Ken Sim’s plan to get rid of industrial lands means more people have to travel to Richmond and Surrey for work.
We’ll create the first Industrial Land Reserve to help keep good jobs here in Vancouver. pic.twitter.com/jpuaTZv0y3
— Kareem Allam (@42kareemallam) September 23, 2025
Yesterday, VanRamblings received the following e-mail from our friend and neighbour Catherine Evans — founding member and soon-to-be Vice-President of the Vancouver Liberals, multi-year Chairperson of the Vancouver Public Library Board of Directors, dedicated Vancouver Park Board Commissioner, David Eby’s appointed liaison with Vancouver City Hall on Mayor Ken Sim’s proposal to dissolve an elected Vancouver Park Board (a hateful job she told VanRamblings, also telling us she’d lost a number of friends arising from her appointment by David, to whom she is loyal), and multi-year senior constituency assistant in federal Liberal Minister of the Crown Joyce Murray’s office (where she did much good for many many people) and now, as we say above, a founding member, and soon-to-be Vice-President of, Kareem Allam’s upstart Vancouver Liberals municipal party, as the party — VanRamblings predicts — rolls to victory at the polls next year.
Here’s what Catherine wrote to us — and many many others — yesterday …
This week we learned that Vancouver City Hall will pay out $800,000 in severance to the separated former City Manager, Paul Mochrie.
This is simply OUTRAGEOUS. An $800,000 payment on Ken Sim and ABC Vancouver’s watch is unacceptable.
We have to put an end to these golden parachutes at Vancouver City Hall.
Did Ken Sim and ABC make the decision to fire the city manager? We don’t know.
Did they approve this $800,000 payment to bring in a new city manager who will follow their directions? Again – unclear.
But one thing is for sure: this is $800,000 that is being taken away from front-line programmes like cleaning up our streets, cracking down on money laundering, and enhancing community centre programmes.
It’s not surprising Ken Sim didn’t bat an eye at an $800,000 severance payment. After all, he tried to fire the city Integrity Commissioner while he was under investigation.
This culture of entitlement at Vancouver City Hall must end.
When you elect a Vancouver Liberal council in 2026, you can be sure it will.
We need to fix City Hall — and that starts with defeating Ken Sim and his ABC Council, when voters go to the polls next year for Vancouver’s 42nd civic election.
Join the Vancouver Liberals team today.
Thank you,
Catherine Evans
Founding Member, Vancouver Liberals
