The timing of this video as I’m reflecting on the revolt at City Council against Sim’s budget cuts is just perfect. Can’t wait to vote against all of ABC.

The 2026 Vancouver budget risks imposing cuts to road safety initiatives that we simply can't afford. With so few details being released, we call upon council to amend the budget to direct that essential transportation programs and staff be protected. 👉 More: visionzerovancouver.ca/2025/11/12/2...

BIG NEWS: OneCity is running for Mayor in 2026! We’re officially launching our open Mayoral nomination contest and giving *you* a voice in who should lead our city.

Today we’re listening to staff reports first, then Counillors will have an opportunity to ask questions. Only after Councillors’ questions will we start listening to public speakers.

Despite Ken Sim trying to call our reporting "false" regarding the loss of Vancouver's sustainability department, city staff just confirmed under pressure from council that those jobs are not in fact safe in the budget, as it now stands.

Thank you, thank you, thank you to the over 500 people who have signed up to speak to the budget and push back against Ken's Cuts.

Just 30 minutes left to sign up to oppose this budget. Ken Sim is trying to gut the city in the hopes that you'll forget his dismal record. We can't let him get away with it. SIGN UP TO SPEAK: vancouver.ca/your-governm...

With everything going on these days, it’s easy to miss when local governments get up to some sketchy stuff. Take Vancouver, where Mayor Ken Sims is planning to eliminate the city’s sustainability and climate department!!! Yes, really. My partners at @nationalobserver.com have the scoop:

Vancouver has spent decades building up a now well-earned reputation for leadership on environmental sustainability. Apparently, the mayor and ABC majority don't see the value in it. Hard to imagine a better way to damage the city's brand.

2023: ABC refunds millions of dollars of Empty Homes Tax to developers 2025: ABC refuses to use EHT money for its intended purpose, putting 81 affordable homes for women and children at risk What an astonishing decision by Ken Sim and ABC.

You'd think a Councillor with a record of cutting services and delaying action on safe streets would have the decency to at least live -near- the community he's damaging. He makes the cuts. We'll live with the consequences.

In voting down this motion, Clr Montague indignantly claimed that the VPD "puts out a message telling drivers to avoid non-essential travel every year" and that to suggest otherwise is "outright false." Can anyone find evidence of this? Here's their PSA for this year:

Maybe the reason Brian Montague brought forward the amendment to kill this Halloween safe streets motion is that he's still recovering from the time children "intimidated" him with their climate change art. vancouver.citynews.ca/2024/11/27/v...

We're incredibly disappointed in this outcome; this should have been an easy win for the safety of our children. Our response: visionzerovancouver.ca/2025/10/29/h...

The party of public safety, everyone:

Honestly gobsmacked by ABC's referral of my road safety motion to staff. Halloween is the most dangerous night of the year for CHILDREN. This was an attempt to use an existing process to keep CHILDREN safe, and ABC punted it to staff w/o offering an alternative. Really, guys?

Plan to leave your car at home on Halloween Night (this Friday night) between 5.00 pm and 9.00 pm, and if you do need to drive, take it slowly and carefully to help keep children safe on the most dangerous night of the year for child pedestrians.

ABC disregarded reams of formal public feedback received by the City in their Budget Survey. It's cynical and unserious. And it's insulting to residents and to the staff who put untold hours into analyzing and compiling the Survey results. Ken Sim and ABC have got to go. #EvictKenSim #vanpoli

NEW: A recording of the City of Vancouver's budget townhall indicates that the City's budget survey showed public support for a modest increase in property taxes to avoid cuts. The townhall can be viewed on YouTube. The exchange in question starts at 12:20: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzWm...

Someone check on Ken Sim

"[Councillor Caradonna] added Vancouver should look at the lessons learned from Victoria. 'It’s not fiscally prudent to do these sorts of things,' he said. 'It’s what we call electoral math.'" www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

People are broke, parks are falling apart, and Ken Sim is cutting the budget to the bone. Now isn’t the time for an unnecessary referendum.

Ken Sim's stunt of a motion has put the City Manager in the difficult position of delivering against an unreasonable ask, with an unreasonable timeline. The process is so rushed that we will have NO details when we vote in November. Ken Sim won't know what he's voting to cut. And neither will you.

"Recent actions announced by the City of Vancouver do not add up for our economic survival. Asking every city department to arbitrarily cut budgets by a blanket percentage is not only a ineffective short-term measure, it could negatively affect our long-term recovery." -- Ken Sim in 2020

Ken Sim's property tax stunt starts with an arbitrary, politically-motivated number and asks staff to cut until they meet it. We should be asking what it will take to meet the expectations of the people we serve. I oppose Ken Sim's cuts.

Fall is here, but we've extended our Summer Survey for one more month! OneCity wants to know more about you, and the issues YOU care about! Enter for a chance to win Earnest Ice Cream! onecityvancouver.typeform.com/to/MXO50snd?...

On Wednesday, Ken Sim will direct staff to make brutal cuts to the City's budget - putting the services you and I rely on at risk. We need to stand up to him. SIGN UP TO SPEAK on the City's website, in OPPOSITION to Motion 1 on October 8: vancouver.ca/your-governm...

We deserve a government that is stable, thoughtful, and predictable. What we’ve got with Ken Sim and his enablers in ABC is a political roller coaster. Instead of leadership, performance and politics.

On this National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we acknowledge we have a responsibility to build a future based on reconciliation, decolonization, and the recognition of Indigenous rights. A better future for everyone who lives on these lands.

ABC's cuts are already starting. We can't allow this to continue. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

They’re doing this to save their political skins after three years of floundering, and if this comes to pass, we’re all going to suffer the consequences. vancouversun.com/news/big-cut...

It’s underappreciated just how radical ABC's budget proposal is. It requires deep, deep cuts. If they are approved, it’s impossible to tell what’s on the chopping block. Libraries? Community centres? Investments that improve public safety? I don’t know - and I don’t think ABC knows, either.

Rebecca Bligh just announced she wants to be Mayor. She's had some ups and downs as councilor, but I'll always remember her Shaughnessy votes: voting against rental townhomes there (citing the "iconic look" of its hedges) and against OneCity's motion to legalize more housing in Shaughnessy.

Rebecca Bligh voted to slash wages for workers, to block rental housing in wealthy neighbourhoods, and to oppose common sense tools to properly fund our schools. We need a progressive mayor on the ballot to deliver the change Vancouver needs. And we’ll get one. More soon.

I was so pleased to have unanimous support for my & Cllr Orr’s motion to streamline approvals processes for vertical farming businesses in Vancouver. @seanorr.bsky.social @onecityvan.bsky.social @copevancouver.bsky.social www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/vi...

I live in a 3 storey condo building on a quiet side street that was built in the 70s, and I love it. It’s green and peaceful, but mere steps to the transit and shopping of a major road. Allowing up to 6 floors wouldn’t be a significant change, and would open this up to more people

This is so disappointing. This means us poorer folks that can’t afford luxury detached housing is still artificially blocked from nice quiet streets by archaic city zoning.

Ken Sim and ABC have voted to bury Lucy Maloney’s motion that would have brought six floors and corner stores to side streets across Vancouver, unlocking thousands of family-friendly homes.

IMPORTANT: Here in Vancouver on Sept 17th, City Council will consider a motion by Councillor @lucymaloney.bsky.social directing Staff to look at allowing 6-storey apts & retail at corners along active transport streets & around parks. This idea should have been done 10+ years ago. Please support.

I support a democratically elected park board. Part of democracy is ensuring that the government’s decisions match the city’s values. Vancouver is a city for all its people. Trans people included. I am calling on the Park Board to rethink this event and make this right.

Out on the picket line today with @bcgeu.bsky.social. If you work, you should be able to live in dignity and security. Public service workers, like all workers, shouldn’t need second and third jobs just to get by. If you find yourself by a picket line, remember: don’t cross it!

Today we honour the generations of workers who make this city run. ✊ Working people continue to build and care for this city every single day. From teachers to transit operators, library and service staff, city staff to community care workers — your labour should be respected.

There’s a loophole in the Code of Conduct so big you could fit a self-deleting group chat in it. Proud to join with @copevancouver.bsky.social and @vangreens.bsky.social to close it.

Deep gratitude for our courageous neighbours in Burnaby for their leadership last night. The ongoing genocide and imposed famine Israel is carrying out in Gaza threatens our universal dignity and humanity; we stand in solidarity with everyone affected. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

If Ken Sim respected the role of the Integrity Commissioner, he wouldn't have tried to fire her while under investigation.

It’s clear that Ken Sim and his ABC enablers would prefer to have Council be a rubber stamp for their private agenda. No wonder they tried to fire the Integrity Commissioner. She's a constant reminder that the people of this city who oppose their agenda deserve to be heard.

PS - while I was speaking to the CBC about ABC's transit inaction, a 49 bus showed up - and it was full. Talk about ironic

Your time is valuable. But ABC is wasting it. Instead of building bus lanes, they're chasing pet projects and planning a budget that will require big cuts. It's time for a city government that is ready to invest in transit and get us moving.

Yesterday, at a ‪@movementyvr.bsky.social‬ rally, we celebrated the dubious anniversary of ABC passing a motion for new bus lanes on 49th Avenue and other routes. One year later we've seen no action - and since then, commuters have spent a collective 316 years and 52 days delayed by traffic.

This is ridiculous. If you can't afford $$$ private lessons then your kids can't learn to swim.