ballot number 151 in the City Council race with no party affiliation listed, in the ballot order Daily Hive published on September 22, 2026. VoteMate's 2026 council list also shows Dubé as an independent.
Dubé ran as an independent in the Vancouver City Council by-election held on April 5, 2025, and received 459 votes, which is 0.68 percent of the 67,962 people who voted. Two seats were filled, by Sean Orr of COPE and Lucy Maloney of OneCity.
The same 2025 profile says Dubé moved to Vancouver in 1999 and rents in the West End.
The same profile says Dubé owned Coming Home Cafe from 2005 to 2022.
The same profile says Dubé was the first president of New West Pride in 2010 and has volunteered with Rainbow Refugee since 2015.
The same profile says Dubé has worked as an assistant returning officer with Elections Canada in the Vancouver Centre riding.
Independent reporting confirms the cafe. In September 2022, Vancouver Is Awesome, republishing a report from The Record, said that Guy Dubé-Bureau had started the Coming Home cafe on Sixth Street in New Westminster 17 years earlier and was closing it after new owners of the building gave him notice. In April 2023, the New West Anchor reported that Dubé, who ran the Coming Home Cafe in Uptown New Westminster, had opened it in 2005 and closed it in 2022, and had moved the Coming Home name to a community program at the Eighth and Eight Creative Spaces building. voche.me matched these reports to the candidate by his name, the cafe, the years and his photograph.
The same New West Anchor article describes Dubé as president of New Westminster's first pride festival. That is the newspaper's statement; voche.me has not found a record from the pride society itself.
His 2026 VoteMate profile, written by the candidate or his team, describes him as a queer West End renter who wants kindness in how the City makes policy, and says he is working to save Nelson Park, which it calls the only West End park that is not at the bottom of a big hill.
On July 15, 2026, a letter signed Guy Dubé, from a West End resident, was filed with the BC Utilities Commission opposing BC Hydro's plan to build an underground substation at Nelson Park. The Commission published it as Exhibit D-28 in its review of the project.
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.
13 commitments shown · Checked Oct 3
Earlier term · HousingCampaign pledge
Rental housing for people earning under $80,000
In the 2025 by-election profile Dubé called for rental housing aimed at people earning less than $80,000 a year, with rent set at 30 percent of income, and named Rodden Lodge as a model, to serve seniors and essential workers among others.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
This comes from the candidate's own 2025 VoteMate profile. His 2026 VoteMate profile, read again on October 3, 2026, lists other promises and does not repeat this one, and no other 2026 statement of it was found, so it is not established that this remains his position for the 2026 race.
What still needs checking
Whether Dubé restates this for 2026, and how many homes the plan would cover.
In the 2025 by-election profile Dubé proposed street-level commercial units in new housing buildings for independent cafes, salons, corner stores, art studios, daycares and medical offices.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
This comes from the candidate's own 2025 VoteMate profile. The profile gives no zoning change or rent control mechanism to make the space affordable for small tenants.
What still needs checking
What rule would keep those ground floor units affordable for independent businesses.
In the 2025 by-election profile Dubé called for more solar panels, more wind energy and more walkable neighbourhoods so that Vancouver leads on sustainability.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
This comes from the candidate's own 2025 VoteMate profile. No target, cost or timeline is given, and electricity generation in British Columbia is a provincial matter.
What still needs checking
What a city council can do directly on energy generation, and what Dubé would fund.
In the 2025 by-election profile Dubé said the aim is a council that supports all Vancouver residents whatever their age, sex or income, that treats people with respect, and that holds the mayor to account on social programs for people in difficulty.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
This comes from the candidate's own 2025 VoteMate profile and is a statement of approach rather than a specific measure.
What still needs checking
Which council behaviours or decisions Dubé points to as the problem.
Dubé's 2026 VoteMate profile gives his reason for running as support for the Save Nelson Park campaign, which opposes a BC Hydro plan to build an underground substation and run power cables through Nelson Park in the West End. The profile's biography also says he is working to save the park. On July 15, 2026, he wrote to the BC Utilities Commission opposing the plan and asking it to consider sending BC Hydro back to look at other sites.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The VoteMate profile gives one sentence and a link to a petition form. The letter to the Commission is in its public record. Neither names a vote, motion or city budget line. The decision on the substation rests with the BC Utilities Commission, a provincial regulator.
What still needs checking
Whether Dubé says what, if anything, a council seat could do about a project a provincial regulator decides.
In a 2025 Vancouver Public Space Network survey, Dubé said he wanted to keep the elected Park Board instead of folding it into City Council, so the board can hold council accountable for parks.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
This is a survey answer from the April 2025 by-election. No 2026 page repeats it, so it is recorded as earlier-term material.
What still needs checking
Whether Dubé restates this now that the City has moved further on the Park Board's future.
In a March 2025 social media post, Dubé listed a ward system among the changes he believed Vancouver needed.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The post is a short list with no detail on how wards would be drawn or when a change would take effect. It is 2025 by-election material with no 2026 restatement found.
What still needs checking
What a ward system would look like under Dubé's plan, and how council would adopt it.
In a 2025 survey answer and social media posts, Dubé said he would recommend that city departments stop buying from Amazon and stop using X, formerly known as Twitter, and buy from local businesses instead.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Dubé calls this a recommendation and gives no timeline or cost. It is 2025 by-election material with no 2026 restatement found.
What still needs checking
Whether Dubé would bring this forward as a purchasing policy, and what it would cost or save.
In the 2025 Vancouver Public Space Network survey, Dubé said the Vancouver Police Department should create a new unit focused on social work and health, instead of enforcement, for the Downtown Eastside, paid for within its existing budget.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Dubé says the unit would stay within the VPD's current budget, but names no dollar figure, staffing number or date. The Vancouver Police Board runs the VPD's internal structure. This is 2025 by-election material with no 2026 restatement found.
What still needs checking
How many workers the unit would have, and how Dubé would ask the Police Board to create it.
In CAPE BC's March 2025 candidate survey, Dubé was listed among candidates who support reallocating road space for walking, rolling and biking, keeping the Zero Carbon Step Code for new buildings, upgrading buildings with electric heat pumps, regional climate policy coordination through Metro Vancouver, studying an end to burning garbage for energy, and banning fossil fuel advertising on city property. In his own written answer on the same survey, he called for a social media campaign about covered outdoor space and more shade in hot weather.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The yes-or-no items are in CAPE's own wording, so they show only that he pledged support for each ask. His open-ended answer names no location, budget or date for the shade idea. This is 2025 by-election material with no 2026 restatement found.
What still needs checking
Which of these pledges Dubé restates for 2026, and what he would fund.
Dubé's 2026 VoteMate profile lists one promise on artificial intelligence and data centres, the large buildings full of computers that run online services: stop them from being built. He files it under three headings, business and jobs, climate, and local government.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The promise is five words long. It names no bylaw, zoning rule or permit change the City would use, no site, and no date.
What still needs checking
Which City rule Dubé would use to stop data centres, and whether it would apply to buildings already approved.
Dubé's 2026 VoteMate profile, under business permits, says the City should make it easier for small businesses to open and operate, with a quick turnaround so they can open.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The profile names no permit, fee, processing time or date.
What still needs checking
Which permits Dubé would speed up, and what processing time he would set as the goal.
HUB Cycling survey: connect local bike routes to the regional network
HUB Cycling, a regional cycling charity, asked candidates whether they support three asks. Its published Vancouver answers record Dubé as answering yes to joining local routes to the regional walking and cycling network with lanes separated from traffic. He answered maybe to 30 km/h speeds on local streets with traffic calming, and maybe to doing street safety work in underserved neighbourhoods first. He left the three comment boxes empty.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The asks are HUB Cycling's wording, so they earn no mechanism, target, cost or timeline point. The answers carry no date and name no street, cost or year.
What still needs checking
Which missing links in the bike network Dubé would close first, and what he means by maybe on slower local streets.
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.
Reported by the New West Anchor
Started the Coming Home Program at Eighth and Eight Creative Spaces
The New West Anchor reported that Dubé set up a Coming Home community space for the LGBTQ community in the Eighth and Eight Creative Spaces building in New Westminster, after his cafe closed. Its first event, a weekly drop-in called the Rainbow Connections Café, was held on April 19, 2023.
Scope, limits and sources
This is community work in New Westminster before the candidacy. It has no link to a City of Vancouver decision, so it earns no score point.
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Statement
Answers to the Vancouver Public Space Network's 2025 by-election survey
Dubé answered ten questions for the 2025 by-election. He said Davie Street is his village, asked for a new police unit focused on social work and health in the Downtown Eastside within the current police budget, said city departments should stop using Amazon and buy local, and said he would keep the elected Park Board. The network shared the answers on Bluesky on March 11, 2025.
Answers to CAPE BC's 2025 by-election climate and health survey
CAPE BC listed Dubé among by-election candidates who supported its climate asks, including road space for walking and cycling and banning fossil fuel ads on city property. In his own written answer he asked for more shade and covered outdoor space in hot weather.
Letter to the BC Utilities Commission about Nelson Park
Writing as a West End resident, Dubé opposed BC Hydro's application to build an underground substation and cable corridors at Nelson Park. He objected to BC Hydro's position that the substation must go there, listed the trees, gardens, plaza and school annex that construction would remove, and asked the Commission to consider sending BC Hydro back to look at other sites.
Between September 26 and October 3, 2026, Dubé's VoteMate profile gained a short biography, describing him as a queer West End renter who wants kindness in policy and is working to save Nelson Park, and two promises: stop data centres from being built, and make it quicker for small businesses to open. The profile shows no dates, so this date is the day voche.me read it.
Dubé answered maybe to 30 km/h local streets with traffic calming, maybe to doing street safety work in underserved neighbourhoods first, and yes to joining local bike routes to the regional network. He wrote no comment. The answers carry no date, so this date is the day voche.me read them.
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
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.
Reporting
Daily Hive
Vancouver's 2026 civic election candidate list is set: All 130 names in ballot order
The published ballot order places Dubé at number 151 for council with no party listed. This is the only journalism found that names the candidate in the 2026 race.
New Westminster-based Coming Home Coffee House is closing
The article, first reported by The Record, says Guy Dubé-Bureau started the cafe 17 years earlier and was closing it after the building's new owners gave him notice. It quotes him blaming buyers of buildings for pushing small businesses out.
A profile of Dubé's new Coming Home community program at the Eighth and Eight Creative Spaces building in New Westminster, after the 2022 closing of his cafe, which he opened in 2005.
Sources checked October 3, 2026. Official records establish decisions; campaign material establishes stated positions; reporting adds investigation and context. None alone establishes every claim.
No campaign website was found for the 2026 race, and the City's list shows no social media for this candidacy. The Instagram account linked from his campaign page now shows as broken or removed, and his Bluesky account has no posts since March 2025. His 2026 platform is two short VoteMate promises, a reason for running and HUB Cycling survey answers with no comments, so most policy items above come from his April 2025 by-election material and may no longer hold. The cafe ownership is confirmed by news reports from 2022 and 2023. The New West Pride presidency rests on his own profile and one newspaper's description, the Rainbow Refugee and Elections Canada roles rest only on his own profile, and none of them was checked with the organization. His 2025 vote count comes from Wikipedia's results table, which cites the City; the City's results page showed no figures to voche.me's reader, and the City's official declaration gives only the two winners and the 67,962 voters. No news article, interview or forum appearance naming Dubé in the 2026 race was found beyond the ballot list.
Research status
What voche.me has checked
Evidence reviewed on October 3, 2026: the 2026 VoteMate profile, the City's candidate list, HUB Cycling's survey answers, a letter in the BC Utilities Commission record, three news articles, and the 2025 by-election material already on this page.
Since the September 26 check, the 2026 VoteMate profile gained a biography and two promises: stop data centres from being built, and help small businesses open faster. Dubé also answered HUB Cycling's survey. The fuller platform below still comes from the profile he filed for the 2025 by-election, plus a Vancouver Public Space Network survey, a CAPE BC climate survey and his Bluesky posts from that campaign.
Checks still to do: ask Dubé whether his 2025 positions still stand, and watch for interviews or forum appearances before October 17.
The ballot name, office, ballot number and party label come from the City's candidate list, read on October 3, 2026 through a reader service because the City's site refuses automated requests. Everything described as campaign material is the campaign's own account unless an entry names an independent source.
03 / Background
Experience & community
2005 to 2022
Owner, Coming Home Cafe, New Westminster
The New West Anchor reported in 2023 that Dubé opened the cafe in Uptown New Westminster in 2005 and closed it in 2022, and Vancouver Is Awesome reported the closing in September 2022. His 2025 VoteMate profile calls the cafe a place for building community and uses that experience to argue for shops on the ground floor of new housing.
Lead, Coming Home Program at Eighth and Eight Creative Spaces
The New West Anchor reported in April 2023 that Dubé had started a Coming Home program for the LGBTQ community in this New Westminster arts building, with a weekly drop-in café on Wednesday afternoons and evenings.
Independent candidate, Vancouver City Council by-election
Dubé finished ninth of thirteen candidates with 459 votes, 0.68 percent of the total.
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 has changed in your priorities since your 2025 council campaign?
No response has been submitted.
Which of your proposals can council enact directly, and which require provincial, federal or regional agreement?
No response has been submitted.
Have your own question?
Ask Guy Dubé 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 Guy Dubé's page itself, answered directly rather than left blank.
Is this an official page for Guy Dubé?
No. This page is researched by voche.me from public sources, listed below, and is separate from Guy Dubé's own campaign.
What is Guy Dubé's ballot number for the 2026 Vancouver election?
Guy Dubé is number 151 on the City of Vancouver's official 2026 ballot for City Council.
What party did Guy Dubé run with?
Guy Dubé ran for City Council as an independent, with no party affiliation listed on the City's candidate list.
Does Guy Dubé currently hold public office?
Not according to this profile. voche.me has not listed a current public office for Guy Dubé.
How many sources does this Guy Dubé profile cite?
This profile lists 2 sourced references, each with the date voche.me checked it, in the Sources section below.
Has Guy Dubé filed nomination papers for the 2026 election?
voche.me has not yet added a nomination record for Guy Dubé. This does not mean no nomination paper was filed, only that voche.me has not completed that research yet.
Why do some questions on Guy Dubé's page show no answer?
The "Questions & answers" section on this page lists questions voche.me would put to Guy Dubé 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 Guy Dubé ran in?
The 2026 Vancouver municipal election, including the City Council race, was decided on October 17, 2026.
06 / Candidate contributions
Space for campaign updates
New 2026 positions, independent checks on the cafe, and corrections
Added the two promises and the biography that now appear on Dubé's 2026 VoteMate profile, his answers to HUB Cycling's 2026 survey, his July 2026 letter to the BC Utilities Commission about Nelson Park, news reports from 2022 and 2023 that confirm he ran the Coming Home Cafe, and an online all-candidates town hall on October 13. Corrections: the spelling Dube is changed to Dubé, the ballot spelling, in the biography and priorities; source labels that read "None" now name the 2025 VoteMate profile; the 2026 VoteMate profile is now listed as campaign material, since the candidate or his team wrote it; the Rainbow Refugee period now ends with the 2025 profile instead of running to 2026; and the 2025 by-election share is now described as a share of the 67,962 people who voted, the City's figure.
Removed duplicate 2026-dated commitments
Four entries (more rental housing for middle incomes, rent set at 30 percent of income, shops on the ground floor, solar wind and walkable streets) repeated the same content already recorded under four other entries and were wrongly marked cycle 2026, citing a 2026 VoteMate profile that does not contain them. They are removed here. The underlying 2025 by-election material stays recorded under the four entries tagged cycle Earlier term.
