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Without politicians blaming migrants from countries suffering from wars and climate change caused by countries like Canada we might realize we could just tax the superrich and corporations slightly more and then build all the public housing, schools, and hospitals people needed.

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The Thorn

@VancouverThorn

6 months

Who’s going to tell Selina Robinson that there are non-Muslim Palestinians? #bcpoli

Shahzad Mansoory

@smansoory

6 months

Selina Robinson resists calls to resign, offers to take anti-Islamophobia training A protest is planned for outside the B.C. NDP caucus retreat in Surrey on . #ApologyNotAccepted #ResignSelinaRobinson #FireSelinaRobinson #SackSelinaRobinson #SackSelina

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The Thorn

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9 months

Breaking news: Delegates to the BC NDP's convention in Victoria have voted overwhemingly to pass a resolution calling for a Ceasefire on Gaza. To date not a single BC NDP MLA has publicly called for a ceasefire. Now the members have spoken. #bcpoli #ceasefire #cdnpoli

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@VancouverThorn

7 months

“No NDP MLA or candidate for the next provincial election is welcome in their sacred spaces until the premier takes action against Selina Robinson.” #bcpoli

Some B.C. mosques ban NDP MLAs, candidates after minister's Middle East comments | CBC News

Representatives from more than a dozen British Columbia mosques and Islamic associations have sent a letter to Premier David Eby calling for the minister of post-secondary education to be removed...

www.cbc.ca

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@VancouverThorn

7 months

NEW: The Muslim Student Associations of UBC and SFU are calling for Selina Robinson’s removal as BC’s minister of post-secondary education, calling her anti-Palestinian remarks “offensive,” “inaccurate,” and “an act of disseminating misinformation.” #bcpoli @UBC @Dave_Eby @SFU

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@VancouverThorn

7 months

BC NDP minister Selina Robinson on pre-1948 Palestine, classic Terra nullius justification for displacement & genocide: "They don't understand that it was a crappy piece of land with nothing on it. There were several 100K people but..it didn't produce an economy." #bcpoli

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@VancouverThorn

5 months

“Robinson, 60, said since she resigned on Feb. 5, she’s been ‘crying every day.’” Just not for the starving Palestinian babies or for the 13,000+ children killed by the IDF in Gaza. #bcpoli

The Vancouver Sun

@VancouverSun

5 months

Breaking: Selina Robinson resigns from B.C. NDP caucus, citing antisemitism within NDP

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The Thorn

@VancouverThorn

7 months

One factor making damage control more challenging is that David Eby was warned by Palestinians months ago about Selina Robinson — and did precisely nothing. #bcpoli

Tom Jackman

@frozen

7 months

Today, B.C. Premier David Eby said that Minister Selina Robinson had used her position and authority to "increase division in our province." Eby then called her words hurtful, belittling, and dismissive, before deciding to do exactly nothing about it. This is unacceptable.

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The Thorn

@VancouverThorn

9 months

Liberal Party organizers cancelled tonight's $500/ticket fundraiser in Vancouver before Foreign Minister Joly even arrived at the venue. #vanpoli #CeasefireNOW #cdnpoli

Critical Criminology

@critcrim

9 months

Huge presence now at #FreePalestine protest outside $500 a plate fundraiser for Minister of Foreign Affairs Canada, Melanie Joly #Vancouver

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The Thorn

@VancouverThorn

5 months

Disgraced ex-minister Robinson accuses two MLA colleagues of anti-semitism for…wanting the party to issue a statement recognizing the plight of Palestinians — something the BC NDP has still yet to do despite five months of war and the slaughter of tens of thousands. #bcpoli

Richard Zussman

@richardzussman

5 months

NEW- Here is the letter Selina Robinson has sent her colleagues in caucus. #bcpoli

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The Thorn

@VancouverThorn

6 months

Brian Mulroney was a corrupt, reactionary politician who along with Thatcher and Reagan spearheaded neoliberal policies that deepened inequality and harmed the working classes in Canada and worldwide. #cdnpoli

Jagmeet Singh

@theJagmeetSingh

6 months

I am saddened to hear of the death of the Right Honourable Brian Mulroney. He made an important contribution to Canada, including protecting our environment - leading the world in tackling acid rain and banning chemicals that were destroying the ozone layer.

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The Thorn

@VancouverThorn

2 years

Horgan's legacy from 5 years as Premier of BC includes: - RCMP raids on Wet'suwet'en; - Subsidies that enabled expansion of fracking/LNG; - Continued old-growth logging; - Many thousands of drug poisoning deaths on his govt's watch; - Return of card-check unionization... #bcpoli

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The Thorn

@VancouverThorn

7 months

By failing to take decisive action, Premier Eby has increased the harm caused by Selina Robinson. Now communities are taking action into their own hands, banning *all* NDP MLAs from their sacred spaces. #bcpoli

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The Thorn

@VancouverThorn

7 months

Eby isn't firing Selina Robinson from cabinet but expects her to go "out in the community" to repair harm. This is very unlikely to happen or to work, given her long record of amplifying Islamophobia, demonizing Palestinians, and opposing even a ceasefire on Gaza. #bcpoli

Graeme Wood

@WestcoastWood

7 months

At a media event now BC Premier David Eby dismissed calls to remove Selina Robinson from cabinet. Also said “I believe the minister crossed the line as a member of cabinet" and "she has some work to do to go out in the community to address the harm she's done" #bcpoli

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The Thorn

@VancouverThorn

5 months

Selina Robinson was openly amplifying racist and Islamophobic content *for months*. The investigation that's needed is whether and in what other ways she misused her power as a cabinet minister due to her zealous support of Israel's genocidal campaign on Gaza. #bcpoli

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The Thorn

@VancouverThorn

6 months

A 1% Wealth Tax just on BC's richest man, Jim Pattison, would generate approximately $139 million to provincial public services in year one. #bcpoli #cdnpoli #TaxTheRich

Sonia Furstenau

@SoniaFurstenau

6 months

For the first Question Period of 2024, I asked Premier Eby to bring in a Wealth Tax.

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The Thorn

@VancouverThorn

5 months

Selina Robinson and her friends/pundits who've written about her dismissal continue to pretend she just made one objectional comment. They all ignore *months* of her amplifying racism & allegedly misuing ministerial power in support of a genocidal campaign in Gaza. #bcpoli

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The Thorn

@VancouverThorn

9 months

The VPD withheld data and engaged in a massive PR and disinformation campaign to help ABC win election. #vanpoli

CTV News Vancouver

@CTVVancouver

9 months

'Steady decline' in Vancouver stranger assaults since 2021, police department report reveals

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The Thorn

@VancouverThorn

6 months

Keith Baldrey is pissed that unelected people other than Legislature insiders like him had some influence on #bcpoli .

Tom Jackman

@frozen

6 months

Minister Selina Robinson's resignation "did not come as a result of the elected political opposition...but by unelected people." Indeed.

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The Thorn

@VancouverThorn

6 months

NEW: Federation of Post-Secondary Educators responds to Selina Robinson’s demotion: “We were…perplexed to hear the Premier repeat his claim that Ms. Robinson was not involved in the termination of our member by Langara College.” #bcpoli

FPSE Statement on Resignation of Selina Robinson

FPSE Statement on Resignation of Selina Robinson For Immediate Release February 5, 2024

fpse.ca

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The Thorn

@VancouverThorn

3 years

A reporter just told Dr. Henry “my jaw just hit the ground” when she said she wanted to get out of the business of issuing public health orders. Libertarianism of BC’s approach now on full display. #bcpoli

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The Thorn

@VancouverThorn

4 years

BREAKING: Vancouver city council debating City budget. Councillor Jean Swanson has just moved an amendment to an amendment - to cut the VPD budget by $5 million. #vanpoli #DefundTheVPD

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@VancouverThorn

6 months

Fun fact: David Eby has not once publicly advocated for a ceasefire in Gaza, despite the federal and provincial NDP both officially supporting that position. #bcpoli

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@VancouverThorn

6 months

“VCH has paid Nurse Next Door and its franchises more than $13 million over the last five years to help alleviate staffing shortages.” Ken Sim profits off of the privatization of health care, and may be in conflict of interest. #vanpoli

Tori Marlan

@ToriMarlan

6 months

The annual amount VCH spends on the mayor's company and its franchises rose by 83% the year that Sim became mayor. Within months of taking office, he was voting to send city money to VCH. My latest for @IJFMedia .

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The Thorn

@VancouverThorn

10 months

Close to 1000 people joined in a rally and march that began at Vancouver's Commercial-Broadway Skytrain station Friday evening to demand an end to Israeli war crimes in Gaza. #vanpoli #Palestine

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The Thorn

@VancouverThorn

3 years

Peter Julian and NDP Vancouver Granville candidate @AnjaliApp address media in front of a property flipped by Justin Trudeau’s Liberal candidate in the riding. #cdnpoli #Elxn44

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The Thorn

@VancouverThorn

7 months

Noteworthy that even now that David Eby has called Selina Robinson’s comments “totally unacceptable,” not a single NDP MLA has publicly criticized her comments let alone called for her resignation. #bcpoli

Daniel Leão 🇵🇸

@eikonos

7 months

i'm pretty confident that every BC NDP MLA agrees with Selina Robinson, and i would be surprised if any of them spoke about it publicly

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1 year

Who's going to tell him which party's provincial government is against the form of rent control that could've prevented this? #vanpoli #bcpoli

Jagmeet Singh

@theJagmeetSingh

1 year

None of this is an accident. Conservatives and Liberals have let rich investors use housing as a get-rich quick scheme. Now their greed is so out of control that a 200 sqft “apartment” is going for $2000/month.

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The Thorn

@VancouverThorn

3 years

On the day a new initiative for Vancouver to pass the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is reported, the VPD sends dozens of cops to arrest Indigenous youth land defenders. Decolonizing must include defunding the police. #vanpoli #TMX

AM730Traffic

@AM730Traffic

3 years

#Vancouver - A protest still has the intersection of Clark and Hastings blocked to all traffic. Police are on scene ^rl

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The Thorn

@VancouverThorn

5 months

Deeply embarrassing for David Eby and the BC NDP govt — for not having first kicked out the disgraced racist and genocide apologist. #bcpoli

Richard Zussman

@richardzussman

5 months

NEW - MLA Selina Robinson has quit the NDP caucus and will sit as an independent. She has sent a letter to her colleagues saying she has not feel supported as a Jewish woman and has raised concerns about anti-Semitic comments previously made by NDP MLAs. #bcpoli

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@VancouverThorn

4 months

You and every other member of the NDP caucus should be wearing a keffiyeh today in solidarity with Sarah Jama, but then again you didn't say anything when she was expelled from caucus. #cdnpoli #onpoli

Joel Harden

@JoelHardenONDP

4 months

The ban on the Palestinian keffiyeh at Queen’s Park is a stain on this province. Everyone must be welcome in our democracy, without exceptions. Stop the keffiyeh ban now. #onpoli

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The Thorn

@VancouverThorn

3 years

Large crowd marching in Victoria to protest RCMP raid on Wet’suwet’en territory #bcpoli #yyj

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The Thorn

@VancouverThorn

7 months

Double standards: Worth remembering that last year the Green Party’s deputy leader @SKGandhiMD was forced to resign for accidentally liking a tweet. Members of the legislative press corps *and Selina Robinson* amplified the issue and demanded Gandhi’s resignation. #bcpoli

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The Thorn

@VancouverThorn

7 months

NEW: Federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh has called Selina Robinson’s remarks on Palestine “offensive and irresponsible.” He adds he’s raised “serious concerns” about Robinson with BC NDP Premier David Eby, who has rejected calls to remove her from his government’s cabinet. #bcpoli

NCCM

@nccm

7 months

See this important statement from @theJagmeetSingh in responding to the racist and ridiculous message put forward by @selinarobinson .

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The Thorn

@VancouverThorn

9 months

Justin Trudeau withdraws and retreats from Vij's after anti-occupation protesters disrupt his night out in Vancouver. The movement for #Ceasefire in Gaza is everywhere and those complicit in genocide can't avoid it. #vanpoli #CeasefireNOW #cdnpoli

Emma Jackson

@EmmaJackson57

9 months

As Israel raids al-Shifa hospital, people disrupt @JustinTrudeau while he wines and dines in Vancouver demanding that he call for a #CeasefireNOW . International war crimes are being committed and Canada is signing off on them. No justice, no peace until Palestine is free. 🇵🇸

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@VancouverThorn

7 months

If Anjali Appadurai had won the BC NDP leadership race, she'd be removing Selina Robinson from cabinet. Of course David Eby and the party establishment made sure Appadurai never even had a chance to contest the race. #bcpoli

Anjali Appadurai

@AnjaliApp

7 months

This is what happens when hatred shapes your worldview. "it was a crappy piece of land with nothing on it...there were, you know, several 100 thousand people, but other than that" is a wild thing to say out loud. This kind of racism does not belong in govt. #FreePalestine

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The Thorn

@VancouverThorn

5 months

The real double standard: After condemning Oct 7 but then not ever calling for a ceasefire, Premier Eby muzzled BC NDP MLAs on Israel’s genocidal campaign on Gaza while he allowed Selina Robinson to amplify anti-Palestinian content for months #bcpoli

'Be silent': Ousted cabinet minister says David Eby told NDP MLAs not to weigh in on Israel-Hamas...

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The Thorn

@VancouverThorn

6 months

Open Letter To Premier @Dave_Eby & members of the BC NDP caucus: “Initiate an independent investigation into Ms. Robinson's interference with employment decisions as well as academic freedom at the province’s institutions of higher learning.” #bcpoli 1/

Open Letter to Premier Eby from IJV Vancouver

An open letter from Independent Jewish Voices Vancouver to Premier David Eby and members of the BC NDP Caucus to express support of the removal of Selina Robinson from Cabinet and urge the government...

ijv-open-letter-to-eby.carrd.co

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The Thorn

@VancouverThorn

6 months

"Selina, your racist ideology and your colonial mindset have been described as hurtful, but it is so much more than that. It is inaccurate, misrepresentative, without merit, threatening and above all dangerous." #bcpoli

Letter: Coquitlam–Maillardville MLA Selina Robinson must resign

In a blink of an eye, you erased over 750,000 people, the Coquitlam writer tells Selina Robinson in a letter to the editor.

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The Thorn

@VancouverThorn

7 months

It is worth noting that these racist comments about Palestinians were made in the context of bemoaning the historical ignorance of young people these days. And this from the minister of post-secondary education in British Colubmia. #bcpoli

The Thorn

@VancouverThorn

7 months

BC NDP minister Selina Robinson on pre-1948 Palestine, classic Terra nullius justification for displacement & genocide: "They don't understand that it was a crappy piece of land with nothing on it. There were several 100K people but..it didn't produce an economy." #bcpoli

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@VancouverThorn

3 years

You’re not getting any N95s or take home tests so buy some Gatorade and candles and try not to die. A thread from our very helpful and not at all complicit public broadcaster. #bcpoli

CBC British Columbia

@cbcnewsbc

3 years

It's always good to be prepared with some key items at home in case you wake up with a cough or any other COVID-19 symptoms and have to self-isolate. #COVID19BC

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The Thorn

@VancouverThorn

5 months

Selina Robinson and key figues in the legislative press corps are unwilling to acknowledge, let alone defend, the basic rights and humanity of the Palestinian people facing mass death, displacement & starvation. They're willing to drag #bcpoli into the gutter to avoid it.

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@VancouverThorn

5 months

BC NDP Premier Eby has muzzled his caucus on Gaza, in case you’re wondering why no BC NDP MLAs or candidates have amplified this urgent and humane speech from earlier today. #bcpoli #cdnpoli #CEASEFIRE_NOW

Heather McPherson

@HMcPhersonMP

5 months

My speech in the House of Commons on the NDP motion on Gaza. 1/14

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@VancouverThorn

7 months

Will anyone in the B.C. legislative press corps ask Premier Eby about calls for him to fire Selina Robinson? #bcpoli

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@VancouverThorn

7 months

The idea of Selina Robinson reaching out to Palestinians right now…might that not just worsen the harm? Why would they want to dialogue with someone who has been binge-liking racist & Islamophobic content for months to justify a genocidal campaign against their people? #bcpoli

Tarnjit Kaur Parmar

@Tarnjitkparmar

7 months

Eby's comments on Selina Robinson & her apologies to community members impacted by her comments about 'crappy piece of land with nothing on it'. While some called for her resignation, Eby dismissed that, saying Robinson 'has a lot of work to do' to address harm caused. #bcpoli

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The Thorn

@VancouverThorn

1 year

Some important context on John Horgan's new corporate gig. The Narwhal: Teck Resources, B.C. government pressed Ottawa to resist investigation into coal mine pollution #bcpoli #cdnpoli

B.C. and Teck pressured the feds not to investigate coal mine pollution: documents

Ktunaxa Nation has been calling for the International Joint Commission to investigate coal mine pollution. B.C. and Teck lobbied against it.

thenarwhal.ca

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The Thorn

@VancouverThorn

9 months

Here is a member of David Eby and Selina Robinson's party asking a very pertinent question. How many more babies have to die before the BC provincial govt, or even a single NDP MLA, will join their own federal party in calling for a ceasefire? #bcpoli #cdnpoli

Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East

@CJPME

9 months

“Mothers and babies are dying daily amid bombings and attacks. 4,000 children have been killed since the start of this siege... How many more babies have to die before this government will call for a ceasefire?” - @Laurel_BC #CeasefireNow #Gaza

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10 months

Breaking news: Activists have occupied Liberal MP Joyce Murray's office in Kitsilano to demand the Canadian govt join the call for a ceasefire in Gaza and end arms sales to Israel. #bcpoli #cdnpoli #CeasefireNOW #gaza #Palestine #vanpoli

Harrison Johnston

@Harrisonrj_

10 months

Occupying Joyce Murray’s office to demand a ceasefire, end to the occupation and a free Palestine #PalSolidaritySitIn

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@VancouverThorn

9 months

This morning at NDP convention: There's a crowd outside Victoria conference centre chanting: "David Eby, you can't hide, you're supporting genocide," protesting the BC NDP's failure to call for a ceasefire on Gaza. #bcpoli #CeasefireNOW

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@VancouverThorn

6 months

In November BC NDP members voted at convention to demand a ceasefire on Gaza. Since then NDP MLAs have been completely silent on Israeli war crimes and genocide. #Rafah #bcpoli #Palestine

Brittny Anderson

@BrittnyAnderso

9 months

This resolution passed with overwhelming support at the BCNDP Convention. I am so grateful to the speakers and was proud to stand with them in solidarity. #CeasefireNOW

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@VancouverThorn

7 months

NEW: Muslim student organizations from secondary and post-secondary institutions across BC have issued an open letter calling on David Eby to remove Selina Robinson from the govt. #bcpoli

Beautiful Piece Of Land

@FireMLASelina

7 months

Yet another collective of organizations with an open letter calling for @selinarobinson to immediately resign

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@VancouverThorn

3 years

Tell us you don’t understand systemic racism without telling us you don’t understand systemic racism. #vanpoli

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@VancouverThorn

6 months

Imagine the derangement required to think advocates of Palestinian human rights were motivated by personal grudges rather than, say, the 11,000+ children killed in an ongoing genocidal war. #bcpoli #cdnmedia #palestine

DouglasTodd

@DouglasTodd

6 months

Score-settling on the minds of some as Selina Robinson turfed from cabinet. Via @RobShaw_BC Those on the attack: - Harsha Walia (terminated @bccla ) - Anjali Appadurai - Avi Lewis ( #UBC prof.) - Atiya Jaffar - Naomi Klein ( #UBC prof.) #bcpoli #cdnpoli

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@VancouverThorn

3 years

East Van coop residents appeal to Mayor @kennedystewart to stop evictions and to let neighbours living in RVs stay. What a beautiful show of solidarity! #vanpoli

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@VancouverThorn

10 months

Update: Today saw likely the largest coordinated Palestinian solidarity rallies in Canadian history. Not a single member of the BC NDP government has criticized let alone condemned or protested Israeli war crimes that've now killed nearly 4000 Palestinian children. #bcpoli

The Thorn

@VancouverThorn

10 months

Update: Not a single member of the BC NDP government has criticized let alone condemned or protested Israeli war crimes that've now killed over 3500 Palestinian children. #bcpoli #cdnpoli #Gaza

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@VancouverThorn

6 months

David Eby has still never so much as called for a ceasefire in Gaza, let alone denounced this ongoing genocide. #bcpoli

The Associated Press

@AP

6 months

BREAKING: Netanyahu orders population of Gaza’s crowded Rafah evacuated ahead of an expected ground invasion

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2 years

New: Vancouver City Council candidate Sean Orr is calling on B.C. NDP leadership candidates Anjali Appadurai and David Eby to support rolling back the expected 2023 rent hike, which could be as high as 5-6%. #vanpoli #bcpoli

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@VancouverThorn

5 months

"Contrary to your insistence, the call for your removal from cabinet was not based on a double standard but rather your repeated public utterances and social media posts expressing highly problematic anti-Palestinian and anti-Muslim views." #bcpoli

Independent Jewish Voices

@IndJewishVoices

5 months

Open letter to former BC gov't minister Selina Robinson from IJV-Vancouver in response to claims made in her public letter announcing her resignation from the @bcndp caucus #bcpoli @Dave_Eby

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@VancouverThorn

9 months

Mayors and city councillors from across British Columbia are calling for a ceasefire, in contrast to the complete silence from the BC NDP govt and Premier David Eby. #bcpoli #vanpoli #CeasefireNOW

NCCM

@nccm

9 months

The chorus for peace grows louder and louder. Over 50 mayors and city councillors in British Columbia are calling for a ceasefire in #Gaza . They are calling for an end to the spiking Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian racism across #Canada .

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@VancouverThorn

6 months

David Eby has still never publicly called for a ceasefire on Gaza. #bcpoli

UNRWA

@UNRWA

6 months

"We stand all night. Our children are sick because of the cold and the rain" The situation in shelters is unliveable. People in📍 #Gaza have no safety, no options. Nowhere else to go. #HearTheirVoices

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@VancouverThorn

6 months

Hard to take seriously some of those now weighing in as authorities on the Selina Robinson case after spending months pretending not to notice the ex-minister's campaign of amplifying anti-Palestinian racism and justification for a genocidal war. #bcpoli

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9 months

Confirmed: The UBC Social Justice Centre was defamed by an individual who was associated with Hillel BC until earlier this week. This dangerous smear campaign was amplified by former Canadian Senator Linda Frum, among others. #bcpoli #cdnpoli #disinformation #Palestine

UBC Social Justice Centre

@SJC_UBC

9 months

Please read below regarding Hillel BC’s association with the dangerous, defamatory stickers that the SJC was falsely framed for.

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6 months

“If the NDP cared about anti-Palestinian racism, Robinson would have been kicked out of the government, caucus and party months ago.” #bcpoli

Selina Robinson Should Be Kicked Out Of The NDP

If the NDP cared about anti-Palestinian racism, Robinson would have been booted months ago.

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@VancouverThorn

6 months

NOW: Protest against Israel’s genocide on Gaza marching on Broadway, having just left the front of Premier David Eby’s constituency office. #bcpoli #Palestine

Critical Criminology

@critcrim

6 months

"IDF what do you say, how many kids did you kill today?" #FreePalestine march on West Broadway in Vancouver #EndTheOccupation

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@VancouverThorn

10 months

NEW: Palestinian organizations and their supporters are planning rally at Vancouver City Hall on Thursday Oct. 19 to protest Mayor Ken Sim and city council's "complicity and support of genocide in Palestine." #vanpoli via @bds_vancouver

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@VancouverThorn

5 months

Premier David Eby rejects Selina Robinson's baseless allegations against Katrina Chen and other MLAs #bcpoli

Eby defends NDP against Robinson's antisemitism allegations

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@VancouverThorn

10 months

This is one of the virulently racist Postmedia columnists BC NDP cabinet minister Selina Robinson has been boosting. #bcpoli #cdnmedia

Jessa 🎙️🌹

@Jessa_McLean

10 months

Literal fascism. Kinsella deleted his original post, but I haven’t forgotten. Neither should you.

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9 months

BC NDP cabinet minister Selina Robinson is now amplifying tweets bashing Prime Minister Trudeau for urging Israel to exercise restraint against civilians in Gaza. Over 11,000 Palestinians incl 4500+ children have been killed by Israeli forces. #bcpoli #cdnpoli #CeasefireNOW

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@VancouverThorn

3 years

We haven’t seen them anywhere, and neither have any of you.

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3 years

RCMP search for Fairy Creek protester who escaped custody on Vancouver Island

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1 year

No, it's not April Fools' yet. It's just business as usual for the political establishment in B.C. #bcpoli

The Globe and Mail

@globeandmail

1 year

Former B.C. premier John Horgan joins board of coal business

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@VancouverThorn

1 year

'Sorry, the VPD ate our budget. Try not to die!' #vanpoli

Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation

@ParkBoard

1 year

SERVICE UPDATE: Due to lifeguard staffing shortages, two beaches will be unguarded today: Spanish Banks West and Sunset Beach. Please take care!

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@VancouverThorn

6 months

Eby could have avoid all the protests if he'd just listened to the voices of Palestinians and thousands of others who wrote to him in the Fall about Selina Robinson's months-long campaign of amplifying misinformation and Islamophobia justifying the genocidal war on Gaza. #bcpoli

Vote Socialist

@socialist_vote

6 months

Not the first time David Eby has disparaged protesters as divisive. It's a classic centrist talking point, a grotesque false equivalency between those who defend and manage unjust capitalist and colonial systems, and those who organize and fight back. #bcpoli #SelinaMustGo

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6 months

The #bcpoli insiders want you to know it was the good protesters not the bad ones who forced David Eby to demote Selina Robinson. 1) This isn't how social movements work - in reality radicals push moderates to act. 2) Stop demonizing people trying to stop a genocide. #bcpoli

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3 years

Signs of the times. #DefundTheVPD #vanpoli

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Stefan Labbé

@StefanLabbe

5 months

Cleaning up selenium pollution in B.C.’s coal country could cost up to $6.4 billion, says a new report. The cost far exceeds the $1.9 B reclamation security the B.C. gov't has set for Teck Coal to clean up pollution from its Elk Valley mines.

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@VancouverThorn

6 months

David Eby has apparently still not fired Selina Robinson. #bcpoli

Richard Zussman

@richardzussman

7 months

NEW - Minister Selina Robinson has sent out a second statement. In part it reads - “The experiences of First Nations people are not mine to manipulate. That was wrong and I am deeply sorry”. #bcpoli

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@VancouverThorn

3 years

Breaking: NDP to hold press conference this hour in Vancouver Granville outside one of the 21 properties Liberal candidate Taleeb Noormohamed has flipped in recent years. Trudeau’s chances of flipping this battleground riding back to the Liberals in danger. #cdnpoli #Elxn44

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7 months

“There’s absolutely no history book that would affirm Minister Robinson’s articulation of that period in time.” The comments were not merely 'inaccurate,' but rather racist and dehumanizing - and quite blatantly so. #bcpoli

CityNews Vancouver

@CityNewsVAN

7 months

B.C.’s Post Secondary Education Minister Selina Robinson has apologized after she made inaccurate comments about the history of Israel.

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@VancouverThorn

2 years

- Site C Dam; - Highest minimum wage in the country, $15.65 per hr; - Limiting annual rent hikes to inflation, but failing to implement vacancy control.. - Overriding municipal govt's attempting to limit police budgets; What are other highlights/lowlights of Horgan's tenure?

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@VancouverThorn

10 months

NEW: Activists disrupted David Eby last night while he was introducing Ed Broadbent at a @VPL book launch, condeming the BC NDP Premier for his complicity in genocide and failure to condemn Israeli war crimes. Eby said nothing, and sat down. #bcpoli via @MassyBooks

The Thorn

@VancouverThorn

10 months

Update: Not a single member of the BC NDP government has criticized let alone condemned or protested Israeli war crimes that've now killed over 3500 Palestinian children. #bcpoli #cdnpoli #Gaza

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7 months

Nearly half a million views on this clip of Selina Robinson disparaging young adults as uneducated about history and then calling Palestine “a crappy piece of land with nothing on it.” Story of the day in #bcpoli .

SEAN ORR

@seanorr

7 months

NDP minister @selinarobinson justifying genocide by calling Palestine “a crappy piece of land with nothing on it”. Hateful, bigoted remarks that should result in her immediate resignation @Dave_Eby

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6 months

BC NDP Premier David Eby has still never called for a ceasefire on Gaza. #bcpoli #palestine #CeasefireNOW

The Associated Press

@AP

6 months

BREAKING: Gaza’s Health Ministry says at least 70 people were killed and 280 were wounded in a strike on a crowd of Palestinians waiting for humanitarian aid.

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3 years

Thomas Berger, who changed the course of B.C. history, has died. Obit in the Vancouver Sun: #bcpoli #LandBack

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5 months

The irony is that David Eby has maintained a cowardly silence for five months, failing to once call for an end to Israel’s genocidal campaign on Gaza or even a ceasefire despite that being the NDP’s democratically-adopted position. #bcpoli

Richard Zussman

@richardzussman

5 months

And the final page. “Silence is not leadership - it’s cowardice. And I cannot be silent.” is how Robinson finishes her letter to colleagues. #bcpoli

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@VancouverThorn

7 months

Significant 🧵from Adam Olsen an Indigenous MLA for the BC Greens on Selina Robinson’s racist ideology. #bcpoli

Adam Olsen

@AdamPOlsen

7 months

1/5 🧵 Premier @dave_eby must address the deep-rooted issues in Minister Robinson's remarks. Her "crappy land" comment isn't just hurtful, it's a reflection of a racist ideology that fuelled colonialism in BC for centuries. More here: #bcpoli

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@VancouverThorn

7 months

David Eby has not shared this statement to his social media. This statement from the premier suggests he will not ask her to resign or remove her from cabinet. #bcpoli

Katie DeRosa

@katiederosayyj

7 months

Premier @Dave_Eby issued a statement calling Minister Robinson’s statement “wrong and unacceptable”, causing “deep hurt and distress to Palestinians, Muslims and many others.” He thanked her for withdrawing the comments and apologizing. #bcpoli

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@VancouverThorn

5 months

The entire political class in British Columbia chose to remain silent as this genocide was committed over the past six months. A shameful failure of the most basic responsibility of leaders in public life to advocate for universal human rights. #bcpoli #Gaza #Palestine

Ghassan Abu Sitta

@GhassanAbuSitt1

5 months

Al Shifa Hospital constituted 30% of the capacity of the health system in the Gaza Strip. The Israelis have blown up or torched all its buildings to ensure that it is irreprable and needs to be rebuilt from scratch. The aim was and remains making Gaza uninhabitable. Genocide

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10 months

"David Eby said earlier this week while they’re doing life-saving work, govt can’t tolerate illegal activity." Does David Eby know any lawmakers who could make this life-saving work legal? #bcpoli #vanpoli

Katie DeRosa

@katiederosayyj

10 months

NEW - @VancouverPD has raided DULF after they publicly admitted to buying drugs on the dark web, testing them for safety and then selling them from a storefront. Premier @Dave_Eby said earlier this week while they’re doing life-saving work, govt can’t tolerate illegal activity.

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@VancouverThorn

2 years

Hello from Vancouver, Canada where the Empty Homes Tax (originally proposed by the left) is nearly universally embraced for restoring units to the rental market and generating revenue used to build social housing.

Stan Oklobdzija

@stan_okl

2 years

I will never understand why Marxists are obsessed with the extremely false idea of investors leaving homes vacant when the real story, homeowners and landlords profiting off gov. enforced scarcity, fits their worldview so much better.

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6 months

Just staggering levels of cowardice and opportunism considering a split right-wing opposition and overwhelming lead in the polls. #bcpoli

Meera Bains ਮੀਰਾ

@Meerakati

6 months

Premier David Eby raises questions today on whether a supervised consumption site is needed in #RichmondBC at this time after speaking with Van Coastal Health. Last night there was heated debate at a council meeting with another meeting scheduled for 7pm today. #bcpoli

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@VancouverThorn

6 months

"Robinson’s removal from cabinet was a starting point for BC’s government. But it cannot be the endpoint: the lessons of the Holocaust demand not that we give Israel a blank check to commit genocide, but that we do everything we can to oppose its genocidal actions." #bcpoli

Independent Jewish Voices

@IndJewishVoices

6 months

“The lessons of the Holocaust demand not that we give Israel a blank check to commit genocide, but that we do everything we can to oppose its genocidal actions.” From IJV-Vancouver member Nick Gottlieb:

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@VancouverThorn

5 months

Silence is complicity. David Eby ordered his caucus not to speak on Israel’s genocidal campaign on Gaza — even though demanding a ceasefire is official party policy as voted by membership at convention. #bcpoli #gaza

The Thorn

@VancouverThorn

5 months

The real double standard: After condemning Oct 7 but then not ever calling for a ceasefire, Premier Eby muzzled BC NDP MLAs on Israel’s genocidal campaign on Gaza while he allowed Selina Robinson to amplify anti-Palestinian content for months #bcpoli

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@VancouverThorn

1 year

"Start now to imagine the end of capitalism, and not the end of the world."

Sophie ✨ From ✨Mars

@sophie_frm_mars

1 year

The World Is Not Ending

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6 months

Federal NDP leader makes his first tweet about the Selina Robinson situtation, condemning..an action by some of those opposed to Robinson who yesterday resigned from the BC govt cabinet after calling pre-1948 Palestine "a crappy piece of land with nothing on it." #bcpoli #cdnpoli

Jagmeet Singh

@theJagmeetSingh

6 months

Peaceful protest cannot include hateful messages. The targeting of MLA Selina Robinson's office with hateful messages is wrong.

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@VancouverThorn

7 months

NEW: BC’s @HospEmpUnion joins the growing calls for a ceasefire in Gaza. The HEU, which has 60,000 members working in hospitals and other care facilities, is also calling on Trudeau to stop all exports of arms that could be used in the war. #bcpoli #cdnpoli #canlab

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11 months

NEW: Vancouver City Council has unanimously approved policies raising the rent on hundreds of "affordable" market rental units under construction and removing vacancy control on thousands of future rental units. ABC, OneCity and Green councillors all in favour. #vanpoli

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@VancouverThorn

7 months

"I was surprised and flabbergasted by the comments because they are both incredibly ahistoric and inaccurate by every measure of knowledge.” #bcpoli

B.C. minister under fire for comments about Middle East before creation of Israeli state | CBC News

Premier David Eby says he has accepted Selina Robinson's apology but expects her to try and regain the trust of British Columbians after she referred to the region where Israel was established as a...

www.cbc.ca

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@VancouverThorn

7 months

As of just before Noon, neither @CityofVancouver nor @KenSimCity have tweeted about the public health alert due to fire at oil refinery in Burnaby. #vanpoli #Swagger #priorities

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@VancouverThorn

6 months

When the Globe and Mail sponsored war criminal Dick Cheney's 2011 talk at the Vancouver Club, it was access journalist Rod who did their softball interview and left Cheney's lie that the US never tortured anyone at Guantanamo unchallenged. #bcpoli

Dick Cheney, unapologetic, defies Vancouver protesters

Allegations that he approved the use of torture against suspected terrorists are 'irresponsible,' says the former U.S. vice-president, appearing in Canada to promote his memoirs

www.theglobeandmail.com

Rod Mickleburgh

@rodmickleburgh

6 months

@NeilBoydSFU "Racism", like "genocide", is a word that is thrown around far too widely...used to tar the other side, no nuance, no context...so the real thing gets blurred and lumped in with everything else...

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10 months

Update: Not a single member of the BC NDP government has criticized let alone condemned or protested Israeli war crimes that've now killed over 3500 Palestinian children. #bcpoli #cdnpoli #Gaza

The Thorn

@VancouverThorn

10 months

Update: Not a single member of the BC NDP government has criticized let alone condemned or protested Israeli war crimes that've now killed over 3000 Palestinian children. #bcpoli #cdnpoli #Gaza

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@VancouverThorn

5 months

Will BC NDP Premier David Eby join his federal party leader in condemning Israel's killing of a Canadian aid worker, or will he continue his complicit silence on Israel's genocidal campaign on Gaza? #bcpoli #cdnpoli

Jagmeet Singh

@theJagmeetSingh

5 months

An IDF airstrike killed 7 @WCKitchen humanitarians, including a Canadian, aiding Palestinians. They were trying to keep people alive. Instead they were killed. I'm devastated. Canada must demand accountability and justice. Aid workers are #notatarget and must be protected.

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