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BreeCropper

@CropperBree

Busy mom x4. Politics, History, Literature, Art. The world interests me. I like diversity of opinion and low taxes.

South Okanagan, BC, Canada Katılım Eylül 2020
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BreeCropper
BreeCropper@CropperBree·
@terrynewman Yeah, it’s government overreach and impossible anyway. Who’s going to police this - tech companies? rcmp? We don’t allow our kids on social media or to have smart phones until 16. That’s our choice as parents. We don’t need more nannystate regulations into the family.
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Terry Newman
Terry Newman@terrynewman·
“Your freedom or right to free speech isn’t being infringed upon because a minor can’t use social media. An algorithm does not have the right to take up the bandwidth of an entire growing person’s brain," said Cole Hogan. nationalpost.com/news/canada/ki…
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BreeCropper@CropperBree·
@Kristy91808800 @Hutchyman @DouglasTodd @Ayan604 Lunch programs are run by the Parent Advisory Councils of each school. Some choose to subsidize their program (making it cheap for all/some), some choose to use the program as a fundraiser (bringing extra revenues in for extracurriculars).
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Kristy
Kristy@Kristy91808800·
@Hutchyman @DouglasTodd @Ayan604 The other little item that never got any attention, west side school lunch program funding were based on taxes my sons school never got funding ( lots of apts in the area & bc housing coops) while the single family homes neighborhood schools got funding … hmmm
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BreeCropper
BreeCropper@CropperBree·
@dan_grice @stevepcshotmai1 @JasJohalBC @RobShaw_BC But at this particular juncture, I do think any of the 5 remaining blue pylons would do a better job of governing BC than the BCNDP. It’s super fascinating though to listen to my lefty mom-friends question their prior voting choices lately regarding property rights under the NDP
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BreeCropper
BreeCropper@CropperBree·
@dan_grice @stevepcshotmai1 @JasJohalBC @RobShaw_BC Hmm, I’ve voted/campaigned all over the map. 2024 was my 1st election campaigning BCConservative. I used to say I’m fiscally conservative & socially liberal, but as the left went leftier I’ve lost that impulse. I would say I’m a classical liberal in the vein of John Stuart Mill.
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Jas Johal
Jas Johal@JasJohalBC·
BC Conservative leadership signup numbers by riding are out. West Van-Capilano (1,091) and Surrey-Serpentine River (1,050) lead the pack. Surrey has multiple ridings in the top tier. Important to remember ridings with low signups always play a big roll in these races #bcpoli
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Daniel Grice, JD, BA. (Mr)
@stevepcshotmai1 @JasJohalBC @RobShaw_BC It’s Surrey/Tricity/Fraser Valley seats they win elections.. they don’t need Vancouver and Victoria seats, but the odd few help. I don’t think northern/rural MLAs have difficulty with the suburbs. I suspect only Milobar or Black could beat Eby. The rest scare off soccer moms.
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BreeCropper@CropperBree·
@DrKindyMLA We can’t have nice things (like solid health care facilities and medical staff) if we don’t have any revenues from mining, forestry, industry, etc. Eventually socialism runs out of money every time. Sad for us British Columbians - BC is not a good investment under the BCNDP.
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Dr Anna Kindy
Dr Anna Kindy@DrKindyMLA·
The NDP government has cancelled another much needed healthcare project, the construction contract for phase 2 of the Burnaby Hospital redevelopment. Let me give everyone some stats to think about. - BC has 1.9 hospital beds/1000 residents - Canadian national average is 2.6 hospital bed/1000 residents - Canada ranks 25th/30 countries for # of hospital beds e.g. Germany has 5.9 beds/1000 residents. -57/80 hospitals in BC are routinely running over capacity (110-160% over census) - Many seniors (alternative level of care) are languishing in much needed hospital beds and 6 Long Term Care facilities constructions have been cancelled or postponed including in my riding. Eby inherited a surplus and now this NDP government is running over a 13.3 billion dollar deficit and we are on our way to tripling our debt. There will be 6 billion dollars interest payment for this year alone. This government was elected on the promise to build these much needed infrastructures and now they are now cancelling them. Vancouver Sun vancouversun.com/news/shock-hor… via @VancouverSun
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Bryan Breguet
Bryan Breguet@Prominent_Bryan·
So I somehow managed to get the number of members per ridings for the BC Cons. I won't share the exact data but here's some interesting tidbits 1) The numbers of members vary literally by a factor of 10 between the lowest and highest. One vote in some Vancouver ridings will be worth 10x a vote in others 2) West Vancouver Capilano has the most members! I guess that's ground zero of Yuri vs Caroline 3) West Van, Quilchena or Point Grey are surprisingly really high. Elliott's sign ups of rich, elbows up people? Might affect her vote efficiency though 4) The Surrey signups are soooo real. 7 of the top 17 ridings are there... Fulmer's signups? Or Caroline got the list from her brother in law from 2021? 5) If we look for correlations, the strongest is with the number of votes for the BC cons in 2024. Logical. Then the second strongest correlation is with the % of South Asians in a riding... Fun thing, if we compare to the number of voters for Charest and Poilievre in 2022, it is more correlated with Charest! (mostly due to Surrey where Charest did relatively better than elsewhere) 6) The area from Vancouver East to the Tri-Cities is really, really worth a lot of points with very few members.
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Tom Andersen
Tom Andersen@TAndersen_nSCIr·
@CropperBree @GlobalBC Supposedly cheaper. In actual fact every addict not in lock up has direct costs of $100k, plus indirect (damage to property, tourism impacts, etc) of several times that. Full on jail is cheaper, and cleans them up too.
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Global BC
Global BC@GlobalBC·
Global News wanted to give the public a clearer look inside after the building’s nearly six-year tenure as an SRO. But we were denied today. globalnews.ca/news/11827240/…
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Camus
Camus@newstart_2024·
What if the biggest “win” for families in the last 50 years was actually a trap? Rory Sutherland dropped this on Alex O’Connor’s podcast: The two-income household started as a nice option. Both partners work, more money comes in. Feels great at first. Then reality shifted. Governments got double the tax. Existing homeowners watched their property values soar. House prices rose to match two salaries. Suddenly one income wasn’t enough anymore — even for high-earning singles like consultant surgeons. Families traded ~35 hours of free time per week for only modest gains in lifestyle. What began as freedom quietly became an obligation. And it left single people and parents who want to raise their own kids at a real disadvantage. This one stings because we sold it as pure progress. Personally, it makes me question how many modern “upgrades” we’ve normalized without counting the real cost — especially lost time with family. What’s something you once thought was clear progress that now feels like it came with a heavier price than we admitted?
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Juno News
Juno News@junonewscom·
BREAKING Liberals have reportedly blocked debate at Health and other committees, imposing a 30-year restriction on public discussion of those meetings. This follows a series of new scandals after the Liberals secured a majority through Conservative and NDP floor crossovers.
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Alan Fryer 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱
So according to the BC government, the name “British Columbia” is seen as exclusionary. And the word “Provincial” apparently has colonial overtones and has to go, excised from parks signs. Dave Eby’s NDP continues to drive BC into the ditch.
Unfiltered With Kels@unfilteredwkels

I was called a “conspiracy theorist” in Parliament so I brought the receipts! Yesterday in the BC Legislature the government was asked why the word Provincial is being quietly scrubbed from our park signs. They called it a conspiracy theory and said they were just modernizing with a logo. The truth is in their own manuals. I did the digging and here is what they aren’t telling you. The official BC Writing Guide now labels the term British Columbians as exclusionary. Their new rule is to call yourselves people living in BC. Internal BC Parks documents describe our park system as part of a colonial history. By their logic Provincial is a colonial word that has to go. Go to the BC Parks website and search for the word Provincial. You will get zero results. They are erasing the word before your very eyes. I found the Renaming Checklist they are using to swap out park names. Removing Provincial from the sign is just step one. They are spending $16,000 per sign to remove the name of our province while hiking camping fees by up to $25 per night to pay for it. Don’t let them gaslight you. The theory is a fact and the receipts are right here. 🚩 Is this inclusion or an identity disappearance act? Let me know in the comments. 👇

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Tristin Hopper
Tristin Hopper@TristinHopper·
Canadian national security intelligence is just a big red phone that the Americans can use to tell us what we missed while we were editing the latest land acknowledgement.
Claude Lesperance@TheClesper

@TristinHopper They foiled the Aaron Driver Terror Plot? Wait, that was the FBI. Chinese Hacking of Canadian Parliamentarians? No, FBI again. Iranian Transnational Kidnapping Threats? Once again, FBI. Heavy sigh 😔

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BreeCropper@CropperBree·
@Nick_Decap @jkenney Yeah the “In Community Housing First” model is supposed to be cheaper than treatment for the drug addicted & long-term institutionalization for the mentally ill. That’s why governments like it. Especially the compassionate BCNDP. Bad trade-offs though for our society.
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Nick Osmond-Jones 🇨🇦
Our province bought a hotel in downtown Vancouver for $55 million, filled it with drug addicts, who completely destroyed it. The government is now moving them out of the destroyed building and refuses to let media see the damage. In totally unrelated news, the BC government is canceling the construction of new healthcare facility due to lack of funds.
Global BC@GlobalBC

Global News wanted to give the public a clearer look inside after the building’s nearly six-year tenure as an SRO. But we were denied today. globalnews.ca/news/11827240/…

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The Jewish Idea
The Jewish Idea@TheJewishIdea·
This is a powerful 4 minutes. Want to understand how Jews are feeling? Watch this.
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Adam Zivo
Adam Zivo@AdamZivo·
The Conservative movement needs to offer more than just tax cuts. @NVanCaroline’s commitment to deep cultural and institutional reform, along with her erudition, makes her an ideal leadership candidate. nationalpost.com/opinion/np-vie…
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Riley Donovan
Riley Donovan@valdombre·
CBC is covering the explosive CAF report first reported on by Juno News. Rising failure rates, ethnic infighting between West Africans, lack of respect for women. Can the Carney government really keep allowing non-Canadians in our military after this?
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BreeCropper
BreeCropper@CropperBree·
@valdombre I seriously don’t understand this. “Okanagan” is an indigenous word already meaning headwaters of the lake from the local Okanagan/Syilx tribe. Why is it necessary to rename in linguistics that no one can read?
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Riley Donovan
Riley Donovan@valdombre·
The BC NDP's adoption of UNDRIP seems to have given First Nations the authority to name towns. Okanagan Falls voted to become a municipality, but the new town may be given a "dual name" that incorporates an Indigenous name.
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