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TEAM party announces it will run two candidates in Vancouver by-election

Colleen Hardwick. (TEAM For A Livable Vancouver)

The civic political party of TEAM for a Livable Vancouver has confirmed it will run two candidates in the upcoming City of Vancouver by-election to fill both vacant City Council seats.

In a release today, TEAM president Colleen Hardwick announced her party will hold its nomination meeting on February 1, 2025.

This follows the resignation of OneCity councillor Christine Boyle on December 12, 2024, after she was elected last fall as the MLA for Vancouver-Little Mountain under the BC NDP. On January 15, 2025, Green councillor Adriane Carr also announced her resignation, citing frustrations with working alongside Mayor Ken Sim’s ABC Vancouver-led majority in City Council and a desire to spend more time with her family.

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The civic by-election to fill two Vancouver city councillor seats is expected to be held on Saturday, April 5, 2025. The municipal government’s deadline for the declaration of candidates if tentatively scheduled for February 28, 2025.

According to City staff, this by-election is expected to cost $2 million.

“The Greens’ Adrianne Carr, and One City’s Christine Boyle, have forced Vancouver taxpayers to spend over $2 million after they resigned their seats on council with little thought about the impact on Vancouver residents,” said Hardwick in a statement.

Hardwick was a city councillor from 2018 to 2022, initially under the NPA Vancouver party. She ran for mayor in the 2022 general civic election after reviving the TEAM party banner.

“Like other Vancouverites, I’m disappointed that the Greens and One City have put taxpayers in this costly situation. But I’m excited that we will have two TEAM candidates that will run to hold the ABC super majority to account, particularly when you see how little they’ve done over the past two years. Frankly, our city is still unaffordable, taxes are through the roof, and our streets and neighbourhoods continue to be hit daily with crime and public disorder,” she added.

Hardwick also took aim against the City’s continued implementation of the densification policies under the Broadway Plan, and the Mayor’s proposal to abolish the elected body of the Vancouver Park Board, with the day-to-day operations of Vancouver’s parks and recreation system transferred to the City, and the governance and oversight responsibilities transferred to the Mayor and City Council.

“ABC has squandered their majority and sidelined voters and taxpayers, treating them like ATMs,” charged Hardwick.

In the 2022 general civic election, Hardwick came third in her mayoral bid, earning 16,769 votes — behind the 85,732 votes of Sim and the 49,593 votes of incumbent Kennedy Stewart under Forward Together.

No city councillor candidates for TEAM were elected in 2022, with Cleta Brown securing the most votes among the party’s city councillor candidates — 20,854 votes or 24th place. By comparison, Green councillor Pete Fry secured 37,270 votes, which was the fewest number of votes among the 10 elected councillors.

With the resignation of Boyle and Carr, Fry is currently the lone member of the opposition in the chamber.

The Green, OneCity, and ABC parties are also expected to field candidates in the by-election.

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