I saw that. It was a clear and classy concession, and set an appropriate tone reinforcing the legitimacy of the electoral result. Unsurprisingly, there were a lot of smooth-brained takes when he posted it to Twitter. Like, Koala-brain smooth. There are a bunch of Canadians clearly eating up the nonsense that if their side loses, or if the closeness of the election delays projections until very last counts are done, it must have been fraud. It’s an ugly and destabilizing mentality.
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BC getting a weird once you leave the major cities. Lots of “mountain folk” who watched Deliverance as a guide to how one should handle trespassers.
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I'd much rather hang out with those BC 'mountain folks' than half the people I see lurching around the cities every day. Or many of my (batshit looney suburban) neighbours
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The worst ones are the city folk who watched too many episodes of “Duck Dynasty” or other red-neck reality shows and then move to the mountains to emulate them…
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Brad Sallows
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"Lots". I wonder how many of those "BC mountain folks" there are. 250? 500? Pity there are no ordinary folk in the interior to offset the good old boys.
Having lived at the coast for over 40 years, including lots of visits to relatives on the Island, I sure enjoy the complete absence of weird folks.
Having lived at the coast for over 40 years, including lots of visits to relatives on the Island, I sure enjoy the complete absence of weird folks.
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I guess we wait until after election day to learn about Eby's CCP advisor, or is Rebel News making it up?
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Adviser to B.C. Premier David Eby named as Chinese Communist Party collaborator
The revelations about the potential Chinese influence around Eby comes weeks too late for British Columbia voters, who cast ballots in a hotly contested election which remains too close to call. Eby had previously asked the Prime Minister’s Office to dig into the backgrounds of provincial...
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I used to have to go to remote areas by myself as a government agent. A lot of it was how to present yourself to them. But there are people who you don't visit without two armed police officers in attendance. Generally I would scope out what group people fell into before going, by checking with the local enforcement officers whether municipal, provincial or Federal.
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Is that recent or years ago? Just curious..
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Bit of an update. Final votes were counted and tabulated this weekend including judicial recounts. No changes.
So with 47 elected MLA, Eby must appoint 1 to Speaker of the House. Out of the remaining 46, he’s appointed a total of 42 cabinet ministers and parliamentary secretaries, rivalling only NDHQ in GOFO leadership appointments.
So with 47 elected MLA, Eby must appoint 1 to Speaker of the House. Out of the remaining 46, he’s appointed a total of 42 cabinet ministers and parliamentary secretaries, rivalling only NDHQ in GOFO leadership appointments.
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Former Tech Executive takes over $9 billion deficit, the largest in BC history.
I wonder if she'll go all 'Elon' on the issue
I wonder if she'll go all 'Elon' on the issue
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And pray tell let’s see a list of the portfolios they oversee.
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Well, that didn't take long...
Shovel that pork
Premier David Eby’s decision to give every MLA in his BC NDP caucus an extra title and pay boost isn’t sitting well with the opposition, which says it’s a waste of more than $2 million.
Conservative leader John Rustad said the premier’s decision to blow money on frivolous appointments for his MLAs is unacceptable at a time when ordinary British Columbians are dealing with cost of living pressures.
“People in British Columbia are struggling to put food on the table, they are struggling to make ends meet and you have a reaction to David Eby basically giving every one of his MLAs some sort of wage increase with a bloated government, as opposed to a government that needs to reign in its spending and focus on dealing and supporting people who are really struggling in British Columbia,” said Rustad.
BC MLAs make a base salary of almost $120,000. Eby named 27 members to his cabinet, which comes with a $60,000 raise for full ministers and $42,000 for ministers of state. He also named 14 parliamentary secretaries, who get $18,000 pay bumps. The few members of his 47-person caucus left without a job were given caucus executive roles, such as government whip, caucus chair and deputy chair of the committee of the whole — each worth $24,000 in additional salary.
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Shovel that pork
Rob Shaw: Opposition blasts premier’s decision to give every NDP MLA extra titles and pay
Premier David Eby’s decision to give every MLA in his BC NDP caucus an extra title and pay boost isn’t sitting well with the opposition, which says it’s a waste of more than $2 million.
Conservative leader John Rustad said the premier’s decision to blow money on frivolous appointments for his MLAs is unacceptable at a time when ordinary British Columbians are dealing with cost of living pressures.
“People in British Columbia are struggling to put food on the table, they are struggling to make ends meet and you have a reaction to David Eby basically giving every one of his MLAs some sort of wage increase with a bloated government, as opposed to a government that needs to reign in its spending and focus on dealing and supporting people who are really struggling in British Columbia,” said Rustad.
BC MLAs make a base salary of almost $120,000. Eby named 27 members to his cabinet, which comes with a $60,000 raise for full ministers and $42,000 for ministers of state. He also named 14 parliamentary secretaries, who get $18,000 pay bumps. The few members of his 47-person caucus left without a job were given caucus executive roles, such as government whip, caucus chair and deputy chair of the committee of the whole — each worth $24,000 in additional salary.
Rob Shaw: Opposition blasts premier's decision to give every NDP MLA extra titles and pay
Eby's decision to give every MLA in his BC NDP caucus an extra title and pay boost isn't sitting well with the opposition, which says it's a waste of more than $2 million.
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Held to account... nice work Official Opposition
NDP Health Minister Josie Osborne announced a significant curtailment of the safe supply policy for dealing with opioid addiction and it looks to be in direct response to concerns the Opposition started raising two years ago.
After repeatedly discounting questions about whether hard drugs prescribed to protect people from deadly street supply were being diverted to the black market, the government finally fully acknowledged it is a significant problem.
It was Conservative critic Elenore Sturko who pursued the issue and shared a devastating leaked government document that confirmed the problem. She was on the verge of tears after Osborne’s announcement, thinking about all the lives lost.
After Sturko seized on the issue and independent media stories reporting about the “prescribed alternatives program” around B.C. where patients collect their allotment of pills improperly, or routinely sold them to buyers on the sidewalk, Osborne gave a frank outline of the problem.
She said about 60 of B.C.’s 1,500 pharmacies appear to be engaged in illegal activities involving improper fees and kickbacks. They are all under investigation and subject to potential criminal investigation.
Meanwhile, the dispensing of hard drugs on demand is being changed immediately to a regime where consumption of the pills has to be witnessed by a health care worker.
www.timescolonist.com
Les Leyne: Conservative critic forces new curbs on safe supply of drugs
NDP Health Minister Josie Osborne announced a significant curtailment of the safe supply policy for dealing with opioid addiction — and it looks to be in direct response to concerns the Opposition started raising two years ago.NDP Health Minister Josie Osborne announced a significant curtailment of the safe supply policy for dealing with opioid addiction and it looks to be in direct response to concerns the Opposition started raising two years ago.
After repeatedly discounting questions about whether hard drugs prescribed to protect people from deadly street supply were being diverted to the black market, the government finally fully acknowledged it is a significant problem.
It was Conservative critic Elenore Sturko who pursued the issue and shared a devastating leaked government document that confirmed the problem. She was on the verge of tears after Osborne’s announcement, thinking about all the lives lost.
After Sturko seized on the issue and independent media stories reporting about the “prescribed alternatives program” around B.C. where patients collect their allotment of pills improperly, or routinely sold them to buyers on the sidewalk, Osborne gave a frank outline of the problem.
She said about 60 of B.C.’s 1,500 pharmacies appear to be engaged in illegal activities involving improper fees and kickbacks. They are all under investigation and subject to potential criminal investigation.
Meanwhile, the dispensing of hard drugs on demand is being changed immediately to a regime where consumption of the pills has to be witnessed by a health care worker.
Les Leyne: Conservative critic forces new curbs on safe supply of drugs
NDP Health Minister Josie Osborne announced a significant curtailment of the safe supply policy for dealing with opioid addiction — and it looks to be in direct response to concerns the Opposition started raising two years ago.
www.timescolonist.com
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It's not often that a program sold to the public as "it will save lives" has to answer for the oppositel.
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It was a disaster... as anyone remotely connected with health care would tell you.
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I could tell it was a disaster from half way across the country. And we have smooth brains here who want to emulate it.
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Apparently some claims of Prince Harry public appearance at the Invictus games going array. Meanwhile also in BC
www.nsnews.com
Prince Harry gifted sacred blanket during meaningful visit to Tsleil-Waututh Nation
Elected Chief Jen Thomas shares what it was like for the Duke of Sussex to visit, but also the importance of local First Nations being part of the Invictus Games
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Self-inflicted wounds...
“If everybody was singing kumbaya, and all the same, you’re not a true party. You need to see the differences. You need to look at that as a strength.”
By that weird measure, BC Conservatives have never looked “stronger” than they did this week.
They’re so strong, they look ready to explode.
Six days after his soothing words, he dropped the pretense Friday and kicked one of his biggest troublemakers out of the caucus.
Vancouver MLA Dallas Brodie, who refused his demand that she delete a loaded post about “zero” bodies being discovered at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, has been ejected.
For two weeks she defied him. Then she doubled down with an appalling appearance on a podcast. Rustad described her as publicly mocking and belittling testimony of residential school survivors.
He said she used a child-like whine to mimic their testimony, saying “my grandmother’s truth” and “my truth, your truth.”
Brodie was also the feature attraction at a closed Conservative caucus meeting Thursday morning. The CBC reported that it turned into a yelling match from which some livid members stormed out.
It stemmed partly from the rift Brodie started with the party’s house leader, A’aliya Warbus, over the child-death remark.
www.biv.com
Les Leyne: B.C. Conservatives are united — in their determination to blow their chance
B.C. Conservative Party Leader John Rustad explained away some of the arguments within his party at their convention in Nanaimo last weekend.“If everybody was singing kumbaya, and all the same, you’re not a true party. You need to see the differences. You need to look at that as a strength.”
By that weird measure, BC Conservatives have never looked “stronger” than they did this week.
They’re so strong, they look ready to explode.
Six days after his soothing words, he dropped the pretense Friday and kicked one of his biggest troublemakers out of the caucus.
Vancouver MLA Dallas Brodie, who refused his demand that she delete a loaded post about “zero” bodies being discovered at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, has been ejected.
For two weeks she defied him. Then she doubled down with an appalling appearance on a podcast. Rustad described her as publicly mocking and belittling testimony of residential school survivors.
He said she used a child-like whine to mimic their testimony, saying “my grandmother’s truth” and “my truth, your truth.”
Brodie was also the feature attraction at a closed Conservative caucus meeting Thursday morning. The CBC reported that it turned into a yelling match from which some livid members stormed out.
It stemmed partly from the rift Brodie started with the party’s house leader, A’aliya Warbus, over the child-death remark.
Les Leyne: B.C. Conservatives are united — in their determination to blow their chance
Leader John Rustad says he sees ‘differences’ as a strength. By that weird measure, BC Conservatives were so strong this week, they looked ready to explode.
www.biv.com
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