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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.

Category: human rights

  • Rational voices in an irrational time.

    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,…

  • The Federal NDP’s leadership committee assessment made the right call.

    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…

  • The far right overplayed their hand on Charlie Kirk

    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…

  • The working class are a voting pool that neither the conservatives nor liberals deserve

    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…

  • Don’t get cocky, Liberals.

    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…

  • 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…

  • Decriminalization was always going to controversial

    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…

  • All we had to do was be kind to each other.

    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,…

  • The far right’s anti-immigrant narrative gave a permission structure to the Trudeau Liberals to cap foreign students wishing to come to Canada to study

    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…