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Left-leaning civic party OneCity is throwing its support behind independent Vancouver mayoral candidate Kennedy Stewart.

OneCity, which is running two city council candidates and three school board candidates in the Oct. 20 municipal election, will formally endorse Stewart at the party’s campaign office Wednesday morning.

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Stewart, a two-term member of Parliament, gave up his federal seat in Burnaby-South last Friday, the same day he filed his nomination papers with the city of Vancouver.

In a press release, the party called Stewart “the best choice to unite progressives this election.”

In June, OneCity elected Christine Boyle, a community organizer and United Church minister, and Brandon Yan, a non-profit director and community advocate, as their Vancouver city council candidates.

OneCity’s nominees for the Vancouver School Board are led by Carrie Bercic, a current VSB school trustee, elected in the October 2017 byelection, who also sits on the Teacher Qualification Service Joint Board of Directors with BCSTA. Bercic is be joined on OnceCity ticket by social justice advocate Erica Jaaf and Jennifer Reddy, associate director of leadership and community building programs at Simon Fraser University.