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Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Incredible piece by Justin Ling in Toronto Star detailing Carney's concentration of power in the PMO. Also a portrait of doubling down on the outdated conservative neoliberalism that got us here. As Matthew Remski said, Carney is Thatcher, just more likeable. archive.ph/rny4a #cdnpoli

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Emily Lowan (she/her) @emilylowan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Why are Indigenous people now being subjected to levels of overt hostility and racism unseen in decades? One chief recently told me he was denied entry into a store for being “Indian”.

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Emily Lowan (she/her) @emilylowan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today, the BC NDP and BC Conservatives engaged in a downward spiral of rip and ship resource extraction that will hand over more taxpayer dollars to American and multinational corporations.

B.C. NDP, Conservatives both pledge to boost province's resource development

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Emily Lowan (she/her) @emilylowan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The BC Greens announced our plan for universal free childcare, which will keep wealth in our communities, generate good jobs and give our children the start they deserve.

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BC Greens announce new candidate for Victoria-Swan Lake, childcare plans - Saanich News

Howe is a teacher and has been president of the Greater Victoria Teachers' Association for nearly three years

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Andy Yan @ayan604.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

New data estimates there were 13,879 individuals experiencing homelessness in Metro Vancouver in 2023 "'A wake-up call': Nearly twice as many B.C. women facing homelessness, new data show" via @vancouversun.bsky.social #bcpoli #vanpoli #vanre vancouversun.com/news/nearly-...

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'A wake-up call': Nearly twice as many B.C. women facing homelessness, new data show

Many people in B.C. are now one paycheque away from needing a housing subsidy, says one service provider.

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Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Is this a conspiracy of silence or what? Not only have #vanpoli media studiously ignored mayoral candidate Kareem Allam's concerning online meltdowns but now Geoff Meggs & the odd ex-BC Lib Hotel Pacifico #bcpoli podcast ignore it & treat him as viable. What am I missing? Have they ever cited it?

Mark Marissen
@marissenmark
Interesting analysis from John Horgan’s former Chief of Staff @geoffmeggs
on @HotelPacificoBC

“I think it’s possible that the “No ABC Team” will gravitate to Kareem Allam because he has the most viable campaign and he’s talking about issues people care about and he seems to do be able to do so very articulately.” https://x.com/marissenmark/status/2104387549250965774

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Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There are some great people running for Vancouver city council but this is my #1 choice. Please save a vote for Stephanie Smith, @spkr118. Just watch the video. #vanpoli

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Emily Lowan (she/her) @emilylowan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I am disgusted by the appearance of white nationalists on the Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc reserve. This is happening just days before the National Day for Truth & Reconciliation. I stand with Indigenous communities & all marginalized communities in the fight for a future free from racist intimidation.

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Apparent white nationalist gathering spotted on Tkʼemlúps reserve Sunday

TK'EMLUPS - A post on social media appears to show a group of masked individuals gathered on the Tkemlps te Se...

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Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There are some great people running for Vancouver city council but this is my #1 choice. Please save a vote for Stephanie Smith, @spkr118. Just watch the video. #vanpoli

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Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

They're mowing the schoolyard in the pouring rain which makes about as much sense as everything that has happened in #bcpoli this week

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Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

THE BC NDP CAN'T COMPLAIN ABOUT VOTE-SPLITTING. Vote-splitting is almost entirely a First Past the Post thing, & the BC NDP deliberately sabotaged the opportunity to install proportional representation on a trial basis, going instead for a designed-to-fail referendum written by...Dave Eby. #bcpoli

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Terri Brandmueller @tbrandmueller.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The sheer audacity of NDP supporters urging voters not to vote Green to avoid splitting the vote and handing the win to the Cons when their leader called an unnecessary, unwanted, opportunistic election. Sorry but Eby is the author of his own misfortune if the NDP loses their majority. Unbelievable

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Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’m currently on the Queen of Surrey, about to dock at Horseshoe Bay mirabile dictu Always feel the chances of this boat malfunctioning are about 50/50

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Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Eby has a lot of gall doing fake nationalism and raising the spectre of Trump, all while he is busy giving tax and royalty holidays to the US-owned corps pilfering BC and closing mills, etc. And all while he hides behind the cover of his US liquor ban. #bcpoli #bcelexn

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Kay @ifyouseekay.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Fiscally conservative/socially liberal" types are currently appeasing the extreme right on immigration, policing, health care, minority rights and more, and they have done it before.

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Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Taylor Lorenz is doing a "pivot away from the left" as a result of the usual: getting challenged by the left (rightly in this case) plus the seduction of money. But she explains it with the old "I don't really fit anywhere on the left-right political spectrum" idea that needs to die now..

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replek.bsky.social @replek.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

looooong time NDP supporter; but w Horgan & Eby … dear lord, never again. Do people even know what Right Wing Creep is 🤦🏽‍♀️

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Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Please donate. The NDP are about to get a sneaky majority with which they'll abet Carney's privatization of everything, as Eby has signalled re airports. NDP must be held to account from the left/green side. Please help BC Greens win more seats! #bcpoli bcgreens.donordrive.com/generaldonat...

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I'm supporting British Columbia Green Party!

Building a sustainable province where everyone can thrive.

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Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Devastating article by Vaughn Palmer on remarks from the outgoing UBCM president describing the anger of many BC mayors over the BC NDP govt's high-handed usurpation of their powers, its paranoid forcing of NDAs on even minor meetings, & more vancouversun.com/opinion/colu... #bcpoli

vancouversun.com

Vaughn Palmer: NDP intimidation of local politicians bodes ill for the future

Vaughn Palmer: Departing head of Union of B.C. Municipalities decries provincial secrecy and attacks from two cabinet ministers

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Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Well, if we must have an early BC election, the first priority is to get @emilylowan.bsky.social a seat. She's the only real opposition to corporate capture in BC, which both the BC NDP and the right-wing (whatever their damn party is going to be) are willing participants in. #bcpoli Please donate

bcgreens.donordrive.com

I'm supporting British Columbia Green Party!

Building a sustainable province where everyone can thrive.

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Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"CentreBC" is well to the right of centre. My mission to show people where the "centre" really is getting harder lolsob The BC NDP are now right of centre even though media persist in calling them centre-left. BC Greens are left. #bcpoli is all fake handles & category errors

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Emily Lowan (she/her) @emilylowan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

British Columbians don’t want to be forced into a snap election by the BC NDP — but if Eby wants a performance review, we’re ready to give him one. You have the chance to vote for better than the crumbling status quo. Join the BC Greens. Link in bio. Authorized by BC Green Party (1-888-473-3686)

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Emily Lowan (she/her) @emilylowan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

With snap election rumours heating up... I spoke to Global News about the BCNDP's "strategy". British Columbians deserve a better option than status quo parties that only care about their own interests. Join the BC Greens and let's believe in better together. bcgreens.ca/join

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Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Wow. It's early yet, but this Justason poll doesn't look good for ABC. Also, my top 2 candidates are #1 and #3! Go Stephanie @spkr118.bsky.social! Go @seanorr.bsky.social and @copevancouver.bsky.social #vanpoli www.justasonmi.com?p=6511

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Kay @ifyouseekay.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

He thinks he's John A. Macdonald, but he's more like Robert Borden (and they were both Conservatives)

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Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

So many people I talk to in #Vancouver right now are incapacitated with allergy symptoms. It's ragweed. And Airmine, the only good pollen app, agrees. Why haven't municipalities done more about it? People are too flattened to work. PS there's no such thing as "Moderate" with ragweed.

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Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Nova Scotia has returned masks to healthcare settings. As usual BC will the laggard on preventative health, despite a spike in Covid along the west coast. Covid does cumulative damage and every new case of Covid increases your chance of Long Covid. PSA, bec Bonnie Henry won't do it. #bcpoli

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elcanaco.bsky.social @elcanaco.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Yayyy we're warmongers now! Who needs to be peacekeepers when we can profit from the senseless slaughter of our fellow humans! /s #cdnpoli #vanpoli #topoli youtu.be/bjAxG29iwDQ?...

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Canada takes the lead at major defence industry fair in Poland

YouTube video by CBC News: The National

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Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I'll be voting COPE plus Stephanie Smith @spkr118.bsky.social of Vangreens in the civic election. For mayor, Pete Fry is the best chance of defeating Ken Sim. I have a longish public Facebook post about this in response to the VDLC's awful endorsement list: facebook.com/Lidsville/po... #vanpoli

Stephanie Smith of Vancouver Greens, smiling and sitting on the Vancouver Gastown rooftop of one of the largest coop buildings in Vancouver of which she is president. Longtime DTES tenant rep, housing activist, labour activist, and all round loyal friend with an unwavering moral centre. Great supporter of the arts too.

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

wild, because me and mine did not have this shared experience. the fact that you don’t recognize the intense racism that proliferated post-9/11 tells me you can’t see the current political situation clearly, either.

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 10/09/2026

Not so fast: airports may very well be on the auction block at the investment summit. We've seen a copy of the pitch book for Carney's investor summit, and here's an interesting paragraph:

Screenshot of an article headline from the Toronto Star: Carney’s $1-trillion investment summit to feature pipelines, nuclear build-outs and data centres — but no airports. Subheading: A document obtained by the Star offers a window into the aims of the much-hyped summit taking place in Toronto next week.

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Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Why are Canada/BC always a couple of months later than the US with updated vaccines?? It’s always too late to help with the surge. Every time. People in the US were getting the updated vax in August #bcpolil #cdnpoli

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SFU City Program @sfucity.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Just Announced! @vpsn.bsky.social X @creativemornings.bsky.social X @sfucity.bsky.social X @thetyee.ca present "Last Candidate Standing" This is Vancouver’s only ALL mayoral + council candidates’ exchange. Thurs, Oct 1 | 7pm | York Theatre #bcpoli #vanpoli #vanre

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Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Ken Sim not bothering to show up to a mayoral debate is probably a sign of what's to come over the next 5 weeks #vanpoli

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Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Why is Justin McElroy repeatedly doing PR for OneCity? And why does CBC tolerate it in their civic affairs reporter? He has always been a bit of a YIMBYism fan and has engaged in quite hostile online behaviour with its critics, but this seems overtly slanted... #vanpoli

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Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Eby's Bills 44 & 45 usurped planning powers from BC municipalities, upzoned vast areas but w/o tenant protections, towers everywhere but no provincial funds for the infrastructure they need, refused to ban REITs. OneCity = NDP. Ask OneCity candidates if they back this sop to developers. #vanpoli

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Terri Brandmueller @tbrandmueller.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It’s a double whammy—both Canadians and women are supposed to be *nice*

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Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The sort of mid passivity that "Tell us what you really think!" transmits & in fact encourages is the same "moderate" bonelessness that doesn't think it's good manners to fight fascism either, or, say, climate armageddon. You sort of wonder what they WOULD express a heated opinion about.

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Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The swimmers made it! Now the federal and BC govt’s need to fulfill their promise to save the Fraser River by protecting 30% of the rivershed by 2030. Sign the Declaration at fraserriverkeeper.ca to support! #bcpoli #cdnpoli

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Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

They've nearly done it! One day left. The 3 women swimmers who've swum the length of the Fraser River from the Rockies to Vancouver just made it to Deas Island! They camp there tonight, & come ashore at Garry Pt Park in Steveston tomorrow, Fri. ~ 3:30 pm. You can go great them! I am. #bcpoli 🧵

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klanawa.bsky.social @klanawa.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

They could examine the fact that residential school denialism is just the politically-palatable successor to Holocaust denialism. If a party can't exist without elevating a disempowered "other" to the status of existential threat, fascist is exactly the right word.

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klanawa.bsky.social @klanawa.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

And while they're at it they can start referring to the Fraser Institute and CTF as industry-funded right-wing propaganda. They already call the CCPA a left-wing think tank.

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

People love the idea of planting trees, but what if I told you that it's one of the *leading* causes of global nature loss? Deadzone commercial forest plantations are spreading like a rash across the planet, pushing out both natural ecosystems and indigenous peoples. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1Yb...

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Can trees save the planet? | DW Documentary

YouTube video by DW Documentary

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Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

PSA: The BC NDP are not left. You can't even see the left from where they are. Look at their record. If media would stop referring to them as left or centre-left, that would be great. #vanpoli #bcpoli

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Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

As a palate cleanser after all today’s unsavoury political goings on, here are some bumblebees hunkering down in zinnias while it rains

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Terri Brandmueller @tbrandmueller.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Even Trump has higher polling numbers than Azaroff

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