Candidate for Vancouver City Council.
Joyce Gillespie, ballot number 101 for City Council in Vancouver, ABC Vancouver. Profile focus: Community services and business administration.
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This record covers Joyce Gillespie, ballot number 101, running for Vancouver City Council with ABC Vancouver in the October 17, 2026 election. The evidence base is the ABC candidate page, one Daily Hive report on the party's August 2026 candidate announcement, and the ABC platform released in September 2026.
4 upcoming public events 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.
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Mount Pleasant Community Centre gymnasium, 1 Kingsway
The listing gives the host and the format and does not name any candidate taking part.
Hosted by the Mount Pleasant Community Centre Association. Free, with no registration needed.
Creekside Community Centre, Multipurpose Room 4, 1 Athletes Way
The listing names no candidates.
Hosted by Global Shapers Vancouver and City Hive. Free, pre-registration required, doors at 5:50 pm.
The Cultch, York Theatre, 1895 Venables Street
The listing names no candidates.
Hosted by the Vancouver Public Space Network. Tickets cost $25.
Online
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Hosted by the Vancouver Food Justice Coalition. Free, pre-registration required.
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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Joyce Gillespie appears on the City of Vancouver's final 2026 candidate list for City Council, with ballot number 101. The City records the affiliation as ABC Vancouver.
The party page says Gillespie served as president of Dunbar Little League and vice-president of the Vancouver Thunderbirds Minor Hockey Association. The page says Gillespie studied political science at UBC and co-founded a natural skin-care company in 2001. The page says Gillespie worked fourteen years as a project management consultant and co-founded a technology platform in 2020.
The page says Gillespie studied political science at UBC and started a natural skin-care company in 2001. The page says Gillespie worked as a project management consultant for fourteen years. The page says the candidate helped start a technology platform in 2020 that connects Canadians to work and pays them within 24 hours.
The ABC candidate page says Gillespie has lived on Vancouver's west side since 1994 and graduated from the University of British Columbia in political science.
Daily Hive reported that Gillespie has lived in Vancouver for more than 30 years and is president and co-founder of GigHound, a company that supplies temporary labour across Canada through an online platform and a smartphone app.
The ABC candidate page says Gillespie co-founded a natural skin care company in 2001, spent 14 years as a project management consultant, and in 2020 co-founded a technology platform for Canadian employment and fast payment.
Both the ABC page and Daily Hive record two volunteer roles in youth sport: former president of Dunbar Little League and former vice-president of the Vancouver Thunderbirds Minor Hockey Association.
Daily Hive reported that ABC confirmed, in answer to a question about the surname, that Gillespie has no family connection to Ian Gillespie of the development company Westbank.
Daily Hive's ballot order list records Gillespie at number 101 on the City Council ballot, under the ABC Vancouver banner.
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The ABC candidate page quotes Gillespie saying City Hall should run the way a good organisation does, focused on the basics, accountable for results and respectful of taxpayers.
The ABC candidate page says Gillespie is running for safe streets, reliable services, and housing affordability so families can stay in Vancouver.
ABC's platform, released on September 21, 2026, promises a zero per cent property tax increase in 2027, an end to residential parking permit fees, and the removal of paid parking at beaches and community centres.
The same platform proposes banning the use of hard drugs in public spaces, simplifying the process for police to seize hard drugs, and pushing for at least 100 involuntary care beds in Vancouver.
The campaign says Vancouver families should have safe streets, city services that arrive, and costs they can pay so they can remain in the city.
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Kenneth Chan reported the addition of Gillespie, Arezo Zarrabian, Lorraine Lowe and David Grewal to ABC's council slate, and set out Gillespie's business and volunteer background.
The final ballot list places Gillespie at number 101 on the council ballot.
Sources checked September 22, 2026. Official records establish decisions; campaign material establishes stated positions; reporting adds investigation and context. None alone establishes every claim.
City of Vancouver
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ABC Vancouver · September 21, 2026
Daily Hive · August 26, 2026
Daily Hive · September 22, 2026
Daily Hive · September 22, 2026
Women Transforming Cities · September 17, 2026
No interview, speech, debate report or public statement by Gillespie was found. Only two sources name Gillespie: the ABC candidate page and one Daily Hive report. Gillespie has not held elected office, so there is no voting record to check. Women Transforming Cities reported that an ABC spokesperson said the party's candidates were not signing its Our City Hall Pledge, so there are no survey answers from Gillespie on that organisation's six asks. The ABC page also mentions charity fundraising including an event featuring Archbishop Desmond Tutu; no independent source for that was found, so it is left out of this record. Family details on the ABC page are also left out.
Evidence reviewed on September 22, 2026: Current campaign material; biographical claims require corroboration.
Campaign page read on September 22, 2026. 1 stated position and 3 background facts recorded here. This site blocks automated requests, so each quotation was read from the live page twice, independently.
Campaign page read on September 22, 2026. 2 stated positions and 3 background facts recorded here, each checked against a quotation from that page.
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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.
Daily Hive reported that the company provides temporary labour services across Canada through a digital platform and an app. The ABC page dates the founding of a technology platform for Canadian employment and fast payment to 2020.
Candidate page: Joyce GillespieThe ABC page gives the founding year and describes the business as a natural skin care company. The page does not name the company or say whether Gillespie still holds the role.
Candidate page: Joyce GillespieThe ABC page states the length of this work. The page does not give the years or name any employer or client.
Candidate page: Joyce GillespiePresident of Dunbar Little League and vice-president of the Vancouver Thunderbirds Minor Hockey Association. Neither source gives the years served.
Candidate page: Joyce GillespieDaily Hive reported on August 26, 2026 that ABC named Gillespie as one of four new council candidates, bringing the party's council slate to nine.
Ken Sim's ABC party names four new Vancouver City Council candidatesProposed questions for a future interview. They have not been sent to the candidate, and no answers have been supplied.
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