This record covers what TEAM for a Livable Vancouver publishes about council candidate Patrick Sauriol, the reporting that followed the candidacy announcement in August 2026, and the party positions that sit behind the campaign pitch.
No public appearance by this candidate was confirmed in the sources checked on September 22, 2026. The voting dates below apply to every voter. An empty day is a gap in the research, not proof that nothing is happening.
Checked September 22, 2026 · All event times are Vancouver local time. Recheck the organizer before travelling.
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 Patrick Sauriol
Patrick Sauriol appears on the City of Vancouver's final 2026 candidate list for City Council, with ballot number 142. The City records the affiliation as TEAM for a Livable Vancouver.
The party page says Sauriol served three years as executive director of DigiBC. The page says Sauriol has taught online business development, project management, broadcasting and digital marketing at VanArts for eleven years. The page says Sauriol has four decades of work in digital media and business, starting as a teenager in the Vancouver bulletin board community of the 1980s.
Sauriol is a candidate for Vancouver city council with TEAM for a Livable Vancouver and holds ballot number 142 in the October 17, 2026 election.
The campaign page says Sauriol is a lifelong resident of Vancouver and lives in the Champlain Heights neighbourhood.
The campaign page says Sauriol has four decades of digital work and business experience, starting as a teenager in Vancouver's bulletin board community in the 1980s.
The campaign page says Sauriol created the movie news website Coming Attractions in the mid 1990s. The Wikipedia article about that site names Patrick Sauriol as its founder and gives a launch date of April 1995.
Daily Hive describes Sauriol as a technology entrepreneur with a digital marketing background and a former executive director of DigiBC, the association for British Columbia's creative technology sector.
TEAM announced Sauriol as a council candidate in a post dated August 4, 2026, together with Josh Gordon for council, Wah Gee and Alex Tkach for park board, and Kat Nystedt for school board.
A profile page on the Magazine Association of BC site describes Sauriol as a digital strategist working in content strategy, search, and social media, and as an instructor at VanArts.
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 · EconomyCampaign pledge
Broaden the job base
Sauriol says Vancouver should widen its economy and its job base beyond tourism and real estate.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Daily Hive and the TEAM announcement both quote Sauriol saying the city needs to broaden its opportunities and job base beyond tourism and real estate. Neither source gives a target, a budget, or a council mechanism.
What still needs checking
Which specific city powers, such as zoning for industrial land or business licensing, would be used to do this.
TEAM's economic development page says the party would end the city's over reliance on real estate speculation, protect industrial and commercial zoning, cut business taxes and fees, and speed up business permits.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
This is the party's published position. The page does not quote Sauriol, so it records what TEAM says rather than a personal commitment.
What still needs checking
Whether Sauriol states these commitments in the candidate's own words.
TEAM says that with a council majority it would repeal six Vancouver planning documents, including the Broadway Plan, the Vancouver Plan, the Jericho Lands plan, the Rupert and Renfrew station area plan, the 2026 citywide official development plan, and the Villages Plan, and replace them with neighbourhood based planning.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Daily Hive reports the promise and quotes mayoral candidate Colleen Hardwick. The article does not mention Sauriol, so this is the party's pledge.
What still needs checking
Whether Sauriol has said publicly that the candidate supports repealing each of the six plans.
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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Statement
Statement on widening Vancouver's job base
In the announcement of the candidacy, Sauriol is quoted saying the city needs to broaden its opportunities and its job base beyond tourism and real estate.
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
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Reporting
Daily Hive
TEAM adds five candidates for Vancouver election, including the daughter of mayoral candidate Colleen Hardwick
Kenneth Chan reports TEAM's five new candidates and describes Sauriol as a technology entrepreneur and former DigiBC executive director from East Vancouver who wants the city's economy to reach past tourism and real estate.
Vancouver's 2026 civic election candidate list is set: All 130 names in ballot order
The published ballot order lists Sauriol at number 142 for city council under the TEAM banner. The article says 130 candidates are running and that voting day is October 17, 2026.
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 independent source confirms the dates of the DigiBC role or the eleven years of teaching at VanArts, so both remain claims from the campaign and a trade association profile. Vancouver.ca returns an error to automated requests, so the official candidate filing could not be read. Search results point to a social media account attributed to Sauriol that mentions a position on how the city uses artificial intelligence, and that account could not be opened, so nothing from it is recorded here. No interview, debate report, or all candidates forum listing naming Sauriol was found.
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. 4 stated positions and 3 background facts recorded here, each checked against a quotation from that page.
Checks still to do: Verify employment dates and request a costed service-design proposal.
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
Three years, exact dates not stated
Executive Director, DigiBC
The campaign page says the role was leading a non profit organization that builds and supports British Columbia's creative technology industries.
The Wikipedia article about the site says it launched in April 1995 with a database of 12 film projects and grew into an early source of film industry news. The campaign page calls it one of the world's biggest online portals for movie news.
