This record covers Lina Vargas, ballot number 327 for the Vancouver School Board with ABC Vancouver. The campaign material is the main source. A 2022 Georgia Straight profile describes a Lina Vargas with two matching details, and that overlap is flagged as an open question.
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 Lina Vargas
Lina Vargas appears on the City of Vancouver's final 2026 candidate list for School Board, with ballot number 327. The City records the affiliation as ABC Vancouver.
The page says Vargas worked as a midwife and an aesthetician and now works in business and social services. The page says Vargas is the founding president of the Diversity and Inclusion Support Group of B.C., a non-profit that recognises the work of migrants, health care workers, caregivers, and community volunteers.
Vargas appears at ballot number 327 in the School Board race as an ABC Vancouver candidate, in the ballot order Daily Hive published on September 22, 2026.
The ABC Vancouver team listing shows Vargas as a Vancouver School Board trustee candidate for the party.
The ABC candidate page says Vargas has worked as a midwife, an aesthetician, a business owner and a social services worker.
The ABC candidate page says Vargas founded and is president of the Diversity and Inclusion Support Group of B.C., a non-profit that recognises migrants, health care workers, caregivers and community volunteers, and that the group has worked with Canadian Blood Services on donation campaigns.
A Georgia Straight profile published on July 25, 2022 described a Lina Vargas running as an independent candidate for Vancouver city council, trained as a midwife in the Philippines, who came to Canada in 2004 as a caregiver, later worked as a health care aide and hair stylist, started Care Cut Mobile Salon, and founded the Diversity and Inclusion Support Group of B.C. in 2020. Two details, the midwife training and the founding of that group, match the ABC page. No source states directly that the two are the same person.
The Wikipedia results table for the 2022 Vancouver municipal election records a Lina Vargas as an independent city council candidate with 7,714 votes, not elected.
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.
9 commitments shown · Checked Sep 22
2026 · Student supportCampaign pledge
Safe and inclusive classrooms
The ABC candidate page says Vargas would work for learning environments where every student feels welcomed, respected and able to succeed.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The party page states the aim. It names no policy, program or budget line.
What still needs checking
Which district policies Vargas would change to reach this.
The ABC candidate page says Vargas treats good relationships among families, students, teachers and staff as the base of a strong school, and would work to build connections across Vancouver's communities.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The party page states the aim. It proposes no process or program.
What still needs checking
What Vargas would do differently from the district's current family engagement work.
Party platform: swimming lessons in the school day
ABC Vancouver's platform says the party would bring swimming lessons into the school day, with Park Board and School Board candidates working together, and make the first three levels of the Joe Fortes learn-to-swim program free for children aged three to twelve.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
This is the party's platform, released on September 22, 2026. No statement from Vargas on it was found.
What still needs checking
How the school day would be rearranged to fit lessons, and what the program would cost.
Party platform: teaching assistants in every classroom
ABC Vancouver's platform says the party would put teaching assistants in every classroom and add specialised support staff for students with diverse learning needs, along with more staff training and classroom resources.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
This is the party's platform. It gives no total number of positions and no cost in the material read.
What still needs checking
How many teaching assistant positions this would add, and where the money would come from.
Party platform: provincial school tax for Vancouver schools
ABC Vancouver's platform says the party would press for the provincial school tax collected in Vancouver to go to Vancouver schools, which the Daily Hive report puts at about 60 million dollars.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
This is the party's platform. The 60 million dollar figure comes from the Daily Hive report on the platform launch and was not checked against a provincial record.
What still needs checking
What the province actually collects in school tax in Vancouver, and whether a municipal party can change where it goes.
2026 · Support for students and teachersCampaign pledge
Support for students and teachers
The page says Vargas holds that every student should feel welcome and able to do well, and that teachers should get the resources their classrooms need.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Taken from the campaign page listed in the sources. No independent confirmation was found.
What still needs checking
What would this cost, who would deliver it, and by when?
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.
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
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News coverage / Original publishers
Read the reporting
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Reporting
The Georgia Straight
Why Filipino community organizer Lina Vargas is running for Vancouver city council
A profile of a Lina Vargas running as an independent for Vancouver city council in 2022, covering the move to Canada in 2004 as a caregiver, work as a health care aide and hair stylist, the Care Cut Mobile Salon, and the founding of the Diversity and Inclusion Support Group of B.C. in 2020. Two details match the ABC page for the 2026 School Board candidate. Readers should treat the link between the two as unsettled.
Sources checked September 22, 2026. Official records establish decisions; campaign material establishes stated positions; reporting adds investigation and context. None alone establishes every claim.
No source states that the 2026 ABC School Board candidate and the 2022 independent council candidate are the same person. The match rests on two details, midwife training and the founding of the Diversity and Inclusion Support Group of B.C., so the 2022 material is reported as its own item and kept out of the biography. The support group has no website or registry record that was opened, so the Canadian Blood Services partnership and the presidency rest on the ABC page alone. The VoteMate page for Vargas carries no profile and no promises. No news reporting naming Vargas as a 2026 School Board candidate was found beyond 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. 2 stated positions and 2 background facts recorded here. This site blocks automated requests, so each quotation was read from the live page twice, independently.
Checks still to do: Confirm organizational roles and distinguish community work from regulated professional credentials.
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
Dates not given
Founder and president, Diversity and Inclusion Support Group of B.C.
The ABC page says Vargas founded the group and serves as its president, and that it has partnered with Canadian Blood Services. The 2022 Georgia Straight profile gives 2020 as the founding year for a group of the same name, started by a Lina Vargas.
