Annette Reilly is an award-winning filmmaker, health advocate, and community organizer living in East Vancouver. A working parent and renter, she knows firsthand the pressures facing families in an increasingly unaffordable city.

Annette believes local government should be grounded in public service, integrity, and transparency. She is running for City Council to help restore respectful, solutions-focused leadership at City Hall and to ensure decisions are made with the long-term wellbeing of Vancouver’s communities in mind.

Throughout her career in the film industry - as an actor, director, producer, and First Assistant Director - Annette has built a reputation for bringing people together to solve problems and get things done. She brings that same collaborative approach to public life.

A cancer survivor and advocate for young adults facing cancer, Annette believes strong communities take care of one another. She is committed to practical action on housing affordability, healthy neighbourhoods, and climate responsibility so Vancouver can thrive for generations to come.

Bridget Burns is a Vancouver community organizer who is stepping up to make city council work for renters, families, and small business owners.

Bridget was born and raised in East Vancouver by a single mother. Her family relied on community services - like affordable daycare - that helped them get by. Those experiences shaped her belief that a city should work for the people who live in it, not just those who can afford it.

Bridget is a Vancouver renter, and like many residents, more than half her income goes to housing.

For more than 20 years, while building a career in politics, Bridget worked in Vancouver’s service industry to afford staying in the city she loves. Through that work she built strong connections in Vancouver’s small business and arts communities and saw firsthand the creativity and resilience that keep the city vibrant, as rising costs make it harder for people to stay.

In this city, the "hustle" isn’t a choice; it’s a requirement. She’s running because no one should have to work two jobs just to survive in the place they call home.

Bridget brings the experience needed to win. She has worked on campaigns across every level of government, currently serving as National Field Manager for the Green Party of Canada and working closely with Elizabeth May. She has contributed to federal campaigns for Paul Manly, provincial campaigns for Lisa Gunderson and Sonia Furstenau, and the Vancouver Greens’ 2022 municipal campaign.

Bridget knows winning takes more than passion - it takes strategy, organization, and a strong team.

She is running to secure a victory for Pete Fry and the entire Green slate, while bringing a renter’s perspective and working-class voice to the table. Bridget believes Vancouver should be a city where people don’t just survive, but can build a good life.

Camil Dumont, a descendant of French, German and English settlers, grew up in Vancouver, on the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. He attended l’École Bilingue and graduated from Kitsilano Secondary School in 1997. Camil later studied at the University of British Columbia, completing an interdisciplinary B.A. He subsequently earned a Master of Science from UBC’s Faculty of Land and Food Systems.

In his twenties, Camil worked at the Vancouver Park Board, primarily in seasonal horticulture. Over nearly a decade at Parks, he developed a deep appreciation for plants, gardens and public green spaces, while gaining insight into public systems and local governance.

Camil co-founded Inner City Farms in 2009, an urban farm in Vancouver. For over 10 years he was Head Farmer and Executive Director, expanding opportunities for people to learn about farming and local, sustainable food. He also grew lots of beautiful vegetables.

In the 2018 civic election, Camil was elected as a Green to the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation. During his term, he was twice elected as Chair of the Park Board and once as Committee Chair. He chose not to run again in the 2022 election, primarily for health reasons. He is strong and ready again, now, to get back in the arena.

Camil is the Education Manager at the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at the UBC Farm, and has been since September 2020.

Personally, Camil loves learning, laughing, gardening, cooking, sharing food in community, and coaching and playing sports. He credits any so-called success to the guidance, love, and support of his parents, whom he still leans on often. And his friends too. He describes the greatest source of light in his life as his young daughter and her incredible mum.

Euphemia “Effy” Demeter is a 5th generation Afro-Canadian/Hungarian and Jamaican who holds a degree in Anthropology with a focus on Urban Culture and Planning. She has been passionate about the DTES since moving to Vancouver in 1997 through witnessing her Mother’s work as an Indigenous advocate in the neighbourhood and beyond. This also came with the massive gift of standing side by side at protests and the inexplicable honour of being invited to sing at the Big Drum during Powwows as a child.

After living abroad for most of her twenties in St. Maarten, China, Thailand, Hungary, the UK and Australia she returned to Vancouver and shared her experience in high-end arts with youth. In London she had worked with all the major fashion magazine publications such as Vogue, i-D and Harper’s as a showroom manager for an international PR company. She also passed on her experience as a producer of fashion commercials and music media having worked on music videos from millions to billions of plays. 

In 2022 she decided to refocus and use her degree for the cause she intended it for - caring for the DTES. She started by building a website that lists over 200 local organizations as well as remaking the BC Housing listings with better user design for residents, social workers, and doctors - something none of the levels of government have yet to accomplish. Other than being an info-service, it has also raised awareness for homelessness and has been a substantial fundraising platform. 

Effy is committed to Affordable Housing, Healthy Communities, and Youth in the Arts.

Julie Strilesky has more than 20 years of experience driving change across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. Born and raised in Vancouver, she cares deeply about the future of the city and understands the challenges residents are facing today, as well as the opportunities that are within reach.

Julie has worked with the governments of British Columbia and Ontario developing policies, regulations, and plans related to climate mitigation and adaptation, including clean energy, sustainable buildings, and waste reduction. She brings experience from both large organizations and small businesses, including lululemon, HSBC Canada, and two clean technology startups. Through this work she has helped secure nearly $2 million in funding to advance climate innovation.

As Interim Executive Director for a new organisation called Small Business Vancouver, she is gaining an understanding of small business needs, and how interrelated problems of mental health, addiction and poverty compound and impact everyone. 

Julie believes strong communities are built when everyone has the opportunity to succeed and when we support our most vulnerable residents. She believes Vancouver needs inclusive, honest, collaborative leadership. 

Julie studied International Development and English at Queen’s University and holds a Master’s degree in Political Economy from the London School of Economics.

She is proud to be part of the Green Party and its commitment to social justice, ecological wisdom, non-violence, and participatory democracy where power is shared.

Julie is committed to personal growth and fostering empathy and resilience so that we can co-create the conditions to foster a livable planet where people can thrive. She volunteers with environmental and refugee initiatives and supports civic engagement. In her free time she enjoys teaching yoga, road cycling, skiing, and finding peace outdoors.

Kyra Philbert (she/her). Artist/Nurse/Scholar. Kyra strives to live in a city where we know each other, we like each other, and we have fun together. Why not?

A settler on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh nations since 2016, Kyra (K-ee-ra) is passionate about health, social justice and self-compassion.

She worked as a community health nurse in the DTES for 8 years, starting as a novice in a newly declared drug overdose public health emergency. Distressed by the extreme poverty and obvious injustices she witnessed daily in her clinical practice, Kyra returned to university to deepen her understanding of systemic and structural power. In 2022, she concurrently completed both a BA in Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice and her Master of Science in Nursing at UBC.

In her graduate research, she created a long-form performance « Nurse Angélique ». The piece reimagined the historical figure of Marie-Joseph Angélique as a present-day nurse with a direct challenge to sex worker stigma. Kyra showcased various iterations of Nurse Angélique locally and nationally until retiring it in 2024. Today, her artistic focus is on one-time discomfiting performances centred on failure and the role of women in society.

Informed by both theory and experience, Kyra believes civic government can be transformational in our daily lives. She boldly asks, “why not”? Why not foreground public health interventions that foster a deep sense of belonging for all Vancouverites? Why not treat everyone as your neighbour? Why not address collective psychic pain, promote free recreation, and enhance urban nature? Why not land back?

Why not join her? Vote Kyra Philbert.

Vancouver is Stephanie Smith's city. She was born at St. Paul's Hospital, grew up around her family's small business on Granville Street, and came of age in East Vancouver. Over her life, she’s seen Vancouver become a harder place for everyday people to survive in. She’s running because it doesn’t have to be that way.

For almost thirty years, Stephanie has done the hard, unglamorous work of keeping people in their homes. As a legal advocate, she has helped thousands of tenants facing renovictions, demovictions, and landlords who count on people not knowing their rights. She has trained advocates and law students, organized community legal clinics, represented workers, bargained collective agreements, and worked with city and provincial partners to shape law and policy for the public good.

She has served with the BC Poverty Reduction Coalition, the Vancouver and District Labour Council, and REACH Community Health Centre. Since 2022, as a director of the Co-operative Housing Federation of BC and the Community Land Trust, she has helped build genuinely affordable, community-owned housing across the province.

For Stephanie, this isn't just theoretical: as the president of her own housing co-op, she sees every day what housing stability makes possible in people's lives.

In 2022, her friend Pete Fry asked her to bring her experience into the political arena and run as a City Council candidate with the Vancouver Greens. She’s returning with a clear purpose: to make Vancouver a city where everyday people can afford to stay. Stephanie Smith has spent her career solving that problem one person at a time. At City Hall, she'll work to solve it for everyone.