Lucy Maloney

Klassen will be joined by a left-wing supermajority, COPE incumbent Sean Orr, who returns as the top vote-getter among councillors.

Three new COPE councillors, a full slate of four Green Party councillors, and one city's Lucy Maloney also re-elected.

I've had a long relationship with Mayor-elect Pete Fry and I know that we'll probably depend upon each other a little bit for our experience and I'm also going to be here to make sure that I'm going to be watching the decisions and challenging them when I have to.

Mike Klassen has a real challenge and I've lived it.

Well, they had an incumbent councillor who could play the role of sort of quasi-mayor.

He was clearly in a partnership with Fry, which Lucy Maloney, you know, pretty new arrival to the civic scene and then the incumbent for one city could not do.

That's not a knock on her.

It just wasn't the way that she was going to be able to play.

So we have that sort of connecting tissue of having worked together and known each other over the years.

And I've already reached out and have had contacts with the two councillors that were with me on council that got re-elected, Lucy Maloney and Sean Orr.

And so I am really going to be there to make sure that the people, what people wanted from the city.

And of course, I was talking about how I did 25,000 steps on Friday and Saturday and spent a lot of time talking to people in community, certainly in the last several months, but throughout the entire term.

Will Dumont, stepping up from Parks Board, is now a city councillor with seven.

Lucy Maloney, the one city councillor.

Holds on to her seat at sixth place, Solomon E. Kieran from Cope and Bridget Burns from the Greens, along with Mike Klassen at ABC Vancouver, rounding out the list of counselors.

It's like a tremendous comeback for Cope.

But like Fry didn't run on a very clear, here are the things I want to do besides just like...

Be effective, but be effective at what, right? So I think that's where Cope has a chance to lead if they have specific ideas they want to bring forward.

Fry is the kind of guy I feel like he will listen if Mike Klassen or Lucy Maloney bring forward good ideas as well.

And Fry will be the guy to try to keep this going grouped together in some way that can get things done.

Good morning.

You have been a Vancouver City Councilor for eight years.

You have opposed a number of major initiatives, inclus- including the village housing plan, um, additional police spending as well.

You say Vancouver needs a different kind of leadership.

The fact that it was brought forward by ABC and then, and then, uh, route- roundly, uh, uh, destroyed by ABC, I think was a big factor in how I voted on that as well.

Yeah.

Councilor, one city council, Lucy Maloney, tried to preserve part of that proposal through a five-village pilot.

What, why wasn't a smaller pilot preferable to rejecting the entire plan?

Seeing that plan rejected was very discouraging.

I think it's worth noting that one city councillor, that was Lucy Maloney of one city, did ultimately support the villagers' plan.

She also had some amendments she had put forward to try and approve it.

But at the end of the day, she said it is actually a positive thing thing to open up more of those most expensive areas of the city dominated by detached houses to small and mid-rise apartments, which was the idea behind the Villages Plan.

We want six-story apartments.

We want multiplexes and so on.

That's the plurality of public opinion in cities like Vancouver, but it's not necessarily who shows up to City Hall and that seemed to spook almost all of the councillors other than Lucy Maloney and they decided protecting those wealthiest areas from change was a higher priority than actually dealing with the severe housing crisis and shortage that we continue to face.

One of the criticisms I hear from opponents of bringing in multiplexes and apartment buildings into single family neighborhoods is not only will they wreck the place, but they're not going to solve the housing crisis because those new apartments will be unaffordable.

In that election, Hardwick finished third behind Stewart and Sim.

In the April 2025 by-election, she placed third again, behind Lucy Maloney of One City Vancouver and Sean Orr of Cope.

Hardwick says her motivation for entering the mayoral race is to reverse housing policies set by both the current and preceding councils.

At a news conference, she argued that Vancouver's long-standing approach of upzoning land and permitting greater density, in the expectation that market supply would bring down costs, has not in practice produced the affordability gains that approach promised.

So there are almost no, you know, the incumbents who are running again are all ABC people with Ken Sim.

Lucy Maloney is running again from one city.

Uh, but, uh, Pete is running for mayor.

If he doesn't win, there'll be no greens on council for the first time in a long, long time.

So he has been on council since 2018.

Fry was the only voice of opposition to ABC on council until 2025 by-election that brought in, uh, OneCity's Lucy Maloney and COPE's Sean Orr.

Pete also just tends to show up to stuff around town.

Um, one of our staffers lives in a housing co-op and mentioned that they were celebrating an anniversary, and Pete Fry just showed up.