By OKTD Editorial · October 13, 2026
Brady Rogers, known online as Brady the Creator, has made a familiar Kelowna frustration harder to ignore: a waterfront connection that people expect to use, but cannot reliably reach. His videos about the Hotel Eldorado boardwalk turn a complicated civic dispute into something residents can follow, question and discuss.
Now he is bringing that curiosity to the 2026 Kelowna city council election. Rogers appears on the City’s official list of councillor candidates. General Voting Day is October 17, when eligible voters will choose eight councillors.
His appeal is easy to understand. He is willing to ask an ordinary question in public, stay with it when the answer gets complicated, and let people watch the investigation.
Who is Brady the Creator?
According to his campaign biography, Rogers grew up in Kelowna from age ten, graduated from UBC Okanagan and worked in robotic automation engineering before building The Rogerie with his wife. Their venture began turning discarded plastic into new products and grew into a downtown shop.
That background offers a practical lens on municipal work. An engineer has to understand why a system fails; a business owner has to make decisions with limited resources. Neither guarantees success on council, but both are useful experience to bring to questions about public infrastructure and everyday services.
The Rogerie storefront. Image source: Brady Rogers’ campaign website.
His campaign humour has sometimes obscured that experience. In a public Instagram post, he clarified that joking about politics does not mean treating the job casually. He acknowledged that he still has municipal government to learn, while pointing to his experience building products, leading projects and running a business.
He made a similar distinction in a September 20 iNFOnews interview: “Funny is different than unserious.”
Why the Eldorado boardwalk matters
The boardwalk story deserves more than a slogan. The City’s July 14, 2025 notice said the route was closed because an inspection identified deterioration in decking and supporting components. Its original anticipated reopening was September 2025. The City’s current walkway listing continues to describe a temporary closure for repairs.
On July 20, 2026, the City announced an expropriation process for the section in front of Hotel Eldorado. It described that section as private property subject to a statutory public right of way.
The legal process remains important. Castanet reported on September 18 that Justice Warren Milman granted a temporary injunction preventing the expropriation from proceeding while Argus Properties’ challenge is considered. Both the City and hotel owner say they have sought a resolution; their accounts differ. That interim ruling is not a final resolution of the dispute.
Rogers’ September 30 boardwalk post questions the property boundaries. That is his interpretation, rather than an ownership finding established by this article. Different stretches of the shoreline can involve different titles and agreements.
The strongest part of his work is the insistence on understandable answers: what access exists, what needs repair, who is responsible, and what happens next. Those questions matter even to someone who never watches a campaign video.
A bigger waterfront vision
The issue also connects with an existing City objective. Kelowna’s Parks Master Plan, adopted in August, includes the long-term Sapphire Shoreline vision: a continuous 27-kilometre land-based route connecting waterfront parks, beaches and amenities.
That is a planning vision, not a completed path or a promise that every section already has funding. Individual projects still need budgets, design and other decisions. Rogers’ attention to the gaps helps make the difference between a map and a usable route visible.
Waterfront Park, photographed July 21, 2012. This is a downtown waterfront context photo, not the disputed Eldorado section. Photo: Stuart Madden / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0; no edits.
What people are saying in his Instagram comments
The public comments show enthusiasm, humour and expectations—not a scientific measure of support.
On the campaign clarification post, @mzgill123 identifies herself as born and raised in Kelowna and says Rogers is the candidate she supports. That is a commenter’s self-description; this publication has not independently verified her residency or voting eligibility.
Under the boardwalk post, @selfmakingman_ wrote: “Thank you for being relentless about this!”
Support also comes with requests. @aimeeking89 praised his investigative work while asking for more visible campaign information. @noodlescraftstudies wanted attention to Truth and Reconciliation as well.
Some commenters explicitly identify themselves as living elsewhere, including Saskatchewan, Ontario and Auckland. These examples were selected from visible comments on two posts, reviewed October 13. They cannot establish how Kelowna as a whole will vote.
His council platform reaches beyond the boardwalk
Rogers’ published platform covers housing, transit, growth and community safety. He wants to investigate what it would take to create 1,000 co-op homes, seek provincial flexibility to shift more property taxation toward land, and examine how development value can support public infrastructure.
He also argues that transit should be judged by whether reliable routes and frequency can help households use fewer cars. On homelessness and safety, he calls for both pathways into housing and care and attention to the problems residents and businesses face now.
These are proposals and questions for further work. They are not approved projects, funded commitments or outcomes one councillor could deliver alone.
What Rogers brings to the campaign is a promising habit: making civic decisions discussable. The next test is translating that curiosity into careful budgets, collaboration and follow-through. His boardwalk work gives people something concrete to assess—and a reason to keep asking for clear answers.
Readers can compare his platform, the other official candidates, and the City’s election information before voting.
Editorial note: This is a favourable, independently researched candidate feature prepared by OKTD at the publisher’s request. It is not presented as polling, a candidate interview or a campaign submission. Sources and public comments were checked October 13, 2026.