If you’ve lived in British Columbia for your entire life, this article probably isn’t for you.
But if you’re new to the province, or live elsewhere in Canada, it’s a political question you’ll inevitably ask: why do people argue over whether the B.C. Liberals are liberals or conservatives?
According to Google search data, the third most common question people ask about the B.C. Liberals is: “Why are conservatives called B.C. Liberals?” and a number of columns and articles have been published on the topic in the last month.
But the reason the B.C. Liberals are an amalgam of people who support the Liberals and Conservatives federally — without a fixed ideology in B.C. beyond “free enterprise” — has less to do with them and more to do with the NDP.
Because while the names of the parties have changed, B.C. politics have been defined the same way for over 75 years
I’m curious to see whom federal liberals in this province support.
From that same poll cited above:
Among British Columbians who voted for the Liberal Party in the 2015 Canadian federal election, 49% are currently supporting the BC Liberals, while 34% are backing the BC NDP.
I’ve avoided posting about the BC provincial election, but I have to say something:
Progressives beware. Please don’t vote Green. Please vote for the BC NDP.
You may remember that I ran with the Vancouver Green Party in the last municipal election. (I’ve also worked on numerous campaigns for the NDP.) What I learned about the Green Party, from the inside, was disturbing.
Although they often campaign left, the greens partner with conservatives to try to latch on to power any way they can get it. Because of a longstanding underlying grudge with the NDP, they would rather support conservatives (BC Liberals/the NPA in Vancouver) than help their ‘enemies’ the NDP. This has been demonstrated by councillor Carr and ex-trustee Janet Fraser consistently backing the NPA in Vancouver. Even though they used the same catchphrase as the BC Greens are using now, that they would “work with anyone”, during the campaign, their track records show they only collaborate with conservative parties. This is also demonstrated by Weaver supporting the BC Liberals budgets and bills in the BC legislature.
They even say it on the campaign trail. “We’re not left, we’re not right”. So if you think a vote for the Greens is a vote for a progressive party, unfortunately you’re wrong.
Also, if you examine the Green candidates. They are overwhelmingly white, 50+, straight, affluent and hold conservative values or credentials. There is very little diversity and/or representation of marginalized communities. They mostly run progressive candidates in ridings where there’s no chance of winning. People support the Greens thinking it’s a vote for the environment (and that’s why I ran for them), but if you dig a little deeper, unfortunately it’s a vote for a conservative with environmental persuasions.
Please don’t make the same mistake I did. I distanced myself from the Greens after campaigning very hard for them, because I realized I was just a front for them to pretend they’re progressive and to leech left votes.
Please support the BC NDP in the upcoming election. Thank you for reading.
Want to vote early in the B.C. election? You’ll get your first chance tomorrow.
The first of eight separate days of advance voting for the May 9 provincial election will open tomorrow (April 29) and there will be additonal opportunities Sunday, April 30 and May 3 to 6 in all ridings across B.C.
All advance polling places will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. and voters can cast their ballots at any advnce voting location. All locations are wheelchair accessible.
Voters must show identification to cast a ballot—both at advance polls and on general election day, and that can include a B.C. drivers licence, B.C. Identification Card or B.C. Services Card (all with a photos) or a Certificate of Indian Status.
An alternative is to show two pieces of identification, both with your name on them and one at least one with your current address on it. Examples of documents that will be accepted include government-issued documents such as CareCards, both certificates, passports, citizenship certificates and B.C. Services Cards, along with non-government documents with your address prited on them such as your “where to vote” card, utility bills and even a bus pass.
Voters without any identification can have a registered voter vouch for them at the poll.
For a full list acceptable documents, and information about where to vote, how to vote and other election-related issues, go to the Elections BC website at electionsbc.ca.
He has vowed to repeal the Carbon tax, and has said that in the summer of 2019 he would repeal ‘every change the NDP has made’.
Also not mentioned, that means the $15/hour minimum wage is gone too.
Not only is all of this terrifying, but there are actual people saying how they’re excited for 2019. They’re EXCITED for this. They’re excited for us to destroy the environment, to keep people in poverty, to repeal lgbt rights, to try to take women’s rights away. There are people who are honest to god HAPPY about all of that and I am not proud to be Albertan today.
For a growing number of American kids, porn is their sex ed.
Now Pornhub is hoping to offer their audience some more formal lessons
in how to be a healthy and happy sexual being.
On Wednesday, the massive adult entertainment destination took the
somewhat surprising step of launching the “Pornhub Sexual Health
Center.” They’re hoping the free sub-site
will become a go-to resource for some of their 70 million daily users
on all manner of topics, including STIs, sexual safety and how to manage
relationships.
They’ve chosen Dr. Laurie Betito, a renowned sex therapist, to direct
the site and they’ll also be working with a number of doctors,
therapists and other experts to offer advice and answer questions. Corey
Price, Pornhub’s Vice President, told Mashable, “Our goal is
to provide our visitors with a site that has credible and insightful
information, rather than have them scouring the internet.”
While it’s a database they’ll build up over time, a first look
reveals they’ve started with the fundamentals — with answers to things
like “Babies. Where do they come from?” and “Are there really three
holes?” These might seems almost laughably basic to adult consumers of
hardcore porn, but there are a lot of young people for whom these are
very real questions.
Price told Mashable they weren’t aiming the content
specifically at beginners. He said they simply want to appeal to “those
who are looking for trustworthy sex tips and health advice provided by
experts.” But it seems like they realize this could prove to be an
especially valuable resource for their younger audience, who most likely
isn’t getting comprehensive (much less sex-positive) sex ed in schools.
There are, of course, plenty of online sexual health and education
resources, but for many kids, landing on sites like Pornhub is already
their way into learning about sex. Porn can obviously teach you plenty
about the basics and mechanics of intercourse, but there’s a whole range
of other things — biology, health, consent, relating to intimate
partners, just to name a few — that you won’t pick up from watching
videos like “Big tits round asses” or “Sloppy throat games.”
So if they can slide their curious audience over to the PSHC while
they’re already on the site, it could function as pretty useful one-stop
shop for filling in the blanks left by spotty sex ed classes and the
birds and bees talks given by often bewildered parents.
Neat!
Holy shit their section on trans people was actually really good and not what I expected from something hosted by a porn site! If they had a containing various sexualities and whatnot as well, they’ll definitely have a good resource on their hands!
when a god damn porn site has better information about trans health than most school systems
Kathleen Wynne and Ontario’s Liberals could be on the verge of electoral disaster in 2018, according to a new poll.
The Forum Research survey, provided exclusively to the Toronto Sun, shows that if an election were held today, the Patrick Brown-led Progressive Conservatives would be poised to win a “super-majority” with 84 of 122 seats in Ontario’s newly expanded legislature. Andrea Horwath and the New Democrats would form the Official Opposition with 27 seats.
The Wynne-Liberals would be the rump of the house, relegated to third-party status with 11 seats.
Forum Research President Lorne Bozinoff said that with the vote 16 months away, there is still a lot of time for the mood of the electorate to swing. But it’s hard to say what the Liberals could do to change voter’s minds, he said.
“It does show the Liberals really have their work cut out for them,” Bozinoff said. “They’re skating on thin ice right now. They’re down to their base in, not even in the GTA, but in the 416.”
The poll shows the Tories have 44% popular support, the NDP have 25%, the Liberals 24% and the Green Party has 6%. But when those numbers are applied on a riding-by-riding basis, it paints a stark picture, he said.
“The Liberals are about to lose 40% of their previous vote,” he said. “That’s a big chunk.”
When the poll is broken down regionally, the Tories lead in all parts of the province except the GTA where they are statistically tied with the Liberals and in Northern Ontario where the NDP hold a six-point lead.
The poll also shows that Premier Wynne’s personal approval rating has sunk to a new all-time low – 11%. In all, 77% of respondents said they disapproved of the job she is doing as premier, with 12% saying they didn’t know. Even amongst Liberal supporters Wynne is a polarizing figure, with 42% approving of her leadership and 40% disapproving.
[…] Quebec media have pointed to the Facebook page of Bissonnette. The Facebook page became inaccessible some time after The Electronic Intifada made copies of it.
The Facebook page showed that Bissonnette has “liked” a number of political figures and entities which, if taken as signs of his views, may indicate far-right leanings.
A screenshot of Bissonnette’s Facebook page shows he “liked” far-right leaders Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen.
His “likes” include the official Facebook pages of Trump, Le Pen, the “Israel Defence Forces” and a group called “United with Israel.”
He “liked” Richard Dawkins, a leading proponent of “new atheism,” which often veers into strident Islamophobia.
Bissonnette also “liked” the nationalist Parti Québécois which ran a losing general election campaign in 2014 on a “Charter of Values” that was widely seen as promoting intolerance of Muslims. The party has strongly condemned the attack.
Most of the postings on his personal page showed Bissonnette engaging in mundane activities, including fishing and enjoying cheese pairings.
But the Quebec publication La Presse reported that Bissonnette was known as a troll to members of a Facebook group called Bienvenue aux réfugiés – Welcome to Refugees.
According to the group’s administrator, Bissonnette often posted comments attacking foreigners in general and feminists, who he termed “feminazis.” […]
when millennials were first heading into high school and college there was a huge trend in news stories about how stressed out our kids are, how their backs are getting messed up from carrying so many books, how they’re sleeping less and doing more school work, and how we should do more to help our kids have the childhoods we had because our kids are falling apart from stress and being forced to be more productive than kids should be. but then once millennials started hitting the workforce all the news was about how millennials are lazy and narcissistic and entitled lmao you were real concerned about us until you found out a 23 year old is more qualified to do your job than you
That’s because at some point in the middle we stopped being “their children” and became a bloc of terrifying outsiders with foreign values and little regard for what had been their established cultural norms.
I’d forgotten this but you’re right. I think it started earlier though, it started when we started out performing them on exams. Then suddenly all our schoolwork was easy and we were being rewarded for just showing up.
I always kinda wanted to draw a cool Leia pic and after being bummed all day today this popped into my head… I know she hated this dumb costume but this was always my fave movie of the trilogy so I wanted to draw her being badass and awesome in it (not that she WASN’T ALREADY)~ I hope she would have thought it was kinda okay ;w;
PS I almost left off the watermarks because I hate that this looks like I’m advertising my shit at her expense but if I leave it off there’s a slim chance it’d be exploited in some way and that irks me worse. Sorry, I hate it too :(
Today marks the 26th anniversary of the École Polytechnique massacre, in Montreal, Canada. A cowardly, misogynic act which left 14 promising women dead, simply because they were women:
Twenty-five-year-old Marc Lépine, armed with a Mini-14 rifle and a hunting knife, shot 28 people, killing 14 women, before committing suicide. He began his attack by entering a classroom at the university, where he separated the male and female students.
After claiming that he was “fighting feminism” and calling the women “a bunch of feminists,” he shot all nine women in the room, killing six. He then moved through corridors, the cafeteria, and another classroom, specifically targeting women to shoot. Overall, he killed fourteen women and injured ten other women and four men in just under 20 minutes before turning the gun on himself.[1][2]
His suicide note claimed political motives and blamed feminists for ruining his life. The note included a list of 19 Quebec women whom Lépine considered to be feminists and apparently wished to kill.[3]
Thousands of protestors in Vancouver came out today against Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion. November 19th, 2016.
If the Canadian Government approves this pipeline its going to get really ugly.
The people of Western Massachusetts and surrounding communities were able to stop a Kinder Morgan pipeline here through months and months of protest and opposition! If they can do it here they can do it there!
The controversial $6.8-million project would link Alberta’s oil sands with Metro Vancouver’s harbour.
Activists say the project will have consequences for the land title and rights of First Nations communities, increase tanker traffic and risk for environmental disasters on B.C.’s coast, and worsen Canada’s impact on climate change.
In a statement, Kinder Morgan writes it respects the right of peaceful protest, but its engagement with the communities over five years has made their project “stronger and safer.”
“Metro Vancouver has voted against it, the Lower Mainland and local governments have voted against this, the city of Vancouver has been adamant – no has to be the decision. It’s not worth the risk,” said Vancouver City Councillor Adriane Carr. “The point is to flood the prime minister and cabinet with message with phone calls, with emails that say do not say yes.”
Justin Trudeau’s contact information:
Justin Trudeau House of Commons Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6
(No postage required!)
Phone: 1 613 995-0253 Fax: 1 613 947-0310
Constituency:
529 Jarry Street East (Main Office) Suite 302 Montréal, Quebec H2P 1V4 Phone: 1 514 277-6020
Canada’s minister of Environment & Climate Change, Catherine Mckenna:
Is this the same pipeline as DAPL or a different one?
Its different. DAPL = Dakota Access Pipeline, which is in the USA. DAPL is owned by Dakota Access; This pipeline is owned by Kinder Morgan.
This pipeline project is an expansion of the existing Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline which runs from Alberta to Burnaby (on the west coast of Canada). If built It would almost triple the output of the pipeline, dramatically increasing oil tanker traffic on the west coast.
But there are a lot of similar issues with these 2 projects.
-Both intrude onto indigenous lands without consent from these native communities. BC itself is almost entirely unceded indigenous land, which makes the lack of consent and consultation disgraceful.
-Both pipelines threaten water in the event of a spill (which is likely given Kinder Morgan’s track record). A spill in the Vancouver area would devastate the city as it prides itself on tourism and environmentalism. And a spill in a first nation could destroy water sources and the way of life (ability to harvest food, live off the land, etc)
Since this is going around again, an update:
Justin Trudeau gave approval for this pipeline on November 29th, 2016.
People are fighting back. There’s been daily protests, and Environmentalists, First Nations and municipalities are vowing to continue to resist this pipeline. There’s already crowdfunding being done to pay for upcoming lawsuits against the pipeline.
Today the BC New Democratic Party (NDP) leader, John Horgan said on the record that if he is elected premier that he will not support this pipeline under any circumstance. The BC NDP is one of the big political parties in BC so there’s a very real chance they could be elected in the 2017 election.
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