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Priyan Samarakoone is the BC Green candidate for Vancouver-Yaletown, filed with Elections BC for the October 24, 2026 election. He is a Vancouver lawyer at EQ Law focused on housing and civil litigation. The firm says he spent seven years with Access Pro Bono, completed a biology B.Sc. at UBC in 2006 and an honours LL.B. at Nottingham Law School in 2008, and was called to the B.C. bar in 2013. It also cites United Nations project work in Sri Lanka in 2004 and on access to justice in 2009, and a pro bono family-mediation program he helped start in Vancouver in 2018. A January 2023 Province op-ed identified him as chair of the Vancouver Green Party board. No earlier candidacy turned up in records checked for this profile.