Tom Fletcher 🇨🇦

Journalist. Skeptic. Former oil and gas worker. Contributor @WSOnlineNews, @BeatNorthern

[Tom Fletcher 🇨🇦 @tomfletcherbc]

Going thru old photos: 2002 in my editor office, windows smashed second weekend in a row. I had written an editorial saying the local high school should have invested in shops, not a new theatre. #bcpoli #bced

[First Nations Natural Gas Alliance @FNNGAlliance]

BC's @BCUtilitiesCom insists that 'natural gas' now must be called 'fossil gas.' News release: https://t.co/KQVQpdNqMG
• #ResourceWorks: 'It’s a semantic and framing decision at the expense of historical, chemical and operational accuracy.' https://t.co/cXWUWLfW52

[Tom Fletcher 🇨🇦 @tomfletcherbc]

Master of the obvious says Canadian forestry crisis goes beyond Trump tariffs. BC’s Parmar sticks to his Trump story.
https://t.co/sgH7FaID7c via @BIVnews

[Canada Roast @CanadaRoast]

@PierrePoilievre Most of us will never taste Luxury Butter 😅😭

[Tom Fletcher 🇨🇦 @tomfletcherbc]

With an iconic cost no doubt.

[Jas Johal @JasJohalBC]

They just finished adding the final panel to the Science World dome. 131 custom panels, re-create the Adidas Trionda official ball for FIFA 2026. No doubt, this will be one of the iconic shots for the tournament. #FifaWorldCup @cknw @GlobalBC #bcpoli #cdnpoli

[Western Standard @WSOnlineNews]

🚨 BC Hydro warns CleanBC goals conflict with grid reliability and power needs

Link in thread 🧵

[Sitka Media @sitkamedia]

CBSA officer has an important message for foreigners coming to Vancouver for the World Cup:

“Tickets to FIFA matches do not guarantee entry into Canada.”

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Pete Hoekstra: "As the president's representative to Canada, I present the president's views, the United States' views to Canada. Mechanically, I don't do all the reposting and retweeting myself. My understanding is we repost 100% of the president's tweets that deal with Canada."

[Terry Glavin 格立文 @TerryGlavin]

What a country. A Senate committee votes to embed a conspiracy theory in an already broken and stupid hate crimes bill. It's often said that 'First they come for the Saturday people, then they come for the Sunday people." In Canada it was the other way round.

[My Prince George Now @mypgnow]

Rustad goes to bat for new Conservatives leader after sharp criticism from Eby | https://t.co/2TWhmhSL5w #cityofpg #PrinceGeorge #northernbc #bcpoli

[RMC86 @RMC19861987]

🚨 What's going on with CUSMA? Well, let's ask one of the members of the Advisory Committee on 🇨🇦-🇺🇸 Economic Relations, Lisa Raitt (@lraitt).
"I have no inside information whatsoever... but I think Minister Leblanc is heading into a wood chipper...they are just going to lay out exactly what's been agreed to by Mexico & the expectations on Canada to acquiesce."
I couldn't agree more (see yesterday's post).

[Victoria HarbourCats @HarbourCats]

With five innings down, the HarbourCats are holding onto a 5-1 lead over the Edmonton Riverhawks in the first home game of 2026!

(Photo courtesy of JPM Photography)

#yyj #harbourcats #WCLBaseball

[Barry Penner @BarryPenner1]

The BC Government is now okay with natural gas for power generation, but it’s CleanBC policy still calls for an effective ban on natural gas for heating of new homes & offices by 2030…driving up demand for natural gas electricity generation. 🤨

https://t.co/8hE3gQbAuv

[David Pugliese @davidpugliese]

The ROK Navy's 3,000-ton-class submarine ROKS Dosan Ahn Chang-ho (SS-III) departs from CFB Esquimalt in Victoria to participate in joint South Korea-Canada cooperation drills, on June 2.

[Blacklock's Reporter @mindingottawa]

Vote To Outlaw “Denialism”
https://t.co/BJJJRm6dzB @SenateCA

[Western Standard @WSOnlineNews]

🚨 WATCH: Pierre Poilievre criticizes Omar Alghabra’s new appointment on a council to combat antisemitism.

“I remember Alghabra lobbying me to keep Hezbollah legal.”

[BIV News @BIVnews]

BC Hydro quietly seeks gas contracts as power shortage looms https://t.co/n3hQbUKIZv

[Tom Fletcher 🇨🇦 @tomfletcherbc]

Findley won the leadership - now she has to invite more to the party https://t.co/aGPqsmtfAC

[Aaron Pete @Aaronpete_]

I'm prepared to go to jail over this.

My grandmother Rita Pete went to St. Mary's Indian Residential School. She experienced terrible abuse. As a consequence, she struggled with alcohol use most of her life.

My mother was born with FASD as a consequence of her using alcohol to cope with her trauma.

I am Chief of my community Chawathil First Nation. I am working to address the longstanding impacts of these past policies through renovating homes, building new homes, creating childcare, and growing businesses through economic development.

I have interviewed people who went to Indian Residential Schools. I have interviewed people who believe Indian Residential Schools were awful, horrible schools, meant to remove the Indian from the child.

I've also interviewed people who believe they were well intended, generous investments by Canadian taxpayers meant to assimilate a society and had shortcomings.

Like with many things, the history is dark, complicated, and with any policy that existed for a long time, across a whole country - there were different experiences.

No one story tells us everything. No report shares the full experience of the individuals who went. No commentator today can disprove someone's lived experience with statistics.

The path forward is not to criminalize speech, questions, or debate.

The path forward is empathy for past attendees.
The path forward is truth based on facts.
The path forward is real conversations.
The path forward is to lean into complexity.

If the government criminalizes this, then I will be a criminal for having these conversations.

If I am a criminal by the laws definition, then I am committed to going to jail over this.

[Jim McMurtry @JimMcMurtry01]

Carney has said only about his father: “I don’t share those views, to be absolutely clear.”

Robert Carney’s students loved him.

I know that because I was one of them.

[Tom Fletcher 🇨🇦 @tomfletcherbc]

Incompetent

[Rupa Subramanya @rupasubramanya]

Carney has unveiled a new council to combat antisemitism in Canada. The lineup includes a former Liberal minister who is a Muslim, a DEI executive who is also Muslim, a progressive lawyer interested in social justice issues who represented pro-Palestinian encampment activists, an LGBT activist, and an Olympic speed skater.

Only one member is Jewish: Senator Marc Gold, has a long public record in Jewish communal and pro-Israel advocacy.

Seems like expertise in antisemitism was considered optional. If the goal was to reassure Jewish Canadians, this is a bizarre way to go about it.

https://t.co/SdnrHYuFVZ