Vancouver City Hall
City or town hall in Vancouver, British ColumbiaWikipedia
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Oct 23, 2026
SeanHOST
10 of 11 seats are hard left.
SeanHOST
A red-green coalition of communists and Islamists have commandeered Vancouver City Hall.
AaronHOST
WTF happened with Vancouver's election? They voted for the dumbest people possible, giving them a sweep.
AaronHOST
Anti-capitalist commies who want to double down on bike lanes and drugs while defunding the
Sam CooperGUEST
And it's, I think it's more than just wonky, crazy BC politics and domestic things.
Sam CooperGUEST
Because as I've already, I mean, we've talked many times about how at multiple levels in BC politics from the Richmond Council race, your former hometown, Vancouver City Hall, we've had Kennedy Stewart, the former mayor, say that, you know, as I reported, China was involved in that election.
Sam CooperGUEST
They didn't like Kennedy Stewart.
Sam CooperGUEST
He said a lot more publicly now.
19 MINS LATER
Jason JamesHOST
That's correct.
Sam CooperGUEST
And this is not inferential or looking at, you know, connecting dots.
Sam CooperGUEST
This comes from the very same CSIS intelligence document of October 2022 that I'm citing in our conversation that points to candidate three, candidate one, that points to Vancouver City Hall, that points to, you know, how bonds of obligation are formed through community groups and proxies for China during election campaigns.
Sam CooperGUEST
And the There is not one Chinese language media outlet in Canada that operates freely.
speaker_2NARRATOR
Pete Fry wants Vancouverites to trust his judgment.
Stephen QuinnHOST
So that is the full advertisement from ABC Vancouver, and it draws on one of the biggest political controversies at Vancouver City Hall over the past 18 months.
Stephen QuinnHOST
Its release comes at a crucial point in the campaign as the parties are making their final push to win over voters.
Stephen QuinnHOST
And so why is ABC revisiting this controversy now? And why try to link Pete Fry to Sean Orr? Well, for those questions and more, we are joined by the CBC's Justin McElroy.
Dallas BrodieGUEST
... who asked us?" And we fought and we won that, but the, the push for that was coming from the federal liberal party that promised money to the city if they would start doing all of this abundant housing stuff.
Dallas BrodieGUEST
And, and [sighs] you know, s- excuse me, Ottawa is not supposed to be running Vancouver City Hall.
Dallas BrodieGUEST
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Travis BaderHOST
Right.
Sam CooperGUEST
And it's, I think it's more than just wonky, crazy BC politics and domestic things.
Sam CooperGUEST
Because as I've already, I mean, we've talked many times about how at multiple levels in BC politics from the Richmond Council race, your former hometown, Vancouver City Hall, we've had Kennedy Stewart, the former mayor, say that, you know, as I reported, China was involved in that election.
Sam CooperGUEST
They didn't like Kennedy Stewart.
Sam CooperGUEST
He's said a lot more publicly now.
13 MINS LATER
Sam CooperGUEST
And at this point, you have to pay for a subscription because the story is paywalled.
Sam CooperGUEST
About 2,000 words long, it has Kennedy Stewart, the former Vancouver mayor in there.
Sam CooperGUEST
But in a nutshell, that very same CSIS document talks about how three community groups target the Vancouver City Hall race seeking to support a certain candidate in that election.
Sam CooperGUEST
The Globe and Mail had different documents that said kind of the same things.
Janet BrownGUEST
... was about covering politics as a reporter.
Janet BrownGUEST
I covered politics at Vancouver City Hall for 18 years.
Janet BrownGUEST
Love it.
Janet BrownGUEST
I covered politics, city council meetings in Surrey for over 10 years.