1. The Cull report on the BC NDP leadership is thorough and detailed, and suggests a clear pattern of rule-breaking and dishonesty in the campaign of Appadurai and her eco-activist supporters. 2. If there were multiple candidates in the race, it is likely few would blink an eye at a recommendation to disqualify based on the facts and pattern identified by Cull. That there is only one has raised the temperature on this recommendation.

In a day of hot takes on the Vancouver election results, I'll attempt to raise the temperature, a lot.

The political centre carried the election, because the Vancouver electorate taken as a whole is centrist.

Ken Sim and ABC were the consensus choice of the centre. #vanpoli / This was ground formerly held by Vision Vancouver, ground lost to the ether in the 2018 election.

With no clear home for centre voters in 2018, a mishmash of values and parties found themselves on Council.

And Stewart found himself Mayor, with a hot mess of a council. /

So, yesterday, I posted an inflammatory thread about the momentum of Pierre Poilievre. It was meant as a cautionary tale about the need for progressives to see and understand where his momentum is coming from, and to meet Canadians where they are. 1/6 I used the term Trumpification - by that I meant the undermining of public institutions and blaming government for people's perceived ills. This is clearly a part of PP's message, and the most dangerous one. 2/6

Thread. With the @PierrePoilievre leadership campaign, we are witnessing the accelerated Trumpification of the Canadian conservative movement and the @CPC_HQ and a likely remake of the Canadian political landscape greater than the emergence of Reform in the early 1990s. 1/7 Despite the vast majority of his lifetime income having come from "the taxpayer" as an MP, he's cast himself as the outsider's advocate and is eating Mad Max's PPC lunch. He'll take the easy path to power, and it runs through disgruntled white folks. 2/7