Protecting Our Vancouver Aquatic Centre

Community updates on the legal action challenging the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation and City of Vancouver’s decision to downsize the Vancouver Aquatic Centre pool from 50m to 25m.

Latest Updates

September 23rd, 2026

Breaking: We Are Appealing. We Need $5,000 to Do It.
We are appealing to the British Columbia Court of Appeal. Counsel is retained. To do it, we spent every dollar the Society had, and a director of this Society (Jon Girard) covered the remainder personally. What we need now is to make that back. $5,000, in the next 72 hours. What…Read more

September 1st, 2026

We're Running for Park Board. Because It Belongs to You, Not Us
We are Jon Girard and Mayeli Alvarez. We are the two people who took the City of Vancouver and the Park Board to the Supreme Court of British Columbia over the Vancouver Aquatic Centre. On October 17, we are both standing for election to the Vancouver Board of Parks and…Read more

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