Ian Patton

The Carney government didn’t run on this; there’s no mandate. We need a snap election.

I keep being told that 'you cannot put the genie back in the bottle' but I am pretty sure you can put the genie back in the bottle as that is where the genie lives most of the time.

I can smell this truck from the photos.

Between these two digital collections of Russian and East European Posters, there are almost 6500 items spanning 101 years (1904-2004). [kottke.org]

"We are at a historical crossroads: Battleground B.C. or reconciliation through the principles and road map of the Declaration Act." Grand Chief Stewart Phillip www.ubcic.bc.ca/fnlc_calls_f...

seeing as I’m apparently a predictions genius, I wrote a longer tweet about the BC Election on Substack - and what we’ll see for First Nations affairs: substack.com/@rjjago/note...

One lesson I’m sure no one will learn is that if you continually lurch rightward, eventually voters will just elect the pros.

I wonder how many people know the BC Conservatives have vowed to end rent increase limits

Remember when we wanted Anjali Appadurai to lead the NDP + party brass said heck no & installed Eby and that alone was the first dire warning. Anyway. Yeah. me too. This was Eby’s election to lose & provincial NDP across the country are that unreliable oil guzzling ex you shouldn’t trust.

This woman is so damn refreshing. We need more of this attitude in the legislature 💚GO VOTE GREEN📣

I’ve been on high alert since I saw this a day or two ago and, so far so good, I still don’t know who Ethan Klein is.

This election disaster might eventually get us proportional representation. Unfortunately, there will be a lot of pain and suffering and death that will happen first if there’s a right wing majority. This was a long time coming with the cynical politics at the heart of the BCNDP. Don’t blame Greens.

“Partnering with the CIA” is the Platonic Form of the “what could possibly go wrong” meme.

I remember coming home from UBC after trying Seigel’s bagels and asking my mum to pick some bagels up when she got groceries. What she returned with were basically sesame hamburger buns with a hole in the middle. Absolutely terrible.

I work at a university so I could easily name half a dozen scientists, except they were other parents when my kids were in daycare and I’m not great with names so it would be “Julie’s mom, she works in organic chemistry, Mackenzie’s dad, I think he’s in molecular genetics or something?”

I signed up because I like the dog and the lettering. The content must be good!

Sean Orr: Universal Daycare. Conservative: 5G WILL TRANS YOUR KID Media: Councillor Orr, how will you temper your radicalism…

Enormous news. A melanoma vaccine, one of the most deadly cancers out there. Science is good and helpful and there should be more of it. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

I was disgusted when the Conservative government under Harper muzzled scientists and I’m just as disgusted when the Carney Liberals do the same.

Less than a year after rejecting an all-party recommendation for an electoral reform citizen's assembly, David Eby is begging BC Greens to bail out the NDP, while keeping electoral reform off the table. See our write-up on this political cynicism: www.fairvote.ca/19/10/2026/d...

Can we not just solve the energy crisis by hooking this man up to the grid somehow? Maybe a big hamster wheel?

The way you used to be able to walk across the Atlantic on cod, you used to be able to walk across North America on rock shows. My picks: Superchunk/Wedding Present, JAMC/Mazzy Star & then throw a dart.

Just reposting now for no particular reason…

This is why we need an additional section of the vows called “the disavows”

They should do this on day one so people have time to see the benefits before the next election.

Good luck and congratulations to all of the new and returning councilors, and to Mayor Fry. Now, this council has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever and to legalize apartment buildings all along Point Grey Road and in Shaughnessy.

Ffs 🤦🏼‍♀️

I think we should give a lot of credit to how hard he worked. It was clear (to this voter, at least) that @seanorr.bsky.social took his new job very seriously and was prepared to give it his all. I can’t be the only one who noticed and we saw the results last night.

Ken Sim targeted @seanorr.bsky.social throughout the campaign and his tenure as mayor with various smears, making this poetry: "COPE’s Sean Orr received the highest number of votes of any council candidate, with 83,038—more than 15,000 more votes than Sim." ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar... #vanpoli

Can’t understand how she hasn’t done better with political instincts like this.😬

And then Lowan lays it bare about Eby continuing the NDP's legacy of being the sucking and blowing party.

I thought about it. You got us into this with your opportunistic, utterly selfish election call. You intentionally suppress electoral reform that would accurately represent our will, and green support. You don’t get to intimidate us into “strategic voting” now.

Oh, no! If only I’d seen this yesterday!

Oh, wow. This is a no-brainer Christmas present for… me

Notable LGBTQ2S+ results for Vancouver city council: ✨ Solomon Yi-Kieran is non-binary uses they/them pronouns. ✨ Devyani Singh is queer. ✨ And not for nothing, Sean Orr is regularly seen in a "protect trans kids hat," and I can report he was LOUDLY leading chants at the Trans March this year.