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Ben Holt @beanjammin.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

When an LNG lobbyist smoothed Eby's path to NDP leadership and becoming Premier they got more LNG projects in return. Now real estate and AirBNB lobbyists are working to get him reelected. Eby has their back not British Columbians. #VoteGreen ricochet.media/politics/two...

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Two major electoral campaigns in Canada are being run by former Airbnb and real estate lobbyists

A revolving door of election campaign staff and political lobbyists is not in the public interest — a ‘layer cake of conflicts of interest’

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Ben Holt @beanjammin.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Tzeporah Berman: "I’m putting my trust, my voice and my support behind Emily Lowan and the BC Greens." www.nationalobserver.com/2026/10/14/o...

nationalobserver.com

Why I broke up with David Eby’s BC NDP

When the NDP came to power, they promised to take climate change seriously. Instead, we’ve watched those promises unravel.

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arianek (she/her) @arianek.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

💯 They've proven over and over that they're unethical and ableist, and all too happy to let BC citizens suffer and die from treatable illnesses.

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arianek (she/her) @arianek.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Still reeling over this comment Eby blurted out last night. I guess I needed to be reminded that BC is not a safe place for citizens with rare or complex medical issues, or even severe autoimmune diseases. BC is only for healthy, abled people. I keep wishing so hard it was otherwise.v

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arianek (she/her) @arianek.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

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arianek (she/her) @arianek.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Nope, that was a separate issue.

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arianek (she/her) @arianek.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Was I the only one who caught this rushed/mumbled line from Eby?? What was he getting at, that BC residents are being unreasonable expecting the same access to medical treatment that is available in other provinces? 🙃 #bcpoli

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arianek (she/her) @arianek.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

“The miraculous cures that are being offered are wildly expensive.” -BC Premier @davidebybc.bsky.social on healthcare. In case you thought they learned anything from the Charleigh situation. And this is why BC is not a safe place to live for rare and complex disease patients. #bcpoli

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David Keegan @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

COVID-19 hasn’t gone since 2020 and has always been airborne. We need a respirator mask mandate for everyone in healthcare settings. Not having one is causing it to spread more, and sicken and disable more. In room air filtration can also help. #abpoli #ableg edmontonjournal.com/news/covid-p...

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COVID patients lumped together in Edmonton hospital

“We're seeing hallways full of stretchers and ambulance patients being offloaded into hallways."

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arianek (she/her) @arianek.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Oh, Emily finally got a good point in re: wealth taxes, good one! (Eby is pouting because he got interrupted? That was a bad look for him.)

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arianek (she/her) @arianek.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Since as long as we’re still residents we still gotta vote, we’re watching the debate… 😬 Eby is often babbling talking points and not answering the questions, and poor Emily does not seem adequately prepped for this. 💔 Doerksen seems more honest and reasonable. I am worried.

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Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The BC provincial election debate is tonight, Wed Oct 14, 6:15 pm. Dave Eby, Emily Lowan & Lorne Doerkson, moderated by Shachi Kurl. I'll be livetweeting it. Probably highlights only, if it goes fast. But here too, if time allows. Link to watch the debate live is in the next post.#bcpoli

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Lindsay Brown (@Lidsville) on X

The BC provincial election debate is tonight, Wed Oct 14 6:15 pm. Dave Eby, Emily Lowan & Lorne Doerkson, moderated by Shachi Kurl. I'll be attempting to live tweet it here. Probably highlights on...

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Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

TW: Suicide “So many people out there who are suffering, they choose to disappear forever… no one’s really speaking out for them.” Emma Donohoe talks about losing contact with members of the #MECFS community and finding out they had died by suicide.

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James Boxall 🇨🇦🍁 @jamesgis.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

CBC Ideas with @nahlahayed.bsky.social Oh how I love a show about human and cultural geography. "language" aspect was cool; lived in so many places; my accent and words change each time. Regions, identity and even...the idea of separation very timly A #geography must! www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

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Dick Zoutman @dickzoutman.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Very good opinion piece on why Canada needs a Royal Inquiry on our country’s poor response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It is shocking that there has been no Royal Inquiry given the devastation caused and continuing due to COVID-19 in Canada. @mark-carney.bsky.social are you listening?

theglobeandmail.com

Opinion: Plague fears remind us we still need an accounting of our COVID-19 response

Six years after the pandemic was declared, we still haven’t had a proper inquiry to help us learn what went wrong

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Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The NDP are at serious risk of losing the BC election on the 24th. How did they end up so flat-footed in a snap election that THEY called? It's at least partly their particular culty insularity that renders them unable to read the room. Why are they so chronically out of touch? 🧵 #bcpoli

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

📣 Today we are #TogetherAgainstMisinformation❗ I want to focus on hateful & stigmatizing lies about immigration. ZERO evidence that immigrants increase crime (on the contrary!). What lie do you wish would die❓ Go science. Go evidence. Go compassion! cc @scienceupfirst.bsky.social

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arianek (she/her) @arianek.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Of all the things to push on the platform. Legitimately one of the worst songs and bands to have been inflicted on our generation.

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arianek (she/her) @arianek.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

On Canada lagging behind on clinical trials. Sidenote: I’ve been absolutely amazed at how many more clinical trials are going on in Quebec, especially compared to western Canada and BC where there are almost none. healthydebate.ca/2026/10/abou... #CDNHealth

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Canada is losing the race for clinical trials – and patients are paying the price - Healthy Debate

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arianek (she/her) @arianek.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

There is no shortage of housing in Vancouver. There is a shortage of *affordable* housing. The bulk of new builds are worsening that. I’m really unwell and don’t have the energy to get into longer explanations, but I would suggest you read Patrick Condon’s work, he explains it all in detail.

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Peter Louwe @peterlouwe.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I live in BC and totally get it. People have been deliberately misinformed, with public health saying "wash hands", not "mask up". Attempting to limit gov't and corporate responsibility by cleaning the air, they've promoted covid transmission and ensured the pandemic will never end.

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arianek (she/her) @arianek.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Market condos and duplexes that cost four times more than what they replaced before rezoning. The BCNDP is deeply in cahoots with the real estate industry and protects them at every level. Just like a lot of the centrist/right wing municipal parties. None of them are working for the citizens.

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arianek (she/her) @arianek.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Again while this may seem like the obvious explanation, this is not an accurate picture of what’s going on in BC housing. Blaming the municipalities (or “wealthy homeowners”) is not appropriate, zoning didn’t create any of this, and you can’t build your way out of an affordability crisis with…

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arianek (she/her) @arianek.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I can’t argue with any of that; the fact that they are so pro-oil and gas really says it all.

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arianek (she/her) @arianek.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I say this as someone who voted BCNDP for about twenty years, but the last two elections had to start voting for the Greens, as they’re the only party with actual ethics, and a vision for a better society and future - and I’m far from alone.

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arianek (she/her) @arianek.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

David Eby seemed like a decent guy back when he was at the BCCLA and serving as Attorney General. I don’t know whether that was an act or he’s since been bought by corporate interests, but he has not been in it for the people for a long time now and it shows (especially in housing + healthcare).

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arianek (she/her) @arianek.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I really enjoy your work, but you’re a bit out of touch with what’s going on in BC. The BCNDP is a right of centre party despite the name. They collude with the real estate industry to allow EXHORBITANT housing prices, and are widely hated across the political spectrum including by leftists.

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arianek (she/her) @arianek.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Wow, incredible seeing some kind of actual accountability over medical malpractice, even if the outcome for the patient is not included here. The lack of protection for patients and consequences for doctors in Canada is egregious.

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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Cities are unfairly labeled as problem centres because of homelessness, and drug use. But many people who are struggling came from smaller towns or were rejected by their families. "Cities are holding a lot of people who you failed to love and take care of" -- @anandwrites.bsky.social

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Conor Curtis @conorcurtis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Won't offset whale impacts: '$1.2B for ocean protections is simply pennies” compared to $10 billion pledged for an expanded terminal at Roberts Bank, The Wilderness Committee responded in a release. “Right now, I have no confidence the southern resident killer whales will survive Carney’s agenda...'

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New LNG Canada Deal ‘Like Betting on a Concrete Canoe’

The LNG Canada megaproject in Kitimat, British Columbia, is expected to announce a final investment decision today to double its output to up to 30 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas per year, th...

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Conor Curtis @conorcurtis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

2/2 It's hollow, as noted by numerous others: globalnews.ca/video/120835... Again, if you care about oceans you don't *purposefully* make climate change worse. "...the same run around Canada’s environmental protections for species at risk, like the orcas, just without the public closely watching."

thestar.com

Althia Raj: Whatever good is in Mark Carney’s Building Canada Strong Act is poisoned by the toxic rest

The Mark Carney government frames this law as part of its “Canada Strong” plan — and frankly, some parts are good — but toxic with good is still bad.

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arianek (she/her) @arianek.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

He may be good on a world stage, but at home he is ramming a new fossil fuel pipeline through a province and First Nations territories that don’t want it, while the country burns down more every summer.

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 06/10/2026

Canada’s first-past-the-post electoral system at it again: Québec’s incumbent CAQ party is on track to be wiped off the map despite getting 14% of the vote Québec Solidaire on track to win 11 seats with 11% of the vote

Seat standings
Popular vote
Votes and share don't show who won the election; the number of MNAs determines who wins.

ELECT
LEAD
TOTAL
VOTES
SHARE
| PQ O
32
28
60
636,700
28.8%
| LIB
22
14
36
514,839
23.3%
| PCQ
13
7
20
473,490
21.4%
I QS
2
9
11
244,125
11%
CAQ

313,870
14.2%

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arianek (she/her) @arianek.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Things I did not have on my 2026 bingo card: being in Montreal during a historic PQ win. The CAQ is getting absolutely trounced.

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arianek (she/her) @arianek.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If they won’t listen to Adrienne Clarkson (and I’m sure they won’t), I don’t know who they’ll listen to. The state of women’s healthcare in Canada is horrific. Some might say deadly.

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arianek (she/her) @arianek.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Wow, what a predictably useless and minimising comment on a story about the horrific state of healthcare for women in Canada.

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arianek (she/her) @arianek.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I don’t think you can answer that in a blanket way, it’s so contextual to the location. I don’t know the situation in Montreal well enough yet to comment, but in Vancouver “build more” has if anything massively increased rents, because all new units cost significantly more than what they replaced.

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Le Devoir @ledevoir.com · 02/10/2026

Le regard de notre caricaturiste Godin sur l'actualité du 2 octobre 2026 👉 bit.ly/4y2hyhP

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Bryn Davidson - Lanefab @lanefab.com · 29/09/2026

To be permitted and built just in time for the world to electrify, killing the business case for LNG growth. This is like investing in Blockbuster in 2004, when the company was at it's peak, and Netflix was new on the scene.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ragebaiting myself by watching Carney announce “ocean protections” while he’s massively escalating tanker traffic for oil and gas exports

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arianek (she/her) @arianek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

That press conference was an absolute masterclass in greenwashing. Kudos to the @nationalobserver.com reporter who posed the second to last question for being totally on the ball. 👏

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

He just said that Indigenous knowledge will help the government to ensure that the ocean waters “remain safe, sustainable and healthy for future generations and for all the life that lives in them.” WHAT ABOUT THE SOUTHERN RESIDENT ORCAS YOU’RE GETTING POWERS TO DRIVE TO EXTINCTION MARK? MARK???

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arianek (she/her) @arianek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

OMG this Carney press conference is such a greenwashing joke. I guess he heard our anger about removing protections for the coast for his ridiculous pipeline... How can he think anyone is going to take this seriously?? He really thinks British Columbians are stupid, doesn't he.

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arianek (she/her) @arianek.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It is THE biggest regret of my entire life. If I could undo one single thing I would never have taken it. But the worst part, aside from so many doctors missing that it was making me so sick and telling me to stay on it, is zero support trying to recover. Grieving/accepting a changed body is hard.

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arianek (she/her) @arianek.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I had never taken it before and didn't realise how different it was from hydrocortisone. Too much, too long, then tapered too fast. For a misdiagnosis, no less. It did nothing positive, made literally every medical issue worse + caused so many new ones. If I told you the dose your head would spin.

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arianek (she/her) @arianek.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I only wish there was a kind of specialist who could advise over things like this - though maybe there’s nothing that can really help anyway. Having every inch of your body feel and look different (in a bad way, like rapid ageing by decades) is really hard to get used to.

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arianek (she/her) @arianek.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I never understood (and I know it’s not the same situation), until I had my body and appearance dramatically change in a short time span due to medical complications, especially overprescribed prednisone/Cushings. Permanent changes to your body are a constant reminder of what happened. I get it now.

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arianek (she/her) @arianek.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Exactly - it has nothing to do with feelings/mental health/right thinking (usually only ever twisted like this in women’s diseases).

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