Tracy Snow

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[Laurie Adkin @LaurieAdkin]

AHS managers confirm that UCP health policy is so ideologically driven, ministers refuse to consider evidence that contradicts their beliefs. #abpoli #cdnpoli @NDP
https://t.co/cbSiUVVclj

[Dr. Hedy Fry @HedyFry]

As disinformation and anti-science-antivax ideology dictates US public health policy, it is important that Canada be proactive and ready, using scientific evidence based policy, in case of the next pandemic. Viruses do not recognize borders and when our next-door neighbour sneezes we can catch a cold. So take care..

[Niall Stanage @NiallStanage]

This is a devastating interview.

Scott Pelley tells the NYT that Bari Weiss directly put a “thumb on the scale” for Trump over the killing of Renee Good.

Here’s his explanation of exactly what happened.

[David Eby @Dave_Eby]

The first policy of the new BC Conservative leader isn’t support for British Columbians, it’s finding ways to support Alberta’s separatist movement. That’s a choice.

[Vlad Raducu🇨🇦 @vlad_rad]

Models are locking into a major #Heatwave setup for the #PNW and #BC. by next weekend.🥵☀️
#BCHeat #BCWx #BCStormWatch #WeatherAlert #News #FIFA

[Bruce Arthur @bruce_arthur]

Uh, look at Canada

[Dr. Catharine Young @DrCatharineY]

Take it from the movies: when scientists start organizing, testifying, protesting, and speaking out as one, we have definitively crossed the threat threshold.

I’ve never seen anything quite like what’s happening now and I’m so incredibly proud of the scientific community.

[Carol Reardon @caroltreardon]

Kerry-Lynne Findlay seems to be going out of her way to position herself as a WEXIT-friendly candidate, just like Danielle Smith. #BCPoli #VanPoli

[J.R. Kineman 🇺🇦 I STAND WITH UKRAINE #HOLDFAST @Jkineman]

‼️ WTF? WHY? ‼️
The U.S. needs these sensors to accurately track locations of Russian SSBNs…

Removing the Irminger array in particular
— when Russian SSBN activity in the North Atlantic is at post-Cold War highs—
is sabotage of national security.

This is getting ZERO coverage.

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

On this 82nd anniversary of D-Day, remember: The way we wonder why Germans didn’t stop Hitler is exactly how the rest of the world views Americans and Trump today.

[Amelia Boultbee MLA @amboultbee]

I’d like to make a statement on the arrest, and charging of MLA Jordan Kealy for sexual assault.

A survivor of sexual assault myself (and no, not the one that made the news), this one hits home.

We now have, in our Legislative Assembly and sitting directly to my right, MLA Hon Chan who has been arrested and charged with domestic violence, specifically choking.

And directly to my left, MLA Jordan Kealy who has been charged with sexual assault.

Special prosecutors have been appointed in both cases.

I’m calling on Hon and Kealy to go to the Speaker and ask for the government to find a way to allow them to take a leave of absence until these criminal matters are cleared.

I make this statement not for me though. I make this statement calling on these two legislators to step away at this time, not because I am pre-judging their guilt or innocence but because constituents in their riding cannot possibly feel comfortable going to them as their elected representatives in these circumstances.

Both these men came into this House via the Conservative Party of BC, or they are currently members of the party.

Conservatives talk a big game about law and order, and protection of women until it’s their guys who have been arrested. Then we get crickets.

Their new leader Kerry-Lynne D Findlay, @KerryLynneFindl who gleefully accepted an endorsement from Kealy only days and weeks ago, has simply deleted all her social media posts with him and said nothing.

MLA Trevor Halford @TrevHal who until days ago was the leader, has done nothing. MLA Chan’s membership is intact. Mine was cancelled for taking a bill to committee.

If we want to signal to society, to our constituents, to women, to survivors that we think violence against women is a serious thing, we need to start acting like it.

At the local government level if someone is charged like this they go on a mandatory leave if absence. Why should it be any different at the provincial level? All the same logic applies.

Friends, I dream of a world where we should never have to have this conversation. I dream of a world where elected officials charged with violence and crimes against women and sex crimes are automatically barred from the House until the court has adjudicated.

I dream of a world where 40% of girls in BC have not been sexually assaulted in some way before they’re old enough to drive.

I dream of a world where women aren’t taught to protect themselves, but men are taught not to beat and rape and assault.

I dream of a world where prison sentences when people are convicted are longer than essentially a handful of months. And I refuse to give up on that world.

Please join me in emailing the Opposition by sending an email to Trevor Halford (until the new leader has an email) to demand he cancel the membership of MLA Chan, lobby the government to remove these two until the courts have adjudicated, and once and for all let’s see who has the real conservative values by taking the stance against violence against women and sexual violence against women this situation calls for.

Both these MLAs are entitled to the presumption of innocence. But they shouldn’t be entitled to remain in this high office, one of such trust and responsibility and often vulnerability of their communities which will undoubtedly be filled with survivors as all communities are.

Survivors, I see you.

Anyone requiring support please call VictimLinkBC: Toll-free, multilingual crisis support and referrals for victims of crime, including sexual violence. Call or text 1-800-563-0808.

💛

#bcpoli

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Canada bans Texas cattle over flesh-eating screwworm outbreak in US https://t.co/DXbVegyAoV

[Deborah Gibson @luvcaffeine]

From tonight’s P&P…wow @PierrePoilievre, Fred’s heavy sigh says it all…who the heck is advising you??? You are gleeful that Canada’s economy took a hit!

[Ravi Kahlon @KahlonRav]

We have a lot of major projects in BC that are coming online.

That’s why we're doubling our investment in skills training to $241 M to ensure more young people have the skills they need to seize these new opportunities.

Great to see some progress as a results of these policies.

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

Question for the 6% of Albertans who want us to become a US resource colony: why not just go there and make a refugee claim?

You’ll be hosted in a lovely ICE detention facility while the Trump Administration determines whether you really are being oppressed in Canada by the “globalist deep state,” or whatever.

[Amna Shah @amnashahbc]

Today, SFU’s new School of Medicine was officially named the Stephens Family School of Medicine in honour of Ratana and Arran Stephens’ remarkable $40M gift. Thank you for your generosity, your vision, and your belief in leaving the world better than you found it.

[guyfelicella🇨🇦🍁 @guyfelicella]

Vancouver is worried FIFA tourists will see public drug use.

At the same time, people are fighting supervised consumption sites that give people a place to use indoors instead of on the street.

If you don't want people consuming drugs in public, why oppose one of the solutions that reduces public consumption?

You can't be against the problem and against the solution.

Make it make sense. 🔥

[Rohini Arora @reah4burnaby]

So let me get this straight Kerry-Lynne - when someone's arrested for sexual assault, you say they should be jailed and you blame it on your political enemies.

Unless they're an MLA who calls you "a friend" and supported your leadership bid - then you say nothing at all?

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Fred DeLorey: It's problematic when you choose to go down that road that Poilievre has chosen to go down so aggressively, almost like he's rooting for a recession. I'm a tribal conservative. I want to win the next election ... screaming that the sky is falling every week is not how you do it.

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Buffy and Ted Lasso star Anthony Head dies at 72 https://t.co/M77DsVA6Fc