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Adriane Carr to make an announcement on her future in Vancouver City Council

Vancouver city councillor Adriane Carr. (Green Party of Vancouver)

Update at 12:50 pm on January 15, 2025: Green Party city councillor Adriane Carr has officially resigned from Vancouver City Council.

In the forthcoming City of Vancouver by-election expected to be held in early 2025, two seats in Vancouver City Council could be contested.

In an advisory to media on Tuesday evening, the Green Party of Vancouver announced a press conference will be held on Wednesday morning for Green city councillor Adriane Carr to make a “major announcement on the future of Vancouver City Council.”

Carr first publicly indicated in Fall 2024 that due to her frustrations with working with Mayor Ken Sim and his ABC Vancouver party majority, coupled with her desire to spend more time with family, she was seriously considering resigning from City Council.

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“In November of last year, Green Party Councillor Adriane Carr stated that she was considering resigning from her position at City Hall to focus on family. On Wednesday, January 15, 2025, Carr will hold a press conference to discuss the future of her role on Vancouver City Council and its implications for the upcoming by-election,” reads the advisory today.

During her time in City Council, Carr focused on issues such as Indigenous reconciliation, climate change, and other environmental matters.

Carr’s decision is timed with the municipal government’s ongoing planning process for the upcoming civic by-election, which was originally initiated by Christine Boyle’s resignation from City Council in December 2024.

Previously the most prominent figure of the OneCity Vancouver party, Boyle vacated her city councillor seat after winning the MLA seat of Vancouver-Little Mountain under the BC NDP in the October 2024 provincial election. She also now holds the cabinet position of BC Minister of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation.

Christine Boyle. (BC NDP)

With Boyle’s departure and what now appears to be Carr’s impending resignation, Vancouver residents may be voting to fill two city council seats in the upcoming by-election.

Carr is currently the longest running sitting Vancouver city councillor. Under the Green Party, she was first elected into City Council in 2011, after previously serving as the leader of the Green Party of British Columbia. Carr was subsequently re-elected into City Council in 2014, 2018, and 2022.

Prior to civic politics, she unsuccessfully ran for federal office twice, as the Green Party of Canada’s MP candidate in 2008 and 2011 for the riding of Vancouver Centre.

At the start of the current term of City Council, Carr, Boyle, and Green city councillor Pete Fry formed the opposition to the ABC majority.

Daily Hive Urbanized will have coverage of Carr’s announcement on Wednesday.

Separately, the municipal government is also expected to announce its plans for the by-election soon.

The City previously told Daily Hive Urbanized that this by-election could cost between $1.8 million and $2 million.

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