📍Downtown Vancouver since 1996. Still optimistic. Still opinionated. Still can’t spell “definitely.”
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Elsa Corsi retweeted
As we head to the polls, we’re reflecting back on some of the things we accomplished at city hall over these past four years with some of the people who helped to champion them.
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As our MP, I haven’t heard Hedy Fry address public safety concerns along the Helmcken corridor. Yet she supports her son for mayor, despite his backing of another OPS at 900 Helmcken and the neighbourhood’s troubled history. Her constituents deserve to know where she stands.
Today is voting day for Vancouver Municipal elections. I do not usually get involved in municipal or provincial elections. But I will be proudly voting for my son PETE FRY, FOR MAYOR today; not just because he is my son, but because he is my son, i know him to be a principled, hardworking, passionate man who has lived in and loved this city all his life. He is intelligent and cares deeply about public policy, he is also a bridge builder and can work with others to find common ground, effectively… good luck Pete
Was the donation to the childcare centre eligible for a charitable tax receipt, and did Eby’s family claim a tax credit? If so, that makes this grand gesture considerably less altruistic than he’s making it sound.
STATEMENT FROM BC NDP LEADER DAVID EBY:
"Securing a deal with the Prime Minister, BC and Ottawa will work together to reach a newly negotiated childcare funding agreement with a December 1st deadline. My family has benefited from a wonderful local childcare centre and I will keep fighting so that every family benefits from quality childcare across our province.
A couple of years ago, the childcare centre that one of our children was attending was designated as a $10/day site. When that occurred, we chose as a family to make a donation to that excellent facility. We felt that we did not need that discount and we wanted to make sure that the childcare centre could provide other supports for families in the community.
We will be making a similar donation to the childcare centre for our youngest child who attends the same facility."
That too, but calling involuntary care “prison” ignores people so unwell they can no longer care for themselves. Do we leave people in circumstances like these to deteriorate on the streets in the name of personal choice?
âś… An easy YES on Question 2 of the plebiscite for me.
❌ Pete Fry — voted against stopping the proposed 900 Helmcken OPS
❌ Sean Orr — voted against stopping the proposed 900 Helmcken OPS
❌ Lucy Maloney — voted against stopping the proposed 900 Helmcken OPS
❌ Rebecca Bligh — voted against stopping the proposed 900 Helmcken OPS
People talk politics with me because they know I’m vocal. Funny thing: when they complain about how things are going, I ask who they voted for.
Almost every time: NDP đź‘€
At some point, you have to connect the complaint to the vote
Elsa Corsi retweeted
Only a week ago it was billionaires, today its millionaires.
Next week it will be “the rich” defined as anyone making g over media income of $67k a year
Get this guy out ffs
NEW - @Dave_Eby says he will create a new tax bracket on people who earn more than $1m annually, to tax the wealthiest British Columbians to help pay for health care costs.
It’s the perfect time to vote! Zero line ups, easy in and out at The Best Western Granville Street.
Elsa Corsi retweeted
I live downtown and people are mad.
Four councillors voted against fighting the 900 Helmcken drug site. The province later cancelled it after listening to downtown.
Two of those four, Fry and Bligh, now want to be mayor.
Voting records matter. Advanced voting starts next week and election day is Oct 17.
#vanpoli
Elsa Corsi retweeted
Recognize this man? Vancouver police seek shoplifting suspect who allegedly pushed pregnant employee ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article…
The more people speak up, the more others will feel comfortable doing so. Staying quiet because you’re afraid of being labelled “uncompassionate” hasn’t made our neighbourhoods safer OR helped the people struggling in them.
A 25 lb dumbbell precariously propping open a window above a public sidewalk at the Murray Hotel. At what point does basic safety and oversight enter the conversation?
A successful independent research database studying addiction and homelessness gets shut down, the data destroyed, and future access moved under government control. đź‘€ Yeah, not suspicious at all.
BC’s catastrophic drug policies were made possible by a Govt order to destroy data and censorship by Pharma-funded academics:
“Somers … provided a copy of a July 2022 email from the British Columbia Centre on Substance Use, which lobbies for safe supply, showing that they lobbied for a conference to disinvite him from speaking at an academic conference
“…the email to the conference organizers from BCCSU expressed hope that “this work will not be given a credible platform.””
Well, look at that. đź‘€
The graffiti covering 900 Helmcken that we posted about has now been painted over.
Credit where it’s due. This is exactly what we’ve been asking for: basic property maintenance and respect for the surrounding neighbourhood 🙏🏼
