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No one is asking why housing targets were enacted in the first place: because municipalities & NIMBY interests abused systems (& taxpayer dollars) to drag out hearings & approvals until everyone just gave up. They prevented progress for decades while people died in the cold.
B.C. mayors largely support Conservative plan to ditch NDP housing policies vancouversun.com/news/mayors…
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Can't actually provide housing for homeless people. Can't build trains. Can't nationalize steel company being dismantled by predatory American firm. Can't stop arms exports to Israel. Can't end boil water advisories on reserves. CAN keep shoveling money into one B2B SaaS company!
Prime Minister @MarkJCarney said Canada is investing $1.6 billion in Toronto frontier AI developer @cohere as the "Canadian success story" targets a nearly $36 billion valuation in a new round of financing. betakit.com/canada-to-invest…
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Maybe this is obvious but it just struck me as very funny that David Eby could have made a deal with the Greens to keep the Legislature for 2 more years instead of losing
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David Eby's legacy will be going from someone who wrote a book on your civil rights while being arrested to overseeing the raids on Wet'suwet'en territory as attorney general to centre right neoliberalism that led to conservatives winning for the first time in over a century
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"Give it time, they inherited a mess." - BC Conservatives for the next few years while nothing improves because their economics are from the same failed school of neoliberal thought as the BC NDP, just more rightwing.
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Finally, an election result goes the way of the 50 year old owners of multiple rental properties who have finally been given a fighting chance during this affordability crisis by saving a full $200 on their next year's income taxes. Take that, David Eby! The people have spoken!
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The entire BC NDP shoulders the blame for this by totally ratfucking Anjali Appadurai by the way. Eby couldn't win on his own in the first place because his political instincts have been dog shit from day one and even casual observers could see this happening a mile out
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Eby lost this election through multiple egregious mistakes, arrogance & lack of political skill.
But we also need to see his catastrophic loss as proof of what happens when "progressives" swing to the right.
Eby is not the first centrist to be shown this.
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