Karen Tom (filed as Karen Anne Tom)
Candidate for Councillor. All council candidates
Updated September 23, 2026: Added her campaign Facebook page, which we had missed, and her photo from it.
Updated September 23, 2026: Removed an unverified note that linked her, by surname only, to another person; that person asked to be removed.
| Running for | Councillor |
|---|---|
| Status | First-time candidate |
| Occupation | Indigenous Project Facilitator, Northern Lights College[1] |
| Ties to Dawson Creek | Not found |
| Campaign page | Facebook (added September 23, 2026) |
| Nomination package | City PDF (redacted) |
Background
Indigenous Project Facilitator at Northern Lights College and a member of the NLC Education Council's Admissions and Standards Committee.[1] She led the organization of NLC's Indigenous graduation ceremony in June 2025 ("It's a great honour that we could come together and do this... You feel the strength of each other and just honour our ancestors by doing this") and appears in an Energeticcity.ca photo of the event.[2] She was the registration contact for the 2025 Doig River First Nation language-revitalization event. Education, age and time in Dawson Creek: not found.
Filed on September 11, the last day of the nomination period; one original nominator was rejected and replaced. Accepted nominators: Natasha Kathy Lacourse (a longtime local business owner and organizer, founder of Agro Connect) and Crystal Ayles.[3]
Electoral history
None.
Advocacy
A "Karen Tom" is signer 405 on a 2015 petition against a proposed fracking-sand facility downtown (same person unverified). Nothing else.
Platform and news
No platform found in the sources reviewed. She has a campaign Facebook page, "Karen Tom - Dawson Creek City Council", added to this profile on September 23, 2026; its posts were not reviewed for this profile. Named only in the Energeticcity.ca September 12 list.[4]
What the record shows
Facts. A college professional working in Indigenous education who led the organization of NLC's 2025 Indigenous graduation ceremony.
Questions worth asking. Her ties to Dawson Creek and positions; none were found in the sources reviewed.
Sources cited on this page
- Northern Lights College, Education Council page. nlc.bc.ca/education-council/
- Energeticcity.ca, June 10, 2025, "Northern Lights College honours Indigenous students with graduation ceremony". energeticcity.ca/2025/06/10/northern-lights-college-honours-indigenous-…
- Nomination package, Karen Tom (City PDF). media-002-ca.cdn.govstack.com/dawsoncreek-013-ca/media/kk2extn3/submitt…
- Energeticcity.ca, Sept 12, 2026, "Local election begins in Northeast B.C.". energeticcity.ca/2026/09/12/local-election-begins-in-northeast-b-c/