Candidate for Vancouver City Council.
Solomon Yi-Kieran, ballot number 155 for City Council in Vancouver, COPE. Profile focus: Youth access to housing and transport.
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Solomon Yi-Kieran is the COPE candidate for Vancouver city council, ballot number 155, in the October 17, 2026 election. This record covers the student union work that built the public profile, the transit and data centre campaigns Yi-Kieran led, the promises published for this election, and how the record has been assessed in print.
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Solomon Yi-Kieran appears on the City of Vancouver's final 2026 candidate list for City Council, with ballot number 155. The City records the affiliation as COPE.
The party page says Yi-Kieran organises on campus and holds the external affairs role at the AMS, the UBC student union. The party page says they worked with student unions and activists to ask members of parliament for a Youth Climate Corps and won $40 million for youth climate jobs. The party page says they led a student team that collected more than 15,000 signatures for the UBC SkyTrain.
Daily Hive's published ballot order lists Yi-Kieran at number 155 for city council with COPE.
COPE nominated its 2026 slate in May 2026. Mike Howell of Vancouver Is Awesome described Yi-Kieran as a public transit activist and named Yi-Kieran as one of five COPE council candidates.
The Ubyssey described Yi-Kieran in March 2025 as a second year history and linguistics student at the University of British Columbia who was then a student senator and vice president of the UBC Disabilities United Collective.
Raymond Tomlin wrote on VanRamblings in August 2026 that Yi-Kieran is in the early 20s, graduated from Glenlyon Norfolk School in Victoria in 2023, and wants to become a high school history teacher. That is a commentary post and the details are as Tomlin reports them.
The COPE candidate page describes Yi-Kieran as a student organizer and transit activist.
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10 commitments shown · Checked Sep 22
Build 20,000 new affordable publicly owned rental homes, with 4,000 of them on city owned land.
Raise Vancouver's empty homes tax to three times its current rate.
Restore the city's Renters Office so tenants have a place to get help.
Put a covered bench at every bus stop in the city.
Extend bus lanes so buses are not held up in traffic.
Create low income transit passes to cut the cost of riding.
Stop new AI data centre approvals in Vancouver until federal, provincial and city rules cover their water and power use, data privacy, jobs and the effect on utility bills.
The party page says Yi-Kieran is campaigning for public transit that is fast and free to ride.
The party page says they want city government to be open about what it does and answerable for it.
The party page says they want the cost of building a life in Vancouver to come within reach.
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Daily Hive reported that about 750 people marched from Waterfront Station to City Hall on May 23, 2026 against proposed Telus AI data centres, and that Yi-Kieran, named as a COPE council candidate, was among the speakers at City Hall.
The AMS held a mock birthday party outside Broadway-City Hall Station on January 14, 2026 to mark eighteen years since the province promised a SkyTrain extension to UBC. Daily Hive quoted Yi-Kieran saying that if the UBC SkyTrain were a person it would be old enough to vote, and that handing in an assignment eighteen years late would fail.
The Ubyssey reported that over 1,000 people attended the rally outside the Nest on October 1, 2025, that Yi-Kieran was the main coordinator, and that the AMS asked governments to release the project business case and fund the extension in the 2026 budget.
The Ubyssey reported the AMS petition passed its 10,000 signature goal. Yi-Kieran said politicians pay attention to numbers and asked the province to release the business case for the project.
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Yi-Kieran is listed at ballot number 155 for city council with COPE.
Raymond Tomlin published a commentary post backing the candidacy. It sets out Yi-Kieran's student union record and campaign priorities, including tenant protections, non market housing, faster transit, and a pause on AI data centres. The post is opinion writing by a civic affairs blogger, not a news report.
Isaac Phan Nay reported on opposition to two Telus AI data centres proposed for 150 W. Georgia Street and 111 E. 5th Avenue. The piece quotes Yi-Kieran, named as a COPE council candidate, arguing the water use is a problem during drought restrictions and calling for a moratorium until rules are in place.
Daniel Chai reported on a march planned for June 27, 2026 from the Vancouver Art Gallery to City Hall. Yi-Kieran was listed among the municipal election candidates scheduled to speak.
Mike Howell reported COPE's slate for the October 17 election and named Yi-Kieran, described as a public transit activist, as one of five council candidates.
Shean Lee reviewed the first half of Yi-Kieran's term as AMS vice president external. The review credits the SkyTrain petition, the rally and a unanimous Vancouver council vote, and records Yi-Kieran's claim of involvement in a $40 million federal commitment for a national Youth Climate Corps. It also records a missed meeting with the provincial housing minister and a tenancy rights report that was not finished.
Kenneth Chan reported on the AMS protest marking eighteen years since the 2008 provincial promise of a SkyTrain extension to UBC, and quoted Yi-Kieran at length.
Trinity Sala, Will Gust and Elif Zaimler reported that over 1,000 people attended the October 1 rally, that the petition had passed 15,000 signatures, and that councillors Lucy Maloney and Sean Orr planned to bring a motion to Vancouver council on October 8.
Amardeep Bains reported the petition passed 10,000 signatures and set out the AMS campaign plan, including the October 1 march and lobbying.
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
Vancouver Is Awesome · May 14, 2026
The Tyee · July 10, 2026
Daily Hive · May 25, 2026
Daily Hive · June 22, 2026
Daily Hive · January 15, 2026
The Ubyssey · February 4, 2026
The Ubyssey · October 6, 2025
The Ubyssey · September 8, 2025
VanRamblings · August 20, 2026
The campaign site solomonxyk.ca did not return a readable page. The claim that Yi-Kieran helped secure $40 million in federal funding for a Youth Climate Corps appears on COPE's candidate page, on the VoteMate profile and in The Ubyssey's midterm review, where it is reported as Yi-Kieran's own account of the work; no federal document naming Yi-Kieran was found. The Vancouver council motion on the UBC SkyTrain was moved by councillors Lucy Maloney and Sean Orr, so no council vote is attributed to Yi-Kieran here. A reported role as COPE equity chair could not be checked against an opened page and is left out. No all-candidates meeting or campaign event between September 22 and October 17, 2026 naming Yi-Kieran was found.
Evidence reviewed on September 22, 2026: Current campaign material; biographical claims require corroboration.
Campaign page read on September 22, 2026. 3 stated positions and 3 background facts recorded here, each checked against a quotation from that page.
Checks still to do: Verify the student-government role and any claimed funding or petition outcomes through original records.
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 Ubyssey's midterm review of the role, published February 2026, credits Yi-Kieran with the SkyTrain extension campaign, a petition that passed 15,000 signatures, a rally, and closer working relationships with outside organisations. The same review records a missed meeting with the provincial housing minister and an unfinished tenancy rights report.
Midterm review: VP External Solomon Yi-KieranThe Ubyssey's candidate profile, published March 3, 2025, states Yi-Kieran was then serving as a student senator.
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