This record covers Rebecca Hasdell, candidate number 114 for Vancouver City Council with Vote Vancouver. It draws on the campaign pages, her answers to HUB Cycling's election survey, two advocacy groups' records of her positions, news reports of the party's candidate announcement and the ballot order, and institutional records of a public health research career.
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 rules5/10
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A position in the candidate’s own words
“I want to use city land to partner on building homes for people who face the steepest barriers, so that Vancouver remains a place where everyone has a chance to thrive.”
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
Vote 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. Vote Vancouver publishes 4 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.
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States a measurable target
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
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States a cost or funding source
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States a timeline
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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.
Vote Vancouver’s platform on homelessness and drugs: 4 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.
“whether that means building more housing, improving public safety, investing in vibrant neighbourhoods, or ensuring families can afford to thrive here”
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
Vote 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.
“I would be a champion for City decisions that make walking, biking and rolling the safer and easier choice for everyday trips, including children's commute to school.”
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
Vote Vancouver’s platform on transport: 1 commitment, 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. Vote Vancouver publishes 1 commitment on this issue.
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Names a mechanism the office controls
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States a measurable target
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States a cost or funding source
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States a timeline
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A dated, sourced action on the issue
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Answered the voche.me question on the issue
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
Vote Vancouver’s platform on taxes and budget: 1 commitment, 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. Vote Vancouver publishes 2 commitments on this issue.
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Names a mechanism the office controls
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States a measurable target
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States a cost or funding source
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States a timeline
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
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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.
Vote Vancouver’s platform on climate: 2 commitments, none 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.
Party platform; candidate not quoted. Vote Vancouver publishes 3 commitments on this issue.
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Names a mechanism the office controls
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States a measurable target
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States a cost or funding source
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States a timeline
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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.
Vote Vancouver’s platform on culture: 3 commitments, at least one 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. Vote Vancouver publishes 1 commitment on this issue.
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Names a mechanism the office controls
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A dated, sourced action on the issue
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Answered the voche.me question on the issue
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
Vote Vancouver’s platform on child care: 1 commitment, none 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 Rebecca Hasdell
Rebecca Hasdell appears on the City of Vancouver's final 2026 candidate list for City Council, with ballot number 114. The City records the affiliation as Vote Vancouver.
The Vote Vancouver candidate page describes Hasdell as a public health researcher with more than 15 years in public policy, health promotion and community development, and says the current work is a leadership role at the BC Centre for Disease Control.
The Conversation's author profile lists Hasdell as lead for determinants of health and health equity in population and public health at the BC Centre for Disease Control, an affiliate scientist with the UBC Centre for Disease Control, and adjunct faculty in UBC's Northern Medical Program.
The same profile says Hasdell holds a PhD and a Master of Public Health in social and behavioural sciences from the University of Toronto and a BA from the University of Calgary. The University of Toronto's thesis library holds her doctoral thesis, dated June 2019, from the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, on how public health policy is made for smaller cities and rural areas in northern British Columbia.
Stanford University's Basic Income Lab lists Hasdell as a former research advisor and postdoctoral fellow who led a review of global evidence on cash transfer programs, and describes earlier work with local governments and non-profits on poverty reduction, food access and environmental health.
Hasdell has two co-authored articles on The Conversation, a defence of Canada's Food Guide published February 1, 2019 and a 2020 piece on an anti-poverty tax credit in the United States.
Daily Hive reported on May 25, 2026 that Vote Vancouver had endorsed its first nine candidates, with Hasdell among four council candidates, described as a public health scientist with the BC Centre for Disease Control and a UBC adjunct professor.
Daily Hive published the full ballot order on September 22, 2026, listing Hasdell at number 114 for council with Vote Vancouver.
In HUB Cycling's 2026 election survey, read on October 3, 2026, Hasdell answered yes to all three of the cycling charity's asks and wrote that she is a daily cyclist.
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.
14 commitments shown · Checked Oct 3
2026 · Public servicesCampaign pledge
Open city spaces for services and recreation
Hasdell says she wants to make city spaces available so that more services and recreation reach neighbourhoods, which she says would ease everyday affordability pressures.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Stated in the first person on the personal campaign site, on a page written while Hasdell was seeking the Vote Vancouver nomination. The page gives no building, service, cost or date. The party candidate page does not carry this commitment. The sentence names no space and no service, so voche.me tags it to no scored issue. A person can change the tag if a source ties it to one.
What still needs checking
Which city spaces Hasdell has in mind and what services would go in them.
City land for housing people facing the greatest barriers
Hasdell says she wants to use city land to partner on building homes for people who face the greatest barriers, so that Vancouver remains a place where everyone has a chance to thrive.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Stated in the first person on the personal campaign site, on a page written while Hasdell was seeking the Vote Vancouver nomination. The page names no number of homes, partner, site, cost or date.
What still needs checking
Which sites and which partners, and how the homes would be paid for.
Hasdell says she wants to make it easier for businesses to start up, which she says would create good local jobs that strengthen the economy.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Stated in the first person on the personal campaign site, on a page written while Hasdell was seeking the Vote Vancouver nomination. The sentence names no licence, permit, fee, number or date.
What still needs checking
Which licence, permit or fee Hasdell would change first, and by when.
The Vote Vancouver candidate page says Hasdell believes local government should be responsive, transparent, and focused on delivering results for residents.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The sentence is on Hasdell's candidate page on the party site, written in the third person. VoteMate carries the same words in a biography it labels as submitted by the candidate or their team. The sentence names no rule, reporting requirement, number, cost or date.
What still needs checking
Which City Hall practices Hasdell would change, and how residents would see the change.
The party's housing page, written in the name of "Rebecca", lists these commitments: work with community land trusts and community organizations to build more co-op and community housing while keeping public land in community ownership; support housing that connects residents with mental health and addiction services, case management, and employment and training services; simplify and speed up the development process; use public land to build permanently affordable homes for middle-income earners, with not-for-profit childcare included in new developments; make it easier to redevelop qualifying sites into mixed-use communities with new homes; and work to replace unsafe single-room occupancy buildings with affordable supportive housing.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
This is the party's published housing platform. The page uses the first name Rebecca and no surname. The party platform page links "Rebecca's Plan for Vancouver" to the Policy Priorities document, which is headed "Why Rebecca Bligh?" and ends "Vote Rebecca Bligh for Mayor.", so voche.me reads the plan as Bligh's, the party's candidate for mayor. The page does not name Hasdell as the person who will act, and it gives no number, cost or date for housing.
What still needs checking
Whether Hasdell states a position on each of these items during the campaign.
2026 · Evidence-based decisions at city hallCampaign pledge
Evidence-based decision-making
The candidate page says Hasdell brings evidence-based decision-making and a practical approach to solving complex problems.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The sentence describes the approach Hasdell brings from her work at the BC Centre for Disease Control. It is on the party candidate page and in the VoteMate biography. It names no City decision, rule, number, cost or date, so voche.me tags it to no scored issue.
What still needs checking
Which City decisions Hasdell would apply this approach to, and how she would show the evidence.
2026 · Housing, food security and climateCampaign pledge
Housing, food security and climate
The page says Hasdell's work has covered housing affordability, food security, climate resilience, and public health.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
This describes work Hasdell has done, on the party candidate page and in the VoteMate biography. It is background, so voche.me tags it to no scored issue.
What still needs checking
Which of these topics Hasdell would act on at City Hall, and with which measure.
Hasdell says she will bring leadership focused on solutions, so that Vancouver is a city where people can afford to stay, build their lives and take part in their communities.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
This is the reason Hasdell gives for running, in the first person on the personal campaign site. It names no City issue, measure, number, cost or date, so voche.me tags it to no scored issue.
What still needs checking
Which City decisions Hasdell would change so that people can afford to stay in Vancouver.
The candidate page says Hasdell understands that the city's success depends on making it more livable for all, and it lists improving public safety among the ways to do that.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The same sentence also lists building more housing, investing in vibrant neighbourhoods and ensuring families can afford to thrive. It is on the party candidate page, written in the third person, and repeats in the VoteMate biography. It names no public safety measure, number, cost or date.
What still needs checking
Which public safety measure Hasdell would put first, and which part of it Council can decide.
Safer walking and cycling, including trips to school
HUB Cycling asked candidates to support 30 km/h speeds on local streets, with traffic calming for young people travelling to and from school. Hasdell answered yes and wrote that she would support City decisions that make walking, cycling and rolling the safer and easier choice for everyday trips, including children's trips to school.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The 30 km/h ask is HUB Cycling's wording, and her own answer does not repeat the speed limit. Her answer names no street, number, cost or date, and it carries no date of its own.
What still needs checking
Which streets she would change first, and whether she supports the 30 km/h limit in her own words.
Street safety work in underserved neighbourhoods first
HUB Cycling asked candidates to put speed reductions and quick street safety upgrades in neighbourhoods that have been underserved in the past first. Hasdell answered yes.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
She left the space for comments empty, so the only words are HUB Cycling's ask and her yes. The answer names no neighbourhood, number, cost or date.
What still needs checking
Which neighbourhoods she would put first, and how she would choose them.
HUB Cycling asked candidates to join local bike routes to the regional network faster, with routes separated from traffic. Hasdell answered yes. She wrote that she cycles every day and supports closing the gaps so that cycling is a safe, continuous and practical way to get around.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Her answer supports the ask and names the problem. It names no route, length, cost or date.
What still needs checking
Which gaps she would close first, at what cost, and by when.
In her HUB Cycling answers Hasdell wrote that Vote Vancouver will create a seasonal bike valet program in underused EasyPark spaces in the downtown core, starting where routes for cyclists of all ages and abilities are already in place, so that people know their bike is safe at the end of their trip. The party's policy priorities document describes the program as free, secure and monitored bike storage.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
She states the party's plan in her own signed answer. Her answer names the place and the kind of program. It names no number of sites, cost or start date.
What still needs checking
How many EasyPark sites would have a valet, what it would cost each year, and when it would start.
Women Transforming Cities, a Vancouver charity, asked candidates to commit to six asks: housing access, transit and mobility, community spaces, food security, public washrooms and gender safety. Its results table marks Hasdell as committing to all six.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The results table is an image with no text version, which voche.me read by eye. The page carries no words from Hasdell, and the wording of each ask belongs to the charity.
What still needs checking
Which of the six asks she would bring to Council first.
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.
Published; the journal says it is the opinion of the BC Centre for Disease Control and was not peer reviewed
Co-wrote a BC Medical Journal column on housing and health
Hasdell and Jia Hu, the centre's medical lead for prevention and health promotion, wrote the two-page column Housing: An important determinant of health (volume 66, number 9, pages 350 to 351). It names four ways housing affects health: affordability, residential stability, conditions and quality, and neighbourhood factors. It says the evidence linking housing and health is clear and that the effects in the BC context need more study.
Scope, limits and sources
The journal gives the issue as November 2024 and no day, so voche.me dates the entry the first of that month. The column is addressed to physicians and sets out no measure for the City to take. It shows published work on housing from her health career.
First-named author of a BC Centre for Disease Control report on household food insecurity
The report Priority Health Equity Indicators for British Columbia: Household Food Insecurity Update Report, October 2023, lists Hasdell first among three authors. It shares literature on household food insecurity and reports how common it is in British Columbia.
Scope, limits and sources
The report gives the month only, so voche.me dates the entry the first of that month. Food security is not one of the issues scored for City Council, so the entry carries no issue tag.
Author of a Stanford Basic Income Lab review of the evidence on basic income
The lab's page lists Hasdell as author of What We Know About Universal Basic Income: A Cross-Synthesis of Reviews, published July 2020. The page says the report compiles and critically examines 16 reviews of the evidence on basic income programs.
Scope, limits and sources
The page gives the month only, so voche.me dates the entry the first of that month. Basic income is not one of the issues scored for City Council, so the entry carries no issue tag.
Accepted by the University of Toronto; the thesis is in the university's library
Completed a doctoral thesis on public health policy for northern British Columbia
The thesis, The Space in Between: Healthy Public Policy Development in Canada's Provincial North, studies how public health policy is planned for smaller cities and rural areas, using food stores in northern British Columbia as the example. The abstract says the work was done through a partnership between a university and a community in northern British Columbia and took two years in the field, with workshops, interviews and store surveys.
Scope, limits and sources
The record gives June 2019 and no day, so voche.me dates the entry the first of that month. The thesis sets out no measure for the City of Vancouver, so the entry carries no issue tag.
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Statement
Answers to HUB Cycling's election survey
Hasdell answered yes to all three of HUB Cycling's asks: 30 km/h local streets with traffic calming, street safety work in underserved neighbourhoods first, and joining local bike routes to the regional network. In her written answers she said her career in public health has focused on healthy, active cities, that she cycles every day, and that Vote Vancouver will create a seasonal bike valet program in underused EasyPark spaces downtown. The answers carry no date, so this date is the day voche.me read them.
The charity's results table, published September 16, 2026, marks Hasdell as committing to all six of its Our City Hall asks. The table is an image and carries no statement in her own words.
Listed as declining the Vote Palestine Vancouver platform
Vote Palestine Vancouver, a campaign group, lists Hasdell as having declined its four-point platform. In the group's words the points are: condemn the genocide, sign the Apartheid Free Communities pledge, cut ties with Israeli institutions including reviewing contracts, and recognize the Arab Canadian Lawyers Association framework of anti-Palestinian racism. The group says its volunteers recorded the positions and that the list is current as of October 1. voche.me found no statement by Hasdell herself 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
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Reporting
Daily Hive
Vote Vancouver party announces first nine candidates to run in civic election
Vote Vancouver endorsed a mayoral candidate and eight others, with Hasdell among four council candidates. The article describes the party as big-tent and centrist and quotes party founder Rebecca Bligh on the team.
Vancouver's 2026 civic election candidate list is set: All 130 names in ballot order
Daily Hive lists all 130 candidates in the order of the official ballot. Hasdell is number 114 for City Council, with Vote Vancouver. The article says Vote Vancouver has six council candidates.
Sources checked October 3, 2026. Official records establish decisions; campaign material establishes stated positions; reporting adds investigation and context. None alone establishes every claim.
As of October 3, 2026, voche.me found no interview, speech, forum report or news story about the Hasdell council campaign beyond the party announcement of May 25, 2026 and the ballot lists of September 2026. Her own words on a City issue were found in one place outside her campaign sites: her answers to HUB Cycling's survey. Smart Density Vancouver's questionnaire page, last updated August 24, 2026, shows her answer as awaiting response, and shows the same for every other candidate it lists. A search tool summary said a LinkedIn post by Hasdell supports lifting the City's pause on new supportive housing. LinkedIn returned HTTP 999 to automated reads, so voche.me could not read the post and records nothing from it. Her Instagram account shows 149 posts, and the post captions could not be read by automated tools. Facebook shows only a login page. The BC Centre for Disease Control's staff page says she held senior policy roles in municipal and federal government before her current position, and it names no employer or date. The Conversation's author profile lists the title Lead, Population Health Initiatives and Innovation with a start year of 2023, adjunct faculty in the Northern Medical Program from 2017 and affiliate scientist at the UBC Centre for Disease Control from 2024. Those are the profile's own dates, and a centre report of October 2023 lists Hasdell as a postdoctoral research fellow. voche.me found no elected office held by Hasdell, so there is no voting record to report. The City's candidate page returned HTTP 403 again on October 3.
Research status
What voche.me has checked
Evidence reviewed on October 3, 2026: the personal campaign site, the party candidate page, candidate list, platform, events and news pages, the party's policy priorities document, the VoteMate profile, HUB Cycling's survey answers, the Women Transforming Cities pledge results, the Vote Palestine Vancouver candidate list, Smart Density Vancouver's questionnaire page, forum listings for October, Daily Hive's ballot list and the University of Toronto's record of her doctoral thesis. Earlier reviews on September 25, 2026 covered the BC Centre for Disease Control staff page and three publications listed on this record.
The personal campaign site was written while Hasdell was seeking the Vote Vancouver nomination and states her priorities in her own words. Each statement of hers recorded here is checked against a quotation from the page it came from.
Checks still to do: open the City's candidate page, which returned HTTP 403 to automated reads, read Hasdell's social media posts, which need a login, and ask Hasdell for measurable targets, costs and dates.
The ballot name, office, ballot number and party label come from the City's final candidate list. Statements from campaign pages are the campaign's own account and have not been confirmed by an independent source.
03 / Background
Experience & community
As of 2026
Lead, determinants of health and health equity, BC Centre for Disease Control
The centre's own staff page gives the title lead for Health Equity and Determinants of Health for Population and Public Health. The Conversation's author profile lists a lead role there, and the campaign page describes a leadership role there.
Listed on both The Conversation profile and Stanford's Basic Income Lab page.
Earlier
Research advisor and postdoctoral fellow, Basic Income Lab, Stanford University
Stanford's page says the work at the lab was a review of global evidence on cash transfer programs, looking at outcomes across different settings and populations.
2019
PhD, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
The university's thesis library lists her thesis, The Space in Between: Healthy Public Policy Development in Canada's Provincial North, dated June 2019. The title page says it was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
Proposed questions for a future interview. They have not been sent to the candidate, and no answers have been supplied.
Which city-controlled housing or food-security measure would you implement first, and how would you evaluate it?
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 Rebecca Hasdell 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 Rebecca Hasdell's page itself, answered directly rather than left blank.
Is this an official page for Rebecca Hasdell?
No. This page is researched by voche.me from public sources, listed below, and is separate from Rebecca Hasdell's own campaign.
What is Rebecca Hasdell's ballot number for the 2026 Vancouver election?
Rebecca Hasdell is number 114 on the City of Vancouver's official 2026 ballot for City Council.
What party did Rebecca Hasdell run with?
Rebecca Hasdell ran for City Council with Vote Vancouver.
Does Rebecca Hasdell currently hold public office?
Not according to this profile. voche.me has not listed a current public office for Rebecca Hasdell.
How many sources does this Rebecca Hasdell profile cite?
This profile lists 3 sourced references, each with the date voche.me checked it, in the Sources section below.
Has Rebecca Hasdell filed nomination papers for the 2026 election?
voche.me has not yet added a nomination record for Rebecca Hasdell. This does not mean no nomination paper was filed, only that voche.me has not completed that research yet.
Why do some questions on Rebecca Hasdell's page show no answer?
The "Questions & answers" section on this page lists questions voche.me would put to Rebecca Hasdell 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 Rebecca Hasdell 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
October review: survey answers, two lists, a forum and a confirmed degree
voche.me searched again for statements, reporting, questionnaires and forums. Added: her answers to HUB Cycling's 2026 election survey, recorded as four transportation commitments; the Women Transforming Cities pledge results, which mark her as committing to all six asks; Vote Palestine Vancouver's list, which records her as declining its platform; Daily Hive's ballot list of September 22; the online food systems town hall on October 13, which does not name her; and the University of Toronto's record of her 2019 doctoral thesis, which confirms the PhD. A biography paragraph that repeated the next paragraph was removed. The research date moved to October 3, 2026. No calendar event fell before that date, so none was removed.
Open-spaces entry no longer credited to the party page
The entry said the open-spaces priority on the personal campaign site was echoed on the party candidate page. The party candidate page does not carry it, so the entry now cites the campaign site only and follows its wording.
The land entry said the largest barriers to housing. The campaign site speaks of people who face the steepest barriers, and the entry now says the greatest barriers. The business entry said the pledge would reduce the steps a business must take. The site names no steps, so the entry now says only that she wants to make it easier for businesses to start up and create local jobs.
An earlier entry combined two sentences from the party candidate page into one pledge to run a city hall that bases decisions on evidence, and a second entry repeated part of it. The page says she brings evidence-based decision-making and a practical approach to solving complex problems, which describes her work at the BC Centre for Disease Control. The page says separately that she believes local government should be responsive, transparent, and focused on delivering results. Each sentence now has one entry, and the repeated entry was removed. The priority summary on this page was corrected to match.
The entry now follows the party housing page, which is written in the name of Rebecca and is linked from the platform page to a document about Rebecca Bligh. The page speaks of unsafe single-room occupancy buildings, and the entry now says so.
The page returned only site navigation on September 22 and was read in full on September 25. It gives the title lead for Health Equity and Determinants of Health for Population and Public Health.
