Alex Dutton

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[Mo Amir 🪬 @vancolour]

Election Eve

[Fran Yanor @FranYanor]

Not sure what the @bcndp is talking about, saying @LDoerkson is avoiding the media. Chad Hipolito & i spent a whole day with him this week for a knockout story we're doing (stay tuned!!). Matthew Sweeney (and I) as Lorne arrives carrying his luggage. Photo by Chad.

[Fran Yanor @FranYanor]

Hands down the simplest ad in the BC election campaign by any party.
With more than a quarter of a million views so far, it appears to have resonated.

[Mo Amir 🪬 @vancolour]

Probably captures the whole #bcpoli election:
not a battle of ideas, but a campaign consumed by David Eby fatigue.

Probably the best ad of the #bcpoli election.

[The Vancouver Sun @VancouverSun]

Conservatives file complaint with Elections B.C. over 'misleading' NDP letter https://t.co/zbq5f0oF7V

[CKNW @CKNW]

Secret government documents show 400 parcels of Crown land have been promised to First Nations. Forest companies have been cut out of compensation, and voters were kept in the dark two weeks before the election.

@COFI_INFO President and CEO Kim Haakstad tells @JasJohalBC that she feels it is unfair for the province to make the forestry sector bear the cost of the reconciliation bill.

Listen to the full interview on The Jas Johal Show podcast: https://t.co/7VYNoeRNyP

#bcpoli #cdnpoli

[TrendingPolitics.ca @TrendPolCa]

B.C. has borrowed about $8 billion from American investors this fiscal year, almost half of everything it borrowed and more than any other province.

All while Premier @Dave_Eby campaigns on fear of the U.S. and urges residents to avoid the country, Bloomberg reports. 🧵👇 (1/7)

[Alex Dutton @AlexDutton2017]

Wondering where the Victoria zone SD61 candidates stand on police liaison officers - none of their websites mention them? #bcpoli #yyj #yyjpoli #safeschools @vicpdcanada @sd61schools

[Taylor Little @tjlit]

(1/3) This post is making the rounds in #BCPoli as evidence of NDP success. As with every piece of visualized data, it needs to be scrutinized. The biggest problem? It uses one national inflation rate for every province, so a dollar in Vancouver counts the same as a dollar in Winnipeg.

Adjust for what things actually cost where you buy them and BC goes from 2nd to 10th of 10 provinces.

[Victoria Police @vicpdcanada]

The Royal Victoria Marathon is causing traffic disruptions across Greater Victoria, including downtown Victoria, the Inner Harbour, James Bay, Beacon Hill Park, Fairfield, Oak Bay, the Uplands, and Dallas Road.

Runners and walkers are on the race route until approximately 3:30 p.m. today, Sunday, October 11.

Motorists, cyclists, and pedestrians should expect road closures and delays. Thank you for your patience and join us in cheering on today’s participants!

#yyj
@ChiefVicPD
@CityOfVictoria

[Alex Dutton @AlexDutton2017]

Well worth a read #bcpoli
Eby isnt Horgan.

[Patrick Brethour @PatrickBrethour]

The Sunday Editorial from @globeandmail: B.C.'s debt trap is snapping shut
https://t.co/TIW2efMNuu

[Alex Dutton @AlexDutton2017]

#yyj #runyyj

[Oak Bay Police @OakBayPolice]

Oak Bay residents are reminded about the Royal Victoria Marathon road closures this Sunday. More information regarding road closure and routes can be found at https://t.co/guVjt8B42V  

[Fran Yanor @FranYanor]

Yet again, @Dave_Eby & his @bcndp team refused to allow me to ask a ques in his daily press conference. The only outlet in the legislative press gallery that has been shut out. Maybe they're scared of what i may ask him?

[Lorne Doerkson @LDoerkson]

Seniors built this province. Mills, mines, classrooms, hospitals, corner stores, family farms. They paid for their homes one mortgage payment at a time, then spent their evenings coaching teams and stocking the food bank.

Here's how David Eby and the NDP have thanked them.

They raised the tax rate on the lowest income bracket. Not the top. The lowest. That's the pensioner on a fixed income and the widow counting every dollar.

They changed the property tax deferment program so it costs more to stay in the home you paid for.

And 7,200 people are now waiting for long-term care. The NDP piled on so many design rules that some beds were proposed at $1.8 million each, then used that cost as their excuse to stop seven projects: Abbotsford, Campbell River, Chilliwack, Delta, Fort St. John, Kelowna and Squamish.

Seniors kept their end of the bargain for a lifetime. This government didn't keep its end.

Here's what we'll do.

✅ Reverse the NDP's changes to property tax deferment so seniors aren't taxed out of their homes.

✅ Review the long-term care design rules with providers, families and builders, so we build more affordable beds sooner without cutting safety.

✅ Make long-term care funding portable, so 7,200 people aren't told to wait for construction.

✅ Expand publicly funded home care that seniors direct themselves.

✅ Expand HandyDART and fight fraud and scams, while keeping government services open to people who'd rather talk to a human being.

And we'll publish the waitlists every month, so you can see the truth for yourself.

They kept their promise to us. It's time we kept ours.

Strong leadership for serious times.

[Trevor Tombe @trevortombe]

Context: This would raise BC to the highest income tax rate since 1981, and make the province (by a decent margin) the highest tax rate jurisdiction in Canada. The gap with Alberta would be back at 1990s levels.

Data: https://t.co/P4gs38E2kA

[Alex Dutton @AlexDutton2017]

@FranYanor @Dave_Eby He just announced an increase in income tax for most if not all of Oak Bay so consider it a trade off.

[Reality, Inc.🧢 @BCBarrister]

This issue will get almost no attention from our lazy B.C. media, but the extent to which David Eby and the @bcndp have completely fucked seniors in 2026 is criminal.

Only these scumbag socialists would run up a massive debt and say “how do we get 80 year olds to pay for this?”

https://t.co/H6k35aBIJz

[Rob Shaw @RobShaw_BC]

So let me get this straight, @Dave_Eby launches an entire campaign around Buy Canada, then goes and stands in front of Cdn-owned Save-on-Foods and slams BC billionaire owner Jimmy Pattison (who donates 10% of annual wealth per year to charity) as a profit gouger, when Pattison is helping him fund $75m towards the NDP's new St. Paul's hospital through the largest donation by a private citizen to a medical facility in Canadian history?
Ooooooookay.