This record covers Tyler Petersen, the OneCity candidate for Park Board at ballot number 214 in the October 17, 2026 Vancouver election. It sets out the party biography, Petersen's answers to the Vancouver Public Space Network survey, party releases that quote Petersen, the campaign's own Instagram posts, and the reporting and endorsement lists that name the candidate.
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.
Parks and recreation6/10
2/2
A position in the candidate’s own words
“Now they're running to bring that same approach to the Park Board - improving affordability, advancing equity, and rebuilding the trust past city governments have lost.”
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
OneCity’s platform on parks: 1 commitment, none with a number. Party text earns the candidate the position point only.
What this office controls. Vancouver is the only major city in Canada with a separately elected park board. Its seven commissioners control parks, community centres, pools, rinks and beaches.
“Now they're running to bring that same approach to the Park Board - improving affordability, advancing equity, and rebuilding the trust past city governments have lost.”
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.
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
OneCity’s platform on taxes and budget: 4 commitments, none with a number. Party text earns the candidate the position point only.
What this office controls. The Park Board sets its own fees and approves its budget request. Council approves the City budget that funds it and the capital plan that pays for park buildings.
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
What this office controls. The Park Board manages trees, natural areas and the shoreline inside parks, and its own community centres, pools and rinks. The City’s building bylaw is Council’s.
“update Parks, Recreation, and Library rules to explicitly ban wearable recording devices in pools, change rooms, washrooms, and other municipal spaces”
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
OneCity’s platform on public safety: 9 commitments, none with a number. Party text earns the candidate the position point only.
What this office controls. The Park Board makes the bylaws and rules for parks and beaches and runs the park rangers. Policing is the Vancouver Police Department’s, and Council approves its budget.
Party platform; candidate not quoted. OneCity 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.
OneCity’s platform on transport: 2 commitments, at least one with a number. Party text earns the candidate the position point only.
What this office controls. The Park Board decides the roads, paths and parking inside parks, including Stanley Park Drive. City streets and bike lanes outside parks are Council’s.
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 Tyler Petersen
Tyler Petersen appears on the City of Vancouver's final 2026 candidate list for Park Board, with ballot number 214. The City records the affiliation as OneCity.
The OneCity candidate page describes Petersen as a biologist, labour activist and union leader.
The OneCity candidate page says Petersen's union work involved negotiating, building agreement between people and getting results at the bargaining table. The page does not name the union.
The VoteMate profile describes Petersen as a biologist, labour activist and environmentalist, and states an aim to be a voice for accessibility, accountability, transparency and inclusion on the Park Board.
The Georgia Straight reported on May 11, 2026 and Daily Hive on May 12, 2026 that OneCity members selected Petersen for the Park Board alongside former commissioner John Irwin and BC NDP constituency advisor Dominic Denofrio. Both reports describe Petersen as a biologist and labour activist.
Daily Hive published the final ballot order on September 22, 2026, listing Tyler Petersen at number 214 for Park Board under OneCity.
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.
OneCity's August 29, 2026 City Hall bulletin, written by fellow candidate John Irwin, said Petersen attended an August 26 town hall on Renfrew Community Centre hosted by MLA Adrian Dix, representing OneCity alongside mayoral candidate William Azaroff and council candidate Iona Bonamis.
In answers to the Vancouver Public Space Network's 2026 Park Board survey, published on October 3, 2026, Petersen writes of having worked for an Indigenous matriarch for a number of years, and of more than four years of similar work at the provincial level, meeting community groups and attending their meetings. An Instagram post from the campaign on the same day says Petersen has worked within the provincial constituency of Vancouver-Strathcona for the past few years. Neither source names the employer or the job title, and voche.me has not confirmed either claim with an independent source.
The Vancouver and District Labour Council lists Petersen among the seven Park Board candidates it endorses for 2026. Petersen's Instagram account also posted thanks on October 3, 2026 for endorsements from Laura Christensen and from Susan Tatoosh. Those two endorsements are the campaign's own posts, and voche.me read only the captions.
CTV News quoted Petersen, with the surname spelled Peterson, on September 29, 2026, speaking for OneCity's plan to renew the Britannia community centre site. Petersen's own Instagram post of October 1 shares that report and points out the spelling.
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 · AffordabilityCampaign pledge
Make park and recreation programmes more affordable
Improve affordability in what the Park Board runs.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The OneCity candidate page and the VoteMate profile both state affordability as a goal. Neither names a fee, a programme or a target.
What still needs checking
Which fees or programmes would change, and by how much?
Make sure community centres and libraries that are designated places of refuge are themselves safe during extreme heat, extreme cold, poor air quality and earthquakes.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
This is OneCity's four year Cool, Clean Air and Safe Spaces strategy, announced on August 5, 2026, which covers City, Park Board and School Board buildings and proposes MERV-13 filter standards, heat pumps and interim Corsi-Rosenthal box filters. Petersen is quoted in the announcement supporting it. The strategy is the party's, and the quoted support is Petersen's. In the Vancouver Public Space Network survey published October 3, 2026, Petersen repeats the point: community centres and indoor pools should have enough cooling and air filtering during heat waves and wildfire smoke. No building list or cost is given.
What still needs checking
How many Park Board buildings lack cooling or filtration today, and what would the upgrades cost?
Raise Park Board income with a gift shop program in some parks
Start a gift shop program in some parks so people can give money to the parks they use without any fee going up, and, with Council, let the Park Board keep the money it earns.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The survey answer and the party release both name the gift shop program. Neither gives the money it would raise, what it would cost to start, or a start date. Letting the Board keep its own revenue needs a Council decision.
What still needs checking
How much would the gift shops raise each year, and in which parks would they open first?
Seek provincial and federal money for park projects
Finish the planning on several park projects so they are ready to build, then ask the provincial and federal governments, together with Council, for the money to build them.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The survey answer states this. It names no project, no amount and no date, and the money would come from other governments.
What still needs checking
Which projects would be readied first, and how much would be asked for?
Raise the city's tree canopy target to 40% by updating the Urban Forest Strategy, and plant more urban meadows to keep the city cooler and slow rain runoff.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The survey answer and the party release both give the 40% target and name the Urban Forest Strategy update. Neither gives a cost or a year for reaching the target. The strategy is shared by the Park Board and Council.
Grow park land and bring buried creeks back to the surface
Increase park land from 11% to 12% of the city's land, grow urban meadows, and bring up to three creeks that now run under streets back to the surface.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Petersen's survey answer names this ReWild Vancouver plan, and the party release that Petersen co-released gives the 11% to 12% figure and the three creeks. Neither gives a cost, the land to be bought or a date.
What still needs checking
Which land would become park, which creeks are first, and what would it cost?
Renew the Britannia community centre, pool, ice rink, library branch and both schools as one site, planned together in a single 10 year capital plan with Council and the School Board.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Petersen's Instagram posts and the CTV News report quote Petersen on this OneCity plan. No cost, building order or start date is given, and the plan needs Council and the School Board as well as the Park Board.
What still needs checking
What would the renewal cost, and which building would be rebuilt first?
Ban wearable recording devices in pools and change rooms
Change Park Board and recreation rules to ban wearable recording devices, such as smart glasses, in pools, change rooms and washrooms.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
This is part of OneCity's Eyes Off plan, announced by mayoral candidate William Azaroff on August 19, 2026. Petersen is quoted in the release supporting it. The release gives no start date and no way of enforcing the rule.
What still needs checking
How would staff enforce the ban, and from what date?
Continue reconciliation work with the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations
Keep building government to government relationships with the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations, including returning historic names to sites.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The survey answer states this as a position. It names no agreement, body or date.
What still needs checking
Which shared decisions with the Nations would come first?
Work with cultural communities and the three host Nations to design park spaces that show local history, through park names, monuments, plantings and support for festivals.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
The survey answer states this. It names no park, cost or date.
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.
No reviewed entries have been added to this section yet. This is a research gap, not a finding about the candidate.
Recent appearances / Read and watch
Talks, interviews & statements
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Statement
Statement in OneCity's Cool, Clean Air and Safe Spaces announcement
In the party announcement, Petersen said that many community centres and libraries are designated places of refuge for times such as extreme heat, cold, poor air quality and earthquakes, and that making those buildings safe themselves is the point. The statement supports a four year party strategy to set one air quality and temperature standard across City, Park Board and School Board buildings.
Park Board section of OneCity's weekly update, August 15
Petersen signed the Park Board section of OneCity's weekly update. It backs the party's Cool, Clean Air and Safe Spaces strategy, says the Park Board candidates held a fundraiser marking 136 years of the Park Board, and says the team would meet voters in parks, starting at the Trout Lake Farmers Market on August 22.
In OneCity's release on wearable recording devices, Petersen said parks and public spaces should be places where everyone in Vancouver can belong, and that covert recording goes against the aim of fair and accessible community spaces. The party plan, announced by mayoral candidate William Azaroff, would change park, recreation and library rules to ban these devices in pools, change rooms and washrooms.
Park Board section of OneCity's weekly update, August 22
Petersen's section says the OneCity team was at the West End and Trout Lake farmers markets, and that voters asked for a River District community centre, protection of green space and open, accountable government. It points to the party's plan on covert recording in public spaces.
Park Board section of OneCity's weekly update, September 25
Petersen's section says the OneCity Park Board campaign went to all candidates events held by the Vancouver Public Library, the Vancouver Botanical Gardens Association, Mount Pleasant Community Centre and the Killarney Community Centre Society, without saying which of the three candidates went to each. It says Petersen would attend the Eastside event at Britannia on September 28, the Kerrisdale Community Centre event on September 29 and the West End Community Centre Association event on October 3.
Britannia all candidates meeting for Park Board and School Board
Petersen's Instagram post of September 29 says Petersen was at the all candidates meeting for Park Board and School Board candidates at Britannia the night before. First United's event list shows this meeting, the Great East End Town Hall, at Britannia Community Centre, Gym D, on September 28. In the post Petersen writes of having worked in that community for more than three years and will work with OneCity colleagues to fix equity problems at the site.
At the opening of OneCity's Main Street campaign office, CTV News quoted Petersen, spelled Peterson, saying the Britannia site should be a model for building public facilities that share sites and services. The plan would renew the community centre, pool, ice rink, library branch and both schools at Britannia over 10 years.
Statement in OneCity's Parks, Pipes and Pools release
The release names Petersen as one of the three OneCity Park Board candidates releasing the plan. Petersen says the plan would give the Park Board a stable budget and bring nature back to neighbourhoods. The plan includes a gift shop program in some parks, keeping Park Board revenue with the Board, a 40% tree canopy target, growing park land from 11% to 12% of city land and bringing up to three buried creeks back to the surface.
Answers to the Vancouver Public Space Network Park Board survey
Petersen answered all 10 questions. The answers call for better lighting in Andy Livingstone Park and other parks, cooling and air filtering in community centres and pools, a 40% tree canopy target, more park land and community gardens, a gift shop program and grants to pay for parks, park design with cultural communities, and continued reconciliation with the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Petersen says the aim is to keep the elected Park Board and make it more independent.
Instagram post on an endorsement from Laura Christensen
Petersen's Instagram account thanks Laura Christensen for her leadership over the past four years and for endorsing the campaign. This is the campaign's own post. voche.me read only the caption and has no statement from Christensen.
Instagram post on an endorsement from Susan Tatoosh
Petersen's Instagram account says Susan Tatoosh, whom the post describes as an advocate in the Downtown Eastside, has endorsed the campaign. In the same post Petersen lists more collaboration, better facilities, more programs and further reconciliation as goals for the Park Board. voche.me read only the caption.
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
The Georgia Straight
OneCity Vancouver announces council, school board, and park board candidates
Nathan Caddell reported OneCity's full slate of 13 candidates and named Petersen as one of three Park Board candidates, described as a biologist and labour activist.
OneCity confirms 13 candidates for Vancouver election, including Frances Bula
Kenneth Chan set out OneCity's confirmed slate with short descriptions of each candidate. Petersen is described as a biologist and labour activist, running for Park Board with John Irwin and Dominic Denofrio.
Municipal parties roll out new platform planks in Vancouver election
Ben Miljure reported new pledges from OneCity and the Vancouver Liberals. The report quotes Petersen, spelled Peterson and named as a OneCity Park Board candidate, on the plan to renew the Britannia site.
Sources checked October 3, 2026. Official records establish decisions; campaign material establishes stated positions; reporting adds investigation and context. None alone establishes every claim.
No source names the union Petersen led, the employer behind the biologist description, or the employer behind the constituency work the campaign describes, so those roles could not be confirmed with an independent body. The September 23 Mount Pleasant and September 29 Kerrisdale forums were removed from the calendar because their dates have passed. The Kerrisdale organizer listed Petersen among 23 confirmed speakers and Petersen's September 25 update said Petersen would go, but no source read on October 3 shows that Petersen took part. The Mount Pleasant organizer named John Irwin as the OneCity Park Board speaker. Two endorsement posts on Petersen's Instagram account carry images that voche.me did not read; only their captions are used. No statement or questionnaire answers from Petersen were found on the Vancouver Food Justice Coalition site or in HUB Cycling's Vancouver response sheet, which held no answers when read. Business in Vancouver's slate article returned HTTP 403 to a direct request and to the WebFetch tool and was not read. The City of Vancouver nomination papers file for Petersen has not been read. No public accountability record was found.
Research status
What voche.me has checked
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.
Reviewed again on October 3, 2026: Petersen's Vancouver Public Space Network survey answers, OneCity releases and weekly updates that quote Petersen or carry Petersen's name as author, four captions from Petersen's Instagram account, a CTV News report, the Vancouver and District Labour Council endorsement list, the City's candidate list and public forum listings.
Checks still to do: Verify organizational roles and obtain costed operating proposals.
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
As of 2026
Biologist
The OneCity candidate page, the VoteMate profile and both news reports describe Petersen as a biologist. No employer, field of study or number of years is given in any of them.
The OneCity candidate page describes Petersen as a union leader whose work involved bargaining and building agreement. The union is not named on the page or in the news reports.
An October 3, 2026 Instagram post from the campaign says Petersen has worked within the provincial constituency of Vancouver-Strathcona for the past few years. In the Vancouver Public Space Network survey, Petersen writes of having worked for an Indigenous matriarch for a number of years. Neither source names the employer or the job, and voche.me has not confirmed it with an independent source.
Proposed questions for a future interview. They have not been sent to the candidate, and no answers have been supplied.
How would you improve recreation affordability while maintaining staffing and service quality?
No response has been submitted.
How would you divide funding between existing-facility maintenance, affordable access and new construction?
No response has been submitted.
Have your own question?
Ask Tyler Petersen 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 Tyler Petersen's page itself, answered directly rather than left blank.
Is this an official page for Tyler Petersen?
No. This page is researched by voche.me from public sources, listed below, and is separate from Tyler Petersen's own campaign.
What is Tyler Petersen's ballot number for the 2026 Vancouver election?
Tyler Petersen is number 214 on the City of Vancouver's official 2026 ballot for Park Board.
What party did Tyler Petersen run with?
Tyler Petersen ran for Park Board with OneCity.
Does Tyler Petersen currently hold public office?
Not according to this profile. voche.me has not listed a current public office for Tyler Petersen.
How many sources does this Tyler Petersen profile cite?
This profile lists 4 sourced references, each with the date voche.me checked it, in the Sources section below.
Has Tyler Petersen filed nomination papers for the 2026 election?
voche.me has not yet added a nomination record for Tyler Petersen. This does not mean no nomination paper was filed, only that voche.me has not completed that research yet.
Why do some questions on Tyler Petersen's page show no answer?
The "Questions & answers" section on this page lists questions voche.me would put to Tyler Petersen 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 Tyler Petersen ran in?
The 2026 Vancouver municipal election, including the Park Board race, was decided on October 17, 2026.
06 / Candidate contributions
Space for campaign updates
OneCity link moved to the party's candidates page
OneCity's old candidate page for this candidate (onecityvancouver.ca/people/tyler-petersen) returned HTTP 404 on October 4, 2026. The party's candidates page, read that day, carries the same paragraph and the same portrait file, so the links, the portrait credit and the commitments that cited the old page now point to the candidates page. The old page stays in the source list, marked as no longer answering.
Added survey answers, party releases, Instagram posts, a CTV report and an endorsement; updated the calendar
Added Petersen's answers to the Vancouver Public Space Network Park Board survey (published October 3, 2026) as a statement and as nine new commitments, and two more commitments from the Eyes Off release and the One Britannia posts; OneCity's Parks, Pipes and Pools release (September 29) and Eyes Off release (August 19), which quote Petersen; three OneCity weekly updates signed by Petersen; four captions from Petersen's Instagram account, including the September 28 Britannia all candidates meeting and two endorsements; a September 29 CTV News report quoting Petersen, spelled Peterson; and the Vancouver and District Labour Council endorsement list. Added the October 3 West End Park Board forum, confirmed by Petersen's own update, and an October 13 online food systems town hall. Removed two forums that have now passed: September 23 at Mount Pleasant, where the organizer named John Irwin as the OneCity speaker, and September 29 at Kerrisdale, where the organizer listed Petersen as a confirmed speaker but no source read shows that Petersen took part. Removed a biography paragraph that said the same thing as the paragraph after it. Added the survey to the evidence for the places of refuge commitment.
Tagged the dossier for scoring and removed two duplicate commitments
Tagged all six remaining dossier commitments against the six issues the Park Board is scored on, using direct quotes from the OneCity candidate page, the OneCity Cool, Clean Air and Safe Spaces strategy announcement and Petersen's VoteMate profile. Removed two commitments, lower-costs-and-more-equity and rebuild-public-trust-in-the-board, because each restated the same OneCity page sentence already tagged as its own commitment. Added the OneCity platform page, the Mount Pleasant and Kerrisdale all-candidates meeting listings and the August 29, 2026 City Hall bulletin as sources, and added a biography note about Petersen's attendance at an August 26 Renfrew Community Centre town hall.
