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Lindsay Brown
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Lidsville was a surreal kids' show about preposterous cartoon autocrats, which feels apropos. @lidsville at other places. "Centrism" always leads to fascism.
Apr 9 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
I may sound like a broken record, but Vancouver's OneCity is neither left nor green

Lucy Maloney, the new OneCity councillor, is an environmental lawyer who worked for the enemy, Australian mining giant BHP. So did her husband. He now works for Teck, the Cdn mining corp #vanpoli OneCity didn't put any of this information in Lucy Maloney's bio.

It's true though.

OneCity is also the farm team of the BC NDP (recall: Christine Boyle left council & is now an NDP cabinet minister). BC NDP aren't left wing either, or remotely green.

thebreaker.news/news/maloney-m…
Feb 17 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Been taking a daily walk to check for new graffiti on the new Tesla service centre being built in East Vancouver. They washed off the old "Future home of the Incel Camino," but someone's added "FUK MUSK" in the shape of the old East Van cross, & now more... #swasticars #elonmusk Construction hoarding at Prior and Raymur in Vancouver that says "Future home of T" (Tesla logo) but someone has changed it to read "The Future home of T( Incel Camino)"
Red plywood sign that says FUK MUSK in yellow in the classic East Van cross format, screwed or epoxied onto the shiny Black Death Star hoarding of the right-wing developer of the new Tesla service centre
Someone has printed 8 1/2x11" sheets with a red, white and black image of Elon Musk doing the nazi salute and the words "Buildings for fascists" - and they've plastered these all around the names of the contractors working to build the new Tesla service centre in East Van, apparently the largest Tesla service centre in North America. GeoPacific, Evoke, AES, Binnie, Beedie, David Stoyko, Rocky Point, Keystone. Good work, whoever did this. Meanwhile, over at the Vancouver Tesla dealership on 4th Avenue, "FUCK ELON" is accompanied by a really quite well-drawn gunsight symbol.

Update: This graffiti has apparently been painted over with non-matching red paint. Good work, #swasticars Graffiti in white on red says FUCK ELON with the symbol of a gun sight at left, Elon in the crosshairs
Sep 13, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Chasing the far-right by making cowardly concessions and U-turns is generally a losing strategy. Nice race to the far-right corner of the bottom of the barrel, Dave.

If you were in any doubt as to who Dave Eby really is, I hope today made things clear #bcpoli #carbontax BC Greens should be explicitly campaigning up the left side of the NDP now and yanking this ever-rightward-shifting Overton window back. To do that they're going to have to abandon this kind of talk immediately.
May 25, 2024 • 22 tweets • 5 min read
Quite a bizarre performance by BC Conservatives leader John Rustad on CBC Radio today. For a populist demagogue he's very wooden - he just kept repeating “we have to get rid of the BC NDP with their radical agenda/policies” over & over, like a broken droid. 1/x #bcpoli Frustratingly CBC's @BellePuri never asked Rustad which BC NDP policies he thinks are "radical." The BC NDP are so captured by the corporations at the trough - arguably more than the BC Liberals before them - that I'd be astonished to find anything really "radical" there...
Mar 28, 2024 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Important WSJ article on Canada's rivers drying up while we keep building dams anyway, including #SiteC. It's paywalled so I'll include the whole article in this 🧵

Diversify into renewables now! BC can't until it ditches the deceptively named Clean Energy Act.#bcpoli #cdnpoli 1. The Canadian province of Quebec had big plans of becoming the "battery of the U.S. northeast" by feeding power generated from its dams and other hydro plants to millions of people in Vermont, Massachusetts and New York state. Now, dry conditions that have affected energy output worldwide are forcing one of the world's largest hydropower producers to cut exports. "There wasn't enough snow or rain in the regions where we needed it," said Michael Sabia, chief executive of Hydro‑Québec, the provincial utility. "We can't make it rain, as much as we'd like to.&qu...
Jun 19, 2023 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Had Bing Thom not died prematurely, he would have gone after @AIBCconnected for its gentleman's agreement rule that architects can't criticize other projects. Reportedly a certain major arch'l firm in Vancouver reported Bing to AIBC for his letter opposing #105Keefer. #vanpoli @AIBCconnected Bing Thom intended to go after AIBC's muzzling rule & publicly ask them:

"What is the point of architecture if there's no discourse? What is the role of the architect in society? Do we have a public responsibility or are we just hired guns?"

AIBC's rule is destructive.
#bcpoli
Jun 19, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
My elderly family member, whom I kept free of Covid for 3+ years but who finally caught in in an unmasked BC hospital last week, is very sick on Day 9. Rapid test still shows a bright red line. For health issues she can't take Paxlovid. She's in a rage at you, @adriandix. #bcpoli @adriandix "I'm furious at the hospital and at all the unmasked healthcare workers, but I'm more outraged by @adriandix and Bonnie Henry. The govt is ultimately to blame."
Jun 9, 2023 • 11 tweets • 7 min read
I’m a rural BC hospital taking an elderly relative to ER. No masks on staff & visitors but aggressive efforts to make everyone sanitize their hands, despite the fact that the diseases helping to crash the health system are airborne. We are truly living in an age of disinformation *I’m IN a rural BC hospital. I am not a hospital. But you got that
Apr 20, 2023 • 9 tweets • 8 min read
Former BC premier John Horgan jumps to the board of Teck Resources, which had the largest environmental fine in Canadian history

Video: @BCGreens leader @SoniaFurstenau asks the NDP in QP about Horgan's role in Teck's pollution case.
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#bcpoli #cdnpoli
@BCGreens @SoniaFurstenau Here's the timeline of John Horgan's involvement with Teck Resources before he left office. Judge for yourself:

In Dec 2021 the feds indicated they were considering referring Teck's selenium pollution in the Elk Valley to the internat'l joint commission (IJC)
#bcpoli
Apr 19, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The BC govt can fudge the death stats from Covid all it wants ("that death wasn't FROM Covid, it was WITH Covid" etc).

The real truth is the "excess deaths" number - that is, how many of us are dying now vs. before pandemic, minus other factors like poisoned drugs & heat dome. This is why data modellers like @MoriartyLab focus on excess deaths as the real statistical truth of Covid impacts over time. The problem tho is that over time, elevated deaths from Covid will start to be the "normal" death rate, against which we're comparing new Covid deaths...
Dec 27, 2022 • 26 tweets • 8 min read
@KeithBaldrey has been issuing inflammatory tweets again, abusing citizens who advocate for better Covid measures. In the process, he falsely deems a "conspiracy theory" the proven yet media-ignored fact that oil &c money has been funding opposition to any mitigation of Covid. 🧵 Keith Baldrey calls me a "grand conspiracy theorist&quo Baldrey is free to call facts "conspiracy theories" because due to media's dereliction of duty, the public knows ~nothing of the influential, oil-funded attack on Covid measures known as the Great Barrington Declaration (GBD) whose views Keith resembles. desmog.com/2020/10/26/ame…
Dec 26, 2022 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
A new year is coming & I think we are long overdue for a society-wide discussion about what's "positive" & what's "negative."

We have media provocateurs in BC calling any citizens who push back at them "negative." Negative" is weaponized to stigmatize dissent & critical thought. Image As a friend just said "The 'negative' slur is thought-stopping, gatekeeping nonsense. Bad enough when we have media who don’t understand their obligations re govt, but worse when they engage in rhetoric that tries to stop the public from being informed & questioning state power"
Dec 4, 2022 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
To all who think the NDP can be reformed, whether BC or AB or even fed:

My former gas pipeline engineer is sending out warnings about new AB pipelines crossing BC: "Now Notley is starting up again about pipelines to tidewater. NDP still owned by O&G corps like before... #bcpoli .."Of the three pipelines authorized for the North, Pacific Trail and Westcoast Connector are owned by Enbridge and the third, Prince Rupert Gas Transmission pipeline, is owned by TC Energy Corp., the company currently building #CoastalGasLink..."
Dec 4, 2022 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Car alarm: around. midnight, then 12:30, 1:30, then 2:03, then 2:19. Going to be a long night 2:43. This is fun
Dec 3, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
A longtime #bcpoli watcher messages me just now:

"I don't remember the BC Libs ever trying to pull off what the NDP did today when they quietly released that report and announced that presser. BC Libs were brutal but even they would fear getting slaughtered by the media... ."...NDP announcing a presser with only an hour's notice, no time for media to read the report in question, which was announced immediately before, and no livestream just a teleconference, so no chance to get it on tonight's news. Amazing audacity..." #bcpoli
Dec 2, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Enjoyable article by
@FailedArch's Kevin Rogan in @thebafflermag which deftly dismantles a neoliberal YIMBY piece by a Vancouver writer that @jacobin should never printed. (Why does Jacobin keep getting Canada wrong? Make different connections here, pls.) thebaffler.com/latest/dream-h… @jacobin "That this piece appears in Jacobin, an ostensibly “socialist” publication, goes a long way towards burying its call for capital accumulation under the thinnest veneer of left politics at its most bleeding-heart chauvinist."
Dec 1, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I'm still in a state of horror that the @VancouverPD would evict so many people from their tents right before a stretch of extremely cold weather, & that they'd embark on this the very day of a major snowstorm. Also, where is media? #bcstorm. #vanpoli #bcpoli #Vancouver I hope everyone who voted for these ABC ghouls - despite warnings that they were backed by Chip Wilson & were Dickensian - feels some remorse now. They've been in power a month & we have cops back in schools, corruption with one of their School Trustees, & now this.
Nov 3, 2022 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
Random mix of observations about this historical moment.

Nearly 50 years of neoliberal austerity has scraped our public services so thin you can now see daylight through them. There is no padding left, no resilience when a crisis hits, & we're now in multiple overlapping crises. As many have pointed out, those interested in concentrating wealth have always been interested in using - even manufacturing - crises to capitalize on. Disaster capitalism, the GFC. Ever larger fortunes ensue. But crises don't even have to be manufactured anymore; they're here.
Oct 18, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Just heard that at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital, Covid cases just doubled overnight - and that's before all the test results are in. They expect it to go higher.

We now also have immune-escaping variants rising exponentially in N. America. Where is the mask mandate? #bcpoli The govt has misplaced the mask mandate somewhere in a closet, right next to a rational policy response to climate change
Oct 17, 2022 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
I know civic elections are only just over but: if you're an Anjali follower, what is your next step when she's disqualified this week?

Elizabeth Cull presents her findings on the NDP membership investigation on Wednesday. The party brass know the contents of the report.. #bcpoli We all know this disqualification is coming. Dave Eby isn't even bothering to campaign for leadership, and his website has the look of a placeholder he paid about $199 for.
Sep 10, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
If you think you're on the left and you're not wearing a mask in public indoor spaces, you're not.

I don't know why this is hard to understand. For one thing, the union move't got its very start on occupational health and safety issues.

Also, interesting read:

"Sewer Socialists of the 1900s knew how to make healthy cities (we can learn a lot from them)" by @KarinaZeidler
straight.com/news/dr-karina…