The hilarious and mostly not repeatable characterizations of Aaron Gunn in my #bcpoli chats make me think Gunn may have declined to run for the BC Conservative leadership not merely because Poilievre begged him to stay but also because he might just be unpopular here

Merry Christmas, everyone!

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Looking for the truth about what it was like inside CECOT? Earlier this year, we spoke to the men the Trump administration deported to El Salvador. Hear about what they endured, in their own words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8INs141xeQ

We need to spend a lot more time talking about Big Wellness

"As cost of living climbs, a Vancouver shelter adapts to a rise in unhoused seniors" Some context: Homelessness in older adults in Metro Vancouver have tripled since 2008 See here: hsa-bc.ca/_Library/202... #bcpoli #vanpoli #vanre www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Now that everyone knows who Trump-protecting Bari Weiss is, let's recall that Vancouver Coastal Health's Head of Comms, Deana Lancaster, was RT'ing Bari Weiss not long ago The 2 of them, busy mocking & downplaying the seriousness of Covid. PS Covid never was & still is not "the sniffles" #bcpoli

I never want to hear another American make fun of North Korea ever again.

Look at what Carney and Eby are doing. Make the alternative unpalatable and the slightly less bad option can get away with murder. Everyone slides to the right and fossil fuel interests win.

A bunch of people dressed as elves and santas rob a metro grocery store, the third largest grocery giant in Canada. They take between $3,000 to $5,000 worth of food and donate it to food banks. montrealgazette.com/news/local-n...

#OneBC has been dissolved. What a sad, sad day for British Columbia Nazis, convoy enthusiasts AND ostrich fetishists alike. Imagine: a party established to promote hate and division somehow imploded due to...hate and division! #BCPOLI

Each member of a Canadian delegation attempting to enter the West Bank were “asked to sign a form declaring they acknowledge they are a threat to public safety, which they declined to do.” So Israel denied them entry. The first mention that Israel denied them comes in the 4th paragraph in a quote.

The schism inside OneBC is the same ideological split building inside the US far-right: generic zionist white supremacists vs. anti-semitic actual nazis like this guy Othman, whom Ratchford & Thielmann & presumably Tara Armstrong are defending. This time I find Wyatt more credible: #bcpoli

Look, Vurg, I don’t know you and while I appreciate weird facts, this seems a bit forward

BC politics is answering the question "what would happen if we recruited some of the worst people we can find to be in a party that is 100% based on performative outrage and bigotry - do you think they might all get along without forming ever-smaller splinter groups?"

If the last two days have shown anything it's that #bcpoli still mainly unfolds on Twitter

Hey OneBC, I redesigned your logo for you #bcpoli #TWOBC

Watching a party of two wage an internecine war - it's a war so miniature and condensed it's just hilarious #bcpoli

"Economists don’t understand capitalism" Really good short primer on Marx & capital by by @graceblakeley.substack.com www.instagram.com/p/DSKQzvSjAmO/

ABC is the latest political face of Vancouver's growth machine (coalition of dvlpt interests). It's fitting that, back in 2004, a certain city planner chose a speech at a UDI event to direct developers eastward in the first place (quoted here: www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplannin...) #vanpoli #vanre

Worse, they did this without advance notice to many people waiting to speak to them about their ridiculous plan to turn the DEOD area into towers and to gut existing (and weak) protections for the city's most impoverished residents. Just cleared the room to go party.

gotta say this set aged pretty well www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy2b...

So, last night the ruling ABC Vancouver party and mayor cut short a crucial public hearing by 4 hours so they could attend the Christmas party of the real estate developers' assn (UDI). There was a motion to keep the hearing going, but they voted it down. #vanpoli. #vanre

Oh boy. Another one.

Tankies, remember when you said at least an isolationist Trump will end the wars? Tell it to Venezuela (And no, don't accuse me of supporting Kamala either. Just own it)

"Owner of Vancouver's Tweedale Block gets five weeks to save it from demolition" as told by John Mackie via @vancouversun.bsky.social #vanpoli #vanre vancouversun.com/news/vancouv...

How does Pete Hegseth manage to look like both Beavis AND Butt-head

Hillary, I think you mean *information* And guess what, it's great that kids are citing Edward Said on TikTok, not you. "Hillary Clinton claims TikTok misinformation is influencing young people’s views on the Israel–Palestine conflict" www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Energy transitions can happen faster than we think: In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels. In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.

Can we change the title for this event to White People Today

RCMP are burning down the camps of forest protectors (incl. Elder Bill Jones' cabin) while everyone is distracted by the new pipeline outrage. RCMP busted Cougar Camp in the upper Walbran Valley yesterday. FACT: The BC NDP are far worse on old growth protection than BC Liberals were. #bcpoli

How can anyone think it's a good idea to run oil tankers through a body of water named the Hecate Strait? Go ahead, try and brave an infamous, ship-wrecking cauldron named after combative necromancy in Shakespeare Does Carney know anything about BC at all? #bcpoli

How can anyone think it's a good idea to run oil tankers through a body of water named the Hecate Strait? Go ahead, try and brave an infamous, ship-wrecking cauldron named after combative necromancy in Shakespeare Does Carney know anything about BC at all? #bcpoli

Or as I always just respond…

This is not good. Zohran Mamdani is making too many unnecessary concessions & there's no org or movement to hold him accountable for them. Concessions to the real estate market are the most alarming but the obvious, unexplained deal with Hakeem Jeffries too. www.facebook.com/share/p/1DfU...

Tumblr is back. And 60% of its users are now Gen Z? And it's owned by Wordpress?

On day one of this weeks-long trial, Jeremy Kalicum testified about the bureaucratic catch-22 that prevented DULF from being a fully legal entity, in addition to saving lives. He also shared his personal story. pressprogress.ca/drug-laws-fa...

Catherine Liu is an interesting leftist prof but she uses the word retard as if that's transgressive against language police, & I can't take her seriously now. Talk to anyone with an intellectually disabled relative & you'll find it's not virtue signalling, it's visceral. Mocking disability? Cold.

That’s not a font—it’s a migraine aura

Hey Vancouver, @frankiemacd.bsky.social says BE PREPARED! The World Cup is coming. Thanks for the heads up, Frankie

New research proves that Drax is sourcing BC old growth to burn—and the BC government is signing off on it Drax is the UK fuel pellet manufacturer. Sign act.stand.earth/page/89926/a... #bcpoli

Remember, even on highly secure communications, you’re only as secure as your weakest link, and on Signal, that’s going to be people. This could be an infiltrator, it could be targeted malware that is a keylogger/activity monitor on a chat member’s device.

If he were still alive, JRR Tolkien would loathe Peter Thiel. It is grotesque that Thiel has appropriated Lord of the Rings for his Mordor enterprises archive.ph/fbZ0t

Do people understand this? BC is allowing old-growth forest to be cut down, pelletized, & shipped to the UK to fire a power plant. globalnews.ca/news/1152732...

2. Not only is Minister of Forests Ravi Parmar unsure whether full clearcutting is still happening—"I don’t think that’s happening in BC anymore"—but he refuses to meet with top environmentalists who used to have access to the Minister. Why, @rparmarbc.bsky.social @davidebybc.bsky.social? #bcpoli

Been wondering what's going on with logging in BC? Most BCers don't hear about logging very often, ever since mainstream media eliminated their enviro beats in the 1990s Here's a rundown: 1. BIG LEAK: BC govt suspiciously overestimates how many trees are left #bcpoli

“These are unprecedented economic and political times. All decisions relating to public money NEED to be strategic, maybe now more than ever. But ‘blunt instrument’ austerity budgets can devastate a city like ours, weakening its reputation and its economic positioning, and undermining its future.”

Watching Sim here is like rubbernecking a car crash. What is he even doing? #vanpoli

316: stephanie smith. this is not a budget it’s a brochure. We heard from artists, doctors, city workers, non profits. In Vancouver we don’t care if you lose your home, or your kid struggling, or a senior alone in their home. Absurd and short sighted and myopic and fiscally irresponsible

Day 4! Here we go…