Journalist. Skeptic. Former oil and gas worker. Contributor @WesternStandard, @BeatNorthern

Victoria, British Columbia
Joined November 2010
Going thru old photos: 2002 in my editor office, windows smashed second weekend in a row. I had written an editorial saying the local high school should have invested in shops, not a new theatre. #bcpoli #bced
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Global is almost broke, which is why he bailed. He was a bust at GR firm Burson, now this.
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That’s what we have now.
Sorry to say but the only certainty you now have with our First Nations is blockades and court cases that will drag on forever
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I would argue the NDP leaving mentally ill women on the streets selling their bodies for drugs is not really a “dignified life” but maybe that is just me.
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It's significant that @LDoerkson didn’t seek leadership. It sought him. My latest for @WesternStandard, link in comments.
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They just report everything he does like the Chinese press do for Xi.
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Lula Lula Lula! Congrats to Brazil for standing up against authoritarianism once again! 🇧🇷 ⚖️✌️
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FN of BC who voted NDP deserve a kick in the ass. Eby's drug policies alone were/are killing more natives than residential school. The policies are creating the next generation of native drug users, average native male life expectancy has dropped to 43.
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Congratulations to my MLA Á'a:líya Warbus! She doubled her margin in percentage terms compared to 2024. I hope Á'a:líya gets some rest. Heavy lifting ahead. A $13.8 billion annual deficit = need to reinvigorate the economy & bring greater discipline to government spending.
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He criticized Trump's White House alterations, but his library does kind of look like the offspring of an Imperial walker and a Borg cube.
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.@LDoerkson said today interest payments are "choking the economy" & commits to an independent investigation into BC's finances. Said the $1B accounting error by the @bcndp has him "terrified" at what else they might discover.
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It is a triumph that a Conservative Party dominated a city, including downtown cores, while not capitulating on really any policy. It goes to show that voters are very open to Conservatism. In fact, we are just shy of winning the majority popular vote. Tone, tone, tone!
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I’m dealing with a “statutory decision maker” who doesn’t understand things like significant figures or the limitations of our current analytical chemistry capacity and it has delayed a critical development for years costing jobs and taxes…it is utterly insane…
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We have kids, fresh out of school with zero experience either in the field or doing investigations hired to review technical reports prepared by incredibly qualified professionals with decades of experience. Folks who took a course in university reviewing the folks who teach them
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For all the nasty @bcndp tactics, the worst attack ads were from HEU and BCTF. Here's Eby vowing to give nurses control over the health budget. Time for an end to these union monopolies.
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Now up to 64-seat majority for @Conservative_BC. My hot take for @WesternStandard, link in comments.
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Tom Fletcher 🇨🇦 retweeted
Besides David Eby, the biggest loser last night was Emily Lowen. Her speech last night was highly partisan, angry, and an attack on business, industry and capitalism. She sounded like Greta Thunberg with a hangover.
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Ok I found 123 different times that Eby said "Trump" during one of his press conferences held since the election was called on September 22nd. (I put a counter in the top right of the frame of the supercut). Here are all the ones I found in order. Did I miss any? #bcpoli
Who wants a supercut of all the times he said "Trump?" Any guesses on how many times it happened? #bcpoli
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