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

COLUMN: Canada’s bottomless climate change money pit Canadians were paying at least $503 billion on more than 500 federal, provincial and territorial programs, which doesn't include municipal ones. torontosun.com/opinion/colum…

Of all the manufactured scandals, this is one of the weakest. It was already public policy.

And Dix wrote something similar! 🤦‍♀️

So secret that Zussman commented on it back in 2024. 😁

NEW - The NDP is calling Lorne Doerksen's letter to BC's legal groups and the Insurance Bureau of Canada “leaked” and “secret.” The letter was an open letter shared among the province's roughly 14,000 lawyers. In 2017, Adrian Dix sent a similar letter to trial lawyers. #bcpoli

No “leaked letter” - just one the @bcndp and ICBC union don’t like. Same policy since the last election: fix unpopular @icbc no-fault. Letter confirming clear policy sent to multiple large organizations concerned with this terrible @Dave_Eby policy.

Chip Wilson was right there and they pick on Jimmy?

The BC NDP campaign, summarized: 1. Trump. 2. "Screw Jimmy Pattison" 3. Highest income tax rates on earth? 4. "God, our health care sucks we're going to get someone on that."

Having Mr Eby recognize the power of @FraserInstitute long standing work on wait times for health care and the human suffering involved in those wait times is progress. Fortunately for British Columbians, help is available in Washington, Idaho and Alaska.

🚗 Jaguar ditches pink for new electric car after ‘woke’ backlash telegraph.co.uk/business/202…

It has come to my attention that I have been denounced by @Advocates_Soc for criticizing judicial decisions — and yes, individual judges. Here's the thing. When someone, for example, spends her lawyerly career writing op-eds in favour of migration and calling herself an activist, and then becomes a federal judge, and from that seat allows all sorts of undesirables to remain in Canada on weak grounds, people are free to draw a connection from A to B. When a judge, for example, spends his lawyer years advocating fiercely for more race-based law, and then later throws out gun charges of black men on his (unsupported) assertion that police were racist during their arrests, people are free to question whether he's really a fair adjudicator. When a judge, for example, says that a ban on drug trafficking is unconstitutional, and then *applauds* vigilante drug dealers for their self-proclaimed safe supply program — applauds them for supporting the business of organized crime and feeding the addictions of street people — that's beyond the pale. You're worried about democracy being poisoned? Worry about the judge who threw out Parliament's law against selling heroin because she felt it was "common sense" that it was supported by science. I agree that it's not right to criticize a judge personally for impartially applying the law and coming to an unpopular decision (which they may even privately disagree with). But when their professional history, or their conduct in court, suggests allegiance to a cause that they happen to be ruling softly on, it will get noticed. Bringing the administration of justice into disrepute is a two-way street, you know.

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.

First day at the plague factory

Gwyn Morgan: We’re heading toward another failed government in Ottawa. The pivot toward a declining Europe, the staggering federal deficit, the secular sag in investment: these are all bad long-term signs financialpost.com/opinion/gw…

Dinner at Flying Otter tonight.

Correct. If there's a bad cherry harvest, the price of cherries just goes up that year. You don't have lobbyists petitioning Ottawa about a "cherry shortage" requiring an immediate injection of imported cherries from abroad.

HAPPENING NOW: David Eby, who just dissolved the legislature and triggered a snap election, decries the BC Conservatives for trying to dissolve the legislature and trigger a snap election.

🔥🚢 A dramatic view from the Russian Sochi right now, where the burning oil tanker off the port has turned into a massive wall of fire

I bravely peered into a BCpoli subreddit yesterday and found a bunch of left-wing commenters lamenting that the political right in British Columbia is better at being agreeable and “getting along” than the left is. Do you want to tell them, or should I?

'A tight labour market creates wage competition. That is why many employers sought to widen recruitment channels by lobbying for higher immigration, without regard for the housing supply, services, or cultural and social dynamics. For Loblaws, Tim Hortons or Uber, commercial performance is their only concern, and they cannot be faulted for this. The point of business is to make money and increase margins. Government and ordinary people should not seek to nationalise the private sector or establish a tyranny over it. At the very least, however, government can act in the common good with regard to business. Government controls immigration, and that has huge consequences for the makeup of the labour force. Employers can be pushed to train working-age people and pay them wages worth their time'. withoutdiminishment.com/p/ge…