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GenX. My politics are clearly left and I’m tired of compromise with the neo-liberal right. They’ve driven a wedge with their money based centrist politics. We used to be able to do great things and we can again; we just need the leadership to do so; and folks to say as much.

Category: BC Politics

  • Don’t get cocky, Liberals.

    Please understand that your team barely won this election. A minority government where you’re to rely on opposition parliamentary votes to pass legislation. To be sure, Liberals could have claimed victory in any case. The day before Justin Trudeau announced his resignation, his party looked like it was racing towards the electoral cliff and the…

  • The coming choice in BC is one of hope vs all other efforts to exploit your fears.

    We enter the BC Election campaign in 2024 starting today with a stark choice at hand. One side, imperfect, offers a new term extending out what its started. That means continuing the land reforms to speed up home construction; expanding supply rapidly to address both a housing shortage and affordability issue. This side also tackles…

  • BC party power play is a foolish game

    Welcome to BC Politics, unfolding drama # 123243 This time it’s the seeming crash of the BC United Party as several of its candidates and MLA’s cross the floor to the upstart BC Conservative Party. Ordinarily I wouldn’t care as I support neither of these two parties, but I see a trend that should be…

  • Decriminalization was always going to controversial

    But the politicization over the program is over the top. It was always meant as a medically based approach to rampant drug use of certain products. Drugs that can trigger immediate addiction, but more likely – death. Death to the user, death to the healthcare worker trying to assist, death to innocent bystanders. The project…

  • Right-wing hysteria over the carbon tax their movement invented the worst of Canadian politics

    Thing 1: carbon pricing is a good idea that conservatives invented and they should proudly own it. Instead, we’re in this surreal hellscape where they’ve disavowed their idea, labelled it as the “Liberal carbon tax” and are campaigning hard against it. To be clear, it was under the federal Liberal Party that the government passed…

  • All we had to do was be kind to each other.

    But have we failed? Its awful to any humanitarian what is going on in the middle east. The ongoing conflict in Gaza and the IDF’s military expedition now underway has ripped open wounds and tested sanity of folks the world over. Nobody, in their right mind, likes war. Not overt war, not acts of terror,…

  • Short term rental exploitation are damaging our economy and more

    Along with millions in my generation and those born every generation before, we were told that by hard work and sacrifice, we could earn our place in this world. Buy a house, raise a family, pass a legacy on to our children. Along comes an app and business model that seeks to exploit the housing…

  • United BC or BC Liberals cannot seem to help themselves

    Natural disasters are not a politicians photo-op.

  • Racism and bigotry are gaining again

    And we are worse off for it. By now you’ve been well acquainted with ‘wokeism’ and the smear the far right have coined against anyone or anything that highlights systemic injustices faced by minorities and the historically oppressed. But the opposite of ‘woke’ isn’t merely to disagree. The folks on the right are actively moving…

  • Another lap around the big flaming gas bag at the centre of our universe

    We’re in the final hours of 2022, and to many, glad to be done with it. The new year awaits, but how are we going to be any different than 2020-22? Excusing the fact that a global pandemic interrupted our world, what have we learned? Some might argue that the pandemic brought out the worst…