Election Digest Vancouver 2026
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Tom Digby

Candidate for Park Board · Green Party of Vancouver

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Candidate commitments & stances
No commitment or stance published by Tom Digby personally was found in the sources reviewed. Most candidates campaign on their party's shared platform, which appears below as the party record.
Shared party record · 55

Positions published by Green Party of Vancouver that apply to this slate — shown as party positions, not Tom Digby's own statements. Candidate and party authorship are never blended.

Commitments · 41

Parks, recreation, and natural spaces 14

  • Introduce a motion directing City staff to create a dedicated Community Environmental Stewardship Grant program providing flexible, small-scale, accessible, and equity-focused funding to grassroots and volunteer-led groups for activities including habitat restoration, education, and community science in eco-corridors and neighbourhood greenspaces.↗↗
  • Continue advocating for the Park Board's unanimously adopted recreation facility renewal priorities in the 2027–2030 Capital Plan process.↗
  • Expand the current pilot project for alcohol consumption in parks to include all eligible parklands and beaches.↗
  • Work to implement the People, Parks and Dogs Strategy, including advancing new dog parks in Mount Pleasant and Kitsilano and creating multi-access drinking fountains at dog parks.↗
  • Prioritize completing and implementing the Sports Fields Strategy, develop new fields, and accelerate construction of a synthetic turf field at Sir Winston Churchill Secondary.↗
  • Actively collaborate with federal and provincial governments to seek funding to rebuild Jericho Pier into a modern waterfront hub for community building, outdoor recreation, and harbour safety.↗
  • Initiate a pilot project for an electric trolley loop service within Stanley Park.↗
  • Finalize planning for a new outdoor swimming pool in Oak Park (Marpole).↗
  • Renew and update the Vancouver Park Board's biodiversity strategy and goals in view of the new Vancouver Plan, blue-green infrastructure plans, and shoreline resilience strategy.↗
  • Invest in aging community facilities.↗
  • Improve access to swimming and recreation programs.↗
  • Increase public washrooms and water fountains in parks.↗
  • Improve food options at Park Board facilities.↗
  • Propose restoring lifeguard services at key Vancouver beaches.↗

Housing and land use 8

  • Bring forward a motion at the July 15, 2026 Council meeting directing staff to report back on re-establishing a dedicated Renter's Office.↗↗↗
  • Focus on lowering everyday costs, delivering more affordable homes, and protecting renters.↗
  • Introduce a motion at City Council to track the pace of demovictions, renovictions, and renter displacement in the Broadway Plan area by monitoring building permits, demolition permits, and vacancy rates.↗
  • Call on Council to commit to protecting Vancouver's existing affordable rental stock.↗
  • Continue to fight for tenants' rights and homes in Vancouver.↗
  • Protect renters and ensure sufficient affordable housing in the city.↗
  • End renovictions.↗
  • Create more housing options including shared housing, cohousing, rental homes, and family-oriented affordable apartments.↗

Governance, consultation, and accountability 5

  • Stand with advisory committee members to defend their continued participation at the table.↗
  • Pursue cross-cutting priorities spanning climate and environment, child care, housing, and food security across all levels of government.↗
  • Introduce a motion directing staff to explore open-source and free micro-blogging alternatives that can be embedded on the City's official website, designate the City's website as the primary source for all real-time Council meeting updates, and develop a public education campaign to support the transition.↗
  • Call for stronger human rights protections for Vancouver's 2026 World Cup.↗
  • Each party may field its own mayoral candidate, with a good-faith commitment among the three parties to determine which progressive mayoral candidate is best suited to compete.↗

Climate, environment, and resilience 4

  • Direct staff to produce detailed carbon budgets and annual reporting on the costs and benefits of the city's climate actions, through an amendment to the Climate Emergency Action Plan.↗
  • Bring a motion to Council on July 15, 2026 directing staff to examine how to safely permit small-scale plug-in solar systems, coordinate with BC Hydro and Technical Safety BC, and ensure equitable access.↗↗
  • Introduce a council motion directing City staff to explore zoning and bylaw changes to support better recycling infrastructure, require improved recycling access in new multi-unit buildings, pilot shared neighbourhood-scale recycling hubs in dense areas, and identify locations for compact recycling systems.↗↗
  • Expand Vancouver's urban tree canopy and heat resilience.↗

Transportation, streets, and public space 3

  • Bring a motion to the July 15, 2026 Council meeting to expand existing licensing for small neighbourhood zero-emission vehicles to allow passenger shuttles and guided tours at destinations including Stanley Park, Gastown, and the downtown waterfront.↗↗
  • Make it safer and easier to reach major parks by bicycle.↗
  • Bring forward a motion to limit micromobility devices and cars to 30 km/h on local roads also used by non-motorized transportation.↗

Social policy, health, and community services 3

  • Bring a motion to Council on July 15, 2026 directing staff to develop a policy framework and operating standards for overdose prevention and harm reduction services, using the City's zoning, permitting, and licensing tools.↗↗
  • Develop proactive, comprehensive strategies to prevent, reduce, and ultimately eliminate homelessness.↗
  • Call for rapid shelters to address rising homelessness in Vancouver ahead of the World Cup.↗

Indigenous relations and reconciliation 1

  • Work in partnership with Indigenous nations to address the legacy of colonialism and promote healing and reconciliation.↗

Economic development and local business 1

  • Support small businesses and cut unnecessary red tape.↗

City finances, taxation, and service delivery 1

  • Propose a City Comptroller by-law for transparent budget efficiency and asset management.↗

Schools, students, facilities, and education governance 1

  • Call for reinvestment of school tax revenue into Vancouver schools.↗

Stances · 14

Coverage — registry: the City of Vancouver's official candidate list. Party policy: extracted and shown above. Candidate-level policy: extracted where a candidate publishes their own; most candidates run on the party's shared record.