FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASESaturday, October 10, 2026 SURREY, BC — Mike Starchuk and the Imagine Surrey team today released “Imagine Thanksgiving,” a free cookbook for Surrey families heading into the long weekend and the final week of the civic election. It has real recipes, from the turkey to the pumpkin pie,
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASESaturday, October 10, 2026 SURREY, BC — Mike Starchuk today challenged Brenda Locke and Doug McCallum to name one City service they will protect, and committed that an Imagine Surrey council will protect all of them: no layoffs of frontline staff, no facility closures, and no reduced hours
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, October 9, 2026 SURREY, BC — Last night Troy van Vliet did not attend the Surrey Citizen debate, making Mike Starchuk the only candidate in the race for mayor to do the work and show up for every single debate.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, Friday, October 9, 2026 SURREY, BC — In an extraordinary admission at the CKNW Surrey Mayoral debate, Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke blurted out, “I knew that they had an important meeting” in the lead up to the firing of Norm Lipinski.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFriday, October 9, 2026 SURREY, BC — Mike Starchuk today committed to a crackdown on street racing and modified exhausts: enforcement blitzes with Surrey Police, noise cameras on the worst corridors, and a loud-vehicle button in the Surrey 311 app so enforcement follows the data. Residents brought the Surrey
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThursday, October 8, 2026 SURREY, BC — Mike Starchuk today set out the strict conditions any AI data centre will have to meet to build in Surrey: protect Surrey’s land, water, and power, and return a new, lasting benefit to the people who live here. An Imagine Surrey council
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEWednesday, October 7, 2026 SURREY, BC — Mike Starchuk and Imagine Surrey are asking Surrey First mayoral candidate Linda Annis to explain to Surrey taxpayers why they paid for her to golf. The City’s own report on council pay and expenses shows Councillor Annis billed taxpayers for seven golf
Surrey’s traffic lights don’t talk to each other. It’s time for the Green Wave. By William Li If you drive King George Boulevard from Sullivan to Surrey Central at 8:00 am, you can count the red lights you hit in a row. I’ve done it. It’s a lot. One block, stop.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETuesday, October 6, 2026 SURREY, BC — Harry Bains, the five-term MLA for Surrey-Newton who served as BC’s Minister of Labour from 2017 to 2024, today endorsed Mike Starchuk for mayor of Surrey. Bains, a longtime Surrey resident who served more than 15 years as an elected officer of
By Malin Jordan Mike Starchuk and his Imagine Surrey council candidates announced their policy platform Oct. 5 for the 2026 municipal election. Imagine Surrey’s plans include “Contract for a Better Surrey,” a signed and costed platform with 79 commitments across five pillars: safe streets, fast commutes, smart investments, lower costs,
