The view from Pete
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Category: Canadian politics
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The Jeffrey Epstein scandal is possibly the worst scandal in the western hemisphere ever. The core of it, if you follow, is the systematic abuse of underage children by Jeffrey Epstein and a group of associates in and around his property. Jeffrey died as most of you know under circumstances that are under a cloud.…
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To be clear, this isn’t an attack on the guy, its an acknowledgement that the Federal NDP has finally done what activists (inside and outside the party) have called for – going further left. This follows a similar logic that conservative parties have followed in the past; dismissing critics’ claim that [party] was too extreme,…
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To begin with, I will stress that I am not, nor have I ever been a Liberal Party supporter, donor, voter, member and will not be doing so for the foreseeable future. Philosophically, I’m just not on board with neoliberal economics and what they do to working class people – not just here in Canada,…
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Its not a great look when a so-called green-light committee blocks an aspiring candidate from seeking a nomination or in this case, seeking leadership of a federal political party. Its not a great look, but its an absolute necessity. Yves Engler was denied entry to the leadership race by this committee within the NDP was…
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To listen to some opinion makers and politicians of the far right in BC and Canada, you’d be forgiven in thinking that “the indians are tryin’ to take away your land” – because that is their narrative, and the previously faint racist dog whistle is now a defcon 1 air horn proclaiming in incoming calamity.…
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Conservatives are really good at portraying themselves as the voice of the little guy when they’re not in power; they have this identity politics sewn up like pro’s. But working class voters, who’s grievances and anxieties are real, keep being sold a bill of goods that are at times opposite to what was advertised. To…
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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…
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So there it is. Another federal election done and gone, a new government chosen by voters for up to 4 years, one that will hopefully outlast the insanity south of us. But not all is great. I will start that I am a country-first progressive voter. That is to say that I value my country’s…
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To frame in the discussion, understand that we’re in the late stages of a unusually long minority government under the Federal Liberals’ Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Justin has been the PM since 2015 when his party was elected to a landslide win over Stephen Harper’s Conservative Party – on a list of progressive pledges of…
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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…
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