Vancouver Civic Election 2026 - Page 10

Feathered Friend · #**181** Posted **May 13, 2026, 3:45 AM**

COPE's nominees for council joining Sean Orr:

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Solomon Yi-Kieran
Chloe Leslie
Devyani Singh
Angela Liu

https://www.votecope.ca/news/cope-member...allen-for-mayor-pick-2026-election-slate

GenWhy? · #**182** Posted **May 13, 2026, 4:59 PM**

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Originally Posted by Feathered Friend

COPE's nominees for council joining Sean Orr:

https://www.votecope.ca/news/cope-member...allen-for-mayor-pick-2026-election-slate

Well at least COPE, Greens and , One City are quite distinct in their candidates.

chowhou · #**183** Posted **May 14, 2026, 5:10 AM**

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Well at least COPE, Greens and , One City are quite distinct in their candidates.

Ironically they're acting as though their 3 slates are similar enough that they expect people to vote COPE+Green+OneCity all the way down ballot.

SpongeG · #**184** Posted **May 15, 2026, 1:47 AM**

So Sean Orr is a council member, if he runs for Mayor and loses does he lose his council spot? and is out of it all?

madog222 · #**185** Posted **May 15, 2026, 2:03 AM**

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Originally Posted by SpongeG

So Sean Orr is a council member, if he runs for Mayor and loses does he lose his council spot? and is out of it all?

All of the councillors’ terms are up, to be part of the new council they need to be elected this fall.

Feathered Friend · #**186** Posted **May 15, 2026, 2:12 AM**

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Originally Posted by SpongeG

So Sean Orr is a council member, if he runs for Mayor and loses does he lose his council spot? and is out of it all?

Stephanie Allen is COPE's candidate for mayor, Sear Orr is running for re-election as a councilor.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-c...allen-vancouver-mayor-election-9.7186047

SpongeG · #**187** Posted **May 15, 2026, 2:17 AM**

oh ok, i must have misheard, on the radio I thought they said he was a mayoral candidate, i really don't like the guy and was hoping he'd be gone.

mcj · #**188** Posted **May 15, 2026, 2:41 AM**

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oh ok, i must have misheard, on the radio I thought they said he was a mayoral candidate, i really don't like the guy and was hoping he'd be gone.

Are you Ken Sim?

GenWhy? · #**189** Posted **May 15, 2026, 4:57 PM**

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Are you Ken Sim?

Sean Orr is a socialist so it's easy to see how lots of folks might not be a fan of him

chowhou · #**190** Posted **May 15, 2026, 5:15 PM**

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Sean Orr is a socialist so it's easy to see how lots of folks might not be a fan of him

I'm not a fan of him because he's a COPE-brand NIMBY.

Glow Fun City · #**191** Posted **May 15, 2026, 5:41 PM**

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I'm not a fan of him because he's a COPE-brand NIMBY.

Ditto, plus the whole hating Jews thing

whatnext · #**192** Posted **May 15, 2026, 6:45 PM**

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Originally Posted by mcj

Are you Ken Sim?

This Ken Sim?

Investigation concludes Vancouver mayor misused influence of office to ‘personally attack’ city councillor at news conference
Probe related to concerns raised by Ken Sim, Jewish groups over social media posts by Sean Orr before he was elected in the April 2025 byelection
Mike Howell
about 16 hours ago

A lawyer retained by the City of Vancouver to investigate a complaint lodged by Coun. Sean Orr against Mayor Ken Sim has ruled that the mayor misused the influence of his office to hold a news conference with Jewish groups in April 2025 to suggest Orr was antisemitic.

Jamie Pytel of Kingsgate Legal also ruled that a post the mayor wrote on the X social media platform in October 2025 was a “continuation of the harassment” of Orr that suggested he was in support of terrorist organizations and antisemitism...

https://www.biv.com/biv-rss-linkedin/inv...y-councillor-at-news-conference-12285552

mcj · #**193** Posted **May 15, 2026, 8:34 PM**

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Originally Posted by Glow Fun City

Ditto, plus the whole hating Jews thing

Could that be made up slander? The article below says it is, complete with court ruling.

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Originally Posted by whatnext

This Ken Sim?

Investigation concludes Vancouver mayor misused influence of office to ‘personally attack’ city councillor at news conference
Probe related to concerns raised by Ken Sim, Jewish groups over social media posts by Sean Orr before he was elected in the April 2025 byelection
Mike Howell
about 16 hours ago

A lawyer retained by the City of Vancouver to investigate a complaint lodged by Coun. Sean Orr against Mayor Ken Sim has ruled that the mayor misused the influence of his office to hold a news conference with Jewish groups in April 2025 to suggest Orr was antisemitic.

Jamie Pytel of Kingsgate Legal also ruled that a post the mayor wrote on the X social media platform in October 2025 was a “continuation of the harassment” of Orr that suggested he was in support of terrorist organizations and antisemitism...

https://www.biv.com/biv-rss-linkedin/inv...y-councillor-at-news-conference-12285552

Glow Fun City · #**194** Posted **May 15, 2026, 8:57 PM**

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Could that be made up slander? The article below says it is, complete with court ruling.

If you're not a Jew, you don't get to make public jokes about negative Jewish stereotypes (even if you happen to be paraphrasing a Jewish comedian).

Denying Jewish self-determination in our Indigenous homeland and false claims of genocide (ie. blood libel) are also forms of Jew hatred, but that's another discussion…

chowhou · #**195** Posted **May 15, 2026, 9:06 PM**

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Originally Posted by mcj

Could that be made up slander? The article below says it is, complete with court ruling.

His record isn't exactly great in that respect either.

Deleted tweets of course, but the record is out there.

whatnext · #**196** Posted **May 19, 2026, 8:54 PM**

Why does Ken Sim think free swimming lessons for beginners is a core municipal need?

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7203656

kikin · #**197** Posted **May 19, 2026, 10:16 PM**

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His record isn't exactly great in that respect either.

Deleted tweets of course, but the record is out there.

crazy

Feathered Friend · #**198** Posted **May 26, 2026, 12:36 AM**

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The municipal political party of sitting Vancouver city councillor Rebecca Bligh has officially confirmed its first nine candidates for the October 2026 civic election.

Over the past weekend, Vote Vancouver unanimously endorsed candidates to run in each of the three chambers of municipal governance, along with Bligh as the party’s mayoral candidate.

Within City Council, Vote Vancouver’s candidates include small business owner and Vancouver Pride Society president John Boychuk, B.C. Centre for Disease Control public health scientist and University of British Columbia adjunct professor Rebecca Hasdell, scientific researcher and seniors’ advocate Bhavna Solecki, and entrepreneur and the former film commissioner of the Vancouver Economic Commission Geoff Teoli.

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vote-vancouver-party-first-candidates-civic-election-2026

Here's Bhavna Solecki speaking at the Pause The Broadway Plan rally a few years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN6rtlwqZ-Y