[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":3762},["ShallowReactive",2],{"party-abc-vancouver":3,"parties-all":422,"party-roster-ABC Vancouver":3115},{"id":4,"aliases":5,"checkedAt":6,"declaredColour":7,"extension":12,"founded":13,"headline":14,"history":15,"leadership":24,"meta":30,"money":31,"name":46,"news":47,"overview":53,"palette":57,"platform":61,"questions":342,"record":381,"registeredName":13,"rosterLabel":46,"slug":387,"sources":388,"stem":419,"summary":420,"website":391,"__hash__":421},"parties\u002Fparties\u002Fabc-vancouver.json",[],"2026-09-22",{"hex":8,"note":9,"cites":10},"#0D6068","Assigned by voche.me. No brand colour could be read from the party site.",[11],"abc-home","json",null,"The governing party, running the mayor and 23 more candidates",{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":18,"gaps":21,"entries":23},"unresearched",false,[19,20],"The party website","A web search for the party name with past Vancouver election results",[22],"Founding, past results and any name changes have not been checked for this party yet.",[],[25],{"role":26,"name":27,"cites":28},"Mayor and mayoral candidate","Ken Sim",[11,29],"city-candidates",{},{"state":32,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":33,"gaps":36,"searchUrl":38,"filings":39,"notes":40},"researched",[34,35],"The Elections BC local elections disclosure system","The Elections BC elector organization reporting rules",[37],"This party's own filings have not been retrieved and transcribed yet, so this page explains where to look rather than showing the figures.","https:\u002F\u002Fcontributions.electionsbc.gov.bc.ca\u002Fpcs\u002FLESearch.aspx",[],[41,42,43,44,45],"Registered parties in British Columbia are called elector organizations. Only a registered elector organization can endorse candidates, take campaign contributions and spend money on an election.","Each one files a report within 90 days after general voting day, another by March 31 for every calendar year, and a final one within six months of closing down.","General voting day is October 17, 2026, so this election’s filing is due by about mid-January 2027. It is not on the public record during the campaign.","What is on the record now: the reports filed for each calendar year, and the full filings from the 2022 Vancouver election.","Anyone who gives $100 or more to a party or a candidate has their name and the amount published.","ABC Vancouver",{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":48,"gaps":50,"entries":52},[49],"A web search for the party name, September 2026",[51],"No dated coverage index has been compiled for this party yet.",[],[54,55,56],"ABC Vancouver goes into the October 17, 2026 election as the governing party. Ken Sim has been mayor since 2022 and is running again at ballot number 54.","ABC is running 24 candidates, more than any other party: the mayor, 9 for City Council, 7 for Park Board and 7 for School Board. It is one of only two parties running a full or near-full slate in all four races.","Its published platform is organised into five headings: public safety and street disorder, affordability and accountability at City Hall, jobs and economy, restoring Vancouver, and raising Vancouver. Several of its commitments carry a number attached, which is unusual on this ballot and makes them easier to check later.",{"accent":8,"onAccent":58,"tint":59,"ink":60},"#FFFFFF","#E3F5F7","#1F727A",[62,87,110,157,177,222,245,287,297,317],{"issue":63,"paragraphs":64,"proposals":68,"questions":75,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":77,"gaps":81,"headline":85,"summary":86},"housing",[65,66,67],"Housing does not have its own heading in ABC’s published platform. The one commitment that bears on it directly is a promise to make permitting faster and easier, which sits under \"Restoring Vancouver\".","We looked for a housing target, an affordable housing commitment and a rental protection policy on the party website on September 22, 2026 and found none published.","This is a finding about the published platform on that date, and it is not a statement about what ABC would do in office.",[69],{"title":70,"detail":71,"cites":72,"authority":74},"Make City Hall permitting faster and easier","The platform commits to making permitting faster and easier and to continuing to streamline City Hall operations.",[73],"abc-platform","Council and city staff control the permit process.",[],true,[78,79,80],"The ABC Vancouver platform page","The ABC Vancouver home page","A web search for ABC Vancouver housing policy, September 2026",[82,83,84],"No housing supply target is published.","No affordable or non-market housing commitment is published.","No rental or tenant protection policy is published.","Faster permits, and no published housing target","ABC’s published platform commits to making City Hall permitting faster and easier. It does not publish a housing supply target, an affordability target or a rental policy.",{"issue":88,"paragraphs":89,"proposals":92,"questions":102,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":103,"gaps":104,"headline":108,"summary":109},"homelessness",[90,91],"ABC does not publish a separate homelessness section. Its commitments that touch the subject are the same ones that appear under public safety: more than 100 involuntary care beds, moving drug consumption sites away from schools and parks, and good neighbour agreements for public housing where there is street disorder.","We found no published commitment on shelter spaces, encampments or supportive housing supply on the party website on September 22, 2026.",[93,98],{"title":94,"detail":95,"cites":96,"authority":97},"Fight for 100 plus involuntary care beds","The same commitment that appears under public safety. ABC would press the province to fund more than 100 involuntary care beds.",[73,11],"Provincial.",{"title":99,"detail":100,"cites":101},"Non-profit oversight for public housing with street disorder","ABC would add non-profit oversight and a good neighbour agreement for all public housing where street disorder is an issue.",[73],[],[78,79],[105,106,107],"No shelter space commitment is published.","No supportive housing supply commitment is published.","No encampment policy is published.","Treatment beds and drug sites, handled as a safety question","ABC addresses homelessness and drugs inside its public safety heading, through involuntary care beds, drug site locations and oversight of public housing.",{"issue":111,"paragraphs":112,"proposals":116,"questions":143,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":152,"gaps":154,"headline":155,"summary":156},"public-safety",[113,114,115],"Public safety is the first heading on ABC’s published platform, and it is the area where the party has put the most specific commitments in writing.","Two of these reach beyond what a city council can do on its own. Involuntary care beds and drug consumption site rules are provincial decisions. ABC’s own wording is that it will \"fight for\" the beds, which is a request to the province rather than a promise the city can keep by itself.","ABC also placed two questions on the October 17 ballot alongside the candidate races. One asks whether the city should strengthen its laws against open-air hard drug use. The other asks whether the city should formally request that the province convert part of the old St Paul’s Hospital, or a similar site, into a secure facility with voluntary and involuntary care beds.",[117,123,128,134,139],{"title":118,"detail":119,"cites":120,"authority":122},"Ban open-air hard drug use in public spaces","ABC would change city bylaws to forbid using hard drugs in public. A plebiscite question on the same subject appears on the October 17 ballot.",[73,121],"plebiscite","City Council sets bylaws. Drug possession law is federal and provincial.",{"title":124,"detail":125,"cites":126,"authority":127},"Give police a streamlined tool to seize hard drugs","The platform commits to \"give police a streamlined tool to seize hard drugs\". The wording of the tool is not published.",[73],"The Vancouver Police Board directs the police department. Council approves its budget.",{"title":129,"detail":130,"cites":131,"cost":132,"authority":133},"Fight for 100 plus involuntary care beds in Vancouver","ABC would press the province to fund more than 100 involuntary care beds for people with severe substance use and mental health disorders.",[73,11],"Not published","Health care, including involuntary care, is a provincial responsibility.",{"title":135,"detail":136,"cites":137,"authority":138},"Move drug consumption sites away from schools and parks","The platform commits to \"mandate provincial drug consumption sites away from schools & parks\".",[73],"These sites are approved and funded provincially.",{"title":140,"detail":141,"cites":142},"Good neighbour agreements for public housing with street disorder","ABC would add non-profit oversight and require a good neighbour agreement for all public housing where street disorder is an issue.",[73],[144,148],{"question":145,"answer":146,"cites":147},"Can a city council ban drug use in public by itself?","A council can pass a bylaw about behaviour in public space, and it can direct city staff to enforce it. It cannot change the criminal law, and it cannot order the police, because the Vancouver Police Board directs the department. ABC also put the question to voters as a plebiscite on October 17, which does not by itself change any law.",[73,121],{"question":149,"answer":150,"cites":151},"What are involuntary care beds?","These are hospital or facility beds where a person can be kept and treated without agreeing to it, under provincial mental health law. Vancouver city council does not run them, fund them or decide who goes into one. A city can ask the province for more of them, which is what ABC has committed to do.",[73],[78,79,153],"The City of Vancouver notice on the plebiscite questions",[],"Ban open-air hard drug use and give police a seizure tool","ABC would ban hard drug use in public spaces, push the province for more than 100 involuntary care beds, and move drug consumption sites away from schools and parks.",{"issue":158,"paragraphs":159,"proposals":161,"questions":170,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":171,"gaps":172,"headline":175,"summary":176},"transport",[160],"ABC’s published transport commitments come from the affordability and infrastructure parts of its platform rather than a transport section.",[162,166],{"title":163,"detail":164,"cites":165},"Prioritise road and sidewalk repair","The platform commits to prioritising investments in roads and sidewalk repairs and renewal.",[73],{"title":167,"detail":168,"cites":169},"A city-wide universal parking app","ABC would mandate a single city-wide parking app alongside removing pay parking at beaches and community centres.",[73],[],[78],[173,174],"No transit commitment is published.","No cycling or road safety commitment is published.","Parking fees removed, roads and sidewalks repaired","ABC’s transport commitments are about parking and road repair. It publishes no transit, cycling or road safety commitment.",{"issue":178,"paragraphs":179,"proposals":183,"questions":207,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":217,"gaps":219,"headline":220,"summary":221},"parks",[180,181,182],"ABC’s parks and recreation commitments sit under two platform headings, \"Jobs & Economy\" and \"Restoring Vancouver\", rather than under a parks heading.","This is the largest dollar figure any party has attached to a single commitment on this ballot. The platform does not say which five community centres, or over how many years the $400 million would be spent.","ABC also asked the province to abolish the elected Park Board during the last term. The mayor has since said he will not try to eliminate the board if re-elected. Seven Park Board seats are being filled on October 17 and ABC is running seven candidates for them.",[184,190,195,199,203],{"title":185,"detail":186,"cites":187,"cost":188,"authority":189},"Rebuild or revamp 5 community centres","The platform commits to rebuilding or revamping five community centres for $400 million, and to starting a second phase of another five in the next capital plan.",[73],"$400 million","Capital spending is approved by Council through the capital plan.",{"title":191,"detail":192,"cites":193,"cost":194},"Rebuild the Vancouver Aquatic Centre with a 50 metre pool","The commitment is worded \"Rebuild the Vancouver Aquatic Centre with a 50M pool, at cost\".",[73],"Stated as \"at cost\"",{"title":196,"detail":197,"cites":198},"Deliver the River District Community Centre","The platform commits to delivering the River District Community Centre.",[73],{"title":200,"detail":201,"cites":202,"cost":132},"Create a playground improvement fund","ABC would create a fund for playground improvements. No amount is published.",[73],{"title":204,"detail":205,"cites":206},"More pools, rinks and ice time","The platform commits to revamping and investing in recreational facilities, naming more pools, rinks and ice time.",[73],[208,212],{"question":209,"answer":210,"cites":211},"Which five community centres would be rebuilt?","The platform does not name them. It commits $400 million to five, and a second group of five in the next capital plan. We checked the platform page on September 22, 2026 and no list was published.",[73],{"question":213,"answer":214,"cites":215},"Does ABC still want to abolish the Park Board?","ABC-led council asked the province to change the Vancouver Charter to remove the elected Park Board during the last term. Mayor Ken Sim has since said he will not try to eliminate it if re-elected. The board still exists and seven commissioners are being elected on October 17.",[216],"cbc-parkboard",[78,218],"News coverage of the Park Board governance question",[],"$400 million to rebuild five community centres","ABC commits $400 million to rebuild or revamp five community centres, with another five in the next capital plan, plus a rebuilt Aquatic Centre with a 50 metre pool.",{"issue":223,"paragraphs":224,"proposals":227,"questions":241,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":242,"gaps":243,"headline":229,"summary":244},"schools",[225,226],"ABC is running seven School Board candidates. Its school commitments appear under the \"Restoring Vancouver\" and \"Raising Vancouver\" headings of its platform rather than a schools heading.","The school tax commitment is a request to the province. School tax is collected on Vancouver properties and goes into provincial general revenue. A school board can ask for that to change; it cannot change it.",[228,233,237],{"title":229,"detail":230,"cites":231,"authority":232},"Keep Vancouver school tax in Vancouver","The platform commits to \"fight to ensure provincial school tax collected in Vancouver goes to Vancouver schools\".",[73],"School tax and the funding formula are set by the province.",{"title":234,"detail":235,"cites":236,"cost":132},"Increase teaching assistance in classrooms","ABC commits to \"increase teaching assistance by investing in our classrooms\".",[73],{"title":238,"detail":239,"cites":240},"A performance based action committee for families","The platform commits to creating \"a strict performance based action committee to set better metrics for families\".",[73],[],[78],[],"ABC would fight to keep provincial school tax collected in Vancouver in Vancouver schools, increase classroom teaching assistance, and bring swimming lessons into the school day.",{"issue":246,"paragraphs":247,"proposals":251,"questions":274,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":283,"gaps":284,"headline":285,"summary":286},"taxes-and-budget",[248,249,250],"ABC has published a number here rather than a direction, which makes it one of the few commitments on this ballot that can be checked against a council vote later.","The two pages do not agree on the year. The platform page says \"0% property tax increase in 2027 for buyers & renters\". The party home page describes the same commitment as applying to 2026. We have recorded the platform page wording, checked on September 22, 2026.","A property tax freeze holds the rate, not the bill. A household’s bill can still move if the assessed value of its property changes relative to other properties in the city.",[252,258,262,266,270],{"title":253,"detail":254,"cites":255,"cost":132,"authority":256,"deadline":257},"0% property tax increase in 2027","The platform commits to a zero percent property tax increase in 2027 for buyers and renters.",[73],"Council sets the property tax rate each year.","2027 budget",{"title":259,"detail":260,"cites":261},"Remove pay parking at beaches and community centres","ABC would end pay parking at beaches and community centres and require a single city-wide parking app.",[73],{"title":263,"detail":264,"cites":265},"End residential parking permit fees","The platform commits to ending the fee for a residential parking permit.",[73],{"title":267,"detail":268,"cites":269},"Expand VANSTAT to weekly check-ins","ABC would expand its department head meetings, which it calls VANSTAT, to a weekly check-in.",[73],{"title":271,"detail":272,"cites":273},"Spend only on municipal responsibilities","The platform commits to ensuring \"taxpayer dollars only go to municipal responsibilities\".",[73],[275,279],{"question":276,"answer":277,"cites":278},"Does a tax freeze mean my bill will not go up?","No. A freeze holds the overall rate the city collects. Your own bill depends on how your property is assessed compared with everyone else’s. If your assessment rises faster than the city average, your bill can rise in a year when the rate is frozen.",[73],{"question":280,"answer":281,"cites":282},"Which year does the freeze apply to?","ABC’s platform page says 2027. Its home page describes the same commitment as 2026. Both were checked on September 22, 2026. We have not asked the party which is correct.",[73,11],[78,79],[],"A zero percent property tax increase, and parking fees removed","ABC’s published platform commits to a 0% property tax increase in 2027, removing pay parking at beaches and community centres, and ending residential parking permit fees.",{"issue":288,"paragraphs":289,"proposals":290,"questions":291,"state":292,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":293,"gaps":295},"climate",[],[],[],"none-published",[78,79,294],"A web search for ABC Vancouver climate policy, September 2026",[296],"No climate or building emissions commitment appears in the published platform.",{"issue":298,"paragraphs":299,"proposals":301,"questions":310,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":311,"gaps":312,"headline":315,"summary":316},"culture",[300],"ABC’s culture commitments sit under its \"Jobs & Economy\" heading and are framed around the street and the events calendar rather than around artists or venues.",[302,306],{"title":303,"detail":304,"cites":305},"Revitalise Granville Street and its pedestrian zone","The platform commits to revitalising Granville Street and its pedestrian zone.",[73],{"title":307,"detail":308,"cites":309,"cost":132},"A new funding model for major events","ABC commits to \"a new era of cooperation between the City & major events, along with a new funding model\".",[73],[],[78],[313,314],"No commitment on affordable artist or rehearsal space is published.","No arts grant commitment is published.","Revitalise Granville Street and back major events","ABC commits to revitalising Granville Street and its pedestrian zone, and to a new funding model for major events.",{"issue":318,"paragraphs":319,"proposals":323,"questions":338,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":339,"gaps":340,"headline":325,"summary":341},"child-care",[320,321,322],"The platform wording is \"Doubling down on childcare (double our 2000 new spaces)\". Read plainly that is a commitment to a further 2,000 spaces.","The claim that 2,000 spaces were created in the last term is ABC’s own account of its record. We have not checked it against city records.","A city creates child care spaces through zoning, city-owned buildings and money collected from developers. Licensing, subsidies and operating funding come from the province, so a city can build a room but cannot on its own decide what a parent pays.",[324,329,333],{"title":325,"detail":326,"cites":327,"cost":132,"authority":328},"Double the 2,000 new child care spaces","The platform commits to doubling what it describes as 2,000 new spaces created in the last term.",[73],"The city creates spaces. The province licenses them and sets funding.",{"title":330,"detail":331,"cites":332},"Expand after-school programming","ABC commits to expanding after-school programming and keeping extracurricular activities in Vancouver.",[73],{"title":334,"detail":335,"cites":336,"authority":337},"Bring swimming lessons into the school day","The platform commits to bringing swimming lessons into the school day.",[73],"Delivered with the Board of Education and the Park Board.",[],[78],[],"ABC commits to \"doubling down on childcare\", which its platform defines as doubling the 2,000 new spaces it says it created.",[343,347,351,355,359,363,367,371,375],{"question":344,"answer":345,"cites":346},"Who leads ABC Vancouver?","Ken Sim is the mayor of Vancouver and ABC’s mayoral candidate. He appears at ballot number 54. Whether he is also the registered leader of the elector organisation is a separate question we have not checked.",[11,29],{"question":348,"answer":349,"cites":350},"How many candidates is ABC running?","24, the largest slate on the ballot: the mayor, 9 for City Council, 7 for Park Board and 7 for School Board.",[29],{"question":352,"answer":353,"cites":354},"What is ABC’s biggest single spending commitment?","$400 million to rebuild or revamp five community centres, with a second group of five in the next capital plan. The platform does not name the five centres or give a timeline.",[73],{"question":356,"answer":357,"cites":358},"Does ABC promise to freeze property taxes?","Its platform page commits to a 0% property tax increase in 2027. Its home page describes the same commitment as applying to 2026. We recorded the platform page wording on September 22, 2026.",[73,11],{"question":360,"answer":361,"cites":362},"What does ABC say about drugs in public?","It would ban open-air hard drug use in public spaces, give police a tool to seize hard drugs, and move provincial drug consumption sites away from schools and parks. A plebiscite question on the same subject is on the October 17 ballot.",[73,121],{"question":364,"answer":365,"cites":366},"Does ABC have a published housing plan?","Not as a section of its platform. The one published commitment that bears on housing is to make permitting faster and easier. We found no supply target, affordability target or rental policy on the party website on September 22, 2026.",[73],{"question":368,"answer":369,"cites":370},"Does ABC have a published climate policy?","We found none on the party website on September 22, 2026.",[11,73],{"question":372,"answer":373,"cites":374},"Is ABC still trying to abolish the Park Board?","ABC-led council asked the province to remove the elected Park Board during the last term. Mayor Ken Sim has since said he will not try to eliminate it if re-elected. Seven commissioners are being elected on October 17 and ABC is running seven candidates.",[216],{"question":376,"answer":377,"cites":378},"Where can I see ABC’s campaign finances?","Search the Elections BC local elections disclosure system for Vancouver. The 2026 filing is not due until about mid-January 2027, so what is on the record now is the yearly reports and the 2022 election filings.",[379,380],"ebc-search","ebc-org",{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":382,"gaps":384,"entries":386},[19,383],"The City of Vancouver council and board decision records",[385],"No decision, vote or funded-work record has been checked for this party yet.",[],"abc-vancouver",[389,393,396,401,406,409,412,415],{"id":11,"label":390,"url":391,"publisher":46,"kind":392,"checkedAt":6},"ABC Vancouver home page","https:\u002F\u002Fabcvancouver.ca\u002F","subject",{"id":73,"label":394,"url":395,"publisher":46,"kind":392,"checkedAt":6},"ABC Vancouver platform","https:\u002F\u002Fabcvancouver.ca\u002Fplatform",{"id":121,"label":397,"url":398,"publisher":399,"kind":400,"checkedAt":6},"Council adds plebiscite question to Vancouver election ballot","https:\u002F\u002Fvancouver.ca\u002Fnews-calendar\u002Fcouncil-adds-plebiscite-question-to-vancouver-election-ballot-august-2026.aspx","City of Vancouver","government",{"id":216,"label":402,"url":403,"publisher":404,"kind":405,"checkedAt":6},"Vancouver mayor says he will not try to eliminate the park board if re-elected","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.cbc.ca\u002Fnews\u002Fcanada\u002Fbritish-columbia\u002Fken-sim-park-board-stays-9.7268871","CBC News","news",{"id":29,"label":407,"url":408,"publisher":399,"kind":400,"checkedAt":6},"Who is running: official 2026 candidate list","https:\u002F\u002Fvancouver.ca\u002Fyour-government\u002F2026-candidate-information.aspx",{"id":379,"label":410,"url":38,"publisher":411,"kind":400,"checkedAt":6},"Local elections disclosure statement search","Elections BC",{"id":380,"label":413,"url":414,"publisher":411,"kind":400,"checkedAt":6},"Elector organizations: registration and financial reporting duties","https:\u002F\u002Felections.bc.ca\u002Flocal-elections\u002Felector-organizations\u002F",{"id":416,"label":417,"url":418,"publisher":411,"kind":400,"checkedAt":6},"ebc-contrib","Making a campaign contribution","https:\u002F\u002Felections.bc.ca\u002Flocal-elections\u002Fmaking-a-campaign-contribution\u002F","parties\u002Fabc-vancouver","ABC Vancouver holds the mayor’s chair and is running 24 candidates in 2026, the largest slate on the ballot. Its published platform leads with a property tax freeze, a ban on open-air hard drug use, and $400 million for community 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It is the smallest party on this ballot.","We checked the party website on September 22, 2026. The page held a heading and no policy content. The name of the party is the clearest statement of its subject.","Every issue page for this party records what we searched and when. None of them asserts a position, because none has been published.",{"accent":637,"onAccent":58,"tint":638,"ink":639},"#3361A1","#E4ECF6","#254674",[641,650,660,666,672,678,684,690,696,702],{"issue":63,"paragraphs":642,"proposals":643,"questions":644,"state":292,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":645,"gaps":648},[],[],[],[646,647],"The party website at affordablehousingvancouver.ca","A web search for the party name with Vancouver housing policy, September 2026",[649],"No housing policy is published on the party website, which is the subject the party is named after.",{"issue":88,"paragraphs":651,"proposals":652,"questions":653,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":654,"gaps":658},[],[],[],[655,656,657],"The party website at https:\u002F\u002Fwww.affordablehousingvancouver.ca\u002F","The City of Vancouver official candidate list","A web search for the party name with the issue name, September 2026",[659],"This issue has not yet been researched for this party.",{"issue":111,"paragraphs":661,"proposals":662,"questions":663,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":664,"gaps":665},[],[],[],[655,656,657],[659],{"issue":158,"paragraphs":667,"proposals":668,"questions":669,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":670,"gaps":671},[],[],[],[655,656,657],[659],{"issue":178,"paragraphs":673,"proposals":674,"questions":675,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":676,"gaps":677},[],[],[],[655,656,657],[659],{"issue":223,"paragraphs":679,"proposals":680,"questions":681,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":682,"gaps":683},[],[],[],[655,656,657],[659],{"issue":246,"paragraphs":685,"proposals":686,"questions":687,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":688,"gaps":689},[],[],[],[655,656,657],[659],{"issue":288,"paragraphs":691,"proposals":692,"questions":693,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":694,"gaps":695},[],[],[],[655,656,657],[659],{"issue":298,"paragraphs":697,"proposals":698,"questions":699,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":700,"gaps":701},[],[],[],[655,656,657],[659],{"issue":318,"paragraphs":703,"proposals":704,"questions":705,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":706,"gaps":707},[],[],[],[655,656,657],[659],[709,713,717,721,725,729,733,737],{"question":710,"answer":711,"cites":712},"How many candidates does this party have?","One, for City Council. It is the smallest party on the 2026 Vancouver ballot.",[29],{"question":714,"answer":715,"cites":716},"What is its platform?","We found none published. We checked the party website on September 22, 2026 and the page held a heading with no policy content.",[614],{"question":718,"answer":719,"cites":720},"Does the party name tell me its position?","It tells you the subject, not the policy. A party named Affordable Housing has said what it cares about. What it would actually do about it has not been published.",[614],{"question":722,"answer":723,"cites":724},"Who leads the party?","No leader is named on the website, checked September 22, 2026.",[614],{"question":726,"answer":727,"cites":728},"Can one councillor change anything?","Council has ten councillors and a mayor, and decisions need six votes. One councillor can put motions forward, speak in debates and vote, but cannot pass anything alone.",[29],{"question":730,"answer":731,"cites":732},"Why does this party have the same pages as ABC?","Every party on this site gets the same page structure, so the shape of a page never suggests that one party matters more. What differs is how much each party has published. Pages with nothing sourced on them are kept out of search results.",[614],{"question":734,"answer":735,"cites":736},"Where can I see its campaign finances?","Search the Elections BC local elections disclosure system for Vancouver. The 2026 filing is due by about mid-January 2027.",[379,380],{"question":738,"answer":739,"cites":740},"How do I find out more before voting?","Read the candidate profile linked from this page, and check the party website for a platform closer to October 17. Advance voting runs October 3, 7, 10 and 13.",[614,29],{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":742,"gaps":743,"entries":744},[19,383],[385],[],"affordable-housing",[747,750,751,752,753],{"id":614,"label":748,"url":749,"publisher":627,"kind":392,"checkedAt":6},"Affordable Housing party website","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.affordablehousingvancouver.ca\u002F",{"id":29,"label":407,"url":408,"publisher":399,"kind":400,"checkedAt":6},{"id":379,"label":410,"url":38,"publisher":411,"kind":400,"checkedAt":6},{"id":380,"label":413,"url":414,"publisher":411,"kind":400,"checkedAt":6},{"id":416,"label":417,"url":418,"publisher":411,"kind":400,"checkedAt":6},"parties\u002Faffordable-housing","The Affordable Housing party is running one candidate for City Council. It is the smallest party on the 2026 ballot. 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It is not contesting Park Board or School Board.","It is one of only two parties on this ballot running for mayor and council but neither of the two boards.","Its published commitments are unusually specific for a smaller party. Several carry a number: 20% rent-to-own equity, 100% free resident transit, a 24 hour child care vision, a 21 day permit rule and a 2% fair share surcharge.","The party calls its platform the Blueprint.",{"accent":791,"onAccent":58,"tint":792,"ink":793},"#0E7EA7","#E3F2F7","#1F627A",[795,814,828,835,859,865,871,895,908,914],{"issue":63,"paragraphs":796,"proposals":799,"questions":808,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":809,"gaps":811,"headline":801,"summary":813},[797,798],"Rent-to-own means part of what a tenant pays in rent builds up as a stake in the home, so that renting moves someone toward owning rather than only covering a landlord’s costs.","The party publishes the figure 20% but has not published how the scheme would be funded, who would run it or which homes it would apply to.",[800,804],{"title":801,"detail":802,"cites":803,"cost":132},"20% rent-to-own equity","The party commits to rent-to-own equity of 20%.",[763],{"title":805,"detail":806,"cites":807},"Secure affordable rentals and local-first housing protections","The party commits to secured affordable rentals and local-first housing protections.",[763],[],[810],"The Bright Future Vancouver home page",[812],"No detail is published on how rent-to-own would be funded or administered.","Bright Future commits to rent-to-own equity of 20%, secured affordable rentals and local-first housing protections.",{"issue":88,"paragraphs":815,"proposals":817,"questions":823,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":824,"gaps":825,"headline":819,"summary":827},[816],"The party publishes the phrase \"treatment-first crisis response\" without further detail. Treatment services are provincial, so a city would be pressing the province rather than delivering this itself.",[818],{"title":819,"detail":820,"cites":821,"authority":822},"Treatment-first crisis response","The party commits to a treatment-first crisis response.",[763],"Treatment services are provincial.",[],[810],[826],"No detail is published on what a treatment-first response would involve.","Bright Future commits to a treatment-first crisis response.",{"issue":111,"paragraphs":829,"proposals":830,"questions":831,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":832,"gaps":834},[],[],[],[833,656,657],"The party website at https:\u002F\u002Fwww.brightfuturevancouver.ca\u002F",[659],{"issue":158,"paragraphs":836,"proposals":840,"questions":851,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":856,"gaps":857,"headline":842,"summary":858},[837,838,839],"Free transit for every resident is the largest transport commitment published by any party in this election. COPE goes as far as free transit for under-18s; Bright Future publishes 100%.","Fares are set by TransLink, a regional body that Vancouver does not control. A city can contribute money toward a fare programme and can advocate through the Mayors’ Council, but it cannot make transit free by a council vote.","The party has not published what free transit would cost or who would pay for it.",[841,846],{"title":842,"detail":843,"cites":844,"cost":132,"authority":845},"100% free transit for residents","The party commits to free transit for Vancouver residents, alongside fare relief, safer stations and faster buses.",[763],"TransLink sets fares. The city can contribute funding and advocate through the Mayors’ Council.",{"title":847,"detail":848,"cites":849,"authority":850},"A ready path for SkyTrain to UBC","The party commits to a ready path for the SkyTrain extension to UBC.",[763],"TransLink and the province decide on rapid transit expansion.",[852],{"question":853,"answer":854,"cites":855},"Can a city make transit free?","Not on its own. TransLink sets fares across the region and Vancouver is one voice on its Mayors’ Council. A city can put its own money toward covering fares, which is how free-transit programmes usually work. Bright Future has not published a cost or a funding source.",[763],[810],[],"Bright Future commits to free transit for residents, safer stations, faster buses and a path for SkyTrain to UBC.",{"issue":178,"paragraphs":860,"proposals":861,"questions":862,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":863,"gaps":864},[],[],[],[833,656,657],[659],{"issue":223,"paragraphs":866,"proposals":867,"questions":868,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":869,"gaps":870},[],[],[],[833,656,657],[659],{"issue":246,"paragraphs":872,"proposals":875,"questions":890,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":891,"gaps":892,"headline":893,"summary":894},[873,874],"Bright Future is one of the few parties that names both a spending programme and a tax to pay for it. The surcharge is published as 2%, though the party has not published what it applies to.","The 21 day permit rule is a deadline commitment: a decision within 21 days. It is the only published permit deadline on this ballot. Other parties commit to faster permitting without saying how fast.",[876,881,886],{"title":877,"detail":878,"cites":879,"cost":880},"A 2% fair share surcharge","The party commits to a \"fair share tax to fund the future\", published as a 2% fair share surcharge. What it applies to is not published.",[763],"2%",{"title":882,"detail":883,"cites":884,"authority":74,"deadline":885},"A 21 day permit rule","The party commits to a 21 day permit rule.",[763],"21 days",{"title":887,"detail":888,"cites":889},"Faster permits and lower building costs","Alongside the 21 day rule the party commits to affordable food access and modern worker training.",[763],[],[810],[],"A 2% fair share surcharge and a 21 day permit rule","Bright Future commits to a 2% fair share surcharge to fund its programme, and a 21 day deadline for permits.",{"issue":288,"paragraphs":896,"proposals":898,"questions":903,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":904,"gaps":905,"headline":900,"summary":907},[897],"The party’s published environment commitment is clean water and lead-free schools. It is not contesting the School Board race.",[899],{"title":900,"detail":901,"cites":902,"cost":132},"Clean water and lead-free schools","The party commits to clean water and lead free schools.",[763],[],[810],[906],"No emissions or building energy commitment is published.","Bright Future commits to clean water and lead-free schools under its environment heading.",{"issue":298,"paragraphs":909,"proposals":910,"questions":911,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":912,"gaps":913},[],[],[],[833,656,657],[659],{"issue":318,"paragraphs":915,"proposals":919,"questions":925,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":926,"gaps":927,"headline":928,"summary":929},[916,917,918],"No other party on this ballot has published a commitment on child care outside standard daytime hours.","It matters for shift workers: nurses, transit operators, hospitality and warehouse staff, who cannot use care that closes at six.","Licensing and operating funding for child care are provincial. A city can create the space and press for the licence.",[920],{"title":921,"detail":922,"cites":923,"cost":132,"authority":924},"24 hour child care including night shifts","The party commits to night-shift child care and accessible care services, described as a 24 hour child care vision.",[763],"The city creates spaces. Licensing and funding are provincial.",[],[810],[],"A 24 hour child care vision, including night shifts","Bright Future commits to night-shift child care and a 24 hour child care vision.",[931,935,939,943,947,951,955,959,963],{"question":932,"answer":933,"cites":934},"Who leads Bright Future Vancouver?","Muhammad Ahmad is the mayoral candidate, at ballot number 53.",[763,29],{"question":936,"answer":937,"cites":938},"How many candidates is it running?","7: Muhammad Ahmad for mayor and 6 for City Council. It is not contesting Park Board or School Board.",[29],{"question":940,"answer":941,"cites":942},"What is the 21 day permit rule?","A commitment that a permit decision comes within 21 days. It is the only published permit deadline on this ballot. Other parties promise faster permitting without saying how fast.",[763],{"question":944,"answer":945,"cites":946},"Would transit really be free?","The party commits to 100% free resident transit. Fares are set by TransLink, not the city, so a council would have to fund it and negotiate rather than vote it in. No cost or funding source is published.",[763],{"question":948,"answer":949,"cites":950},"What is 20% rent-to-own equity?","Part of what a tenant pays in rent builds up as a stake in the home. The party publishes the figure 20% but not how the scheme would be funded or who would run it.",[763],{"question":952,"answer":953,"cites":954},"What is the 2% fair share surcharge?","A tax the party describes as a \"fair share tax to fund the future\", published as 2%. What it applies to is not published.",[763],{"question":956,"answer":957,"cites":958},"What is the 24 hour child care vision?","Child care available outside standard daytime hours, including night shifts. No other party on this ballot has published a commitment on care outside daytime hours.",[763],{"question":960,"answer":961,"cites":962},"Why does it publish nothing on parks or schools?","It is not running candidates for Park Board or School Board. Its slate covers mayor and council only.",[29],{"question":734,"answer":735,"cites":964},[379,380],{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":966,"gaps":967,"entries":968},[19,383],[385],[],"bright-future-vancouver",[971,974,978,979,980,981],{"id":763,"label":972,"url":973,"publisher":780,"kind":392,"checkedAt":6},"Bright Future Vancouver home page","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.brightfuturevancouver.ca\u002F",{"id":975,"label":976,"url":977,"publisher":780,"kind":392,"checkedAt":6},"bf-blueprint","Bright Future Vancouver Blueprint","https:\u002F\u002Fbrightfuturevancouver.ca\u002Fblueprint",{"id":29,"label":407,"url":408,"publisher":399,"kind":400,"checkedAt":6},{"id":379,"label":410,"url":38,"publisher":411,"kind":400,"checkedAt":6},{"id":380,"label":413,"url":414,"publisher":411,"kind":400,"checkedAt":6},{"id":416,"label":417,"url":418,"publisher":411,"kind":400,"checkedAt":6},"parties\u002Fbright-future-vancouver","Bright Future Vancouver is running 7 candidates behind mayoral candidate Muhammad Ahmad, all for mayor and council. Its published commitments include free transit for residents, 24 hour child care and a 21 day permit deadline.","NCOmKCMAD021bKM1GzBZpD46mP7P9LUMfGilYFmRSAc",{"id":986,"aliases":987,"checkedAt":6,"declaredColour":988,"extension":12,"founded":13,"headline":993,"history":994,"leadership":998,"meta":999,"money":1000,"name":1005,"news":1006,"overview":1010,"palette":1015,"platform":1019,"questions":1268,"record":1304,"registeredName":1308,"rosterLabel":1005,"slug":1309,"sources":1310,"stem":1322,"summary":1323,"website":1313,"__hash__":1324},"parties\u002Fparties\u002Fcope.json",[],{"hex":989,"note":990,"cites":991},"#f23d3d","Read from the party stylesheet on September 22, 2026.",[992],"cope-home","The left slate, running no mayoral candidate",{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":995,"gaps":996,"entries":997},[19,20],[22],[],[],{},{"state":32,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":1001,"gaps":1002,"searchUrl":38,"filings":1003,"notes":1004},[34,35],[37],[],[41,42,43,44,45],"COPE",{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":1007,"gaps":1008,"entries":1009},[49],[51],[],[1011,1012,1013,1014],"COPE stands for the Coalition of Progressive Electors. It is running 12 candidates: 4 for City Council, 4 for Park Board and 4 for School Board. It is not running a mayoral candidate.","It is one of two parties on this ballot contesting three races but not the mayoralty; OneCity is the other.","The platform published on the party website on September 22, 2026 is its April 2025 by-election platform, not a 2026 platform. We have recorded it as such throughout, with its date attached, because the commitments in it were written for a different election.","COPE states that it rejects donations and gifts from developers and big business, and says it returned three $1,000 cheques from Concord Pacific in 2022.",{"accent":1016,"onAccent":58,"tint":1017,"ink":1018},"#E71010","#F7E3E3","#7A1F1F",[1020,1075,1098,1121,1145,1166,1184,1210,1246,1253],{"issue":63,"paragraphs":1021,"proposals":1026,"questions":1060,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":1069,"gaps":1072,"headline":1073,"summary":1074},[1022,1023,1024,1025],"These commitments come from COPE’s April 2025 by-election platform, which was still the platform published on its website on September 22, 2026.","The mansion tax is the most specific number on it: 1% on property values above $5 million, to pay for ending homelessness.","COPE would also have the city buy existing apartment buildings and convert them to permanently affordable public housing and co-ops, naming Montreal as the model.","The vacancy loophole it names is the rule that lets a landlord raise rent without limit between tenants. Rent control between tenancies is provincial law, so a city cannot close that gap on its own.",[1027,1034,1038,1043,1047,1052,1056],{"title":1028,"detail":1029,"cites":1030,"cost":1032,"authority":1033},"A 1% tax on property values above $5 million","COPE would end homelessness with a tax on what it calls the mansions of the super-rich: a progressive property tax of 1% on values exceeding $5 million.",[1031],"cope-platform","1% above $5 million","Council sets property tax. A new tax class may need provincial approval.",{"title":1035,"detail":1036,"cites":1037},"Buy apartments and convert them to public housing","The city would buy apartment buildings and turn them into permanently affordable public housing and co-ops, following Montreal’s municipal approach.",[1031],{"title":1039,"detail":1040,"cites":1041,"authority":1042},"Close the vacancy loophole","COPE would close the loophole that lets landlords raise rents without limit between tenants.",[1031],"Rent control between tenancies is set by provincial tenancy law.",{"title":1044,"detail":1045,"cites":1046},"Stop demovictions","COPE would stop demovictions and address city-owned vacant land and what it calls exclusionary mansion districts.",[1031],{"title":1048,"detail":1049,"cites":1050,"authority":1051},"Increase and tighten the Empty Homes Tax","COPE would keep increasing the tax, apply a partial vacancy tax to exempt new builds, increase enforcement and close loopholes.",[1031],"The Empty Homes Tax is a City of Vancouver tax.",{"title":1053,"detail":1054,"cites":1055},"Create a landlord registry","A registry would track rents and allow enforcement against landlords with patterns of violations.",[1031],{"title":1057,"detail":1058,"cites":1059},"Bring back the renters office with enforcement powers","COPE would restore the renters office and give it new enforcement powers.",[1031],[1061,1065],{"question":1062,"answer":1063,"cites":1064},"Is this COPE’s 2026 platform?","No. The platform published on the party website on September 22, 2026 is its April 2025 by-election platform. We have kept its date attached to every commitment because it was written for a different election.",[1031],{"question":1066,"answer":1067,"cites":1068},"Can the city close the vacancy loophole?","No. The rule that lets a landlord raise the rent without limit when one tenant leaves and another arrives is provincial tenancy law. A city can ask the province to change it, and can act on the taxes and registries it does control.",[1031],[1070,1071],"The COPE platform page","The COPE home page",[],"A 1% tax on homes worth more than $5 million","COPE’s published platform would tax properties above $5 million at 1% to fund ending homelessness, buy apartments as permanent public housing, close the vacancy loophole and stop demovictions.",{"issue":88,"paragraphs":1076,"proposals":1079,"questions":1093,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":1094,"gaps":1095,"headline":1096,"summary":1097},[1077,1078],"COPE is the only party on this ballot that names both an end to homelessness and the tax that would pay for it in the same commitment.","On the drug crisis, COPE maintains support for safe supply and harm reduction, which is the opposite position to ABC’s ban on open-air use and TrueBlue’s recovery-first framing.",[1080,1084,1089],{"title":1081,"detail":1082,"cites":1083,"cost":1032},"End homelessness, paid for by a mansion tax","A 1% property tax on values above $5 million would fund ending homelessness.",[1031],{"title":1085,"detail":1086,"cites":1087,"authority":1088},"Maintain safe supply and harm reduction","COPE commits to maintaining support for safe supply and harm reduction programs.",[1031],"These are provincial and federal health programmes.",{"title":1090,"detail":1091,"cites":1092},"Buy apartments as permanent public housing","The city would buy apartment buildings and convert them to permanently affordable public housing and co-ops.",[1031],[],[1070],[],"End homelessness, funded by the mansion tax","COPE ties its homelessness commitment directly to a funding source: a 1% tax on property values above $5 million.",{"issue":111,"paragraphs":1099,"proposals":1103,"questions":1116,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":1117,"gaps":1118,"headline":1119,"summary":1120},[1100,1101,1102],"COPE is the clearest counter-position to ABC and TEAM on this issue. Where they commit to more police tools and enforcement, COPE commits to funding other services instead.","Its platform states the Vancouver police budget increased by about $100 million under the current administration. That is COPE’s own figure and we have not checked it against city budget documents.","Peer-assisted care teams, which COPE calls PACTs, send trained peers rather than police to a mental health crisis.",[1104,1109,1113],{"title":1105,"detail":1106,"cites":1107,"authority":1108},"Fund public services rather than policing","COPE would prioritise pools, recreation facilities and social infrastructure over policing.",[1031],"Council approves the police budget but the Police Board directs the department.",{"title":1110,"detail":1111,"cites":1112},"Support peer-assisted care teams","COPE would support peer-assisted care teams to respond to mental health crises without involving police.",[1031],{"title":1085,"detail":1086,"cites":1114,"authority":1115},[1031],"Safe supply is a provincial and federal health programme.",[],[1070],[],"Fund peer crisis teams rather than police","COPE would prioritise pools, recreation and social infrastructure over policing, and support peer-assisted care teams that respond to mental health crises without police.",{"issue":158,"paragraphs":1122,"proposals":1124,"questions":1140,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":1141,"gaps":1142,"headline":1143,"summary":1144},[1123],"COPE publishes its transport commitments inside its climate section rather than separately.",[1125,1130,1135],{"title":1126,"detail":1127,"cites":1128,"authority":1129},"Work toward free public transit","COPE would expand free transit to under-18s and work toward a fully funded, free-to-ride system.",[1031],"TransLink sets fares.",{"title":1131,"detail":1132,"cites":1133,"authority":1134},"Restore bus routes 17 and 25","COPE would restore both routes and reduce bunching and overcrowding.",[1031],"TransLink runs bus routes.",{"title":1136,"detail":1137,"cites":1138,"authority":1139},"Support protected bike lanes","COPE would support protected bike lanes and cycling safety initiatives.",[1031],"The city designs its own streets.",[],[1070],[],"Free transit, restored bus routes and protected bike lanes","COPE would work toward fully funded free public transit, restore bus routes 17 and 25, and support protected bike lanes.",{"issue":178,"paragraphs":1146,"proposals":1148,"questions":1161,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":1162,"gaps":1163,"headline":1164,"summary":1165},[1147],"COPE and TEAM both commit to keeping and strengthening the elected Park Board, and both would make temporary parks permanent. COPE publishes a number: more than 100.",[1149,1153,1157],{"title":1150,"detail":1151,"cites":1152},"Strengthen the elected Park Board","COPE would strengthen the independence of the elected park board.",[1031],{"title":1154,"detail":1155,"cites":1156},"Make 100-plus temporary parks permanent","COPE would make more than 100 parks it describes as temporary into permanent parks.",[1031],{"title":1158,"detail":1159,"cites":1160},"Expand community gardens and food growing","COPE would expand community gardens, seed sharing and community kitchens and establish food sovereignty networks.",[1031],[],[1070],[],"Make the 100-plus temporary parks permanent","COPE would strengthen the independence of the elected Park Board and make more than 100 parks it describes as temporary into permanent ones.",{"issue":223,"paragraphs":1167,"proposals":1169,"questions":1178,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":1179,"gaps":1180,"headline":1182,"summary":1183},[1168],"COPE’s published platform addresses public education in general terms and does not set out school-specific commitments. Its related commitments are on libraries and food security.",[1170,1174],{"title":1171,"detail":1172,"cites":1173},"Increase library funding, hours and wages","COPE would increase funding, hours and wages and add worker representation to the Vancouver Public Library board.",[1031],{"title":1175,"detail":1176,"cites":1177},"Defend public education","COPE campaigns on fighting for public education.",[992],[],[1070,1071],[1181],"No school capacity, catchment or budget commitment is published.","Public education, libraries and food programmes","COPE is running four School Board candidates and campaigns on defending public education, with library funding and food programmes alongside.",{"issue":246,"paragraphs":1185,"proposals":1188,"questions":1205,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":1206,"gaps":1207,"headline":1208,"summary":1209},[1186,1187],"COPE and TEAM both commit to a lobbyist registry, from opposite ends of the political range. That makes it one of the few commitments with support across this ballot.","COPE’s donation position is a claim about its own conduct: it says it always rejects donations and gifts from developers and big business, and that it returned three $1,000 cheques from Concord Pacific in 2022. That is the party’s own account. Elections BC filings are the place to check it.",[1189,1193,1197,1201],{"title":1190,"detail":1191,"cites":1192},"Establish a lobbyist registry","COPE would establish a lobbyist registry and push fossil fuel and big business lobbyists out.",[1031],{"title":1194,"detail":1195,"cites":1196},"Defend the Integrity Commissioner","COPE would defend and restore the independence and authority of the Integrity Commissioner.",[1031],{"title":1198,"detail":1199,"cites":1200},"Refuse developer and big business donations","COPE states it always rejects donations and gifts from developers and big business, and that it returned three $1,000 cheques from Concord Pacific in 2022. This is the party’s own account of its conduct.",[1031],{"title":1202,"detail":1203,"cites":1204},"Expand public participation at council","COPE would increase council comment time and follow-up questions and hold town halls throughout the city.",[1031],[],[1070],[],"A lobbyist registry, and no developer donations","COPE would establish a lobbyist registry, defend the Integrity Commissioner’s independence, and states it rejects donations from developers and big business.",{"issue":288,"paragraphs":1211,"proposals":1215,"questions":1241,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":1242,"gaps":1243,"headline":1244,"summary":1245},[1212,1213,1214],"COPE’s climate section is the longest part of its published platform and folds transport into it.","It refers to the 2021 heat dome, stating 99 people died in Vancouver, and frames its climate adaptation commitments around protecting people from extreme weather.","Rejoining the Sue Big Oil lawsuit would have the city join other local governments suing fossil fuel companies for climate costs.",[1216,1221,1225,1228,1233,1237],{"title":1217,"detail":1218,"cites":1219,"authority":1220},"Free transit for everyone under 18","COPE would expand free public transit to youth under the age of 18, working toward fully funded free-to-ride public transit.",[1031],"TransLink sets fares. A city can advocate and can contribute funding.",{"title":1222,"detail":1223,"cites":1224},"Rejoin the Sue Big Oil lawsuit","The city would rejoin the lawsuit requiring polluters to fund climate crisis remediation.",[1031],{"title":1131,"detail":1226,"cites":1227,"authority":1134},"COPE would restore the two routes and reduce bunching and overcrowding.",[1031],{"title":1229,"detail":1230,"cites":1231,"authority":1232},"Block gas in new buildings","COPE would block what it describes as the next attempt to enable burning methane gas in new builds, and support electric heat pump retrofitting.",[1031],"Vancouver sets its own building bylaw under the Vancouver Charter.",{"title":1234,"detail":1235,"cites":1236},"Exceed IPCC emissions targets","COPE commits to exceeding IPCC greenhouse gas reduction targets and timelines.",[1031],{"title":1238,"detail":1239,"cites":1240},"A climate defence strategy for extreme weather","COPE would develop adaptation infrastructure for extreme weather, citing the 99 deaths in Vancouver during the 2021 heat dome.",[1031],[],[1070],[],"Free transit for under-18s and rejoining the Sue Big Oil lawsuit","COPE’s published platform would expand free transit to everyone under 18, rejoin the Sue Big Oil lawsuit, restore bus routes 17 and 25, and exceed IPCC emissions targets.",{"issue":298,"paragraphs":1247,"proposals":1248,"questions":1249,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":1250,"gaps":1252},[],[],[],[1251,656,657],"The party website at https:\u002F\u002Fwww.votecope.ca\u002F",[659],{"issue":318,"paragraphs":1254,"proposals":1256,"questions":1263,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":1264,"gaps":1265,"headline":1266,"summary":1267},[1255],"The $10 a day programme is a provincial scheme. A city can create the rooms and press for more spaces to be funded, but it does not set the fee.",[1257],{"title":1258,"detail":1259,"cites":1260,"cost":1261,"authority":1262},"Expand $10 a day child care spaces in Vancouver","COPE would expand affordable child care, specifically $10 a day spaces.",[1031],"$10 per day per space","The $10 a day programme is funded and set by the province.",[],[1070],[],"Expand $10-a-day child care spaces","COPE would expand affordable child care in Vancouver, specifically $10 a day spaces.",[1269,1273,1277,1281,1285,1289,1293,1297,1301],{"question":1270,"answer":1271,"cites":1272},"Is COPE running a candidate for mayor?","No. COPE is running 12 candidates for City Council, Park Board and School Board, and none for mayor.",[29],{"question":1274,"answer":1275,"cites":1276},"What does COPE stand for?","The Coalition of Progressive Electors.",[992],{"question":1278,"answer":1279,"cites":1280},"Is the platform on COPE’s website its 2026 platform?","No. On September 22, 2026 the platform page held its April 2025 by-election platform. We have kept that date attached to every commitment taken from it.",[1031],{"question":1282,"answer":1283,"cites":1284},"What is COPE’s mansion tax?","A property tax of 1% on the value of a home above $5 million, which COPE says would fund ending homelessness. A home assessed at $6 million would be taxed 1% on the $1 million above the threshold.",[1031],{"question":1286,"answer":1287,"cites":1288},"Where does COPE stand on policing?","It would prioritise pools, recreation and social infrastructure over policing, and fund peer-assisted care teams that respond to mental health crises without police.",[1031],{"question":1290,"answer":1291,"cites":1292},"Does COPE take developer donations?","It states that it always rejects donations and gifts from developers and big business, and that it returned three $1,000 cheques from Concord Pacific in 2022. That is the party’s own account. Elections BC filings are where to check it.",[1031,379],{"question":1294,"answer":1295,"cites":1296},"What does COPE say about the Park Board?","It would strengthen the independence of the elected board and make more than 100 parks it describes as temporary into permanent parks.",[1031],{"question":1298,"answer":1299,"cites":1300},"Does COPE support free transit?","Yes. It would expand free transit to everyone under 18 and work toward a fully funded, free-to-ride system. Fares are set by TransLink, not the city.",[1031],{"question":1302,"answer":735,"cites":1303},"Where can I see COPE’s campaign finances?",[379,380],{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":1305,"gaps":1306,"entries":1307},[19,383],[385],[],"The Coalition of Progressive Electors","cope",[1311,1314,1318,1319,1320,1321],{"id":992,"label":1312,"url":1313,"publisher":1005,"kind":392,"checkedAt":6},"COPE home page","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.votecope.ca\u002F",{"id":1031,"label":1315,"url":1316,"publisher":1005,"kind":392,"publishedAt":1317,"checkedAt":6},"COPE platform (April 2025 by-election platform, still published September 2026)","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.votecope.ca\u002Fplatform","2025-04-05",{"id":29,"label":407,"url":408,"publisher":399,"kind":400,"checkedAt":6},{"id":379,"label":410,"url":38,"publisher":411,"kind":400,"checkedAt":6},{"id":380,"label":413,"url":414,"publisher":411,"kind":400,"checkedAt":6},{"id":416,"label":417,"url":418,"publisher":411,"kind":400,"checkedAt":6},"parties\u002Fcope","COPE, the Coalition of Progressive Electors, is running 12 candidates for Council, Park Board and School Board, and no mayoral candidate. Its published platform commits to a mansion tax, buying apartments as public housing, and free transit.","gBVwD6bRzWt8wF_LmbsigOBqISS9fQ5gGuLMiZEZfAw",{"id":1326,"aliases":1327,"checkedAt":6,"declaredColour":1328,"extension":12,"founded":13,"headline":1332,"history":1333,"leadership":1337,"meta":1341,"money":1342,"name":1347,"news":1348,"overview":1352,"palette":1357,"platform":1361,"questions":1501,"record":1533,"registeredName":13,"rosterLabel":1537,"slug":1538,"sources":1539,"stem":1559,"summary":1560,"website":1542,"__hash__":1561},"parties\u002Fparties\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver.json",[],{"hex":1329,"note":612,"cites":1330},"#a9c94f",[1331],"green-home","Pete Fry for mayor, with a housing plan built on faster approvals",{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":1334,"gaps":1335,"entries":1336},[19,20],[22],[],[1338],{"role":771,"name":1339,"cites":1340},"Pete Fry",[1331,29],{},{"state":32,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":1343,"gaps":1344,"searchUrl":38,"filings":1345,"notes":1346},[34,35],[37],[],[41,42,43,44,45],"Green Party of Vancouver",{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":1349,"gaps":1350,"entries":1351},[49],[51],[],[1353,1354,1355,1356],"The Green Party of Vancouver is running 10 candidates: Pete Fry for mayor at ballot number 51, 4 for City Council, 3 for Park Board and 2 for School Board.","Pete Fry is a two-term sitting Vancouver city councillor.","The party released a housing plan on September 16, 2026. It had not published a full platform document on its website when we checked on September 22, 2026.","Its housing position is notably close to parties on the other side of this ballot on approvals and prefabrication, and splits from them on keeping Vancouver’s own building bylaw.",{"accent":1358,"onAccent":58,"tint":1359,"ink":1360},"#667D26","#F2F7E4","#607524",[1362,1417,1432,1439,1445,1451,1457,1463,1489,1495],{"issue":63,"paragraphs":1363,"proposals":1368,"questions":1401,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":1411,"gaps":1414,"headline":1415,"summary":1416},[1364,1365,1366,1367],"Pete Fry released this plan on September 16, 2026. Its shape is faster approvals and cheaper construction methods rather than a supply target or a spending number.","Pre-approved designs mean the city approves a set of building plans in advance, so a builder using one skips much of the permit process.","The clearest difference from other parties is on the Vancouver Building By-law. Vancouver is the only city in British Columbia with its own building bylaw, under the Vancouver Charter. The Greens would keep it, arguing it allows climate, mechanical and built-form solutions including mass timber. The Vancouver Liberals would abolish it and adopt the provincial code instead.","No dollar figures, numerical targets or deadlines were stated in the plan as reported.",[1369,1375,1380,1384,1389,1393,1397],{"title":1370,"detail":1371,"cites":1372,"authority":1374},"Launch pre-approved housing designs","The party would launch pre-approved housing designs including prefabricated options, so qualifying projects skip much of the permit process.",[1373],"green-housing","The city controls its own permit process.",{"title":1376,"detail":1377,"cites":1378,"authority":1379},"Partner with Build Canada Homes","The Greens would partner with Build Canada Homes to attract investment and fast-track qualifying projects.",[1373],"Build Canada Homes is a federal programme.",{"title":1381,"detail":1382,"cites":1383},"Streamline permitting for low-rise construction","Permitting would be streamlined for low-rise apartments, row homes, townhomes, infill and wood-frame construction.",[1373],{"title":1385,"detail":1386,"cites":1387,"authority":1388},"Keep the Vancouver Building By-law","The Greens would support Vancouver’s own building bylaw and allow innovative climate, mechanical and built-form solutions including mass timber and decarbonisation.",[1373],"Vancouver holds this power under the Vancouver Charter.",{"title":1390,"detail":1391,"cites":1392},"Champion Canadian procurement on major developments","The party would champion Canadian procurement and employment requirements for major developments.",[1373],{"title":1394,"detail":1395,"cites":1396},"Secure rental and non-market homes from new value","The Greens commit to ensuring some of the value created by new development comes back as secured rental and non-market homes.",[1373],{"title":1398,"detail":1399,"cites":1400},"Fund retrofits through federal and provincial accelerators","The party would partner with the federal Deep Retrofit Accelerator Initiative and the BC Retrofit Accelerator to fund climate-smart retrofits.",[1373],[1402,1407],{"question":1403,"answer":1404,"cites":1405},"What is the Vancouver Building By-law, and why does it matter?","Vancouver is the only city in British Columbia allowed to write its own building rules, under the Vancouver Charter. Every other city follows the provincial code. The Greens would keep this power. The Vancouver Liberals would give it up and adopt the provincial code instead. It is one of the sharpest splits on this ballot.",[1373,1406],"liberals-home",{"question":1408,"answer":1409,"cites":1410},"What are pre-approved housing designs?","The city approves a set of building plans in advance. A builder who uses one of those plans skips most of the design review, which makes the project faster and cheaper. It works best for repeatable buildings such as townhomes and small apartment blocks.",[1373],[1412,1413],"The Green Party of Vancouver home page","News coverage of the September 16, 2026 housing plan release",[],"Pre-approved designs, mass timber and Build Canada Homes","The Green housing plan would launch pre-approved and prefabricated housing designs, partner with Build Canada Homes, streamline permitting for low-rise construction, and keep the Vancouver Building By-law.",{"issue":88,"paragraphs":1418,"proposals":1420,"questions":1426,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":1427,"gaps":1429,"headline":1422,"summary":1431},[1419],"The party published a call for rapid shelters on its own website. We have recorded the call itself; the detail of how many shelters, where and at what cost has not been transcribed onto this page.",[1421],{"title":1422,"detail":1423,"cites":1424,"cost":132},"Rapid shelters ahead of the World Cup","Pete Fry called for rapid shelters to address rising homelessness in Vancouver ahead of the World Cup.",[1425],"green-shelters",[],[1428],"The Green Party of Vancouver news page",[1430],"The number, locations and cost of the proposed shelters have not been transcribed onto this page.","Pete Fry has called for rapid shelters to address rising homelessness in Vancouver ahead of the World Cup.",{"issue":111,"paragraphs":1433,"proposals":1434,"questions":1435,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":1436,"gaps":1438},[],[],[],[1437,656,657],"The party website at https:\u002F\u002Fwww.vangreens.ca\u002F",[659],{"issue":158,"paragraphs":1440,"proposals":1441,"questions":1442,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":1443,"gaps":1444},[],[],[],[1437,656,657],[659],{"issue":178,"paragraphs":1446,"proposals":1447,"questions":1448,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":1449,"gaps":1450},[],[],[],[1437,656,657],[659],{"issue":223,"paragraphs":1452,"proposals":1453,"questions":1454,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":1455,"gaps":1456},[],[],[],[1437,656,657],[659],{"issue":246,"paragraphs":1458,"proposals":1459,"questions":1460,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":1461,"gaps":1462},[],[],[],[1437,656,657],[659],{"issue":288,"paragraphs":1464,"proposals":1468,"questions":1481,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":1482,"gaps":1484,"headline":1487,"summary":1488},[1465,1466,1467],"The Green climate position published so far runs through buildings rather than through a separate climate plan.","Keeping the Vancouver Building By-law is the mechanism: it is what lets the city set its own energy and emissions rules for new buildings, which no other BC city can do.","The party had not published a full climate platform when we checked on September 22, 2026.",[1469,1473,1477],{"title":1470,"detail":1471,"cites":1472,"authority":1388},"Keep Vancouver’s own building bylaw for climate rules","The Greens would support the Vancouver Building By-law and allow innovative climate, mechanical and built-form solutions including mass timber and decarbonisation.",[1373],{"title":1474,"detail":1475,"cites":1476},"Fund retrofits through the federal and provincial accelerators","The party would partner with the federal Deep Retrofit Accelerator Initiative and the BC Retrofit Accelerator.",[1373],{"title":1478,"detail":1479,"cites":1480},"Use mass timber and wood-frame construction","The party describes mass timber and wood-frame construction as faster and more cost-effective, and would use them.",[1373],[],[1412,1483],"News coverage of the September 16, 2026 housing plan",[1485,1486],"No emissions target is published.","No transport emissions commitment is published.","Keep the building bylaw, and fund retrofits","The Greens would keep Vancouver’s own building bylaw to allow decarbonisation measures, and partner with federal and provincial programmes to fund building retrofits.",{"issue":298,"paragraphs":1490,"proposals":1491,"questions":1492,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":1493,"gaps":1494},[],[],[],[1437,656,657],[659],{"issue":318,"paragraphs":1496,"proposals":1497,"questions":1498,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":1499,"gaps":1500},[],[],[],[1437,656,657],[659],[1502,1506,1510,1514,1518,1522,1526,1530],{"question":1503,"answer":1504,"cites":1505},"Who is the Green Party of Vancouver’s mayoral candidate?","Pete Fry, a two-term sitting Vancouver city councillor, at ballot number 51.",[1331,29],{"question":1507,"answer":1508,"cites":1509},"How many candidates are the Greens running?","10: Pete Fry for mayor, 4 for City Council, 3 for Park Board and 2 for School Board.",[29],{"question":1511,"answer":1512,"cites":1513},"What is in the Green housing plan?","Pre-approved and prefabricated designs, a partnership with the federal Build Canada Homes programme, streamlined permitting for low-rise buildings, mass timber construction, and keeping Vancouver’s own building bylaw. It was released on September 16, 2026.",[1373],{"question":1515,"answer":1516,"cites":1517},"Do the Greens publish a housing target?","No. The plan is about how homes get approved and built rather than how many. No dollar figures, targets or deadlines were stated.",[1373],{"question":1519,"answer":1520,"cites":1521},"What is the split over the Vancouver Building By-law?","Vancouver is the only BC city that writes its own building rules. The Greens would keep that power, arguing it allows mass timber and decarbonisation. The Vancouver Liberals would give it up and adopt the provincial code.",[1373,1406],{"question":1523,"answer":1524,"cites":1525},"Have the Greens published a full platform?","Not when we checked on September 22, 2026. A housing plan had been released on September 16 and a call for rapid shelters was published on the party site.",[1331],{"question":1527,"answer":1528,"cites":1529},"What have the Greens said about homelessness?","Pete Fry called for rapid shelters to address rising homelessness ahead of the World Cup. The number, locations and cost were not published.",[1425],{"question":1531,"answer":735,"cites":1532},"Where can I see the Green Party’s campaign finances?",[379,380],{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":1534,"gaps":1535,"entries":1536},[19,383],[385],[],"Green","green-party-of-vancouver",[1540,1543,1546,1551,1555,1556,1557,1558],{"id":1331,"label":1541,"url":1542,"publisher":1347,"kind":392,"checkedAt":6},"Green Party of Vancouver home page","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.vangreens.ca\u002F",{"id":1425,"label":1544,"url":1545,"publisher":1347,"kind":392,"checkedAt":6},"Pete Fry calls for rapid shelters to address rising homelessness ahead of World Cup","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.vangreens.ca\u002Fpete_fry_calls_for_rapid_shelters_to_address_rising_homelessness_in_vancouver_ahead_of_world_cup",{"id":1373,"label":1547,"url":1548,"publisher":1549,"kind":405,"publishedAt":1550,"checkedAt":6},"Pete Fry unveils Green Party of Vancouver housing plan","https:\u002F\u002Fdailyhive.com\u002Fvancouver\u002Fpete-fry-green-party-vancouver-housing","Daily Hive","2026-09-16",{"id":1406,"label":1552,"url":1553,"publisher":1554,"kind":392,"checkedAt":6},"Vancouver Liberals home page","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.vancouverliberals.com\u002F","Vancouver Liberals",{"id":29,"label":407,"url":408,"publisher":399,"kind":400,"checkedAt":6},{"id":379,"label":410,"url":38,"publisher":411,"kind":400,"checkedAt":6},{"id":380,"label":413,"url":414,"publisher":411,"kind":400,"checkedAt":6},{"id":416,"label":417,"url":418,"publisher":411,"kind":400,"checkedAt":6},"parties\u002Fgreen-party-of-vancouver","The Green Party of Vancouver is running 10 candidates behind mayoral candidate Pete Fry, a sitting city councillor. Its published housing plan centres on faster approvals, prefabricated designs and Canadian-built construction.","krcoVrkdIzfUJBeCZU8qPBMRY0kRckyMdhZROPa-BQU",{"id":1563,"aliases":1564,"checkedAt":6,"declaredColour":1565,"extension":12,"founded":13,"headline":1569,"history":1570,"leadership":1574,"meta":1575,"money":1576,"name":1581,"news":1582,"overview":1586,"palette":1591,"platform":1595,"questions":1660,"record":1689,"registeredName":13,"rosterLabel":1581,"slug":1693,"sources":1694,"stem":1702,"summary":1703,"website":1697,"__hash__":1704},"parties\u002Fparties\u002Findependent-parks-party.json",[],{"hex":1566,"note":612,"cites":1567},"#0b6a0b",[1568],"ipp-home","Five candidates, all for Park Board, and no published platform",{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":1571,"gaps":1572,"entries":1573},[19,20],[22],[],[],{},{"state":32,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":1577,"gaps":1578,"searchUrl":38,"filings":1579,"notes":1580},[34,35],[37],[],[41,42,43,44,45],"Independent Parks Party",{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":1583,"gaps":1584,"entries":1585},[49],[51],[],[1587,1588,1589,1590],"The Independent Parks Party is running 5 candidates, all for the Board of Parks and Recreation. It is not contesting mayor, council or school board.","It is the only party on this ballot focused on one race. Seven Park Board seats are being filled on October 17, so a full slate of five means the party could take a majority of the board if all five won.","Its website identifies a parent organisation, the Association for the Promotion of Science in Governance, described as a British Columbia non-profit.","We checked the party website on September 22, 2026. The page held navigation and a login prompt, and no policy positions. Every issue below records that finding rather than assuming a position.",{"accent":1592,"onAccent":58,"tint":1593,"ink":1594},"#0B6A0B","#E3F7E3","#1F7A1F",[1596,1603,1609,1615,1621,1630,1636,1642,1648,1654],{"issue":63,"paragraphs":1597,"proposals":1598,"questions":1599,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":1600,"gaps":1602},[],[],[],[1601,656,657],"The party website at https:\u002F\u002Fparksparty.vote\u002F",[659],{"issue":88,"paragraphs":1604,"proposals":1605,"questions":1606,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":1607,"gaps":1608},[],[],[],[1601,656,657],[659],{"issue":111,"paragraphs":1610,"proposals":1611,"questions":1612,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":1613,"gaps":1614},[],[],[],[1601,656,657],[659],{"issue":158,"paragraphs":1616,"proposals":1617,"questions":1618,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":1619,"gaps":1620},[],[],[],[1601,656,657],[659],{"issue":178,"paragraphs":1622,"proposals":1623,"questions":1624,"state":292,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":1625,"gaps":1628},[],[],[],[1626,1627],"The Independent Parks Party website at parksparty.vote","A web search for the party name with Park Board policy, September 2026",[1629],"No parks policy is published on the party website, which is the single race this party contests.",{"issue":223,"paragraphs":1631,"proposals":1632,"questions":1633,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":1634,"gaps":1635},[],[],[],[1601,656,657],[659],{"issue":246,"paragraphs":1637,"proposals":1638,"questions":1639,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":1640,"gaps":1641},[],[],[],[1601,656,657],[659],{"issue":288,"paragraphs":1643,"proposals":1644,"questions":1645,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":1646,"gaps":1647},[],[],[],[1601,656,657],[659],{"issue":298,"paragraphs":1649,"proposals":1650,"questions":1651,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":1652,"gaps":1653},[],[],[],[1601,656,657],[659],{"issue":318,"paragraphs":1655,"proposals":1656,"questions":1657,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":1658,"gaps":1659},[],[],[],[1601,656,657],[659],[1661,1665,1669,1672,1676,1680,1684,1686],{"question":1662,"answer":1663,"cites":1664},"What office is the Independent Parks Party contesting?","Park Board only. It is running 5 candidates for the Board of Parks and Recreation and none for mayor, council or school board.",[29],{"question":1666,"answer":1667,"cites":1668},"Could it win control of the Park Board?","Seven commissioners are elected on October 17. The party is running five candidates, so if all five won it would hold a majority of the board.",[29],{"question":714,"answer":1670,"cites":1671},"We found none published. We checked the party website on September 22, 2026 and the page held navigation and a login prompt with no policy positions.",[1568],{"question":1673,"answer":1674,"cites":1675},"Who runs the party?","No leader is named on the website. The site identifies a parent organisation, the Association for the Promotion of Science in Governance, described as a British Columbia non-profit. We have not checked that organisation’s registration.",[1568],{"question":1677,"answer":1678,"cites":1679},"Why does this page have so little on it?","Because the party has published little. We record what we searched and when, rather than filling the space. If the party publishes a platform we will add it with its date.",[1568],{"question":1681,"answer":1682,"cites":1683},"What does the Park Board actually control?","Parks, community centres, pools, rinks and beaches. Vancouver is the only major city in Canada with a separately elected park board, and it has seven commissioners.",[29],{"question":734,"answer":735,"cites":1685},[379,380],{"question":738,"answer":1687,"cites":1688},"Read the five candidate profiles linked from this page, and check the party website for a platform closer to October 17. Advance voting runs October 3, 7, 10 and 13.",[1568,29],{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":1690,"gaps":1691,"entries":1692},[19,383],[385],[],"independent-parks-party",[1695,1698,1699,1700,1701],{"id":1568,"label":1696,"url":1697,"publisher":1581,"kind":392,"checkedAt":6},"Independent Parks Party website","https:\u002F\u002Fparksparty.vote\u002F",{"id":29,"label":407,"url":408,"publisher":399,"kind":400,"checkedAt":6},{"id":379,"label":410,"url":38,"publisher":411,"kind":400,"checkedAt":6},{"id":380,"label":413,"url":414,"publisher":411,"kind":400,"checkedAt":6},{"id":416,"label":417,"url":418,"publisher":411,"kind":400,"checkedAt":6},"parties\u002Findependent-parks-party","The Independent Parks Party is running 5 candidates, all for Park Board. It is the only party on this ballot contesting a single race. We found no published platform on its website.","pnNx1B-SXWWX2XlqqilKo4ToPxVoeql-mFEUmGZCil0",{"id":1706,"aliases":1707,"checkedAt":6,"declaredColour":1708,"extension":12,"founded":13,"headline":1712,"history":1713,"leadership":1717,"meta":1718,"money":1719,"name":1724,"news":1725,"overview":1729,"palette":1733,"platform":1737,"questions":1869,"record":1901,"registeredName":13,"rosterLabel":1724,"slug":1905,"sources":1906,"stem":1914,"summary":1915,"website":1909,"__hash__":1916},"parties\u002Fparties\u002Fonecity.json",[],{"hex":1709,"note":612,"cites":1710},"#e24853",[1711],"onecity-home","4,000 homes on city land, and no mayoral candidate",{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":1714,"gaps":1715,"entries":1716},[19,20],[22],[],[],{},{"state":32,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":1720,"gaps":1721,"searchUrl":38,"filings":1722,"notes":1723},[34,35],[37],[],[41,42,43,44,45],"OneCity",{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":1726,"gaps":1727,"entries":1728},[49],[51],[],[1730,1731,1732],"OneCity is running 13 candidates: 5 for City Council, 3 for Park Board and 5 for School Board. Like COPE, it is not running a mayoral candidate.","Its website said \"Full Platform coming soon\" when we checked on September 22, 2026, so what is recorded here comes from the commitments published on its home page.","The party publishes two figures about its own funding that are unusual to disclose: 7,534 donors at an average gift of $46.31, and more than 4,800 members. These are the party’s own figures.",{"accent":1734,"onAccent":58,"tint":1735,"ink":1736},"#DE2E3A","#F7E3E5","#7A1F25",[1738,1767,1774,1780,1799,1811,1817,1844,1850,1856],{"issue":63,"paragraphs":1739,"proposals":1743,"questions":1753,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":1758,"gaps":1761,"headline":1765,"summary":1766},[1740,1741,1742],"This is the largest published housing number on the 2026 ballot. OneCity commits to 4,000 affordable homes built on land the city already owns.","Building on city land is the lever a council actually controls directly, because the city does not have to buy the land first.","OneCity’s site said a full platform was coming when we checked on September 22, 2026, so no timeline, cost or site list has been published alongside the 4,000 figure.",[1744,1749],{"title":1745,"detail":1746,"cites":1747,"cost":132,"authority":1748},"Build 4,000 affordable homes on city-owned land","OneCity commits to building 4,000 affordable homes on land the city already owns.",[1711],"The city owns the land and can direct its use.",{"title":1750,"detail":1751,"cites":1752},"Strengthen protections for low-income seniors and renters","OneCity commits to strengthening protections for low-income seniors and renters.",[1711],[1754],{"question":1755,"answer":1756,"cites":1757},"Is 4,000 homes a lot?","It is the largest housing number published by any party in this election. OneCity has not published a timeline, a cost or a list of sites alongside it, so there is no way yet to check whether it is achievable in one four-year term.",[1711],[1759,1760],"The OneCity home page","A web search for the OneCity 2026 platform, September 2026",[1762,1763,1764],"No timeline is published for the 4,000 homes.","No cost is published.","No list of city-owned sites is published.","4,000 affordable homes on city-owned land","OneCity commits to building 4,000 affordable homes on land the city already owns, and to strengthening protections for low-income seniors and renters.",{"issue":88,"paragraphs":1768,"proposals":1769,"questions":1770,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":1771,"gaps":1773},[],[],[],[1772,656,657],"The party website at https:\u002F\u002Fwww.onecityvancouver.ca\u002F",[659],{"issue":111,"paragraphs":1775,"proposals":1776,"questions":1777,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":1778,"gaps":1779},[],[],[],[1772,656,657],[659],{"issue":158,"paragraphs":1781,"proposals":1784,"questions":1794,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":1795,"gaps":1796,"headline":1797,"summary":1798},[1782,1783],"Transit signal priority means traffic lights hold green or turn green early for an approaching bus. The city owns and controls its traffic signals, so this is squarely within council’s power even though TransLink runs the buses.","OneCity publishes a target of about a 20% reduction in travel times. It is one of the few measurable transport targets on this ballot.",[1785,1790],{"title":1786,"detail":1787,"cites":1788,"cost":132,"authority":1789},"City-wide transit signal priority","OneCity would adopt city-wide transit signal priority and modernise traffic signals, targeting around a 20% reduction in travel times.",[1711],"The city owns and controls its traffic signals.",{"title":1791,"detail":1792,"cites":1793},"Reduce pedestrian and vehicle conflicts at crossings","OneCity commits to reducing pedestrian-vehicle conflicts at crossings.",[1711],[],[1759],[],"City-wide transit signal priority, targeting 20% faster trips","OneCity would adopt city-wide transit signal priority and modernise traffic signals, publishing a target of roughly 20% shorter travel times.",{"issue":178,"paragraphs":1800,"proposals":1802,"questions":1807,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":1808,"gaps":1809,"headline":1804,"summary":1805},[1801],"OneCity is running three Park Board candidates. Its published parks commitment is to renew community centres, pools and ice rinks. No cost or list of facilities is published.",[1803],{"title":1804,"detail":1805,"cites":1806,"cost":132},"Renew community centres, pools and ice rinks","OneCity commits to renewing community centres, pools and ice rinks.",[1711],[],[1759],[1810,1763],"No list of facilities is published.",{"issue":223,"paragraphs":1812,"proposals":1813,"questions":1814,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":1815,"gaps":1816},[],[],[],[1772,656,657],[659],{"issue":246,"paragraphs":1818,"proposals":1820,"questions":1838,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":1839,"gaps":1840,"headline":1842,"summary":1843},[1819],"OneCity’s published economic commitments centre on small business and on what the city requires of the people it pays.",[1821,1826,1830,1834],{"title":1822,"detail":1823,"cites":1824,"authority":1825},"Ensure public dollars fund fair wages","OneCity commits to ensuring public dollars fund fair wages.",[1711],"Council sets its own procurement rules.",{"title":1827,"detail":1828,"cites":1829,"cost":132},"Launch an Entrepreneur Liaison Office","OneCity would launch an office to help entrepreneurs deal with the city.",[1711],{"title":1831,"detail":1832,"cites":1833,"cost":132},"Small-business micro-grants","OneCity commits to providing small-business micro-grants.",[1711],{"title":1835,"detail":1836,"cites":1837},"Modernise home-based business rules","OneCity would modernise the rules for running a business from home.",[1711],[],[1759],[1841],"No property tax commitment is published.","Fair wages on public contracts, and small business support","OneCity would ensure public dollars fund fair wages, modernise home-based business rules, launch an Entrepreneur Liaison Office and provide small-business micro-grants.",{"issue":288,"paragraphs":1845,"proposals":1846,"questions":1847,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":1848,"gaps":1849},[],[],[],[1772,656,657],[659],{"issue":298,"paragraphs":1851,"proposals":1852,"questions":1853,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":1854,"gaps":1855},[],[],[],[1772,656,657],[659],{"issue":318,"paragraphs":1857,"proposals":1859,"questions":1864,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":1865,"gaps":1866,"headline":1861,"summary":1868},[1858],"OneCity names child care among its published commitments but has not published a number of spaces, a cost or a timeline.",[1860],{"title":1861,"detail":1862,"cites":1863,"cost":132},"Create child care spaces across the city","OneCity commits to creating child care spaces across the city.",[1711],[],[1759],[1867],"No number of spaces is published.","OneCity commits to creating child care spaces across the city. No number is published.",[1870,1874,1878,1882,1886,1890,1894,1898],{"question":1871,"answer":1872,"cites":1873},"Is OneCity running a candidate for mayor?","No. It is running 13 candidates for City Council, Park Board and School Board, and none for mayor.",[29],{"question":1875,"answer":1876,"cites":1877},"What is OneCity’s main commitment?","4,000 affordable homes built on land the city already owns. It is the largest housing number published by any party in this election.",[1711],{"question":1879,"answer":1880,"cites":1881},"Has OneCity published a full platform?","Not when we checked on September 22, 2026. Its website said \"Full Platform coming soon\". Everything recorded here comes from commitments on its home page.",[1711],{"question":1883,"answer":1884,"cites":1885},"What is transit signal priority?","Traffic lights hold green, or turn green early, when a bus is coming. The city owns its traffic signals, so it can do this without TransLink. OneCity publishes a target of about 20% shorter travel times.",[1711],{"question":1887,"answer":1888,"cites":1889},"How is OneCity funded?","The party publishes its own figures: 7,534 donors at an average gift of $46.31, and more than 4,800 members. Those are the party’s own numbers. Elections BC filings are where to check them.",[1711,379],{"question":1891,"answer":1892,"cites":1893},"How many School Board candidates is OneCity running?","Five, tied with ABC for the largest school slate on this ballot.",[29],{"question":1895,"answer":1896,"cites":1897},"Does OneCity have a published climate policy?","We found none on its website on September 22, 2026. Its full platform had not been published.",[1711],{"question":1899,"answer":735,"cites":1900},"Where can I see OneCity’s campaign finances?",[379,380],{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":1902,"gaps":1903,"entries":1904},[19,383],[385],[],"onecity",[1907,1910,1911,1912,1913],{"id":1711,"label":1908,"url":1909,"publisher":1724,"kind":392,"checkedAt":6},"OneCity home page","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.onecityvancouver.ca\u002F",{"id":29,"label":407,"url":408,"publisher":399,"kind":400,"checkedAt":6},{"id":379,"label":410,"url":38,"publisher":411,"kind":400,"checkedAt":6},{"id":380,"label":413,"url":414,"publisher":411,"kind":400,"checkedAt":6},{"id":416,"label":417,"url":418,"publisher":411,"kind":400,"checkedAt":6},"parties\u002Fonecity","OneCity is running 13 candidates for Council, Park Board and School Board, and none for mayor. Its headline commitment is 4,000 affordable homes on city-owned land.","nlW1l9pilsAPv4Um2rZiPUd4uIaJWb03oQjdxgefPDs",{"id":1918,"aliases":1919,"checkedAt":6,"declaredColour":1920,"extension":12,"founded":13,"headline":1924,"history":1925,"leadership":1929,"meta":1938,"money":1939,"name":1944,"news":1945,"overview":1949,"palette":1954,"platform":1958,"questions":2348,"record":2386,"registeredName":13,"rosterLabel":2390,"slug":2391,"sources":2392,"stem":2428,"summary":2429,"website":2395,"__hash__":2430},"parties\u002Fparties\u002Fteam-for-a-livable-vancouver.json",[],{"hex":1921,"note":612,"cites":1922},"#162b6f",[1923],"team-home","The most detailed published platform on the 2026 ballot",{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":1926,"gaps":1927,"entries":1928},[19,20],[22],[],[1930,1933],{"role":771,"name":1931,"cites":1932},"Colleen Hardwick",[1923,29],{"role":1934,"name":1935,"cites":1936},"Financial agent","Douglas Johnstone",[1937],"team-safety",{},{"state":32,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":1940,"gaps":1941,"searchUrl":38,"filings":1942,"notes":1943},[34,35],[37],[],[41,42,43,44,45],"TEAM for a Livable Vancouver",{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":1946,"gaps":1947,"entries":1948},[49],[51],[],[1950,1951,1952,1953],"TEAM for a Livable Vancouver is running 14 candidates: Colleen Hardwick for mayor at ballot number 50, 7 for City Council, 5 for Park Board and 1 for School Board.","TEAM publishes more policy detail than any other party on this ballot. Its positions site is organised into ten areas, most with a separate long \"learn more\" page listing dozens of numbered action items.","The platform is built around a single argument: that the city has approved growth faster than the infrastructure and consultation processes can carry, and that recent provincial housing legislation has taken planning decisions away from neighbourhoods. Most of its commitments follow from that.","Its financial agent is listed as Douglas Johnstone, and its mailing address is published on the site.",{"accent":1955,"onAccent":58,"tint":1956,"ink":1957},"#162B6F","#E3E8F7","#1F347A",[1959,2021,2046,2073,2106,2165,2217,2249,2293,2329],{"issue":63,"paragraphs":1960,"proposals":1965,"questions":2006,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":2015,"gaps":2018,"headline":2019,"summary":2020},[1961,1962,1963,1964],"This is the longest single policy document any party has published in this election, and housing is where most of it sits.","TEAM’s starting argument is that supply alone has not produced affordability. Its page states that since the 1970s the city has tripled its number of housing units, more than any other centre city in North America, and still has the most expensive housing. We have not checked that claim against census data; it is the party’s own reading.","The most consequential commitment is repealing the Official Development Plan. TEAM notes that eliminating public hearings for rezonings consistent with an Official Development Plan removes a step where the public can speak, and that repealing it is what would stop the Villages plan coming back after the election.","TEAM also commits to reconsidering the city’s support for the UBC SkyTrain extension and the related development planning around it.",[1966,1972,1976,1981,1985,1989,1993,1997,2001],{"title":1967,"detail":1968,"cites":1969,"authority":1971},"Repeal the Official Development Plan","TEAM would repeal the Official Development Plan, including the related plans for Broadway, Jericho, Rupert and Renfrew, and Villages, so that neighbourhood-based participatory planning can replace it.",[1970],"team-planning","Council adopts and can repeal an Official Development Plan.",{"title":1973,"detail":1974,"cites":1975},"Restore neighbourhood-based participatory planning","New development would be planned with local residents and businesses, within the scale and context of each neighbourhood, alongside the infrastructure and amenities needed to support it.",[1970],{"title":1977,"detail":1978,"cites":1979,"authority":1980},"Challenge provincial housing legislation","TEAM would work with other municipalities to change what it calls provincial overreach into municipal planning, naming BC zoning Bills 44, 46 and 47 of 2023, Bill 18 of 2024 and M216 of 2025.",[1970],"These are provincial statutes. A city can lobby but cannot repeal them.",{"title":1982,"detail":1983,"cites":1984},"Stop demovictions and protect older rental buildings","TEAM would protect older rental buildings from demolition, improve renter supports and protections, and retain and increase co-op housing.",[1970],{"title":1986,"detail":1987,"cites":1988},"Withdraw rental programs that do not create real affordability","TEAM would withdraw the Moderate Income Rental Pilot Program and the Secured Rental Policy, arguing they do not create meaningful affordability and inflate surrounding land values.",[1970],{"title":1990,"detail":1991,"cites":1992},"Reinstate third-party appeals to the Board of Variance","TEAM would restore third-party appeals it says were in place for 50 years, as a check on the discretionary powers of the Director of Planning.",[1970],{"title":1994,"detail":1995,"cites":1996},"Re-establish the One Stop Renovation Centre","TEAM would restore a single service for approving small construction projects, to make laneway housing, secondary suites, duplexes and small infill easier to build.",[1970],{"title":1998,"detail":1999,"cites":2000},"Protect and reinstate public view cones","TEAM would protect all public view cone corridors and reinstate the view cones amended or eliminated over the last term.",[1970],{"title":2002,"detail":2003,"cites":2004},"Retain on-site parking minimums","TEAM would keep minimum on-site parking requirements in the Parking Bylaw for new construction, arguing this is needed for future electric vehicle charging.",[1970,2005],"team-environment",[2007,2011],{"question":2008,"answer":2009,"cites":2010},"What is an Official Development Plan, and why does repealing it matter?","It is a city-wide plan that sets in advance what can be built where. Once it is adopted, a rezoning that matches it can be approved without a public hearing. TEAM would repeal it, which would bring back the hearing step and, TEAM says, stop the Villages plan returning after the election.",[1970],{"question":2012,"answer":2013,"cites":2014},"Can a city undo the provincial housing bills?","No. Bills 44, 46, 47, 18 and M216 are provincial law and only the province can change them. TEAM commits to working with other municipalities to push for changes, which is lobbying rather than a power the city holds.",[1970],[2016,2017],"The TEAM positions site","The TEAM planning learn-more page",[],"Repeal the Official Development Plan and restore neighbourhood planning","TEAM would repeal the Official Development Plan including the Broadway, Jericho, Rupert and Renfrew and Villages plans, restore neighbourhood-based participatory planning, and challenge provincial housing legislation.",{"issue":88,"paragraphs":2022,"proposals":2025,"questions":2039,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":2040,"gaps":2042,"headline":2044,"summary":2045},[2023,2024],"TEAM does not publish a standalone homelessness plan. Its argument connects homelessness to demolition of older affordable rental buildings, which its planning page says displaces residents and forces some into homelessness.","On the street-level response, its safety page commits to working with the province on voluntary and involuntary care beds and transition services.",[2026,2030,2035],{"title":2027,"detail":2028,"cites":2029},"Stop demolition of older affordable rental buildings","TEAM argues demolition of cheaper older stock displaces residents into homelessness, and would reverse policies that target those buildings for redevelopment.",[1970],{"title":2031,"detail":2032,"cites":2033,"authority":2034},"Work with senior governments on non-market and supportive housing","TEAM would work with provincial and federal housing agencies so they provide the non-market, supportive and social housing and services the city needs.",[1970],"Supportive housing is funded provincially and federally.",{"title":2036,"detail":2037,"cites":2038},"A Downtown Eastside audit","The same audit commitment that appears under public safety.",[1937],[],[2017,2041],"The TEAM safety for all page",[2043,107],"No shelter space target is published.","Handled through planning and safety, not a separate plan","TEAM addresses homelessness inside its planning and safety pages: protecting older rental stock from demolition, and working with the province on care beds and complex needs.",{"issue":111,"paragraphs":2047,"proposals":2051,"questions":2068,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":2069,"gaps":2070,"headline":2071,"summary":2072},[2048,2049,2050],"TEAM’s safety page is shorter than its planning and parks pages and does not carry a separate long \"learn more\" version.","The Downtown Eastside audit is its most specific commitment: a review to check that resources reach the people who need them.","Like ABC, TEAM commits to working with the province on voluntary and involuntary care beds. That is a request to another level of government rather than something a council decides.",[2052,2055,2059,2063],{"title":2036,"detail":2053,"cites":2054},"TEAM would establish an audit to ensure the social issues affecting the community are addressed and resources reach those who need them.",[1937],{"title":2056,"detail":2057,"cites":2058},"Enforce bylaws against public disorder","TEAM would enforce bylaws to crack down on public disorder and keep parks accessible and family-friendly.",[1937],{"title":2060,"detail":2061,"cites":2062,"cost":132},"Support community policing such as Block Watch","TEAM would increase support for community policing initiatives, naming Block Watch.",[1937],{"title":2064,"detail":2065,"cites":2066,"authority":2067},"Work with the province on voluntary and involuntary care beds","TEAM would work with the province so people with complex needs get care, including voluntary and involuntary beds, transition services and long-term support.",[1937],"Health care is provincial.",[],[2041],[],"Restoring Order to Our City, with a Downtown Eastside audit","TEAM’s public safety plan is called Restoring Order to Our City. It would enforce bylaws against public disorder, establish a Downtown Eastside audit, and back a recovery-oriented approach to addiction.",{"issue":158,"paragraphs":2074,"proposals":2077,"questions":2100,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":2101,"gaps":2103,"headline":2104,"summary":2105},[2075,2076],"TEAM argues that Vancouver’s transport infrastructure has not kept pace with population growth and that successive councils have treated personal vehicles as a problem while much of the city is hard to reach by transit.","It is one of the few parties publishing a clear position against road pricing and city-wide parking permits.",[2078,2083,2088,2092,2096],{"title":2079,"detail":2080,"cites":2081},"An all-of-the-above transportation strategy","TEAM would invest in road network improvement and maintenance so people can get around by car, transit, bicycle or on foot.",[2082],"team-transport",{"title":2084,"detail":2085,"cites":2086,"authority":2087},"Expand bus service and add stops in under-served neighbourhoods","TEAM would expand the bus service and add new stops to build a citywide network, and stop the elimination of bus stops.",[2082],"TransLink runs bus service. The city can advocate through the Mayors’ Council.",{"title":2089,"detail":2090,"cites":2091},"Restore off-street parking minimums","TEAM would reverse council’s decision and restore off-street parking minimums for all new construction.",[2082],{"title":2093,"detail":2094,"cites":2095},"Oppose road pricing","TEAM states it will not adopt punitive city-wide parking permits as previously proposed by council.",[2082],{"title":2097,"detail":2098,"cites":2099},"Repair sidewalks and improve pedestrian lighting","TEAM would repair broken or lifted sidewalk sections, add sidewalks in underserved areas, and upgrade street and pedestrian lighting.",[2082],[],[2102],"The TEAM transportation page",[],"An all-of-the-above strategy, with parking minimums restored","TEAM would invest in road maintenance, expand bus service and stops, restore off-street parking minimums for new construction, and oppose road pricing.",{"issue":178,"paragraphs":2107,"proposals":2111,"questions":2150,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":2160,"gaps":2162,"headline":2163,"summary":2164},[2108,2109,2110],"TEAM publishes more on parks than any other party, and it is the clearest dividing line between TEAM and the governing party.","The current council asked the province to amend the Vancouver Charter to eliminate the elected Park Board. TEAM commits to withdrawing that request and to transferring finance, operations and facilities back under Park Board control from the city’s planning, real estate and facilities departments.","TEAM publishes a measurable target, which is rare: a ratio of 1.1 hectares of park per 1,000 people, which it describes as consistent with previous City and Park Board policy.",[2112,2118,2122,2126,2130,2134,2138,2142,2146],{"title":2113,"detail":2114,"cites":2115,"authority":2117},"Withdraw the request to abolish the elected Park Board","TEAM would withdraw the city’s request to the province to change the Vancouver Charter to eliminate the elected Park Board.",[2116],"team-parks","Only the province can amend the Vancouver Charter. The city can withdraw its request.",{"title":2119,"detail":2120,"cites":2121},"Restore Park Board control of its own budget and operations","Finance, operations and facilities would move back under Park Board jurisdiction from the city’s planning, real estate and facilities departments, with line-by-line budget oversight.",[2116],{"title":2123,"detail":2124,"cites":2125,"cost":132},"Target 1.1 hectares of park per 1,000 people","TEAM would advocate and plan for new parks and recreation facilities as population grows, striving for a ratio of 1.1 hectares per 1,000 people.",[2116],{"title":2127,"detail":2128,"cites":2129},"Halt Stanley Park logging pending independent review","TEAM would halt current logging operations until a full scientific review and independent risk assessments are done, with only trees judged imminently dangerous by a certified assessor felled.",[2116],{"title":2131,"detail":2132,"cites":2133},"Make temporary parks permanent","Existing temporary and de-facto parks would be designated as permanent parks.",[2116],{"title":2135,"detail":2136,"cites":2137},"Secure ongoing Park Board funding from the tax base","TEAM would advocate for ongoing funding for the Park Board as a specified portion of the City of Vancouver tax base.",[2116],{"title":2139,"detail":2140,"cites":2141},"Restore pre-COVID access to Stanley Park and Beach Avenue","Access would be restored while providing new separate infrastructure for cycling and walking.",[2116],{"title":2143,"detail":2144,"cites":2145},"No selling of park naming rights","TEAM states that public park land should not be used as a revenue stream such as selling naming rights.",[2116],{"title":2147,"detail":2148,"cites":2149,"cost":132},"More park rangers and lifeguards","TEAM would expand maintenance and garbage pickup, actively enforce bylaws, and increase the number of park rangers and lifeguards.",[2116],[2151,2156],{"question":2152,"answer":2153,"cites":2154},"Is the Park Board being abolished?","No. Seven commissioners are being elected on October 17, 2026. The current council asked the province to amend the Vancouver Charter to remove the board. TEAM would withdraw that request, and the mayor has since said he will not try to eliminate it if re-elected.",[2116,2155],"cbc-parkboard-team",{"question":2157,"answer":2158,"cites":2159},"What does 1.1 hectares per 1,000 people mean?","It is a target for how much park land the city should have compared with how many people live here. One hectare is about the size of a rugby pitch and a half. TEAM says the figure matches earlier City and Park Board policy.",[2116],[2161],"The TEAM parks and recreation learn-more page",[],"Keep the elected Park Board and halt Stanley Park logging","TEAM would withdraw the request to abolish the elected Park Board, restore its control over its own budget and operations, halt current Stanley Park logging pending independent review, and target 1.1 hectares of park per 1,000 people.",{"issue":223,"paragraphs":2166,"proposals":2171,"questions":2211,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":2212,"gaps":2214,"headline":2215,"summary":2216},[2167,2168,2169,2170],"TEAM is running one School Board candidate, the smallest school slate of the parties contesting that race, but it publishes a detailed schools platform.","Its argument is that schools are not being planned where students actually live, and that the board should stop selling land it will need when those neighbourhoods fill up.","TEAM publishes a specific and checkable claim about swimming: that 50% of Vancouver children cannot swim, and that it would provide training so all of them can. We have not checked that figure.","It also names buildings: reversing the proposed sale of the Queen Elizabeth Annex, the leasing of Fleming’s field, and the closure of Carleton.",[2172,2177,2181,2185,2189,2193,2197,2202,2207],{"title":2173,"detail":2174,"cites":2175},"End school enrolment lotteries","Long-range planning with the city would put schools where students need them, when they need them.",[2176],"team-schools",{"title":2178,"detail":2179,"cites":2180},"Stop disposing of school land","TEAM commits to retaining ownership of school buildings and property, and using space in underused buildings for child care, seniors care or community programs.",[2176],{"title":2182,"detail":2183,"cites":2184},"Reverse the Queen Elizabeth Annex sale, Fleming’s field lease and Carleton closure","TEAM would take action by any means possible to reverse all three.",[2176],{"title":2186,"detail":2187,"cites":2188},"Pause the Microsoft Copilot rollout in secondary schools","The rollout of Microsoft Copilot 13+ would pause until research shows the benefits outweigh the risks and students, families and educators have been consulted.",[2176],{"title":2190,"detail":2191,"cites":2192,"cost":132},"Bring back elementary band and strings","Music programming would be included at every elementary school, restoring the Elementary Band and Strings programs.",[2176],{"title":2194,"detail":2195,"cites":2196},"Swimming training so every child can swim","TEAM states 50% of Vancouver children cannot swim and commits to an integrated swimming and lifeguard training program so 100% can.",[2176],{"title":2198,"detail":2199,"cites":2200,"authority":2201},"Keep more Vancouver school tax in Vancouver","TEAM would negotiate with the province to keep more of the school tax collected in Vancouver for local schools.",[2176],"The school tax formula is provincial.",{"title":2203,"detail":2204,"cites":2205,"authority":2206},"Protect schools at seismic risk","TEAM would demand the province protect the four annexes, twenty-eight elementary schools and eleven secondary schools it says remain at high risk in an earthquake.",[2176],"Seismic upgrade funding is provincial.",{"title":2208,"detail":2209,"cites":2210},"Child care on school sites","Child care would be built into school sites, with a long-range view toward an early education preschool program for all 3 and 4 year olds.",[2176],[],[2213],"The TEAM schools learn-more page",[],"End enrolment lotteries and stop selling school land","TEAM would end school enrolment lotteries through long-range planning with the city, stop disposing of school land, pause the Microsoft Copilot rollout in secondary schools, and bring back elementary band and strings.",{"issue":246,"paragraphs":2218,"proposals":2222,"questions":2243,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":2244,"gaps":2246,"headline":2247,"summary":2248},[2219,2220,2221],"TEAM’s finance argument is that the city has taken on work outside its core mandate and funded it through property tax and fee increases.","Its page states that over the last decade the city has almost doubled its operating budget, with new spending funded through property tax increases beyond promised inflationary levels. This is TEAM’s own reading of the budget and we have not checked it against city financial statements.","The proposed budget review would sort services into essential and supplementary, develop benchmarks for each, and give council and the public the ability to review and approve departmental budgets and service plans.",[2223,2228,2232,2235,2239],{"title":2224,"detail":2225,"cites":2226},"Limit tax increases to what core services need","TEAM would limit tax increases to what is necessary to maintain municipal services at levels agreed with the community.",[2227],"team-finance",{"title":2229,"detail":2230,"cites":2231},"Review the operating and capital budgets service by service","The review would document where costs rose over the last decade and why, sort services into essential and supplementary, and build benchmarks to measure cost and value.",[2227],{"title":1190,"detail":2233,"cites":2234},"A registry consistent with federal and provincial ones would let residents see who is trying to influence city decisions.",[2227],{"title":2236,"detail":2237,"cites":2238},"Stop spending city money on provincial and federal responsibilities","TEAM would stop spending city funds on what it considers clearly provincial or federal responsibilities while holding senior governments to account for funding them.",[2227],{"title":2240,"detail":2241,"cites":2242},"Departmental service plans with performance benchmarks","Departments would develop annual service plans with benchmarks, and management would be held accountable for meeting them.",[2227],[],[2245],"The TEAM finance and administration learn-more page",[],"Limit tax rises to core services and establish a lobbyist registry","TEAM would limit tax increases to what is needed for municipal services, review the operating and capital budgets service by service, and set up a lobbyist registry.",{"issue":288,"paragraphs":2250,"proposals":2255,"questions":2287,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":2288,"gaps":2290,"headline":2291,"summary":2292},[2251,2252,2253,2254],"TEAM frames climate policy around what it calls practical, measurable local outcomes, and says it will avoid what it calls green-washing.","The clearest split with other parties is on how building emissions rules should work. TEAM would incentivise voluntary upgrades to existing buildings rather than requiring them, arguing mandatory rules may be beyond people’s means.","TEAM is the only party we found publishing a position on AI data centres: a municipal moratorium on approving and permitting them until local rules exist to handle their water and power use.","It also argues the greenest building is the one that already exists, and would prioritise reusing and renovating buildings over demolition.",[2256,2261,2265,2269,2273,2277,2282],{"title":2257,"detail":2258,"cites":2259,"authority":2260},"Moratorium on AI data centre approvals","TEAM would enact a municipal moratorium on approving and permitting AI data centres while local planning and regulatory frameworks are developed.",[2005],"The city controls permitting and land use.",{"title":2262,"detail":2263,"cites":2264},"Incentives rather than mandates for building retrofits","TEAM would incentivise voluntary upgrades of existing buildings to improve energy efficiency and move to zero emissions, rather than the mandatory regulation it says is currently proposed.",[2005],{"title":2266,"detail":2267,"cites":2268},"No road pricing and no city-wide parking permits","TEAM states it will not implement road pricing, which it says unfairly affects affordability and tracks people’s movements, and will not adopt city-wide parking permits.",[2005,2082],{"title":2270,"detail":2271,"cites":2272},"Prioritise adaptive reuse over demolition","TEAM would prioritise retaining and renovating existing buildings rather than what it calls a wasteful bias toward demolition and new construction.",[2005],{"title":2274,"detail":2275,"cites":2276},"Expand tree planting and protect mature trees","TEAM would expand tree planting, protect mature trees, retain and enhance green space, and consider heat island effects when planning growth.",[2005],{"title":2278,"detail":2279,"cites":2280,"authority":2281},"Electrify the bus fleet with TransLink","TEAM would work with TransLink to convert the existing bus system to an electric fleet and expand frequent service on all arterials.",[2005],"TransLink runs the buses. The city sits on the Mayors’ Council.",{"title":2283,"detail":2284,"cites":2285,"authority":2286},"Work with BC Hydro on step energy rates","TEAM would work with BC Hydro to adjust step energy charges so electricity use is encouraged rather than penalised, noting rates increase by 50% from Step 1 to Step 2.",[2005],"BC Hydro rates are provincially regulated.",[],[2289],"The TEAM environment learn-more page",[],"Incentives instead of mandates, and a moratorium on AI data centres","TEAM would use incentives rather than mandatory rules for building retrofits, enact a moratorium on AI data centre approvals, and rejects road pricing and city-wide parking permits.",{"issue":298,"paragraphs":2294,"proposals":2297,"questions":2323,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":2324,"gaps":2326,"headline":2327,"summary":2328},[2295,2296],"TEAM’s argument is that artists have left the city because affordable studio space and public venues, mostly in older buildings, have been lost.","Two of its commitments are unusually concrete for an arts platform: a one-for-one replacement and retention policy for city-owned creative space, and publishing an inventory of arts spaces on vancouver.ca.",[2298,2303,2307,2311,2315,2319],{"title":2299,"detail":2300,"cites":2301},"One-for-one replacement of city-owned creative space","TEAM would pursue a one-for-one replacement and retention policy for city-owned creative space, and repurpose unused or underused properties including Park Board and School Board facilities.",[2302],"team-arts",{"title":2304,"detail":2305,"cites":2306},"Publish an inventory of arts spaces","TEAM would create and publish an inventory of arts spaces on vancouver.ca, and build an arts and culture page there listing all events.",[2302],{"title":2308,"detail":2309,"cites":2310},"Incentives to retain creative space","TEAM would provide incentives for retaining and upgrading creative spaces and disincentives for demolishing them.",[2302],{"title":2312,"detail":2313,"cites":2314},"Support street festivals","TEAM would encourage and facilitate street festivals, naming Greek Day, Powell Street, Italian Day and Khatsalano.",[2302],{"title":2316,"detail":2317,"cites":2318},"Keep community centres affordable for the arts community","Community centres and other Park Board facilities would be kept affordable for arts use.",[2302],{"title":2320,"detail":2321,"cites":2322},"Review the civic theatres","TEAM would examine how Vancouver’s civic theatres could be made more suitable and affordable for the local arts community.",[2302],[],[2325],"The TEAM arts and culture learn-more page",[],"Protect affordable artist space and publish an inventory of it","TEAM would protect and expand affordable rehearsal and performance space, require one-for-one replacement of city-owned creative space, and publish an inventory of arts spaces on the city website.",{"issue":318,"paragraphs":2330,"proposals":2332,"questions":2341,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":2342,"gaps":2343,"headline":2346,"summary":2347},[2331],"TEAM does not publish a separate child care section. Its commitments appear inside the schools and planning pages.",[2333,2337],{"title":2208,"detail":2334,"cites":2335,"authority":2336},"TEAM would incorporate child care into school sites, with a long-range view toward an early education preschool program for all 3 and 4 year olds, in keeping with Ministry of Education plans.",[2176],"Licensing and operating funding are provincial.",{"title":2338,"detail":2339,"cites":2340},"Use underused school buildings for child care","Space in underused school buildings would be used for child care, seniors care or community programs.",[2176],[],[2213,2017],[2344,2345],"No number of new child care spaces is published.","No position on child care fees is published.","Child care built into school sites and new housing","TEAM would incorporate child care into school sites, aiming toward preschool for all 3 and 4 year olds, and include child care in new housing developments.",[2349,2353,2357,2361,2365,2369,2373,2377,2382],{"question":2350,"answer":2351,"cites":2352},"Who leads TEAM for a Livable Vancouver?","Colleen Hardwick is its mayoral candidate, at ballot number 50. She is a former Vancouver city councillor. Whether she is also the registered leader of the elector organisation is a separate question we have not checked.",[1923,29],{"question":2354,"answer":2355,"cites":2356},"How many candidates is TEAM running?","14: Colleen Hardwick for mayor, 7 for City Council, 5 for Park Board and 1 for School Board.",[29],{"question":2358,"answer":2359,"cites":2360},"What is the single biggest thing TEAM would change?","Repeal the Official Development Plan, including the Broadway, Jericho, Rupert and Renfrew, and Villages plans. That would bring back public hearings for rezonings those plans currently allow without one.",[1970],{"question":2362,"answer":2363,"cites":2364},"Where does TEAM stand on the Park Board?","It would withdraw the city’s request to the province to abolish the elected board, and move finance, operations and facilities back under Park Board control from city departments.",[2116],{"question":2366,"answer":2367,"cites":2368},"Does TEAM support the UBC SkyTrain extension?","Its planning page commits to reconsidering the city’s support for it, and to ensuring the business case for its viability and for alternatives includes all the facts.",[1970],{"question":2370,"answer":2371,"cites":2372},"What does TEAM say about climate rules for buildings?","It would use incentives for voluntary upgrades rather than mandatory rules, arguing mandatory retrofits may be beyond people’s resources. It also argues the greenest building is the one that already exists.",[2005],{"question":2374,"answer":2375,"cites":2376},"Does TEAM have a position on AI data centres?","Yes. It is the only party we found with one. TEAM would enact a municipal moratorium on approving and permitting AI data centres until local rules exist to handle their water and power use.",[2005],{"question":2378,"answer":2379,"cites":2380},"How much detail does TEAM publish compared with other parties?","More than any other party on this ballot. Its positions site has ten areas, and most carry a separate long page of numbered action items. We counted 13,801 words across the eight pages we archived on September 22, 2026.",[2381],"team-positions",{"question":2383,"answer":2384,"cites":2385},"Where can I see TEAM’s campaign finances?","Search the Elections BC local elections disclosure system for Vancouver. The 2026 filing is due by about mid-January 2027, so what is on the record now is the yearly reports and the 2022 election filings.",[379,380],{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":2387,"gaps":2388,"entries":2389},[19,383],[385],[],"TEAM","team-for-a-livable-vancouver",[2393,2396,2399,2402,2405,2408,2411,2414,2417,2420,2423,2424,2425,2426,2427],{"id":1923,"label":2394,"url":2395,"publisher":1944,"kind":392,"checkedAt":6},"TEAM for a Livable Vancouver home page","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.voteteam.ca\u002F",{"id":2381,"label":2397,"url":2398,"publisher":1944,"kind":392,"checkedAt":6},"TEAM our positions","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.voteteam.ca\u002Four-positions-home-2026",{"id":1970,"label":2400,"url":2401,"publisher":1944,"kind":392,"checkedAt":6},"TEAM planning for livability and affordability, learn more","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.voteteam.ca\u002Four-positions-home-2026\u002Fplanning-for-livability-and-affordability\u002Fplanning-learn-more",{"id":2116,"label":2403,"url":2404,"publisher":1944,"kind":392,"checkedAt":6},"TEAM parks and recreation, learn more","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.voteteam.ca\u002Four-positions-home-2026\u002Fparks-and-recreation-2026\u002Fparks-learn-more",{"id":2176,"label":2406,"url":2407,"publisher":1944,"kind":392,"checkedAt":6},"TEAM schools, learn more","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.voteteam.ca\u002Four-positions-home-2026\u002Fschools-2026\u002Fschools-learn-more",{"id":2227,"label":2409,"url":2410,"publisher":1944,"kind":392,"checkedAt":6},"TEAM finance and administration, learn more","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.voteteam.ca\u002Four-positions-home-2026\u002Ffinance-and-administration-2026\u002Ffinance-learn-more",{"id":2005,"label":2412,"url":2413,"publisher":1944,"kind":392,"checkedAt":6},"TEAM our environment, learn more","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.voteteam.ca\u002Four-positions-home-2026\u002Four-environment-2026\u002Fenvironment-learn-more",{"id":2302,"label":2415,"url":2416,"publisher":1944,"kind":392,"checkedAt":6},"TEAM arts and culture, learn more","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.voteteam.ca\u002Four-positions-home-2026\u002Farts-and-culture-2026\u002Farts-learn-more",{"id":1937,"label":2418,"url":2419,"publisher":1944,"kind":392,"checkedAt":6},"TEAM safety for all","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.voteteam.ca\u002Four-positions-home-2026\u002Fsafety-for-all-2026",{"id":2082,"label":2421,"url":2422,"publisher":1944,"kind":392,"checkedAt":6},"TEAM transportation","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.voteteam.ca\u002Four-positions-home-2026\u002Ftransportation-2026",{"id":2155,"label":402,"url":403,"publisher":404,"kind":405,"checkedAt":6},{"id":29,"label":407,"url":408,"publisher":399,"kind":400,"checkedAt":6},{"id":379,"label":410,"url":38,"publisher":411,"kind":400,"checkedAt":6},{"id":380,"label":413,"url":414,"publisher":411,"kind":400,"checkedAt":6},{"id":416,"label":417,"url":418,"publisher":411,"kind":400,"checkedAt":6},"parties\u002Fteam-for-a-livable-vancouver","TEAM for a Livable Vancouver is running 14 candidates behind mayoral candidate Colleen Hardwick. It publishes the longest and most detailed platform of any party in this election, organised into ten policy areas.","eP6vg961Y3jbL8tFvZ151pg75zbYYq_xhsf7vUtByAI",{"id":2432,"aliases":2433,"checkedAt":6,"declaredColour":2434,"extension":12,"founded":2438,"headline":2442,"history":2443,"leadership":2447,"meta":2448,"money":2449,"name":2454,"news":2455,"overview":2459,"palette":2464,"platform":2467,"questions":2607,"record":2638,"registeredName":2642,"rosterLabel":2454,"slug":2643,"sources":2644,"stem":2652,"summary":2653,"website":2647,"__hash__":2654},"parties\u002Fparties\u002Ftrueblue-vancouver.json",[],{"hex":2435,"note":612,"cites":2436},"#1d4ed8",[2437],"tb-home",{"year":2439,"note":2440,"cites":2441},2023,"Stated on the party website. We have not checked this against the Elections BC register of elector organizations.",[2437],"A small conservative slate, mostly contesting the School Board",{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":2444,"gaps":2445,"entries":2446},[19,20],[22],[],[],{},{"state":32,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":2450,"gaps":2451,"searchUrl":38,"filings":2452,"notes":2453},[34,35],[37],[],[41,42,43,44,45],"TrueBlue Vancouver",{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":2456,"gaps":2457,"entries":2458},[49],[51],[],[2460,2461,2462,2463],"TrueBlue Vancouver is running 3 people across 4 ballot entries: 1 for City Council and 3 for School Board. Naomi Chocyk appears on the ballot twice, for City Council at number 154 and for School Board at number 318.","It is the only party on this ballot with a candidate standing for two different offices.","The party site gives its founding year as 2023 and describes it as contesting mayor, council and school board. The official candidate list shows no TrueBlue mayoral candidate, so we have recorded the official list.","Its published platform is broad and mostly without numbers. It sets a direction on ten subjects rather than making costed commitments.",{"accent":2465,"onAccent":58,"tint":1956,"ink":2466},"#1D4ED8","#1F377A",[2468,2483,2501,2515,2541,2554,2570,2588,2595,2601],{"issue":63,"paragraphs":2469,"proposals":2471,"questions":2476,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":2477,"gaps":2479,"headline":2481,"summary":2482},[2470],"The party publishes a direction with no supply target, cost or timeline attached.",[2472],{"title":2473,"detail":2474,"cites":2475,"cost":132},"Make housing easier and less expensive to build","The party would reduce fees, red tape and permit delays while protecting neighbourhood character.",[2437],[],[2478],"The TrueBlue Vancouver home page and platform page",[82,2480],"No affordability commitment is published.","Cheaper to build, with neighbourhood character protected","TrueBlue would make housing easier and less expensive to build by reducing fees, red tape and permit delays, while protecting neighbourhood character.",{"issue":88,"paragraphs":2484,"proposals":2487,"questions":2497,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":2498,"gaps":2499,"headline":2489,"summary":2500},[2485,2486],"This is the recovery-first end of the ballot. TrueBlue’s framing is the opposite of COPE’s safe supply and harm reduction position.","Detox and treatment services are provincial, so a city taking this direction would be pressing the province rather than delivering it.",[2488,2493],{"title":2489,"detail":2490,"cites":2491,"authority":2492},"Prevention, detox, treatment and long-term recovery","The party would focus on prevention, detox, treatment and long-term recovery rather than what it describes as normalizing drug use.",[2437],"Detox and treatment services are provincial.",{"title":2494,"detail":2495,"cites":2496},"Address encampments","The party would address encampments and maintain parks and sidewalks.",[2437],[],[2478],[],"TrueBlue focuses on prevention, detox, treatment and long-term recovery rather than what it describes as normalizing drug use.",{"issue":111,"paragraphs":2502,"proposals":2504,"questions":2510,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":2511,"gaps":2512,"headline":2513,"summary":2514},[2503],"TrueBlue’s safety position sits with ABC and against COPE on the ballot’s clearest divide: whether to fund policing more or to fund other services instead. No budget figure is published.",[2505],{"title":2506,"detail":2507,"cites":2508,"cost":132,"authority":2509},"Properly funded police","The party supports properly funded police and addressing repeat crime and public disorder. No budget figure is published.",[2437],"Council approves the police budget. The Police Board directs the department.",[],[2478],[],"Properly funded police and action on repeat crime","TrueBlue supports properly funded police and would address repeat crime and public disorder.",{"issue":158,"paragraphs":2516,"proposals":2518,"questions":2536,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":2537,"gaps":2538,"headline":2539,"summary":2540},[2517],"TrueBlue and TEAM are the two parties publishing a position against road pricing. TrueBlue adds a bike lane audit, which no other party publishes.",[2519,2523,2527,2532],{"title":2520,"detail":2521,"cites":2522},"Oppose congestion pricing","The party opposes congestion pricing.",[2437],{"title":2524,"detail":2525,"cites":2526},"Audit bike lanes","The party would audit bike lanes.",[2437],{"title":2528,"detail":2529,"cites":2530,"authority":2531},"Support transit based on ridership and need","The party would support transit based on ridership and need.",[2437],"TransLink runs transit service.",{"title":2533,"detail":2534,"cites":2535},"Protect commercial parking access","The party would cut red tape and protect commercial parking access.",[2437],[],[2478],[],"Oppose congestion pricing and audit bike lanes","TrueBlue opposes congestion pricing, would audit bike lanes, and would support transit based on ridership and need.",{"issue":178,"paragraphs":2542,"proposals":2544,"questions":2548,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":2549,"gaps":2550,"headline":2552,"summary":2553},[2543],"The party is not contesting the Park Board race. Its published commitment touching parks is about maintenance and encampments and would be carried out through council.",[2545],{"title":2546,"detail":2495,"cites":2547},"Maintain parks and sidewalks",[2437],[],[2478],[2551],"No position on the future of the elected Park Board is published.","Maintain parks and sidewalks, address encampments","TrueBlue would address encampments and maintain parks and sidewalks. It is not running Park Board candidates.",{"issue":223,"paragraphs":2555,"proposals":2558,"questions":2563,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":2564,"gaps":2565,"headline":2568,"summary":2569},[2556,2557],"The School Board is where TrueBlue is concentrating. Three of its four ballot entries are school trustee candidacies, which is the largest share of any party’s slate going to one race.","Its published school position is a direction rather than a set of commitments: safe schools, parental involvement and critical thinking. No measurable outcome is published.",[2559],{"title":2560,"detail":2561,"cites":2562},"Safe schools with parental involvement and critical thinking","The party commits to promoting safe schools with parental involvement and critical thinking. No measurable outcome is published.",[2437],[],[2478],[2566,2567],"No measurable school outcome is published.","No position on school capacity, catchments or the budget is published.","Safe schools, parental involvement and critical thinking","TrueBlue promotes safe schools with parental involvement and critical thinking. Three of its four ballot entries are for School Board.",{"issue":246,"paragraphs":2571,"proposals":2573,"questions":2582,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":2583,"gaps":2584,"headline":2586,"summary":2587},[2572],"The party publishes a direction rather than a number. It would control property tax increases and audit spending, but no percentage target or timeline is published.",[2574,2578],{"title":2575,"detail":2576,"cites":2577,"cost":132},"Control property tax increases","The party commits to controlling property tax increases and auditing spending to focus on essential services. No percentage target is published.",[2437],{"title":2579,"detail":2580,"cites":2581},"Publish spending information","The party commits to publishing spending information and holding officials accountable.",[2437],[],[2478],[2585],"No property tax percentage target is published.","Control property tax increases and audit spending","TrueBlue would control property tax increases, audit spending to focus on essential services, and publish spending information.",{"issue":288,"paragraphs":2589,"proposals":2590,"questions":2591,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":2592,"gaps":2594},[],[],[],[2593,656,657],"The party website at https:\u002F\u002Ftruebluevancouver.com\u002F",[659],{"issue":298,"paragraphs":2596,"proposals":2597,"questions":2598,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":2599,"gaps":2600},[],[],[],[2593,656,657],[659],{"issue":318,"paragraphs":2602,"proposals":2603,"questions":2604,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":2605,"gaps":2606},[],[],[],[2593,656,657],[659],[2608,2612,2616,2620,2624,2628,2632,2636],{"question":2609,"answer":2610,"cites":2611},"How many candidates is TrueBlue running?","Three people across four ballot entries: 1 for City Council and 3 for School Board. Naomi Chocyk appears twice, for City Council at number 154 and School Board at number 318.",[29],{"question":2613,"answer":2614,"cites":2615},"Can a candidate run for two offices at once?","Naomi Chocyk is on the 2026 Vancouver ballot for both City Council and School Board. That is what the official candidate list shows, and she is the only person on this ballot in that position.",[29],{"question":2617,"answer":2618,"cites":2619},"Is TrueBlue running a mayoral candidate?","No. Its own site describes it as contesting mayor, council and school board, but the official candidate list shows no TrueBlue mayoral candidate. We have recorded the official list.",[29,2437],{"question":2621,"answer":2622,"cites":2623},"When was TrueBlue founded?","Its website states 2023. We have not checked that against the Elections BC register of elector organizations.",[2437],{"question":2625,"answer":2626,"cites":2627},"Where does TrueBlue stand on drugs?","It focuses on prevention, detox, treatment and long-term recovery rather than what it describes as normalizing drug use. That is the opposite framing to COPE’s safe supply and harm reduction position.",[2437],{"question":2629,"answer":2630,"cites":2631},"Does TrueBlue publish any numbers?","No. Its platform sets a direction on about ten subjects without dollar figures, percentage targets or deadlines attached, checked September 22, 2026.",[2437],{"question":2633,"answer":2634,"cites":2635},"What does TrueBlue say about bike lanes?","It would audit them. It is the only party on this ballot publishing that commitment. It also opposes congestion pricing, which TEAM does too.",[2437],{"question":734,"answer":735,"cites":2637},[379,380],{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":2639,"gaps":2640,"entries":2641},[19,383],[385],[],"True Blue Vancouver","trueblue-vancouver",[2645,2648,2649,2650,2651],{"id":2437,"label":2646,"url":2647,"publisher":2454,"kind":392,"checkedAt":6},"TrueBlue Vancouver home page and platform","https:\u002F\u002Ftruebluevancouver.com\u002F",{"id":29,"label":407,"url":408,"publisher":399,"kind":400,"checkedAt":6},{"id":379,"label":410,"url":38,"publisher":411,"kind":400,"checkedAt":6},{"id":380,"label":413,"url":414,"publisher":411,"kind":400,"checkedAt":6},{"id":416,"label":417,"url":418,"publisher":411,"kind":400,"checkedAt":6},"parties\u002Ftrueblue-vancouver","TrueBlue Vancouver is running 3 candidates: one for City Council and three for School Board, with one person on the ballot twice. Its published platform is built around lower taxes, funded police and recovery-focused drug policy.","B-lf5WwN4bXB9c8UpDCUmx3HgPsh4jmjMvDuTVMZmwY",{"id":2656,"aliases":2657,"checkedAt":6,"declaredColour":2658,"extension":12,"founded":2661,"headline":2664,"history":2665,"leadership":2669,"meta":2673,"money":2674,"name":1554,"news":2679,"overview":2683,"palette":2688,"platform":2692,"questions":2821,"record":2857,"registeredName":2861,"rosterLabel":1554,"slug":2862,"sources":2863,"stem":2870,"summary":2871,"website":1553,"__hash__":2872},"parties\u002Fparties\u002Fvancouver-liberals.json",[],{"hex":2659,"note":612,"cites":2660},"#d53f31",[1406],{"year":2662,"note":2440,"cites":2663},2025,[1406],"A party founded in 2025, running the second-largest slate",{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":2666,"gaps":2667,"entries":2668},[19,20],[22],[],[2670],{"role":771,"name":2671,"cites":2672},"Kareem Allam",[1406,29],{},{"state":32,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":2675,"gaps":2676,"searchUrl":38,"filings":2677,"notes":2678},[34,35],[37],[],[41,42,43,44,45],{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":2680,"gaps":2681,"entries":2682},[49],[51],[],[2684,2685,2686,2687],"The Vancouver Liberals are running 19 candidates: Kareem Allam for mayor at ballot number 56, 7 for City Council, 6 for Park Board and 5 for School Board. Only ABC is running more.","The party site gives its registered name as the Vancouver Liberal Electors Association and its founding year as 2025, which makes it the newest party running a large slate.","Kareem Allam is described in our candidate records as a political strategist and former mayoral chief of staff.","Its most distinctive commitment is abolishing the Vancouver Building Code and adopting the provincial one instead, which is the opposite of the Green Party position.",{"accent":2689,"onAccent":58,"tint":2690,"ink":2691},"#D43B2D","#F7E5E3","#7A261F",[2693,2716,2723,2742,2754,2767,2782,2803,2809,2815],{"issue":63,"paragraphs":2694,"proposals":2698,"questions":2704,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":2710,"gaps":2712,"headline":2714,"summary":2715},[2695,2696,2697],"This is one of the sharpest single splits on the 2026 ballot, and it turns on a power only Vancouver has.","Under the Vancouver Charter, Vancouver writes its own building rules. Every other municipality in British Columbia follows the provincial code. The Liberals would give that power up.","The argument for giving it up is that one code across the province is simpler and cheaper for builders. The argument against, which the Green Party makes, is that the local code is what lets Vancouver set its own energy and emissions rules for new buildings.",[2699],{"title":2700,"detail":2701,"cites":2702,"authority":2703},"Eliminate the Vancouver Building Code and adopt the BC Building Code","The party commits to \"eliminate the Vancouver Building Code and just adopt the BC Building Code\".",[1406],"Council holds this power under the Vancouver Charter and can choose to align with the provincial code.",[2705],{"question":2706,"answer":2707,"cites":2708},"What would change if Vancouver dropped its own building code?","Builders would follow the same rules here as in the rest of British Columbia, which is simpler for anyone building in more than one city. Vancouver would also lose the power to set its own energy and emissions rules for new buildings, because that power comes from having its own code.",[1406,2709],"green-housing-x",[2711],"The Vancouver Liberals home page",[82,2713],"No affordable or rental housing commitment is published.","Abolish the Vancouver Building Code","The Vancouver Liberals would eliminate the Vancouver Building Code and adopt the BC Building Code instead.",{"issue":88,"paragraphs":2717,"proposals":2718,"questions":2719,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":2720,"gaps":2722},[],[],[],[2721,656,657],"The party website at https:\u002F\u002Fwww.vancouverliberals.com\u002F",[659],{"issue":111,"paragraphs":2724,"proposals":2727,"questions":2737,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":2738,"gaps":2739,"headline":2740,"summary":2741},[2725,2726],"The Liberals are the only party on this ballot publishing a commitment on money laundering and Bitcoin ATMs.","They would also create a Firefighter Safety and Deployment Board, which is a new body rather than a change to an existing one.",[2728,2733],{"title":2729,"detail":2730,"cites":2731,"authority":2732},"Crack down on Bitcoin ATMs and money laundering","The party commits to \"crack down on Bitcoin ATMs, money laundering, and other root causes of crime\".",[1406],"Money laundering enforcement is largely federal and provincial. The city licenses businesses.",{"title":2734,"detail":2735,"cites":2736,"cost":132},"Increase long-term firefighter funding","The party would increase long-term funding for firefighters and create a Firefighter Safety and Deployment Board.",[1406],[],[2711],[],"Crack down on money laundering and Bitcoin ATMs","The Vancouver Liberals would target Bitcoin ATMs, money laundering and what they call the root causes of crime, and increase long-term funding for firefighters.",{"issue":158,"paragraphs":2743,"proposals":2745,"questions":2750,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":2751,"gaps":2752,"headline":2747,"summary":2753},[2744],"The party has published no transit, cycling or street design commitment. Road maintenance appears only inside the front-line hiring commitment.",[2746],{"title":2747,"detail":2748,"cites":2749},"Road maintenance through new front-line staff","Road maintenance is named as one of the services the 400 new front-line unionized staff would improve.",[1406],[],[2711],[173,174],"Road maintenance appears as one of the services the Vancouver Liberals’ 400 new front-line staff would improve. No transit or cycling commitment is published.",{"issue":178,"paragraphs":2755,"proposals":2757,"questions":2762,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":2763,"gaps":2764,"headline":2759,"summary":2766},[2756],"The party is running six Park Board candidates. Its one published commitment touching parks is that the 400 new front-line staff would improve parks and recreation facilities alongside garbage pickup and road maintenance.",[2758],{"title":2759,"detail":2760,"cites":2761},"Front-line staff for parks and recreation facilities","Parks and recreation facilities are named as one of the services the 400 new front-line unionized staff would improve.",[1406],[],[2711],[2765,2551],"No standalone parks commitment is published.","Parks appear in the Vancouver Liberals’ published commitments as one of the services the 400 new front-line staff would improve.",{"issue":223,"paragraphs":2768,"proposals":2771,"questions":2777,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":2778,"gaps":2779,"headline":2780,"summary":2781},[2769,2770],"The School Liaison Officer programme places police officers in schools. It has been ended and restarted in Vancouver in recent years and is one of the clearest dividing lines in the School Board race.","The party is running five School Board candidates.",[2772],{"title":2773,"detail":2774,"cites":2775,"authority":2776},"Continue and evolve the School Liaison Officer programme","The party commits to supporting \"the continuance and evolution of the School Liaison Officer program\".",[1406],"The Board of Education decides whether the programme runs in Vancouver schools.",[],[2711],[],"Keep the School Liaison Officer programme","The Vancouver Liberals support continuing and evolving the School Liaison Officer programme, which places police officers in schools.",{"issue":246,"paragraphs":2783,"proposals":2787,"questions":2798,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":2799,"gaps":2800,"headline":2801,"summary":2802},[2784,2785,2786],"These two commitments sit together because one is a saving and the other is a cost, and the party has published a figure for the saving but not for the hiring.","The 400 staff would work on garbage pickup, road maintenance and parks and recreation facilities. The party has not published what they would cost.","The $800 million figure and the name \"Second City Hall\" are the party’s own description of the project. We have not checked it against the city capital plan.",[2788,2794],{"title":2789,"detail":2790,"cites":2791,"cost":2792,"authority":2793},"Cancel the $800 million second city hall","The party commits to cancelling what it calls the \"$800-Million Second City Hall\" project.",[1406],"$800 million, as described by the party","Council approves capital projects.",{"title":2795,"detail":2796,"cites":2797,"cost":132},"Hire 400 new front-line unionized staff","The 400 staff would improve garbage pickup, road maintenance and parks and recreation facilities.",[1406],[],[2711],[],"Cancel the $800 million second city hall and hire 400 staff","The Vancouver Liberals would cancel an $800 million project they call the \"Second City Hall\" and hire 400 new front-line unionized staff.",{"issue":288,"paragraphs":2804,"proposals":2805,"questions":2806,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":2807,"gaps":2808},[],[],[],[2721,656,657],[659],{"issue":298,"paragraphs":2810,"proposals":2811,"questions":2812,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":2813,"gaps":2814},[],[],[],[2721,656,657],[659],{"issue":318,"paragraphs":2816,"proposals":2817,"questions":2818,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":2819,"gaps":2820},[],[],[],[2721,656,657],[659],[2822,2826,2830,2834,2838,2842,2846,2850,2854],{"question":2823,"answer":2824,"cites":2825},"Who leads the Vancouver Liberals?","Kareem Allam is the mayoral candidate, at ballot number 56. Our candidate records describe him as a political strategist and former mayoral chief of staff.",[1406,29],{"question":2827,"answer":2828,"cites":2829},"How many candidates are they running?","19: Kareem Allam for mayor, 7 for City Council, 6 for Park Board and 5 for School Board. That is the second-largest slate on the ballot after ABC.",[29],{"question":2831,"answer":2832,"cites":2833},"When was the party founded?","Its website states 2025. We have not checked that against the Elections BC register of elector organizations.",[1406],{"question":2835,"answer":2836,"cites":2837},"What is their most distinctive commitment?","Eliminating the Vancouver Building Code and adopting the provincial one instead. Vancouver is the only BC city with its own building code, and the Green Party would keep it. This is one of the sharpest splits on the ballot.",[1406,2709],{"question":2839,"answer":2840,"cites":2841},"What would the 400 new staff do?","Garbage pickup, road maintenance, and parks and recreation facilities. They would be unionized front-line staff. The party has not published what they would cost.",[1406],{"question":2843,"answer":2844,"cites":2845},"What is the \"Second City Hall\" they would cancel?","The party describes an $800 million project by that name and commits to cancelling it. The name and the figure are the party’s own description, and we have not checked them against the city capital plan.",[1406],{"question":2847,"answer":2848,"cites":2849},"Where do they stand on police in schools?","They support continuing and evolving the School Liaison Officer programme, which places police officers in schools. The Board of Education decides whether it runs.",[1406],{"question":2851,"answer":2852,"cites":2853},"Do they have a published housing supply plan?","No. The one published commitment touching housing is abolishing the Vancouver Building Code. We found no supply target, affordability commitment or rental policy on September 22, 2026.",[1406],{"question":2855,"answer":735,"cites":2856},"Where can I see their campaign finances?",[379,380],{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":2858,"gaps":2859,"entries":2860},[19,383],[385],[],"Vancouver Liberal Electors Association","vancouver-liberals",[2864,2865,2866,2867,2868,2869],{"id":1406,"label":1552,"url":1553,"publisher":1554,"kind":392,"checkedAt":6},{"id":2709,"label":1547,"url":1548,"publisher":1549,"kind":405,"publishedAt":1550,"checkedAt":6},{"id":29,"label":407,"url":408,"publisher":399,"kind":400,"checkedAt":6},{"id":379,"label":410,"url":38,"publisher":411,"kind":400,"checkedAt":6},{"id":380,"label":413,"url":414,"publisher":411,"kind":400,"checkedAt":6},{"id":416,"label":417,"url":418,"publisher":411,"kind":400,"checkedAt":6},"parties\u002Fvancouver-liberals","The Vancouver Liberals are running 19 candidates behind mayoral candidate Kareem Allam, the second-largest slate on the ballot. Their commitments include hiring 400 front-line staff and cancelling an $800 million city hall project.","rXxjLevAb4bs2o4ljuBHCb8Qqzgp6zHWEL1zfn0Rukc",{"id":2874,"aliases":2875,"checkedAt":6,"declaredColour":2876,"extension":12,"founded":13,"headline":2880,"history":2881,"leadership":2885,"meta":2891,"money":2892,"name":2897,"news":2898,"overview":2902,"palette":2907,"platform":2910,"questions":3060,"record":3096,"registeredName":13,"rosterLabel":2897,"slug":3100,"sources":3101,"stem":3112,"summary":3113,"website":3104,"__hash__":3114},"parties\u002Fparties\u002Fvote-vancouver.json",[],{"hex":2877,"note":9,"cites":2878},"#7A3D9E",[2879],"vv-home","A centrist party built around Rebecca Bligh, with a 40-page policy document",{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":2882,"gaps":2883,"entries":2884},[19,20],[22],[],[2886],{"role":2887,"name":2888,"cites":2889},"Mayoral candidate and founder","Rebecca Bligh",[2890,29],"vv-policy",{},{"state":32,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":2893,"gaps":2894,"searchUrl":38,"filings":2895,"notes":2896},[34,35],[37],[],[41,42,43,44,45],"Vote Vancouver",{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":2899,"gaps":2900,"entries":2901},[49],[51],[],[2903,2904,2905,2906],"Vote Vancouver is running 12 candidates: Rebecca Bligh for mayor at ballot number 52, 6 for City Council, 2 for Park Board and 3 for School Board.","Rebecca Bligh is a sitting Vancouver city councillor and a former president of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities. The party site describes her as having created Vote Vancouver.","The party describes itself as \"proudly centrist and pragmatic\" and says it does not believe City Hall should be driven by left or right ideology.","Its published Policy Priorities document runs to roughly 6,400 words and is organised into four sections: Housing and Belonging, Transportation Choice, Public Services and Economic Drivers.",{"accent":2877,"onAccent":58,"tint":2908,"ink":2909},"#EFE5F5","#552B6E",[2911,2969,2976,2982,2999,3013,3019,3035,3041,3047],{"issue":63,"paragraphs":2912,"proposals":2917,"questions":2956,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":2965,"gaps":2967,"headline":2919,"summary":2968},[2913,2914,2915,2916],"This is the most time-bound commitment any party has published in this election. Five parcels of public land would be chosen, named and announced with a timeline within one month of entering City Hall.","The party also publishes an affordability definition rather than leaving the word undefined: new public housing would target no more than 30% of household income.","Its faith-based land policy is unusual. Vote Vancouver would introduce a right-of-first-refusal bylaw giving the city first opportunity to buy qualifying faith-based properties when they come to market, and would help faith organisations that want to redevelop rather than sell.","The party would also reverse what it describes as a ban on new supportive housing, arguing it blocks replacing single room occupancy hotels with better options.",[2918,2923,2927,2931,2936,2940,2944,2948,2952],{"title":2919,"detail":2920,"cites":2921,"authority":1748,"deadline":2922},"Name five parcels of public land within one month","Five parcels of city-owned land will be chosen, named and announced with an associated timeline within one month of entering City Hall.",[2890],"One month after taking office",{"title":2924,"detail":2925,"cites":2926},"Target rents at no more than 30% of household income","New public housing will target no more than 30% of household income.",[2890],{"title":2928,"detail":2929,"cites":2930},"Reverse the ban on new supportive housing","Vote Vancouver would reverse the ban so single room occupancy hotels can be replaced with safe, dignified, affordable options.",[2890],{"title":2932,"detail":2933,"cites":2934,"authority":2935},"A right-of-first-refusal bylaw for faith-based land","The city would get the first opportunity to buy qualifying faith-based properties when they come to market, for housing, child care and community services.",[2890],"Council can pass such a bylaw under the Vancouver Charter.",{"title":2937,"detail":2938,"cites":2939},"Use DASH to build faster","The city would use Digitally Accelerated Standardized Housing, pre-approved models and sustainable materials, especially for modular housing.",[2890],{"title":2941,"detail":2942,"cites":2943},"Non-profits run the developments","Non-profit or community organisations would run the new developments, to reduce strain on City Hall and keep them connected to their communities.",[2890],{"title":2945,"detail":2946,"cites":2947},"Replace SROs with self-contained housing","Existing single room occupancy hotels would be replaced with dignified, self-contained, purpose-built housing, while existing facilities keep operating until alternatives are available.",[2890],{"title":2949,"detail":2950,"cites":2951},"Hold landlords to maintenance standards","The city would enforce its maintenance standards and act where buildings fall into serious disrepair that threatens residents’ ability to stay housed.",[2890],{"title":2953,"detail":2954,"cites":2955},"Work with community land trusts","Vote Vancouver would work with community land trusts and community groups to keep public land in community ownership and build co-operative housing, naming the Downtown Eastside Community Land Trust, the SRO Collaborative, the False Creek South Community Housing Trust and Hogan’s Alley.",[2890],[2957,2961],{"question":2958,"answer":2959,"cites":2960},"What does \"30% of household income\" mean?","It is a definition of affordable. A household earning $60,000 a year would pay no more than $18,000 a year, or $1,500 a month, for a home built under this policy. Most parties use the word affordable without saying what it means; Vote Vancouver puts a number on it.",[2890],{"question":2962,"answer":2963,"cites":2964},"What is a right-of-first-refusal bylaw?","It means that when a church, temple or other faith organisation decides to sell its land, the city gets the first chance to buy it before private buyers. The organisation still chooses to sell; the city just gets first offer.",[2890],[2966],"The Vote Vancouver Policy Priorities document, dated in its filename September 15, 2026",[],"Vote Vancouver would name five parcels of city-owned land for affordable housing within one month of taking office, target rents at no more than 30% of household income, and reverse the ban on new supportive housing.",{"issue":88,"paragraphs":2970,"proposals":2971,"questions":2972,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":2973,"gaps":2975},[],[],[],[2974,656,657],"The party website at https:\u002F\u002Fwww.votevancouver.ca\u002F",[659],{"issue":111,"paragraphs":2977,"proposals":2978,"questions":2979,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":2980,"gaps":2981},[],[],[],[2974,656,657],[659],{"issue":158,"paragraphs":2983,"proposals":2987,"questions":2992,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":2993,"gaps":2995,"headline":2997,"summary":2998},[2984,2985,2986],"Transportation Choice is the second of four sections in the party’s Policy Priorities document, covering pages 13 to 19.","The section opens by describing Vancouver as a large city with a variety of transport options including walking and biking, framed around more choices and fewer barriers.","We archived the full document on September 22, 2026. The detailed commitments inside this section have not yet been transcribed onto this page.",[2988],{"title":2989,"detail":2990,"cites":2991},"Transportation Choice section of the Policy Priorities document","The party publishes a dedicated transport section under the heading \"More choices. Fewer barriers.\" The individual commitments in it are recorded in our archived copy and have not yet been transcribed here.",[2890],[],[2994],"The Vote Vancouver Policy Priorities document",[2996],"The individual commitments in the Transportation Choice section have not yet been transcribed onto this page.","Transportation Choice: one of four sections of the policy document","Vote Vancouver publishes a Transportation Choice section running from page 13 to page 19 of its Policy Priorities document.",{"issue":178,"paragraphs":3000,"proposals":3002,"questions":3007,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":3008,"gaps":3009,"headline":3011,"summary":3012},[3001],"Parks and recreation appear in the party’s stated focus and in the Public Services section of its Policy Priorities document, which runs from page 20 to page 32. The individual commitments in that section have not yet been transcribed onto this page.",[3003],{"title":3004,"detail":3005,"cites":3006},"Improve access to parks, pools and recreation","The party names improving access to parks, pools and recreation among the issues it is focused on.",[2890],[],[2994],[3010],"The individual commitments in the Public Services section have not yet been transcribed onto this page.","Improving access to parks, pools and recreation","Vote Vancouver lists improving access to parks, pools and recreation among the issues it is focused on. Detailed commitments sit in the Public Services section of its policy document.",{"issue":223,"paragraphs":3014,"proposals":3015,"questions":3016,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":3017,"gaps":3018},[],[],[],[2974,656,657],[659],{"issue":246,"paragraphs":3020,"proposals":3024,"questions":3029,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":3030,"gaps":3031,"headline":3033,"summary":3034},[3021,3022,3023],"Rather than publishing a tax number, Vote Vancouver publishes a test. It says that a policy that does not meet all four questions will not be prioritised.","The fourth question, whether residents can measure if it worked, is the one that matters most for holding a council to account, because it commits the party to publishing something measurable.","The party describes its approach as fiscally responsible while expanding public services. It does not publish a property tax rate commitment.",[3025],{"title":3026,"detail":3027,"cites":3028},"Apply the Vancouver Test to every policy","Four questions: does it improve service or meet an urgent need, does it strengthen Vancouver’s long-term future, does it build public trust, and can residents measure whether it worked. A policy that fails the test will not be prioritised.",[2890],[],[2994],[3032],"No property tax rate commitment is published.","The Vancouver Test: four questions applied to every policy","Vote Vancouver publishes a decision test it says it applies to every policy: does it improve service, strengthen the long-term future, build public trust, and can residents measure whether it worked.",{"issue":288,"paragraphs":3036,"proposals":3037,"questions":3038,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":3039,"gaps":3040},[],[],[],[2974,656,657],[659],{"issue":298,"paragraphs":3042,"proposals":3043,"questions":3044,"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":3045,"gaps":3046},[],[],[],[2974,656,657],[659],{"issue":318,"paragraphs":3048,"proposals":3050,"questions":3055,"state":32,"indexable":76,"checkedAt":6,"searched":3056,"gaps":3057,"headline":3058,"summary":3059},[3049],"Child care appears inside the housing section of the policy document rather than on its own. The commitment is that new public housing developments include access to child care, schools and public spaces.",[3051],{"title":3052,"detail":3053,"cites":3054},"Child care in every new public housing development","New public housing developments will include access to child care, schools and public spaces. The party calls this building complete communities, not just buildings.",[2890],[],[2994],[2344,2345],"Child care built into every new public housing development","Vote Vancouver would include child care, schools and public spaces in new public housing developments, describing this as building complete communities rather than buildings.",[3061,3065,3069,3073,3077,3081,3085,3089,3093],{"question":3062,"answer":3063,"cites":3064},"Who leads Vote Vancouver?","Rebecca Bligh, a sitting Vancouver city councillor, is its mayoral candidate at ballot number 52. The party’s own document says she created Vote Vancouver.",[2890,29],{"question":3066,"answer":3067,"cites":3068},"How many candidates is Vote Vancouver running?","12: Rebecca Bligh for mayor, 6 for City Council, 2 for Park Board and 3 for School Board.",[29],{"question":3070,"answer":3071,"cites":3072},"What is the Vancouver Test?","Four questions the party says it applies to every policy: does it improve service or meet an urgent need, does it strengthen the long-term future, does it build public trust, and can residents measure whether it worked. A policy that fails is not prioritised.",[2890],{"question":3074,"answer":3075,"cites":3076},"What is Vote Vancouver’s fastest housing commitment?","Naming five parcels of city-owned land for affordable housing, with a timeline, within one month of taking office. That is the tightest deadline any party has published in this election.",[2890],{"question":3078,"answer":3079,"cites":3080},"What does the party mean by affordable?","No more than 30% of household income for new public housing built under its policy. Most parties do not put a number on the word.",[2890],{"question":3082,"answer":3083,"cites":3084},"Where does Vote Vancouver sit politically?","It describes itself as \"proudly centrist and pragmatic\" and says it does not believe City Hall should be driven by left or right ideology or by political polarization.",[2890],{"question":3086,"answer":3087,"cites":3088},"Does the party have a position on supportive housing?","Yes. It would reverse what it describes as a ban on building new supportive housing, arguing the ban stops single room occupancy hotels being replaced with better options.",[2890],{"question":3090,"answer":3091,"cites":3092},"Does it publish a property tax commitment?","No. It publishes the Vancouver Test and describes itself as fiscally responsible, but we found no property tax rate commitment in the document, checked September 22, 2026.",[2890],{"question":3094,"answer":735,"cites":3095},"Where can I see Vote Vancouver’s campaign finances?",[379,380],{"state":16,"indexable":17,"checkedAt":6,"searched":3097,"gaps":3098,"entries":3099},[19,383],[385],[],"vote-vancouver",[3102,3105,3108,3109,3110,3111],{"id":2879,"label":3103,"url":3104,"publisher":2897,"kind":392,"checkedAt":6},"Vote Vancouver home page","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.votevancouver.ca\u002F",{"id":2890,"label":3106,"url":3107,"publisher":2897,"kind":392,"checkedAt":6},"Vote Vancouver Policy Priorities","https:\u002F\u002Fvotevancouver.ca\u002Fs\u002FVV-PolicyPriorities_260915.pdf",{"id":29,"label":407,"url":408,"publisher":399,"kind":400,"checkedAt":6},{"id":379,"label":410,"url":38,"publisher":411,"kind":400,"checkedAt":6},{"id":380,"label":413,"url":414,"publisher":411,"kind":400,"checkedAt":6},{"id":416,"label":417,"url":418,"publisher":411,"kind":400,"checkedAt":6},"parties\u002Fvote-vancouver","Vote Vancouver is running 12 candidates behind mayoral candidate Rebecca Bligh, a sitting city councillor. 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