Vancouver votes October 17, 2026
Vancouver Civic AI Voter Guide
What candidates have said. What remains unanswered. What they will commit to.
Vancouver already uses AI in public services and is weighing major data-infrastructure decisions. This guide tracks what is documented, what is promised, and what remains unanswered.
Where this stands
The issue briefing is ready for scrutiny. Candidate publication remains a separate gate.
Published foundation
The municipal record is mapped.
The guide documents the City systems already in use, the infrastructure proposals on the table, Council actions, current privacy rules, and the gaps residents still cannot easily inspect.
Candidate publication
Research exists. Public findings are still gated.
First-pass dossiers now exist for the current research set. They are not yet promoted into the public comparison. The official ballot, equal correction process, evidence audit, and independent fairness review still have to land.
Public comparison data available
Explore the guide
Start with the civic record, then inspect exactly how each statement is classified.
01 / Briefing
What Vancouver is deciding
Municipal AI systems, data centres, privacy, procurement, public benefit, and the questions every serious proposal should answer.
Open02 / Evidence
How the record is built
Source tiers, evidence labels, corrections, conflicts, the questionnaire, and the complete searchable source register.
OpenCandidate surfaces withheld
Candidate records and comparison links appear only when the candidate publication gate opens. The briefing and evidence model can be tested independently without leaking names, offices, affiliations, or provisional findings.
Mayoral field
Listed alphabetically by surname. The publication roster remains provisional until the official nomination and withdrawal checks.
Roster withheld
7
Candidate dossiers are behind a separate publication gate.
Names, offices, affiliations, findings, and candidate links stay off this half of the guide until the candidate flag is enabled. The count is shown only to make the withheld scope visible.
- Positions located
- 30
- of 119 across the whole field
- Roster state
- Open
- Checked 2026-09-03
- Retired records
- 1
- Preserved, not erased
- Comparison data
- Live
- Released only after review
How this works
BC + AI does not endorse, rank, score, coach, or predict candidates.
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Every candidate is measured against the same seventeen propositions, drawn from the same public record, by the same rules.
02
Every candidate gets the same page structure and the same visual weight.
03
Anyone, including a candidate, can identify a factual error and supply a public source, and a correction is made and dated in public.
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No candidate gets editorial veto over an accurate public record.
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Candidates are listed in one stated neutral order, and the order is stated on the page.
If something here is wrong, BC + AI will fix it and say that it was fixed. Read the full method, source register, and correction process.
Dates that matter
The interface updates with the record. These are administrative gates, not decorative countdown theatre.
2026-09-01
Nominations opened at 9:00 am
Then2026-09-11
Nominations close at 4:00 pm
Then2026-09-18
Withdrawal deadline at 4:00 pm; random ballot draw at 5:00 pm
Then2026-09-19
Campaign period begins
Then2026-10-03
Advance voting
Then2026-10-07
Advance voting
Then2026-10-10
Advance voting
Then2026-10-13
Advance voting
Then2026-10-17
General voting day
What this guide does not do
This guide covers the mayoral race only. It does not cover council, Park Board, or school board.
The roster is provisional until nominations close on September 11, 2026 and the withdrawal and challenge gates close on September 18, 2026.
BC + AI does not determine rights, title, affected Nations, consultation adequacy, or consent. Nothing in this guide should be read as doing so.
This guide is not legal, engineering, privacy, or environmental advice.
Candidate records and comparison remain dark until final roster, research, correction, conflict, election-law, accessibility, and publication gates pass.
Paid or boosted promotion is prohibited under the current owner decision. Elections BC's published guide identifies potential exclusions for qualifying no-cost websites, free internet posts, private communications, free media coverage, and direct communications to an organization's members. Whether this purpose-built guide and each actual distribution channel satisfy those exclusions depends on the production, audience, cost, independence, and format facts. Issue 2402 must record the activity-by-activity determination before public launch or outreach.