Tom Digby

Tom is the current Chair of the Vancouver Park Board, and seeking nomination for re-election as a Park Board Commissioner.

In his first term at Park Board, Tom championed and won dozens of battles including:

• Fighting successfully to preserve the 136-year-old elected Park Board, securing a victory against the Mayor’s anti-democratic efforts to abolish it
• Convincing Commissioners to restore the Stanley Park bike lane in September 2025
  • It was originally removed in 2023 in a decision that was later found by the Integrity Commissioner to have been in breach of Code of Conduct by all 6 ABC commissioners
• Negotiating and leading the unanimous Park Board apology to the trans community in view of the Harry Potter event. Disavowed JK Rowling (and he’s glad she knows it!)
• Opposing Mayor Ken Sim’s Zero-Means-Zero budget, which predictably resulted in over $120M in damaging cuts and at least 440 layoffs of City and Park Board staff
• Working with community gardeners to cancel the $320 green bin fee levied by the City in 2026
• Leading and winning the vote to revitalize the stagnant Lost Lagoon and restore it to an intertidal estuary, connecting it to Coal Harbour and to English Bay
• Successfully leading effort to require Park Board contractors to pay the Living Wage
• Receiving an “A” rating from HUB Cycling on cycling infrastructure support
• Leading push for $1.35b investment in parks and recreation facilities in Capital Plan 2027-30

In his day job, Tom is a lawyer working in global intellectual property law. He and his wife live in Kitsilano.

Tom is grateful for the guidance and insights of Pete Fry, Adriane Carr, our School Board trustees, members, and the executive which has been invaluable over his first term.

He asks the members “give me a great team of candidates to run with, and we can continue our long-term winning streak at Park Board. Greens and parks just somehow go together!”