On Thursday April 4th, 2024, members of the NDP Vancouver-Little Mountain riding association held a nomination meeting to select a candidate to replace retiring NDP MLA George Heyman. There were two candidates on the ballot: OneCity Vancouver Councillor Christine Boyle and former Vision Vancouver City Councillor Andrea Reimer. Reimer began her political career in 2002…
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Vancouver’s Truant Mayor Not Worth the Money
As of February 28, 2024, Vancouver’s absentee mayor, Ken Sim, has missed 222 votes out of 777 City Council votes since being sworn in on November 7, 2022. This appears to be an unfortunate pattern with ABC City Councillors. The most absent was ABC’s Rebecca Bligh, who missed 290 votes. Third in line was ABC’s…
Biden Hit it Out of the Park
Those of us concerned about the imminent climate crisis are justifiably gravely concerned about the prospect of Donald Trump returning to the White House. Such an eventuality would almost certainly be the last nail in the climate coffin and set humanity on an irreversible path to a massive die-off. It is for this reason that…
Mulroney – Not the Prime Minister the Mainstream Media Would Have You Believe
Brian Mulroney, Prime Minister of Canada from 1984 to 1993, died on February 29, 2024. He was arguably the most controversial Prime Minister this country has ever had. His Progressive Conservative Party was elected in 1984 with an overwhelming majority of seats, and then re-elected in 1988. By the time he resigned as Prime Minister…
BC Budget 2024
Premier David Eby brought down his government’s budget on February 22, 2024. This will be his last budget before the provincial election this October and it is by far one of the best budgets the NDP has ever produced. Here are just a few of the highlights: Financial benefits included: a one-time 25% increase to…
Life and Death of Navalny
On Friday February 16, 2024, Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service announced the death of Alexei Navalny. For Russians yearning for a more democratic system of government and to end state corruption, this was devastating news. Navalny died in a prison colony in the town of Kharp, which is north of the Arctic Circle — an area…
Israel – A Rogue State
On December 29, 2023 in the Hague, South Africa, concerned about the terrible conditions inflicted on the citizens of Gaza, filed “an application instituting proceedings against Israel before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, concerning alleged violations by Israel of its obligations under the Convention on the…