{"id":936272,"date":"2026-10-17T09:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T09:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/936272\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T09:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T09:48:09","slug":"exclusive-highlights-of-vancouver-mayor-ken-sims-controversial-meeting-with-chinese-language-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/936272\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Highlights of Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim\u2019s controversial meeting with Chinese-language media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reality: Three weeks later, Sim admitted he was not telling the truth and apologized for falsely claiming that Orr \u201cwas handing out illegal drugs on Christmas Day, to people on the streets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Orr deemed Sim\u2019s apology insufficient and sued for defamation.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Sim falsely claimed Vancouver\u2019s \u201cexposure\u201d to FIFA World Cup costs was only $5 million and hosting seven B.C. Place matches would bring \u201cover a billion dollars of economic activity to the City of Vancouver.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reality: The provincial government\u2019s May 2026 estimates peg Vancouver\u2019s gross bill at $320 million to $338 million. The province also estimated $1 billion would flow into the B.C. economy by 2031, without providing methodology.<\/p>\n<p class=\"button-wrapper\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/bobmackin.substack.com\/p\/exclusive-highlights-of-vancouver?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}\" data-component-name=\"ButtonCreateButton\"><a class=\"button primary\" href=\"https:\/\/bobmackin.substack.com\/p\/exclusive-highlights-of-vancouver?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Share<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And, last but not least, Sim told the reporters \u201cAfter this election\u2026 we will be planning a trip to China.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reality: That promise is not contained in the ABC Vancouver English platform. Nor did Sim formally table a proposal at any open city council meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Sim made the promise to visit Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Shantou and Greater Bay Area twice to locally stationed Chinese diplomats. Once at the Chinese consulate\u2019s Lunar New Year event in January and again in September at the Chinese consulate\u2019s celebration of 77 years of Communist rule.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2023, Sim scoffed at a Globe and Mail report that, according to a leak from Canada\u2019s spy agency, China\u2019s consul general discussed a strategy to replace pro-Taiwan Mayor Kennedy Stewart with a Chinese-Canadian candidate in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there is proof of this, I\u2019d be as mad as hell as everyone else,\u201d Sim said.<\/p>\n<p>The 2025 Hogue Commission final report warned that China \u201ctargets all levels of government in Canada,\u201d and supports those parties that it believes are helpful to its interests, \u201cthose it believes are likely to have power, no matter their political party.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reality: Three weeks later, Sim admitted he was not telling the truth and apologized for falsely claiming that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":936273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-936272","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\/936272","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=936272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/936273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}