The Communist candidate in Vancouver Hastings is a familiar face in east Vancouver. The former editor of People’s Voice newspaper, he has been a long-time participant in many local movements for peace, anti-imperialism, social justice, and working class rights. Since the mid-1990s, he has often been a Communist candidate in the area around Commercial Drive, where he lives in a housing cooperative with his family. Now retired, he volunteers at the Centre for Socialist Education, and he is a leader of the Vancouver Peace Council, campaigning to resist the Carney Liberal government’s massive escalation of war budgets.

Kimball was born on Treaty Six territory in Saskatchewan. Growing up in a very conservative area of central Alberta, he became a revolutionary anti-war activist by the age of sixteen. His family heritage includes immigrants from Ireland and Norway, as well as ancestors from the historic Red River Metis nation. He joined the Communist Party as a student at the University of Alberta, and was later elected as the Party’s Saskatchewan leader for a decade, before moving to Vancouver in 1993. Now a proudly radical senior, he remains a fierce critic of the violent system of imperialism and colonialism, and an outspoken advocate for socialism. He condemns Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people, and the brutal US blockades against Cuba and other countries. Kimball extends his deepest solidarity to all those in our community engaged in the common struggle for a better world. As he says, “a vote for a Communist candidate is a vote for a future of true liberation, where our children and grandchildren can live in harmony, without fear of capitalist exploitation, poverty, war, and environmental devastation.”