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How does anyone get anything done when there are cats?

The bats are starving. Humans have options other than bananas.

I know I keep beating this drum but BC could have woken up today with an NDP government still intact but a different Premier if only we were (wait for it)… more like Australia. #bcpoli

This is what I was trying to explain to my Australian parents. They still don’t understand. Why didn’t David Eby’s party Just Do Something before he plunged the province into a disastrous early election?

Very interesting timing for this thread as I watched the stupidity of the BC Election from Australia.

Time Traveller: North Vancouver's 'Crab Shack' has been selling seafood since 1961

And it will be on Eby’s head if that happens. Putting his party and ambition before that of the people of this province and its wellbeing is unforgivable. How dare he treat us like fools.

I just tried to explain BC politics to my Australian parents (who have their own state election next month) and I still can't get past the question "So why did he have an election when he didn't need one?" And this is in a place where Premiers get toppled frequently - often by their own parties.

But if this election means the end of Dallas Brodie at least there will be some good to it. #bcpoli

Let this stupid stunt be a warning to all other parties who try it in the future.

Thinking of Reann Gasper who is probably kicking herself tonight.

Please tell me Dallas Brodie was shown the door.

Really sad to have missed this election but in my defence, when I booked my trip to Australia, the election was still 2 years away. #bcpoli

So upsetting People voted NDP in 2024 for clear reasons Eby threw it all away intellectualizing and being a very poor politician Now NDP voters have nothing

OBAMA: The big trade war he's starting now is with that well-known evil empire: Canada. These are the people who gave us maple syrup and Martin Short.

Nowhere to run/nowhere to hide.

Gonna be amazing to see 20 of these mRNA vaccines rolled out over the next years, dropping your cancer risk by 50%. And no one to the right of Al Roker will touch them.

@alyankovic.bsky.social have a happy birthday Al! 🎂🍰

You had two years left of your term by which this dude may have well disappeared. You caused this mess. No one wanted an election - only you. #bcpoli

I am angry there’s an election. But I’m even angrier that this paper is basically a Conservative Party mouthpiece now.

I have observed over the years that Aussies say “sorry” about as much as Canadians do. The only difference is when Aussies say it, they mean it.

someone sent me a british columbia government simulation game, and i don't know if it's "good" or "accurate" or "objective" but after 20 minutes i know that it's "addictive" and "a problem if i want to do a good job on election night" governbc.ca

Please let it survive.

This has saddened me so much this week. But the infuriating part is the focus on it being solely a political attack. Yes, Ms Haines is an MP, but more essentially, she is a female MP. And her attacker was a man.

*in the northern hemisphere. (You may be shocked to learn there is a whole other hemisphere on earth which sees the same phases of the moon but with completely different seasons).

I was out #geocaching when I came upon this tiny, tiny flower most people would never notice. This is called the slender sun #orchid and it is native to Australia and New Zealand.

This is revolting. I mean I should have guessed that from the start, but I’m a sucker for a special cola flavour.

Thank god the elections are over in BC so now everyone can get on and focus on the election. #bcpoli

The deaths at the military base in Alberta made news on Sunday night here in Melbourne. It was one of the top stories. How horrible.

From your lips to the governments ears...

Happy no one can blame me for these election results. #vanpoli

Came upon this car while out and about. Maybe the Kabbalists amongst us can tell me if this number bodes well or not.

Another one of these Victoria (BC)? or Victoria (Australia) moments. This happened to us about a decade ago and it’s true, schools are desperately underfunded but I don’t blame the parents for that. Fund public education via taxation properly. Period. Free should mean free (to user).

Means-testing is the enemy. It's a trick — a sham. It erodes social cohesion. It stigmatizes. We must escape this notion of deserving and undeserving and drawing arbitrary lines that only serve to divide us. Instead, we should provide universally and tax the rich appropriately.

Visited the Melbourne Holocaust Museum today with my sister. It was painful, sad and moving. I was grateful to the teachers who brought their classes here to learn of this most shameful history. In the memorial room I found the name of my family member who escaped a camp. #holocaustmuseum

I may have escaped two elections back home, but I’m experiencing a third here .

My dad: do you know why people hate Jews? Me: because they ask stupid questions?