COPE is fighting for an affordable Vancouver.
Around the world, billionaires are buying politicians and elections to make governments work for them instead of us. But Vancouver doesn’t have to be this way. We can fight back.
On October 17th, vote Stephanie Allen, Sean Orr, and the COPE team for Mayor & City Council.
Stephanie Allen
For Mayor
Stephanie Allen is fighting for an affordable Vancouver. As the next Mayor of Vancouver, she’ll focused on making it easier to build a life here and keep Vancouver home, whether you’re starting a family, aging with dignity, or staying in your beloved community against the forces of profit and displacement.
Stephanie is a housing policy expert. She’s a co-founder of Hogan’s Alley Society, and a former VP of Strategic Operations at BC Housing. As a housing professional, she’s seen why the housing market is broken, and she knows how to fight back.
Stephanie is fighting for real democracy against the power of the billionaires. With a political system that’s captured by the super-rich and investors, it’s essential that the next Mayor City Council empower Vancouver residents to shape the future of the city ourselves. All power to the people.
Sean Orr
For City Council
Sean Orr is an outspoken advocate for affordable housing, justice, and public integrity. He was elected to City Council in 2025 to expose Ken Sim and his billionaire backers for what they are doing to our city.
Sean was working as a dishwasher before being elected to City Council, but quickly became one of the hardest working city councillors, moving over 30 motions in one year, and leading the resistance against Ken Sim's brutal austerity budget.
Since being elected, Sean has moved to open libraries 7 days a week, protect our public services, cut Ken Sim's office budget, give tenants the right to buy their rental buildings to convert into co-ops, protect climate programs and arts & culture programs, increase the empty homes tax, create a free transit pilot, protect low-income modular housing, and fight ultra-bright headlights.
He was the only city councillor to vote against removing affordable rental protections in new builds, the only city councillor to vote against the million dollar Vancouver sign for tourists, the only city councillor to vote against a floating hotel.
Chloe Leslie
For City Council
Chloe Leslie wants to build a local economy that works for people, not just the super-rich. That means support for public grocery stores, tool libraries and repair cafes, and food security programs that stop corporate waste and feed the people.
In a city as rich as Vancouver, no-one should go hungry. As a food security worker in the non-profit sector, she knows how to fight against hunger and poverty. She'll bring her dedication, competence, and experience to fight for communities and make Vancouver more affordable.
Devyani Singh
For City Council
Dr. Devyani Singh is a climate scientist and a financial analyst who knows that the root of the climate crisis and the affordability crisis is the same thing: the political power of the super-rich.
As a lead researcher at Stand.earth, she’s helped stop millions of dollars in financing for deforesting the Amazon, and she’s also helped design climate action strageties for multiple cities across North America.
On Council, she’ll fight relentlessly to tackle climate change while making life more affordable with things like free transit and better libraries, push for climate-safe affordable housing that people can afford to live in, and to make Vancouver a climate leader again.
Angela Liu
For City Council
Angela Liu is fighting for renters against bad landlords that make breaking the law a business model.
She’s an experienced policy advocate, who has worked inside and outside of government to win things that make life better for people like free birth control in BC.
If elected, she’ll bring a decade of experience working behind the scenes to fight for the working class of Vancouver.
Solomon Yi-Kieran
For City Council
Solomon Yi-Kieran 易行天 is fighting for fast, free transit, government transparency and accountability, and to make it affordable to build a life in Vancouver.
Solomon is an on-campus organizer and student organizer, and the VP External at AMS, the UBC student union. They worked with other student unions and activists to lobby MPs to create a Youth Climate Corps, and won a $40m investment for youth climate jobs, even amidst cuts in the federal budget.
They also led a student team to campaign for the UBC SkyTrain, collecting over 15,000 signatures, and contributed a motion to city council co-moved by Sean Orr that passed unanimously.
Vancouver doesn’t have to be this way.
This October, we can elect a Mayor and City Council that works for people instead of the billionaires.
COPE is the real alternative to Ken Sim and ABC.
We got this.