The Mayor's Private Mojo Dojo

Councillor Fry's picture of Sim's gym space

There are a lot of questions about what Vancouver's mayor is doing at City Hall these days. 

Ken Sim, the city's first Chinese-Canadian mayor seems more interested in working out than actually running the city.

Green Party Councillor Pete Fry took a picture of what used to be a meeting room next to the mayor's office that was used for meetings and now seems to be Sims' personal gym space.

Sim riding on the Peloton bike for the cameras

There's a Peloton stationary bike, a chin-up apparatus, weights, resistance bands, and an exercise mat in the 300 sq ft space that used to be a board room.

Fry posted the picture on X, formerly known as Twitter and wrote: "The deeply unserious and absolute absurdity of a civic asset being repurposed as Ken's mojo dojo casa house belies a very real problem with process, transparency and good governance that we continue to get stonewalled on."

In a radio interview this morning Fry explained council had received a memo in January from the city manager explaining the meeting room was now being used by the mayor and would not be used for meetings.

So when Fry saw it unlocked and open, he took a picture as evidence of how the room was being used.

Fry said he had tried to ask about the mayor taking over the space during council meetings on Tuesday, but was shut down by other ABC councillors.

Then the mayor invited the media to come look at the space and spun the opportunity as his way of being transparent. He rode the stationary bike for the cameras.

"It allows me to actually get to promote health, including my own health -- the hours are pretty long here," Sim said Wednesday. "If you don't have your health, you can't help your family out and you can't help your organisation."

Sim accused Fry of playing politics, but it should be pointed out there is an existing gym in City Hall for people to use... there is no need for this extra gym next to the mayor's office. Taxpayers are fuming to see their mayor more concerned about his physical health than the city's fiscal outlook...