{"id":505189,"date":"2026-02-28T12:03:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T12:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/505189\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T12:03:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T12:03:35","slug":"vancouver-mayor-ken-sim-says-he-has-apologized-to-coun-sean-orr-over-defamatory-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/505189\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim says he has apologized to Coun. Sean Orr over \u2018defamatory\u2019 comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>February 27<a class=\"video-base-category-link\" aria-label=\"Content area News\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/player\/news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a>Duration 3:21<\/p>\n<p id=\"MainContentDescription\">Vancouver mayor Ken Sim says he&#8217;s apologized for false claims he made against opposition city councillor Sean Orr. Video from City News that surfaced, showing Sim telling Chinese media that Orr was handing out illegal drugs on Christmas Day. Orr denies the claims and says he was with family over the holidays. Sim repeatedly told reporters that he had apologized but would not say anything else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"February 27NewsDuration 3:21 Vancouver mayor Ken Sim says he&#8217;s apologized for false claims he made against opposition city&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-505189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}