{"id":46419,"date":"2025-04-11T01:45:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T08:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=46419"},"modified":"2025-04-10T14:36:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T21:36:33","slug":"left-returns-to-city-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2025\/04\/11\/left-returns-to-city-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Left returns to City Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The left in Vancouver came roaring back to life last Saturday, April 5. In the civic by-election to replace two city councilors, Sean Orr, candidate of the far-left Coalition of Progressive Electors, topped the polls, with Lucy Maloney of the left-leaning OneCity coming second.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The two candidates of Mayor Ken Sim\u2019s ABC slate finished far back. ABC candidate and Jewish community member Jaime Stein, who was bombarded with extreme antisemitic hate on social media during the campaign, came sixth, with 9,267 votes. His running mate, Ralph Kaisers, came seventh with 8,915. By contrast, Orr took 34,448 and Maloney 33,732 (all numbers are unofficial election night results).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The first results were not reported for three hours after polls closed, as officials held back counts until every voter had a chance to cast a ballot. The city was apparently caught off guard by higher-than-expected voter turnout, leading to hours-long lineups at voting stations, even after the 8 p.m. scheduled poll closing. Election day turnout was 15% of eligible voters, representing a 40% increase from the last civic by-election, in 2017.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Orr has a history of anti-Israel activism and social media posts, as well as arguably antisemitic expressions, including reposting comments such as \u201cWhat does the \u2018I\u2019 in CIJA stand for?\u201d and \u201cAntisemitism is when I\u2019m not allowed to chant \u2018Death to Arabs.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The results seem to spell disenchantment with Sim\u2019s ABC slate, which still holds seven seats on the 11-member council. ABC swept into office in 2022 on a platform of public safety, affordability and housing.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The left in Vancouver came roaring back to life last Saturday, April 5. In the civic by-election to replace two city councilors, Sean Orr, candidate of the far-left Coalition of Progressive Electors, topped the polls, with Lucy Maloney of the left-leaning OneCity coming second.\u00a0 The two candidates of Mayor Ken Sim\u2019s ABC slate finished far [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[23907,22846,3597,1742],"class_list":["post-46419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local","tag-by-election","tag-jaime-stein","tag-politics","tag-vancouver"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}