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This BCTF statement does not speak for many of the teachers it claims to represent.
No one’s rights are being taken away. Lesbian, gay, and bisexual people exist across the political spectrum. Same-sex attracted teachers and parents hold a wide range of views, and many reject the promotion of gender-identity ideology in schools.
We hear from lesbian, gay, and bisexual teachers in British Columbia who oppose gender-identity ideology and the overtly sexual materials made available to young children. They resent participating in language demands that may affirm children in delusions. Their gravest concern is that this ideology is contributing to a medical scandal in which distressed youth are being steered toward puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries.
These teachers overwhelmingly feel unsupported by their union. Many are afraid to speak out at all, concerned they will be bullied, isolated, or professionally punished for stating biological facts or questioning the medicalization of minors.
The union’s framing treats disagreement with contested gender ideology as an existential threat. It erases the same-sex attracted educators who want sex-based protections, resources based in biological reality and age-appropriate education. Protecting children from experimental interventions and sexualized materials is not discrimination. It is safeguarding.
The BCTF leadership is free to hold its views. It does not get to claim those views represent every teacher—or every lesbian, gay, or bisexual person in British Columbia. Many LGB teachers remain silent precisely because they know their union will not support them when they dissent.
The BC teachers union president issued this statement today 🥴
"I recognize that with the outcome of a Conservative government, many of us may be feeling disappointed, scared, or deeply concerned about what might come next.
I know these results may be particularly concerning for Indigenous, racialized, and 2SLGBTQIA+ members. You are not alone."
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Productive conversation with Prime Minister Mark Carney today.
We are aligned on the need to supercharge our economy, attract investment, and create good-paying jobs. British Columbia has an enormous role to play in driving Canada's economic future, and we are ready to lead.
When British Columbia succeeds, Canada succeeds.
READOUT: PREMIER-ELECT LORNE DOERKSON'S CALL WITH PRIME MINISTER MARK CARNEY
October 27, 2026
Earlier today, the Prime Minister of Canada and the Premier designate of British Columbia had a virtual meeting setting out a plan for cooperation in support of BC and Canadian growth.
In the conversation, there was agreement to work together to increase growth and economic opportunities for BC and Canada. On LNG and natural gas, there was a joint desire to ensure the right investable and competitive conditions are created to maximize private sector investment.
On investment strategy, there was alignment to work together to attract capital to BC. Overall, the Prime Minister and Premier Designate indicated their joint desire for a strong partnership inclusive of all British Columbians that can supercharge hope and opportunities for the province.
The Premier Designate offered his commitment to work together on various challenges including managing trade risks and opportunities to ensure prosperity for the country from coast, to coast to coast.
There was also alignment on the need for progressing improved infrastructure and services in BC and to work these issues further through the transition and establishment of BC’s new government.
Jerald retweeted
Saskatchewan to BC should have the wealthiest, highest quality of living of any place in the world. The west of Canada has everything it needs to be incredibly prosperous. It’s beautiful, full of resources and finally has adults running all 3 provinces.
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Also “shithouse” Norway:
🇳🇴 Press freedom: 1st v. 🇺🇸 64th
🇳🇴 Happiness: 6th v. 🇺🇸 23rd
🇳🇴 Life expectancy: 83 v. 🇺🇸 78
🇳🇴 Wealth fund: $350k each v. 🇺🇸 debt $115k each
🇳🇴 Health cover: everyone v. 🇺🇸 27 million uninsured
🇳🇴 Uni fees: free v. 🇺🇸 $1.87 trillion in student loans
Jerald retweeted
Virtually all of the slopulist right "influencers" in Canada were on Team One BC, which won 1% of the vote.
They set their hair on fire when the BC Conservatives decided to stabilize themselves as a mainstream centre-right party at the beginning of the campaign.
As with the Alberta referendum, this is yet more evidence that these so-called influencers have no influence, and should be broadly ignored by sensible, principled Canadian conservatives.
A lot of the recent drama on the right in BC came from a crazy right populist splinter party, @One_BCHQ.
Made up of self styled “real conservatives” with the usual assortment of weird obsessions & conspiracy theories: vaccines, ostrich farms, chem trails, xenophobia, MAGA North, all communicated with the volume nob stuck on 10.
Basically the BC counterpart of hard core Alberta separatist activists, or Bernier’s @peoplespca.
Tonight they’re at 1.4% of the vote, after two years of being a hugely divisive distraction on the right of BC politics.
Yet another reminder to Conservative parties: ignore the crazy fringe of the hard populist right. Don’t let the tail wag the dog. Let them stay in their little fringe parties.
Being a principled conservative party does not mean pandering to incoherent, perennially angry populism. Instead, propose bold, thoughtful policy reforms rooted in conservative principles that appeal to the broad mainstream. Just like the @Conservative_BC did in this winning campaign.
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"Im XXX and Russia is not my enemy" crowd seems to be dead along with Russian data centers 👀
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I'm sorry but I have to vent.
Fuck the GOP for watering down the Lindsay Graham sanctions bill and giving Trump full power over it.
Fuck anyone who said Kamala would be worse for Ukraine than Trump.
Fuck all the Americans who are okay about the fact that US is now funding Russia's genocidal war in Ukraine - because that's what you're doing now.
And fuck people who still support Trump after all the shit he's done for Ukraine.
So tiring.
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I don’t talk about addiction as an abstract policy issue. I lived it.
At 17, I was struggling with addiction and living on the streets of Vancouver. I know what it feels like to be cold, hungry and exhausted, and still have drugs matter more than anything else. I also know there were times when I was simply not capable of making decisions in my own best interest.
But I also know what recovery can make possible.
Someone believed I was capable of more. I found purpose, went to treatment and began rebuilding my life. Today, that life is almost unrecognizable.
That’s why I will never accept that leaving people trapped in addiction is compassion.
Every person we see suffering on our streets has a story that isn’t finished yet. Sometimes compassion means intervention. It means treatment, recovery, responsibility, connection and purpose.
Keeping someone alive matters. But keeping someone alive is not enough. We need to give people a way out.
I found mine. I want every British Columbian struggling with addiction to have the opportunity to find theirs. I’ll have a lot more to say on this in the coming weeks.
BC Conservative candidate Claire Rattée shares her personal experience with addiction, homelessness, and recovery while outlining the party’s approach to treatment and public safety:
“Every person we see suffering on our streets has a story that isn’t finished yet, and we cannot give up on them.”
#bcpoli #bcelxn26
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The scale of what Canada is building is hard to overstate:
--Churchill Falls = roughly 9 nuclear reactors worth of clean power.
--Pacific Link = an oil export route approaching the consumption of the entire UK.
--LNG Canada Phase 2 = enough gas to equal roughly half of Canada’s domestic consumption.
Churchill Falls: The largest clean energy investment in North American history. Pacific Link: A pipeline to the West Coast that will unlock new markets. LNG Canada Phase 2: The second-largest LNG facility of its kind in the world.
Canada is working. We’re unleashing our full potential as a global energy superpower — and we’re just getting started.
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Canadian dollar is absolutely collapsing right now. Wouldn't be surprised if we go below .65 USD in the near future.
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Latest BC Ipsos Poll modelled out
🔵CON: 50 seats (+6)
🟠NDP: 42 seats (-5)
🟢GRN: 1 seats (-1)
🔵Conservative Majority Government
(+/- change from 2024 BC election)
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You either support Canadian pipelines or Russian pipelines. There is no middle ground.
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In the interest of accountability, I got one fact wrong in my earlier post.
Canada did not experience net negative migration during the first half of 2026. I had seen today’s new Q2 figure before posting, but I had not yet yet caught the revisions to earlier quarters.
Technically, Canada has experienced very modest population growth YTD. That correction does not change my underlying point.
Donald Trump’s claim that Canada is actively “allowing millions and millions of people into the Country” and thereby “causing problems that will soon be too big to handle” is detached from reality.
As today’s report notes, Canada’s population growth over the past year was its slowest since 1915–16, and the smallest in absolute terms since 1945–46.
Canada does not need to reduce the amount of immigration it is currently allowing.
That does not mean Canada has not just experienced a period of very high immigration. It plainly has. Nor does it mean that immigration at those levels imposed no costs. It did.
It was also necessary, if mis-managed. But that's a debate for a different day.
The point that is immediately important is narrower. It is profoundly unhelpful for someone with Donald Trump’s platform—and power—to pretend that the exceptionally high immigration of recent years is still ongoing.
Someone in my replies compared my post to standing in a flooded kitchen and bragging that the water was turned off five minutes ago.
Fair enough. It ignores that the kitchen got flooded as we fought a fire... but that's part of the debate for a different day.
To extend that analogy; my issue is that there is also an idiot with the world’s largest megaphone standing in the kitchen, yelling that the water we shut off five minutes ago still needs to be turned off. That is genuinely unhelpful. He's refusing to stop, and getting everyone to focus on dealing with the real issues we now face requires informing everyone that his message isn't relevant to the reality we face.
That is the purpose of my post.
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Hey all you Conservative Party influencers, why are you busy today heaping scorn on the BC Conservative Party? Not Trumpy enough for you? All you keyboard warriors should go back to your day jobs, if you actually have one. The rest of us will push the BCCP all the way to victory.
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More than 40 countries - Canada and its allies - have sanctions against Belarus for supporting war criminal Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
Buying blood potash from Belarus is supporting Russian aggression.
It’s wrong and it doesn’t make sense.
All of that potash has to be shipped first through Russia, then across the ocean, then across the US to mid-western farmers.
Does anyone believe Belarusian blood potash shipped through Russia is going to be more affordable, more sustainable or more ethical than potash shipped from Saskatchewan - right here in North America?
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🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🇺🇸 Was this the smartest con in Arctic history?
The Danes and Greenlanders know perfectly well that the Trump regime is staffed by high school dropouts and people who move their lips when they read, and they know that nobody in this failed administration has the faintest idea that a 1951 agreement exists.
So Copenhagen takes the old treaty out of the drawer, blows off the dust, changes the date to 2026 and adds a clause banning China and Russia, neither of whom was ever going to be invited anyway. Trump, who sincerely believes he is the sharpest mind in a movement where that is not a demanding title, promptly launches himself into orbit with a triumph he imagines will win him the midterms.
He demanded an island, was sold his own lease back with a fresh cover page, and could not be more thrilled.
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Basically, what Canadians have heard from President Trump (and his Cabinet) since January 2025 is the following: “you are the equivalent of a piece of s**t. We don’t need you; you are nothing without us. We will use economic pressure to force you into submission. It doesn’t matter that we have a free trade agreement between us, setting out the rules. It doesn’t matter that that agreement was my idea. It doesn’t matter that I praised the agreement as being “the best one ever.” No matter what those rules say, I’ll do whatever I want to you whenever I feel the urge to do so. It kind of gives me pleasure to hurt you economically; I especially enjoy humiliating you. You should sit back and welcome that. You absolutely shouldn’t complain about it. If you dare hit back, I’ll strike you even harder. We can retaliate; you cannot! And don’t even think about looking for any new relationships. If you try that, I’ll scorch the earth under you – and I’ll make any country entering into agreements with you regret doing so.”
This meets the classic definition of an abusive relationship. It still shocks us that the U.S. now behaves this way. Canadian businesses and individuals treasure the connections we have to Americans. These bonds have been formed over centuries and have greatly benefitted both Americans and Canadians. We wish more Americans were acting to stop their Administration from destroying what we’ve built together.
Sadly, the only predictability – for the time being – is more of the same from the Trump Administration. All threats, all the time. Our government understands that Canadians, overwhelmingly, see no plus sides in succumbing to this grotesque harassment. We can’t have confidence that this menacing behavior will stop anytime soon; we know, based on common understandings of how bullies behave, that ignoring or tolerating such abuse simply invites more of it.
In recent times, albeit in different ways, Russia & China have been the most consistent big power “aggressors” in international relations. Under President Trump, the U.S. has chosen to join that group. Canadians are coming to understand the costs we’re likely to bear from preserving our self-respect and our sovereign rights as a country to pursue our collective interest. It’s all very unfortunate (to put it mildly). Weaning ourselves from disproportionate dependence on buying from and selling to Americans will be hard. But our leaders have been left with few options. Mercifully, there are still many jurisdictions in this world that behave ‘normally’. That aren’t predators. That are interested in partnership, not dominance. We need to deepen our relations with as many of those as we possibly can.
Who knows what “Associate Membership” in the EU will mean, if it ever comes to pass. Canada isn’t interested in being governed by Brussels any more than we’re interested in being governed by Washington. So, this may lead only to deepened trade relationships, maybe only in certain sectors. If so, that’s still better than being so heavily exposed to the whims of an ever-more-hostile U.S. Administration.
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"Economist Party" pedants have pointed out the obvious: that counter tariffs impose costs on Canadians.
But they cannot calculate the broader strategic and intangible benefits of standing up to the attacks and intimidation from Washington.
This week's tremendous response from global investors and European leaders clearly reflects admiration for a country, and a Prime Minister, willing to say "no" to the bullying and bad faith.
By combining our huge natural advantages, real policy reforms,* and quiet Canadian determination, we are finally moving past the decade of decline, and putting Canada at the centre of a changing world.
#CanadaProud 🇨🇦💪
*Caveat: more and faster policy reform, please!
Dear @MarkJCarney we want to bring the relationship with Canada to the highest level possible.
I would like to work with you on opening the door for Canada to being the first associate member of the EU.
And create a common prosperity and economic security space.
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In a world of uncertainty, Canada's greatest strength is our trust and reliability.
To seize this moment, Prime Minister @stephenharper made the case for unity and speed. On the margins of the investment summit, we met to discuss the urgency to build even faster.
In short, to stand up for Canada.
