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Every claim is classified before it is written. That controls how it may be described.
Candidate statement
01A direct, attributable statement by the candidate.
May be described as the candidate's position, within its date and context.
Candidate policy
02Policy published by the candidate or explicitly adopted by them.
May be described as the candidate's policy, with version and date.
Party position
03A position of the candidate's elector organization or party.
Remains a party position unless the candidate personally adopts it.
Official action
04A motion, amendment, vote, directive, decision, filing, or other official act.
Describe the exact actor, body, procedure, date, and result.
Staff or institutional record
05A staff report, City program, employer policy, board decision, or institutional action.
Do not attribute personally without evidence of authority or adoption.
Professional record
06Relevant public work, role, publication, board action, or organizational leadership.
Context only, unless it establishes personal authorship or decision authority.
Third-party characterization
07Reputable reporting, analysis, or public description by someone else.
Attribute it. Do not restate it as fact when a primary source is available.
BC + AI interpretation
08BC + AI's stated inference from cited evidence.
Label visibly and explain the evidence and the uncertainty.
Disputed
09A material statement or interpretation contested with evidence.
Present the dispute and the current disposition.
Unknown
10Evidence is insufficient to establish a position or fact.
Use Unclear or No public position located. Never a guessed answer.
A stronger source displaces a weaker one. Where only limited evidence exists, the guide says so.
Tier 1
Legislation, regulation, City agenda, minutes, motion, amendment, vote, staff report, filing, government dataset, decision, procurement record, candidate filing, or official transcript.
Tier 2
Policy page, release, speech, interview recording, verified public statement, questionnaire answer, or official campaign publication.
Tier 3
A public employer, board, regulator, professional association, published paper, or organization record that establishes role and action.
Tier 4
A named outlet and author using identifiable evidence or direct interviews.
Tier 5
Useful for leads, framing, and disputed viewpoints. Not sufficient for a material factual claim that a stronger source can support.
Search snippets, generated summaries, reposts, screenshots without provenance, anonymous claims, opposition research, rumours, and private messages are not publication evidence.
Public copy cites source IDs. Do not drop a bare URL into prose when an ID exists.
A public comparison cell uses one of these states and nothing else. Each one still needs a qualification and source.
There are 5 states and no sixth. A state is never converted into a point total or aggregate verdict.
The City held the random ballot draw on September 18 at 5:00 pm under section 79 of the Vancouver Charter. The guide lists candidates in that order and shows each ballot number, so a voter can find the same name on the ballot. No other ordering is used.
2026-09-11
Nominations close at 4:00 pm
Reconcile every successfully submitted mayoral nomination, add any missing candidate under the same research scope, and retire declared non-filers from the current publication set.
reconciled 2026-09-27 · City of Vancouver
2026-09-18
Withdrawal deadline at 4:00 pm; random ballot draw at 5:00 pm
Freeze the final roster and replace surname order with the verified official ballot order.
reconciled 2026-09-27 · City of Vancouver, checked against Elections BC on 2026-09-28
Seven questions, read against every candidate's public record by the same rules. They are the origin of the seventeen propositions in the comparison.
These seven questions define what the guide looks for in each candidate's public record. They are the origin of the seventeen propositions in the comparison. BC + AI is not sending them to candidates; the guide is built from the public record alone, and the public correction route is open to candidates on the same terms as everyone else.
R01
Every candidate's record is read against the same seven questions.
R02
Each question breaks down into propositions, and each proposition is answered with one of five factual states.
R03
A state that asks for a position is answered Yes, No, or Conditional only where an attributable public statement supports it.
R04
Where a documented search finds nothing attributable, the answer is No public position located, which is a fact about the record and not about the candidate.
R05
A party position is recorded as the party's and marked as such; it is never filed as the candidate speaking.
R06
Every answer carries its evidence, its date, and its source.
Q1 / Vancouver's civic AI direction
Open the complete question
Where should the City of Vancouver use artificial intelligence during the next four years, and where should it not be used?
Please identify:
Please also state who remains accountable when a City employee or contractor uses an AI system to produce advice, content, analysis, or a decision.
Q2 / Public register and resident rights
Open the complete question
Will you support a public register of AI and automated decision systems used by the City and its agencies?
Please state whether the register should include the responsible department, vendor, purpose, data sources, risk assessment, human oversight, performance evidence, reported incidents, and current status. When an AI or automated system materially affects a resident, what rights should that person have to notice, a plain-language explanation, access to a real human, correction, review, appeal, and redress?
Q3 / Procurement, privacy, workers, and accountability
Open the complete question
What requirements should apply when Vancouver buys, builds, pilots, or renews an AI system?
Please address:
Q4 / Data-centre development
Open the complete question
Which position best reflects yours?
Please explain how your approach would address electricity, water withdrawal and consumption, cooling, heat reuse, land use, noise, operational and embodied emissions, grid and infrastructure costs, emergency planning, and decommissioning. Please identify which decisions belong to the City and which require provincial, utility, federal, regulatory, or First Nations action.
Q5 / The public bargain
Open the complete question
What measurable public benefits should Vancouver require from a large AI or data-centre project?
Please address local procurement, apprenticeships and career pathways, taxes and infrastructure costs, heat reuse, community-benefit agreements, research partnerships, accessible compute for public-interest organizations and local firms, transparency, and consequences when promised benefits are not delivered. Which benefits are non-negotiable, and which should be evaluated project by project?
Q6 / First Nations governments, rights, and data governance
Open the complete question
How would your administration work government-to-government with the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations on municipal AI, digital infrastructure, land use, and data governance?
Please address:
Please distinguish negotiated benefits from rights-based obligations.
Q7 / First 100 days
Open the complete question
What single civic-AI action would you complete or formally initiate during your first 100 days as mayor?
Please identify:
A conflict remains visible until stronger evidence or an authoritative correction resolves it.
CIVIC-CNF-001
The July 15 Council motion described the proposal as a TELUS data centre. TELUS separately announced a Mount Pleasant facility. No official source reviewed establishes that the two are the same project.
SourcesVAN-INFRA-006VAN-INFRA-004
CIVIC-CNF-002
For the City, FIPPA section 69(5.3) requires the applicable PIA process. It is not a general proactive-disclosure obligation.
SourcesVAN-PRIV-005VAN-PRIV-001
CIVIC-CNF-003
No. A Canadian data-residency promise may exceed the statute, while compliance alone does not establish where all data resides or who controls it.
SourcesVAN-PRIV-007VAN-PRIV-001
CIVIC-CNF-004
The minutes extract names seven opposed members and Fry absent. It does not name any member as voting in favour. The open voting-records dataset, queried 2026-09-09, does not contain Vote No. 11790. An absence from a list is not a vote. A named vote against one motion is not a complete position on data centres or AI.
SourcesVAN-INFRA-005CIVIC-SRC-006
CIVIC-CNF-005
Not automatically. The actual production cost, placement, audience, content, independence, and distribution facts require a human activity-by-activity determination before launch.
SourcesCIVIC-SRC-005CIVIC-SRC-030
If something here is wrong, BC + AI will fix it and say that it was fixed.
01
A candidate or a member of the public can identify a factual error and supply a public source.
02
A correction to a factual error is made and recorded with its date.
03
A disagreement with a BC + AI interpretation is published alongside the interpretation rather than replacing it.
04
Superseded versions stay in the version history. A correction never means deleting the record of what was there before.
To report an error, use the BC + AI contact page with the page, the statement, and a public source.
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.
Search 157 public-safe source IDs, shown as 132 documents when the same record was filed under more than one ID. Search by ID, title, publisher, classification, status, or locator. Filter by evidence tier without losing the full record.
Evidence tier
Showing 132 of 132 sources
CIVIC-SRC-001
City of Vancouver · Retrieved 2026-10-17
Election dates and City notices
Rechecked October 17, 2026 at 20:39 PDT. The retrieved City hub stated voting closed at 8pm but did not expose a results link or vote totals. This retrieval limit is not evidence that the City has published no results elsewhere.
CIVIC-SRC-002
City of Vancouver · Retrieved 2026-09-03
Nominations, challenges, withdrawal deadline, campaign period, ballot draw
Primary City filing guidance.
CIVIC-SRC-003
Elections BC · Retrieved 2026-09-03
Institutional roles and candidate-list timing
Local authorities administer nominations and voting; Elections BC administers campaign-financing and advertising rules.
CIVIC-SRC-004
Elections BC · Retrieved 2026-09-28
Vancouver, Mayor: eight registered candidates with affiliations
Checked 2026-09-28 against the City's final list (CIVIC-SRC-031): the same eight names, with no affiliation for Caliman or Gilbert. The file also lists financial agents' names and addresses, which the guide does not use.
CIVIC-SRC-005
Elections BC · Retrieved 2026-09-03
Registration, sponsor identification, independence, expenses, disclosure
High-level requirements. Use CIVIC-SRC-030 for detailed inclusions and exclusions.
CIVIC-SRC-006
City of Vancouver Open Data · Retrieved 2026-09-09
vote_number 11790; catalog data_processed 2026-05-08
Queried 2026-09-09 via Open Data API v2.1. Vote No. 11790 returned 0 records. Latest vote_date 2026-04-21. City says corresponding minutes are the official vote record.
CIVIC-SRC-007
This is one document, also cited as COV-AI-001, KS-010.
City of Vancouver · Published 2025-03-07 · Retrieved 2026-09-03
Launch and AI Advisory Committee
Establishes the City's public statement, not a candidate position.
CIVIC-SRC-008
This is one document, also cited as CH-007, KA-006, KS-011, MA-008, PF-004, RB-007, WA-004.
The Tyee · Published 2026-08-11 · Retrieved 2026-09-02
Party AI and data-centre positions
Use to locate direct statements and preserve the candidate-party distinction.
CIVIC-SRC-009
Canada's National Observer · Published 2026-07-17 · Retrieved 2026-09-02
Council motion and data-centre debate
Use the official motion, minutes, and vote for publication claims.
CIVIC-SRC-010
The Tyee · Published 2026-08-27 · Retrieved 2026-09-02
Declared candidate discovery
Not ballot authority; superseded in part by the Allen campaign-end announcement.
CIVIC-SRC-011
This is one document, also cited as KS-001.
ABC Vancouver · Published 2026-02 · Retrieved 2026-09-02
Candidacy declaration
Exact day and wording remain dossier-level verification.
CIVIC-SRC-012
This is one document, also cited as PF-001.
Pete Fry campaign · Retrieved 2026-09-02
Candidacy declaration
Declaration page and platform remain dossier-level verification.
CIVIC-SRC-013
This is one document, also cited as KA-001.
Vancouver Liberals · Retrieved 2026-09-02
Candidacy declaration
Candidacy and role claims remain dossier-level verification.
CIVIC-SRC-014
This is one document, also cited as KA-007.
Vancouver Liberals · Retrieved 2026-09-02
Party AI position
Authorship, date, and personal candidate adoption remain to be verified.
CIVIC-SRC-015
This is one document, also cited as RB-001.
Vote Vancouver · Retrieved 2026-09-02
Candidacy declaration
Exact declaration and policy pages remain dossier-level verification.
CIVIC-SRC-016
This is one document, also cited as CH-001.
TEAM for a Livable Vancouver · Retrieved 2026-09-02
Candidacy declaration
Current platform and declaration date remain dossier-level verification.
CIVIC-SRC-017
This is one document, also cited as WA-001.
OneCity Vancouver · Retrieved 2026-09-02
Candidacy declaration
Current platform and declaration date remain dossier-level verification.
CIVIC-SRC-018
COPE Vancouver · Retrieved 2026-09-02
Candidacy declaration
Superseded for roster handling by CIVIC-SRC-028.
CIVIC-SRC-019
Bright Future Vancouver · Retrieved 2026-09-02
Candidacy declaration
Current platform and declaration date remain dossier-level verification.
CIVIC-SRC-020
CBC News · Published 2026-09-02 · Retrieved 2026-09-03
Campaign-end announcement
Reporting of the public announcement, not an official nomination or withdrawal filing.
CIVIC-SRC-021
Business in Vancouver · Published 2026-09-02 · Retrieved 2026-09-03
Campaign-end corroboration
Independent corroboration of CIVIC-SRC-020.
CIVIC-SRC-022
Daily Hive · Published 2026-09-02 · Retrieved 2026-09-03
Campaign-end corroboration
Independent corroboration of CIVIC-SRC-020.
CIVIC-SRC-023
Georgia Straight · Retrieved 2026-09-03
Kareem Allam background
Research lead only. Verify roles, dates, and disputes against primary sources.
CIVIC-SRC-024
Business in Vancouver · Retrieved 2026-09-03
Kareem Allam background
Independent lead for the candidate dossier, not a substitute for primary evidence.
CIVIC-SRC-025
Wikipedia · Retrieved 2026-09-03
Discovery only
Not citable as authority. Independently verify every lead.
CIVIC-SRC-026
City of Vancouver · Retrieved 2026-09-27
Nomination and withdrawal status
Primary City candidate-information page.
CIVIC-SRC-027
City of Vancouver · Published 2026-08-26 · Retrieved 2026-09-03
Successful nomination packages posted after September 11 at 4:00 pm
Primary City timing source.
CIVIC-SRC-028
COPE Vancouver · Published 2026-09-02 · Retrieved 2026-09-03
Campaign-end announcement
Primary source for ending the campaign. It does not establish a formal City withdrawal filing.
CIVIC-SRC-029
Elections BC · Retrieved 2026-09-03
Candidate-list timing and source lag
Elections BC says its list is updated daily from local-jurisdiction information received within 48 hours.
CIVIC-SRC-030
Elections BC · Published 2026-06 · Retrieved 2026-09-03
Pages 10 to 13, advertising definition, exclusions, and sponsor duties
Administrative guidance, not legal advice; LECFA prevails. Project-specific application remains a human compliance decision.
COV-AI-002
Same URL as VAN-INFRA-006. Kept as a separate source because it cites a different finding.
City of Vancouver · Published 2026-07-14 · Retrieved 2026-09-02
Council agenda transcription link
A visible provider endpoint does not establish contract terms or every component in use.
COV-AI-003
City of Vancouver Open Data · Retrieved 2026-09-02
Public interface observation
The interface does not establish the underlying model or data handling.
VAN-INFRA-004
This is one document, also cited as KS-003, PF-005, RB-008, WA-011.
City of Vancouver Council · Published 2026-07-15 · Retrieved 2026-09-02
Motion text and seven proposed staff directions
Moved by Councillor Lucy Maloney and seconded by Councillor Sean Orr.
VAN-INFRA-005
This is one document, also cited as KS-004, PF-006, RB-009, WA-012.
City of Vancouver Council · Published 2026-07-15 · Retrieved 2026-09-02
Motion 5, pages 18 to 20, Vote No. 11790
Official record of public speakers and the recorded vote. Canonical Vote No. 11790 tally is in research/lanes/vancouver-ai-infrastructure.md. A 2026-09-09 PDF re-fetch returned Cloudflare HTTP 403; no Wayback snapshot was available.
VAN-INFRA-006
Same URL as COV-AI-002. Kept as a separate source because it cites a different finding.
City of Vancouver Council · Published 2026-07-14 · Retrieved 2026-09-02
Referral report for 111 East 5th Avenue and 2060 Quebec Street
Establishes the referral, not an approval.
VAN-INFRA-007
City of Vancouver Council · Published 2026-07-23 · Retrieved 2026-09-02
Item referred back to staff at the July 21 reconvened Council meeting
The planned July 23 hearing did not proceed.
VAN-PRIV-001
Province of British Columbia · Retrieved 2026-08-25
Sections 2, 27(2), 28, 29, 30, 30.5, 31, 32 to 34, 69(5), and 69(5.3)
For the City, the non-ministry public-body PIA provision is section 69(5.3).
VAN-PRIV-002
City of Vancouver · Retrieved 2026-09-02
FOI access, personal information bank directory, Privacy By-law 11451
The bylaw text remains a follow-up source.
VAN-PRIV-005
Province of British Columbia · Retrieved 2026-09-02
PIA purpose; FIPPA section 69(5) for ministries and 69(5.3) for non-ministry public bodies
A completed PIA is not the same as proactive public disclosure.
VAN-PRIV-007
Province of British Columbia · Retrieved 2026-09-02
Risk assessment for sensitive personal information stored outside Canada
The 2021 amendments removed the former broad Canadian-storage rule.
VAN-PRIV-009
Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia · Retrieved 2026-09-02
Review of access decisions
An access review is not a universal appeal of an underlying service decision.
VAN-PRIV-012
City of Vancouver · Published 2026-07-15 · Retrieved 2026-09-02
Contract oversight, delegated awards, sole-source threshold, reporting
Adopted July 15, 2026, effective October 1, 2026.
CH-002
TEAM for a Livable Vancouver · Retrieved 2026-09-03
TEAM members nominated Hardwick for mayor
Official City nomination remains separate
CH-003
City of Vancouver · Retrieved 2026-09-03
2018 to 2022 Council
Establishes office, not current policy
CH-004
City of Vancouver · Published 2022 · Retrieved 2026-09-03
Mayoral candidate list
Historical candidacy only
CH-005
PlaceSpeak · Published Last modified 2018-07-11; current page checked 2026 · Retrieved 2026-09-03
Privacy by Design; address verification; data minimization; user controls; no advertiser sharing
Company policy about its own platform; age, current implementation, and independent performance are not verified here
CH-006
TEAM for a Livable Vancouver · Published 2026-07-10 · Retrieved 2026-09-03
Hardwick quotations on consultation and neighbourhood say
One land-use dispute, not a complete consultation or rights-holder framework
CH-008
City of Vancouver Council · Published 2020-03-10 · Retrieved 2026-09-03
Resolutions and standards, printed pages 5 to 7
Hardwick-submitted proposal; the later Committee record says it was withdrawn
CH-009
City of Vancouver Council · Published Updated 2020-03-11 · Retrieved 2026-09-03
Update note for Item 10
Records the motion as withdrawn; no policy was adopted from this version
CH-010
City of Vancouver Council · Published 2020-04-29 · Retrieved 2026-09-03
Item 7, printed pages 15 to 18; Votes 05831 and 05832; Council approval on printed page 20
Adopted direction requested full name and resident or non-resident status; it did not adopt the withdrawn digital-identity language
CH-011
City of Vancouver Council · Published 2020-05-27 and 2020-06-02 · Retrieved 2026-09-03
Item 4, printed pages 12 to 18; Vote 05983; Council approval on printed page 38
Final motion followed substantial amendments; it is housing-data governance evidence, not a current AI policy
KA-002
CityNews Vancouver · Published 2023-02-06, updated 2023-02-07 · Retrieved 2026-09-03
Lines identifying campaign-manager role, chief-of-staff role, transition work, and departure statements
Does not establish private reasons for departure or authorship of City decisions
KA-003
CityNews Vancouver · Published 2025-07-04 · Retrieved 2026-09-03
Party launch, mayoral intent, and direct Allam statements
Official nomination remains separate; legal-dispute reporting is irrelevant to this dossier
KA-004
Vancouver Liberals · Published 2026-03-17 republication · Retrieved 2026-09-03
Party and candidate background
Does not independently verify the embedded reporting
KA-005
Phoenix Group Breakfast Club · Published 2024-10-23 · Retrieved 2026-09-03
Event biography
Time-specific biography; not current campaign policy
KA-008
Vancouver Liberals · Published 2026-07-14 · Retrieved 2026-09-03
Infrastructure strategy, phasing, monitoring, and transparency criticism
Housing and planning policy, not an AI or data-centre framework
KS-002
City of Vancouver · Retrieved 2026-09-03
Biography and office
Establishes role and biography, not policy authorship
KS-005
TELUS / Cision · Published 2026-05-11 · Retrieved 2026-09-03
Sim quotation beginning, "Vancouver is one of North America's great technology hubs"
Quote is attributable to Sim; project benefits and technical figures remain TELUS claims
KS-006
Canadian Press via National Observer · Published 2026-05-13 · Retrieved 2026-09-03
Oral remark and May 13 clarification
Reporting, not a City transcript; concerns personal tools
KS-007
Canadian Press via CBC · Published 2026-05-14 · Retrieved 2026-09-03
May 13 clarification
Same wire-source event cluster as KS-006
KS-008
VanTech Journal · Published 2023-06-10 · Retrieved 2026-09-03
Fireside-chat report
Re-read 2026-09-09. Fireside-chat report, not a transcript. Historical intention; no later appointment verified here
KS-009
City of Vancouver Council · Published 2026-07-21 final reconvening · Retrieved 2026-09-03
Pages 61 to 64 for 111 East 5th; pages 88 to 89 for Orr AI motion; attendance page for Sim's leave
Consolidated minutes cover three dates; do not assign a July 21 action to Sim while he was on leave
KS-012
City of Vancouver · Published 2025-06 · Retrieved 2026-09-03
Mayor quotation
General government-to-government language, not an AI or data-governance position
MA-001
Bright Future Vancouver · Retrieved 2026-09-03
Candidate identity, candidacy, biography, professional and board roles, values
Campaign biography; mutable and not independent verification of accomplishments
MA-002
Bright Future Vancouver · Retrieved 2026-09-03
Delivery and accountability summary; 21 days before permits are automatically granted; five policy pillars
Campaign proposal; does not explain completeness checks, statutory constraints, safety review, software, AI, audit, correction, or appeal
MA-003
The Times of Canada · Published 2026-05-19; article dateline says campaign launched 2026-05-15 · Retrieved 2026-09-03
Campaign launch, candidate quotations, and announcement that the Blueprint would follow
Use for launch date and attributed statements only; age, historical-first, and evaluative claims were not independently verified
MA-004
Bright Future Vancouver · Retrieved 2026-09-03
Public reporting on fund outcomes; legal-authority and provincial-cooperation limits; first-100-day and first-year deliverables; dashboards and outcome measures
Adjacent governance evidence, not a municipal AI register or civic-AI commitment
MA-005
Muhammad Ahmad on LinkedIn · Published 2025, exact day to verify · Retrieved 2026-09-03
Post text opposing the policy and citing productivity, climate, family balance, traffic, retention, trust, outcomes, and modernization
Direct public statement; not an AI workforce, surveillance, bargaining, or training policy
MA-006
Bright Future Vancouver · Retrieved 2026-09-03
Launch article and campaign interview links
Index establishes that interviews are promoted by the campaign; inaccessible or unreviewed recordings do not support substantive claims here
MA-007
CityHallWatch / Fairview-South Granville Action Committee · Published 2026-08-25 · Retrieved 2026-09-03
Candidate and party background, no prior elected Vancouver record, platform overview
Discovery and context only; evaluative judgments about experience, practicality, or candidate significance are not adopted as evidence
PF-002
City of Vancouver · Retrieved 2026-09-03
Biography, office, and advisory roles
Establishes role and biography, not campaign policy
PF-003
The Tyee · Published 2026-04-15 · Retrieved 2026-09-03
Campaign announcement and interview
Prefer direct campaign material for final declaration wording
PF-007
Green Party of Vancouver · Published 2025-12-09 · Retrieved 2026-09-03
Fry quotations and proposed directions
Party release; use official minutes for disposition
PF-008
City of Vancouver Council · Published 2025-12-10 · Retrieved 2026-09-03
Council Members' Motion 6
Establishes the scheduled item, not the result
PF-009
City of Vancouver Council · Published 2025-12-10 · Retrieved 2026-09-03
Printed pages 29 to 32, Votes 11253 and 11254; Council confirmation on printed page 38
Motion as amended carried unanimously with Bligh absent; later Council approved the Committee actions
RB-002
Vote Vancouver · Retrieved 2026-09-03
Rebecca Bligh candidate biography
Campaign biography; verify material role claims against official sources
RB-003
CityNews Vancouver · Published 2025-09-22 · Retrieved 2026-09-03
Campaign launch and affiliation history
Secondary reporting; official nomination remains pending
RB-004
Federation of Canadian Municipalities · Published 2026-06-05 · Retrieved 2026-09-03
Speaker list identifies Bligh as FCM president and Vancouver councillor
Time-specific role record; presidency ended later in June
RB-005
CityNews Vancouver · Published 2025-02-14 · Retrieved 2026-09-03
ABC removal and Bligh response
Does not settle every disputed reason for the split
RB-006
Global News · Published 2019-12-06 · Retrieved 2026-09-03
NPA resignation and stated inclusion concerns
Historical context only
RB-010
City of Vancouver · Retrieved 2026-09-03
Biography, current office, regional roles, FCM listing
City page still lists FCM president after the term ended; use RB-011 for current FCM status
RB-011
Federation of Canadian Municipalities · Retrieved 2026-09-03
Past-president profile and term dates
Current official organizational record; records presidency from October 2024 to June 2026
RB-012
City of Vancouver Open Data · Retrieved 2026-09-09
vote_number 11790; catalog data_processed 2026-05-08
Queried 2026-09-09 via Open Data API v2.1: vote_number 11790 returned 0 records; latest vote_date 2026-04-21. Dataset does not record this vote by name. City says corresponding minutes are the official vote record
WA-002
Brightside Community Homes Foundation · Published 2026-06 · Retrieved 2026-09-03
Azaroff selected as OneCity leader; CEO role; unpaid leave beginning June 1
Brightside's institutional description, not campaign policy
WA-003
OneCity Vancouver · Published 2026-04-15 · Retrieved 2026-09-03
OneCity had nominated Azaroff for mayor
Official City nomination remains separate; later roster changes must be preserved
WA-005
OneCity Vancouver · Published 2026-08-19 · Retrieved 2026-09-03
Device definition, notice, sensitive-space restrictions, and voluntary certification
Legal authority, scope, enforcement, and implementation require qualified review
WA-006
OneCity Vancouver · Published 2026-08-28 · Retrieved 2026-09-03
Progressive metering, stormwater fees, affordability guarantee, and system upgrades
City-wide policy framed mainly around residential and property use; industrial data-centre application is not established
WA-007
OneCity Vancouver · Published 2026-08-17 · Retrieved 2026-09-03
Business office, micro-grants, Buy Vancouver pilot, and Good Jobs Procurement Standard
Broad procurement policy, not AI-specific contract terms
WA-008
OneCity Vancouver · Published 2026-08-22 · Retrieved 2026-09-03
Good Jobs Procurement Standard and Buy Vancouver policy
Legal and trade compatibility and implementation details remain policy questions
WA-009
OneCity Vancouver · Published 2026-08-07; updated 2026-08-31 · Retrieved 2026-09-03
Climate standards, public buildings, thermal-energy networks, and first-three-month review
Building policy, not a data-centre standard by itself
WA-010
OneCity Vancouver · Published 2026-07-21 · Retrieved 2026-09-03
Genuine engagement, monitoring, and public-confidence passages
Resident engagement does not substitute for government-to-government process
CIVIC-SRC-031
City of Vancouver · Retrieved 2026-09-27
Final list of mayoral candidates with ballot numbers 50 to 57, party names, and nomination papers
Primary source for the final roster and the official ballot order. The City describes it as the final list of candidates.
CIVIC-SRC-032
City of Vancouver · Published 2026-09-18 · Retrieved 2026-09-27
List final after the September 18 random ballot draw under section 79 of the Vancouver Charter
Primary City notice that the candidate list is final and the ballot order is set.
CIVIC-SRC-033
The Canadian Press, via Global News · Published 2026-09-08 · Retrieved 2026-09-27
Campaign-end announcement
Reporting of the public announcement, not an official nomination or withdrawal filing. CIVIC-SRC-031 establishes that he is not on the final list.
AC-001
VoteMate · Retrieved 2026-10-02
"Promises" list (61 items under issue headings, including "Artificial Intelligence & Data Centres", "Good Governance", "Affordability", "Business Permitting", "Zoning", "Budgeting", "Human Rights Abroad", "Land Title & Governance", "Indigenous-Led Housing"); "Biography" and "Reason for running" sections
Third-party-hosted profile. VoteMate labels the Biography and Reason for running "submitted by the candidate or their team". The Promises items carry no separate authorship label; they are written in the first person ("My approach is") and the profile's listed web and social links are the City-listed `@calimanformayor` accounts. VoteMate's about page says it has also entered promises from public platforms in other elections, so promise authorship is presented, not independently verified. Mutable. Internet Archive snapshot http://web.archive.org/web/20260917024959/https://votemate.org/bc2026/candidates/13782 (captured 2026-09-17 UTC) already shows 61 promises and contains the same Artificial Intelligence & Data Centres, Good Governance, Affordability, and Land Title & Governance text; the date the promises were first entered is unknown Rechecked on 2026-10-02: the live VoteMate AI/data-centre text remains the same; promise authorship is still not independently verified.
AC-002
Instagram (campaign account listed by the City) · Retrieved 2026-09-28
Profile name and bio: "H.O.M.E for Vancouver", pillar list, "Independent candidate for Mayor of Vancouver", "October 17, 2026"; "Meet Caliman" highlight; Threads link to the same handle
Read logged out in a browser. The profile metadata reported 20 posts; all 20 loaded without login (2026-08-07 to 2026-09-26) and every caption was read. The "Meet Caliman" story highlight, reel audio, and on-screen text were not read or transcribed. Mutable
AC-003
Caliman for Mayor on Instagram · Published 2026-09-24 · Retrieved 2026-09-28
Full post caption (first person); proposes that Vancouver's public libraries play a bigger role in the AI era through AI understanding, digital skills, online safety, and access to technology regardless of income
Caption read from the page's public metadata. The reel's spoken audio and on-screen text were not transcribed. Does not name a City operational AI use, safeguard, budget, or timeline
AC-004
Caliman for Mayor on Instagram · Published 2026-09-22 · Retrieved 2026-09-28
Caption sentence beginning "In my first 100 days, I will bring forward a plan focused on better coordination and measurable results during major transportation disruptions"
Only located first-100-day commitment; it concerns construction and traffic disruption, not civic AI. Spoken content not transcribed
AC-005
Caliman for Mayor on Instagram · Published 2026-09-19 · Retrieved 2026-09-28
Caption: ballot name "55 CALIMAN, Amauri"; says he attended the random ballot draw at City Hall
Confirms that the City-listed account speaks for the candidate in the first person; the official record remains CIVIC-SRC-031
AC-006
Caliman for Mayor on Instagram · Published 2026-09-19 · Retrieved 2026-09-28
Caption says he sat down with Fairchild TV to discuss why he is running and the H.O.M.E. platform; the reel is "a short look behind the interview"
The full Fairchild TV interview was not located in this pass (see research log). Caption contains no civic-AI or data-centre statement
AC-007
Vancity Lookout (Nate Lewis) · Published 2026-09-18 · Retrieved 2026-09-28
Headline and subheading only: describes Caliman as "The ICBC employee and entrepreneur" who sees running outside the traditional party structure as an advantage
Article body is behind a membership paywall and was not read. Employment description is the outlet's characterization; not independently verified
AC-008
voche.me · Retrieved 2026-09-28
Candidate summary compiled from VoteMate, City records, and Vancity Lookout; states it found no earlier candidacy in City election records
Discovery only. Page states it was updated 2026-09-26. Self-described as "not a campaign-authored page"; its summaries are not used as evidence where AC-001, AC-007, or City records are available
AC-009
Domain matching the campaign handle (owner not established) · Retrieved 2026-09-28
Whole page
Served only a registrar "Coming Soon" placeholder over HTTP; HTTPS failed at the TLS handshake. No campaign content. Ownership is not established from the domain name, and no position is inferred from it
AC-010
Caliman for Mayor on Instagram · Published 2026-08-08 · Retrieved 2026-09-28
Caption: "Fast-Track Approvals" ("48 hours for eligible simple permits, with a 90-day target for complete, compliant multi-family applications"), "Build by Right"
Earliest located platform statement. Does not say how a 48-hour permit decision would be made, which permits are eligible, or whether software or automation is involved. Image text not transcribed
AC-011
Caliman for Mayor on Instagram · Published 2026-09-09 · Retrieved 2026-09-28
Full caption
Campaign's own dating of the nomination filing; the official record remains CIVIC-SRC-031
AC-012
This is one document, also cited as SG-017.
CBC News (byline on the syndicated copy reads "CBC") · Published 2026-09-20 · Retrieved 2026-09-28
"Party campaigns" section: sentence stating CBC News was not able to speak with Caliman on Saturday (2026-09-19); following sentence describing his platform (housing, affordability, "more attainable homes", public safety on public transit)
cbc.ca returned 403 to automated and browser fetches; text read through the CBC syndicated copy on Yahoo News Canada (https://ca.news.yahoo.com/vancouver-mayoral-candidates-start-campaigning-110000036.html). The article does not say where its platform description came from. No AI or data-centre content
AC-013
CalimanForMayor on TikTok (campaign account listed by the City) · Published 2026-09-24 · Retrieved 2026-09-28
Full caption, read through TikTok's public oEmbed endpoint
Posting date is Pacific time; the video ID decodes to 2026-09-25 05:55 UTC. Same message as AC-003 on a second City-listed channel, with slightly different wording ("access new technology without cost becoming another barrier"). Audio not transcribed
AC-014
Caliman for Mayor on Instagram · Published 2026-09-23 · Retrieved 2026-09-28
Caption: asked whether he would commit to 3,000 shelter-rate homes; supports a major expansion of deeply affordable, supportive, and below-market housing backed by land, funding, partners, timelines, and a delivery plan; names "Indigenous housing providers" among partners
Housing policy, not civic AI. Used only for the partner reference in 5.8. The TikTok version of the same message was also read. Audio not transcribed
SG-001
Scott Gilbert campaign (draintheswamp.ca, also served as EndTheNonsense.ca), via Internet Archive · Published 2026-09-25 · Retrieved 2026-09-28
"Six priorities" cards 03, 05 and 06; "The delivery test" first-100-days paragraph; "Hello, Vancouver" first-person introduction; "About Scott"; "My Websites" list; AI-content notices
Direct campaign page, mutable. The City-listed domain serves the same page as EndTheNonsense.ca. The site describes itself as proposals that are "not approved projects" and "not fully costed". The linked ZIP platform was not downloaded (see research log) Availability recheck on 2026-10-02: HTTP 404. Content observations above are retained from the 2026-09-28 pass; current policy is not re-established. Linked copy is the Internet Archive capture of 2026-09-25, the latest capture that carries every passage cited above. Date is the capture date; no publication date is shown.
SG-002
Scott Gilbert campaign (draintheswamp.ca), via Internet Archive · Published 2026-07-01 · Retrieved 2026-09-28
Sections "The Problem", "10 Service Areas", "Human Safeguards" (AI May / AI Must Not lists), "Privacy, Security & Data Rules", "Four-Year Plan", "100-Day Action Plan", "Related Proof of Concept" (Text911.ca), "AI & Civic Technology Policies" items 12, 13 and 15
Archived copy of a campaign page. The live URL returned 404 on 2026-09-28 after the site was reduced to a single page in mid-September 2026; the page may be superseded by the current ZIP platform, which was not reviewed. Treat as a dated campaign position, not confirmed current. Date is the Internet Archive capture date; no publication date is shown.
SG-003
Agora Vancouver, independent civic participation prototype linked from the campaign site · Retrieved 2026-09-28
Beta banner; "What is real today" and "What is not claimed" lists; three open beta proposals; footer statement on Council authority
Linked from SG-001 under "My Websites" as a Gilbert site, and SG-001 names Agora as his civic-engagement app. A working prototype, not a City service. Individual proposal and issue records carry their own "Platform position" or "General information" labels. Availability recheck on 2026-10-20: HTTP 404, and the Internet Archive holds no capture, so it is cited without a link. Formerly at https://aicityhall.app/. Content observations above are retained from the 2026-09-28 pass.
SG-004
Agora Vancouver · Retrieved 2026-09-28
"AI limits" paragraph; "Campaign context" paragraph; "Participation limits"
States that AI output in the prototype is provisional until accountable human approval and cannot vote, decide authority, impose moderation or make policy. Governs the prototype, not a City system. Availability recheck on 2026-10-20: HTTP 404, and the Internet Archive holds no capture, so it is cited without a link. Formerly at https://aicityhall.app/beta. Content observations above are retained from the 2026-09-28 pass.
SG-005
Agora Vancouver · Retrieved 2026-09-28
"Data minimization", "Identity separation", "Technical data", "Retention"
Privacy rules for the prototype, not a stated City procurement or privacy policy. Availability recheck on 2026-10-20: HTTP 404, and the Internet Archive holds no capture, so it is cited without a link. Formerly at https://aicityhall.app/privacy. Content observations above are retained from the 2026-09-28 pass.
SG-006
Agora Vancouver · Retrieved 2026-09-28
"Analysis cards" paragraph; "Transparency metrics"; "Official records"
States what a production review "should" include for automated analysis (source links, uncertainty, model and prompt version logs, human correction, separation of drafting from final authority). Availability recheck on 2026-10-20: HTTP 404, and the Internet Archive holds no capture, so it is cited without a link. Formerly at https://aicityhall.app/method. Content observations above are retained from the 2026-09-28 pass.
SG-007
Agora Vancouver · Retrieved 2026-09-28
"The Vancouver proposition"; "The boundary"
Describes a sequence of public beta, then formal legal, privacy, security, accessibility and municipal review before any institutional pilot. Availability recheck on 2026-10-20: HTTP 404, and the Internet Archive holds no capture, so it is cited without a link. Formerly at https://aicityhall.app/about. Content observations above are retained from the 2026-09-28 pass.
SG-008
Scott Gilbert campaign (Great Scott for Mayor, DrainTheSwamp.ca) · Published 2026-06-18 · Retrieved 2026-09-28
Page 1: "The city service problem", "911bySMS.ca as a public-safety pilot" rule list, "AI City Hall services" table; page 2: "Governance rules" (five bullets); authorization line
Campaign PDF authorized by Scott Gilbert. Headed "Draft for review". The campaign's own document index (SG-010) labels it "Pilot concept; not official emergency service". Date is the PDF creation date; the document header says June 2026. Availability recheck on 2026-10-02: HTTP 404. Content observations above are retained from the 2026-09-28 pass; current policy is not re-established. On 2026-10-20 it still returned HTTP 404 and the Internet Archive holds no capture, so it is cited without a link. Formerly at https://draintheswamp.ca/911-by-sms-ai-city-hall.pdf.
SG-009
Scott Gilbert campaign (Great Scott for Mayor, DrainTheSwamp.ca) · Published 2026-06-18 · Retrieved 2026-09-28
Pages 1 and 2: "To the good officer reading this", "What AI will make harder to hide", "The warning for police leadership", "The pro-police position"
Campaign opinion essay authorized by Scott Gilbert; SG-010 labels it "Opinion and accountability warning". About AI as an accountability tool for reviewing records, not a City AI-use or workforce policy. Date is the PDF creation date; the document header says June 2026. Availability recheck on 2026-10-20: HTTP 404, and the Internet Archive holds no capture, so it is cited without a link. Formerly at https://draintheswamp.ca/police-officers-ai-cautionary-tale.pdf. Content observations above are retained from the 2026-09-28 pass.
SG-010
Scott Gilbert campaign (Great Scott for Mayor, DrainTheSwamp.ca) · Published 2026-06-18 · Retrieved 2026-09-28
Page 1 document table ("Public status" column); page 2 evidence-label list and "Source and verification note"
States the campaign's own status labels for its PDFs and that some drafts were reconstructed from chat history and file-library sources. Used for provenance and status, not for positions. Date is the PDF creation date; the document header says June 2026. Availability recheck on 2026-10-20: HTTP 404, and the Internet Archive holds no capture, so it is cited without a link. Formerly at https://draintheswamp.ca/campaign-document-library-index.pdf. Content observations above are retained from the 2026-09-28 pass.
SG-011
Scott Gilbert campaign (draintheswamp.ca), via Internet Archive · Published 2026-07-01 · Retrieved 2026-09-28
Priority 03 item 05 "Public Safety Camera Network"; item 15 "The Great Scott Time-Back Plan" (AI-assisted traffic-signal pilot); priority 06 "AI-Assisted City Hall" items 12 and 13
Archived; live URL returned 404 on 2026-09-28. Each item carries the campaign's own label ("Campaign proposal", "Pilot concept", "Legal review required"). Date is the Internet Archive capture date; no publication date is shown.
SG-012
Scott Gilbert campaign (draintheswamp.ca), via Internet Archive · Published 2026-07-01 · Retrieved 2026-09-28
"Who I Am" (roles); "Early History"; "On Artificial Intelligence" (five first-person paragraphs)
Archived; live URL returned 404 on 2026-09-28. First-person candidate text. Personal-history passages on the same page are not relevant to this guide and are not recorded here. Date is the Internet Archive capture date; no publication date is shown.
SG-013
Scott Gilbert campaign (draintheswamp.ca), via Internet Archive · Published 2026-07-09 · Retrieved 2026-09-28
Section "The Proposal: A Public Safety AI Review and Accountability Portal" and its four safeguard cards ("No Guilt Findings", "No Automatic Discipline", "No Private Identification", "Human Appeal and Correction")
Archived; used only for the stated policy proposal and safeguards. The page's personal incident account is not relevant and is not recorded. Date is the page's "Posted July 9"; the capture used is 2026-07-18.
SG-014
Scott Gilbert campaign (draintheswamp.ca) · Published 2026-09-25 · Retrieved 2026-09-28
Summary line; "Pages" and "Documents" lists
Machine-readable campaign summary. Its summary line says the platform is centred on four themes including "an AI-assisted City Hall". Lists subpages that now return 404. Date is the server last-modified date. Availability recheck on 2026-10-20: HTTP 404, and the Internet Archive holds no capture, so it is cited without a link. Formerly at https://draintheswamp.ca/llms.txt. Content observations above are retained from the 2026-09-28 pass.
SG-015
Scott Gilbert campaign (draintheswamp.ca), via Internet Archive · Retrieved 2026-09-28
Paragraph beginning "ChatGPT Pro has helped me organize and analyze research"
Archived first-person campaign page; the live URL returned HTTP 404 on 2026-10-20. Used only for the candidate's statement about his use of AI tools and their limits. The page's allegations are outside this guide's scope and are not recorded. No publication date shown; the page refers to a complaint file closed 2026-09-22 and was captured 2026-09-24.
SG-016
voche.me (independent election guide; "Not a campaign-authored page") · Published 2026-09-25 · Retrieved 2026-09-28
Commitment cards "Review of data-centre proposals", "AI Discovery and Innovation Centre", "Public cameras with accountable access", "Public accountability dashboard", "Develop civic participation tools", governance 100-day timeline card, culture card; each cites "Complete 2026 platform, Full Policy Collection PDF (inside the ZIP download)"
Lead only. Quotes and paraphrases the campaign's ZIP platform, which this pass did not review; every platform statement taken from here is unverified against the primary. The site's completeness ratings are not adopted. The page also reproduces nominator names from the nomination papers; those are not used. Date is the page update date; voche.me says its research was checked 2026-09-22.
SG-018
Daily Hive (Kenneth Chan) · Published 2026-09-22 · Retrieved 2026-09-28
Mayor list entry "57: Scott Gilbert"; sentence on eight mayoral candidates
Confirms the official record reported by the City; no policy content
SG-019
Agora Vancouver · Published 2026-07-31 · Retrieved 2026-09-28
Label "Platform position"; answer text; "Why this label matters" note
The page labels itself "an explicitly approved campaign or platform position". It concerns the Agora prototype's intake, not City systems generally. Date is the page's "Last reviewed" date. Availability recheck on 2026-10-20: HTTP 404, and the Internet Archive holds no capture, so it is cited without a link. Formerly at https://aicityhall.app/issues/privacy-first-question-intake. Content observations above are retained from the 2026-09-28 pass.
SG-020
Scott Gilbert campaign (draintheswamp.ca), via Internet Archive · Published 2026-07-18 · Retrieved 2026-09-28
Scope note beginning "This policy complements, rather than replaces, Indigenous-led services"
Archived; live URL returned 404 on 2026-09-28. The only first-party Indigenous reference located; a service-scope note, not a government-to-government or data-governance position. Date is the Internet Archive capture date; no publication date is shown.
SG-021
Scott Gilbert campaign (draintheswamp.ca), via Internet Archive · Published 2026-07-01 · Retrieved 2026-09-28
Card "Agora & Civitas: AI City Hall Animated Overview" description
Archived; live URL returned 404 on 2026-09-28. Used only for the July description of Agora and Civitas, which differs from the live prototype's advisory framing (section 10). Other cards on the page concern personal history and are not recorded. Date is the Internet Archive capture date; no publication date is shown.
CIVIC-SRC-NEWS-001
City of Vancouver · Published 2026-10-15 · Retrieved 2026-10-17
Election results; general voting hours
Checked 2026-10-17 at 20:08 PDT. The notice schedules the separate plebiscite count after election night, with results by October 21. Recheck before presenting the timetable as current.
CIVIC-SRC-NEWS-002
Marissa Birnie, The Canadian Press, published by CityNews Vancouver · Published 2026-10-15 · Retrieved 2026-10-17
Candidate interviews and policy discussion
Page lists October 15 publication at 1:00 am and update at 7:12 am. Checked October 17. This is pre-election reporting; campaign confidence and candidate assertions are attributed statements, not results.
CIVIC-SRC-NEWS-003
City of Vancouver · Retrieved 2026-10-17
Results dashboard; official declaration schedule
First checked October 17 at 21:35:50 PDT in the rendered official results page: 33/149 voting places and 59,684 ballots cast. All candidate and capital-question rows were visible. No separate source update time was shown in that first check. Official results including plebiscites scheduled for October 21 by 4 p.m. Rechecked October 17 at 22:43:59 PDT using the City's data/arearesults.json feed: source updated 22:40:28 PDT, 78/149 voting places and 122,361 ballots cast. All 136 published candidate and capital-answer rows were retained. Plebiscite counts remain unpublished.
CIVIC-SRC-NEWS-004
Kelsey Patterson, CityNews Vancouver · Published 2026-10-17 · Retrieved 2026-10-17
Mayoral race call; byline and publication timestamp
Original report by Kelsey Patterson posted October 17 at 10:38 p.m.; checked at 22:49 PDT. The mayoral outcome is CityNews's call, not a City declaration. This source does not change the official results table's preliminary status.
v0.6 · 2026-10-10
staged
Promoted the two remaining ballot candidates into the comparison: seventeen cells each from their documented public-record research, with every cell sourced and qualified. All eight ballot candidates are now covered. Several sources cited for one candidate are archived campaign pages or were unavailable when rechecked on October 10, and each affected cell says so. Added a corrections contact and a publisher disclosure.
v0.5 · 2026-09-27
staged
Reconciled the roster to the City's final candidate list and switched to official ballot order. Two candidates on the final list were added with no research yet. One candidate who ended their campaign before nominations closed was retired from the publication set; their comparison cells leave the comparison and their dossier is preserved. The earlier retired record now cites the final list.
v0.4 · 2026-09-09
staged
Corrected published comparison cells on CIVIC-PRP-010, CIVIC-PRP-011, and CIVIC-PRP-013 for Vote No. 11790. The canonical tally now lives in the Vancouver AI-infrastructure lane: minutes name seven opposed members and one absence, name no one in favour, and do not place every sitting member. The City voting-records dataset queried 2026-09-09 does not contain the vote. Cells no longer assert an unlisted member voted in favour.
v0.3 · 2026-09-09
staged
Corrected the CIVIC-PRP-001 cell that had been the pack's only yes. A 2023 Tier 4 fireside-chat report names a municipal permitting use, but a 2026-09-09 search of the existing 2025 and 2026 sources for that candidate located no current-term attributable statement. Status is now unclear. The 2023 remark remains in the qualification.
v0.2 · 2026-09-06
staged
All seven candidate dossiers promoted into 119 comparison cells, one per candidate per proposition. Candidate-local sources extracted into the register. The guide is built from the public record alone; the questionnaire is retained as the analytic frame and is not being sent to candidates. Interactive comparison with evidence drawers on the compare page and on every candidate record.
v0.1 · 2026-09-03
staged
Canonical data pack created from the reconciled research foundation. Roster set to the seven declared candidates. Issues explainer built from the five completed research lanes. No candidate positions recorded.