Robert Ross

Husband, father, Red Sox / Patriots fan and supply chain dude - dislikes the Yankees - no DM’s please.

[Bradshaw @myabradshaw78]

Eby chose to not do anything for B.C in the past 2 years but now since he’s called an Election magically now he cares. Why should anyone believe him..

[Bob Mackin @bobmackin]

Worth noting: the @bcndp did not include the source publication and date in its graphic about Conservative Tony Luck’s quote. Responsible campaigns include basic citation information. #bcpoli

[Robert Ross @RobertRoss31]

@geo_fed @GarryBeggBC @richardzussman @VaughnPalmer I’ve been reading/listening to @VaughnPalmer since I moved to this Province in 1996……he truly calls it as he sees it regardless of which Party is in power.

[George @geo_fed]

@GarryBeggBC @richardzussman @VaughnPalmer on this line: ✅
‘I mean, don't be ridiculous. What an odd thing for the government to be doing. And the only reason the conservatives, Simi, as you know, have an interim leader is because the NDP called an election 48 hours after KLF quit.’
https://t.co/diJeKCDSFs

[Danish_logger🇩🇰 @TheRealDane10]

@GarryBeggBC BCNDP attacking the BC Conservative leader because defending their own record would require an actual defence. Deficits. Debt. ER closures. Mill closures. Affordability pain. So what’s the BCNDP’s answer? LOOK! A CONSERVATIVE! That’s not leadership it’s a nothing burger!

[Raj Vir Gill 🇨🇦 @gill_vir1]

@rparmar_BC Seems like you are more interested in the BC Conservatives than your own party and its dismal performance.

[Robert Ross @RobertRoss31]

@saucyseawitch @alleria_eh 😳😳😳

[BC Girl @Lyfeblood1]

I love a ‘question’ that then blocks answers.

[Bob Mackin @bobmackin]

Nerd is not an official title. The real one is in public accounts. Another NDP staffer omitting his true job description from his X bio. He is top aide to @MikeFarnworth, who broke a 2019 promise to bring the Legislature under the FOI law. #bcpoli

[Robert Ross @RobertRoss31]

@saucyseawitch @alleria_eh I know of your ilk!

[Love My 7 Wood @LoveMy7Wood]

When I say politics doesn’t attract quality people, @MarkGerretsen is the poster boy. Yet the good citizens of Kingston keep electing him. Makes you wonder about Kingston.

[Barbara Bal @BarbaraBalCPC]

“Rumours”? Seriously?

Mark Gerretsen is out there doing what he does best: proudly using tax dollars to create social media content to spread “rumours”.

MP Gerretsen has a history of impulsive and poorly sourced public statements and gestures (remember the finger? 🤣) that required apologies or retractions.

Keep spinning, Mark. 👀

[Stacey @StaceyMonette27]

I’m always amazed at the amount of lies the Liberal Party of Canada tells but I’m even more astonished by the amount of Canadians that actually believe them.

Mind blowing.

[Bong Sim @BongSim_Psy]

Her name is Bowinn Ma. She's British Columbia's Minister of Infrastructure and the MLA for North Vancouver Lonsdale. She's held that seat since 2017, won again in 2024 with about 65 percent of the vote, and became Infrastructure Minister that November. She says she's running again this fall, though her name isn't on the official list yet.

She's not your typical politician. Before this she studied civil engineering, earned a business master's degree, and worked on the terminal expansion at Vancouver airport. So when she talks about building things, that's her actual background. Let's see how the building is going.

Start with housing. Back in 2020 she said homes should be for people, not investments. Her government added taxes on speculation, foreign buyers, and empty homes, and she points to some social and affordable housing that's gone up in her own riding. But the North Vancouver housing report still shows that a family earning the median income can't buy a home there. Some of that is way beyond one MLA, interest rates, immigration, and decades of not enough supply. That's fair. But the promise was homes for people, and for a lot of people in her riding, that still isn't true.

Then transit. In 2017 she ran forums with the name Traffic Sucks, and pitched rapid transit for the North Shore as the long term fix. As reported, a rapid bus extension is opening ahead of schedule. Good, buses matter. But what people pictured when they heard rapid transit was a train, and that hasn't been built. The bridges are still jammed. And a rail line isn't hers alone to finish, TransLink and multiple cities have a say.

Now the one that shows how she handles pressure. In May 2025 she brought in Bill 15, a law to fast track big projects like schools, hospitals, and roads. First Nations leaders, mayors, and opposition parties blasted it. In the legislature she said her government, quote, made an error, by not properly consulting First Nations. She explained they'd sent notices, got only a few dozen replies, and assumed interest would be low. Credit her for saying it out loud, that's rare. She also tried to add an amendment requiring broad consultation on which projects get fast tracked. It failed when a Green MLA voted no, saying it didn't go far enough, and the bill passed without changes. Her defense has been that it doesn't change environmental rules or the legal duty to consult. But her party passed a law in 2019 promising consultation, and then admitted it skipped it on this one. That's a fair thing to ask about.

Then there's the sewage plant. Not her project, to be clear, Metro Vancouver's. It started at 700 million dollars and is now 3.86 billion, with a finish date of 2030. The first contractor was fired, and in May 2026 it paid 235 million dollars to settle. The North Shore has about 8 percent of the region's people and pays about 37 percent of the cost. That works out to roughly 590 dollars more a year on utility bills for 30 years. The Premier himself demanded an independent review, and the findings are due early next year. Blame belongs first with the regional board and contractors, not one MLA. But she's the local MLA and the province's infrastructure minister, and her neighbors are the ones paying the bill.

Prices are set by markets far bigger than her riding. Fast tracking school and hospital projects matters when the population is growing. And admitting a mistake is better than pretending there wasn't one.

But look at the shape of it. A housing promise that still doesn't work for median earners. A rapid transit promise that arrived as buses. A consultation law her own party wrote and then skipped. And a sewage bill her neighbors will pay for 30 years.

So here's the question that matters. Housing you can afford, a train that runs, a sewage plant on budget, which of those three can you point to today?

@BowinnMa #BCVotes #NorthVancouverLonsdale

[Bong Sim @BongSim_Psy]

His name is Ravi Parmar. He's British Columbia's Minister of Forests and Deputy Government House Leader, and the MLA for Langford Highlands, running again October 24 in the same riding.

Start with who he is. Born in 1994, raised in Langford, studied political science at UVic. Around age 20 he was elected to the Sooke school board and later became its chair. Then he worked as a political staffer, including chief of staff to Ravi Kahlon and an advisor inside the Forests ministry itself. He won a by election in 2023 to replace John Horgan, held the seat in 2024 with about 52 percent, and in November 2024 became Forests Minister, reportedly after asking for that portfolio. Very young, very inside the party machine, and now running one of the most contested files in the province.

Here's the first thing he promised. He said he wanted to be remembered as the best Forests Minister workers ever had. What followed was a string of mill closures. The Crofton pulp mill shut down permanently in December 2025, costing around 350 jobs. This summer the Quesnel River Pulp mill announced a temporary shutdown running from September 4 to at least November 1. Parmar says pulp prices are dangerously low and no government of any stripe has fixed BC's dependence on commodity pricing. That's a fair point about a brutal global market, and tariffs and wood supply problems started long before him. But the Conservatives blame his forestry policy and are demanding he resign. Both stories can hold some truth, but 350 people lost their jobs, and his promise was about workers.

On old growth, his ministry says the province protects more than ever, around 80 percent of old forest protected, deferred, or uneconomic. But an independent panel reportedly found the province falling short on its old growth recommendations, and protesters showed up at his own Langford office. Meanwhile his ministry expanded BC Timber Sales by roughly 800,000 cubic meters, which environmental groups say means more old growth going to auction. He's also said he won't support saving land just for the sake of saving land if mills close. Protect the forest and keep the mills running are two promises pulling in opposite directions.

Then came the words. In June 2026, in Revelstoke, he told Black Press that southern mountain caribou aren't the smartest animal because they get spooked and run when disturbed, and he pointed to wildfire as a main cause of habitat loss. Black Press fact checked those claims and found inaccuracies. The province's own data shows fire is the top disturbance for northern herds, but for the southern herds he was talking about, logging and roads remain the biggest threat. His side would say it was a casual interview, and wildfire really is a huge factor in some regions. Maybe. But a Forests Minister getting the science wrong on his own file is a hard look.

Then August. The Bald Range wildfire near Summerland forced more than 21,000 people from their homes. Asked about criticism of his government's wildfire handling, he said, quote, I don't have time for the BC Conservatives, if they want to play politics, they can fill their boots. Conservatives and others called for his resignation. In fairness, no independent audit has found his wildfire response failed, and fire is driven by climate, fuel, and weather far beyond one minister. But when 21,000 people are out of their homes, tone matters.

There's also the Heritage Conservation Act. He's called it archaic, and his ministry keeps delaying changes after working on them behind closed doors with First Nations, which then triggered backlash from local governments and industry who said they were shut out. No amendment has passed. His defenders say rushing a law that touches Indigenous rights risks constitutional trouble. Critics say the secrecy caused its own problem.

He's a first term minister in a brutal sector, he inherited falling harvest levels and a pulp price crash, and the tariff war is well beyond his control.

But look at the shape of it. A young party insider who promised to be the best minister workers ever had, and mills closed on his watch. A promise to protect old growth alongside expanded timber sales. A fact checked caribou comment that got the science wrong, and a wildfire remark that left 21,000 evacuees hearing a shrug.

So here's the question. When your Forests Minister says he's protecting jobs and forests at the same time, which one is actually winning?

@rparmar_BC #BCVotes #LangfordHighlands

[Peter Menzies @Pagmenzies]

@dowbboy Not sure having a panel of three anti-Conservatives each week is the best look while CTV’s desperately lobbying the government for cash. But, that said, media don’t report on their own lobbying

[Zoran M. V. @ZeeMatic1]

@VanCityVice Unfortunately, Jennifer Charlesworth is limited in knowledge and unlimited in malice. Same party - NDP - that appointed her also hired a rapacious buffon @guyfelicella Guy Felicella to work for none other than VCH.

[Jon Fraser @JonFraserTF]

Hard not to notice the desperate sagging from the BC NDP caucus.

It's pretty funny to see them criticizing the Conservatives right after the called a self-serving, opportunistic election.

Matt here has zero morals or ethics.

[DES @SDFlyerJack]

@JomboyMedia @TalkinBaseball_ His last year as a major league manager too.

[Robert Ross @RobertRoss31]

@CraigBaird Great read as always 🙏