Adam Wilson
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Adam Wilson
@AdamWilsonYLW
Urban planner, fmr policy director @housingON, fmr deputy campaign director for @voteBCUnited, views are my own, obviously.
London, England Katılım Nisan 2021
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Adam Wilson retweetledi
By all counts, the BC NDP’s election campaign strategy should be seen as a disaster.
It needs a severe post-mortem report on what assumptions were made, what choices were made, how they were wrong, and what to learn from these colossal mistakes.
Richard Zussman@richardzussman
The BC NDP had 16 incumbents lose on Saturday, this includes 5 members of cabinet and 11 other MLAs. #bcpoli
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Enjoyed being back on CBC Daybreak South today to break down how people voted and what happens next - with a focus on B.C.’s Interior!
Take a listen: cbc.ca/listen/live-ra…
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Want to hear how people voted and what it all means, with a focus on B.C.’s interior?
Look no further.
I’ll be joining @ChrisWalkerCBC alongside @michellemungall tomorrow at 7:30am on CBC Daybreak South.
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Our findings showcased that it’s not the bicycle that’s political, but rather the car. Moves by local governments to reduce the importance of the car can be intrinsically linked to an attack on the values of freedom, autonomy, and individualism that conservatives hold closely.
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Our roads have since become a battle of space with each mode of transportation on opposite ends of the political agenda. Any move to take away from the car appears to attack the very values of conservatism and dominant North American ideology.
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🧵 With the province attacking bike lanes, it’s the perfect time to re-up my research published in the Journal of Transport Geography from 2020, which helped explain why bike lanes are so political in North America.
👀 ➡️ sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Laura Stone@l_stone
NEW: In a speech to Toronto's Empire Club Thursday, Premier Ford goes further than his minister & vows to remove bike lanes impeding city traffic. "We need to and will remove and replace existing bike lanes on primary roads that are bringing traffic in our cities to a standstill”
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Politicians are dodging the media and debates in this BC election more than we’ve seen before. Happy to give my thoughts to Kelowna Now ⬇️
kelownanow.com/watercooler/ne…
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Good grief the leader of our country should be able to access the internet while flying.
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Adam Wilson retweetledi
Sharp analysis of last nights debate through an Okanagan lens with @AdamWilsonYLW #bcpoli cbc.ca/listen/live-ra…
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Lol
Generation Squeeze - @gensqueeze.bsky.social@GenSqueeze
.@yfblanchet believes that young Canadians have "a standard of living, a level of prosperity and a level of wealth that we never could have imagined" and he believes that "those who built it deserve to be adequately compensated". #cdnpoli
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Some idiot was texting and driving and rear ended my mum.
The accident gave her trigeminal neuralgia, forced her to retire, and forever altered her life.
She can’t sue ICBC, and the little money she gets per month won’t make up for the drastic change in her quality of life.
Rob Shaw@RobShaw_BC
NEW - @JohnRustad4BC says he will end ICBC's monopoly on basic auto insurance, opening up the province to private competitors. Also says he'll allow people with "life-altering injuries" out of the no-fault insurance system to sue for compensation -- not immediately clear if this means total elimination of no-fault insurance or not.
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While David Eby allowed the wasp to sting him, Doug Ford swallowed his bee-like attacker whole.
It’s clear who the real leader is!
x.com/cp24/status/15…
Greg Bowman@gregbowman_
Here's the moment David Eby got stung by a wasp mid-news conference:
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Just to be clear, this is absolutely not a decision made by BC United.
These are rules set by Elections BC that all candidates and parties must follow.
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🤦 they didn’t even buy the domains, if I had a couple hundred bucks to waste I’d buy them just for fun.
Herb Dhaliwal@HerbSDhaliwal
I am initiating a movement to revive a NEW LIBERAL alternative in British Columbia government and politics. We cannot afford the wrong-headed approach of the BC CONSERVATIVES manipulating our political process thanks to Falcon's betrayal of liberal oriented BC UNITED MLA's, candidates and supporters. Our province deserves better - a moderate, centerist option for voters instead of degenerating into dysfunctional polarization. #bcpoli #cdnpoli #newbcliberals #bcliberals @richardzussman @mikesmythnews @JasJohalBC @PnPCBC @VassyKapelos @VaughnPalmer
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@joeydhansen Different pots of funding Joey.
Those were party funds, which could not and would never have been used for caucus severances, whose staff are all paid by the legislature.
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I kept seeing those BC United TV ads where I was told the party had all kinds of plans.
Maybe they should have planned for this.
Adam Wilson@AdamWilsonYLW
@vancolour And as highlighted by Rob, caucus funds weren’t mismanaged - it’s just no one would’ve foresaw needing to sever all staff when plans would’ve needed to be made to save months ago.
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@vancolour And as highlighted by Rob, caucus funds weren’t mismanaged - it’s just no one would’ve foresaw needing to sever all staff when plans would’ve needed to be made to save months ago.
Rob Shaw@RobShaw_BC
A few things about this: - I'm told the severance obligations are around $850k - The caucus has money set aside for severance, but never imagined 25 staff, so the amount is not enough - 5 of 25 employees have contracts with severance provisions, but the others don't, so this helps them - The deal passed by MLAs will see some of the $1.7m in unspent BC United constituency office budgets tapped first to cover this shortfall. - It's possible the legislature (ie: public) in the end isn't putting any additional $ into this if the other funds can cover it
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@vancolour These are still different issues. Party money is not used for caucus severances, they’re separate entities.
Party riding expense accounts referred to in that article are not caucus dollars, and would not be used for caucus severances.
Party and Caucus are not interchangeable.
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The issue is that BC United’s finances — including public money it receives — were apparently mismanaged.
Two weeks ago, Kevin Falcon assured the public that his party could cover its debts.
This week, BC United says it doesn’t have the money to cover caucus staff severances.
Adam Wilson@AdamWilsonYLW
It is important to mention that legislative staff (whose severances are being referred to here) are actually always paid by taxpayer dollars. This is not for party staff, who are funded primarily by individual donations. The funding is for @BCUnitedCaucus not @voteBCUnited.
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