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Ryan Clayton @itsryanclayton.substack.com · 05/10/2026

Over the past couple years, I have written several times about SOGI 123. What more is there to say? Obviously the BC NDP were not persuaded. itsryanclayton.substack.com/p/incomprehe...

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Incomprehensible rage

A sad ending that a truly “progressive” government would have avoided

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Ryan Clayton @itsryanclayton.substack.com · 04/10/2026

Salmon Arm-Shuswap as well! I get to choose between all five parties.

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Ryan Clayton @itsryanclayton.substack.com · 04/10/2026

Conservatives have candidates in every riding. Greens managed to run in more ridings in this snap election than they did in the previous scheduled one. NDP fall just short of a full slate despite controlling election timing. One is actually ⅓. Centre BC ironically has no candidates in central BC.

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Ryan Clayton @itsryanclayton.substack.com · 04/10/2026

Peace River South is currently the same.

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Ryan Clayton @itsryanclayton.substack.com · 02/10/2026

I'm one again reminding people that aggregate projections (like 338) are not polls and presenting them at the riding level as a poll is LYING.

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Ryan Clayton @itsryanclayton.substack.com · 30/09/2026

The ARC Foundation is shutting down after being defunded by the BC NDP government. That means the end of SOGI 123. Thanks David Eby. Great work. 🤬 www.arcfoundation.ca/wind-down-an...

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Wind-down Announcement | ARC Foundation | SOGI 123 is our primary program.

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Ryan Clayton @itsryanclayton.substack.com · 30/09/2026

When Bernier took on Centre BC he put a lot of emphasis on being thoughtful and serious about policy and not feeding "divisive and fear-tactic politics." One week under Sturko and they're back to shallow rhetoric, fanning flames and fear mongering about harm reduction.

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Ryan Clayton @itsryanclayton.substack.com · 26/09/2026

It's not really election season until I bust out the button maker.

A button that says "remember to vote 2026, municipal October 17, provincial October 24" with the BC flag as the background

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Ryan Clayton @itsryanclayton.substack.com · 26/09/2026

Also the BC Green candidate for West Vancouver-Capilano in 2009.

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Polling Canada @canadianpolling.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

BC - Leader Net-Favourables: 🟢Lowan: -9% 🔵Doerkson: -10% 🟠Eby: -27% Angus Reid / Sept 24, 2026

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Ryan Clayton @itsryanclayton.substack.com · 24/09/2026

Interrupting them mid-implosion was such a *great* strategic move.

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Ryan Clayton @itsryanclayton.substack.com · 23/09/2026

The Greens are once again campaigning on their lack of ambition. They want all the decision making power without having to actually win seats. Balance of power is a lucky draw, not a serious strategy.

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Ryan Clayton @itsryanclayton.substack.com · 23/09/2026

My MLA has confirmed he's running for re-election (David Williams, Conservative in Salmon Arm-Shuswap) www.facebook.com/share/p/1C2e...

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Ryan Clayton @itsryanclayton.substack.com · 23/09/2026

I was so close to voting for them, but Sturko going anti-SOGI when she flipped to the Conservatives made me sick. What a disappointing development, if Bernier hadn't handed over the party to Milobar they might have done well.

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Ryan Clayton @itsryanclayton.substack.com · 21/09/2026

One of the biggest tensions I've found in politics, especially local government, is that the skills needed to win a political campaign are often different from those needed to be successful in the role once elected. itsryanclayton.substack.com/p/the-title-...

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The title and the job

We elect campaigners for a job that requires a completely different skill set

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Ryan Clayton @itsryanclayton.substack.com · 21/09/2026

This happened to me once in Yellowknife and it was one of the greatest things I have ever seen.

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Scott @sdlb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Conservatives looked at a moment where there has been more appetite for right of centre governance than any point in the last 15 years and decided to make themselves completely unelectable. Just incredible work by those with terminal Twitter brain poisoning.

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

people on other social media sites debate endlessly about tactics and ideology and wedge issues and purity, and all of that is super fun but if your leader is someone who can't deal with other people, all that other stuff doesn't really matter, and these debates are sort of pointless

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The funniest parts of the BC Conservative Party caucus saga is each of the parts.

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Jackie Wong @jackie-wong.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I haven't been here much lately but I made this just now and my coworkers said I should post it

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Ryan Clayton @itsryanclayton.substack.com · 18/09/2026

It's a good outcome and precedent, but "historic" is still a painfully abused adjective in politics.

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Ryan Clayton @itsryanclayton.substack.com · 18/09/2026

I am begging political parties to stop using "historic" as an adjective to describe something that happened, with the same outcome, in 2014, 2018, 2022 and now 2026. Also, the city needs to get over itself and stop making people go to court to defend their own names.

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Ryan Clayton @itsryanclayton.substack.com · 18/09/2026

Imagine being John Rustad. You build a party from almost nothing, almost win government, get kicked out as leader by the caucus you got elected, and then the leader who replaces you throws you out of caucus altogether. Like I don't agree with him on much, but jeez he did not deserve this.

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Ryan Clayton @itsryanclayton.substack.com · 18/09/2026

The BC Conservatives have now lost 19 seats since the last election.

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Ryan Clayton @itsryanclayton.substack.com · 18/09/2026

Imagine being in a caucus meeting and finding out your own party sent a private investigator after you. What a circus.

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Ryan Clayton @itsryanclayton.substack.com · 14/09/2026

Violent. Cruel. Adversarial. How it feels growing up next to the United States. itsryanclayton.substack.com/p/america-th...

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America the adversary

An entire generation will only know the United States as an enemy

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Ryan Clayton @itsryanclayton.substack.com · 11/09/2026

That BC number is stunning considering he has run here twice.

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Ryan Clayton @itsryanclayton.substack.com · 07/09/2026

The allegations around the Victoria school board firing are shocking and serious. The public deserves answers. itsryanclayton.substack.com/p/force?utm_...

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Force

What happens when democratic oversight fails?

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Tyler Olsen @tyolsen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

One thing we don't talk about much, but is shaping BC political discourse is the fact that house prices today are below what they were five years ago, and continuing decline (and this is before inflation is taken into account)

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Ryan Clayton @itsryanclayton.substack.com · 02/09/2026

I've started just refreshing the "current party standings" page for the BC Legislature every couple hours.

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Andrea Woo @andreawoo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Boundary-Similkameen MLA Donegal Wilson quits B.C. Conservative caucus, the eighth to do so since Aug 14. "I never imagined things could go this wrong, this quickly.”

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Ryan Clayton @itsryanclayton.substack.com · 31/08/2026

The Conservative leader goes into a by-election amidst chaos and mass defections. These last two weeks have been baffling to behold. itsryanclayton.substack.com/p/keeping-up...

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Keeping up with the Conservatives

At this point I need a flow chart

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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 31/08/2026

NEW: MapQuest is currently the number one navigation app on the Apple App Store, overtaking Google Maps thanks to Google's decision to follow Trump's lead in renaming Lake Ontario as Lake America.

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MapQuest finds its way back to prominence thanks to uproar over Google Maps decision

MapQuest is currently the number one navigation app — and among the most popular apps overall — after Google renamed Lake Ontario as Lake America.

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I have heard the phrase “silent majority” invoked twice this month as a reason to do something and once was by the Mayor of Vancouver for his plebiscite on drug use and the other was by John Cena to Foghorn Leghorn as a reason why ACME should get to explode the Looney Tunes

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Ryan Clayton @itsryanclayton.substack.com · 29/08/2026

Rumours of Monarch helicopters en route to the region unconfirmed at this time.

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Ryan Clayton @itsryanclayton.substack.com · 22/08/2026

There was a kid who bullied me all through elementary school. For years and years. One day in grade 6 I'd had enough, grabbed him by the backpack, and threw him into a tree; right smack into the trunk, Wile E. Coyote-style. My teachers were so mad. I got suspended. He never bullied me again though.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

“When economic data is released, it’s no longer reliable. When casualty counts for military actions are announced, they’re wrong.” The only truth about Trump‘s America is that everything is a lie. Everything.

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The Only Truth About Trump’s America Is That Everything Is a Lie

Our government is braindead. If they get their way, we’re next.

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Ryan Clayton @itsryanclayton.substack.com · 10/08/2026

If a man in a trashy outfit can run for office, so can you. open.substack.com/pub/itsryanc...

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Jokes on you

If politics is a circus, send in the clowns

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Ryan Clayton @itsryanclayton.substack.com · 06/08/2026

My phone briefly forced me to use Gemini a while back and not a single voice prompt worked. I asked it to turn on my lights and it searched for a movie. This is gonna suck.

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Ryan Clayton @itsryanclayton.substack.com · 31/07/2026

Whenever McElroy says "here is a montage" I know it's gonna be good.

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Ryan Clayton @itsryanclayton.substack.com · 27/07/2026

The government insists it didn't "defund" SOGI 123, they just cut all provincial funding. open.substack.com/pub/itsryanc...

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Defunded

The government insists it didn't "defund" SOGI 123, they just cut all provincial funding

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Ryan Clayton @itsryanclayton.substack.com · 25/07/2026

Everyone who isn't named Kerry-Lynne Findlay

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 22/07/2026

Does Not Rhyme -through -cough -though -rough -bough Does Rhyme -pony -bologna

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