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If I had to describe local elections here in Powell River, it’s all the worst things about local politics from anywhere plus factions of people who’ve hated each other since high school.

Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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This is the first time I think that Sound Transit has actually shown a rendering of the infamous "trapezoidal" light rail station at Seattle Center that is expected to be $470 million cheaper than a simple box station, thanks to elimination of a mined section of tunnel.

Rendering showing refinements to the Seattle Center station that avoid a costly mined section of tunnel

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That’s weird because I’ve been told you’d need about 8.3 billion police officers to handle this many car-free streets.

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David Eby’s election campaign is the biggest own goal I've seen in politics in my lifetime. He's called an election to campaign on policies significantly to the right of the former Liberal government that John Horgan defeated. The NDP are literally the thing they claim to be fighting.

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Rishi Maharaj @rsmaharaj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If only there was some form of transportation that is cheaper than owning and fueling a car…

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So the mill is going to reopen with an unspecified amount of provincial subsidy that was somehow agreed during an election caretaker period? The owner has previously shut down mills after receiving provincial funding. Is this just a band aid to last until the election?

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Rishi Maharaj @rsmaharaj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The grocery cartels are a real problem, but this is the dumbest way to try to deal with it.

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Scott @sdlb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Most of those are supply manged, which is a literal government sponsored and protected cartel designed to raise prices. Artificially increasing the price of milk and eggs then layering price controls on top because the price is too high is completely incoherent

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Adam Radwanski @aradwanski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I won’t belabour this because I’ve written about it before, but the part of Carney’s pipeline pivot that I find impossible to justify is the government taking on the demand risk.

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Sorry Buddy @3cityyimby.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'll respectfully disagree, this provincial election is about serious and significant issues. Mostly, whether voterd want David Eby's policies from 2022 (Green), January 2026 (CentreBC), May 2026 (BCCons) or Oct 2026 (BCNDP).

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Rishi Maharaj @rsmaharaj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It will keep getting more and more expensive the longer it takes to make a decision.

Rishi Maharaj @rsmaharaj.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s almost as though maintaining affordable national transportation connectivity is something of national importance. For people, not just oil.

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Rishi Maharaj @rsmaharaj.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Easiest but dumbest move for politicians”: a bipartisan Canadian consensus.

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 01/10/2026

Suspending gas taxes is the easiest move for politicians to make when gas prices are high and it's also the dumbest. It does very little to alter the material conditions of constituents, but costs a shit ton of money while slightly diluting the market signal that high gas prices should send.

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Rishi Maharaj @rsmaharaj.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Laughable. The province has no money and schools and hospitals are stretched to the limit and this is your plan? After spending billions on sprawl-supporting infrastructure in a province that still lacks basic intercity public transport.

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Scott @sdlb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Checking in on how Eby's opportunistic snap election against an opposition with no permanent leader is going

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The Onion @theonion.com · 30/09/2026

“Upon reviewing the disciplinary action we took toward the seven Chi Phi brothers who allegedly gang-raped a student for over seven hours, we have concluded that the mandated two-page minimum on essays was woefully inadequate.” — Michael Kotlikoff, Cornell president

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Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future

ITHACA, NY—Acknowledging serious missteps in their handling of a 2024 campus sexual assault case, administrators at Cornell University vowed Tuesday that, going forward, rapists would be forced to wri...

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Rishi Maharaj @rsmaharaj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One reason why the province of BC is broke that is heavy industry used to pay taxes, and now we pay them. How do balance your budget when resource industries suck up subsidies and contribute nothing?

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Jörg Broschek 🇨🇦 @jbroschek.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Wondering, however, if there's anyone left in the federal arena capable of articulating a meaningful constitutional vision(s) for Canadian federalism.

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Rishi Maharaj @rsmaharaj.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’m sad for David Eby. Before politics, he made a name for himself as a principled activist. But he’ll only be remembered as a premier who accomplished little besides blowing up democratic conventions in search of power. Power he still has no clue what to do with.

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Rishi Maharaj @rsmaharaj.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just in case anyone needs a reminder that today’s BC NDP has taken over the spot on the political spectrum that Christy Clark & the BC Liberals occupied, with a little token progressive rhetoric sprinkled over the top.

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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Danielle Smith going bikelane on the most successful model of Canadian infill would really be perfect.

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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My work with Creig Lamb shows that low tech adoption in Canada is due less to limited capacity (e.g. resources, skills) & more to weak incentives (e.g. limited competition, healthy profits, high skill/lowish wage alternatives). This is yet another capacity- rather than incentive-focused program.

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Rishi Maharaj @rsmaharaj.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Caretaker convention has become an excuse for the civil service to not do anything it doesn’t want to do. The BC Attorney General is in the media today speaking in her official capacity as AG, but an independent public body can’t release a factual report because there’s an election? Come on.

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Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“Peter Menzies, a former Calgary Herald editor posted on social media that evidently he was going to have cancel #Canadian #news subscriptions and sign up for #American ones to keep track of ‘what our “buy Canadian” and “ #CanadaStrong” #PM is thinking.” #MarkCarney www.thestar.com/politics/pol...

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Susan Delacourt: When Mark Carney wants to speak to Americans, this is how he does it

Carney is not the first, nor will he be the last prime minister to detour around domestic media to reach bigger audiences, Susan Delacourt writes.

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Making it impossible for anyone outside Canada to know what time it is here is an important part of reinforcing Canadian sovereignty. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Stewart Prest @stewartprest.ca · 24/09/2026

An underlying problem for the NDP in BC, and it's a possibly fatal one, is that the decision to call an election to keep Conservatives out of power is paradoxical, since the NDP could have accomplished the feat by not having an election. That cannot be the reason by definition.

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FPTP with five parties, truly the worst electoral timeline.

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Reminder that not having a dominant ethnicity is a wonderful thing about Canada. Anyone can be Canadian, and nationality is what defines us - not ethnicity. Let’s not talk about Quebec.

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Look we love to laugh at Metrolinx but have you ever seen the UPX have zero way of accepting any payment at the airport except exact change cash? Because that was the Blue Line at O’Hare today.

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A now common and very bad use of AI chatbots is planning hiking trips. And on behalf of search and rescue volunteers I would like to assure everyone that we will be using 100% human expertise to come get you after Muse/Gemini/ChatGPT/whatever gets you almost killed.

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Glyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Mamdani gets it. Ideology and values aren’t enough. If you aren’t delivering results - real ones that don’t require rhetorical acrobatics to rationalize - you are failing, and feeding the narrative that government can’t do anything right. Listen up, NDP.

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Everything I read about BC politics right now is like being cornered at a party while a guy on coke badly explains season 4 of a show you’ve never heard of.

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Ah yes, the party that already has a majority needs a snap election because of, uh, Saskatchewan potash competition. Definitely not about wanting to extend his mandate while the opposition is leaderless, at the expense of the public.

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No, fixed election laws don’t prevent snap elections but going against it whenever it’s convenient further erodes public confidence in democratic institutions. It’s a mask off moment when parties show what they are really interested in.

Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

There are so many things a progressive leader could be strident on and still connect with Canadians but “Jews need to collectively acknowledge the harms they’ve caused” isn’t one of them.

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Bloc Québécois leader Yves-François Blanchet accuses Carney of breaking Canada’s proverbial window and telling foreign companies to help themselves. He says Carney is weakening laws protecting workers and the environment and using —“instrumentalizing” — the Trump threat as an excuse.

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If only there were some kind of spatial representation of the geographic locations of countries relative to each other that could be consulted readily.

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The level of consensus building needed to negotiate programs across 27 nations, who then must also pass (and sustain) legislation to implement it, is incredible. And completely alien to Canada.

Probes into Toronto’s shooter-for-hire network thwarted by impenetrable phone, police source says

Police demands for more powers should also be viewed in context of the wide ranging corruption in the Toronto Police shown by Project South. How can they assure the public that new powers won’t be illicitly used by corrupt cops? They can’t. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

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Key cellphone seized in connection with the case runs on privacy-focused operating system, investigators so far unable to unlock it

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