About

Me, with short brown hair, in a white t-shirt against a plain white background

I'm eren, a software engineer and musician based in Kelowna. I went to jazz school and studied bass and guitar. I also love to ride motorcycles. I try to see the best in Kelowna. We have a lot of potential!

My values

Candidates need real solutions. That means clear, specific plans that could actually work. "I will fix things" with no plan behind it ranks low, no matter how good it sounds.

These are the issues I care about most:

Transportation & transit: Better transit, safe ways to walk and bike, and less need for a car.
Affordability & housing: Housing above all, plus the general cost of living.
Drug crisis response: Housing first, which means giving people a home before asking them to get sober. Harm reduction, which means keeping people who use drugs alive and safer. Ideas backed by evidence. Forcing people into treatment counts against a candidate.

These are nice to have:

Progressive values: Generally left-leaning, progressive or socialist values.
Land value tax: Support for a land value tax. This taxes land more and buildings less, so people who sit on empty land pay their share.

For school trustees, I mostly look at one thing:

SOGI 123 & inclusive schools: For school trustees, this matters most. SOGI 123 is a set of B.C. teaching resources that help make schools safe for LGBTQ+ students. I want trustees who support it.

These count against a candidate:

No real plans, only slogans.
Support for forcing people into treatment.
Lazy or obvious AI use. This is worst when AI replaces creative work like campaign graphics, art, writing or websites.

How I rank candidates

Each candidate gets a score out of 10. The score shows how well they match the values above. It is my own judgement, not a formula. Within each seat, I list candidates from highest to lowest score. When two candidates tie, I list them in alphabetical order.

AI use disclosure

I used Claude Code, an AI coding helper, to set up the code for this site. The opinions, rankings and candidate notes are my own. I did not use AI to make any images on this site.