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absolutely bonkers BC political scenes right now as it is revealed an operative of the BC Conservative leader hired a private investigator behind the back of the rest of the party to dig up dirt on members of their own party, executive, and a political reporter at CHEK (who is notably right-leaning in his reporting no less!)
No wonder the NDP is itching to call a snap election and try to secure a more solid
majority!
It's great to see the rightwing consume themselves (again) but at the same time I am enough of a democrat to believe that all this nonsense and inabillity to have a strong opposition to government is bad on many levels.
just insanity.
I really hope Eby is smart enough to wait and start the provincial campaign the day after the Oct 17 municipal electoons across the province.
Local governments deserve the spotlight and the BC Cons are not going to magically snap into sanity in a month.
#bcpoli #bccp #bcndp
https://cheknews.ca/bc-conservatives-hired-private-investigator-to-investigate-cheks-rob-shaw-and-other-current-former-mlas-1348488/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Newspack Newsletter (1348589)&utm_source=b117938a22&npnl=MTM0ODU4OXw5YTBkMWFkNTU4ZTk4Y2E3ZDZjMGNhMGFlZDc5MTA3OTc2N2Y3NGY5MTdlZWE4Y2E2OWRmZmNmYjNiMDk3NzZl

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
BC Camplight:
🎵 Atom Bomb (6 Music Session, 03 Jan 2013)
#BCCamplight
https://bc-camplight.bandcamp.com/track/atom-bomb
https://open.spotify.com/track/2rxU1GhRYljHvWzPYKXFVI

RE: #bcpoli

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
BC Camplight:
🎵 How To Die In The North (6 Music Session, 3 Jan 2013)
#BCCamplight
https://bc-camplight.bandcamp.com/track/you-should-have-gone-to-school

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Santigold feat. B.C.:
🎵 Can't Get Enough Of Myself
#NowPlaying #Santigold #BC
https://open.spotify.com/track/7eIfYwON9Ln8EPfFawfVuJ

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheMorningAfterMix
BC Camplight:
🎵 Going Out On A Low Note
#BCCamplight
https://bc-camplight.bandcamp.com/track/going-out-on-a-low-note
https://open.spotify.com/track/2JBtv1G5hSlLdUBiJQdWs8

Gee. If only we had more local/home/business based solar and wind to spread the generating capacity eh?
I think I noticed one of these surges/interruptions last night around 9PM. All the lights flashed all of a sudden.
#bcwildfire #electricity

“We can't control what Donald Trump does next
Three Pillar Plan:
#1: Stand up to Threat - Not Fold - We will stand shoulder to shoulder with the Prime Minister and people across the country. We will hold the line. Not one drop of Jack Daniels until there is a deal.
#2: Protect BC - (“due to Trump's adventures in the Middle East”)
#3: Need to Build - pathways to new markets, etc.
#TheAmericanFascist #TradeWar #BCPoli #CanPoli #CdnPoli #Democracy

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
BC Camplight:
🎵 The Tent
#BCCamplight
https://bc-camplight.bandcamp.com/track/the-tent
https://open.spotify.com/track/1YVCgsjZOog3FbXRobaLW2

The German state election yesterday is a perfect demonstration of why Proportional Representation (PR) is far superior for democracy than First Past the Post (FPTP).
TLDR: Thanks to Proportionality, the AfD only won a minority, not majority parliament because the state parliament always reflects the popular vote.
The picture shows the state of Saxony-Anhalt divided into its electoral districts. It is almost all blue because the AfD won the most votes in all but three districts but with 42% of the popular vote overall.
Had this been a province in Canada, it would have produced a legislature with just 3 opposition members, and all the rest government members. Delivering absolute majority power with no meaningful voice for any other party (likely also losing official party status and key funding for political activities) despite a significant share of the popular vote. This has happened in Canada many times, including in BC in 2001 when the NDP won just 2 seats with all 77 others going to the B.C. Liberals… it led to a referendum on PR that won over 60% of the vote but was never implemented.
Had this German state used FPTP they would have a gigantic majority of exclusively far right members and just 3 opposition.
Thanks to PR, their legislature will actually reflect the vote of the people.
42% AfD (39 seats)
17% CDU (15)
9% SPD (8)
8% GRN (8)
8% LNK (8)
5% BSW (5)
83 seats: 42 needed for majority.
AfD: 39
Other parties: 44
In B.C., one of the tropes the status quo campaigners constantly bring up is that PR somehow enables extreme parties more than FPTP and is thus dangerous. This has been proven false over and over including right now,
Here we are, with another example as this German state breathes a sigh of relief that PR saved them from a whollly undemocratic and extreme outcome.
Meanwhile, back in B.C., our own now far right BC Conservatives have successfully splintered the “big tent” remnants of the old slightly more centrist B.C. Liberals leading to a mish mash of independents and new parties in the B.C. Legislature that have not been elected by the people and are unable to really function as a proper opposition to the majority government. FPTP doing a great job! *sarc
Why doesn’t Canada have *any* proportional elections?
Inertia, greed, and power.
Germany 2026 state election: #democracy #fptp #pr #germany #canada #bcpoli

Massive sturgeon caught and released on the Fraser River near Vancouver, BC
11ft 8in (3.55 metres) and 1200lbs (544kg)
It is illegal to keep Sturgeon in BC. It is catch and release only. Would love to do this one day and see one of these amazing ancient creatures!
#BC #Canada #Wildlife #Fishing #Sturgeon
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7243933

I have a question about oil pipelines in Canada.
What happens in the event the Transmountain pipeline is overrun by a Rank 4 or 5 wildfire?
I know these pipelines carry different product at different times. I know they can be shut. But what would happen if it was a section transporting NGL-diluted bitumen?
#bcwildfire #bcpoli #canpoli #abpoli #climatechange #climateemergency
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/08/10/news/bc-first-nations-chiefs-ask-carney-smith-halt-pipeline-advancement

RE: #greenpeace #bc #canada #yvr #vancouver #france #nuclear

Good news today that the fire is now listed as “Being Held”. Same size, 1.5ha.
#bcwildfire #canpoli #cdnpoli #climateemergency #endfossilfuels #transmountain #tmx #alberta #abpoli

Some really interesting electric power math here for #BCFerries upcoming large transitional hybrid-to-full electric ferries. They will be known as the “Summit” class. 2100 passengers and crew, almost 400 cars. These are big ships.
Equivalent to the biggest Spirit Class between Victoria and Tsawwassen. So would be replacing the last of the 1970s Queens and possibly one of the Spirit or Coastal ships? We’ll see.
Anyway: They will initially have 10Megawatt Hours (MWh) of battery capacity as hybrid diesel/electric which is interesting, not natural gas like some of the other recent hybrids. (Which always felt like a stupid political decision to show off LNG, not a sound engineering decision)
They will then, once docks are upgraded for electric charging, be refit with 60MWh of batteries (total 70MWh) to “enable 2 hours of emissions free sailing”. In distance terms, that’s the one-way sailing time between Duke Point Terminal in Nanaimo and Tsawwassen in Vancouver, about 40 nautical miles (74km).
For comparison, my Kona EV car has a 65kilowatt hour battery… 1000x less capacity!.. giving a range of 450km.
That’s a very heavy ship!!🛳️
It’s a pretty tight capacity window considering the major routes are all between 1.5hrs and 2hrs. But they could be being conservative in the press release, indicating they would comfortably fit those timelines, or they will be still using hybrid power and shore docking ports to augment and ensure they have adequate power. They will always need lots of reserve and backup for safety.
I also imagine in the 30-60 year lifetime of the ships, we could see the energy density of batteries in general increase, so a refit in 2040 or 2050 could replace 70MWh with 100 or 140MWh in the same physical space.
What seems sure though is that B.C. Ferries is going to have some, if not the, largest fully electric capable ferries in the world. That’s a good thing.
First ship of 4 will arrive from China in 2029. Last of the class arrives in 2031. So hopefully we get our first ride in 2030! Looking forward to it!
#bcferries #ev #electric #transportation #bcpoli #ferry #boats #ships #battery

We are in the weirdest timeline... where provincial governments are competing for the most effective and welcoming but also defiant sign.
BC currently going for the “Kill-Them-With-Sentences” approach. 🤪
#BCPoli #CanPoli #CdnPoli #USA #TradeWar #TheAmericanFascist
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/david-eby-counter-tariffs-9.7336195?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

I guarantee it is worse in Canada, especially in BC.
#AffordabilityCrisis #cdnpoli #bcpoli #canpoli

Mark Carney: I don’t care about Climate Change, I’m building another oil pipeline to Burnaby. Canada Strong!
Mother Nature: How strong exactly? Hold my beer.
(A wildfire has broken out on the north side of Burrard Inlet, about 7km northeast of the Burnaby oil terminal, the terminus of the Transmountain Pipeline. It is currently 1.5ha and out of control but updates often come slowly on the web. News reports are that a few homes have been “tactically evacuated” and more evacuations may come according to Metro Vancouver government.)
#bcwildfire #canpoli #cdnpoli #climateemergency #endfossilfuels #transmountain #tmx #alberta #abpoli
https://wildfiresituation.nrs.gov.bc.ca/incidents?fireYear=2026&incidentNumber=V11470&source=map

i don't know who at BC Hydro* is in charge of their Web UX in their user account website, but man they have had this consumption data in one form or another for a long time and now that they have brought in the option for time-of-day based billing, they've improved the graphing even more!
It easily and simply shows, on a daily basis, what rate I am paying at what time and how much.
Beautiful!!
I can also add in the average temperature over that time, and also compare total daily consumption between this year and last. Tier 1 applies to the first 644kWh used of the billing month. Last month the Tier 1 applied to exactly half my consumption.
On my rate schedule (in CAD) the off-peak prices are:
Tier 1: 11.87 cents/kWh
Tier 2: 14.08 cents/kWh
On peak surcharge: 5 cents/kWh
Overnight discount: -5 cents/kWh
As an example, last month I was charged $10.40 for on-peak usage but got a discount of $25.90 for off peak time. After all is said and done, my overall average power cost for the month was 12.67 cents/kWh. The majority of that overnight usage is:
EV charging.
Overnight dishwasher/laundry/dryer/hot water use.
Pond pumps.
*the Crown Corporation that generates and delivers most of the electricity in British Columbia Canada)
#electricity #BCHydro #BCPoli #power #conservation #demanduse

We in BC and in Canada have this on our conscience as the world burns. Carney and Eby plan on doubling this facility and adding others.
Our governments, and by extension we, are not only complicit, but directly responsible for allowing this.
We the people are the only ones who can make it stop.
#BCLNG #BCPoli #CanPoli #CdnPoli #ClimateEmergency #EndFossilFuels