Miche

Entrepreneur, mom, wife, loves food, shopping, cultural events, dabbles in politics & stuff!

[Miche @DutchLady]

@BCFerries Is the 5 pm to Schwartz Bay late?

[Miche @DutchLady]

@Oia__1 The White van

[Lynda Steele 🇨🇦 @steeletalk]

Funny you should ask - I dug into the idea of switching to a PR voting system with electoral reform expert Prof Dennis Pilon a week ago. He says we absolutely should make the switch & he makes a compelling argument.
https://t.co/vdTZ9inCTF

[Steph 🇨🇦🌿💨 @dejager420]

Here is some reading material. Perhaps you weren’t around when we had a party with the same platform the Conservatives have.

People have forgotten, or never knew, what BC looked like the last time a government ran on the platform the Conservatives are running on now. Exact same scenario, Conservative take over from NDP. I think it’s worth remembering before you vote.

In fall 2001, BC gave Gordon Campbell a massive majority, and he used it to dismantle much of what the NDP had built. This week the Conservatives’ own campaign material pointed to Campbell’s 2001 approach as their model. So here’s what that looked like.

To pay for a 25% income tax cut, the 2002 budget cut every ministry outside health and education by an average of 25% over three years.

HEALTH CARE
• Bill 29 tore up the Hospital Employees’ Union contract, leading to the layoff of more than 8,000 health workers, mostly women. Many jobs were contracted out at lower wages. The Supreme Court of Canada later struck down key parts of the law as unconstitutional.
• MSP premiums went up 50% overnight.
• Hospitals were closed or downsized across the province, including Summerland and St. Mary’s in New Westminster.

HOUSING
• The new Residential Tenancy Act dropped the requirement for landlords to justify rent increases with actual costs, and later locked in automatic yearly increases of inflation plus 2%.

CHILDREN, YOUTH & EDUCATION
• Scrapped the NDP’s plan for universal $14/day child care, then cancelled the $7/day before- and after-school care program.
• Stripped class size and composition limits from teachers’ contracts. The BCTF says more than 3,500 teaching positions were lost. The courts later ruled that law unconstitutional too.
• Ended the tuition freeze. Tuition jumped 40% one year and 35% the next, and roughly doubled within a few years. Student grants were eliminated entirely by 2004.
• Created a $6/hr “training wage” for new workers’ first 500 hours and froze the minimum wage at $8 for nearly a decade.

WOMEN
• Cut 100% of core funding for all 37 women’s centres in BC.
• Ended the pay equity program.
• Eliminated the Ministry of Women’s Equality.

VULNERABLE PEOPLE
• Took away welfare earnings exemptions, so most people on assistance lost every dollar they earned. They also cut family shelter allowances and imposed a two-years-in-five time limit.
• Cut legal aid funding by about 40%, gutting family law help that women relied on.
• Abolished the BC Human Rights Commission.

That’s just a taste of last time.

[Vicki Campbell🇨🇦 @merry123459]

That’s what Conservatives do. They privatize healthcare. Because they get rich that way. They can’t stand to see all those tax dollars going into public healthcare. They want your tax dollars and they absolutely will abuse it.

[Stephano🍁Barberis @HelloStephano]

I’m a federal Liberal who voted BC NDP to block the BC Cons from infusing Poilievre’s MapleMAGA DNA into my province. I don’t have a dedicated horse in this race but I’m warning BCers; Cons always bring private user fees, tolls, higher insurance rates, austerity and more debt. /2

[guyfelicella🇨🇦🍁 @guyfelicella]

To everyone who attacked my call to boycott Starlink, insisting Elon Musk had NOTHING to do with it:

The Telegraph now reports Musk was involved in a plan to throttle Ukraine's satellite internet access.

Remember how confidently you told me I was wrong?

You owe me an apology. But don't bother. You can all POUND SAND, and yes boycott Starlink.

[Lev Parnas @levparnas]

🚨 EXTREMELY IMPORTANT — PLEASE READ AND SHARE THIS.

Something extremely important is happening right now on the world stage, and I don’t believe nearly enough people understand just how big this story really is.

Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff are pushing European leaders to release billions in frozen Russian assets and place them under American financial control.

But my friends, this is about much more than frozen Russian money. Much more than Ukraine. And much more than what is being reported in the headlines.

We are talking about Russia, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, American investors, oil and gas pipelines, and people inside Donald Trump’s closest circle.

I have been warning about these connections since Trump returned to the White House. And what my sources are telling me is that this did not happen overnight.

I put together a detailed investigation and a chart connecting the people, the money, the reported deals, and the timeline so you can see for yourself how these relationships intersect.

We are witnessing the early stages of something much bigger: a potential effort to bring Russia back into the global financial system, with billions of dollars at stake.

And what I am hearing suggests there is much more to come.

I’m asking every one of you to take a few minutes to read this investigation, study the chart, and SPREAD IT FAR AND WIDE.

Restack it. Share it. Send it to your friends and family. Help get this information outside our echo chambers.

Because understanding what is happening behind closed doors is essential to holding those in power accountable.

👇 READ THE FULL INVESTIGATION AND STUDY THE CHART BELOW.

https://t.co/31Fbt7ndSE

The truth matters. The receipts matter. And this is just the beginning

[Gator⚡Gum @gator_gum]

Well, Marjorie Taylor Greene absolutely nailed it.

She's right.

[Bev 🇨🇦 @Garnet_2203]

Russia is working for the Conservative Party of Canada

[Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk @LukaszukAB]

US Republican organizers are in Alberta to help separatists mobilize their vote.

They’re not even hiding it. They are openly working for the national interest of the United States.

Cast your vote for Canada. Reject these treasonous imposters.

https://t.co/UAvYtoWhyG

[Dean Blundell🇨🇦 @ItsDeanBlundell]

🇨🇦BOMBSHELL: MAGA's Plan to Break Up Canada Just Got Exposed in Alberta and Quebec
MAGA operatives flew into Calgary to help break Canada.
The separatists said thanks and asked what else they could sell as CSIS opens investigations into the Trump Regime/treasonous Canadians.
https://t.co/8cI9QZ09cj

[Gator⚡Gum @gator_gum]

Man, does Mark Carney ever nail this.

Pierre Poilievre and the RW Influencers.

“When politicians claim our great democracies are broken, it's not because they want to FIX them. It's because they want a license to DEMOLISH... "

This is so accurate.

[@RGBAtlantica @RGBAtlantica]

How many people believe this was done deliberately?
I do. Do not buy US berries. @CBCNews @ctvqp
Whistleblower alleges Driscoll’s sent millions of berries with excess chemical levels to Canada
https://t.co/y80u7lssVu

[Brian Platt @btaplatt]

I....don't know what prompted this from the president today, but StatCan reported JUST this morning that in the past year, Canada experienced its slowest population growth since 1916. The country's population is essentially stalled right now.

[@RGBAtlantica @RGBAtlantica]

For all those having warm and fuzzy feelings for Harper:
Remember this:
1 He cut pension benefits by reducing age of retirement
2 He cut healthcare transfers
@PierrePoilievre was his boy and he will do the same.

[Anonymous @YourAnonCentral]

Trump offers a bribe of $5,000 in exchange for votes, the bribe is promoted as a dividend and would cost $1.2 trillion dollars. This is a felony under 18 U.S.C. § 597, bribing someone to vote a certain way is a federal crime punishable by prison.

[United Canada 🇨🇦 @UnitedCanucks26]

Reminder: Canada is a sovereign country! 🇨🇦
We are not and will never be American in any form. 🍁
Retweet if you stand by Canada forever. 🦫

[Tom Harrington @cbctom]

Every Canadian - and every American - should watch this new Heritage Minute.

It’s about 9/11.

It’s about Gander.

It’s about friends helping friends in need. 🇨🇦✈️🇺🇸

[United Canada 🇨🇦 @UnitedCanucks26]

I am the Canadian who is renaming X formally known as Twitter to: Canadian Social! If Trump can call Lake Ontario, Lake America, then we can surely call X: Canadian Social!
I can’t do it alone, I need your help, let’s make the change together in honour of Canada. 🇨🇦