Derrick O'Keefe
@derrickokeefe.bsky.social
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For someone who hates socialism he sure loves being publicly owned
Hey all. If you would like to see this morning's interview with Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim, I have attached a YouTube link below.
Thank you for watching.
youtu.be/s9Khl0T_BEA?...
Thank you for watching.
youtu.be/s9Khl0T_BEA?...
Vancouver mayor stands by city's budget
YouTube video by CBC British Columbia
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
For someone who hates socialism he sure loves being publicly owned
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Our new RJO status is a game-changer. It means we can now give you a tax receipt, so you can effectively double the power of your investment.
Fuel our next chapter of hard-hitting, public-interest reporting.
Give today: ricochet.media/donate/
Fuel our next chapter of hard-hitting, public-interest reporting.
Give today: ricochet.media/donate/
November 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Our new RJO status is a game-changer. It means we can now give you a tax receipt, so you can effectively double the power of your investment.
Fuel our next chapter of hard-hitting, public-interest reporting.
Give today: ricochet.media/donate/
Fuel our next chapter of hard-hitting, public-interest reporting.
Give today: ricochet.media/donate/
The next Vancouver municipal election will be held Oct. 17, 2026.
JUST IN: Ken Sim and ABC have voted through a Budget that makes deep cuts.
This austerity budget makes Zero Sense.
Press release: www.votecope.ca/news/zero-se...
#vanpoli #FightForVancouver
This austerity budget makes Zero Sense.
Press release: www.votecope.ca/news/zero-se...
#vanpoli #FightForVancouver
November 26, 2025 at 1:47 AM
The next Vancouver municipal election will be held Oct. 17, 2026.
Maybe it's time to implement a left-wing lock system at City Hall. (I'll see myself out, sorry...)
the kennedy stewart canucks passed the puck back and forth for entire periods without generating any progress
the gregor robertson canucks had an innovative system of dedicated vertical laneways for agile forwards but fans rebelled when ticket prices doubled
the sam sullivan canucks okay i'll stop
the gregor robertson canucks had an innovative system of dedicated vertical laneways for agile forwards but fans rebelled when ticket prices doubled
the sam sullivan canucks okay i'll stop
November 26, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Maybe it's time to implement a left-wing lock system at City Hall. (I'll see myself out, sorry...)
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Tuesday is Budget debate day at City Council.
We've seen an unprecedented fight back against this awful proposed Budget.
Add your voice now! Last chance to tell Councillors to do the right thing and stop Ken Sim's cuts.
Send your letter: votecope.ca/stopsim
We've seen an unprecedented fight back against this awful proposed Budget.
Add your voice now! Last chance to tell Councillors to do the right thing and stop Ken Sim's cuts.
Send your letter: votecope.ca/stopsim
November 25, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Tuesday is Budget debate day at City Council.
We've seen an unprecedented fight back against this awful proposed Budget.
Add your voice now! Last chance to tell Councillors to do the right thing and stop Ken Sim's cuts.
Send your letter: votecope.ca/stopsim
We've seen an unprecedented fight back against this awful proposed Budget.
Add your voice now! Last chance to tell Councillors to do the right thing and stop Ken Sim's cuts.
Send your letter: votecope.ca/stopsim
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It's our last chance to stop Ken Sim's plan to slash city services to give a hand-out to the super-rich.
Send a letter to City Council to join your neighbours in fighting back:
votecope.ca/stopsim
Send a letter to City Council to join your neighbours in fighting back:
votecope.ca/stopsim
November 23, 2025 at 12:12 AM
It's our last chance to stop Ken Sim's plan to slash city services to give a hand-out to the super-rich.
Send a letter to City Council to join your neighbours in fighting back:
votecope.ca/stopsim
Send a letter to City Council to join your neighbours in fighting back:
votecope.ca/stopsim
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We've got some exciting news to share! We recently found out that we're an RJO! (we can now issue tax receipts like a charity)
"This is, without exaggeration, a game-changer for us."
Check out the full announcement from one of our founders, @ethancox.bsky.social:
ricochet.media/announcement...
"This is, without exaggeration, a game-changer for us."
Check out the full announcement from one of our founders, @ethancox.bsky.social:
ricochet.media/announcement...
November 20, 2025 at 2:53 PM
We've got some exciting news to share! We recently found out that we're an RJO! (we can now issue tax receipts like a charity)
"This is, without exaggeration, a game-changer for us."
Check out the full announcement from one of our founders, @ethancox.bsky.social:
ricochet.media/announcement...
"This is, without exaggeration, a game-changer for us."
Check out the full announcement from one of our founders, @ethancox.bsky.social:
ricochet.media/announcement...
It just takes a minute to email ABC's City Councillors.
Ask them to reject their backroom handlers, show some courage, and oppose Ken Sim's Cuts.
Also there's an election next year. Now's a great time to join the Coalition of Progressive Electors.
www.copevancouver.ca/join
#vanpoli
Ask them to reject their backroom handlers, show some courage, and oppose Ken Sim's Cuts.
Also there's an election next year. Now's a great time to join the Coalition of Progressive Electors.
www.copevancouver.ca/join
#vanpoli
Ken Sim and ABC are facing huge opposition to their opaque, undemocratic, and detailless budget that will bring huge cuts to city staff, services, and programs.
It only takes 2 minutes to add your voice.
Write to Council: www.votecope.ca/stopsim
#vanpoli #StopTheCuts
It only takes 2 minutes to add your voice.
Write to Council: www.votecope.ca/stopsim
#vanpoli #StopTheCuts
Stop Ken Sim's Cuts — COPE Vancouver
www.votecope.ca
November 15, 2025 at 5:57 PM
It just takes a minute to email ABC's City Councillors.
Ask them to reject their backroom handlers, show some courage, and oppose Ken Sim's Cuts.
Also there's an election next year. Now's a great time to join the Coalition of Progressive Electors.
www.copevancouver.ca/join
#vanpoli
Ask them to reject their backroom handlers, show some courage, and oppose Ken Sim's Cuts.
Also there's an election next year. Now's a great time to join the Coalition of Progressive Electors.
www.copevancouver.ca/join
#vanpoli
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Feeling inspired by and grateful to my fellow Vancouver residents today for organizing en masse against a budget so sloppy and craven that anyone else would be fired for presenting it at their work.
NEW: The marathon session of Council has resumed after a break for dinner. Speaker #107 of 630+ now up.
ICYMI, Councillor Orr is providing regular updates on speakers.
You can also watch Council live here: www.youtube.com/live/7GvbDBa...
#vanpoli #StopTheCuts
ICYMI, Councillor Orr is providing regular updates on speakers.
You can also watch Council live here: www.youtube.com/live/7GvbDBa...
#vanpoli #StopTheCuts
November 13, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Feeling inspired by and grateful to my fellow Vancouver residents today for organizing en masse against a budget so sloppy and craven that anyone else would be fired for presenting it at their work.
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240: Chloe Leslie. everyone deserves clean parks, affordable homes, and libraries. These cuts aren’t helping average Vancouverites. Benefits ultra rich. Listen to people.
November 13, 2025 at 5:17 AM
240: Chloe Leslie. everyone deserves clean parks, affordable homes, and libraries. These cuts aren’t helping average Vancouverites. Benefits ultra rich. Listen to people.
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246: folk fest president. Advocating for increased funding for arts. Arts is a necessity. Festivals under threat. Many have folded. We bring in millions of dollars to economy. We bring joy in world of despair. Half of our grants just go back to city in police costs.
November 13, 2025 at 5:25 AM
246: folk fest president. Advocating for increased funding for arts. Arts is a necessity. Festivals under threat. Many have folded. We bring in millions of dollars to economy. We bring joy in world of despair. Half of our grants just go back to city in police costs.
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I am so goddamn tired of conservatives destroying things that belong to the public. This department doesn't belong to Sim, it's not his, he has no moral right to do this. This is social vandalism.
He just sucks so much. And he's not even a fun mayor who sucks, he's just boring and mid and awful.
He just sucks so much. And he's not even a fun mayor who sucks, he's just boring and mid and awful.
NEW: Councillors and sources inside the City of Vancouver say the city's mayor, Ken Sim, will put forth a budget Wednesday that will eliminate the city's celebrated climate and sustainability department.
Vancouver mayor plans to eliminate city's climate and sustainability department
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim is planning to eliminate the city's sustainability and climate department under the guise of a push to prevent increases to property taxes. Canada's National Observer learned a...
www.nationalobserver.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:01 AM
I am so goddamn tired of conservatives destroying things that belong to the public. This department doesn't belong to Sim, it's not his, he has no moral right to do this. This is social vandalism.
He just sucks so much. And he's not even a fun mayor who sucks, he's just boring and mid and awful.
He just sucks so much. And he's not even a fun mayor who sucks, he's just boring and mid and awful.
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Ken Sim hopes you don't see this screenshot from the City's 2026 Budget Feedback report.
By a more than 4-to-1 margin, residents of Vancouver preferred a tax rate that maintained public services to ABC's reckless 0% tax gimmick.
#vanpoli #StopTheCuts #Budget2026 #FightForVancouver
By a more than 4-to-1 margin, residents of Vancouver preferred a tax rate that maintained public services to ABC's reckless 0% tax gimmick.
#vanpoli #StopTheCuts #Budget2026 #FightForVancouver
November 9, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Ken Sim hopes you don't see this screenshot from the City's 2026 Budget Feedback report.
By a more than 4-to-1 margin, residents of Vancouver preferred a tax rate that maintained public services to ABC's reckless 0% tax gimmick.
#vanpoli #StopTheCuts #Budget2026 #FightForVancouver
By a more than 4-to-1 margin, residents of Vancouver preferred a tax rate that maintained public services to ABC's reckless 0% tax gimmick.
#vanpoli #StopTheCuts #Budget2026 #FightForVancouver
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The vast majority of budget survey respondents says they’d payback moderate property tax increase to protect services.
Remember this is all to save the average condo owner 8 bucks a month.
Remember this is all to save the average condo owner 8 bucks a month.
Vancouver's proposed 2026 budget has been released.
It proposes a property tax freeze, a 10% increase to the Police Services budget, a 6% increase to Fire/Rescue Services, and lots of other cuts, including Arts & Culture, Planning & Sustainability, and much more.
Full report here.
It proposes a property tax freeze, a 10% increase to the Police Services budget, a 6% increase to Fire/Rescue Services, and lots of other cuts, including Arts & Culture, Planning & Sustainability, and much more.
Full report here.
council.vancouver.ca
November 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The vast majority of budget survey respondents says they’d payback moderate property tax increase to protect services.
Remember this is all to save the average condo owner 8 bucks a month.
Remember this is all to save the average condo owner 8 bucks a month.
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Hi, I'm Kevin O'Leary, millionaire, Trump lover, Canadian, fraud, bad investor, and person who worships income disparity and believes people in poverty should admire the 1%. Here is why I am extremely angry and confused that I was not Zohran Mamdani's first priority and favourite special little boy
November 7, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Hi, I'm Kevin O'Leary, millionaire, Trump lover, Canadian, fraud, bad investor, and person who worships income disparity and believes people in poverty should admire the 1%. Here is why I am extremely angry and confused that I was not Zohran Mamdani's first priority and favourite special little boy
We really are ruled by supervillains.
Canadian multimillionaire and Shark Tank guy Kevin O'Leary went on TV to say he's upset Zohran won't talk to him: "I and others who invest in real estate have tried to get a meeting to figure out what's rhetoric and what's policy. So far for me it's been crickets."
November 7, 2025 at 7:46 PM
We really are ruled by supervillains.
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This budget is further confirmation that Mark Carney is Stephen Harper’s political heir.
November 4, 2025 at 9:58 PM
This budget is further confirmation that Mark Carney is Stephen Harper’s political heir.
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MAMDANI CAME OUT TO JA RULE "NEW YORK" AND IMMEDIATELY QUOTED EUGENE DEBS
November 5, 2025 at 4:21 AM
MAMDANI CAME OUT TO JA RULE "NEW YORK" AND IMMEDIATELY QUOTED EUGENE DEBS
Having volunteered on and helped run socialist campaigns at the municipal level a few times here in Vancouver, what a joy it is to see the bar raised so spectacularly.
May Zohran Mamdani's historic win inspire us all to continue and to scale-up our political courage & the audacity of our efforts.
May Zohran Mamdani's historic win inspire us all to continue and to scale-up our political courage & the audacity of our efforts.
November 5, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Having volunteered on and helped run socialist campaigns at the municipal level a few times here in Vancouver, what a joy it is to see the bar raised so spectacularly.
May Zohran Mamdani's historic win inspire us all to continue and to scale-up our political courage & the audacity of our efforts.
May Zohran Mamdani's historic win inspire us all to continue and to scale-up our political courage & the audacity of our efforts.
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Congratulations, New York City!!
Zohran Mamdani’s win is historic, the result of a grassroots campaign that fought to make life more affordable.
Vancouver’s next municipal election is October 17, 2026.
Zohran Mamdani’s win is historic, the result of a grassroots campaign that fought to make life more affordable.
Vancouver’s next municipal election is October 17, 2026.
November 5, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Congratulations, New York City!!
Zohran Mamdani’s win is historic, the result of a grassroots campaign that fought to make life more affordable.
Vancouver’s next municipal election is October 17, 2026.
Zohran Mamdani’s win is historic, the result of a grassroots campaign that fought to make life more affordable.
Vancouver’s next municipal election is October 17, 2026.
Great news for our neighbourhood - and for the whole city.
October 28, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Great news for our neighbourhood - and for the whole city.
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This is why it’s a problem to have right-wing governments at the local government level. If passed, this budget would not only devastate services, it would pass debt to future councils.
Interest and inflation don’t magically disappear.
It’s “electoral math,” not fiscal prudence or good governance.
Interest and inflation don’t magically disappear.
It’s “electoral math,” not fiscal prudence or good governance.
A number of amendments are being brought forward by opposition councillors, including having a line by line budget comparison or deferring this vote until after the budget survey, but is being defeated on party lines.
Based on timelines, full budget wouldn’t be voted on until early next year.
Based on timelines, full budget wouldn’t be voted on until early next year.
Mayor Sim’s zero means zero motion has been tabled. 43 speakers signed up. According to Sim, this means a zero percent property tax increase. No infrastructure tax increase.
October 9, 2025 at 12:54 AM
This is why it’s a problem to have right-wing governments at the local government level. If passed, this budget would not only devastate services, it would pass debt to future councils.
Interest and inflation don’t magically disappear.
It’s “electoral math,” not fiscal prudence or good governance.
Interest and inflation don’t magically disappear.
It’s “electoral math,” not fiscal prudence or good governance.
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In B.C., progressive movement leaders feel betrayed by David Eby’s NDP.
The 'government's calculation appears to be billions for LNG and pennies for families'.
New from @westernwriter.bsky.social:
ricochet.media/climate/in-b...
#BCpoli
The 'government's calculation appears to be billions for LNG and pennies for families'.
New from @westernwriter.bsky.social:
ricochet.media/climate/in-b...
#BCpoli
In B.C., progressive movement leaders feel betrayed by David Eby's NDP
The 'government's calculation appears to be billions for LNG and pennies for families'
ricochet.media
October 14, 2025 at 12:22 PM
In B.C., progressive movement leaders feel betrayed by David Eby’s NDP.
The 'government's calculation appears to be billions for LNG and pennies for families'.
New from @westernwriter.bsky.social:
ricochet.media/climate/in-b...
#BCpoli
The 'government's calculation appears to be billions for LNG and pennies for families'.
New from @westernwriter.bsky.social:
ricochet.media/climate/in-b...
#BCpoli
Ken Sim is a desperate and pathetic figure.
We need a lot more Sean Orrs in elected office. 🌹🇵🇸 #vanpoli
We need a lot more Sean Orrs in elected office. 🌹🇵🇸 #vanpoli
Today the mayor of Vancouver called me an antisemitic terrorist supporter. Here is my speech:
This isn’t controversial
Being against what the UN calls a genocide is not controversial
Being against apartheid is not controversial
This isn’t controversial
Being against what the UN calls a genocide is not controversial
Being against apartheid is not controversial
October 5, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Ken Sim is a desperate and pathetic figure.
We need a lot more Sean Orrs in elected office. 🌹🇵🇸 #vanpoli
We need a lot more Sean Orrs in elected office. 🌹🇵🇸 #vanpoli