Something has to give in the BC Conservatives, and it’s either going to be the rest of the moderates in the party, or Rustad. A party with a leader that allowed the explicit venom, racism and bigotry of Brent Chapman and many others was never going to be a successful “big tent” party.

The BC Conservative bloodbath continues. Rustad is an embarrassment. The number of bigots, racists and conspiracy theorists in that party is significant. Let’s hope Warbus, Day, Paton and the other non- #MapleMAGA MLAs follow Boultbee out the door.

The Trump regime is turning America into a lot of things: dictatorship, kleptocracy, idiocracy, but also a Christian theocracy. Here in Canada, half of us are non-Christian (in my town 70% of us are). It’s crucial for democracy that Canada doesn’t follow the USA down the road to theocracy.

A troll of major US media shows that the majority grossly downplayed #NoKings Day, the largest protest in US history. That means the majority of US residents will not even know it happened, because most people are that unaware. And that’s what those fighting for US democracy are up against.

When your regime posts AI videos of your dictator bombing peaceful protesters with literal shit, you have a very serious problem that is probably not going to be resolved through the normal democratic process.

Seeing some Americans on here bitching about Kings in general cuz it’s #NoKings Day. Please don’t confuse your dictator and the many successful and very democratic constitutional monarchies worldwide: Canada, Australia, NZ, UK, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, NL, Belgium, etc. Notice a trend there?

I’m no fan of RCMP leadership, but being defamed by a politician who explicitly supported the traitors who tried to overthrow our democracy is pretty rich. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Let’s be clear. If you think chemtrails are a thing, you are a complete and utter moron. Any organization anywhere with any senior member espousing chemtrails is unfit to exist.

As a former military Public Affairs Officer who worked with a lot of journalists, I support this pushback. The US DOD is now the tool of a dictatorship. www.cbc.ca/news/world/p...

Maybe we’re reading too much into this, but moderate centre-right BC Conservative MLA (and friend of Elenore Sturko) Brennan Day just changed his profile pic from him and John Rustad walking together to this. 🧐🤷‍♂️ @jenstden.bsky.social @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social @rayneenovak.bsky.social

It’s probably not a surprise to anyone that young Republicans in the USA are as physically, mentally, and emotionally ugly as they turned out to be in this article. America is fucked.

Lots of talk right now about the UCP government in Alberta funding private schools. But here in BC our NDP government gives $$$ to private schools. Wanna send your kids to private school? PAY YOUR OWN WAY. No matter what province you live in. www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/...

Solar is the future. This AB city’s choice is between a strategic investment with strong profit potential, or using their $78M energy profits nest egg to *subsidize future property tax bills* 😳 I have low expectations of today’s voters, everywhere, so suspect they will choose the latter.

How long before some states try to leave the Union that is now a dictatorship? Are we approaching Civil War 2.0, except this time the seceding states are the good guys?

Aaron Gunn-racist, bigot, Putin and Trump fan-is my MP. He’s got a massive SM presence and posts a lot of garbage like this, which is grossly factually incorrect but appeals to his uneducated, unintelligent base. Canada, we have a democracy problem when people like this are 1 election from power.

Having spent most of my career in the Regular CF, often working closely with US military, I think we should end all operations with them ASAP. Venezuela today. Tomorrow, will they target us? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Financial penalties need to be means-tested. They need to hurt in order to deter anti-social and criminal behaviour, whether you’re poor, rich or in between. So Chip’s fine should have been $600,000, not $600. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

No surprise, the #MapleMAGA ostrich people turned out to be grifters. Why do these Freedumbers always turn out to be grifters? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

If your municipality does not have a municipal police force, here’s yet another reason to keep it that way. Policing is the #1 or 2 cost in every community, and most of that goes to wages that are insanely high. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

@robshaw.bsky.social @lukelebrun.ca @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social @jenstden.bsky.social Interesting signals from a couple centre-right MLAs in the BC Conservatives

My BC Conservative MLA (Brennan Day) spent the day hanging out with fellow BCC MLA Warbus and Elenore Sturko, recently punted from the party, then posted this. If this isn’t a big Fuck You to John Rustad from the old BC Liberal wing of the party, I don’t know what is. #BCpoli

Electoral systems matter: USA combines Head of Government & Head of State in 1 person, unlike most nations ➡️ Imperial Presidency ➡️ Dictatorship Israel uses single constituency proportional representation w low threshold ➡️ fringe parties w outsized power ➡️ extremists control government

An interesting messaging strategy from these two. As a coastal British Columbian, I’m not sure some guy from Saskatchewan telling us we’re nothing is going to endear us to your cause. How TF did you two provinces elect these grifters? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This grifting traitor wants taxpayers to fund her pipeline cuz the private sector is not interested. @mark-carney.bsky.social do not fund this. @davidebybc.bsky.social do not approve this in BC. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

You don’t need a history degree (which I have) to understand that #NDTR is not “anti-Canadian” or “lies.” This loathsome woman is closely tied with the leadership of both the BC and federal Conservative Parties, and her ‘True North’ organization has been a registered charity since 1994.

Here’s a good analysis of the Trump regime’s marching orders today to US military leadership. You can bet China is loving this, as America self-destructs in real time and competent military leadership retires, to be replaced by sycophantic #MAGA incompetents. www.commondreams.org/news/pete-he...

The latest BC Conservative scandal comes via a comms staffer. As a former government comms staffer, how dumb is your party to hire idjits like this? Comms rule #1: never make yourself the story. The BCC are racists, bigots and conspiracy theorists. Luckily, they’re also grossly incompetent.

America had multiple mass shootings just this month. As a Canadian firearms owner I know we have lots of guns here, but we have very few mass shootings. Why? Because we have reasonable laws: licenses, background checks, no full auto, no hi-cap mags, no open or hidden carry. It’s not hard, America.

Canadian media needs to start understanding this and stop reporting US Government pronouncements as if they were fact. Assume everything the Trump regime says is a lie and report it as such.

These changes are long overdue at Canada Post cuz it’s losing $10M a day. You cannot compare mail delivery to services where the state must have a monopoly, like the military or tax collection (both of whom, btw, could find billions in their own savings). www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Even if we defeat Trump, Putin, and all the other dictators, we will still be faced with the biggest existential threat in human history. Brace for shock. www.cbc.ca/news/climate...

Elenore Sturko is far from perfect, but she is a classic centre right politician, unlike most MLAs in her former party. She’s also gay, which upsets a number of the most loathsome of those former colleagues. Good luck to her, and a pox on Rustad and his gang of RWNJs. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I’m glad Poilievre and the CPC are taking this position. Because it is a terrible political calculation on the CPC’s part, with the majority of Canadians in favour of a two state solution and against both Hamas and current Israeli actions in Gaza and the West Bank. It’s a net positive vote loser, PP

Remember Stockwell Day? For a while 25 years ago, he could have been PM. Now he’s a traitor to Canada, eulogizing Charlie Kirk with a bunch of absolute #MapleMAGA RWNJs in an excess of maudlin hagiography.

I’m an atheist, but I’m pretty sure I’m a better Christian than Charlie Kirk was. Any Christian of any flavour who says Kirk was a saint is a fucking grifter who Jesus would have thrown out of the temple with great force.

In a fit of petty rage I messaged the US Embassy Ottawa today to express my displeasure at their Ambassador, a truly loathsome little man. Did it accomplish anything? No. Did it make me feel a little bit better? Yes.

I’m glad this band was banned from Canada. It’s named after a torture used by the IRA, fergawdsakes. And if they waved a Kach flag (a Jewish Israeli terrorist entity listed by Canada) instead of a Hezbollah one, I’d be just as glad. www.bbc.com/news/article...

@mark-carney.bsky.social I’m an RCAF veteran who actually worked the very first F-35 announcement 15 years ago. DO NOT BUY A SINGLE F-35. IN FACT, DO NOT BUY ANY MILITARY EQUIPMENT FROM THE PRO-RUSSIAN KLEPTOCRATIC DICTATORSHIP THAT WANTS TO ANNEX US.

If a mad scientist had tried to invent the griftiest, most money laundering-friendly, most environmentally unfriendly thing ever, they would have invented cryptocurrency. Wasting any energy, renewable or dirty, on this scam is a massive waste of resources and only benefits scumbags like the Trumps.

@mark-carney.bsky.social @liberalca.bsky.social what in hell were you thinking today, standing up and clapping for racist, bigot and promoter of violence Charlie Kirk? Lining up with the CPC to canonize that vile man was a national embarrassment. Shame.

This appears to be about building non-market housing, which is good. @mark-carney.bsky.social please avoid adopting Poilievre’s proposal to drop development fees, which would force taxpayers to subsidize for-profit developers and market housing. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Twitter/X needs to be banned in Canada and every government body still on it needs to hang their head in shame. And Musk needs to be criminally charged in a whole bunch of countries for a whole bunch of things: incitement, hate speech, treason

China is a brutal dictatorship that will quickly invade Taiwan and who knows who else when they know that can get away with it, but with the USA regressing into the 1870s I figure maybe we give China a shot at global hegemony. At least China understands that solar is our only hope.

The last couple days remind me that, while Canada has serious problems and a host of highly dangerous scumbags waiting in the wings to seize power, we are currently still a stable democracy with a functioning government. Unlike Batshit crazy Kleptocratistan to the south of us.

Politicians like Pierre Poilievre and John Rustad who are decrying the death of a racist, bigoted SM influencer in another country, but who said nothing about the murder of a sitting politician in that same foreign country, are loathsome pricks at best and traitors to Canada at worst.

Ukraine shot down 93% of Russian UAVs last night. Poland reportedly shot down maybe 25%. FUN FACT: CANADA CURRENTLY HAS ABSOLUTELY NO OPERATIONAL ANTI-UAV CAPABILITY. NONE. www.bbc.com/news/live/c2...

@davidebybc.bsky.social do not give Dawson Creek one penny for a water pipeline while they still allow lawn watering and car washing. Your government needs to start forcing municipalities to enact actual water restrictions like farmers already have. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Hey @jmcelroy.bsky.social have you done a piece recently on the lack of municipal water metering in BC and the costs of that inaction for taxpayers, farmers, hydroelectricity and the environment? Cuz I’d watch it! thediscourse.ca/comox-valley...

I do political communications, and I tell all my clients that “likeability” is crucial to getting elected. You can have a great platform and tight messaging, but most demographics won’t vote for assholes or phoneys. Poilievre is both.

I’m currently visiting family in rural Ontario, where Canadians do not want to work in vineyards. Every single farm here employs TFWs from Thailand, Mexico or the Caribbean BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO ALTERNATIVE. Poilievre knows nothing about rural Canada or farmers. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...