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William Azaroff for Mayor of Vancouver. And our great team of candidates with a plan to give you a voice, a place, and a future. Vote by Oct 17 🗳️ www.onecityvancouver.ca

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A tweet from @vote4abc saying: Yesterday, ABC voted to keep Vancouver moving. While the non-ABC parties on Council wanted to lower speed limits on major arterial roads to 30 km/h and 40 km/h, ABC chose to stand with commuters and residents. Speed limits must be driven by common sense, not ideology. Let's keep Vancouver moving forward. --- Along with a graphic saying "Other parties wanted to lower speed limits on major roads to 30km/h & 40km/h ABC CHOSE TO KEEP VANCOUVER MOVING"
Video of OneCity candidates smiling and waving at the camera outdoors, with their names and taglines featured. For Mayor: William Azaroff For Council: 🚲 The (Safe) Street Fighter: Lucy Maloney 🚌 The Transportation Queen: Iona Bonamis 陶思穎 🏡 Our Co-op King: Jarrett Hagglund 🕵️ The Bullsh*t Detector: Frances Bula 🌲 Your Environmental Icon: Caitlin Stockwell For Park Board: 🛹 Skater-in-Chief: John Irwin 🌉 Mister Marpole: Dominic Denofrio ✊ The Labour Environmentalist: Tyler Petersen For School Board: 🎒 PhD PAC Chair: Krista Sigurdson 🤝 Inclusion Champion: Sherry Breshears 🏫 Super(intendant) Steve: Steve Cardwell 🌟 The Wunderkind: Christopher Lee 🍎 The Teachers’ Teacher: Rory Brown
Ken Sim looking bashful in front of reporters
City must set priorities during economic crisis Across-the-board cuts not the answer, Ken Sim says. During the course of the health crisis that has tragically taken too many lives and pushed essential service workers to the limit, an economic crisis has been brewing that will devastate our city if not handled properly. Article content 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 an ineffective short-term measure, it could negatively affect our long-term recovery. In my experience as a business owner, an investment banker and a Fellow of Chartered Professional Accountants, all organizations, including municipal governments, must take financial decisions seriously and do so with great tenacity and diligence. Such diligence is absolutely necessary during our current economic crisis where households are struggling and businesses are failing at an unprecedented rate.
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"OneCity knows we are in a housing crisis. ABC disagrees. We won’t get real action on housing until the voters make themselves heard next year." Lucy Maloney City Councillor, OneCity Vancouver
ABC VOTES TO KEEP YOU STUCK ON NOISY, BUSY STREETS Governing party votes to bury motion that would have unlocked thousands of family-friendly homes on quiet streets
A depiction of CUPW workers on the picket line, along with Lucy Maloney, with the caption "Vancouver: built by workers."
Vancouver Sun B.C. Conservatives register new municipal party ahead of next year’s local elections The municipal Conservative Party was registered by David Denhoff, deputy director for the B.C. Conservatives, Elections B.C. records show By Dan Fumano Published Aug 21, 2025
A screenshot from Power Magazine featuring the headline, Canada Bitcoin Miner Acquiring Two Pennsylvania Coal Plants
We contacted the City of Vancouver for comment on Sim’s attendance, and we were deferred to the Mayor’s Office. The Mayor’s Office said it wouldn’t comment on Sim’s attendance since his participation is part of a personal vacation. “As such, we don’t have any further details to provide.”
This weekend’s conference also features a segment titled, “heating Kitsilano pool with bitcoin mining.” Sim has shown interest in the topic, with him recently posing in a photograph posted via the X social media platform with staff at Mintgreen, a Canadian cleantech company specializing in heat recovery from bitcoin mining.
'A matter of life and death' OneCity Coun. Lucy Maloney described the mayor’s continued interest in bitcoin as a misplaced priority, particularly when many Vancouverites are struggling to make ends meet in what has become an expensive city. “The hill I die on is a safer, more affordable, more livable city for every one of our neighbours,” said Maloney, noting the provincial government has already stated it’s not interested in Sim’s bitcoin pursuit. “We've got such serious problems that are a matter of life and death for the residents of Vancouver. It would be nice to see him putting this energy into addressing the homelessness crisis, the poison drug epidemic, the people that die on our roads. There are bigger issues that I wish he was putting his passion into.”
Since taking power, Ken Sim and ABC have: X Banned net-new supportive housing anywhere in Vancouver X Abandoned a fully-funded supportive housing project X Demolished modular homes, turning them back into parking lots They have made homelessness worse.
A new report from the Homelessness Services Association of BC has found that there are 2,715 homeless people presently living in Vancouver. That's an increase of 12% since 2023. This happened on Ken Sim and ABC's watch.
BREAKING ABC HAVE MADE HOMELESSNESS WORSE New homeless count funds 12% jump in homelessness on Ken Sim and ABC's watch OneCity Vancouver | SWIPE ->
THE TYEE NEWS Ken Sim's Love of Bitcoin Makes Critics Nervous 'The mayor is talking about economics and doesn't seem to understand what he's talking about', says a UBC professor. Jen St. Denis Today The Tyee Jen St. Denis is a reporter with The Tyee.
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BIGGER HOMES AND BETTER PLEXES OneCity Vancouver
Officials cautioned that the train still has to pass a Technical Safety B.C. inspection before it can run again, but said they are confident enough to start selling tickets Thursday on the park board website.
BRING ROAD DEATHS DOWN TO ZERO SIGN UP TO SPEAK BY 5PM
Lucy Maloney has brought a motion with a single goal: zero deaths or injuries on our streets. It is ambitious and achievable. The motion directs city staff to: Examine road safety best practices from other jurisdictions Eliminate road safety interventions that do not show measurable results, and invest in interventions that do Set a target of zero deaths or injuries on our streets - and do what it takes to get there
One death on Vancouver's roads is too many STAND UP FOR SAFER STREETS AT COUNCIL ON WED, JULY 9 Sign up to speak
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British Columbia Vancouver's mayor says he wasn't behind push for $5-million DTES police crackdown VPD board chair not told of Task Force Barrage budget before announcement, leading to questions of process CBC News ¡ Posted: Jun 24, 2025 7:00 AM PDT | Last Updated: 3 hours ago A video with the caption "No paper trail for $5-million VPD task force" New questions are being raised over how Vancouver's police department got $5 million for a crackdown on the Downtown Eastside. Task Force Barrage was announced in February, but the money was not authorized by council, and the police board chair said he had no advance notice of it. As Justin McElroy reports, the lack of a paper trail has raised the ire of one councillor.
The OneCity Twitter account posting a CBC News screenshot whose headline reads “Vancouver council rejects motion that sought to add more housing to Shaughnessy neighbourhood” With the subhed: “Christine Boyle’s motion would have directed staff to create policies for more affordable housing” It quotes a tweet by ABC Vancouver that reads: “🏘️ We’re delivering the rental housing Vancouver needs – faster, smarter and in the right places. ⚠️ Make no mistake, there is only one pro-housing party in this city. It’s ABC Vancouver. 📍1780 East Broadway #vancouver #vanpoli #vanre”
“ABC Vancouver has killed the City of Vancouver’s renter office - again. As displacement rises in Vancouver, there will be no office of the City solely dedicated to enforcing our protections, to educating people on their rights, or to identifying gaps in enforcement through which vulnerable renters could fall. But here is my message to Vancouver’s renters today: These protections exist. You can trust our hard-working City Staff. You just can’t trust ABC. The City of Vancouver will have a Renter Office again. It will find gaps in our protections and plug them, and it will be accessible to everyone worried about what might happen if they see a rezoning board pop up. It will have it again in 2026 - when we drive ABC out of office, and when a progressive majority once again holds power at City Hall." Lucy Maloney City Councillor, OneCity Vancouver
A graphic of Ken Sim superimposed on City Hall with the headline, "ABC kills renter office again"
“The Broadway Plan includes strong renter protections, based on similar policies in Burnaby - but they haven't been tested yet. There's a lot of fear and uncertainty. It's a good idea to have city staff making sure that the renter protections work as intended, as old low-rise rental buildings are replaced with new rental high-rises.” Russil Wvong, Vancouver Area Neighbours Association
“Renters make up half the population of Vancouver, yet two years ago the City closed the one office dedicated to supporting us in the middle of a housing crisis. With displacement accelerating and redevelopments reshaping neighbourhoods, restoring a Tenant Advocacy Office just makes sense. It is an opportunity to demonstrate that renters matter as much as homeowners. At First United, we see low-income and vulnerable tenants and community members in the Downtown Eastside and beyond pushed out of their homes daily. They’re left to navigate evictions without the support they need, while promises of protection go unmet. The Tenant Advocacy Office can be an important frontline service to meet their needs, provide important information at times of crisis, and ensure that tenants’ rights are upheld. ” Amanda Burrows, activist, organizer and executive director of First United
"A Tenant Advocacy Office would help ensure the city's tenant protections are clearly communicated and effectively monitored. We need to build more housing, and this would help do so fairly." Abundant Housing Vancouver
"The Tenant Resource & Advisory Centre (TRAC) supports the motion to establish a City of Vancouver Tenant Advocacy Office. TRAC assists hundreds of renters each year with disputes at the Residential Tenancy Branch, but we are limited in how we can help renters enforce rules specific to Vancouver. TRAC would welcome a new Tenant Advocacy Office that could function as an accessible first point of contact for renters and renter-serving organizations, advise on and coordinate efforts between City departments, and work towards the ultimate goal of improved landlord compliance with Tenant Relocation and Protection Policies and other renter-related City rules." Andrew Sakamoto, Executive Director, Tenant Resource & Advisory Centre (TRAC)
"Tenants need to know that the City has their back." Lucy Maloney City Councillor, OneCity Vancouver
Take action to bring in real enforcement for our renter protections: - Send a letter to Mayor and Council - Sign up to speak on the City's website
Ken Sim killed the Renter Office. Lucy Maloney and Pete Fry want to bring it back. A new motion will establish a Tenant Office. The office will: - Identify gaps in the City's support of renters and give Vancouver new enforcement powers - Coordinate support for renters across the City's departments - Proactively monitor developers for compliance - Give renters confidence that City Hall has their back
An image of City Hall with the caption BRING BACK OUR RENTER OFFICE. It is followed by the OneCity Vancouver logo and the call to action to SWIPE.