Candidate for the Vancouver Park Board.
T'uy't'tanat Cease Wyss, ballot number 203 for Park Board in Vancouver, COPE. Profile focus: Ecological restoration and public access.
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T'uy't'tanat Cease Wyss is the COPE candidate for Park Board, ballot number 203, in the October 17, 2026 election. This record covers a long public career as an artist, ethnobotanist and educator, and the short set of park promises published for this campaign.
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.
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T'uy't'tanat Cease Wyss appears on the City of Vancouver's final 2026 candidate list for Park Board, with ballot number 203. The City records the affiliation as COPE.
The party page describes Wyss as an Indigenous matriarch of the Skwxwu7mesh, Sto:lo and Hawaiian people. The party page says Wyss has practised for 30 years as an ethnobotanist, a person who studies how communities use plants, and as an artist, activist and educator. The party page says Wyss works to share Indigenous customs and teachings for cultural and environmental preservation.
Daily Hive's published ballot order lists Cease Wyss at number 203 for Park Board with COPE.
COPE nominated its 2026 slate in May 2026. Mike Howell of Vancouver Is Awesome named Cease Wyss, described as an Indigenous ethnobotanist, as one of COPE's park board candidates.
Charlie Smith wrote in Pancouver in March 2025 that Cease Wyss is an Indigenous matriarch of Skwxwu7mesh, Sto:lo and Kanaka Maoli descent, with Irish-Metis and Swiss heritage, and works as a multimedia artist, ethnobotanist, educator, weaver, beekeeper and curator.
Wikipedia's article describes an interdisciplinary practice of more than thirty years covering visual art, fibre arts, ethnobotany, storytelling and community education, and names Raven and Hummingbird Tea Co as a business co-owned by Cease Wyss.
Wikipedia records three awards: the City of Vancouver Mayor's Arts Award in 2010, an honorary doctorate from Emily Carr University in 2022, and a VIVA Award from the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation in 2024. Pancouver reports the VIVA Award carried a $15,000 prize.
COPE's park board page says Cease Wyss has thirty years of work as an ethnobotanist, artist, activist and educator, centred on Indigenous plant restoration and cultural preservation.
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Push for parks that are looked after and paid for properly, and for recreation people can afford to use.
COPE, the party Cease Wyss runs with, lists affordable recreation, more cycling routes, a wider tree canopy for hotter summers, restoring natural areas, and keeping parks usable for families and older people.
The party page says Wyss sees the park board as central to keeping and strengthening green space in the city.
The party page says Wyss would work for parks that last, recreation people can afford, and support for people at risk, families and children.
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Cease Wyss is listed at ballot number 203 for Park Board with COPE.
Mike Howell reported COPE's full slate for the October 17 election and named Cease Wyss, described as an Indigenous ethnobotanist, as one of three park board candidates chosen at the party's May meeting.
Charlie Smith profiled the artistic and ethnobotanical practice, covering the New Growth garden, the Museum of Vancouver Indigenous plant garden, the Journey to Kaho'olawe essays and the 2024 VIVA Award. The piece was published more than a year before the 2026 candidacy and does not cover the campaign.
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
Pancouver · March 26, 2025
The VoteMate profile for Cease Wyss is empty, with no biography and no policy answers submitted, so the only campaign policy material is the short paragraph on COPE's park board page. No interview, speech or debate appearance about this campaign was found. A Georgia Straight headline dated October 8, 2014 points to an earlier COPE candidacy, and a 2018 headline points to a residency at the Vancouver Public Library, but neither article could be opened, so neither is recorded above. No campaign event between September 22 and October 17, 2026 naming Cease Wyss 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 3 background facts recorded here, each checked against a quotation from that page.
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Wikipedia and Pancouver both describe this site specific project, made with the arts organisation 221A, which turned an empty Vancouver lot into a Pacific Northwest rainforest garden and taught urban Indigenous youth about medicinal plants and permaculture.
Ethnobotanist T'uy't'tanat Cease Wyss reclaims people as well as the land in her artistic practiceWikipedia lists this as a collaborative set of bioremediation gardens planted across Vancouver.
Pancouver reports that Cease Wyss oversaw the design of the Indigenous plant garden at the Museum of Vancouver.
Ethnobotanist T'uy't'tanat Cease Wyss reclaims people as well as the land in her artistic practiceProposed questions for a future interview. They have not been sent to the candidate, and no answers have been supplied.
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