Final Candidate List — Oct 14 By-Election

Now that the filing deadline has passed, there are 28 candidates for 10 positions.
True, there’s no Mr. Peanut, but there is a Watermelon. [With thanks to Amanda Seibert in the Straight]

. . . the self-proclaimed weed diva, whose local fame stems from selling cannabis-infused cookies and watermelon on Wreck Beach for 22 years, might be getting her political career started a little sooner than she expected.
She’ll run in the City of Vancouver’s October 14 by-election for the councillor position that was vacated by Geoff Meggs, as a candidate for the newly created municipal arm of Sensible BC, a provincial party founded by marijuana advocates including Dana Larsen in 2012.
“We’re creating a Sensible Vancouver party, and trying to get the cannabis community and other communities that feel poorly done by the other parties, to come on board,” Larsen told the Straight earlier this week in a telephone interview.

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Candidates for councillor

• BREMNER, Hector (NPA)
• CARDONA, Diego (Vision Vancouver)
• DUNSDON, Mary Jean “Watermelon” (Sensible Vancouver)
• FRY, Pete (Green Party)
• GRAVES, Judy, (OneCity)
• LEE, Gary
• MURPHY, Damian J.
• SWANSON, Jean
• WASILENKOFF, Joshua

Candidates for school trustee

• ALEXANDER, Joy (Vision Vancouver)
• ARNOLD, Christine
• BALLANTYNE, Fraser (NPA)
• BERCIC, Carrie (OneCity)
• CLEMENT, Ken (Vision Vancouver)
• DAY, Diana (COPE)
• DOMINATO, Lisa (NPA)
• FRASER, Janet (Green Party)
• GONZALEZ, Estrellita (Green Party)
• HAMILTON, Jamie Lee (IDEA Vancouver)
• JAAF, Erica (OneCity)
• LAMB, Theodora (Vision Vancouver)
• LOMBARDI, Mike (Vision Vancouver)
• MCDOWELL, Robert (NPA)
• PICK, Adi
• PRIETO, Julian (NPA)
• RICHARDSON, Christopher JK (NPA)
• WONG, Allan (Vision Vancouver)
• ZAICHKOWSKY, Judy (Green Party)