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.
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 rules1/10
1/2
A position in the candidate’s own words
Party platform; candidate not quoted. TEAM for a Livable Vancouver publishes 9 commitments on this issue.
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Names a mechanism the office controls
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
0/2
States a measurable target
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
0/1
States a cost or funding source
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
0/1
States a timeline
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
0/1
A dated, sourced action on the issue
No dated public action on this issue found.
0/1
Answered the voche.me question on the issue
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
TEAM for a Livable Vancouver’s platform on housing: 9 commitments, at least one with a number. Party text earns the candidate the position point only.
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.
Party platform; candidate not quoted. TEAM for a Livable Vancouver publishes 3 commitments on this issue.
0/2
Names a mechanism the office controls
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
0/2
States a measurable target
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
0/1
States a cost or funding source
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
0/1
States a timeline
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
0/1
A dated, sourced action on the issue
No dated public action on this issue found.
0/1
Answered the voche.me question on the issue
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
TEAM for a Livable Vancouver’s platform on homelessness and drugs: 3 commitments, none with a number. Party text earns the candidate the position point only.
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.
Party platform; candidate not quoted. TEAM for a Livable Vancouver publishes 4 commitments on this issue.
0/2
Names a mechanism the office controls
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
0/2
States a measurable target
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
0/1
States a cost or funding source
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
0/1
States a timeline
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
0/1
A dated, sourced action on the issue
No dated public action on this issue found.
0/1
Answered the voche.me question on the issue
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
TEAM for a Livable Vancouver’s platform on public safety: 4 commitments, none with a number. Party text earns the candidate the position point only.
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.
Party platform; candidate not quoted. TEAM for a Livable Vancouver publishes 5 commitments on this issue.
0/2
Names a mechanism the office controls
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
0/2
States a measurable target
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
0/1
States a cost or funding source
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
0/1
States a timeline
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
0/1
A dated, sourced action on the issue
No dated public action on this issue found.
0/1
Answered the voche.me question on the issue
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
TEAM for a Livable Vancouver’s platform on transport: 5 commitments, none with a number. Party text earns the candidate the position point only.
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.
Party platform; candidate not quoted. TEAM for a Livable Vancouver publishes 5 commitments on this issue.
0/2
Names a mechanism the office controls
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
0/2
States a measurable target
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
0/1
States a cost or funding source
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
0/1
States a timeline
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
0/1
A dated, sourced action on the issue
No dated public action on this issue found.
0/1
Answered the voche.me question on the issue
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
TEAM for a Livable Vancouver’s platform on taxes and budget: 5 commitments, none with a number. Party text earns the candidate the position point only.
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.
Party platform; candidate not quoted. TEAM for a Livable Vancouver publishes 7 commitments on this issue.
0/2
Names a mechanism the office controls
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
0/2
States a measurable target
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
0/1
States a cost or funding source
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
0/1
States a timeline
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
0/1
A dated, sourced action on the issue
No dated public action on this issue found.
0/1
Answered the voche.me question on the issue
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
TEAM for a Livable Vancouver’s platform on climate: 7 commitments, at least one with a number. Party text earns the candidate the position point only.
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.
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
TEAM for a Livable Vancouver’s platform on culture: 6 commitments, none with a number. Party text earns the candidate the position point only.
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.
Party platform; candidate not quoted. TEAM for a Livable Vancouver publishes 2 commitments on this issue.
0/2
Names a mechanism the office controls
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
0/2
States a measurable target
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
0/1
States a cost or funding source
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
0/1
States a timeline
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
0/1
A dated, sourced action on the issue
No dated public action on this issue found.
0/1
Answered the voche.me question on the issue
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
TEAM for a Livable Vancouver’s platform on child care: 2 commitments, at least one with a number. Party text earns the candidate the position point only.
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.
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 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.
The campaign page says Sauriol is a lifelong resident of Vancouver and lives in the Champlain Heights neighbourhood.
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.
Sources outside the campaign confirm parts of this work history. DigiBC's own blog carries a post by Sauriol dated October 14, 2014, in which he introduces himself as the new executive director in his second week in the job. A Province of British Columbia news release, the Times Colonist and Business in Vancouver all name him as DigiBC's executive director in 2016. A VanArts news article dated August 26, 2015 names him as an instructor in its Web Development and Interactive Design program.
VanArts announced on August 25, 2026 that it would close its Terminal Avenue campus on August 28, 2026, after 31 years, and that two character animation programs would continue at Vancouver Community College. voche.me found no source that says whether Sauriol still teaches.
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.
17 commitments shown · Checked Oct 3
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.
Daily Hive reports that Sauriol wants more support for local arts and creative industries.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Daily Hive and TEAM's own release announcing his candidacy both quote Sauriol on this in the same words. Neither source names a funding figure or a program.
What still needs checking
Whether this means grant money, cheaper space, or faster permits for venues.
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, the party Sauriol is running with, says that if it forms a Council majority it would repeal as many as six plans: the Vancouver Official Development Plan of March 2026, the Jericho Lands official development plan of 2025, the Rupert and Renfrew Station Area Plan of 2025, the Vancouver Plan of 2022, the Broadway Plan of 2022, and the Villages Plan if Council approves it.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Reported by Daily Hive on July 16, 2026 from the party's announcement. Daily Hive's report of August 6, 2026 says Council rejected the Villages Plan on July 28. The party has not published a legal route for undoing plans already adopted, and no statement by Sauriol on the pledge was found.
What still needs checking
Whether Sauriol has said publicly that the candidate supports repealing each of the six plans.
Sauriol says that if elected he wants Vancouver residents to have a voice in shaping how artificial intelligence gets used, and asks how far software that makes decisions affecting people's lives should be allowed to go.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Posted on Sauriol's own X account. The post names no bylaw, committee or consultation process, and gives no cost or date.
What still needs checking
What process Sauriol would set up for residents to weigh in on City use of AI.
Sauriol says he wants accountable politicians in City Hall.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Posted on Sauriol's own X account, in a post asking for campaign donations. It names no specific rule or process, and gives no cost or date. The same post also says he wants to make the city more affordable for residents, a general goal that names no specific measure, so it is not recorded as a separate commitment.
What still needs checking
What Sauriol means by accountable, and which rule or process he would change.
TEAM's safety page says the party would enforce bylaws against public disorder, set up a Downtown Eastside audit, work with the police and the Province on crime prevention and public drug use, support community policing initiatives such as Block Watch, and work with the Province so people with complex needs get care, including voluntary and involuntary care beds.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
This is the party's published position, on TEAM's safety page. The page does not name Sauriol. It gives no cost, staffing number or date, and asking the Province to fund care beds and enforce drug laws is not a step Council takes on its own vote.
What still needs checking
How the Downtown Eastside audit would be funded and staffed, and by when.
TEAM's transportation page says the party would keep an all-of-the-above approach for roads, transit, cycling and walking, expand bus service into under-served neighbourhoods, oppose city-wide road pricing and new parking permits, repair sidewalks and improve pedestrian lighting, and restore minimum off-street parking requirements for new buildings.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
This is the party's published position, on TEAM's transportation page. It names no candidate, no number of new bus stops and no date.
What still needs checking
Which streets get new sidewalks and lighting first, and what the parking reversal would cost builders.
Limit tax increases and review the budget line by line
TEAM's finance page says the party would limit property tax increases to the rate of inflation, reduce spending on administration and non-core services, and run a line-by-line review of the budget.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
This is the party's published position, on TEAM's finance page. It names no candidate, no dollar figure and no date for the review.
What still needs checking
How much the administration cuts would save, and when the budget review would report back.
TEAM's environment page says the party would expand tree planting and green space protection, work with neighbourhoods on walkable communities, and upgrade city infrastructure to withstand extreme weather and stop sewage and pollution reaching the water.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
This is the party's published position, on TEAM's environment page. It names no candidate, no number of trees or streets and no date.
What still needs checking
How many trees or streets this would cover, and what the infrastructure upgrades would cost.
TEAM's community representation page says the party would move Council to a ward system so each councillor represents one set of neighbourhoods, require that documents be published at least a month before the meeting that decides them, reduce closed-door meetings, and set up a public lobbyist registry.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
This is the party's published position, on TEAM's community representation page. It names no candidate and no date for the change.
What still needs checking
How the ward boundaries would be drawn, and when a lobbyist registry would open.
Protect older rental buildings and set up a renters office
TEAM's planning page says the party would stop demoviction by protecting older rental buildings from demolition, set up a renters office, and retain, upgrade and build new co-ops, with larger units for families.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
This is the party's published position, on TEAM's planning page. It names no candidate, no number of units and no date.
What still needs checking
What protects an older rental building from demolition in practice, and when the renters office would open.
TEAM says it supports a city moratorium on artificial intelligence data centres in Vancouver while local planning rules and regulations are set up. The party listed this on Sauriol's VoteMate profile, and the party's executive director gave the same position to The Tyee.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
This is the party's position, written by TEAM. Neither source quotes Sauriol on data centres, so it is recorded as party text. Neither source says how long the pause would last or which City rule would carry it.
What still needs checking
Whether Sauriol, who has posted about giving residents a voice on City use of AI, supports the pause in his own words.
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 Times Colonist on the day it opened
DigiBC's Made in B.C. showcase in Victoria
DigiBC, which Sauriol led as executive director, presented Made in B.C. at the Victoria Conference Centre: a one-day showcase where 12 B.C. game and virtual reality companies showed their work to students, teachers and tech workers, with a classroom where visitors could try coding. The paper quotes Sauriol on the event's purpose, which was to show young people the jobs available in the industry.
Scope, limits and sources
The Times Colonist is independent reporting. It shows the event ran under DigiBC while Sauriol was its executive director, and it quotes him speaking for the organization. It does not say which tasks he did himself.
Read original statements and reporting, or open the publisher’s video. A summary of a speech is labelled separately from a full recording.
Statement
Statement as DigiBC executive director on coding in schools
A Province of British Columbia news release on $6 million for teacher training and classroom equipment for the coding curriculum quotes Sauriol, as DigiBC's executive director. He says children will learn technology basics they can use in careers such as making video games, building robots, or creating new technology for forestry, mining and energy.
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.
Statement on giving residents a voice over City use of AI
On his own X account, Sauriol says that if elected he wants Vancouver residents to have a voice in shaping how artificial intelligence gets used, and asks how much decision-making power such software should have over people's lives.
Listed as undecided on the Vote Palestine Vancouver platform
Vote Palestine Vancouver, a campaign group registered with Elections BC, lists Sauriol as undecided on its four-point platform. The group says its volunteers recorded the positions and that the list is current as of October 1. voche.me found no statement by Sauriol himself on these points.
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
Times Colonist
Top gaming, virtual reality studios come out to play at Victoria event
Andrew Duffy reports on DigiBC's Made in B.C. showcase in Victoria and quotes Sauriol, as DigiBC's executive director, on careers in game making and on a Coquitlam company's coding lessons for Grades 5 to 7.
Chinese partnership puts Vancouver on path to big film productions
A report on Chinese investment in Vancouver film and visual effects companies says Sauriol, as DigiBC's executive director, had met Chinese producers who were thinking of opening offices in Vancouver. It quotes him saying the local gaming, visual effects, film and TV industries differ from each other but have all grown fast.
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 October 3, 2026. Official records establish decisions; campaign material establishes stated positions; reporting adds investigation and context. None alone establishes every claim.
The end date of the DigiBC role is not confirmed: sources outside the campaign show him starting in October 2014 and still in the role in December 2016, and the campaign says three years. VanArts' own news page names him as an instructor in August 2015, which fits the campaign's eleven years of teaching, but VanArts closed its campus on August 28, 2026 and no source found says whether he still teaches. Wikipedia's article on Corona's Coming Attractions confirms he founded the site and gives an April 1995 launch. The City's councillor candidate list, read through a reader service because vancouver.ca refuses automated requests, shows no social media, website or contact details for him and links his nomination papers, which voche.me has not read. His X account, @Arcane_Bimmer, was read on September 26; on October 3 the reader service that had opened it was blocked for X, so posts after September 17 were not checked. His Instagram (@psauriol) returned a page saying the profile may have been removed, and a Facebook profile under his name returned no readable posts. His VoteMate profile now lists TEAM's party promises but holds no text from him. The Women Transforming Cities pledge table, an image read by eye, leaves his row blank across all six asks. HUB Cycling's published Vancouver answers do not include him. Vote Palestine Vancouver lists him as undecided. No interview, debate report or all-candidates forum listing naming Sauriol was found, and no court, regulator or election-office finding about him was found.
Research status
What voche.me has checked
Evidence reviewed on September 22, 2026 and again on October 3, 2026: current campaign material, the City's candidate list, and older reporting and organization pages that confirm parts of his work history.
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: the end date of the DigiBC role, whether he still teaches after VanArts closed its campus, and a costed plan for simpler City paperwork.
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
From October 2014; still in the role in December 2016
Executive Director, DigiBC
The campaign page says the role lasted three years and was leading a non profit organization that builds and supports British Columbia's creative technology industries. A post by Sauriol on DigiBC's own blog, dated October 14, 2014, says he was then in his second week as executive director. Reporting by the Times Colonist in May 2016 and Business in Vancouver in December 2016 names him in the role. No source found gives the end date.
The campaign page says the courses taught were Online Business Development, Project Management, Broadcasting, and Digital Marketing. A VanArts news article dated August 26, 2015 names him as an instructor in the school's Web Development and Interactive Design program. VanArts closed its campus on August 28, 2026, by its own notice.
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.
Proposed questions for a future interview. They have not been sent to the candidate, and no answers have been supplied.
Which City process would you simplify digitally, and how would non-digital access be preserved?
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 Patrick Sauriol 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 Patrick Sauriol's page itself, answered directly rather than left blank.
Is this an official page for Patrick Sauriol?
No. This page is researched by voche.me from public sources, listed below, and is separate from Patrick Sauriol's own campaign.
What is Patrick Sauriol's ballot number for the 2026 Vancouver election?
Patrick Sauriol is number 142 on the City of Vancouver's official 2026 ballot for City Council.
What party did Patrick Sauriol run with?
Patrick Sauriol ran for City Council with TEAM for a Livable Vancouver.
Does Patrick Sauriol currently hold public office?
Not according to this profile. voche.me has not listed a current public office for Patrick Sauriol.
How many sources does this Patrick Sauriol profile cite?
This profile lists 2 sourced references, each with the date voche.me checked it, in the Sources section below.
Has Patrick Sauriol filed nomination papers for the 2026 election?
voche.me has not yet added a nomination record for Patrick Sauriol. This does not mean no nomination paper was filed, only that voche.me has not completed that research yet.
Why do some questions on Patrick Sauriol's page show no answer?
The "Questions & answers" section on this page lists questions voche.me would put to Patrick Sauriol 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 Patrick Sauriol 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
Record reviewed again
voche.me reopened the party and VoteMate pages, read the City's councillor list and added: a 2014 DigiBC blog post, a 2015 VanArts article, 2016 reports by the Times Colonist and Business in Vancouver, and a 2016 Province of British Columbia release, which together date parts of his work history; VanArts' August 2026 notice that its campus was closing; the Vote Palestine Vancouver candidate list; TEAM's position on AI data centres; and an online food policy town hall on October 13. The biography no longer repeats his ballot listing and his four decades of digital work twice. Voting days from October 3 to 17 were checked against the City's election page and stay as they were.
Score review of every commitment
voche.me checked each commitment against the archived page it cites and tagged it by issue and by whose words it is. The entry on cutting red tape and the entry on simpler city paperwork both restated the same sentence on the campaign page, so they are now one entry. The repeal entry said TEAM would repeal six plans without qualifying the Villages Plan; Daily Hive says the party listed it only if Council approved it, and Council rejected the plan on July 28, so the entry now says so.
Sauriol's own words found, beyond the campaign page
The record held only campaign-page and news-quote statements before this review. Sauriol's X account, @Arcane_Bimmer, is public and holds original posts. Two of them, on giving residents a voice over City use of artificial intelligence and on wanting accountable politicians in City Hall, are now commitments. The Women Transforming Cities pledge table, read by eye since it is an image, leaves his row blank across all six asks.
