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Caught making 'a malicious set of lies,' Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim offers no answers

Dan Fumano: What unfolded Friday, on camera, was one of the more bizarre exchanges in recent Vancouver political history.

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Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim is refusing to explain why and how he came to falsely and publicly accuse a rival politician of handing out illegal drugs last Christmas.

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Instead, the mayor issued a surreal and baffling series of non-answers when confronted by reporters Friday, demonstrating a surprising lack of preparation given the release of a damning video one day earlier, and days of swirling questions before that.

This week’s bizarre political drama began Tuesday. Vancouver’s four councillors from outside the mayor’s ABC party issued a statement blasting Sim’s ABC colleague Coun. Lenny Zhou for sharing “inflammatory and harmful misinformation” in a Chinese-language video posted online the week before describing the non-ABC councillors as drug-users and dealers. Within hours, Zhou retracted the comments and apologized, and........

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