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exactly - if there was nothing to be fixed, why 'fix' (not really), mid campaign - and blaming this on Elections BC not being involved, hey staff, you could have done even better, made a system to be emulated, instead BC Greens went deliberately worse. #BCpoli @bcgreens.bsky.social
Good to see that they’ve added the Zoom drop-ins. But why insist that there were never problems while they keep implementing fixes? Baffling They really need to stop shooting themselves in the foot like this.
A recurring theme in the party’s comments is that people who are tripped up by the malfunctioning verification process simply aren’t choosing to complete it. The implication is that hurdles = integrity American voter suppression campaigns rely on the same logic. Reproducing it here is a bad look
We need a properly leftist party in Canada/BC, but in the meantime I've always thought Greens were blowing it by not occupying the *giant* vacuum on the left BC Greens *were* moving left, but are now sadly blocking an inspiring left candidate THEY recruited. #bcpoli breachmedia.ca/b-c-green-le...
That BC Greens Instagram post is pretty outrageous—it effectively calls Emily Lowan a liar & insists their member verification process is fine. Then, days later the party is forced (probably feeling under scrutiny by a lot of media attention) to add yet ANOTHER method for members to verify. #bcpoli
Very thorough and damning article on how the BC Greens have tried to game the member verification system #BCpoli breachmedia.ca/b-c-green-le...
Transparent and fair? if the system is so good why do they keep changing it? They have added yet ANOTHER verification method now because they others patently didn't work! Why aren't they giving candidates member numbers then? Media reported they aren't. #BCpoli @bcgreens.bsky.social
As of this morning, 48% of new members are verified! That means there are 52% (1500+) of you left to verify ⏰ But good news, an easy, fast method just opened - Zoom room drop-in! No scheduling needed, go do it right now! The BC Greens Zoom room will be open ALL week from 9am - 8pm! Drop in ⚡
3 different Green members forwarded this email to me today! Asking things like "did Sonia endorse him? I don't think so!" "It would be weird if Sonia endorsed a candidate" Compared to Emily Lowan's list of famous endorsers like David Suzuki, Kerr only has Jane Sterk & Adriane Carr so..
BCGreens leadership candidate Jonathan Kerr sent out an email this morning with this photo of Sonia Furstenau. It puts her in an awkward position - it implies the former leader has endorsed a candidate which would be seriously inappropriate. Most campaigns know not to do this; it's bad form #bcpoli
This debate is worth watching, BC. If the Greens pick the boldest candidate in this race, we might actually see a real left opposition to the rightward veering NDP BC government. Lowan is that candidate. Let's do what the UK Greens just did. Please. www.youtube.com/live/EPrKUQi... #bcpoli
Media are starting to pay attention to the BC Greens shenanigans with voter verifications, weak responses, or in fact no response at all @emilylowan.bsky.social taking the high ground, calling them out, supporting members #BCpoli @bcgreens.bsky.social vancouversun.com/news/b-c-gre...
Hands down @emilylowan.bsky.social won the BC Greens leadership debate today - smart, prepared, funny, engaged and not taking any shit It is quite obvious why the party establishment, even though they head hunted her to run, are terrified she could win #BCpoli @bcgreencaucus.bsky.social
The BC Greens leadership debate is today at 2 pm Pacific. There's a Mamdani-style candidate! Emily Lowan NOTE: Does the party want to hide this debate? See thread. —You can barely find the debate anywhere on their website —The time is wrong —They provide no live link 🧵 But here it is: #bcpoli
Democracy in British Columbia has been eroded by corporate lobbyists, political insiders, and a system that represents profits before people. Fighting the Oligarchs necessarily means transforming how power works in this province. (1/3)
Seems extremely odd the BC Greens don't have the link posted anywhere on their website for the leadership debate today Do they actually not want people to watch? Anyway, here it is - starts at 2pm #BCpoli #BCGreens www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPrK...
Hey folks - the BC Greens leadership debate is at 2 pm today. The link isn't on the main page of their website, so here it is for anyone who wants to watch! Also: are you a new BC Greens member who needs verification so you can vote? Do we know each other? Get in touch so I can vouch for you!
World Bank, national financial orgs all warned about this years ago - simple mitigations like universal masking in health settings along with air filtration (also in schools), and we'd be in a very different space right now #Covid #Covid19 #CDNpoli www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
Double feature from the labour movement! These two are such stars, I’m in awe of your relentless dedication and fight for unionization. Izzy and Sarah led the successful charge to unionize the FIRST Starbucks in North America, sparking an immeasurable ripple effect.
I support identity verification, but this two-tier, multi-step system risks voter suppression in practice. I remain dedicated to working constructively with the party to facilitate a fair, equitable, and secure election, and I had no part in bringing our internal legal letter to light.
The BC Green Council should realize the damage this is causing, the staff responsible should be fired - no matter who wins the leadership, the road to recovering party integrity will be a slog, and all this leaves the 2 Green MLAs hanging with the NDP delighting in self owned stupidity Do Better
Emily Lawson has listed 3 simple fixes - all members need to be verified, not just new signups - those who paid membership with credit cards, in - and that will free up staff for verifying and she's right. Delay the vote until 80% of members are verified, make it fair, make it transparent #BCpoli
It was the party itself asking @emilylowan.bsky.social to run for leader, and making it functionally impossible for the 1000s of members she attracted from participating - who organized this debacle of verification? was that you Stefan? Was that Exec Dir Molly Mckay?
Stefan Jonsson, BC Green Exec Advisor simply can't justify roadblocking new members from leadership vote verification, it's embarrassing to watch, days in media with lies of omission and deflection Not Election BC fault, it's the party not doing their job #BCpoli cheknews.ca/rob-shaw-bc-...
Stefan Jonsson, BC Green Exec Advisor, trying to deflect responsibility that Elections BC should manage internal party votes, no, party got it wrong, refuse to budge, it's a lie of omission, no one is saying verification isn't needed, just make it easy, get it right #BCpoli @bcgreens.bsky.social
While BC Greens continue to get roasted for an overly complex vote verification, they've doubled down on the mistakes by issuing a text poll on member intentions This is prejudicial, they are managing the vote and must be seen as fair and impartial #BCpoli @bcgreens.bsky.social
This is quite the endorsement! #BCGReens
In just two months, our bold vision for a BC that tackles corporate greed, climate change and affordability has struck a chord with thousands of people across the province. But the BC Greens don’t just need a leader with a vision, they need a leader with a plan and the skillset to enact it. (1/4)
Member verification systems are supposed to keep bad actors out. They are not supposed to prevent eligible members from engaging in a party's electoral process. But that's what the @bcgreens.bsky.social broken verification system is doing. 🧵
Emily Lowan attracted 1000s of new members, this appears to be a deliberate attempt by the establishment party to prevent her winning #BCpoli cheknews.ca/rob-shaw-bc-...
It's now Sept 8 & the BC Greens *still* haven't fixed their impossible, byzantine voter verification process for their leadership race. The optics are *still* that they are trying to disqualify new members, almost all of whom were signed up by Emily Lowan. #bcpoli globalgreen.news/emily-lowan-...
Perhaps the @bcgreens.bsky.social could have a look at how crowded the centre is? Never mind that centrist policies don’t work, esp for climate. Sonia was taking the Greens left—she told me that herself. Why are you betraying that? Greens: vote @emilylowan.bsky.social for leader & fix this #bcpoli
Some friends emailed complaints to the @bcgreens.bsky.social about their unique-in-Canada, byzantine voter verification process. The party replied with long emails about "foreign interference". So the fed Libs, with their easier process, didn't know something the Greens do? Really. #bcpoli 1/x
This is real leadership from @Emily_Lowan, candidate for @BCGreens leader. Lowan has issued 3 demands which, if implemented, would clean up the Greens' flawed & undemocratic voter verification process. What's a leader for but protecting party integrity. #bcpoli globalgreen.news/emily-lowan-...
It is extremely disappointing that the two other Green leadership candidates, Jonathan Kerr and Adam Bremner-Akins, not only haven't spoken out against the most complicated verification process people have ever seen, including #bcpoli oldtimers, but they actually defended it to Rob Shaw. Bad move.
Finally, a spotlight on the BC Greens' suspiciously difficult voter verification process. But it's a deceptive article by Rob Shaw. No one disputes members need to be verified to vote. The problem is the onerous, confusing & abnormal verification process. 1/x #bcpoli www.biv.com/news/comment...
BC Greens are not covering themselves in glory with these mid-campaign rule changes targeting new members, and putting in roadblocks to the one candidate with the people first change agenda the party, and this province, desperately needs #BCpoli www.biv.com/news/comment...
It's September 4 and the @bcgreens.bsky.social still have not rectified—or explained the rationale for—their unnecessarily onerous voter verification process. And the deadline for members to do this is Sept 13! I got these replies from people TODAY. This is not participatory democracy. #bcpoli
In case you missed this last night, there's a serious issue with the BC Greens' leadership race and it needs to be rectified ASAP. The executives running the Greens need to come clean about why they've thrown up a roadblock to new members getting verified to vote, & fix it immediately #bcpoli
Emily's "leadership rival Jonathan Kerr recently warned moving toward “far-left extreme views” could cost the party votes. But Lowan is flipping that narrative: the status quo has already cost the Greens relevance & only bold leadership can turn that around" globalgreen.news/emily-lowan-... #bcpoli
all of this reeks that BC Green party staff have a select candidate in mind, and every single twist and turn is designed to essentially suppress any new votes - this is why new leadership is required - and it ain't milquetoast dudes that will do this #BCpoli #CDNpoli
The decision to discriminate against new Green members in this way inevitably raises suspicions. Of the 3 leadership candidates, @emilylowan.bsky.social is the only one who signed up thousands of new members. Can @bcgreens.bsky.social Molly & Stefan explain why they are newly doing this now? 4/x
There's increasing chatter about who'll be the next @bcgreens.bsky.social leader, but also about the prohibitively complicated process for *only new* members to get verified to vote. Who's behind that decision? Two likely names are party ED Molly McKay & advisor Stefan Jonsson 1/x #bcpoli
CNN can just off with a panel doing both sides - there are not both sides for vaccines, they work, they save lives
OMFG! Epic troll....
It's been 2 months since Dr. Tam retired from her role as Canada's Chief Public Health Officer, why is it taking so long to appoint a new CPHO? #CDNpoli www.canada.ca/en/public-he...
Really wonderful to hear from BC Green members across Comox Valley at our event last night. I loved listening to your stories, concerns and vision for the BC Greens. We’re building an unstoppable wave of energy across the province - let’s do this thing. We need all hands deck, sign-up to phonebank!🪲
BC should sue Alberta under the Canada Health Act for compensation #Covid #Covid19 #BCpoli #CDNpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Brilliant - BC Greens leadership candidate is doing a fantastic campaign speaking out against the likes of Musk... and getting well deserved attention #BCpoli #CDNpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Emily Lowan is one of 3 leadership candidates for the BC Greens. If you're a Green member, please remember to take the time to vote when the time comes. Emily is the candidate the Greens need. #bcpoli bsky.app/profile/emil...
Everyone needs to watch and learn from this incredible candidate for the leadership of the BC Green Party - she is doing comms right, she is showing up, she is doing what a leader needs to do - GO EMILY!! #BCpoli #CDNpoli
Text from a friend just now: "Why are “travel disruptions” the only part of this Air Canada story the CBC deems worthy of coverage? What about union busting & expecting a whole cohort of women workers to perform unpaid labour? WTF. How do these people think strikes work?" #cdnpoli #aircanadastrike
Just to be clear: these rising rates have nothing to do w RFK nixing boosters (though that's very bad), they're because both Democrats and Republicans have dismantled public health and no one is masking and taking airborne disease precautions. Our current vaccines don't stop transmission, MASK UP!!
this is actually quite normal - certain greenery which burns to ash at high temps release volatile organic chemicals, smells like burning plastic, also the smoke coming in mixes with urban air pollution
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The fire danger rating in #PortAlberni is "extreme" and the temperature hit 37°this afternoon just before the fire started. The cause is "under investigation." @cheknews.ca
via @AlberniWeather on Mastodon - this fire started about 3 hours ago in the China Creek area just outside of Port Alberni, and heading in fast very high temps and some wind expected overnight and tomorrow, it's going to be an unnerving few days until possible rain on Friday #BCpoli #Wildfires
Trump takes over DC, sends in National Guard to police the city with a command 'do whatever you want with protesters' There are no longer any constitutional rights in the US, no guardrails, everyone is a target Canada needs to issue a stark warning not to travel to the US
insane windstorm in Nanaimo right now, debris blowing around #BCpoli #BCstorm
OK. Sunday Aug 10 is your last chance to buy a BC Greens membership to be eligible to vote in the leadership race. FREE for youth 14-29 yo. All others $10. JOIN BY TOMORROW TO VOTE. I'm endorsing Emily Lowan as our best chance at true opposition to govt. (see thread) bcgreens.ca/join/ #bcpoli
capitalism at its worst - stop funding vaccines because there's billions to made in a 'cure
Nothing better encapsulates the current state of the US than killing funding for mRNA vaccine development - so Covid, Bird Flu and cancer treatments are now woke and planning to destroy 2 active cutting edge climate monitoring satellites so O&G fuckheads can gaslight the planet #USpoli
Patients aren’t paying for anything, but we’re increasingly seeing private companies involved in the delivery of public healthcare in BC The biggest example is the increasing reliance on temp nurses from for-profit staffing agencies My latest: www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
this is taking climate denial to a whole new level #USpoli #Climate #climatechange www.npr.org/2025/08/04/n...
wish we had the political and public health spine to do this here #Covid #Covid19 www.reuters.com/business/hea...
US to impose $15k 'deposit' for temp work visas, mainly affecting musicians, artists, performers, lecturers, filmmakers etc. That's the end of international culture coming to 'Murica Could you image something like the Berlin Symphony (100+?) forking that out? #USpoli
there is a dark, almost funny, theme of the US right now, where ICE agents go around masked, no ID, bullet vests, while states try to ban public masking and supplying protections to protesters is a felony #USpoli
The most important healthcare story in BC this week Condolences to their coworkers and loved ones www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
the orange dickwad south of us is slapping a 35% tariff on Canada - ramp it up folks, boycott every US product, don't travel there, let's show them we won't get pushed around nationalnewswatch.com/2025/07/31/t...
California (north) has upgraded to a full warning, urging evacuations
Emergency BC just issued a coastal Tsunami Watch
Kamchatka earthquake upgraded to magnitude 8.7 - Emergency BC has just issued a Tsunami Watch for the coast #BCpoli #Earthquake
North Pacific Tsunami Alert after a Magnitude 8 earthquake in Eastern Russia
How many people getting long term, life altering, chronic conditions from an easily preventable virus will it take before authorities finally act? (evergreen question since 2020) The resistance to cleaning air in public spaces is an anathema to me #Covid #Covid19 nypost.com/2025/07/27/u...
Why is Rex Murphy's ghost still haunting us?
actual good news for once - researchers have a biomarker test for ME/CFS and likely for Long Covid as well, leading to a potential therapy www.montrealgazette.com/news/health/...
the private concentration camp industry just got a windfall www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
at what point is PM Carney going to tell Trump to fuck right off and get US forces out our waters - USCG has absolutely no right to enter Canadian waters unless asked for mutual aid #CDNpoli www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...
Sure, invite a MAGA loving Christian White Supremist for a concert at a National Historic site because that will go down well as Trump threatens more tariffs and pulls a toddler tantrum on angry Canadians #CDNpoli #USpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
More fake trickledown theory. I think they called this "filtering" until we laughed that euphemism for trickledown into oblivion
really only if there are a large percentage in lower rent apartments seeking something else and can afford it, so it's worse than cancelling out because the land use for the luxury ones could have been better appropriated - it's all a straw game, developers will never build affordable housing
funny thing is, his doctor at the hospital clinic who is the only one I ever see wearing a K95 or better mask, warned me to insist - she's great, but literally the only ID doc there taking any protections
literally had this booking a scan for our son, said we would be in N95 masks suitable for the CT (no metal bits) and asked if staff could wear as well - they had to call back and 'it's not usual, but agreed' Public Health is dead when we are literally fighting for protections
Forehead to desk moment - people actually believe this shit on housing, and no, justifying luxury apartments that would somehow support affordable rentals through some sort of ephemeral economic magic hasn't worked..... ever Hey media, stop platforming this shit cheknews.ca/new-high-end...
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LOL, one wonders about the swag - but not every member of the panel would rule on each case, divided into expertise areas
and now 4 members of the panel have resigned - it's screwed all around when an expert committee makes an unsound judgement, then overt political interference to get a reversal Osborne has to go as well #BCpoli www.nsnews.com/health/drug-...
it is inexcusable the names of the expert panel advising on 'expensive drugs' are not publicly available. They are ministerial appointments and presumably getting paid for their time, so public employees. #BCpoli #CDNpoli
HA! BC NDP finally caved to the pressure - the original denial was both medically and morally craven, and political dynamite Now, apologize to the family - they should sue for emotional distress #BCpoli #CDNpoli www.timescolonist.com/local-news/b...
Funding cuts to PBS and NPR, attempts to stop the Wall Street Journal from publishing, Colbert canceled. Do not take a free press for granted. We need to fight for it.
"BC NDP admits Charleigh Pollock is the only kid in Canada to be denied funding for rare disease" 'Health minister's claim of fair treatment as hollow as her insistence that she/NDP hold young girl & her family 'in our hearts'" —Vaughn Palmer vancouversun.com/opinion/colu... #bcpoli 🧵
I don't know how NDP MLAs, especially ministers, are able to show their faces in public over this - so called 'progressive' government denying a treatment when a separatist fascist aligned premier next door who loves the idea of private health happily allows it
Accurate, and ouch #BCpoli vancouversun.com/opinion/colu...
6 years, all the studies on kids transmitting, repeat infections compounding chronic illness, expanding flu/RSV due to immune compromise - but the Australia surge is apparently 'Startling' Media/Public Health need a heavy dose of reality #Covid #Covid19 #CDNpoli www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
The NDP have always been fake "leftists."
This is stunning, and gutting - BC Health Minister openly saying 'buy your own expensive life extending medications' NDP advancing the end of public health #BCpoli www.timescolonist.com/local-news/d...