Noi Soudarack, ballot number 153 for City Council in Vancouver, no party affiliation listed. In Instagram posts, the candidate calls for treatment, housing and health care for people with addiction alongside safe public spaces, and says residents should understand the proposed AI data centre in Mount Pleasant before Council decides.
This record covers Noi Soudarack, ballot number 153 for Vancouver City Council with no party listed. The candidate has no campaign website and no VoteMate profile text. The record rests on the City's candidate list, two news ballot lists, and posts on the Instagram account the City links for this candidacy.
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.
Housing supply and rental rules0/10
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A position in the candidate’s own words
No position found by voche.me as of October 3, 2026.
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Names a mechanism the office controls
No statement to read.
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A dated, sourced action on the issue
No dated public action on this issue found.
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Answered the voche.me question on the issue
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
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.
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
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.
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
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.
No position found by voche.me as of October 3, 2026.
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A dated, sourced action on the issue
No dated public action on this issue found.
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Answered the voche.me question on the issue
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
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.
No position found by voche.me as of October 3, 2026.
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A dated, sourced action on the issue
No dated public action on this issue found.
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Answered the voche.me question on the issue
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
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.
No position found by voche.me as of October 3, 2026.
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No statement to read.
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A dated, sourced action on the issue
No dated public action on this issue found.
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Answered the voche.me question on the issue
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
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.
No position found by voche.me as of October 3, 2026.
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A dated, sourced action on the issue
No dated public action on this issue found.
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Answered the voche.me question on the issue
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
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.
No position found by voche.me as of October 3, 2026.
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Names a mechanism the office controls
No statement to read.
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No statement to read.
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No statement to read.
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A dated, sourced action on the issue
No dated public action on this issue found.
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Answered the voche.me question on the issue
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
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.
No position found by voche.me as of October 3, 2026.
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Names a mechanism the office controls
No statement to read.
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No statement to read.
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No statement to read.
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A dated, sourced action on the issue
No dated public action on this issue found.
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Answered the voche.me question on the issue
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
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.
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
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.
On dates without a confirmed appearance the public schedule is unknown; the candidate may still have activities that day. This static page changes only when its research is updated.
01 / Introduction
About Noi Soudarack
Noi Soudarack appears on the City of Vancouver's final 2026 candidate list for City Council, with ballot number 153. The City lists no party affiliation for this candidacy.
Soudarack appears at ballot number 153 in the City Council race with no party affiliation listed, in the ballot order Daily Hive published on September 22, 2026.
VoteMate's list of candidates for the Vancouver City Council race shows Soudarack as an independent. The individual VoteMate profile carries no biography and no policy promises.
The City's candidate page links one public account for this candidacy, the Instagram account noisoudarack. Posts there from September 20 to October 2, 2026 set out the candidate's views on public safety, addiction, the cancelled overdose prevention site at 900 Helmcken Street and the proposed Telus and Westbank AI data centre in Mount Pleasant. These are the candidate's own statements and are listed under Talks.
voche.me assembled this profile from the official candidate list, news reports and the candidate's own Instagram posts, all 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 Oct 3
2026 · Candidate profileNot established
No profile or promises on VoteMate
The VoteMate page for this candidacy is headed Independent for Vancouver Council. It says the candidate hasn't added promises to VoteMate and hasn't uploaded a profile. The candidate's own statements found on Instagram are recorded as separate commitments.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
This entry records the VoteMate result, read again on October 3, 2026. Daily Hive's ballot list of September 22, 2026 shows 153: Noi Soudarack with no party after the name, and the VoteMate profile is still empty. Neither source holds a measure, number, cost or date from the candidate.
What still needs checking
Whether the campaign publishes a platform or fills in its VoteMate profile.
In an Instagram post on September 24, 2026, Soudarack writes that families, workers, visitors and small businesses have a right to safe, clean and accessible public spaces, and that public safety is a basic responsibility of government.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The source is the candidate's own post. It names no City measure, number, cost or date. The same post asks voters to remove the NDP in the provincial vote on October 24.
What still needs checking
Whether the campaign names a step Council would take, such as a budget line or a City program.
Treatment, housing and health care for people with addiction
In the same post of September 24, 2026, Soudarack writes that people struggling with addiction need treatment, housing and health care, and that compassion and public safety should go together.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The source is the candidate's own post. It names no City measure, number, cost or date. Addiction treatment and health care are run by the Province and Vancouver Coastal Health, and the post does not say what Council would do.
What still needs checking
Whether the campaign says which part of this Council would pay for or approve.
Support for the community campaign against the 900 Helmcken Street site
In an Instagram post on September 20, 2026, Soudarack credits residents and businesses who demanded a stop to the drug consumption site planned at 900 Helmcken Street, and tells voters that community input matters.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The source is the candidate's own post. Daily Hive reported on August 24, 2026 that the Province cancelled Vancouver Coastal Health's plan for an overdose prevention site at that address. The post names no City measure, number, cost or date for the future.
What still needs checking
Whether the campaign states a position on where overdose prevention services should operate.
Residents should understand the AI data centre proposal before Council decides
In an Instagram post on October 2, 2026, Soudarack refers to Council's deferral of the Telus and Westbank AI data centre proposal in Mount Pleasant until after the election, and writes that residents deserve to understand the issue before major decisions are made.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The source is the candidate's own post. It does not say how the candidate would vote on the proposal and names no process, cost or date. Daily Hive reported on July 23, 2026 that Council voted unanimously on July 21 to withdraw the referral of the rezoning to a public hearing, which moved the decision past the election.
What still needs checking
Whether the campaign states a position on the rezoning itself.
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
Read original statements and reporting, or open the publisher’s video. A summary of a speech is labelled separately from a full recording.
Statement
Instagram post: Community Input Matters
Soudarack urges people who care about their community to vote, and says the planned drug consumption site at 900 Helmcken Street was stopped because residents and businesses demanded it. The Province cancelled that overdose prevention site in August 2026, Daily Hive reported. The caption was read; the video was not watched.
In a selfie video post, Soudarack writes that compassion and public safety should go together: people with addiction need treatment, housing and health care, and everyone has a right to safe, clean public spaces. The post asks for accountability from every level of government and asks voters to vote on October 17 and to remove the NDP in the provincial vote on October 24. The caption was read; the video was not watched.
Instagram post on the Mount Pleasant AI data centre
Soudarack shares a video about the proposed AI data centre in Mount Pleasant and writes that residents deserve to understand the issue before major decisions are made. Council moved its decision on the rezoning to after the election, Daily Hive reported in July 2026. The caption was read; the video was not watched.
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
CTV News
There are 130 names on Vancouver's municipal election ballot. Here's the order in which they'll appear
CTV News lists the full ballot in the order drawn by the City. Soudarack appears as 153 SOUDARACK, Noi in the council list.
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, and the VoteMate profile is still empty. The Instagram account the City links showed 56 posts on October 3, 2026; only the six newest could be read without signing in, and the videos were not watched, so older posts and anything said only in a video are not in this record. The nomination papers the City links were not read. Vote Palestine Vancouver's candidate list, current as of October 1, 2026, shows no response recorded for this candidacy. HUB Cycling's survey and the Food Justice Coalition page did not name this candidate when read on October 3, 2026. The Women Transforming Cities pledge results are published as images, read by eye on October 3, 2026: they hold one table for each of eight parties and no table for independent candidates, so this candidacy is absent from them. Searches returned a licensed real estate agent with the same name working in Langley and Surrey, and a LinkedIn page that shows only a sign-in screen. No page read ties either to this candidacy, so nothing from them is recorded here. No forum or event source naming this candidate was found.
Research status
What voche.me has checked
Evidence reviewed on October 3, 2026: the official candidate list, the candidate's Instagram account, VoteMate, two ballot lists in the news, and event listings.
No campaign website was found. The City's candidate page links an Instagram account, and its six newest posts were read. Three of them, dated September 20 to October 2, 2026, give the candidate's views and are recorded under Talks and Commitments. The account showed 56 posts on October 3, and only the six newest could be read without signing in.
What the review did establish: the City confirms the council candidacy with no party listed and links the Instagram account. The VoteMate profile is still empty.
Checks still to do: read the older Instagram posts and watch the videos, read the nomination papers the City links, and ask the campaign for a dated biography and policy statement.
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
Background not supplied
Work, public service and community involvement will appear here when supplied. No experience has been added to this profile.
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 three changes would you ask council to make, with a deadline for each?
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 Noi Soudarack 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 Noi Soudarack's page itself, answered directly rather than left blank.
Is this an official page for Noi Soudarack?
No. This page is researched by voche.me from public sources, listed below, and is separate from Noi Soudarack's own campaign.
What is Noi Soudarack's ballot number for the 2026 Vancouver election?
Noi Soudarack is number 153 on the City of Vancouver's official 2026 ballot for City Council.
What party did Noi Soudarack run with?
Noi Soudarack ran for City Council as an independent, with no party affiliation listed on the City's candidate list.
Does Noi Soudarack currently hold public office?
Not according to this profile. voche.me has not listed a current public office for Noi Soudarack.
How many sources does this Noi Soudarack profile cite?
This profile lists 2 sourced references, each with the date voche.me checked it, in the Sources section below.
Has Noi Soudarack filed nomination papers for the 2026 election?
voche.me has not yet added a nomination record for Noi Soudarack. This does not mean no nomination paper was filed, only that voche.me has not completed that research yet.
Why do some questions on Noi Soudarack's page show no answer?
The "Questions & answers" section on this page lists questions voche.me would put to Noi Soudarack 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 Noi Soudarack 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
Research check of October 3, 2026
Read the City's councillor candidate page through a reader service. It links the Instagram account noisoudarack for this candidacy, and the six newest posts there were read. Added three posts as statements, four commitments drawn from them, a portrait from the opening frame of the candidate's September 24 video, the CTV News ballot list, two Daily Hive reports that explain what the posts refer to, and the October 13 food systems town hall as an unconfirmed event. Corrected two errors. Earlier text called the candidate "he", but the VoteMate page it cited uses no pronoun and no source read establishes one, so the text now uses the name. Earlier text also said no social media account was found, while the City's page links one. No calendar event was dated before October 3, so none was removed or turned into a talk.
