Commenting on B.C. public affairs at https://nitter.cf/t.co/Rq0K5qvA8Q since 2009. In 2025, I was a founder of nonprofit Canada West Forum Society.
North Vancouver, BC, Canada
Joined March 2009
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"Effective income tax rates climb steadily for most of the population but fall sharply for billionaires and centi-millionaires. These elites pay proportionally less than most of the households that earn much lower incomes." in-sights.ca/2026/10/07/worl…
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Leaked B.C. Conservative letter to lawyers, private insurers with party agenda for auto insurance, should put Lorne Doerkson on defensive. What else is he planning that he's sharing with insiders without telling the public?
Barbarians not waiting beyond the frontiers; they have already been governing us for quite some time. in-sights.ca/2026/10/04/davi…
Rassembly of the disassembled BC Conservative Party offers little confidence that it is ready to govern. Let them manage their own party with cohesion and discipline. Only then can they credibly claim to be prepared to govern an entire province. in-sights.ca/2026/09/30/no-u…
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Except if labour exercises the right to strike effectively.
Then Liberals will shut it down.
Workers’ rights shouldn’t be respected only when it’s convenient.
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The life and times of Peter Milobar:
Left BC United, joined BC Conservatives, ran for leader of Conservatives, finished last, quit the Conservatives, dismissed CentreBC, then joined it and became leader, quit CentreBC after 4 days and re-joined the Conservatives. Okay.
#bcpoli
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The real nature of this government is starting to appear. The Liberals are planning to undermine collective bargaining by eliminating workers’ constitutional right to strike. Workers build this country, and they deserve fair and safe workplaces.
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Heather McPherson: "The federal government makes $525m annually from airports right now. That is income that comes in that the government can spend on other airports. That's part of of what we would be giving up with privatization."
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Veteran municipal @fabulavancouver reporter, now running for @OneCityVan, says she's been "shocked at how Ken Sim and the ABC have campaigned and governed in a way to divide people in Vancouver."
My comment: Sim ran last time on unifying the city. Not this time. Nasty. #vanpoli
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He's basically saying workers have too many rights, and it makes investors mad
Steven MacKinnon on 'modernizing' labour relations: "We do have too many conflicts, lockouts and strikes, or threats of either of those in the country. It harms investment, harms employment, maybe even particularly in unionized environments. So we need a better framework for getting to agreements between employers and their employees."
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Avi Lewis: "We are in a crisis moment and we need a crisis response. But PM Carney is using our fear and disorientation around the trade war to push through a series of unpopular measures that he did not run on, has no mandate for, and would never get away with under normal circumstances."
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Ken Sims and ABC have been in power for 4 years, and the DTES is worse than it’s ever been. Then they have the nerve to campaign on cracking down on public drug use. What have they been doing for 4 years? #vanpoli
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“Albertans are angry,” says the woman who never misses an opportunity to create and stoke anger. It’s time for us to turn our anger against the people who are trying to manipulate us, not against each other.
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Expect the Liberals to ram through regressive bills no-one voted for to serve corporate interests by a razor-thin majority they fabricated through enticing floor-crossers.
Fixed it.
Expect legislative “haste” from Parliament’s fall sitting, say strategists, as the Liberals continue to enjoy a majority government and a healthy lead over the opposition with the ongoing Canada-United States trade war an unpredictable “X factor” in play.
hilltimes.com/2026/09/18/par…
#NorthVan District Council member Jim Hanson talked about the need for reform of Metro Vancouver governance. He illustrated his comments by comparing wastewater treatment projects in Victoria and North Vancouver. in-sights.ca/2026/09/21/metr…
Wife of a full-patch Hells Angel "advertised a pair of her shoes for sale over the Internet forgetting that she had hidden a baggie of cocaine in one of them."
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Inside the Trump-backed push to bring AI doctors into American medicine washingtonpost.com/technolog…
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"We would love to give back to the community and add rinks," says Daniel Sedin on the practice facility, noting that his hometown of Ö-vik - a locality of 35k people - has the same number of rinks as the city of Vancouver.
"That would be a dream of ours, as an organization."