Candidate for the Vancouver Park Board.
Sacia Burton, ballot number 215 for Park Board in Vancouver, COPE. Profile focus: Affordable community spaces.
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This record covers Sacia Burton, the COPE candidate for Park Board at ballot number 215 in the October 17, 2026 Vancouver election. It sets out the party biography, the detailed list of 19 commitments filed with VoteMate, and the party announcements that record the nomination.
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.
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Sacia Burton appears on the City of Vancouver's final 2026 candidate list for Park Board, with ballot number 215. The City records the affiliation as COPE.
The party page says Burton is Co-director of the BC Poverty Reduction Coalition and has worked in social policy advocacy and organizing in Vancouver.
The COPE parks page describes Burton as co-director of the BC Poverty Reduction Coalition, with knowledge of how government systems work and connections across social policy advocacy and organising in Vancouver.
COPE's August 8, 2026 announcement describes Burton as a BC Poverty Reduction Coalition organiser.
The VoteMate profile describes Burton as a policy advocate and organiser who has worked on housing rights, transit equity and climate action, and who wants to bring those priorities to the Park Board.
COPE members chose the 2026 slate at a meeting at the Rio Theatre in East Vancouver on May 12, 2026, nominating Burton for Park Board alongside T'uy't'tanat Cease Wyss and Jamie Han. Tamiko Suzuki was added as a fourth Park Board candidate on August 8, 2026.
Daily Hive published the final ballot order on September 22, 2026, listing Sacia Burton at number 215 for Park Board under COPE. The COPE parks page shows the same number.
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17 commitments shown · Checked Sep 22
Phase out natural gas heating in public facilities.
Look at capturing solar energy at community centres.
Expand the urban forest canopy to 30 percent by 2050, planting native species chosen to survive a changing climate.
Join up cycling and walking networks so they reach community centres.
Add lighting to the Expo Line cycleway and walking path.
Add bike racks and secure bike parking at community centres.
Secure renewal funding for the Renfrew, Strathcona and Thunderbird community centres.
Change public washroom hours from dawn to dusk to 24 hours a day.
Add more universal and gender neutral washrooms, and install change tables in public facilities.
Make community centre kitchens available for food literacy programmes.
Look at using city greenhouses to grow free plant starters for households on low incomes.
Coordinate community gardens so that more people can get growing space.
Create signage and learning tools that give local Indigenous names for plants and animals, co-manage suitable sites with the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh nations, and make traditional place names more widely known.
Create off-leash spaces in Mount Pleasant and Grandview, plant more trees for shade at dog parks, and add water, waste bags and rubbish bins.
COPE's parks platform sets out real investment in parks and recreation rather than minimum upkeep, affordable recreation, support for vulnerable people, families and children, more cycling infrastructure, tree canopy growth to reduce extreme heat, and facilities that work for families and seniors. This is the party's platform.
The party page says Burton would work to keep parks, community centres and public spaces affordable and sustainable for future generations.
The party page says Burton believes public spaces should be places where people meet, learn and get to know their neighbours.
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The published ballot order lists Sacia Burton at number 215 for Park Board, one of four COPE candidates in that race alongside T'uy't'tanat Cease Wyss, Jamie Han and Tamiko Suzuki.
Sources checked September 22, 2026. Official records establish decisions; campaign material establishes stated positions; reporting adds investigation and context. None alone establishes every claim.
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Daily Hive · September 22, 2026
No news article about Burton was found beyond the ballot listing. Business in Vancouver published a report on the OneCity and COPE slates, but that page refuses automated requests and was not read, so it is not cited here. The personal campaign address that the VoteMate profile gives, saciaburton.votecope.ca, returned a page not found error. Nothing independent confirms the co-director role at the BC Poverty Reduction Coalition, since both statements of it come from COPE. No interview, opinion piece or debate appearance was found. The Mount Pleasant Community Centre Association all candidates meeting on September 23 lists COPE's Park Board participant as still to be announced, so Burton's attendance is not confirmed. No public accountability record was found.
Evidence reviewed on September 22, 2026: Current campaign material; biographical claims require corroboration.
Campaign page read on September 22, 2026. 2 stated positions and 1 background fact recorded here, each checked against a quotation from that page.
Checks still to do: Confirm the organizational role and obtain an individual access 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.
The COPE parks page names Burton as co-director of the coalition, and COPE's August 2026 announcement calls Burton an organiser with the same group. Neither page gives a start date, and the coalition's own site was not checked.
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