11 votes: the mayor and 10 councillors. 7 of the 10 councillors are new.
I = incomplete, until Feb 2027
NamePartyVotesIn one lineGrade
Pete Fry
Mayor-elect
Party: Green
Votes: 98,494 votes
On council since 2018. First Green mayor. Son of longtime MP Hedy Fry.
Report card grade: I (incomplete)
Background
Born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1969; moved to Vancouver as a small child. Has lived in Strathcona, next to the Downtown Eastside, for close to 30 years. Worked as a self-employed graphic designer and communications consultant, and ran a print shop on East Hastings Street. Chaired the Strathcona Residents’ Association. His mother, Hedy Fry, has been the MP for Vancouver Centre since 1993.
Record
Elected to council in 2018 with 61,806 votes, the second-highest total. Re-elected in 2022.
Chairs the Union of BC Municipalities’ Resolutions Committee.
Voted against council’s February 2025 pause on new supportive housing.
July 2026: his motion to license small electric passenger shuttles carried with no votes against.
July 2026: his motion to bring back the City’s Renter’s Office was not approved.
Campaign priorities
Simpler, faster permits for low-rise apartments, townhomes and infill, including pre-approved designs.
An Office of Community Safety and a 24/7 non-police outreach team (CROW) for non-emergency calls.
A more detailed City budget within his first 90 days.
Reverse the City’s pause on new supportive housing.
Writer and activist. Most votes of any council candidate.
Report card grade: I (incomplete)
Background
Born in 1978 in Surrey and raised in Metro Vancouver. Worked as a dishwasher before council. Has written the “Tea and Two Slices” political column for Scout Magazine since 2011. Fronts the Vancouver hardcore punk band NEEDS. Finished a BA in geography and political science at SFU in 2025.
Record
Won the April 2025 council by-election with 34,448 votes (50.7%).
COPE says he moved more than 30 motions in his first year, including a higher empty homes tax and a tenant right to buy their building.
Wrote a motion for detailed speed data from every fatal crash. Vision Zero Vancouver records it as passed.
Co-sponsored a motion with Lucy Maloney backing SkyTrain to UBC (UBCx). It passed.
Voted against the 2026 City budget (0% property tax increase), which passed in November 2025.
Top council vote-getter in 2026, with 83,038 votes.
Award-winning filmmaker and East Van community organizer.
Report card grade: I (incomplete)
Background
Filmmaker who lives in East Vancouver. A working parent and a renter. Works as a first assistant director on feature films, managing crews of more than 100. Had a recurring role in Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018–19). Board secretary and advocacy chair at the Gender Equity in Media Society.
Record
Ran in the April 2025 council by-election and placed fourth with 15,045 votes.
Endorsed in that by-election by the Vancouver and District Labour Council.
Signed Women Transforming Cities’ City Hall Pledge in 2026.
Elected in 2026 with 78,476 votes, second among council candidates.
Non-profit worker focused on food security and poverty.
Report card grade: I (incomplete)
Background
Food security worker and poverty reduction advocate in the Vancouver non-profit sector. A renter and a CUPE member. Now works on a food access project in the Downtown Eastside. Earlier worked in community programs at the YM-YWCA of Vancouver Island.
Record
Program Coordinator, then Program Manager, at Vancouver Food Runners, a food recovery charity (2022–2023 on its staff pages).
She says she coordinated a network of more than 180 businesses and non-profits that redistribute surplus food.
Chosen by COPE members as a council candidate in May 2026. Endorsed by the Vancouver and District Labour Council in June 2026.
Climate scientist and financial analyst at Stand.earth.
Report card grade: I (incomplete)
Background
Climate scientist and financial analyst, and a renter. PhD in Forestry from UBC (2020); her thesis studied cooking fuels, forests and climate in rural India. COPE says she is a lead researcher at Stand.earth.
Record
COPE says her research work helped stop funding for clearing the Amazon forest and helped design climate plans for several North American cities.
Ran for the BC Greens in Vancouver-Point Grey in 2020 (third, 4,241 votes) and 2024.
Ran for the federal Greens in Vancouver Quadra in 2021.
Ran for council with the Vancouver Greens in 2022 (21,255 votes, not elected). Ran with COPE in 2026.
Worked with BC Poverty Reduction Coalition and Co-op Housing Federation.
Report card grade: I (incomplete)
Background
Born at St. Paul’s Hospital. Grew up around her family’s small business on Granville Street and in East Vancouver. Has lived in the Downtown Eastside for 22 years. Has worked for almost 30 years as a legal advocate for tenants facing renoviction and demoviction.
Record
Trained advocates and law students and ran community legal clinics.
Represented workers and bargained collective agreements.
Served with the BC Poverty Reduction Coalition, the Vancouver and District Labour Council and REACH Community Health Centre.
Director of the Co-operative Housing Federation of BC and the Community Land Trust since 2022. President of a housing co-op.
Ran for council with the Greens in 2022 (20,408 votes, not elected).
Campaign priorities
Keep Vancouver affordable enough to stay in.
Protect tenants from renoviction and demoviction.
More community-owned and co-op housing.
Use public land for affordable housing, parks and green space.
Former environmental lawyer. Road safety advocate.
Report card grade: I (incomplete)
Background
Former environmental lawyer and longtime road safety advocate. Has lived in five cities in four countries. OneCity’s only councillor in the 2025–26 term.
Record
Won the April 2025 council by-election with 33,732 votes (49.6%).
Feb 2026: her motion making in-person attendance the default for council carried unanimously, after an amendment.
Jan 2026: her motion to make the City a living wage employer again was voted down.
Jul 2026: cast the only vote to keep the Villages Plan for low- and mid-rise housing. Council cancelled it 10–1.
Jul 2026: her motion to pause large new data centres until the City can assess them was rejected.
Campaign priorities
Safer streets.
Affordable housing, including OneCity’s plan for 4,000 City-built affordable homes.
Grew up in Vancouver and graduated from Kitsilano Secondary in 1997. Holds a BA and an MSc from UBC’s Faculty of Land and Food Systems. Worked close to a decade in seasonal horticulture for the Park Board. Co-founded the urban farm Inner City Farms in 2009 and led it for more than 10 years. Education Manager at the UBC Farm since 2020.
Record
Elected Park Board commissioner in 2018 with 65,303 votes. Chaired the board twice, per his party.
Nov 2019: his motion for direct communication between the Park Board and BC Housing on homelessness carried 5–2.
Sep 2019: moved the Oppenheimer Park motion committing to voluntary decampment and continued housing efforts. It carried.
Mar 2021: his motion to bring back the protected bike lane on Stanley Park Drive carried 5–2.
Campaign priorities
Stronger tree-protection bylaws.
Plant the right trees in the right places, with maintenance standards.
Local food systems.
Signed Women Transforming Cities’ six asks: housing, transit, community spaces, food security, washrooms and gender safety.
UBC student leader; led 15,000-signature SkyTrain-to-UBC petition. Uses they/them.
Report card grade: I (incomplete)
Background
UBC student organizer and transit activist. Born in Vancouver, lived elsewhere in BC and in China, and moved back for university. Has served as a UBC student senator and vice-president of the UBC Disabilities United Collective.
Record
Vice-President External of the AMS, UBC’s student union, 2025–26.
Led a student petition for SkyTrain to UBC that passed 15,000 signatures. The Ubyssey’s midterm review also noted a missed meeting with the housing minister and an unfinished tenancy report.
COPE says they worked with student unions to push MPs for a Youth Climate Corps, which won $40 million for youth climate jobs.
Endorsed by the Vancouver and District Labour Council. First time in elected office.
Campaign priorities
20,000 new publicly owned rental homes, 4,000 of them on City land.
Triple the empty homes tax and bring back the Renters Office.
A covered bench at every bus stop, more bus lanes and low-income transit passes.
Pause new AI data centre approvals until rules are in place.
Communications strategist. Only ABC member re-elected.
Report card grade: I (incomplete)
Background
Born and raised in Vancouver. Has organized in the Fraser Street neighbourhood for more than 20 years. BA from UBC. Vice-president of public affairs at the BC Care Providers Association from 2016, and its acting CEO early in the pandemic. Board president of PAL Vancouver, an arts workers’ housing society, from 2012 to 2021.
Record
Councillor since November 2022. Chairs the PNE board and sits on the Metro Vancouver board.
Sep 2025: his motion for a walking and cycling corridor along the South Vancouver railway carried unanimously at committee.
Jul 2026: his motion to study a flagship technology and innovation hub carried.
May 2026: council unanimously approved his motion to fund renewal of the Hastings Skate Park.
Backed the 2026 budget with a 0% property tax increase, which passed in Nov 2025. Voted to cancel the Villages Plan in Jul 2026.
Campaign priorities
ABC’s platform: a 0% property tax increase in 2027.
Ban open-air hard drug use in public spaces. He said he would vote yes on that plebiscite question.
Grew up in East Vancouver. A renter who has worked more than one job at a time. Built a career in hospitality as a server, bartender, host and event organizer. Has organized festivals, markets and pop-up events, including co-organizing the Vegan Night Market.
Record
National field manager for the Green Party of Canada (reported March 2026).
Worked on the Vancouver Greens’ 2022 civic campaign.
Ran for the federal Greens in Vancouver East (2019) and for the BC Greens in Vancouver-Hastings (2020, 2024).
Won the 10th council seat in 2026 with 57,788 votes. First time in elected office.
Campaign priorities
Treat housing as a human right.
More non-market and co-op housing, and stronger renter protections.
Complete neighbourhoods and reliable transit.
Make City Hall a partner to small businesses and community organizers.
Report cards: every grade is I (incomplete) until the first report cards on Feb 1, 2027. Sources: Daily Hive ↗ · City of Vancouver ↗
Photo credits: Fry, Reilly, Smith, Dumont, Burns: Green Party of Vancouver · Orr, Leslie, Singh: COPE Vancouver · Maloney: Edpf06 / Wikimedia Commons, CC0 · Yi-Kieran: Solomon Yi-Kieran / Wikimedia Commons, CC0 · Klassen: City of Vancouver
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Who’s actually in charge of what?
Three governments run your life in Vancouver. City Hall can’t fix everything, and it shouldn’t get blamed for everything either. Here’s who handles what.
Municipal
City of Vancouver
Mayor + 10 councillors at City Hall. Park Board and School Board are elected too.
The stuff outside your front door.
What gets built where. Zoning, building permits, rezonings.
Property tax and the city budget.
Police and fire budgets. The city pays for the Vancouver Police Department.
Streets. Roads, sidewalks, bike lanes, street parking, potholes.
Garbage, recycling, water and sewers.
Parks, pools, rinks, community centres (Park Board) and libraries.
Local rules. Bylaws, business licences, the empty homes tax.
ExampleA new 6-storey building on your street? City Hall decides.
Provincial
Province of BC
Premier + 93 MLAs in Victoria.
The big services you use every year.
Health care and hospitals.
Schools. Funding and what kids learn. (The local School Board runs them day to day.)
Renting rules. How much rent can go up, evictions, the Residential Tenancy Branch.
Mental health and addictions care, including involuntary care.
Transit money. Helps pay for SkyTrain and highways.
Minimum wage, ICBC car insurance, driver’s licences.
The city’s powers. BC writes the law that says what Vancouver is allowed to do.
ExampleGetting rid of the elected Park Board needed BC’s okay. BC didn’t give it.
Federal
Government of Canada
Prime Minister + 343 MPs in Ottawa.
The country-wide stuff.
Immigration and citizenship.
Income tax and GST.
Pensions and benefits. CPP, EI, Old Age Security.
Criminal law, including drug laws.
National housing money for big building programs.
Canada Post, the border, the military.
Relations with First Nations.
ExampleHow many people move to Vancouver from abroad each year? Ottawa sets that.
Big problems are shared
The issues people care about most need all three. Here’s each one’s part.
Issue
City
BC
Canada
Housing costs
What can be built, and how fast permits come
Rent rules, housing taxes, BC Housing projects
National housing money, immigration levels
Homelessness
Shelter locations, outreach, permits for supportive housing
Rent went up too much? Eviction notice?BC · Residential Tenancy Branch
Something about your kid’s school?Vancouver School Board
Passport, EI or immigration?Canada · your MP
Want to speak about a new building near you?City · public hearing
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