“It honestly brings a tear to my eye”
Sarah Montgomery, wife of suspended Victoria firefighter Josh Montgomery, called the
@Adam_Stirling
show this morning to express the family’s gratitude for the deep outpouring of support they’ve heard from the community.
#bcpoli
#yyj
The Democrats spent a billion dollars trying to beat Trump in the election, but in the end Trump’s nemesis was a skilled litigator who also excelled at doing cable news TV panel shows and drafting sick burns on Twitter.
Hard to describe the feeling of seeing a $20-billion project shelved because of “political unrest” in a G7 country. That’s the sort of thing we’d expect to see in nations where governments have a tenuous hold on public order. We are deep down the rabbit hole, folks... wow.
The economic damage we suffered in the storm is still being significantly understated. Canada has no trade access to Pacific tidewater for the 1st time since the completion of the railroad. Each day of lost movement results in someone accruing a loss that is not recoverable.
New York State population: 20-million
New York State covid deaths: 16,599
Ontario population 14-million.
Ontario covid deaths: 811
Canadian efforts to aggressively bend the curve downward have made a difference. Don’t let anybody tell you they haven’t. Don’t stop now.
Greater Victoria is a dangerous place to be a police officer.
Thank you to those of you who wear the badge and take the risk to serve and protect this community every day.
Your service and your sacrifice is not appreciated as often as it should be.
#yyj
I keep going back to this tweet. He’s admitting the siege of Ottawa isnt solely Canadian, but rather that it’s foreign funded and he’s complaining that his state got caught participating in an attempt to overthrow our government.
Imagine you and I financing a siege of Austin.
Patriotic Texans donated to Canadian truckers’ worthy cause using GoFundMe. This BLM-backing company went woke, froze the funds, & failed to deliver Texans’ money. Today I assembled a team to investigate their potential fraud & deception. Texas donors will get Justice!
#GoFundMe
People snarking on social media about
@BorisJohnson
would do well to hold their words. His death would strike a crushing blow to the morale and resolve of the entire planet in the midst of this crisis. People would panic. This isn’t a damned game.
Mr. Avenatti is the first individual of which I am aware who has been able to effectively engage all three of these venues simultaneously under a national spotlight. Trump doesn’t know how to process that, and it’s melting his brain.
Adults: Young people are anxiety ridden and depressed
Young people: our educations will cost 10 times what yours did and housing will cost 20 times. The environment is destroyed, war looms, & we will never retire
Adults: it must be their phones
This just might be the best text message I've ever gotten.
Thank you,
#yyj
. Thank you Kevin. Thank you everyone. We are going to get through this, and it will be because of all of you.
Queen Victoria had this piano commissioned and installed by S & P Erard at Buckingham Palace in 1856. It was there during both World Wars. It’s not like she just bought it...
You know who deserves endless thanks? The brave women who came forward to tell the truth about Moore preying on them as teens. This is their win tonight.
I want to say a HUGE thank you to all the hardworking members of
@vicpdcanada
.
The people of James Bay and every other neighborhood can rest easier today, knowing their rights matter too and they are protected. None of us will forget today. Thank you 👍🏻
#yyj
#bcpoli
Today’s revelation in court that Tamara Lich’s husband was flown to Ottawa Feb 4 on a private jet by somebody *he didn’t even know* and they have no money and yet somehow continue to pay to keep themselves provisioned justifies the emergency order alone.
Who are the puppeteers?
I still can’t believe they’re making the public pick sides between the slimy City Hall nobody trusts giving millions of dollars to the Society Of Living Intravenous Drug users (SOLID)
And a Victoria firefighter trying to protect his kids.
This is why some people say Victoria
Some people said I freaked out and hit the stay home messaging and physical distancing messaging too hard but I’m currently sitting on an island with 870,000 people and zero cases of covid-19 detected since May 7th.
Feeling pretty good about the choices we made. Please copy us.
This is shameful.
Thrown to the wolves, after being stripped of any real ability to defend herself by multiple groveling apologies.
Shame on
@Dave_Eby
for abandoning her after she went through all that.
#bcpoli
Truck Convoy Update:
Ron Clark is on a Ferry: “So there you have it. We are officially moving. For all you trolls that don’t like us, we are leaving your Island…”
He’s leaving my island.
#yyj
#bcpoli
Somewhere along the line we went from: imprisoning-a-human-being-for-drug-use-is-morally-wrong
to….
Asking-a-person-to-leave-a-park-while-they-are-high-is-morally-wrong.
I think this might be the last straw for me and the harm reduction rabbit hole… There’s no end…
So apparently the City of Victoria wrote a letter to Venezuela asking them for money to help us cover the costs of climate change.
Yes, that Venezuela. The one with the medicine shortages. And the hyperinflation.
This is why nothing gets done around here.
*Vancouver Island* indigenous nations who signed agreements to support the project:
Esquimalt, Halalt, Lake Cowichan, Malahat, Pacheedaht, Pauquachin, Penelakut, Scia’New (Beecher Bay).
That’s just on the Island. Why are they never mentioned?
It’s a pretty basic tenet of leadership that one must be willing to undergo the hardship one imposes on one’s subordinates if circumstances require it. Pretty shocking to see so many MLA/MNA/MPP/MPetcs traveling.
Fire the whole lot of them. They knew the risks.
The anti-vaxxers don’t understand just how angry most of the country is at them. They think it’s them vs the government, but it’s not. Millions of people are watching this nonsense and coming to the conclusion that we’ve been too nice for too long.
So we can’t ban hard drug use at the playground yet…
I hope somebody somewhere is enjoying a well-deserved victory lap somewhere, knowing the world just got a little bit darker and a little bit more hostile to ordinary people just trying to help their kids have childhoods.
Can any professional drivers advise as to whether it’s ok to swerve like this while other people are about to try to pass you on the left? This doesn’t seem safe.
#yyj
#bcpoli
Anyway, my entire feed is people being inspired by the
@NDP
promising to spend $1.8-billion to end boil water advisories on First Nation reserves
While the actual government is spending $5.8-billion to end boil water advisories on First Nation reserves.
Nothing matters...
Twitter reveals many celebrities as never-ending train wrecks of bad takes and excess, but Anthony Hopkins just seems like a really nice person who is always positive and does nice things.
Well at least we don’t have to worry about them getting released right away and shooting up another bank.
I’m sorry but I’m 100% done living in fear and being told to feel sorry for the people who are doing to shooting and stabbing etc.
Something needs to change. Now.
#yyj
Look at BC numbers. We’re almost at the balance point where recoveries equal new infections per day.
We’ve effectively halted the number of active cases, averaged out over the last week.
We have stopped the wave. It’s still pressing upward, but we’re pushing down just as hard
So apparently we’re supposed to tolerate Councillor Susan Kim expressing herself in a way that many people found offensive, but we can’t allow a piece of *performance art* to exist because a one-man play in a small art house is just too damaging.
Utterly ridiculous.
#yyj
Alright, I’ll probably get swarmed for saying this, but I really don’t understand the outrage over getting $100 to get vaccinated in Alberta.
We paid people $2000/month to stay home & do literally nothing to slow down covid.
$100 for getting the shot is nothing by comparison.
In hindsight, I think this strategy still hasn’t been appreciated enough for how smart it was. Trump is or has been a participant in *thousands* of legal actions. He doesn’t understand or care about what happens in court.
The President *does* however care about TV panel shows.
“I support the truckers who are demanding the election results be cancelled and that they be given a veto over all Canadian law in order to avoid a medicine,” is not something I can reconcile with. Say it out loud. It’s insanity bordering on treason. Let’s call it what it is.
The current gov is spending $5.8B to solve this problem. Construction underway.
Because it is a serious problem.
Can somebody with a mic ask Singh if the $1.8B he “announced” today is a cut? Or is he saying he would continue the $5.8B plan?
Or is it now $7.6-billion?
Thanks.
If there was mercury poisoning in Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa or any major city’s water source, there’s no scenario where it takes decades to clean it up.
There’s no scenario where it’s treated with the inaction that the people of Grassy Narrows First Nation have faced.
#elxn43
Number of truck convoy participants remaining currently entrenched in or around the
@BCLegislature
, James Bay, Beacon Hill Park, or the Dallas Road waterfront:
Zero.
Nice work
@vicpdcanada
&
@CityOfVictoria
bylaw 👍🏻.
#yyj
Watching what’s happening in Ukraine and frankly all of us should be embarrassed if we’ve been feeling sorry for ourselves during Covid. Ukrainian Dads are telling their kids it’s gonna be ok as they hear the jets screaming overhead. Russia’s attacking civilian centres now…
The Covid convoy
@Zello
chat has members saying they are giving up and going home for the day. They suggest they’ll have to change tactics. They also note that media is listening to them as they plan.
They’re sounding pretty defeated.
#yyj
That camp should be torn down *today*.
A missing developmentally delayed teen choked in a tent to the point of potentially life altering injuries Tuesday night and it took an army of police just to get the person out because the campers tried to stop them?
Arrest them all.
#yyj
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but if you’re a frontline healthcare professional, please know: you are valued, you are appreciated, & you have the support of *millions* of British Columbians who aren’t a few hundred anti-vaxxers shouting at you.
Don’t give-up.
#Covid19BC
This is why people are skeptical any carbon tax really will be rebated to public. BC’s was long ago. But now?
All sorts of money goes into streams we are *told* help the climate, but the professional grant writers surely must get their cut! This is government after all
#bcpoli
This very clearly explains why there needs to be an independent investigation into what is happening with the
@bcndp
clean energy grant program. What is
@Dave_Eby
hiding from the public? Who is govt protecting? How many other grant programs do they operate like this?
The old growth blockaders have issued a press release complaining because they superglued to themselves to the highway in Vancouver this morning and the firefighters with the solvent who peeled them off the pavement did so "forcefully."
Amazing.
#bcpoli
#yyj
The bike lane outside work isn't plowed yet. How disappointing. Today was the day I was going to ride a bike to work. But I didn't. Now I will never try again.
#yyj
David Eby bragging about thousands(?) of new hotel units being built in major cities on land that otherwise could have been sold and used to build housing is so perfectly on the nose when it comes to unintended policy consequences that I wonder if he's trolling...
#bcpoli
The subchief mentioned here is the same Huson in “Coastal Gaslink Pipeline Ltd. v Huson, 2019 BCSC 2264”
The court made a number of interesting findings pertaining to her conduct and motivations.
THREAD TO FOLLOW:
Fire and Fury says Trump lies about his height/weight to avoid being obese (BMI = 30.0)
Today, a doctor who supposedly just examined Trump said he as 6’3” with a BMI of 29.9
THIS WAS IN THE BOOK THAT WAS PUBLISHED BEFORE TRUMP WAS TESTED
There's the
@timescolonist
.
This is outrageous.
#bcpoli
#yyj
"A Victoria firefighter who has been outspoken about the safety issues of locating social service centres in Victoria neighbourhoods and the safety of first responders in areas such as the 900-block of Pandora
Whistler broke the rules and let the variant take hold and because of that everybody gets the vaccine now and we’re pushed further down the queue.
So... if we hold a bunch of wild parties we get the vaccine early. This set of incentives seems to induce unfavourable conduct..
I think addiction is a medical issue & I’ve never been comfortable with trying to use incarceration to address it.
That said, for the love of God there has to be some sort of reasonable level of order maintained in some public spaces.
It wasn’t supposed to be a slippery slope.
The reason they mentioned things like the “1st Amendment”, the “Bill of Rights,” Gadsen flags (don’t tread on me), confederate flags, is because all of this seems tailored for an American audience viewing it over the internet. They didn’t want Canadian media there, debunking it.
We should make it clear that if things get really bad with a covid-19 rebound here in Canada we will need to politically normalize the wearing of masks.
No left-right freedom tyranny BS.
No both-sides performative rhetoric to sow doubt.
This is grown-up time.
Act like it.
It’s amazing how resentful I’m starting to feel because we’re one of the last jurisdictions on earth that can access rapid tests, or a booster.
If I lived in Alberta I could go get a booster today. But I don’t. So I can’t. I get to read “Well, I got Covid…” BC tweets instead.
I pay my carbon tax. I got vaccinated. And do my best to do my part. And I’m tired of my roads getting blocked while I’m told that I’m horrible and do nothing. It’s pretty much as simple as that. Thanks.
The cohort from 20 to 39 are the absolute worst. I’ll be so glad when this is over and we can punish them because we are totally helpless and relying on them to do all the dangerous jobs at the moment. The worst.
So the current BC Government has been in power for almost two years and nobody noticed there were zero police officers working on money laundering until a super special report got written to tell them that?
And everybody is just supposed to believe that? Really?
Alberta is not our enemy. They did everything asked of them and adopted carbon pricing at great cost. People there are hurting. They need us to recognize the sacrifices they made and let one pipeline go through. Carbon pricing will not survive without recognizing social license.
There’s another massive cleanup happening on 900 Pandora right now.
First responders: this community supports you and has your back.
Everybody else: This is just the beginning.
#bcpoli
#yyj
What role did Victoria play in BC's decision to retroactively remove short-term rental permissions?
Councillor Stephen Hammond says the city is not innocent. Councillor Caradonna says the city has no control over provincial legislation.
None? At all? Watch this 📺
#yyj
#bcpoli
Pro tip: equalization is something the federal government *gives out* but never receives.
The money comes from federal income tax, federal corporate tax, GST, CPP payments, etc. Every Canadian pays the same rates. The difference is in what money comes *back to them* from Ottawa
Kenney says if elected he will give federal government ultimatum... build a pipeline or no more equalization payments. That remark receives a standing ovation.
#yyc
#ableg
#abvotes2019
Worth noting:
I live on Vancouver Island, about 100km north of what was once called ground zero for covid-19 in the United States: Washington State.
Presently of the 870,000 people who live on my island, only 2 of them are in hospital with covid-19. None in ICU.
We did it.
Meanwhile, Ukraine has activated compulsory military service for males age 18-60.
You think needing a vaccine to go see a movie is oppressive? Ukraine is telling its fighting age men this is do or die.
I can’t believe we let the convoy shutdown Ottawa over a medicine.
I know we’ve all forgotten that the blockades happened, but this is as good a time as any to say we told you so. It wasn’t spontaneous. It wasn’t grass roots.
“Environmental and Indigenous groups co-ordinated blockade actions in early 2019.”
“I couldn’t afford the average market rental rate of a $3,000/month in 2023 but thankfully the David Eby government forced an AirBnB owner to sell their condo, which is now renting for $3,100 (due to all prices being higher in 2024 than 2023) but I can now afford that somehow”
Her name is Cst Heidi Stevenson.
The name of the monster who killed her doesn’t matter. I’ll say her name and honour her sacrifice. The name of her killer should be forgotten. The world is a better place with him gone.
British Columbia Provincial Polling:
NDP: 40% (-8)
CON: 34% (+32)
BCU: 15% (-19)
GRN: 10% (-5)
Others: 2%
Mainstreet Research / March 19, 2024 / n=1015 / MOE 3% / IVR
(% Change With 2020 Election)
Check out BC model details from
@338Canada
here:
🎄 Merry Christmas to all the good people who did their jobs, made sacrifices, protected the innocent, and helped this community at its lowest and most vulnerable state during this difficult year. Your acts of goodness will be remembered, and repaid in time.
#yyj
🎄
I still can’t believe as many as 100,000 people in this city don’t have access to a family doctor. I received some horrific texts and emails earlier about what people have to go through just to try to manage chronic conditions through walk-in clinics. We treat prisoners better.
If Wilkinson had said what Horgan said about not seeing colour the apology Horgan gave that somebody else wrote for him right as the debate ended would not be sufficient and he’d be hounded for days.
Politics is fake.
Come and get me. I can prove it as many times as you like.
I deserve nothing less than a loud, angry crowd denouncing me for my terrifying consequential pro-vaccine beliefs.
That’s…. Not what this is.
#yyj
#covid19bc
3.5 million people live in the Seattle Tacoma area on the same Salish Sea. To say nothing of all the Alaskan tankers, and nuclear US Navy ships, thousands and thousands of container ships go back and forth. And we’re having a national meltdown over 1 extra tanker per day.
Random thought: Activists should not being paying the legal bills, nor providing access to counsel or other legal resources, to journalists responsible for covering them. That's an enormous red flag in terms of conflict of interest, regardless of other extenuating circumstances.
I live in one of the highest vaccinated, lowest death rate per capita communities on the face of the earth, and we made it that way by doing the work and speaking clearly about what needed to be done.
Call it divisive if you wish. I call it saving lives. And we did. No regrets.
Real talk: the BC Greens and BC Liberals sacrificed their chance to attack the BC Government in order to shore up social trust and save lives.
The BC NDP is repaying that act by calling a snap election nobody asked for in order to destroy the parties that supported them.
Cold..
You know what the Americans call one tanker per day?
They call it Monday. They run about 450 Alaskan tankers past Victoria every year. We get the risk, and none of the cash.