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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.

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  • Liberal partisans trot out toxic and tired anti-NDP rhetoric. Again.

    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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • United BC or BC Liberals cannot seem to help themselves

    Natural disasters are not a politicians photo-op.

  • So be it, Alberta.

    So you’ve gone and reelected your UCP to a second term in power tonight. I’m not from Alberta, never lived there, but I can’t help but feel some disappointment for large swaths of your province. Your government, headed by a science/medical professional skeptic who has pledged to undermine public healthcare is bolstered with a fresh…

  • 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…

  • The “NDP leadership/membership fiasco” is a right wing trap and many are falling for it.

    I’ll put down this marker right now, and I’m guessing that I can speak for many others too. Anjali Appadurai is likely to be an approved leadership candidate, very few memberships are likely to be terminated as a result of the internal investigation raised as a result of some publicly available information hinting at the…

  • Gas tax reform should be on the table

    But not for the reasons you might think. As the growing EV sector cuts into fuel demand and consumption goes, so drops the fuel tax levies assessed by almost every level of government. That’s part of the bragging rights of EV owners – “we don’t have to pay that tax, or buy that fuel”. Which…

  • Go Left. To save us. All of us.

    In uncertain times, folks can reach for more bold solutions when the same-old no longer works. These are some of those times. The Neoliberal economic philosophy hasn’t worked for large swathes of society, and those for whom it works are already the wealthiest and most powerful among us. Through no fault of our own, the…