The most detailed published platform on the 2026 ballot
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.
WHO THEY ARE
About TEAM for a Livable Vancouver
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.
THE TEN ISSUES
Where TEAM for a Livable Vancouver stands
Every party on this site is covered on the same ten issues, so nothing is hidden by leaving a subject out. 10 of 10 have published policy behind them.
| Issue | Published position | Commitments |
|---|---|---|
| Housing | 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. | 9 |
| Homelessness and drugs | 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. | 3 |
| Public safety | 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. | 4 |
| Transport | TEAM would invest in road maintenance, expand bus service and stops, restore off-street parking minimums for new construction, and oppose road pricing. | 5 |
| Parks | 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. | 9 |
| Schools | 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. | 9 |
| Taxes and budget | 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. | 5 |
| Climate | 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. | 7 |
| Culture | 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. | 6 |
| Child care | 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. | 2 |
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
9 questions about TEAM for a Livable Vancouver
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.
How many candidates is TEAM running?
14: Colleen Hardwick for mayor, 7 for City Council, 5 for Park Board and 1 for School Board.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sources
A source marked SAYS SO ITSELF is the party's own material. It proves what the party claims, not that the claim is true.
- TEAM for a Livable Vancouver home page SAYS SO ITSELFTEAM for a Livable Vancouver · checked
- TEAM our positions SAYS SO ITSELFTEAM for a Livable Vancouver · checked
- TEAM planning for livability and affordability, learn more SAYS SO ITSELFTEAM for a Livable Vancouver · checked
- TEAM parks and recreation, learn more SAYS SO ITSELFTEAM for a Livable Vancouver · checked
- TEAM schools, learn more SAYS SO ITSELFTEAM for a Livable Vancouver · checked
- TEAM finance and administration, learn more SAYS SO ITSELFTEAM for a Livable Vancouver · checked
- TEAM our environment, learn more SAYS SO ITSELFTEAM for a Livable Vancouver · checked
- TEAM arts and culture, learn more SAYS SO ITSELFTEAM for a Livable Vancouver · checked
- TEAM safety for all SAYS SO ITSELFTEAM for a Livable Vancouver · checked
- TEAM transportation SAYS SO ITSELFTEAM for a Livable Vancouver · checked
- Vancouver mayor says he will not try to eliminate the park board if re-elected CBC News · checked
- Who is running: official 2026 candidate list City of Vancouver · checked
- Local elections disclosure statement search Elections BC · checked
- Elector organizations: registration and financial reporting duties Elections BC · checked
- Making a campaign contribution Elections BC · checked
Compare TEAM for a Livable Vancouver with the other ten parties
Every party is covered on the same ten issues. The comparison pages put them side by side, one issue at a time, with the source next to each position.