{"id":527725,"date":"2026-03-10T22:20:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T22:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/527725\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T22:20:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T22:20:20","slug":"vancouver-councillor-suing-mayor-ken-sim-for-defamation-over-drug-comments-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/527725\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver councillor suing Mayor Ken Sim for defamation over drug comments &#8211; BC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver city councillor <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/sean-orr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sean Orr<\/a> is suing Mayor <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/ken-sim\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ken Sim<\/a> for defamation over comments in which he accused Orr of distributing illegal drugs.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Sim said at a press conference last week that <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11714805\/vancouver-mayor-ken-sim-sean-orr-drug-comment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">he was misled by a picture he had seen<\/a>, reportedly showing Orr distributing drugs on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n<p>He then told a group of Chinese business leaders that Orr was handing out illegal drugs, audio of which was shared with Global News by The Canadian Press.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767930311_275_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won't miss a trending story.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won&#8217;t miss a trending story.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI referenced a picture that had been shown to me, regarding Coun. Orr distributing drugs,\u201d Sim said at a press conference on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t verify what I thought I saw and frankly, I should have never repeated it to begin with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Politics<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Sim said that his comments were wrong and he accepted full responsibility for his mistake, apologizing to Vancouverites.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Orr said Sim\u2019s apology on Tuesday did not go far enough.<\/p>\n<p>More to come\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2013with files from The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size Vancouver city councillor Sean Orr is suing Mayor Ken Sim&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,204074,714,204073,55],"class_list":["post-527725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ken-sim","tag-politics","tag-sean-orr","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527725","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=527725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}