The view from Pete
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Category: human rights
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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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This was a moment. In the immediate aftermath of a very public assassination of Charlie Kirk, that more rational minds could have spoken up and unilaterally condemned political violence and encouraged the masses to put down their weapons and return to civility. That did not happen. To be absolutely clear, nobody deserves to be murdered…
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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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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…
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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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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…
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