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Half the polls in, wayyyyy bigger lead.
The governing party's cop fascist candidates are losing baddddddly.
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This might be why there's all this voter suppression. Ken Sim is fucked, if this pattern continues!
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This is textbook voter suppression, from a mayor and council who are spawns of Margaret Thatcher and Karl Rove, based on their horrible conduct for 2.5 years.
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Yeah, they limit advance-voting, and polling places
It’s as if they don’t really want a democratic election or something 
When your opponent works really hard to make it so you can’t vote it probably means it’s important that we should
"We’re celebrating the first official victory delivered under the Confidence and Supply Agreement (CARGA) between the BC Greens and the BC NDP — and it’s a big one! Thanks to the $75 million secured through CARGA by BC Green MLAs Rob Botterell and Jeremy Valeriote, rental supports for families and seniors across the province are being significantly enhanced." - B.C. Green Party (quote from Bluesky Acct) #bcpoli #BCGreenParty
https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2025HMA0022-000287
BC Gov NewsEnhanced rental assistance programs support families, seniorsMore people will now benefit from enhancements to the Rental Assistance Program (RAP) and the Shelter Aid for Elderly Renters (SAFER) program, helping low-income families and seniors afford their rent.
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@GlacierMedia @north-shore-news-GlacierMedia Here's how the BC cons Frankenstein monster dies, a new BC centrist party, which will pull most if not close to *all* of the votes of the conservative populists.
I wouldn't be surprised if we see MLAs leaving the CPBC caucus as soon as this month, it was all a transparently fake union anyway.
Wondering why Canadian egg prices have not risen like the USA?
"Amanda Brittain of B.C. Egg, which oversees egg farming in the province, says price increases have been much smaller than those in the U.S. due to Canada's supply management system.
"That means we produce just enough eggs to feed the people of Canada," she said. "Here in B.C., most of the eggs are farmed right in B.C., so we don't have large excesses of eggs."”
#BCpoli #Eggs #Inflation #SupplyManagement
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-egg-prices-1.7501547
CBCEgg prices soar in the U.S. but not in B.C. Here's why | CBC NewsRising egg costs have been a hot-button topic in the United States, but a farming organization in British Columbia says that while prices in the province have risen, eggs remain "one of the least expensive proteins in the grocery store."
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"The carbon tax that had an effect on prices of carbon intensive products - that was not making affordability worse. The average Canadian was made better off because of the rebates that were associated with the carbon tax."
"Never try to solve an income problem with prices. This is not a price problem. Affordability is about incomes; affordability is not about prices."
“Despite cannabis legalization, recreational drug use by youths [12-18] has dropped to its lowest level in 25 years.”
Kids understand what harms them now. This is the result of years, decades, of their parents also understanding that and passing it on to their kids.
This is a public health success story. It is also a success story for legalization of a once-controlled substance.
What if we applied this lesson to hard drugs?
#Cannabis #BCPoli #Legalization #Health #Canada
https://www.albernivalleynews.com/news/cannabis-use-among-bc-youths-continues-post-legalization-plunge-report-7920448
Alberni Valley News · Cannabis use among B.C. youths continues post-legalization plunge: report
First Nations leaders are calling on the Conservatives to drop Aaron Gunn as their candidate for North Island-Powell River because of his past comments on residential schools.
New from me: a massive 1,700 person work camp, complete with a movie theatre, gym and bar, could be headed to the dump as construction on the Site C dam comes to a close. Locals aren’t happy
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/site-c-work-camp-demolition-end-of-life-1.7500296 #bcpoli
CBCMassive work camp — complete with gym and movie theatre — could be headed to a B.C. landfill | CBC NewsB.C. Hydro still looking for someone to take work camp as construction on electric dam comes to a close
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And today its being reported that they are considering axing the #EV incentives to pay for the revenue hole cause by killing the carbon tax.
It really is #FossilFuels liberation day.
Courtesy of the non-existent #NDP environmental policy.
Times Colonist Letters to the Editor for April 2.
"Money for ferries, but how about rail?”
#BCPoli #BCFerries #Rail #Transportation
https://www.timescolonist.com/opinion/letters-april-2-bc-ferries-new-vessels-we-need-more-government-housing-10463134
With the NDP’s decision to kill the carbon tax, the government is showing that rather than making decisions from a place of principled leadership, they are willing to take the path of least resistance.
Former BC Greens leader Sonia Furstenau writes.
Just switched. Estimated to save a couple hundred a year (I have a heat pump and EV)
BC Hydro now offering flat rates for high-electricity users
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/how-to-apply-bc-hydro-flat-rate-cheaper-1.7499067 #bcpoli
CBCUse a heat pump or electric vehicle in B.C.? You might want to change how you get charged for power use | CBC NewsB.C. Hydro is now offering flat rate and time-of-day billing options, in addition to its default tiered system.
"We are destroying the habitat for mountain caribou, grizzly, wolverine, fisher. We know we're driving those animals into extinction." Conservationists and community-based businesses look to reset how forests are managed
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/forest-industry-reset-prince-george-tariffs-1.7498354 #bcpoli #forestry
CBCTrump's tariff war could collapse B.C.'s struggling forest industry | CBC NewsConservationists and community-based businesses look to reset how forests are managed as crises pile up.
A B.C.-based economist calls the scrapping of the carbon tax "foolish", noting it was popular here for a decade prior to becoming a federal issue. Also notes it helped low income residents AND will blow a $1.8 billion hole in the budget
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/gas-prices-carbon-tax-british-columbia-1.7499164 #bcpoli
CBCB.C.'s carbon tax is gone. Is gas any cheaper? | CBC NewsGas prices across B.C. have seen a sharp decline after the consumer carbon tax was lifted in the early hours of April 1.
I guess we've all just lost our minds.
David Beckham, the Liberal candidate for Saanich-Gulf Islands BC, which has not elected a Liberal in living memory, is saying on threads that in his riding a vote for Elizabeth May is a vote for Pierre Poilievre.
Good lord. #Elxn45 #bcpoli #Election2025