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If Trump hasn't done anything wrong, why withhold the #epsteinfiles  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B859NlgUrgM

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The working class are a voting pool that neither the conservatives nor liberals deserve

Conservatives are really good at portraying themselves as the voice of the little guy when they’re not in power; they have this identity politics sewn up like pro’s. But working class voters, who’s grievances and anxieties are real, keep being sold a bill of goods that are at times opposite to what was advertised. To be sure, the Liberals are an elitist party. They also say the right things and…

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Don't get cocky, Liberals.

Please understand that your team barely won this election. A minority government where you’re to rely on opposition parliamentary votes to pass legislation. To be sure, Liberals could have claimed victory in any case. The day before Justin Trudeau announced his resignation, his party looked like it was racing towards the electoral cliff and the CPC leadership were measuring the drapes to the…

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Your regular reminder that trickle-down economics is a cruel joke designed by the wealthy.

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Epilogue of the federal election

So there it is. Another federal election done and gone, a new government chosen by voters for up to 4 years, one that will hopefully outlast the insanity south of us. But not all is great. I will start that I am a country-first progressive voter. That is to say that I value my country’s survival and viability above partisanship. So, I am genuinely grateful that the Conservatives lost. But I…

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Liberal partisans trot out toxic and tired anti-NDP rhetoric. Again.

To frame in the discussion, understand that we’re in the late stages of a unusually long minority government under the Federal Liberals’ Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Justin has been the PM since 2015 when his party was elected to a landslide win over Stephen Harper’s Conservative Party – on a list of progressive pledges of which included electoral reform. A promise broken, by the way; and a…

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The coming choice in BC is one of hope vs all other efforts to exploit your fears.

We enter the BC Election campaign in 2024 starting today with a stark choice at hand. One side, imperfect, offers a new term extending out what its started. That means continuing the land reforms to speed up home construction; expanding supply rapidly to address both a housing shortage and affordability issue. This side also tackles the problems facing the unhoused, those facing addiction issues…

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J.D. Vance’s Damning Texts to Far-Right Conspiracy Theorist Exposed | The New Republic

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Maddow points out frightening truth about Trump's lack of concern about ...

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BC party power play is a foolish game

Welcome to BC Politics, unfolding drama # 123243 This time it’s the seeming crash of the BC United Party as several of its candidates and MLA’s cross the floor to the upstart BC Conservative Party. Ordinarily I wouldn’t care as I support neither of these two parties, but I see a trend that should be talked about and called out. Crossing the floor happens in politics from time to time, yes..but…

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Decriminalization was always going to controversial

But the politicization over the program is over the top. It was always meant as a medically based approach to rampant drug use of certain products. Drugs that can trigger immediate addiction, but more likely – death. Death to the user, death to the healthcare worker trying to assist, death to innocent bystanders. The project was seen as an alternative to the ‘same old’ approach, which is to…

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Right-wing hysteria over the carbon tax their movement invented the worst of Canadian politics

Thing 1: carbon pricing is a good idea that conservatives invented and they should proudly own it. Instead, we’re in this surreal hellscape where they’ve disavowed their idea, labelled it as the “Liberal carbon tax” and are campaigning hard against it. To be clear, it was under the federal Liberal Party that the government passed the carbon tax legislation that attached a price to carbon…

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All we had to do was be kind to each other.

But have we failed? Its awful to any humanitarian what is going on in the middle east. The ongoing conflict in Gaza and the IDF’s military expedition now underway has ripped open wounds and tested sanity of folks the world over. Nobody, in their right mind, likes war. Not overt war, not acts of terror, not anything where there’s a potential of large losses of innocent civilian life. This goes…

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The far right's anti-immigrant narrative gave a permission structure to the Trudeau Liberals to cap foreign students wishing to come to Canada to study

Political triangulation is a thing that centrists know well; it’s where you adopt a position of your opponent to appear pragmatic, denying the opponent a position to attack from, then paint them as the extremists unworthy of your vote. There are exceptions to this rule. Adopting policies which are inherently racist or bigoted in nature should be avoided. But these are desperate times for the…

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Goodnight 2023.