City Councillor @seanorr.bsky.social is at UBCM this week with municipal electeds from across the province fighting for more of the housing we need www.biv.com/news/ubcm-le... #vanpoli #bcpoli #HousingIsAHumanRight

this failure of political imagination is a comms strategy for expanding police power and police budgets

Kneecap is not the story

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...

This is wildly irresponsible stuff from Global

Researchers quantified what people with lived experience have been saying for years: street sweeps harm people, increasing their risk of violence and overdose. My latest for @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/09...

Vancouver city Coun. @seanorr.bsky.social is behind a new motion calling for the city's empty homes tax to increase from three to five per cent. On Monday he discussed the motion with CBC's Early Edition: www.cbc.ca/player/play/... #vanpoli #EmptyHomesTax #FightForHousing

It’s true. I am pleased with this amendment.

LISTEN: Vancouver City Councillor @seanorr.bsky.social spoke with CBC's @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social this morning about why we need to strengthen the Empty Homes Tax www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... #vanpoli #FightForHousing

We're out here at Car Free Day on Main Street with Councillor @seanorr.bsky.social. Come thru! #CarFreeDay #Vancouver #vanpoli

Attended my first meeting of the UNDRIP Task Force Intergovernmental Table and we said farewell to @khelsilem.bsky.social who isn’t running for council. Judging from the members he was a strong leader and a force and will be dearly missed at the table. Hands up and good luck on future endeavours.

The biggest sporting event in the world is happening in our backyard. But most New Yorkers will be priced out of watching it live. Sign our petition calling on FIFA to put game over greed: zohranfornyc.com/gameovergreed

NEW: Councillor @seanorr.bsky.social is introducing a motion at City Council to increase the rate of the Empty Homes Tax. vancouversun.com/news/local-n... #FightForHousing #vanpoli #EmptyHomesTax

This is huge

There's an alarming amount of shitfuckery going on in Vancouver municipal politics and oddly Stanley Park plays a starring role in much of it. Thank you @lucymaloney.bsky.social and @seanorr.bsky.social for being voices of reason. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

COPE is always on the side of workers - against austerity and for fair wages. This morning, our elected reps @seanorr.bsky.social and Suzie Mah joined volunteers from our outreach team to walk the BCGEU picket line downtown at 900 Howe St. #Solidarity #vanpoli

excellent comments from three councillors in response to the mayor/police

Air Canada flight attendants have overwhelmingly rejected a deal on a new collective agreement, with 99.1% of flight attendants voting "no"

The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents. In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.

"housing freezes" are a cruel policy that sees people prioritized for housing based on electoral interests. they are part of an explicit process of dehumanization @natecrompton.bsky.social & I obtained documents that offer insight into how they are engineered: themainlander.com/2025/09/02/d...

Graeber and Wingrow's The Dawn of Everything changed the way I look at the world, especially in its present sorry state:

Labour creates all wealth - true today more than ever, as the billionaire class steals untold millions from our pockets. This Labour Day, celebrate the workers who make Canada better for us all. youtu.be/R8eK9ZXf-Ow?...

Calling all worker allies to support @unifor.org Local 200. This should be a national issue: keep this plant open! An iconic Canadian whisky bottling plant is moving bottling to the US? Now? No way. Defend Amherstburg, workers and families. We shall not be moved! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

How are they still lying about this? The police budget was never cut. Good grief

Wow that’s quite a list! Honoured to be considered among these names… www.straight.com/living/vote-...

Does the mayor understand the meaning of the word politics? Because I’m pretty sure a political party violating policy is inherently political

Breaking! City of Burnaby just became first city in Canada to join arms embargo movement against Israel AND the first Apartheid-Free City, breaking ties with Israeli apartheid and settler colonialism. We've been organizing for months towards this precedent in colonial Canada.

Ken Sim (Feb 25 2025): “i think transparency is incredibly important. this is something that shouldnt be feared. we talk about transparency all the time. if we support transparency, I think we support it everywhere. you cant pick and choose.” lol.

"When the integrity commission’s findings can be disregarded, it indicates the system itself isn’t strong enough." www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/briti... #vanpoli

Question is: will they stop doing it? Do they care?

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.

Montague just being a normal cop: obstructing justice. At least city councillors are accountable and can be voted out.

Hard Pass. The deputy director of the BC Conservatives has filed a new municipal party (elector organization)--Conservative Electors Association--in 15 jurisdictions, including Vancouver & West Vancouver. They'll be on the ballot as "Conservative." vancouversun.com/news/bc-cons...

Today City Councillor @seanorr.bsky.social got to hand out medals to kids for the VPL's summer reading challenge.

Huge kudos to Andrew and Lisa for sticking with this story for months and showing how the VPD slow-walked FOI requests and requests for updated data. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Wow

This is huge. Please fill it out for the future of this city.

"If governments keep showing such disregard for workers’ fundamental rights, we shouldn’t be surprised if workers start showing more disregard for government orders," writes @eidlin.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

"While our mayor attends crypto conferences to discuss things like heating Kits Pool with heat captured from Bitcoin mining, the rest of us are struggling." The August ORR REPORT is up. Read all about @seanorr.bsky.social's busy summer. www.votecope.ca/news/the-orr... #vanpoli

This is absolutely enormous! Gratitude to Canada's unions for showing our banker PM he just picked a fight he cannot win. A chance now to build on the united union power that beat Doug Ford over the notwithstanding clause in 2022. There is power in our unions! canadianlabour.ca/canadas-labo...

family? or family trust? or vancouver.ca/files/cov/fi...

Yowza

"I personally found out on [the X social media platform] and I don't think that's good enough.” - @seanorr.bsky.social #vanpoli

They just tried to kick me out of the Lowtide VIP event in Gastown because I looked poor. Great job guys.

Orr added, “Are we seeing the DOGE-ification of Vancouver’s finances? I think Vancouverites are right to be concerned that Ken Sim’s economic magical thinking could very well be putting Vancouver’s economy in trouble.” dailyhive.com/vancouver/va...

no community has ever policed it’s way into prosperity

A quality thoughtful discussion w @seanorr.bsky.social & @landonhoyt.bsky.social re the Downtown Eastside, its worth, & its future (which doesn't suggest that the neighbourhood should be "ended" or bulldozed for condos). #vanpoli (Straight into my Gentrification course at SFU Geography in the Fall.)

"heating Kitsilano pool with Bitcoin mining" is something the Mayor of Vancouver thinks about while helping the VPD extort the city for million$ so they can prance around the DTES and get paid overtime to steal from the poor

Why did two of this summer's biggest organizing victories happen in BC? Over at @pressprogress.ca, I dug into the policies that helped Uber drivers in Victoria and Amazon workers in Delta unionize their workplaces.