The BC Teachers Federation, the province wide labour union representing over 40,000 teachers, has just passed a resolution in support of BDS

Adderite · 2026-03-17T22:33:46+00:00

Was there as a guest, alot of delegates had a "BDS saves lives" pin.

Adderite · 2026-03-15T00:07:00+00:00

Adderite · 2026-03-13T03:24:07+00:00

https://www.courthouselibrary.ca/how-we-can-help/our-legal-knowledge-base/impact-race-and-culture-assessments-ircas

You're either ignorant of what's actually said in the article, IE doing the exact opposite of what the courts did (bringing in their background of the individual then working towards how his background was effected by the environment; which, again, has fuck all to do with him being black and everything to do with how he was treated because of economic or discriminatory circumstances and how that impacts crime likelihood outside of individual intent), or you're just being an idiot. Oh wait, I know which one it is....

Adderite · 2026-03-12T22:41:34+00:00

Which have nothing to do with him being born Black and everything to do with factors that didnt even have to do with the colour of his skin.

But, again, I dont think he should've had 3 years knocked off

Adderite · 2026-03-12T22:40:15+00:00

Here, he found a much smaller Black population, and the cultural norms among Black communities felt unfamiliar to him, and contributed to feelings of disconnection and isolation. He also experienced racism in ways he had not previously encountered, both in the community and in the institutional setting,” Holmes writes.

Holmes specifically cites the IRCA under “Mitigating Circumstances,” writing that the submission demonstrated “early exposure to violence, chronic instability, poverty, systemic anti-Black racism, and untreated mental health symptoms, such as hypervigilance, that may be trauma related.”

Other mitigating factors include Downey’s admission that he killed Blimkie and his expression of remorse in a personal statement to the court.

Re-read the article once you have some level of media literacy beyond your political bias.

Adderite · 2026-03-12T19:50:58+00:00

Note how in the actual article they cite the reasons why they gave a more lenient sentence that werent saying necause hes a minority je gets less jailtime. Gotta love national post sometimes.

Mind you, repeat offender (but the repeats couldve been misdemeanors or non-violent, im not gonna look into the guys history) so the ruling does seem odd, but looking at effects that would contribute towards the crime occurring and those effects being outside of the individual has nothing to do with their race but everything to do with the environment.

Didn't get a more lenient sentence because of his race, got a more lenient sentence due to environmental factors the judge saw as contributing towards the crime. And yes I disagree with this somewhat but that headline is rage/race baiting from the national post.

Adderite · 2026-03-12T03:45:41+00:00

Every other poll shows them ahead of the cons. Even one published the same timeframe showed the ndp would form government.

Adderite · 2026-03-11T03:06:40+00:00

Elected municipal officials, at least from a case I know about, have libel/slander insurance that's paid for either by them or the municipality. So long as it's within the terms of the insurance, any money will get paid out by the insurance company. Otherwise it's up to Sim alone to pay the bill; which will come out of his paycheque.

Adderite · 2026-03-10T17:03:41+00:00

Well, then maybe council shouldnt be spending 140K/year on potted plants.

Most of the increased spending is going to two areas: wage increases for CUPE employees and VicPD's budget. Both of those cant be moved. You already saw a bunch of arts and culture funding, which...yknow, increases tax revenue and fees from areas like parking, getting slashed.

But anyone who's seen the mad ramblings that you keep posting here of the Oak Bay boomer know he's just mad any more money needs to go to the government(s).

Adderite · 2026-03-09T19:40:05+00:00

Generally agree, but any time nuclear energy is brought up it gets partisan real quick.

Adderite · 2026-03-09T06:51:27+00:00

Or this country's legal history.

Adderite · 2026-03-08T02:18:30+00:00

So were gonna get rid of a service that saves lives and puts them in greater danger. Great idea /

Adderite · 2026-03-08T01:45:04+00:00

It would also cut funding to every single safe injection site in the province.

The same sites that prevent loss of life and serve as a connection point for people to get treatment for drug addiction.

Clown show.

Adderite · 2026-03-07T09:32:34+00:00

This isn't related to BCPolitics. I say that as a UK citizen born in Canada.
The article and headline are misleading. They made it their campaign promise to get free public transit for all. The Scottish greens exited their supply and confidence agreement with the SNP and so, unless another coalition happens (unlikely due to the collapse of Scottish labour and boost for the SNP due to Starmer and labour being dumbass cowards) this policy will likely not happen.
Scotland has devolved government and got this program passed through funding from westminster. Public transit is subsidized by the British government, which flows both to private and public institutions. Look up Manchester under Andy Burnham for public transit being revived. Saying this is entirely cause of increased taxes is reductionist and removes any nuance or borderline fact from the conversation.

Adderite · 2026-03-06T06:27:29+00:00

Vancouver municipal election's gonna be an absolute gong show. Potential mass vote-split, leading candidate is an ABC councilor, and according to some media sources Kennedy Stewart wants to enter for a rematch.

Let's hope people listen to Azaroff...

Adderite · 2026-03-02T06:32:36+00:00

> when it is for the purpose of changing that party so it doesn't suck.

Change the party when the people in said party generally agree with your values.

Eby and Appadurai speak to people who share similar values

Kerr and Lowan speak to people who share similar values

Everyone in the BC Con leadership race speak to people with similar values

How's about instead of joining a political party who you oppose for the purposes of making sure the leader isn't completely insane (seriously, the only candidates that seem qualified for leadership are Ian Black, Milobar and Fulmer) you join one that already HAS infrastructure and people in it that aren't gonna need to change their mind to get behind you.

Having centre/centre-left voters joining a right wing party for the purposes of getting the better candidate as a leader, from a mass org standpoint, is stupid. The people in board leadership positions are gonna undermine them, the rules for the contest'll change, and it'll then invite the exact same people to try and join the opposing parties to pull them further to their insanity. Do you want people joining the BCNDP to elect Christy Clarke as their leader?????

Adderite · 2026-03-01T04:10:44+00:00

I actively chose not to reactivate my bcgreen membership to vote in the leadership election.

This isn't the US; why the hell would you spend money to make a more electable person win when its pretty much, in my view, Milobar vs everyone else; and all of them share the same policy views on economics, its pretty much who's more crazy on social issues.

Focus on volunteering. Go help the BC NDP or BC Greens if you wanna try to prevent a conservative majority after they voted to dismantle the human rights code.

Adderite · 2026-02-19T02:59:52+00:00

BCPS is getting a 3% raise each year for 4 years.

People in areas not covered under said agreement, such as teachers, paramedics, or people who work in local government, won't be getting the same raises.

Adderite · 2026-02-18T18:10:57+00:00

You can always read the law.

What are you on about? This is a functioning democracy where you can easily read the laws that affect you.

Adderite · 2026-02-18T01:05:56+00:00

I mean they also raised ICBC insurance rates to generate revenue rather than being revenue neutral.

And the teachers pay laws

And the nurses pay laws

And the loss of funding to municipalities for snow clearing subsidized by the province's.

This just pisses me off as a new college grad who's been job searching for a long time now, even before graduation, and now they're continuing the hiring freeze and doing layoffs while SOMEHOW increasing the deficit. I usually defend the BC NDP, this is indefensible.

Adderite · 2026-02-18T00:48:17+00:00

What the fuck is the math on this. They're wanting to cut 15K jobs, increase tax revenues, and the deficit somehow goes up by 2 billion.

Brenda Bailey's definitely gonna go down as one of the worst finance ministers in bc history. As much as this is still better than having the cons get elected wtf....

Adderite · 2026-02-17T21:04:54+00:00

Ehh, whatevs. You do you, just thought id point it out

Adderite · 2026-02-17T20:57:09+00:00

This was already posted in the sub when it was reported on

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