Mo Amir

Today in interesting local politics and local media news: @fabulavancouver.bsky.social seems to be making the leap to local politics and will join OneCity.

I phoned @fabulavancouver.bsky.social, and she officially declined comment until the “career transition” becomes public tomorrow.

Ken Sim has to hold a press conference today because:

- On Day 1 Sim threw his councillor under the bus for false drug dealer claims
- On Day 2 Sim was revealed to have also said it, but ducked the press
-On Day 3 Sim said “I apologized” on a loop without saying why

So now we get Day 4

Warren Kinsella and Senator Charles Adler are coming to Ben Mulroney's defence and blaming TV producers for Ben sharing video game footage as if it were real air combat videos from Iran on his personal X account

(I don't think they understand he is sharing this stuff on X, not on TV)

My SOAPBOX SOCIAL commentary on Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim starting a false claim about Vancouver City Councillor Sean Orr.

Curious what will truly be won in the battle to prove immaculate conception under the BCConservative faith…
Let the witchhunts begin, or whatever.

Demand Purity of the Next BC Conservative Leader? That’s Poison | The Tyee By vying to prove who leans farthest right, candidates could shrink the party’s path to power.

“The shallow exercise of conservative chest-thumping may galvanize membership, but it shrinks the Conservative Party of BC’s flexibility to adapt to the broader electorate — a risk being demonstrated, in real time, by Pierre Poilievre.”

My latest in @thetyee.ca👇

thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Demand Purity of the Next BC Conservative Leader? That’s Poison | The Tyee By vying to prove who leans farthest right, candidates could shrink the party’s path to power.

Out of the gate, the Conservative Party of BC’s leadership race feels less like a search for the next premier and more like a purity test to identify the party’s most uncompromising conservative. @vancolour.bsky.social writes. #bcpoli

I’m not rehabbing anyone.

We host lots of perspectives on the show. I’m getting hers on what’s happening in #bcpoli in 2026. I think it was interesting and insightful.

Folks are free to think of it what they may, but maybe watch it first before complaining?

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👉 Kevin Falcon

Tune in for your performance review! 📋🤓

The 35th Premier of British Columbia,
Christy Clark is on This is VANCOLOUR

Kyla Lee on CBC’s On The Coast with Gloria Macarenko: Soapbox Social: Latest B.C. budget and Vancouver politics - Kyla Lee: Vancouver DUI Lawyer The B.C. government’s 2026 budget announced a series of tax increases, capital project delays, and a reduction of 15,000 public sector jobs over three years. “I don’t think it’s the correct trade-off. I accept that in these times right now any budget is likely going to have a deficit…. I don’t think the trade-offs they’re.....

CBC’s On The Coast with Kyla and @vancolour.bsky.social: Soapbox Social: Latest B.C. budget and Vancouver politics

“I don’t think the trade-offs they’re making for the deficit are the right ones…”

https://loom.ly/OBNkyxM

Honoured to be on the analysis desk for CBC’s special coverage of B.C. Budget Day 2026! 🙏

ICYMI: I got visibly angrier and frustrated during the broadcast at the news of a $13.3 BILLION deficit *after* the province admitted that such large deficits were “unsustainable” 😡

while the BCNDP was caving to the diversion moral panic and severely limiting its safe supply program, the public safety ministry was acknowledging in budget preparation documents that hydromorphone only accounted for 0.3% of VPD drug seizures by weight

B.C. Budget 2026: Special coverage of the province’s economic outlook Michelle Eliot hosts live coverage, reaction and analysis of the 2026 B.C. provincial budget.

It's Budget Day in BC! I'll be on CBC Vancouver at 1pm with @vancolour.bsky.social, and Michelle Eliot hosting. Find us here: www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

This is @vancolour.bsky.social: Kyla’s Court – Can Canada block Hasan Piker from entering the country?

"...Because it’s not on a list, he’s not automatically considered for immigration purposes, a terrorist."

https://loom.ly/0y6Dkf0

Thanks for watching 🙏

Thanks for having me on! It was fun to be in living Vancolour this week.

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👉 B.C. could owe you money and you might not know it! 🤑
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👉 Is another pipeline in B.C. just a pipe dream? 💭
(@stewartprest.ca)

👉 Can Canada deny Hasan Piker entry into the country? 🛑
(@kylalee.ca)

Another brilliant political deep-dive tonight on #ThisIsVanColour.

@vancolour.bsky.social asks really good questions, and #BradWestPoCo has great insight. Love the combined analysis of the state of our province and #BCpoli.

#PortCoquitlam

Ken Sim’s Rivals Could Deliver Him a Win | The Tyee Despite multiple fumbles, his path to re-election is clear.

"What is clear, however, is that ABC Vancouver has, so far, successfully monopolized the political lane among voters for whom public safety and property taxes are the overriding concerns." via @vancolour.bsky.social & @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Ken Sim’s Rivals Could Deliver Him a Win | The Tyee Despite multiple fumbles, his path to re-election is clear.

“Ken Sim’s Rivals Could Deliver Him a Win”

Ken Sim won’t replicate the popularity that swept him into office in 2022. But the Vancouver mayor has carved out a political lane that could still carry him in October’s election. #vanpoli

My latest in @thetyee.ca👇

thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Ken Sim’s Rivals Could Deliver Him a Win | The Tyee Despite multiple fumbles, his path to re-election is clear.

Ken Sim won’t replicate the popularity that swept him into office in 2022. But the Vancouver mayor has carved out a political lane that could still carry him in October’s election. @vancolour.bsky.social writes. #vanpoli

This was a great episode, especially with Minister Sharma:
They should have been a link on where to go for help:

British Columbia's intimate Image Protection Act - how to report and remove your images - includes AI generated:

Social media turns death into entertainment
(…and Andrew Scheer is a troll)

A MOment
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YouTube video by CHEK Media Should Canada Ban X? (Lance from The Serfs)

From a longer interview where I make the case that there is no free speech when billionaires control the public square
youtu.be/3HOpOJSpz3U?...

No one hates free speech more than billionaires

Are You The Tyee’s New Biodiversity Reporter? | The Tyee We’re looking for a sharp journalist to join our team. Apply by Feb. 8.

We’re looking for an experienced journalist to join a growing bureau at The Tyee with a special focus on oceans and rivers in Western Canada.

Apply by Feb. 8 and tell your journalist friends! 🪸📰 #CdnMedia

Is 𝕏 really the “free speech app”?

Lance from @theserfstv.bsky.social discusses the recent controversies on Elon Musk’s social media platform (formerly known as Twitter) that have opened up calls for more regulation.

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FULL SEGMENT: youtu.be/3HOpOJSpz3U?...

Heck yeah!

No.

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🎶 Let’s talk about X, baby! 🎶

👉 X is taking B.C. to court. What’s at stake?
(B.C. Attorney General @nikisharma.bsky.social)

👉 At what point should Canada ban X?
(Lance from @theserfstv.bsky.social)

👉 Social media turns death into entertainment