BC + AI

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.

Version 0.6 · Effective 2026-10-10 · Roster checked 2026-09-27
Read the briefingInspect the evidence

Where this stands

Candidate records and comparison are public. Research and review continue.

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.

Follow the evidence

Candidate publication

Inspect the published record.

Published findings cover 8 of 8 candidates in the current roster. The public guide remains subject to evidence, independent fairness, and governance review.

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.

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02 / Evidence

How the record is built

Source tiers, evidence labels, corrections, conflicts, the questionnaire, and the complete searchable source register.

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03 / Records

Candidate dossiers

The same structure, source treatment, and visual weight for every person on the publication roster.

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04 / Comparison

Positions side by side

Five factual answer states with qualifications and sources. No total, recommendation, or synthetic verdict.

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Mayoral field

Listed in official ballot order, as set by the City's random ballot draw on September 18, 2026.

Preserved research history

A person who leaves the race is recorded rather than deleted, so the guide does not quietly rewrite its own history.

Stephanie Allen, Coalition of Progressive Electors. Allen and COPE publicly announced on September 2 that they were ending the mayoral campaign during the nomination period, before an official City-published nomination had been verified. This is not evidence of a formal withdrawal of a filed nomination. The project therefore retains the research history while removing her from the current publication set. The City's final candidate list, published after the September 18 ballot draw, does not include her.

William Azaroff, OneCity Vancouver. Azaroff announced on September 8 that he was ending his mayoral campaign and endorsing Pete Fry. The City's final candidate list, published after the September 18 ballot draw, does not include him. His dossier and research history are preserved, and his earlier findings are no longer shown in the comparison.

Positions located
43
of 136 searched across the field
Roster state
Final
Checked 2026-09-27
Retired records
2
Preserved, not erased
Comparison data
Live
Released only after review

How this works

BC + AI does not endorse, rank, score, coach, or predict candidates.

  1. 01

    Every candidate is measured against the same seventeen propositions, drawn from the same public record, by the same rules.

  2. 02

    Every candidate gets the same page structure and the same visual weight.

  3. 03

    Anyone, including a candidate, can identify a factual error and supply a public source, and a correction is made and dated in public.

  4. 04

    No candidate gets editorial veto over an accurate public record.

  5. 05

    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.

  1. 2026-09-01

    Nominations opened at 9:00 am

    Then

  2. 2026-09-11

    Nominations close at 4:00 pm

    Then

  3. 2026-09-18

    Withdrawal deadline at 4:00 pm; random ballot draw at 5:00 pm

    Then

  4. 2026-09-19

    Campaign period begins

    Then

  5. 2026-10-03

    Advance voting

    Then

  6. 2026-10-07

    Advance voting

    Then

  7. 2026-10-10

    Advance voting

    Then

  8. 2026-10-13

    Advance voting

    Then

  9. 2026-10-17

    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 final. It follows the City's final candidate list and official ballot order, published after the September 18, 2026 withdrawal deadline and ballot draw. All eight candidates on it have been through one documented research pass.

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.

No candidate has been contacted, so no candidate has yet had the chance to correct their own record.

Published by BC + AI, a community organization for artificial intelligence in British Columbia. BC + AI is not an elector organization and does not support or oppose any candidate. No candidate or campaign paid for, reviewed, or approved this guide. BC + AI's own policy views are set out separately in the policy baseline and are not used to rate candidates.

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.