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- The Federal NDP’s leadership committee assessment made the right call.
- Rational voices are needed while we navigate through the Cowichan vs Canada effects
- The far right overplayed their hand on Charlie Kirk
- The working class are a voting pool that neither the conservatives nor liberals deserve
- Don’t get cocky, Liberals.
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Category: human rights
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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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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,…
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Political triangulation is a thing that centrists know well; it’s where you adopt a position of your opponent to appear pragmatic, denying the opponent a position to attack from, then paint them as the extremists unworthy of your vote. There are exceptions to this rule. Adopting policies which are inherently racist or bigoted in nature…
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Natural disasters are not a politicians photo-op.
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