There are many, many people still viewing world events like today's through an ideological prism, as if the Trump regime has coherent or principled worldviews. The sane among us realize Trump could just as easily "capture" the Canadian Prime Minister next month, on a whim.

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BC Hydro: ~120,000 customers without power after rainstorm knocked down trees and debris onto electrical infrastructure. Hardest hit areas: • Surrey: 18,400 without power • Vancouver: 11,200 • Port Coquitlam: 12,500 • Burnaby: 11,700 • Maple Ridge: 11,200 • North Vancouver: 10,000

📆 The 2026 spring legislative calendar is set and the countdown is on. 🌸 The spring session begins with The Speech from the Throne on February 12, 2026. 💰 Budget 2026 on February 17, 2026. #bcpoli

Rob Reiner was more than an amazing movie director to me. He was one of our strongest public advocates for @TheDemCoalition, part of our Impeachment Task Force. He was one of America's foremost voices of reason and wisest defenders of democracy. Rob is an American treasure.

BREAKING: Conservative MP Michael Ma is crossing the floor to sit as a Liberal. Liberals are now just one seat short of a majority.

A new report released by the Victoria Foundation shows the Capital Regional District's (CRD) charitable sector has significantly grown its local economic impact.

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Nearly 500 people joined The Narwhal this week to unpack the politics, process and potential impacts of Mark Carney’s major projects push. Catch a recording of that event, plus more updates on Canada’s fast-tracking efforts, in our latest newsletter: thenarwhal.ca/newsletter-m...

This is bunk. Die Hard is way more of a Christmas movie than that terrible Love Actually. Said as a holiday movie fanatic. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...

We published our AI policy yesterday. It affirms our commitment to human-made writing, photography and illustrations. #journalism #localnews You can read more here: thetyee.ca/Tyeenews/202...

The people you should really be scared of on the Subway are the ones applying impeccable eye makeup on a moving train. They fear nothing and make sure you know it.

Just one week after signing an MOU with the federal govt agreeing to strengthen industrial carbon pricing, Alberta has changed its regulations, making the agreement harder to achieve. Read our full statement from Principal Economist @enveco.bsky.social ⬇️ climateinstitute.ca/news/alberta...

There has been a lot of news today but I’ve just been informed we’re at the “Katy and I” stage

Tariff trouble, policy pivots, opposition parties in turmoil, and the longest public sector strike in BC history. The fall BC legislative session was a turbulent one. Our team reviewed the fall session after it wrapped day early with a dramatic finish. www.hilltoppublicaffairs.ca/fall-2025-le...

As many expected, the truth is finally coming out, they were just fishermen. The family of the Colombian man killed in the Sept. 15 U.S. military strike in the Caribbean Sea has now filed a formal complaint with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, alleging

B.C. grandparents appeal to Canadian government to let adopted granddaughter visit for Christmas www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

This #GivingTuesday our Hilltop Public Affairs team wants to give back in a new way so we are making a 60-minute GR session available to 4 BC non profits. Send an email to [email protected] by 11:59 PM (PT) on Dec 3 to enter.

Alberta's pipeline project "doesn't make sense" and there are less expensive alternatives, affirms B.C. Energy Minister Adrian Dix. Full interview: youtu.be/PGzHnG3Dm1g?...

Cute that since Tanille Johnston raised enough to make it through to the next stage of NDP leadership, she’s teaming up to try to get Tony McQuail across the finish line. Deadline is tonight. I gotta say the camaraderie on display from these two is pretty endearing www.youtube.com/live/yOaaPW6...

It’s a @globalnews.ca BC Political Panel morning as we break down the dynamics around the Alberta and Ottawa MOU and why it’s the hot topic in #bcpoli #cdnpoli this week. globalnews.ca/video/embed/...

Premier David Eby, speaking now, cites PM Carney's comments from earlier this week that pipeline would have to have agreement from B.C. and First Nations. "This project does not have the support of Coastal First Nations," he says. Adds no proponent, no route, no money.

Vancouver's 2026 draft budget has PASSED. Approved on a 7-4 vote on party lines, with ABC in favour and councillors Fry/Bligh/Orr/Maloney opposed. Property tax freeze, $50 million more for VPD, and cuts to Arts, Culture, Planning and Sustainability departments, among others. Full story to come.

PM Carney and Alberta Premier Smith set to announce MOU on energy Thurs. The Globe reported last week that Ottawa and AB were close to concluding a framework that includes a limited exemption to BC’s north coast tanker ban, setting the stage for a new pipeline www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

In the U.S., it’s common police departments don’t want to engage with immigration enforcement because it destroys trust with immigrant communities, notes Irene Bloemraad, a UBC sociology professor. Leah Hennig reports. #uspoli #canpoli

This is ridiculous: Ottawa considering allowing an exemption to the tanker ban along BC’s north coast. If you allow an exemption for exactly the thing the law is for, you don’t have a law. #CDNpoli #ABpoli www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

One of my favourite things in working in Government relations: training more advocates. Especially women who work in sectors like the trades.

Leaders of Canada’s newest convoy worry police are trying to sabotage a nationwide protest avenging a flock of dead ostriches Ostrich Convoy organizers say they are at ‘war’ with the federal government, but insist they will remain ‘peaceful’

There is an ostrich convoy driving around downtown Vancouver (and other cities) right now, which is not a sentence I have typed before.

Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.

“Staff have identified removing baby changing tables from city-operated public washrooms, as well as menstrual product dispensers, as a way to save money.”

Menstrual products and change tables are basic necessities in washrooms. Community members shouldn’t have had to advocate to have them added to start with as we did in 2020, let alone now have to fight to keep them. #vanpoli #bcpoli #equity www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

I want to congratulate my brother, Aman Singh, on his election as President of the BC NDP. Aman has been a fighter for human rights his whole life, through his law practice and as former MLA. He will lead our party with care, vision, and a commitment to people. #BCNDP #bcpoli

Heading into day two of the PAAC national conference being held in BC for the first time. It was a lot of fun to be the emcee of the first day of panels and speakers on the biggest issues in public affairs on the theme of meeting the moment. #cdnpoli #bcpoli

“The personal is political,” says NDP leadership hopeful Tanille Johnston, a former social worker, quoting Bell Hooks. “Social work is built on advocacy…on justice. It’s built around navigating systems that were never meant to work for you — and I feel like that is also the work of the NDP.”

A new report finds B.C. charges industrial users a maximum of $2.25 per million litres of water—70 times less than Quebec—at at time funding for watershed protection has plummeted more than 80 per cent. www.biv.com/news/resourc...

BCGEU president says he's hopeful about non-binding mediation process with province #yyj #BCpoli www.cfax1070.com/news/bcgeu-p...

BC politics doesn't stop for holidays. Great to restart the fall @globalnews.ca BC Political Panel with Allie Blades and Jennifer Palma after the first week of the legislative session. Now back to the long weekend - and a break week ahead in the legislature. #bcpoli globalnews.ca/video/114755...

Protect the Portland frog at all costs 💪

The BC legislative session is back and so is the @GlobalBC Political Panel. Always fun to unpack the week in #bcpoli with my friend Allie Blades.

🎙️ Just published a new episode of Local News Update on CHLY 101.7FM: Tanille Johnston launches federal NDP leadership bid in Nanaimo. Have a listen:

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking? Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

“Imagine a general election where Ashton stands at the podium between Carney and Poilievre. One the establishment banker; the other the career politician. Between them, a dockworker who says both have failed the working class.” More: open.substack.com/pub/davidcol...

“So why now? I’m tired of Conservatives and Liberals lying to workers, telling them they’re going to make their lives better. All we see happening is our lives getting worse.” @isaacphannay.bsky.social interviews Rob Ashton who is joining the race for the NDP leadership. #canpoli

The shortage of housing supply, needed public investment in non-market homes and municipal roadblocks are some of the issues plaguing BC’s housing crisis. Join @1alexhemingway.bsky.social and Sarah Ellis in a webinar to identify where urgent action is needed. Oct 1, noon PT bcpolicy.ca/events

NDP leadership to begin in September, new leader chosen no later than March 29 nationalnewswatch.com/2025/07/10/n...

Canada’s NDP launches 2025 campaign review and renewal process #cdnpoli www.ndp.ca/news/ndp-lau...