Ryan Hook

Press Secretary for the BC Green Caucus - Former Journalist - Views expressed are my own.

[Emily Lowan @Emily_Lowan]

Join the BC Greens to stand against US interests running our industries. https://t.co/s1fEG7nM9d

[Emily Lowan @Emily_Lowan]

Kristi Noem, former ICE head & 51st state pusher, is helping a BC mining company “globalize” their market. But we know that means — using her Trump contacts to rip and ship BC minerals for US munitions. US corporate takeover of our resources is how we become the 51st state.

[Still On The Road @StillOnTheRoad_]

Bob speaks in @nytimes

[Ryan Hook @ryanhookwrites]

@TigoODonnell But what about just good character writing? That’s what’s missing. The lack of “lore” is less a Parson thing and more emblematic of this current age of postmodern horror: introduce concept, live in the world of concept, don’t try to explain why. But, the characters need more.

[Ryan Hook @ryanhookwrites]

@ariellebeau Black Lodge and Backrooms are so different.

[Ryan Hook @ryanhookwrites]

The BC Conservatives could do the funniest thing—oh wait, they just did

[Ryan Hook @ryanhookwrites]

Bro, the news came from the coach you fired and are preventing from getting a new job.

[Rob Soria @Oil_Drop]

McCrimmon pulling no punches on Overdrive about Cassidy situation. "It's only news because Edmonton leaked it". #LetsGoOilers

[Ryan Hook @ryanhookwrites]

Not only that, but oil production in AB last year has never been higher; meanwhile, 10k people were laid off.

This is a sunset industry guided by cut throat corporations

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Steven Guilbeault on the Conservatives' 'keep it in the ground' delusion: "If you look at the numbers, oil production in the oil sands increased more rapidly under the Justin Trudeau government than it did under the Stephen Harper government."

[Katie DeRosa @katiederosayyj]

Difficult but essential reporting by @thatemfagan, who poured over court documents to find details that Saanich police would not provide in Canada’s most prolific voyeurism case.

https://t.co/EqlUAks78d

[Ryan Hook @ryanhookwrites]

The only thing I find controversial about Sean Orr:

[SEAN ORR @seanorr]

@mortimer_1 This is because I worked in a restaurant and would in fact, eat the rich people’s leftovers

[Jarryd Jäger @JarrydJaeger]

Less than a month ago, Osborne declared that the province “will push forward” on the OPS in the face of opposition.

“We need to have these services in place,” she said.

Now the new site isn’t opening, and no alternative has been proposed.

What changed her mind? 🤔

[Ryan Hook @ryanhookwrites]

What a backtrack from the Health Minister here; and, a dangerous precedent to set.

[Jarryd Jäger @JarrydJaeger]

Health Minister @Josie_Osborne has announced that the new downtown Vancouver overdose prevention planned for 900 Helmcken St. “will not proceed.”

The move comes following weeks of backlash from Mayor Sim, ABC councillors, and locals.

An alternate site has not been revealed.

[Sitka Media @sitkamedia]

MLA @JValeriote74 questions why US billionaires have been allowed to buy up BC farmland — often without the intention to farm:

“This government has proudly promoted the ‘Buy BC’ label, but it looks like that moniker also applies literally to BC farmland.”

#bcpoli

[Ryan Hook @ryanhookwrites]

Five years ago, British Columbians learned of news that can only be described as horrific: the discovery of unmarked and undocumented burials at the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. 

Read the BC Green statement: https://t.co/ivaGRpHE4s

[Ryan Hook @ryanhookwrites]

Another session is passing for the BC NDP and more evidence the NDP has failed to make life more affordable for workers.

[Jarryd Jäger @JarrydJaeger]

Metro Vancouver transit workers vote 99% in favour of strike action

No walk-out date has been set, however the move signals members' "readiness to escalate" if bargaining stalls.

https://t.co/R262zH1KKg

[Ryan Hook @ryanhookwrites]

@matt_kercher Fair conversation for sure

[Ryan Hook @ryanhookwrites]

Funny how there are First Nations led clean energy projects vying for the same electricity, yet it’s AI data centres that get the biggest pass

[Sitka Media @sitkamedia]

BC Hydro CEO says AI data centres must “show how they’re good for BC” in order to bid for power:

“We have up to 400 megawatts saved for AI data centres over the next two years.”

[Ryan Hook @ryanhookwrites]

Correction:

He questioned (the operative word) the government on whether they’d do “everything possible to end tobacco and nicotine addictions”?

[Sitka Media @sitkamedia]

MLA Rob Botterell questions why BC is the only province in Canada to allow the sale of tobacco in pharmacies.

He then calls on the govt to follow the UK’s lead and ensure the next generation of British Columbians is not legally able to buy tobacco anywhere.

#bcpoli

[Ryan Hook @ryanhookwrites]

@AmazingZoltan This isn’t the Matrix.

A doctor gives you choices for treatment. You pick one. That means the other choices are illogical?

[Ryan Hook @ryanhookwrites]

The Conservative vacuum sucks out any concept of addiction and treatment

[Alexander Zoltan @AmazingZoltan]

BC LEG: The Green Party and NDP, who both approved flooding the streets of British Columbia with "safe supply" synthetic heroin, are debating whether or not to completely ban tobacco and nicotine. I can't even.