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Dan Fumano: In poignant final council meeting, Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim and most of his party say goodbye and good luck

Opinion: After a sometimes-acrimonious term — and a heated campaign — the mood was friendly and positive, if a little bittersweet, on Tuesday for the final council meeting with defeated Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim and most of his party

As Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim presided over his final city council meeting, he subtly broke with protocol.

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Partway through Tuesday’s session, council’s only public meeting falling between the Oct. 17 election, which saw Sim and his party ABC decisively defeated, and the Nov. 2 swearing-in ceremony for the new council, the outgoing mayor dropped the honorifics. Instead of addressing councillors formally, as he did during meetings over the past four years, as “Coun. Kirby-Yung,” “Coun. Dominato,” “Coun. Fry,” and so on, Sim did away with the titles and just called them “Sarah,” “Lisa,” and “Pete.”

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Sim did not appear to intend any disrespect by the change. On the contrary, it seemed like a gesture of warmth and appreciation for his colleagues, including the political rivals against whom his party campaigned — sometimes quite aggressively —........

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