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Quinn MacDonald

@quinnmacdonald.bsky.social
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she/her + writer/editor + in #yyj / lək̓ʷəŋən + The Wife of Wrath @eodrollerderby.bsky.social + from nuučaan̓uuɫɁatḥ nism̓a (Port Alberni)

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Quinn MacDonald @quinnmacdonald.bsky.social · 8m
Ok but what's he already on paid leave for then 👀 / "Const. David Tucker, who is on unrelated paid leave from the RCMP, made a series of public Facebook posts this week minimizing the incident and suggesting people should consider whether it was orchestrated by political officials."
castanetkamloops.net
Casimir has 'public trust' concerns after Kamloops Mountie's Second Sons posts
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Quinn MacDonald @quinnmacdonald.bsky.social · 14h
Just heard someone use the term 'blue-collar business owner' and I am begging for better class analysis in this society. 🫠
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Quinn MacDonald @quinnmacdonald.bsky.social · 14h
Unbelievable that we almost lost Jack on these broadcasts.
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Doug Johnson 🇨🇦 @smikooman.bsky.social · 17h
I've created a Bluesky aggregator feed of the running one week posts tagged #BCpoli blended with my personal BC Politics List (journos and politicos who don't always use the hashtag). Suggestions for additions/deletions welcome in this election season!
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Quinn MacDonald @quinnmacdonald.bsky.social · 19h
He can't keep getting away with *this! *Successfully reframing old debates with fun and joy.
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Quinn MacDonald @quinnmacdonald.bsky.social · 22h
I'm sorry but at what point is this just actual treason?
theglobeandmail.com
The elephant in the room
Alberta separatists have gone to D.C. offering fresh water and oil in exchange for American support – and Republican operatives have provided tactical assistance inside the province
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
who is ready for the Red Deer People's Republic post-referendum
A Globe and Mail investigation has found that Republican political operatives were on the ground in Alberta this year to assist the separatist campaign in its bid to leave Canada, while harbouring their own aspirations for the province to secede.

The Globe also found that when Alberta separatist leaders went to Washington to meet with the U.S. State Department, they offered up key assets from the province’s resource portfolio, including access to fresh water and royalties on crude oil, in exchange for help transitioning to independence.

Through interviews with The Globe on both sides of the border, people involved in politics, the corporate sector and Alberta’s pursuit of separatism have described persistent efforts by figures in the U.S. administration and conservative political establishment to support groups seeking American expansionism and independence for Alberta.
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Tracey Saxby @traceysaxby.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Fun facts: 🔥Since 2007, BC’s climate pollution has decreased by 2.3 million tonnes. 🔥Approved LNG export projects will increase BC’s climate pollution by 21.2 million tonnes by 2035. 🔥This is ten times more pollution than we’ve managed to cut in nearly 20 years.
Trends in BC's greenhouse gas pollution from 1990 to 2023, with two projected futures. Approved LNG projects will increase BC's emissions by 21.2 million tonnes. If we meet BC's climate targets emissions will decrease by 80%. From 2007 to 2023 BC has only reduced 2 million tonnes of climate pollution.
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Quinn MacDonald @quinnmacdonald.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yo BC, are we ready for this? / A Kelvin Wave Is Heading Toward the California Coast, Bringing Trouble www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/c...
nytimes.com
See How El Niño Is Washing Ashore in California
An enormous pulse of wave energy will soon reach Southern California and continue north, raising sea levels by half a foot and increasing threats from swells and tides.
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Simon Little 🍁 @simonplittle.ca · 01/10/2026
These people are insane
Fragmented, smaller Canadian statelets are much easier for the United States to dominate through closer economic and geopolitical integration, including the COFA arrangement. Such indirect domination is preferable to a straight-up annexation, which will likely lead to a protracted and costly occupation as the presence of the U.S. occupation enflames Canadian nationalism and leads to widespread.

I offer two potential policy options to facilitate this fragmentation.The United States should consider covert support for PQ ahead of the election. These include (1) overt financial support for PQ in the election and (2) psychological operations to foment Quebecois and Albertan separatism, (3) behind-closed-doors trade negotiations with the PQ, where the United States commits to offering lower tariffs on Quebec than on the rest of Canada.Instead, the primary focus should be to weaponize the “reconciliation” process to demoralize Canadian elitedom by delegitimizing the very existence of the confederation. If heritage Canadians are led to believe that their confederation is a sham, they will lack the energy necessary to keep together a fracturing confederation. These efforts include (1) covert litigation financing for indigenous land lawsuits, (2) State Department funding for Indigenous scholars in Canada, and (3) psychological operations to marginalize “denialism” of indigenous claimsDARC
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The Centrifugal Strategy
Fragmentatation as strategy in the northern Monroe Doctrine.

Author(s)
Mukden
Date
February 26, 2026
Sector
Monroeism
Canada
On January 3rd, the United States launched its smash-and-grab operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro, securing control of the hemisphere’s largest oil field in a four-hour operation. Just a week later, Canadian Prime Minister Carney visited Beijing to pitch him on a major trade deal, opening up the hemisphere to a flood of Chinese investments in key sectors like automobile and energy.

Carney’s trade deals directly undermined the administration’s National Security Strategy, which aims to ensure a “Hemisphere that remains free of hostile foreign incursion or ownership of key assets.” Just as Washington closed off Caracas’s oil from Chinese access, Ottawa signed away another source of oil in the Western hemisphere to Beijing. No surprise that Chinese propaganda hailed the visit as an opportunity for Canada to assert its “strategic autonomy” from the United States.

These recent events demonstrate that Canada’s desire for strategic autonomy poses a serious national security problem for the United States. The United States cannot share the longest undefended border in the world with a country so eager to court hostile great powers in our hemisphere.

At the same time, Canada today is more splintered than it has been in decades. A wide range of centrifugal forces–specifically provincial separatism, a record-high foreign-born population, and indigenous grievances–may soon precipitate the total fragmentation of our northern neighbor. The United States should exploit the soon-to-arrive fragmentary moment in Canada as an opportunity to drastically reshape the North American environment into one more amenable to U.S. interests.

To fully take advantage of the coming fragmentary moment, the United States must reel in its annexationist desires to the north. Given the obv…
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Shannon Waters @sobittersosweet.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Whoa! Former chief coroner Lisa Lapointe is the BC Green candidate in Saanich South As chief coroner, 2011-2024, Lapointe was sharply critical of the BC government's response to the toxic drug crisis She's running against the NDP's Richard Zussman and Conservatives' Cathy Ounsted so far #bcpoli
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John Woodside @woodsideful.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If we had high environmental standards in this country we wouldn’t be in the business of building a new oil pipeline in 2026
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alex 🎃 @faintingincoils.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Heads up #beer drinkers in #BC — you might not want to give #Sooke Brewing Company your money. Check out the 1-star Google reviews. (via r/VictoriaBC) Please spread the word if you care about Truth and Reconciliation and standing up against anti-Indigenous racism.
cheersannkennedy › D Canadian

Threads 2h

* Community champion

John Adair, owner of Sooke Brewing Company, wore a "Show Me the Evidence" shirt at work on September 30, the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

The evidence of children who died at residential schools is well documented in survivor testimony, school records, school cemeteries and the Truth and
Reconciliation Commission's final report.

He chose to wear that shirt at his business on that day. Choices have consequences.
I've included the Google Review link below

Photo of a man wearing a T-shirt that
 says SHOW ME THE EVIDENCE
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Eric Doherty @ericdoherty.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Imagine politicians announcing billions for better public transit to save people money and reduce fossil fuel pollution. Imagine politicians announcing billions for solar, wind, batteries, heat pumps, and transmission lines to connect it all. #bcpoli #cdnpoli
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Shannon Waters @sobittersosweet.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
David Eby promises to cut BC gas taxes by 10c/L and to give the BC Utilities Commission authority to crack down on price gouging at the pump Just a reminder: the fuel price gap was identified in 2019. The government's reaction since then has basically been 🤷 #bcpoli
news.gov.bc.ca
Minister’s statement on BC Utilities Commission's gas prices investigation
Bruce Ralston, Minister of Jobs, Trade and Technology, has issued the following statement on the BC Utilities Commission’s investigation into gas prices:
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Quinn MacDonald @quinnmacdonald.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#yyjpoli
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 01/10/2026
The Pacific Link pipeline, newly listed as a project of national interest, could take a surprising left turn: going through a wide corridor that includes Squamish and the Sunshine Coast
nationalobserver.com
A pipeline through Whistler, BC?
The route for Alberta’s one-million-barrel-per-day West Coast pipeline project has been described as ending in the Lower Mainland, near Vancouver. But documents show it could expand its footprint into...
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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 01/10/2026
Global News asks what comes next. Carney says conditions will be laid out, and final work on environmental processes etc. (Side note: we reported today that there's still a route on the table that could send it to Squamish or the Sunshine Coast.)
nationalobserver.com
A pipeline through Whistler, BC?
The route for Alberta’s one-million-barrel-per-day Pacific Link pipeline project has been described as ending in the Lower Mainland, near Vancouver. But documents show it could expand its footprint in...
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Quinn MacDonald @quinnmacdonald.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🙃🙃🙃
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Shannon Waters @sobittersosweet.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Today on the BC Campaign trail 9:30AM, Surrey: David Eby has "an affordability announcement" 10:30AM, Saanich: Emily Lowan announcing a food and agriculture plan 10:45AM, Vancouver: Lorne Doerkson holding a press conference Noon, Saanich: Lowan to announce party's "toxic drug policy" #bcpoli
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 01/10/2026
Bill C-39 doubles down on habitat offsets, in which companies can "build" new habitat elsewhere to compensate for what they destroy in building a mine, a port, a pipeline or other project. The practice is highly contested by scientists. “This is our worst fear,” said biologist Misty MacDuffee.
nationalobserver.com
Offsetting for habitat loss almost never works. Ottawa wants more of it
New policy proposed in Bill C-39 will allow developers to buy credits or pay fees to compensate for the habitats they destroy.
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Kyiv Post @kyivpost.com · 01/10/2026
Russia’s attacks on Kyiv continued into Thursday, injuring a man and sparking new fires. A drone crashed near a children’s playground after clipping the roof of a residential building, while another strike hit a school as children sheltered inside. www.kyivpost.com/post/85789
kyivpost.com
Russian Attacks on Kyiv Continue Into Thursday After Deadly Day
A man was injured as Russian attacks sparked fires in Solomianskyi and Obolonskyi and a drone hit a non-residential complex in Pecherskyi.
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Emma Arkell @emmaarkell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"There are those who oppose both supervised consumption sites and public displays of drug use... who support rehab as a panacea, without acknowledging research that shows rehab without adequate supports increases fatalities, because those who relapse have a reduced tolerance for drugs."
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Quinn MacDonald @quinnmacdonald.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Went to see Women of the Fur Trade tonight at the Belfry & it was excellent. Hilarious and then quite sharp at the end. Each of the five actors brought a distinct, memorable voice to their roles. & A+ sparse but effective set design as per usual at the Belfry. If there are still tix, get one. #yyj
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 30/09/2026
recommended reading today — Aaron Hemens’ interview with Phyllis Webstad, published two years ago on @indiginews.bsky.social. Webstad is not even mentioned on the federal government’s webpage for NDTR/Orange Shirt Day indiginews.com/news/orange-...
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Orange Shirt Day’s founder fears Sept. 30 is being co-opted from residential ‘school’ survivors
‘I don’t want Orange Shirt Day to be forgotten — it was started by a survivor,’ says Phyllis Webstad, whose 11-year-old event now coincides with National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
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Quinn MacDonald @quinnmacdonald.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
More great reporting from @michellegamage.bsky.social / DULF Wins Constitutional Challenge, Judge Applauds Their Work via @thetyee.ca
thetyee.ca
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Winnipeg Free Press @winnipegfreepress.com · 30/09/2026
Premier Wab Kinew says a former Brandon-area campground acquired by the province will help educate future generations about the horrors of residential schools.
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‘Keeping that truth alive’
Acquisition of former Brandon Indian Residential School grounds will help educate future generations, premier says
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation can be difficult. If you're struggling, please reach out to someone you trust. Residential School Crisis Line: 1-866-925-4419 (24/7) Hope for Wellness: 1-855-242-3310 or online.
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Colin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 30/09/2026
this is specifically what Twitter was re-engineered to do, btw. it exists almost solely to threaten anyone at the flashpoint of a nascent social movement.
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Brishti Basu @brishti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A breakdown of today's BC Supreme Court verdict in favour of @dulfbc.bsky.social — what's in it and what it all means — is now up at defactomedia.ca Read below ⤵️
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WIRED @wired.com · 30/09/2026
Lost time. Lost jobs. Lost friends. Lost family. Lost lives. Checkpoints are suffocating Palestinian life in the occupied West Bank. Over 18 months, WIRED and our reporting partners investigated the full scope of the system that has carved the West Bank up. www.wired.com/story/how-is...
wired.com
How Israeli Checkpoints Choke Palestinian Life in the Occupied West Bank
Lost time. Lost jobs. Lost friends. Lost family. Lost lives. Our joint investigation reveals the system that has divided the West Bank and measures what it cost people to move through it.
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Jen Stewart @jstewgie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Reading the DULF decision. www.bccourts.ca/jdb-txt/sc/2... Para 34: "this is a crisis caused by the unpredictability of the toxic drug supply... PWUD do not know the contents nor the potency of the drugs they are taking." #BCPoli #CdnPoli
bccourts.ca
2026 BCSC 1855 R v Kalicum
Citation:
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Andrea Woo @andreawoo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
After reading decision, BC Supreme Court judge who sided with DULF operators in Constitutional challenge to Canada's draw laws addressed them directly: "It's people like you who make a difference. And you just did.” First web hit, more to come: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
theglobeandmail.com
B.C. top court judge rules in favour of operators of illicit-drug compassion club
Lawyers had argued the pair who tested illicit drugs for fentanyl before reselling them offered a safer alternative to toxic supply
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dustin @godfrey.work · 29/09/2026
Working on a brief on this today, subscribe to @defactomedia.ca's newsletter to get it in your inbox at www.defactomedia.ca#/portal/ and if you feel like you can support our work, a paid membership would also be so appreciated!
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De Facto Journalism Co-op
Non-profit investigative journalism that shines a light on systems of power and abuses of rights and authority
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dustin @godfrey.work · 29/09/2026
this is a huge decision. story coming for @defactomedia.ca
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Jen St. Denis @jenstden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Breaking news from the DULF trial, where two founders of a drug compassion club in B.C.had previously been found guilty of trafficking but their lawyers started a constitutional challenge. The judge issued a ruling today in that constitutional challenge. A previous story: thetyee.ca/News/2026/07...
thetyee.ca
DULF Founders’ Drug Law Charter Challenge Ends | The Tyee
Compassion club co-founders Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum will wait months to learn if they face prison.
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Miles Grant @milesgrant.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Failing to stop burning fossil fuels continues to destroy the only climate safety zone humanity has ever known
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Quinn MacDonald @quinnmacdonald.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Masked Group in Kamloops Sparks Alarm and Racism Fears via @thetyee.ca
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Masked Group in Kamloops Sparks Alarm and Racism Fears | The Tyee
‘I don’t want these people in my neighbourhood, in my city, in my country.’
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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Quote-posting so that the #GiftLink 🎁 that Ann shared doesn't get lost. #abpoli #ableg
theglobeandmail.com
Alberta’s response to COVID-19 outbreak at Cargill plant was ‘catastrophic failure,’ report says
More than 950 workers at High River plant were infected in 2020, leaving two workers dead and spreading to the community
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J. Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Meta muse saying why would I deceive you?
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Incredible Climate Impacts Tracer tool by @sarahinscience.bsky.social, Claudia Stepin, Gillian Moon, Maria Nawaz, Wesley Morgan Explore how much a fossil fuel project will warm the planet & impact heat stress, excess deaths, GBR coral loss, glacier loss, crop production loss, labour loss & poverty
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 28/09/2026
If I’m reading this correctly, Toronto mayoral candidate Brad Bradford’s campaign is asking volunteers to give them full access to their contact lists on their *personal* cell phones? www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/28/i...
'You don't need to freak out about this'
Introducing Bradford's supporters to the app on the Zoom call, Punia instructed them to give the app permission to access all of their contacts.

"Do not give it partial contact ability, give it full. And what I want to say to you guys here is, you don't need to freak out about this," said Punia. He reassured them that only contacts they marked as known or potential Bradford supporters would be given to the campaign.

One attendee hesitated as she had over 2,400 contacts on her phone. She was instructed to give the app access to all of them and mark them one by one according to their level of support for Bradford.
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Shannon Waters @sobittersosweet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today on the BC campaign trail: 10AM, prince Rupert: David Eby has an announcement about "creating jobs and building BC strong." 10:30AM, Saanich: Emily Lowan will outline a childcare policy 11AM, Vancouver: Lorne Doerkson has "a policy announcement" #bcpoli
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Shannon Waters @sobittersosweet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Both Eby and Niki Sharm were asked about Mother Jones' reporting on OpenAI and the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting Eby said, if the allegations in the story are true, criminal charges should be on the table Sharma noted it's not the BC government's call on criminal charges
motherjones.com
ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Shannon Waters @sobittersosweet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Today on the BC Campaign trail: BC NDP leader David Eby promises to raise the speculation and vacancy tax 1% and create a new Unsold Condo Tax on finished condos left empty for more than 1 year Lots of railing against developers in that speech #bcpoli
Eby says he will increase the speculation and vacancy tax by one percentage point, from 1% to 2% for domestic speculators and from 4% to 5% for foreign speculators. The change will help put more empty units into the long-term rental market, while any additional revenue will go to building more affordable homes people need.

The BC NDP will also introduce a new Unsold Condo Tax on finished condos left empty for more than a year. Starting at 2 per cent, the tax will increase by 1 per cent for each additional year a condo remains unsold, pushing developers to sell finished homes at prices people can afford. The plan could unlock up to 5,000 condos for British Columbians.

According to a September 2026 report by Real Property Data, these unsold units are estimated to be worth $4.45 billion. Over 1,300 of these condos were finished over two years ago, with some dating back to 2019.

“People shouldn’t pay sky-high prices to rent or buy a home while developers sit on thousands of finished condos waiting for prices to go up,” said Eby. “In this election, British Columbians have a choice: a government that keeps pushing to lower home costs for working families or Conservatives who have always opposed our plan and sided with those who profit from higher prices.”

The Speculation Tax has already successfully turned 20,000 empty units into homes for British Columbians. Under David Eby and the BC NDP, starting rents in B.C. are down over 10% since the peak in 2023 – and have gone down for 26 months straight.
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Ed Wiebe @edwiebe.scribili.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
Summer is really over now #VictoriaBC. Today's rain marks the end of a 24-day 'drought'. We'll see more dry spells this year, but they won't last this long. The chart shows the record of droughts and wets in the region. #UVic
A chart that shows dry and wet periods since 1900 with two colours. Dry periods dominate the summer months, wet periods predominate in the fall. Spring is mixed.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Y’all are going to need a bigger hospital.” Already burdened by petrochemical plants, Louisiana is facing a wave of gas-powered AI data centers—and their pollution. Dorothy Slater, an oncology nurse, writes for @dissentmag.bsky.social about nursing her patients at the frontier of AI buildout.
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Death by Data Centers - Dissent Magazine
I’m an oncology nurse in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley. My patients and I breathe the same polluted air, and we can’t afford the toxic exposure from the gas-fired plants set to power the state’s proposed A...
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Quinn MacDonald @quinnmacdonald.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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