2024 BC Election

[daftandbarmy]

Ok… So I show up to the passed out person call and they’re absolutely out of it, cannot be roused and require medical attention, which in the normal course of things would necessitate ambulance transport them to emerg. What would you have happen in these circumstances? We and the paramedics have a legal duty of care.

Or you can just walk by them, like dozens of people probably did in this case ...

Dozens may have walked by dead person in Victoria park

No foul play is suspected in the death. The passersby who found the man believe he had been there for some time.

www.timescolonist.com

 

[brihard]

Or you can just walk by them, like dozens of people probably did in this case ...

Dozens may have walked by dead person in Victoria park

No foul play is suspected in the death. The passersby who found the man believe he had been there for some time.

www.timescolonist.com

What I can say is that shit hits different when you’ve lost a close family member to fentanyl.

 

[SeaKingTacco]

What I can say is that shit hits different when you’ve lost a close family member to fentanyl.

I am sorry.

If you stopped to check on every prone body while out walking in most Canadian cities, you would be very a long time in getting anywhere, if you did not get physically assaulted for your troubles.

There is just so much open drug use, it threatens the very fabric of society.

 

[RangerRay]

Survey says... trouble for the NDP and BC United....

BC NDP Lead Narrows as British Columbians Ponder Choices​

June 25, 2024By Mario Canseco

Voter consideration for the Conservatives and the Greens rose since May, along with the approval ratings for their leaders.

Vancouver, BC [June 25, 2024] – The governing BC New Democratic Party (NDP) remains ahead of the Conservative Party of BC as British Columbians consider their options in this year’s provincial election, a new Research Co. poll has found.

In the online survey of a representative provincial sample, 40% of decided voters (-2 since a similar Research Co. poll conducted in May 2024) would cast a ballot for the governing BC New Democratic Party (NDP) candidate in their riding if the election were held today, while 33% (+1) would support the Conservative Party of BC.

The BC Green Party is third with 15% (+3), followed by BC United—currently the Official Opposition in the Legislative Assembly—with 11% (-1). Other parties and independent candidates are backed by 2% of decided voters (=).

BC NDP Lead Narrows as British Columbians Ponder Choices

Voter consideration for the Conservatives and the Greens rose since May, along with the approval ratings for their leaders.

researchco.ca

So the NDP are now at their traditional +/-40%. If there is one free-enterprise option, the NDP usually lose in that case. Even though BC United (formerly BC Liberals) is sucking the hind tit, it’s still not enough for the BCCP to win over the NDP. This looks more like a two election process for them to become the free-enterprise coalition. Usually, I would say for this to happen, the BCCP will have to moderate to attract Liberal free-enterprise voters. But in this era, who knows? I’m stunned they are doing as well as they are and United is doing as terrible as they are.

I’m still surprised 15% see the Greens as relevant.

 

[brihard]

I am sorry.

If you stopped to check on every prone body while out walking in most Canadian cities, you would be very a long time in getting anywhere, if you did not get physically assaulted for your troubles.

There is just so much open drug use, it threatens the very fabric of society.

Yes… But I was initially replying in the context of those of us in professions with a duty of care beyond that of the general public.

 

[SeaKingTacco]

Yes… But I was initially replying in the context of those of us in professions with a duty of care beyond that of the general public.

Got it- yup, sorry.

 

[brihard]

Got it- yup, sorry.

All good, no offence taken.

 

[mariomike]

We and the paramedics have a legal duty of care.

Right.

Until patient care is transferred to the receiving ER.

Presumably, that is also the SOP in BC.

 

[Jarnhamar]

Wonder if Lytton will become an election issue.

3 years and a record $239M in recovery funding later, Lytton still hasn't rebuilt​

Despite more than $239-million in provincial and federal funding committed to help rebuild, so far only five homes in the village that was home to around 250 people are close to completion, and about 15 building permits have been approved.

 

[RangerRay]

Wonder if Lytton will become an election issue.

3 years and a record $239M in recovery funding later, Lytton still hasn't rebuilt​

Unfortunately probably not. No one outside the sparsely populated Fraser Canyon gives a shit.

 

[daftandbarmy]

Wow... too close to call

https://twitter.com/x/status/1810326902025908236

 

[RangerRay]

Wow…B.C. United continues to implode. This can’t just be because of poor marketing of their name change. Something else is going on.

 

[Brad Sallows]

Dear BCU: Please fold your tents and go home. Your support has reached a low point at which you can only do harm by dividing the centre/right vote. Either that, or make a clear statement to the effect that you'd rather go down abjectly even though it boosts the NDP's chances of retaining control of the government. Accept responsibility for the likely and practical outcome of staying in the race.

 

[Halifax Tar]

Wow…B.C. United continues to implode. This can’t just be because of poor marketing of their name change. Something else is going on.

Everything moves in cycles.

 

[brihard]

Dear BCU: Please fold your tents and go home. Your support has reached a low point at which you can only do harm by dividing the centre/right vote. Either that, or make a clear statement to the effect that you'd rather go down abjectly even though it boosts the NDP's chances of retaining control of the government. Accept responsibility for the likely and practical outcome of staying in the race.

Three months is an eternity in an election cycle. Why would they fold now? Our system is not one with a convention of parties in an election casting themselves aside in favour of another. Not that they wouldn’t be lawful and valid if they did, but I don’t see anything underlying this wish on your part other than the end result you want to see.

A shift in mentality in Canada away from ‘in it to win it’ means we might start seeing other impacts like coalition governments edging out a plurality who, in our system, would conventionally be elected to a minority government.

BCU are absolutely facing a reckoning, but that doesn’t dictate a shift away from ‘in it to win it’ unless we really want to commit ourselves to that rabbit hole.

 

[Brad Sallows]

Three months is an eternity in an election cycle. Why would they fold now? Our system is not one with a convention of parties in an election casting themselves aside in favour of another. Not that they wouldn’t be lawful and valid if they did, but I don’t see anything underlying this wish on your part other than the end result you want to see.

Sure. Worked in France. Start now because it takes time to get lined up and decide which candidates drop out and which stay in.

A shift in mentality in Canada away from ‘in it to win it’ means we might start seeing other impacts like coalition governments edging out a plurality who, in our system, would conventionally be elected to a minority government.

BCU are absolutely facing a reckoning, but that doesn’t dictate a shift away from ‘in it to win it’ unless we really want to commit ourselves to that rabbit hole.

Ultimately the PC and Reform/Canadian Alliance had to merge to be useful.

Whether it's what I want to see is immaterial: the parties branding themselves not-left can't achieve much if they split voters, unless all but one of them are at PPC levels of support. "To win it" is the point. The NDP have controlled government long enough.

 

[RangerRay]

The B.C. Liberals and B.C. Reform never did formally merge. Gordon Campbell worked to make the party more palatable to B.C. Reform voters in the Interior. Voters also came to realize that the B.C. Liberals were the only credible free-enterprise option. It also didn’t hurt that the only two B.C. Reform MLAs shortly left the party (Weisgerber sat as an Independent, Neufeld crossed to the B.C. Liberals).

 

[daftandbarmy]

Wow…B.C. United continues to implode. This can’t just be because of poor marketing of their name change. Something else is going on.

And it's fun to watch... who would believe this might happen?

Former B.C. Green leader praises B.C. Conservatives​

Andrew Weaver says he views B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad as a listener unlike Eby​

British Columbia's political landscape is undergoing several shakeups a little over three months ahead of this fall's Oct. 19 provincial election.

This week, climate scientist and former Green Party leader Andrew Weaver slammed NDP Premier David Eby and said he's considering aligning with B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad. Weaver previously struck a confidence and supply agreement with former premier John Horgan in 2017 to give the NDP the balance of power.

"My prediction is that the B.C. Conservatives will win," he said in an interview with CBC News.

Eby said Friday at an unrelated news conference that it's "extremely bizarre" that Weaver might favour Rustad, who says climate change isn't a crisis and was turfed from the former B.C. Liberals, now known as B.C. United, for his views on the subject.

On his party's website, Rustad says the "changing climate is real, and man is impacting our climate," but it "isn't a crisis," and the party will not engage in "over-taxation, hype, scare tactics" on the issue. He has also said he would prohibit teaching climate science in classrooms.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/andrew-weaver-shows-support-bc-conservatives-1.7262839

 

[RangerRay]

This is HUGE!

BC United (formerly BC Liberals) suspending their campaign and joining the BC Conservatives. Kevin Falcon is stepping down as BC United leader.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-united-suspends-campaign-to-join-forces-with-conservatives-1.7307302

 

[Maxman1]

Yippy kay yay, Mr. Falcon.