John Wright London→Kent/Sussex→Ontario→Alberta→BC || Mainly current affairs; some Arsenal 🔴⚪️; some silliness. Bio: UniLibrarian; PoliSci 👨🏫; Policy Analyst
Victoria, BC
Joined January 2010
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Don't belittle judges by bringing them down to your level. At least they have to be competent to get nominated.
It was pleasure to join Canada Strong and Free Network to discuss our country’s judicial system.
Canada’s activist judges need to depoliticize themselves or else be held accountable to the standard an elected official is.
@canstrongfree
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JUST IN: DOJ says it won't be embedding FBI/ICE agents as poll monitors or putting anyone in that role to conduct law enforcement. s3.documentcloud.org/documen…
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Haley Stevens is on CNN demanding Abdul El-Sayed denounce ‘hateful rhetoric’ - meanwhile her fiancée says he is voting for a hateful bigot who called El-Sayed a terrorist.
Maybe she should get her future life partner to denounce and disavow bigotry before she lectures others on bigotry.
(And she keeps saying the ad blamed ‘Jews’ for higher grocery prices when it blamed Israel and didn’t mention Jews. You don’t have to like the ad, but you don’t have to lie about it either.)
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Another warning to energy companies not to facilitate Russian diesel imports from @RepRaskin. He's right on the law -- imports remain banned by legislation we passed in 2022, and the statue of limitations is ten years.
No company should take this risk.
‼️NEW: RM @RepRaskin puts oil industry on notice: anyone helping Trump and Putin evade America’s ban on Russian oil could face criminal penalties.
politico.com/news/2026/10/26…
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Obama: "I'm not making this up -- the president of the United States is spending time supergluing gold medallions to the mantle in the Oval Office. He's literally doing arts and crafts while we are fighting a war and trying to deal with out of control prices."
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🚨BREAKING: Washington election officials announced a preliminary review of a federal list of more than 400 alleged noncitizen voters has already uncovered U.S. citizens, inactive voters and people who are not currently registered. democracydocket.com/news-ale…
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“It was never about illegal immigration. It’s about racism, corruption, turning America into a dictatorship. The people who claimed they wanted to stop America from looking like the Third World? They wanted to turn America into a Third World dictatorship.”
open.substack.com/pub/thebul…
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It goes without saying that on a historic election night for the Arab voters, in which they’ve elected an unprecedented number of MKs, Netanyahu has just totally disregarded them as equal citizens. But that was to be expected. What’s more disappointing (though sadly not very surprising) is that the Jewish opposition leaders didn’t make any gesture in their speeches to the Arabs either, and spoke of a “Zionist” government. They deserve to lose to Netanyahu.
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Nigel Farage skipped the Budget and is obviously lying about the reason. He did not place a prayer card himself. The leader of a major UK political party literally skipped ***the budget*** because he couldn’t be bothered, and he needs to be held to account for it. @reformparty_uk are not a serious party.
NEW @Telegraph understands Nigel Farage did not display a valid date stamp on his prayer card and it was removed as per Chamber protocol.
I also understand Mr Farage did not attend prayers and did not approach Commons staff regarding a seat reservation.
telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…
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😂🔥 Obama destroys Trump’s Cheesecake Factory tantrum: “He wasn’t even mad about the Saddam Hussein comparison… they mobilized a whole government response to that joke, not inflation… the Secretary of treasury held a presser outside Cheesecake Factory. This really happened.”
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LEFT OUT ADDT’L KEY FACTS
Key Facts: Both parties have practiced this hardball in Alaska’s unusual voting system.
Besides the fact the campaign, DSCC, & candidate deny involvement; the primary public source is a fired aide who later tried to walk back her comments; & Republicans have run parallel spoiler & fringe-candidate strategies in the same races…for years
reuters.com/world/us/democra…
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The NYT is so desperate to find an October surprise they bury the lede:
1) The staffer retracted her statement.
2) The staffer was a fired disgruntled employee.
3) They stuff this line in the article:
"Ballot-stacking tactics are common in politics and generally considered legal — and have been employed by both parties in Alaska."
SCOOP: Democrats have insisted they have nothing to do with the other Dan Sullivan on Alaska's Senate ballot.
But aides with the Mary Peltola campaign and DSCC were part of a monthslong secret plan to recruit him to run -- as well as other candidates.
nytimes.com/2026/10/28/us/po…
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OBAMA: I inherited this major financial crisis. I never called my Treasury Secretary and said, “You've got to go to Arby's. Order roast beef. No cheese though that may look elitist.”
They don't have solutions to actual problems, so they'd rather have the media and you talking about the Cheesecake Factory.
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Canada not in a 'position right now' to agree to U.S. trade deal, Carney says.
cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-…
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This isn't a FULL pension, stop it with this disinformation
If a MLA serves at least 6 years, they are eligible for the pension. But after only 6 years, they'd get 3.5% x 6 years= 21% of their salary when they turn 65
I hate this nonsense. This headline should get community noted. People will believe MLAs will get like 100k for the rest of their lives. This isn't the case.
The pension plan for MLAs is good but not amazing. They pay 11% and they get 3.5% for every year. As comparison, other public servants usually pay 9-10% (I pay 10.15% for instance) and get usually 1.8-2% a year. So it is in fact a more generous plan but they also get nothing if they don't do 6 years
British Columbia’s snap election was scheduled a day after a number of NDP MLAs qualified for a full pension.
fraservalleytoday.ca/2026/10…
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"Never before had an Alberta government rejected the riding map drawn by a boundaries body."
