Amauri Caliman: the independent who wants City Hall to publish its own scorecard

Amauri Caliman is number 55 on the mayoral ballot. The City’s candidate list shows no party beside his name. He has no record in elected office, no party behind him, and, in the sources we could find, no controversy attached to him. This is a short profile because the public record is short. It says what is known, who said it, and what is not known. His research page is at voche.me/candidates/amauri-caliman.

What reporting says

Vancity Lookout profiled his campaign on September 18, 2026. Its subtitle calls him “The ICBC employee and entrepreneur” who sees running outside a party as an advantage. The outlet quotes him on running without a party and on his ideas for permitting, city staffing and getting around the city. Inside the article, it writes that “according to publicly available information” he works for ICBC, and it does not say he told the outlet so.

Update, October 4, 2026. Caliman told voche.me through its report form that he has never publicly described himself as an ICBC employee and that he did not disclose his employer in the interview. He says Vancity Lookout has since updated its article to clarify the sourcing. The copy of the article text that voche.me read on October 4 carries no update note, and the live page was not re-checked for changes. voche.me has not confirmed his employer.

CBC News listed him on September 20 among the eight candidates. It reported that his campaign centres on supplying “more attainable homes” and on safety on public transit, and that he supports modernized zoning and a public housing dashboard.

What he says about himself

His candidate-submitted biography on VoteMate, a voter information site where candidates write their own entries, describes experience in entrepreneurship and public service. It gives no employer names, dates or qualifications. His research page lists verifiable dates and responsibilities for his professional roles as an open question; the campaign has not published them. Nothing in this section has been confirmed with an employer, a school or a registry.

What he proposes

His VoteMate submission is the fullest statement of his platform. The proposals, in his own order:

• Publish permitting standards. Clearer permit rules, published timelines and help for applicants.
• Track commitments publicly. A public report of what the City has promised, what it has spent, what is late and what the results were. This is the scorecard idea in this article’s title.
• Protect and expand rental housing. Support for existing tenants and more purpose-built rental buildings.
• Review spending before raising taxes.
• Tie police funding to demonstrated need, with service measures deciding budget changes.
• Expand health-led crisis response, so that health workers rather than police answer some calls.
• Modernized zoning and a public housing dashboard, as reported by CBC.

He has not published costs for any of these, an order in which he would do them, or which he would fund first. He has not published a calendar of public appearances, and voche.me found no confirmed appearance for him through election day.

Where he stands

No published poll has named him. Research Co.’s August poll grouped candidates outside the main seven as “other,” at 3% of decided voters; the Justason poll in September listed only five names. Both are on the polls page.

What is still unknown

His employer, businesses and education; the cost and sequence of his proposals; and his public schedule. The absence of controversy in the sources we read reflects a thin public record rather than a checked one.

Image: False Creek and downtown Vancouver, photo by Northwest via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0, cropped and composed with text by voche.me.