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Jim Stanford @jimbostanford.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This contagious claim that under the NDP BC has become 'the highest taxed province' is nonsense. Provincial own-source revenue as share of GDP is 4th lowest among the provinces, and below the Canadian weighted average. #bcpoli /2

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Ted Harrison @ted-harrison.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thanks for a great presentation tonight hosted by Movement @movementyvr.bsky.social and Veronica O Davis @veronicaodavis.bsky.social ! Fantastic discussion and exchange of ideas to make our cities work better.

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Ted Harrison @ted-harrison.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

There is a lot for Union leaders and organizers to reflect on in Mr. Ashton’s results. Both in how we engage our members and how we communicate about how politics impacts our members, working families, and our contracts.

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Ted Harrison @ted-harrison.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Thank you for your support and solidarity! ✊

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Ted Harrison @ted-harrison.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Does she think it’s something we’re trying to hide? PS-Ice cream social at ANTIFA HQ next week. There’ll be root beer floats. Bring snacks.

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Ted Harrison @ted-harrison.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

It should be a national embarrassment that Amtrak is able to serve Vancouver with 14 trains/week (and more planned) while VIA only comes to town twice a week. Not to mention the major Canadian cities that have no VIA service.

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Ted Harrison @ted-harrison.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

A huge, but worthwhile, undertaking to undo the massive conservative cuts from 1990. Frequent and reliable train service connects our communities and provides a low carbon way to travel in comfort!

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Don Davies @donvdavies.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Happy to join in the 70th anniversary celebration of Via Rail and The Canadian passenger rail service at the Vancouver terminal. Rail builds our country, connects our communities and is just a fabulous way to see and experience our beautiful nation. NDP wants much more passenger rail in Canada!

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Ted Harrison @ted-harrison.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Huge thanks to @fairvote.ca volunteers for talking to delegates at convention. It’s an important conversation we need to keep from being shoved onto the back burner!

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Government of British Columbia @governmentofbc.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

On Transgender Day of Remembrance, we honour the people lost to anti-trans violence and join in solidarity with trans, non-binary, Two-Spirit and gender-diverse people everywhere. Together, we reject hate and work for a future where everyone can live as who they are.

Transgender Day of Remembrance
From remembrance comes resolve:
to protect, uplift, and love without limits

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Ted Harrison @ted-harrison.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Glad to hear that the VSO Musicians have a tentative collective agreement and are back to work. Great demonstration of solidarity to bring improvements to your jobs! Well done! ✊

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Mamdani: We need to make public transportation so good that “no matter how much money is in your pocket, you say: I’m gonna use this.”

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Ted Harrison @ted-harrison.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

And who knew Peter grew some of the tastiest plumbs around?

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Ted Harrison @ted-harrison.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Public sector workers deserve fair wages. This year the provincial govt raised minimum wage by 2.6% and allowed landlords to increase rent by 2.3% Yet they believe public sector workers only deserve a 1.5% increase with no retro? Shameful! @bcfed.bsky.social @bcgeu.bsky.social @cupebc.bsky.social

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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 12/08/2025

ICYMI: Reviving 1990s-style austerity will weaken services, increase inequality and inflict long-term scars on Canadians. @policyalternatives.ca senior researcher @kjscott.bsky.social explains what's at stake for Canadians if these federal govt cuts go through. therosetowneagle.ca/politicslaw/...

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Ottawa can’t cut its way to a stronger Canada

Katherine Scott - Do we really want to relive the pain of Paul Martin’s 1995 budget?

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Ted Harrison @ted-harrison.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

In my experience, when people say things like “you don’t understand, it works differently here,” it usually doesn’t and they’re usually wrong. Very disappointing development for the GTA.

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David Eby @davidebybc.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Pride season celebrates the many hard-fought victories gained by 2SLGBTQIA+ people over the decades. It’s also a declaration that hate and discrimination have no place in BC and everyone has the right to live in safety regardless of who they are or who they love. Happy Pride!

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Ted Harrison @ted-harrison.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Great steps forward by Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org in the US in the face of a very adverse labour climate that is hostile to organizing efforts ✊

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Ted Harrison @ted-harrison.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Mr Au is simply shrugging off that responsibility and trying tell everyone it’s fine because he’s giving his salary to charity is rude. Who’s doing the work in council with his chair empty? Interesting that Mr Au is very worried about the cost of a local byelection but the leader of his party is not

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Ted Harrison @ted-harrison.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

The people of Richmond should be insulted that Mr. Au clearly doesn’t think city councillors do anything of value if leaving Richmond down one council member for the next 18mths is acceptable. Municipal govt has a bigger impact on our day to day lives than any other branch of govt.

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Ted Harrison @ted-harrison.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Not a great indication of early cohesion within the small caucus that the first response was to post about it publicly …

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Ted Harrison @ted-harrison.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I think the critique is focused on at least 1/7 of the NDP caucus finding out about the appointment through the media. The central party could have emailed the caucus or even had the new leader call them. Not a critique of MP Davies’ qualifications to be the interim leader.

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Ted Harrison @ted-harrison.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Adding more lanes doesn’t reduce congestion. Making the biggest highway in North America bigger will make traffic and the climate worse. Invest in efficient and reliable alternatives to car dependency.

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Ted Harrison @ted-harrison.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

I am so not cut out for 300 characters at a time …

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Ted Harrison @ted-harrison.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

As a union leader, I’ve heard from my own members, “the Union should never be political” more than once. This completely ignores that every gain won by the labour movement has been won as part of a political battle. Employers don’t increase wages, improve benefits, etc because they’re benevolent.

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Ted Harrison @ted-harrison.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Part of me wonders if it connects with the populist “anti-woke” backlash. It seems like “the left only cares about they/them the right cares about you” type messages have captured people while ignoring the right’s playbook of watering down worker protections, employment standards, etc.

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Ted Harrison @ted-harrison.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

While labour leaders are almost always out in force supporting progressive candidates and parties, more and more of our rank and file members are supporting and voting for the Right. We need to do a better job engaging with our members about political issues and why they matter.

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Ted Harrison @ted-harrison.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

There are absolutely the population and travel volumes to make such a service viable. But you’re completely right that getting public funds in Alberta for anything other than highway expansion would be Herculean task!

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Ted Harrison @ted-harrison.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Investing to improve VIA Rail service would also be outstanding of course after consistent cuts in service for over 40 years. It should be an embarrassment that Amtrak runs 14 trains/week to Vancouver (with expansions coming) vs VIA’s 2 trains/week.

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Ted Harrison @ted-harrison.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

But a high speed rail line (or even higher speed rail) between Calgary and Edmonton is completely feasible.

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Ted Harrison @ted-harrison.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

But when I decided to support the face eating leopards, I didn’t think the leopards would eat my face!

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Ted Harrison @ted-harrison.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

It’s such a huge loss to the entire progressive movement to lose your voice, experience, and expertise in the House. You and your colleagues have accomplished so much and there are so many things to be proud of. Thank you for the last 20 years of service to your constituents and Canadians.

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Ted Harrison @ted-harrison.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

I’ve been a little bewildered by the number of posters that are claiming that the CPC was defeated. What election results are they looking at? The Tories outperformed the polls, increased their share of the vote and increased their seat count. They didn’t form govt but they’re anything but defeated.

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Ted Harrison @ted-harrison.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

That’s not what Fair Vote is advocating for. This is about moving away from the Single Member Plurality system (first past the post) to a system of Proportional Representation. It’s the idea that 40% of the vote shouldn’t give a party 60% of the seats and 100% of the power.

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Ted Harrison @ted-harrison.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

With far less than 1% of the popular vote, I’m pretty sure we can all just forget they exist now.

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Ted Harrison @ted-harrison.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

In the BC provincial election last year, BC Conservative members complained that pointing out they ducked every all candidates forum was an “unfair personal attack.” If you can’t be bothered to show up at a candidate’s meeting, you shouldn’t be representing anyone in parliament/the legislature.

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Ted Harrison @ted-harrison.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Polls are interesting, but national polls really can’t tell you anything about an individual race. As an example, the latest Léger poll had 1600 people and MoE 2.5%. Not bad. But then you see there were only 149 respondents from BC suddenly the MoE gets pretty big.

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Ted Harrison @ted-harrison.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Different polling aggregators come up with slightly different results from the same batch of polls because they each use slightly different methods, weightings, baseline assumptions, etc, in their models.

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Ted Harrison @ted-harrison.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

So you’re mad at Mr. Singh for a confidence vote didn’t actually take place? Ok then.

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Ted Harrison @ted-harrison.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Which election are you talking about? This one was triggered when the PM asked the GG to dissolve parliament. PM Carney triggered the early election, not the NDP or any opposition party …

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