ted-harrison.bsky.social
Paramedic and Unionist in Burnaby, BC.
Supporter of progressive politics, worker’s rights, effective public transportation and urbanism, and building communities and services that work for people.
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In my experience, when people say things like “you don’t understand, it works differently here,” it usually doesn’t and they’re usually wrong. Very disappointing development for the GTA.
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Mr Au is simply shrugging off that responsibility and trying tell everyone it’s fine because he’s giving his salary to charity is rude. Who’s doing the work in council with his chair empty? Interesting that Mr Au is very worried about the cost of a local byelection but the leader of his party is not
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The people of Richmond should be insulted that Mr. Au clearly doesn’t think city councillors do anything of value if leaving Richmond down one council member for the next 18mths is acceptable. Municipal govt has a bigger impact on our day to day lives than any other branch of govt.
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Not a great indication of early cohesion within the small caucus that the first response was to post about it publicly …
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I think the critique is focused on at least 1/7 of the NDP caucus finding out about the appointment through the media. The central party could have emailed the caucus or even had the new leader call them. Not a critique of MP Davies’ qualifications to be the interim leader.
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I am so not cut out for 300 characters at a time …
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As a union leader, I’ve heard from my own members, “the Union should never be political” more than once. This completely ignores that every gain won by the labour movement has been won as part of a political battle. Employers don’t increase wages, improve benefits, etc because they’re benevolent.
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Part of me wonders if it connects with the populist “anti-woke” backlash. It seems like “the left only cares about they/them the right cares about you” type messages have captured people while ignoring the right’s playbook of watering down worker protections, employment standards, etc.
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There are absolutely the population and travel volumes to make such a service viable. But you’re completely right that getting public funds in Alberta for anything other than highway expansion would be Herculean task!
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Investing to improve VIA Rail service would also be outstanding of course after consistent cuts in service for over 40 years. It should be an embarrassment that Amtrak runs 14 trains/week to Vancouver (with expansions coming) vs VIA’s 2 trains/week.
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But a high speed rail line (or even higher speed rail) between Calgary and Edmonton is completely feasible.
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But when I decided to support the face eating leopards, I didn’t think the leopards would eat my face!
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It’s such a huge loss to the entire progressive movement to lose your voice, experience, and expertise in the House. You and your colleagues have accomplished so much and there are so many things to be proud of. Thank you for the last 20 years of service to your constituents and Canadians.
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I’ve been a little bewildered by the number of posters that are claiming that the CPC was defeated. What election results are they looking at? The Tories outperformed the polls, increased their share of the vote and increased their seat count. They didn’t form govt but they’re anything but defeated.
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That’s not what Fair Vote is advocating for. This is about moving away from the Single Member Plurality system (first past the post) to a system of Proportional Representation. It’s the idea that 40% of the vote shouldn’t give a party 60% of the seats and 100% of the power.
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With far less than 1% of the popular vote, I’m pretty sure we can all just forget they exist now.
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Is Pierre suffering in silence?
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In the BC provincial election last year, BC Conservative members complained that pointing out they ducked every all candidates forum was an “unfair personal attack.” If you can’t be bothered to show up at a candidate’s meeting, you shouldn’t be representing anyone in parliament/the legislature.
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Polls are interesting, but national polls really can’t tell you anything about an individual race. As an example, the latest Léger poll had 1600 people and MoE 2.5%. Not bad. But then you see there were only 149 respondents from BC suddenly the MoE gets pretty big.
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Different polling aggregators come up with slightly different results from the same batch of polls because they each use slightly different methods, weightings, baseline assumptions, etc, in their models.
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So you’re mad at Mr. Singh for a confidence vote didn’t actually take place? Ok then.
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Which election are you talking about? This one was triggered when the PM asked the GG to dissolve parliament. PM Carney triggered the early election, not the NDP or any opposition party …
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This isn’t polling, these are the election results from 2021. It shows that in Peter Julian’s riding, the NDP are the strategic vote the keep the Conservatives from power as they have handily beaten the Conservatives before and can easily do it again.
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National seat projections can’t give you reliable information for the local level, especially where there haven’t been riding specific polls. In places like Port Moody, New Westminster, Burnaby-Central, the NDP have won by 10, 15, 20 points. In those places, the smart vote is for the NDP.
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Mr. Poilievre has never missed an opportunity to vote against the interests of Unions and working people. Sadly, this unsurprising and very on brand.
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Absolutely true!
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Supporting electoral reform isn’t about engineering a specific result, it’s about building a system that better represents the will of the voters.
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Consist a little shorter than normal, but glad the service was restored quickly.
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Well done! Never underestimate the power of these conversations. It makes a far greater impact than any glitzy national ad campaign.
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Thank you for your service and dedication Charlie @charlieangus104.bsky.social ! Keep fighting the good fight.
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I always let the CPC ads run to completion. Costs them more …