Colleen Hardwick

She co-founded the civic party TEAM for a Livable Vancouver and leads it. She sat on council from 2018 to 2022 and is TEAM's candidate for mayor of Vancouver in the 17 October 2026 civic election.

Career

Wikipedia says Hardwick worked as a media executive and film producer, founded New City Productions and in 2010 established PlaceSpeak, a civic engagement platform. She was elected to Vancouver city council in 2018 on the Non-Partisan Association ticket, left that party in April 2021 to sit as an independent and joined TEAM for a Livable Vancouver in September 2021. As TEAM's mayoral candidate in 2022 she placed third with 9.97 percent of the vote. In an April 2025 by-election for council she finished third with 25.53 percent.

Positions

Wikipedia reports that Hardwick has consistently opposed upzoning and increased density, arguing they worsen housing affordability, and has favoured co-operative housing and neighbourhood-specific zoning plans. The Daily Hive reports that her party has promised to repeal six area development plans and replace top-down planning with neighbourhood-based community planning.

Summarised automatically from the linked sources. Wikipedia · Daily Hive

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