Some teachers in Surrey are raising health and safety concerns about teaching children and teens in classrooms gripped by hot temperatures as the province experiences a heat wave.

Former party stalwartsincluding a previousleadersay they fearthe rebrand could mean the party's further political shift to the right.

Political veteran,federal Liberal MP for Surrey-Newton, and Surrey mayoral candidate Sukh Dhaliwalhas a platform attempting to appealto homeowners and developers, as he faces a mayor he once supported.

Surrey mayoral candidate Brenda Locke has set her election platform apart from her competitors with a promise to stop the transition from the RCMP to a municipal police force.

Surrey mayoral candidate Gordie Hoggwhohas decades of political experience from having been the mayor of White Rock, a provincial MLA and a federal MP, is jumping into a highly competitive and heated political race for the city's top job under the Surrey First banner.

Surrey mayoral candidate Jinny Sims is running in a crowded field of seven other candidates for the city's top job, with the same level of determination that's taken her from teacher to union president to elected office.

Voters will be heading to the polls in the Surrey South byelection in less than two weeks. The vote is shaping up to be a low-key test of how the province's political parties are faring, particular in the area of health care.