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The Tyee<p>“A link” to the “shadowy online world of conservatism”: Former Harper minister Stockwell Day is a director of West Coast Proud, which poured money into ads boosting BC Conservatives. </p><p>Zak Vescera reports. An investigation with <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@IJFmedia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>IJFmedia</span></a></span>. <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/BCElxn2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BCElxn2024</span></a></p><p><a href="https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/11/11/Stockwell-Day-Secretive-Role-BC-Election/?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=editorial" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thetyee.ca/News/2024/11/11/Sto</span><span class="invisible">ckwell-Day-Secretive-Role-BC-Election/?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=editorial</span></a></p>
The Tyee<p>The BC NDP was able to eke out a majority government this <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/BCElxn2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BCElxn2024</span></a>.</p><p>What about the seats they lost? Where did the BC Greens and BC Conservatives gain ground?</p><p>Let’s have a look, with a little help from some visuals.</p><p><a href="https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/11/12/What-Can-We-Learn-BC-Flipped-Ridings/?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=editorial" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/11/12</span><span class="invisible">/What-Can-We-Learn-BC-Flipped-Ridings/?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=editorial</span></a></p>
The Tyee<p>In the last fundraising quarter ahead of the provincial election, the surging BC Conservatives raised more money than the governing NDP.</p><p>Andrew MacLeod reports. <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/BCElxn2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BCElxn2024</span></a></p><p><a href="https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/11/08/Conservatives-Beat-NDP-Fundraising/?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=editorial" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thetyee.ca/News/2024/11/08/Con</span><span class="invisible">servatives-Beat-NDP-Fundraising/?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=editorial</span></a></p>
The Tyee<p>Tax cuts were promised by both the Conservatives and the NDP in the <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/BCElxn2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BCElxn2024</span></a>, framed as a way to ease cost-of-living pressures.</p><p>But tax cuts would do little to address the structural problems underlying those cost pressures. 🩹 Alex Hemingway writes.</p><p><a href="https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/11/07/NDP-Tax-Cut-Promises-Will-Hurt-BC/?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=editorial" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/11/07</span><span class="invisible">/NDP-Tax-Cut-Promises-Will-Hurt-BC/?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=editorial</span></a></p>
The Tyee<p>“It was heartening to see members of the BC Conservative party saying they accepted the result.”</p><p>The BC Conservatives raised many culture war topics. But one expert praises them for rejecting claims that the <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/BCElxn2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BCElxn2024</span></a> was compromised, despite right-wing influencers casting doubt on the process.</p><p><a href="https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/11/06/NDP-Conservatives-Back-Election-Outcome/?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=editorial" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/11/06</span><span class="invisible">/NDP-Conservatives-Back-Election-Outcome/?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=editorial</span></a></p>
The Tyee<p>Did BC Conservatives breach voters’ privacy?</p><p>BC United claimed members’ personal data was put at risk in July. Why we need an investigation, writes Charlie Smith. <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/bcpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bcpoli</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/BCElxn2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BCElxn2024</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2024/11/05/Did-BC-Conservatives-Breach-Voters-Privacy/?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=editorial" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thetyee.ca/Opinion/2024/11/05/</span><span class="invisible">Did-BC-Conservatives-Breach-Voters-Privacy/?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=editorial</span></a></p>
The Tyee<p>Hate was on display by candidates of the Conservative Party of BC.</p><p>Leader John Rustad did nothing.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bird.makeup/users/vancolour" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>vancolour</span></a></span>’s final <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/LogicCheck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LogicCheck</span></a> says, however he spins it, Rustad abdicated his basic responsibilities as leader. </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/BCElxn2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BCElxn2024</span></a></p><p><a href="https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/10/30/Rustad-Moral-Failure/?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=editorial" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/10/30</span><span class="invisible">/Rustad-Moral-Failure/?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=editorial</span></a></p>
The Tyee<p>It’s here.</p><p>Dr. Steve’s post-election verdict.</p><p>You might not like his diagnosis.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/BCElxn2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BCElxn2024</span></a></p><p><a href="https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2024/10/29/Please-Advise-What-Just-Happened-BC/?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=editorial" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thetyee.ca/Opinion/2024/10/29/</span><span class="invisible">Please-Advise-What-Just-Happened-BC/?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=editorial</span></a></p>
The Tyee<p>The NDP won.</p><p>Now what?</p><p>A look back at a divisive campaign and a narrow victory.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/BCElxn2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BCElxn2024</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/bcpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bcpoli</span></a></p><p><a href="https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/10/29/NDP-Won-Now-What/?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=editorial" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/10/29</span><span class="invisible">/NDP-Won-Now-What/?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=editorial</span></a></p>
*|FNAME|* 🇨🇦<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.ca/@pinhman" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>pinhman</span></a></span> <br>Yeah. This time around though I expect the Cons to do everything in their power to undermine the NDP. </p><p>MAGA-style conservatism is all about disruption and sowing chaos so they can claim that the system is broken.</p><p>I can’t see them putting up a speaker.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BCPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BCPoli</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BCElxn2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BCElxn2024</span></a></p>
*|FNAME|* 🇨🇦<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/@chris" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>chris</span></a></span> <br>Correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t one of the parties have yet to give up a seat for the speaker? I can’t see the Cons playing nice. And for the Greens the choice is either hold the balance or disappear into irrelevance.</p><p>It should be interesting times yet.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BCPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BCPoli</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BCElxn2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BCElxn2024</span></a></p>
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸<p>Now that the <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/BCElxn2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BCElxn2024</span></a> has been called with the <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/BCNDP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BCNDP</span></a> to form Government I would just like to say that we would not have had to wait so long to know the outcome if we had Proportional Representation.</p><p>The popular vote share has not changed significantly since Election Night.<br>BC NDP: 44.9% = 43 seats<br>CPBC: 43.3% = 41 seats<br>GreenBC: 8.2% = 9 seats</p><p>We would already be well on our way to some sort of coalition or confidence &amp; supply deal to form government.</p><p>FPTP Sucks!<br><a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/BCPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BCPoli</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/ElectoralReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElectoralReform</span></a></p>
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸<p>2PM Update, the NDP continues to lead by 18 in Surrey-Guildford, and now the Kelowna Centre is tightening. Just a 46 votes. If that one flipped to NDP then it would be a little more solid majority. <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/CPBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CPBC</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/BCElxn2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BCElxn2024</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/BCPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BCPoli</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/CanPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CanPoli</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/CdnPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CdnPoli</span></a></p><p><a href="https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/british-columbia/2024/results/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newsinteractives.cbc.ca/electi</span><span class="invisible">ons/british-columbia/2024/results/</span></a></p>
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸<p>1PM Update.</p><p>NDP holding on to the Surrey-Guildford riding now, but narrowed 3 votes… just a 9 vote lead over the Conservatives.</p><p>This is insane.</p><p>The other close ridings don't seem to be moving enough to portend a potential switch, but who knows!</p><p>Seats: <br>NDP-CPBC-GREEN<br>47-44-2</p><p> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/CPBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CPBC</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/BCElxn2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BCElxn2024</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/BCPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BCPoli</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/CanPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CanPoli</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/CdnPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CdnPoli</span></a></p>
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸<p>12PM UPDATE! Surrey-Guildford FLIPPED!<br>NDP now in the lead with 8843 votes<br>CPBC has 8829!</p><p>A difference of 14 votes!</p><p>That means NDP is leading/elected in 47 to CPBC 44!<br>A *bare* majority! (Likely will still need to have cooperation with Greens to guarantee stability)</p><p><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/election-tiebreaker-rules-differ-across-canada-1.3080448" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edwa</span><span class="invisible">rd-island/election-tiebreaker-rules-differ-across-canada-1.3080448</span></a></p><p> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/CPBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CPBC</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/BCElxn2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BCElxn2024</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/BCPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BCPoli</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/CanPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CanPoli</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/CdnPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CdnPoli</span></a></p>
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸<p>11AM Update: The CPBC lead is now down to 4 in Surrey-Guildford!! <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/CPBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CPBC</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/BCElxn2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BCElxn2024</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/BCPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BCPoli</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/CanPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CanPoli</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/CdnPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CdnPoli</span></a></p><p><a href="https://electionsbcenr.blob.core.windows.net/electionsbcenr/Results_7097_GE-2024-10-19_Candidate.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">electionsbcenr.blob.core.windo</span><span class="invisible">ws.net/electionsbcenr/Results_7097_GE-2024-10-19_Candidate.html</span></a></p>
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸<p>The <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/CPBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CPBC</span></a> lead in the Surrey-Guildford riding is down to 9 as counting of absentee ballots continues!!<br><a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/BCElxn2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BCElxn2024</span></a><br>CBC has a well organized page that is tracking the Elections BC numbers here:</p><p><a href="https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/british-columbia/2024/results/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newsinteractives.cbc.ca/electi</span><span class="invisible">ons/british-columbia/2024/results/</span></a></p><p>The Raw Elections BC numbers, updated hourly, is here:</p><p><a href="https://electionsbcenr.blob.core.windows.net/electionsbcenr/Results_7097_GE-2024-10-19_Candidate.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">electionsbcenr.blob.core.windo</span><span class="invisible">ws.net/electionsbcenr/Results_7097_GE-2024-10-19_Candidate.html</span></a></p><p>I heard this morning that there were around 100 votes still to count today for some of the ridings. The NDP would only need an advantage of about 65%-35% to overcome a 12 vote deficit.</p>
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸<p>Congrats to Vancouver Island University Journalism student for interviewing the Conservative Party of BC candidate just down the highway at Juan de Fuca - Malahat and exposing what turned out to be a HORRENDOUSLY RACIST woman!!<br>Is this the 19th century?<br>The CPBC leader John Rustad didn't even commit to booting her out of caucus!! This is what Trump and the rise of anti-progress people has done to us!<br>It cannot be allowed to continue!<br><a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/bcelxn2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bcelxn2024</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/canPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>canPoli</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/Racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Racism</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-conservative-candidate-marina-sapozhnikov-racist-slur-indigenous-peoples-1.7364936" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbc.ca/news/canada/british-col</span><span class="invisible">umbia/bc-conservative-candidate-marina-sapozhnikov-racist-slur-indigenous-peoples-1.7364936</span></a></p>
Ken Walker :caflag:<p>BC DIVIDED Voter Turnout &amp; Post-Election Analysis<br>Citi-Zen-Ship Show</p><p>An interesting discussion of the BC election results with thoughts about our electoral system.</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/mZT7UZPay-E?si=TBbfMg3CZcJC0V5i" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/mZT7UZPay-E?si=TBbfMg</span><span class="invisible">3CZcJC0V5i</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/bcelxn2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bcelxn2024</span></a> <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/bcpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bcpoli</span></a> <a href="https://cosocial.ca/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a></p>
Alison Creekside<p>On <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/BCElxn2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BCElxn2024</span></a> night, BC Con Marina Sapozhnikov called Indigenous Peoples "savages". <br>She said the "UN Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act renders every non-Indigenous BCer a “second-rate citizen,” and “90% of Indigenous people use drugs.”<br>She also doesn't think there is any climate emergency bc CO2 is plant food.</p><p>She is 23 votes behind the NDP for a recount in Juan de Fuca-Malahat. <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/bcpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bcpoli</span></a> <br><a href="https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/savages-bc-conservative-candidate-racist-slur-indigenous-peoples" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">vancouversun.com/news/local-ne</span><span class="invisible">ws/savages-bc-conservative-candidate-racist-slur-indigenous-peoples</span></a></p>
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