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Category: BC Politics
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North Cowichan Deputy Mayor, and long time BC Liberal activist, Tek Manhas has some explaining to do.
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So an NDP Premier was re-elected. That’s a first. Taking a precarious minority to a substantial majority is major news too. But nobody should be surprised by this. The NDP led a campaign that was disciplined and focused while their opposition flailed about. It turns out that the ‘steady as she goes’ narrative is what…
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Not good enough? Here’s today’s Insights West poll – done scientifically – that underlines that John Horgan won the leaders debate. Not only has he won the debate, the NDP is winning the argument. That’s all. Go vote! my2bits
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Today at the campaign event where the BC Liberals pledged to resurrect the Massey Bridge project, they also mentioned they would abolish ‘community benefit agreements’. Those are by definition a ‘project labour agreement’ that typically involved a group unions and has terms that outline apprenticeships and training for those working on major infrastructure projects. CBA’s…
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Expect the BC Liberals to demonize the NDP over the Massey ‘tunnel’ replacement, but remember how morally repugnant that party is and the politics they played beforehand. Every word spoken by them must be taken with several grains of salt. Its true that politicians play a blacktop politics game; as in ‘vote for me and…
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I’ve noticed something. BC Liberal partisans are simultaneously trying to scare voters that this election isn’t necessary because its dangerous to vote while downplaying the pandemic to argue that the election isn’t necessary. Why would they do that? BC Liberals don’t want an election because they’re afraid to face voters. Voters will see a party…
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Once you get over the relatively early election call, you’ll come to the same conclusion. Its about choices. Revert back to the party and leadership brand that hurt BC’s most vulnerable, destroyed the BC forest industry, bled the life out of BC Hydro and ICBC for political gain, and attacked educators and healthcare workers in…
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It was inevitable that the BC Greens, mid leadership contest, would turn against themselves and what they signed up for by agreeing to the CASA deal that ousted the 16 year BC Liberal government in 2017. Where we’re at is watching the Greens pick apart SiteC, the northern dam being constructed along the Peace River;…
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Don’t lift a finger to stop these far right imbeciles from looking any more stupid than they already do. But, aren’t they stupid? Of course they are, but now they’re drifting into the realm of irrational. The above screenshot is from Canada Proud, a relative newcomer to the social media self-fellatio of the right wing…
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At 1:23:45am local time April 26, 1986, at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine SSR, a series of errors and bad judgment led to an explosion in reactor #4 that spread radioactive material through much of western Europe. Design flaws of the reactor type that were suppressed by the state meant that the safety…
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