CANDIDATE FOR CITY COUNCIL
Trevor McAleese
Game developer and former federal candidate with extensive housing, transit, accountability and service proposals.
Nomination checked September 28, 2026. Earlier platform and record research: September 8, 2026. Recent statements show their own review dates.
Experience & background
Independent game developer with arts and technology instruction experience; campaign describes a lifelong Okanagan connection. [72]
Ran as the federal NDP candidate in Kelowna in 2025. A candidacy does not establish a parliamentary voting record. [75]
Issue positions
Campaign proposals are attributed positions. A blank area is an information gap, never an assumed vote against an issue.
Housing & growth
Proposes family-sized and accessible homes, inclusionary housing, anti-renoviction measures and conditional restrictions on investor short-term rentals. [73]
Would condition investor short-term rental licensing on long-term rental conditions and require a two-hour response for complaints. His platform also proposes minimum provision for family-sized, accessible and deeply affordable homes. [73]
Safety & homelessness
Supports overnight downtown and Rutland ambassadors, non-police crisis response, gang enforcement and daily access to sanitation and support services. [73]
Supports expanding civilian and clinician crisis response alongside police action on gang activity, with on-call coverage outside regular service hours. [73]
Transportation
Would improve signals, transit frequency and shelters. Questionnaire supports airport RapidBus and permanent pedestrian space on Bernard. [73][74]
Taxes & spending
Opposes within-term council pay increases; advocates competitive procurement and provincial land-value-tax reform. [73]
Business & jobs
Supports mixed-use neighbourhoods, childcare space and a year-round market. [73]
Proposes affordable commercial spaces and an indoor vendor market, alongside youth employment in parks. [73]
Accountability
Proposes ward or hybrid representation, searchable voting histories and reform of alternative approval processes. [73]
Climate, land & water
Proposes FireSmart roof incentives, air filtration, tree protection, waste repair and reuse initiatives. [73]
Community & services
Would prioritize public washrooms and bus shelters; his questionnaire’s hypothetical $1-million allocation is an illustration, not a costed budget. [74]
Recent public statements
What the candidate has said publicly, with links to the original sources.
Crisis response and policing · Candidate questionnaire
Proposes expanding Downtown On-Call, URBA On-Call and CRCL capacity for low-risk, non-criminal calls, freeing police for crime response. Also calls for more gang-enforcement resources and better rehabilitation and prevention pathways.
Candidate-written Capital News response; separate from the OKLV questionnaire. These are campaign proposals, not verified outcomes.
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Voting record
Selected decisions, not a complete voting history. Follow each record for the full motion. Historical votes do not automatically establish current views.
No elected public-office tenure was identified in the reviewed sources. No voting record is attributed. Campaigns, employment and community-board service are not legislative votes.
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Business & finances
Public business & professional interests
Public professional work includes independent video-game development and instruction. Current corporate holdings or business valuations were not verified. [72]
Personal net worth
No reliable, dated net-worth disclosure was verified in the reviewed sources. Business roles, real-estate interests, public remuneration and campaign donations cannot establish personal net worth. Submit information or a correction ↗
Campaign finances
Campaign receipts and expenses are separate from personal wealth. Historical Kelowna campaign filings can be searched at Elections BC. The City lists January 15, 2027 as the 2026 campaign disclosure deadline. [8][2]
Politics & broader policy
Political alignment & party history
Federal NDP candidate, 2025
Ran for the federal NDP in Kelowna in 2025. This documented history is not a claim that all federal NDP policies form his 2026 municipal platform. [75][76]
Broader public & foreign policy
Dated personal statements, historical campaigns and organizational positions are distinguished below.
Advocates public transit operation and senior-government tax and housing reforms. Several proposals require provincial action or legal review. [73]
His 2025 VoteMate page lists federal NDP promises including recognition of Palestinian statehood and a two-way arms embargo on Israel. These are explicitly party promises, not independently verified personal statements; they are not carried forward as municipal commitments. [76]
In a self-identified April 2025 campaign AMA, described Israeli actions against Palestinians as genocide and called for Canada to impose an arms embargo. This reports his stated position in that forum, rather than a finding by this website or an assumption about all NDP candidates. [95]
This collection is selective. It does not claim to capture every interview, speech, social post or position held over a lifetime.
Contact & follow
Public links from the candidate’s campaign or an official directory.
Not yet verified: phone. This does not mean the candidate has no account or contact channel.
Contact sources · checked September 13, 2026 (City directory base); later checks noted individually; older campaign contacts retain their original source
Campaign-linked accounts are listed as supplied by the campaign or election directory. Links and contact details can change; availability or a reply is not guaranteed.
Research gaps & questions
What still needs an answer
- No fully costed consolidated programme or confirmed partner funding verified.
- A complete archive of personal foreign-policy statements was not verified.
- Recently reviewed statements appear separately; individual social-post, biography and voting research remains incomplete.
Questions worth asking
Editorial questions, not statements attributed to the candidate.
- Which three proposals could be funded and delivered in the first year?
- What provincial authority is needed for housing, transit-contract and tax proposals?
Sources & references
9 relevant sources · original publication and review dates appear below. Nomination checked September 28, 2026. Campaign pages describe what a candidate says; official records establish recorded actions.
Photo: Hiilite Photography / Trevor McAleese campaign
View original image · Checked September 6, 2026. Campaign footer: © 2026 All Rights Reserved. No photo-specific reuse permission found.
- 1City of Kelowna — officially declared 2026 candidates
Official record · Declared September 18, 2026; declaration reviewed October 1, 2026. Campaign-directory links were separately captured September 28, 2026.
kelowna.ca - 72Trevor McAleese — biography
Campaign · 2026 campaign; page undated
trevorforkelowna.ca - 5KelownaNow — DeHart and additional council candidates
Reporting · August 27, 2026
kelownanow.com - 142Reviewed public statement — Crisis response and policing
Campaign · October 11, 2026; reviewed October 13, 2026
kelownacapnews.com - 75Vernon Matters — McAleese federal campaign interview
Reporting · April 8, 2025
vernonmatters.ca - 73Trevor McAleese — detailed platform
Campaign · 2026 campaign; page undated
trevorforkelowna.ca - 74Strong Towns Kelowna — McAleese candidate responses
Campaign · 2026 candidate questionnaire
strongtownskelowna.org - 76VoteMate — McAleese candidacy and separately labelled NDP promises
Campaign · Historical: 2025 federal election
votemate.org - 95Reddit — McAleese self-identified 2025 campaign AMA
Campaign · April 2025; relevant answer April 28
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