Our Housing affordability plan is highlighted here. Promoting our workers as experts in BC Real Estate. To work cooperatively with policy experts in gov't. Together creative solutions can be found. #bcpoli #VanRE

📢 HAPPENING NOW The march is starting in Victoria! Thousands of public service workers and supporters are on the move with one clear message to government: Fund the Frontlines. 📅March kicks off at 11 AM from Centennial Square. 📍Rally begins at 12 PM at the B.C.

📽️ 4 weeks on strike. ⏱️ Thousands of hours on the line. 🟨 Countless yellow flags waving. 📣 Endless honks of support. 🤝 Workers + communities united across B.C. Morale is high. We have the power and we’re not backing down until gov delivers a fair deal. 👉 Watch + add your

When people ask why @bcgeu civil servants are striking for fair wages, its worth noting the Tim Hortons manager in Courtnay, BC makes a higher wage than 2/5 of the civil service. We need to lift everyone up to be able to afford to live in our communities.

Disappointing to seeing misinformation floating around in media peripheral to our strike. Heres the truth: 1. The gov does NOT have a deal with 64k healthcare workers. There are no deals agreed to 2. Public Service workers got LESS than inflation last round. Ratified at 53%.

Today, public service workers across B.C. took to the picket lines to demand a fair deal. From Prince George to Surrey to Victoria, 2,627 workers in key ministries walked off the job — making it clear that government’s low wage offer is not good enough. These workers keep B.C.’s

BCGEU members working for the BC Public Service have voted 92.7% in overwhelming favour of taking job action and will issue 72-hour strike notice this afternoon. Job action could begin as early as Tuesday morning. For media inquiries, email communications@bcgeu.ca.

Air Canada CEO just said the quiet part out loud. He admitted to expecting the federal government to intervene.

Armed guards, no biking and exit strategies: Jagmeet Singh’s life under RCMP protection - National | https://t.co/RD1lLNARNe

Everything is cheaper when you don’t care about how workers are treated, wages that are paid, families that are fed, the environment, safety standards, the quality of work, human rights, whether money stays in our economy, or the national interests of your country. But the true

Probably the greatest misconception about finance is the idea that it’s all about maths and numbers, rather than about contracts, power and politics For example, I often come across people who talk about the ‘mathematical impossibility’ of paying back the interest on all debt.

what is hilarious about @Anthony__Koch vs @vancolour take on taxing land wealth is that theyre both right: 'free market' Smithian moral economy and Marxist crtiques of capital both developed from a common critique of the inefficienciss of aristocratic land wealth.

The Executive Summary: Every election, we hear the same promises: more housing, more affordability. But for the next generation, homeownership is slipping further into fantasy. I’ve been in the real estate business for over twenty years, and in that time, I’ve seen young

NEW - @JM_Whiteside has introduced a bill to ban employer-mandated sick notes to take short-term sick leave. Says it will free up doctor time. This was a campaign promise from the BC NDP, and had been called on by doctors.

Imagine if our tax system didn't take from work, but rewarded it. We could do that by eliminating income, property, and transfer taxes with land value tax, while improving the housing market. BC's land assessment was designed to do just this. Here's how it could work. 1/🧵

NEW 🧵: Is human intelligence starting to decline? Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s. What should we make of this?

"I think both parties suck. But I think they do a really good job of making us not like each other…I wish people would understand that politicians do a good job of making us fight with each other." - Charles Barkley

Here’s a goal for government in 2025: if your programs are so complicated that they require applicants to hire a consultant to access them you’re doing it wrong. Scrap it & go back to drawing board. If you’re a small business, a municipality or just a regular person, it’s

lots of things surprise me as I look into the Sikh religion. I don't think there are many religions where the devout (including founders) are proud to die in defence of OTHER religions.

This is nuts. Sikhs are commemorating the 1984 Sikh genocide when Indian government goons hunted for and killed Sikhs. It's the 40th anniversary. Never in my wildest dreams would I have imagined this in Canada. @JustinTrudeau

Props to @theJagmeetSingh for standing up to this far-right agitator. Absolutely despicable they mobbed a Terry Fox event.