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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #DonLettsCultureClashRadio
BC Camplight:
🎵 Bubbles In The Gasoline
#BCCamplight
https://bc-camplight.bandcamp.com/track/bubbles-in-the-gasoline
https://open.spotify.com/track/3FluAyR5JMb8Mhe3OOyyzT

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
BC Camplight:
🎵 I'm Alright in the World (6 Music Session, 27 Oct 2025)
#BCCamplight
https://bc-camplight.bandcamp.com/album/im-alright-in-the-world
https://open.spotify.com/track/2oIB1nKJc1JgKE1JIs3g56

Given the chance, I think her words could resonate in a Provincial election against both the David Eby #BCNDP and the Rustad #BCConservatives (and whatever other parties happen to pop into existence).
It was nice to see a leader actually genuinely congratulate and lift up her rivals in the contest. A rarity these days in too many party leadership races!
Key lines from her speech:
"take on this province's billionaires, largest corporations, and big oil... who take far more than they give.
"democracy is in retreat around the globe, but I am encouraged to see young people in BC fighting back.”
"the BC Green Party has solutions”
"the BC NDP.. are making decisions based on scarcity and fear”
"David Eby... rolling out the red carpet for Donald Trump's inner circle of oligarchs to buy and control even more of our province”.
"The NDP's big idea… to double down on raw resource exports.... no manufacturing, no innovation, no vision for a future beyond more foreign billionaires ripping and shipping our resources while families wait for the wealth to trickle down.”
“while workers wait for fair wages and homes we can afford, the BC NDP doubles down on MAGA backed fossil fuel projects, ignores the need to obtain consent, and refuses to care for our community members”
”The horrors that we are witnessing now are the death rattle of the old world.”
"it is up to us force a new world through”
"We can build a plan to take back the public wealth that has been looted with real taxation on the ultra wealthy”
"Build on our massive advantage of renewable energy… create thousands of jobs”
"will reclaim BC's economy for working people… together we can build a resilient thriving province that respects indigenous sovereignty and our planetary boundaries.”
“we are worthy of better, and worthy of hope. When we learn to believe that again, we can win.”
@…
#BCPoli #BCGreens #CanPoli #CdnPoli #RenewableEnergy

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

this is craaaaazy.
"B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad admitted to reporters at the legislature on Thursday that during a meeting earlier in the week, he had ordered his caucus leadership to search MLAs' phones to determine if one of them was leaking information."
#BCPoli #BCCP
https://www.albernivalleynews.com/news/rustad-admits-to-searching-bc-conservative-mla-phones-8299025

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
BC Camplight:
🎵 Bubbles in the Gasoline
#BCCamplight
https://bc-camplight.bandcamp.com/track/bubbles-in-the-gasoline
https://open.spotify.com/track/3FluAyR5JMb8Mhe3OOyyzT

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
BC Camplight:
🎵 The Tent (6 Music Session, 27 Oct 2025)
#BCCamplight
https://bc-camplight.bandcamp.com/track/the-tent
https://open.spotify.com/track/1YVCgsjZOog3FbXRobaLW2

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
BC Camplight:
🎵 Drunk Talk (solo) (6 Music Session, 27 Oct 2025)
#BCCamplight
https://bc-camplight.bandcamp.com/track/drunk-talk
https://open.spotify.com/track/20PthCCQT2IJrU8nloMvnP

Today former Conservative BC MLA Dallas Brodie introduced a bill to ban territorial acknowledgments from public events and places including schools and the legislature itself.
You can find her proudly posting about it on X (at Dallas_Brodie) I won't link it.
It's as bad as you think it would be.
It's not a bad thing to acknowledge and respect the fact that people lived in BC/Canada for millenia before European's got here.
It's not a bad thing to acknowledge and try to repair the deliberate harm that was done in that process.
(the bill was voted down at first reading by a voice-vote)
#racism #FirstNations #Colonialism #BC #BCPoli #BCCPC #BCNDP

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
BC Camplight:
🎵 I'm Alright in the World (6 Music Session, 27 Oct 2025)
#BCCamplight
https://bc-camplight.bandcamp.com/album/im-alright-in-the-world
https://open.spotify.com/track/2oIB1nKJc1JgKE1JIs3g56

…oooohhhhh this s____t FINALLY might start hitting the fan! I, and many others, have been pointing out the monopoly that BC company ConAir has over firefighting contracts for Canadian governments for years.
Coulson Aviation has been doing firefighting aircraft for decades and has never been picked by its own home province on a long term contract.
The bias has been glaring.
Looks like they're going to fight it out in Court in Saskatchewan!
#BCWildfire #BCPoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/government-overpaid-firefighting-planes-manufacturer-says-1.7630608

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
BC Camplight:
🎵 The Last Rotation of Earth
#BCCamplight
https://bc-camplight.bandcamp.com/album/the-last-rotation-of-earth
https://open.spotify.com/track/07MmMkkxvMpcc9uvfjj46i

The BC Green Party has a new leader! 25 year old @…
This youtube link should be cued up to the 21m50s mark when she starts her inaugural speech as leader!
Big Congrats to her!
#BCGreens #BCPoli #CanPoli #GreenParty
https://www.youtube.com/live/psZhiP6JsaQ?si=72Nvlyy-buUh07TD&t=1310

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
BC Camplight:
🎵 Blood and Peanut Butter (6 Music Session, 27 Oct 2025)
#BCCamplight
https://bccamplight.bandcamp.com/track/blood-and-peanut-butter
https://open.spotify.com/track/6GU3WqsiKz7Mqcxigwy4Sf

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
BC Camplight:
🎵 Blood and Peanut Butter (6 Music Session, 27 Oct 2025)
#BCCamplight
https://bccamplight.bandcamp.com/track/blood-and-peanut-butter
https://open.spotify.com/track/6GU3WqsiKz7Mqcxigwy4Sf

Fascinating that BC's population dropped marginally (2154 people) last quarter ... but it still had the second highest inter-provincial migration of any province!
If we're anything like Alberta, then it's a good bet the biggest source of decline was in temporary international residents.
#CanPoli #Immigration #Population #CdnPoli #BCPoli #ABPoli

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NewMusicFix
BC Camplight:
🎵 Bubbles In The Gasoline
#BCCamplight
https://bc-camplight.bandcamp.com/track/bubbles-in-the-gasoline
https://open.spotify.com/track/3FluAyR5JMb8Mhe3OOyyzT

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
BC Camplight:
🎵 I'm In A Weird Place Now
#BCCamplight
https://hotelofthelaughingtree.bandcamp.com/track/hotel-of-the-laughing-tree-i-m-in-a-weird-place-now-bc-camplight
https://open.spotify.com/track/4hiY6WaRGpPXYkyCvKB7lZ

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
BC Camplight:
🎵 Blood and Peanut Butter (6 Music Session, 27 Oct 2025)
#BCCamplight
https://bccamplight.bandcamp.com/track/blood-and-peanut-butter
https://open.spotify.com/track/6GU3WqsiKz7Mqcxigwy4Sf

One of the main reasons I got into municipal politics in 2014 was because it seemed all city business in #portAlberni city council was happening “in-camera" (which means a meeting, not in public).
I'm glad the integrity commissioner has ruled against Ken Sim and his ABC Party councillors. It's not complicated. The Vancouver Charter is not different from the Community Charter used by every other municipality in BC. You can't have quorum and discuss business outside a public meeting. Period.
""If Council Members meet with quorum outside of an open meeting, discuss City business, and do so in a way that moves that business along the spectrum of decision making in a material way, there is a problem — they are depriving the public of participation in the policy development and decision-making processes that serve to build public trust and
confidence in local government," Southern wrote.
"Democracy is undermined.””
#BCPoli #BCMuni #CanPoli #Integrity #PublicMeetings #Democracy
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/ken-sim-integrity-commissioner-1.7617152

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
BC Camplight:
🎵 Bubbles in the Gasoline
#BCCamplight
https://bc-camplight.bandcamp.com/track/bubbles-in-the-gasoline
https://open.spotify.com/track/3FluAyR5JMb8Mhe3OOyyzT

a huge moment for sovereign Aboriginal title in Canada.
How it will impact private property owned by non-Indigenous is unclear at least to me right now. But the Conservatives are freaking out insisting people will be evicted from their land.
Which is... of course.... VERY IRONIC
#bcpoli #haidagwaii #haidanation #canpoli #indigenousRights
https://www.albernivalleynews.com/news/bc-supreme-court-rules-haida-nation-has-sovereignty-over-haida-gwaii-8240806

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
BC Camplight:
🎵 Two Legged Dog (feat. Abigail Morris)
#BCCamplight
https://bc-camplight.bandcamp.com/track/two-legged-dog
https://open.spotify.com/track/45Lp8xeVl1UpEeKWDAWtar

Long post! #immigration #TFW #BC #CanPoli #CdnPoli #BCPoli #University #ForeignWorkers
I’ve been looking for hard numbers on foreign workers/international student workers. This story on cuts at Coast Mountain College in Prince Rupert surprisingly included examples!
As of March 28, 2025 (presumably in Prince Rupert):
McDonald's: 50 of 80 employees on temporary visas
Safeway: 50% of its 78 staff
Save On Foods: 35%
Tim Hortons: 30%
Skeena Taxi: 60%
Chances Casino: 55%
Crest Hotel: 35%
Three other local restaurants were 100% per cent reliant on temporary foreign workers.
— I want to make clear — I am not 'anti-immigrant’ — I am anti-business using cheap, exploitative, labour.
I am also against public universities/colleges (and thus government) relying on exorbitant tuitions to fund domestic programs, also admitted by a former President of CMC here!
"“Pursuing international students was a strategy developed when I chaired the board at Coast Mountain College," Prince Rupert Mayor Herb Pond said. "It wasn't a money grab, but rather a tactic to build out a broader offering of courses for the sake of local students. Pond added that he suspects the restrictions on foreign students will limit what the college is able to offer to Prince Rupert students.””
Governments and public institutions thave gotten drunk on international tuition to pad education budgets just like businesses have got drunk on high profit margins from hiring low-cost TFWs and raising consumer prices!
It's a money grab on both ends and in the middle are exploited immigrants and young Canadians looking for work.
"Many businesses struggle to recruit residents or convince Canadians from other regions…resulting in heavy reliance on international students and temporary foreign workers to pick up the slack."
This is a Business-Industry lie! Try applying for a minimum wage job! It's damn near impossible.
Con/Lib Government did this!
https://www.albernivalleynews.com/news/college-struggles-worker-supply-fades-as-immigration-changes-hammer-bcs-northwest-8247783

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
BC Camplight:
🎵 The Last Rotation of Earth
#BCCamplight
https://bc-camplight.bandcamp.com/album/the-last-rotation-of-earth
https://open.spotify.com/track/07MmMkkxvMpcc9uvfjj46i

Wildfire Rankings:
#BCWildfire #BCWildfire #endfossilfuels #BCPoli #CanPoli #ClimateChange

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
BC Camplight:
🎵 Thieves In Antigua
#BCCamplight
https://bc-camplight.bandcamp.com/track/thieves-in-antigua
https://open.spotify.com/track/1TTSw4vU38SfgReEK04CaU

no ____ sherlock: “Evidence of drought”
In 2015 we had a long drought and that was the first year *ever* #BCWildfire saw Rank 5 fires in the Coastal Fire Centre of BC. It was a fire near Squamish. I was in a municipal meeting with BC Wildfire folks at UBCM.
Climate Change is happening, has happened, and will continue until we stop forcing it. Our natural landscapes have no way to adapt.
END FOSSIL FUELS
#BCWildfire #endfossilfuels #BCPoli #CanPoli #ClimateChange
https://www.albernivalleynews.com/local-news/evidence-of-drought-wesley-ridge-wildfire-burns-through-dry-conditions-8175809

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RadcliffeAndMaconie
BC Camplight:
🎵 A Sober Conversation
#BCCamplight
https://bc-camplight.bandcamp.com/track/drunk-talk
https://open.spotify.com/track/2ynJBlQGDBMz5xXMmPyHC1

literally as I finished this post I got an email from my own employer on more cuts to the International student unit.
It's happening everywhere. The chickens have come home to roost.
There is a reckoning happening in government policy on immigration, education, health care, and the purpose of government to fund services and support workers.
Do we choose the door to the right: shut-the-borders-and-do-austerity
Or the door to the left: Reform immigration and labour laws, eliminate exploitation, encourage education and fund it through taxation of corporations and the rich.
I know which one I would prefer.
#immigration #TFW #BC #CanPoli #CdnPoli #BCPoli #University #ForeignWorkers

There's nothing quite like the energy of a small town fair :-)
I've probably been to the Fall Fair 30 out of my 47 years on the planet and I have never had a bad time.
#smalltown #portalberni #fair #home #fallfair #bc #canada #midway

EV Charging Cost by the Numbers.
I charge my car at home almost nightly wirh a Level 2 Flo 30A/240V charger.
I noticed today that they have added an "estimated rate" for my address based on my utility (BC Hydro) charge so that it can estimate the cost of the charging.
Their estimate is $0.11400/kWh. I drive alot. 160km a day when I am commuting to work and then 50-100km in the evening 4-5 days a week Dashing. Thanks to dashing I have a solid record of odometer readings.
We have both tiered and time of day pricing so it's complicated to do this manually. I do most of my charging during the lowest rate overnight. I have the Flo charger set to only charge at full 30A power between 11PM and 7AM to match the overnight rate, then 15A in "off peak" (standard rate) and to turn off completely during on-peak 4PM to 9PM times.
I think their estimate is quite accurate considering the overnight rate is usually $0.14 - $0.05/kWh. Ill include my latest electrical bill. (we are billed monthly)
Here are the numbers.
A "full tank" of battery is 65kWh
Monthly: eg. March (full time commuting plus dashing) 4668km
30 charging sessions
853.4kWh
$97 ($2.07/100km)
Last 12 months: 56,107km
8793kWh
$1,002 ($1.78/100km)
There are a few free charges at work in there (15 in the year?) but any saving is eaten up by $6/day parking cost.
As a comparison if I drove our 2014 Prius C hybrid 56,000km at its general fuel mileage of 5L/100km and an average price of $1.60/L that would be $2,800. So I am saving by more than half, and probably more than that, compared to one of the best mileage hybrids out there.
It makes less and less sense to buy a gas car.
(We have 222,607km on the 2019 Hyundai Kona and about 250,000 on the Prius)
#EV #ElectricCar #cost #electricity #bchydro #bcpoli #endfossilfuels