British Columbia political sewer 🚽 🧻🪠
BC United suspends campaign amid surging support for BC Conservatives 🤔
bc.ctvnews.ca/bc-united-to-sus…
* BC official Opposition (BC United; form. BC Liberals) suspend campaign
* won't run candidates in provincial election
* polls: BC United lost ground to BC Conservatives
* last election BC Conservatives didn’t send single MLA to legislature
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BC_Unite…
#Canada #BC #BCUnited #BCLiberals
#BCconservatives #JohnRustad #antiLGBT #FarRight #transphobia
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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ • • •B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad Not Aw Shucks Guy He Bills Himself As
mastodon.social/@persagen/1130…
[Canada] B.C. Conservative leader meets Jordan Peterson, praises Freedom Convoy accused
mastodon.social/@persagen/1129…
Checked: B.C. Conservatives Claims about Trans People
mastodon.social/@persagen/1129…
#Canada #BritishColumbia #BCUnited #BCLiberals #BCconservatives #conservatism #JohnRustad #antiLGBT #SOGI #FarRight #homophobia #transphobia #disinformation #JordanPeterson #JoeRogan #ChristianRight
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ (@persagen@mastodon.social)
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in reply to Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ • • •B.C. United suspends campaign to merge w. B.C. Conservatives
Under Leader John Rustad B.C. Conservatives climbing in polls & raking in donations
cbc.ca/news/canada/british-col…
* move intended to unite right-of-centre [i.e. far-right; Christian right] vote ahead of 2024-Oct-19th B.C. provincial election
#Canada #BritishColumbia #BCUnited #BCLiberals
#BCconservatives #conservatism #JohnRustad #antiLGBT #SOGI
#FarRight #homophobia #transphobia #disinformation #JordanPeterson #JoeRogan #ChristianRight
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ • • •Re: [2024-Aug-28] B.C. United suspends campaign to merge w. B.C. Conservatives
Literally 4 months ago:
[2024-Apr-13] B.C. Liberal Party name change to BC United builds bridges to the future: Falcon 🤔
vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/b-c…
* new name/branding for political party once led by premiers Gordon Campbell & Christy Clark
* "What an incredible moment" Kevin Falcon told party members
Stupid name, btw ... 💩 ⚽️
#Canada #BritishColumbia #BCUnited #BCLiberals #KevinFalcon #BCpolitics #ineptitude
B.C. Liberal Party name change to BC United builds bridges to the future: Falcon
Vancouver IslandVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ • • •Freedom Convoy Donor List incl. Candidates for John Rustad’s BC Conservatives
One candidate was headline speaker at convoy conference with BC Conservative leader Rustad
pressprogress.ca/freedom-convo…
Canada convoy protest: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_c…
John Rustad: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rus…
Canadian Far-Right Convoy to Save the Children
mastodon.social/@persagen/1108…
Convoy org. try to quash $300M lawsuit
mastodon.social/@persagen/1107…
#Canada #conservatism #JohnRustad #antiLGBT #FarRight #ChristianRight #FreedomConvoy
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ (@persagen@mastodon.social)
MastodonVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ • • •B.C. Conservative leader outlines views on energy, education in Jordan Peterson interview
bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-conservative…
* John Rustad: B.C. needs conversation about nuclear power, review educational materials wh. he says indoctrinate children
* wants to elim. carbon tax wh. he says taxes people into poverty in vain attempt to change weather
#BCconservatives #JohnRustad #BCunited #BCliberals #JordanPeterson #antiLGBT #ClimateDenial #FarRight #ConspiracyTheorists #PseudoIntellectualism #disinformation
B.C. Conservative leader outlines views on energy, education in Jordan Peterson interview
British ColumbiaVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ • • •Right’s War on Media Comes to British Columbia
thetyee.ca/Opinion/2024/09/05/…
* Premier David Eby (NDP) said Rustad committed to ban books on climate science f. our classrooms
* BC Conservatives' Anthony Koch asked to comment
* no answer to simple/legitimate question
* just insults on X/Twitter - known for unfounded/bitter attacks
#InvestigativeJournalism #Tyee #BCconservatives #JohnRustad #conservatism #Poilievre #antiLGBT #ClimateDenial #FarRight #ConspiracyTheorists #disinformation #Xcorp #Twitter
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ • • •6 Things to Know about Rustad’s Chat w. Jordan Peterson
BC Conservative leader discussed distrust of climate science/other topics w. viral right-wing personality
thetyee.ca/News/2024/09/05/Six…
B.C. Conservative leader outlines views on energy/education in Jordan Peterson interview
mastodon.social/@persagen/1130…
#education #ClimateChange #BCconservatives #JohnRustad #JordanPeterson #antiLGBT #transphobia #ClimateDenial #FarRight #ConspiracyTheorists #PseudoIntellectualism #disinformation
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
2024-09-03 15:44:53
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ • • •Sensitive content
Populist rhetoric
BC Conservatives cry lawlessness after Vancouver stranger attacks
bc.ctvnews.ca/bc-conservatives…
Facts:
* random attack: Vancouver is safe
* crime/violent crime/unprovoked stranger attacks trending down
* VPD chief: Vancouver is not dying, Vancouver is not dead, Vancouver is not unsafe. That's all hyperbole, and it's not actually factual
Chip Wilson | Ken Sim | ABC Vancouver
Demonization, criminalization of homelessness
mastodon.social/@persagen/1108…
#conservatism #Vancouver #BC
BC Conservatives decry 'lawlessness' after gruesome Vancouver stranger attacks
British ColumbiaVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ • • •Sensitive content
Update:
Man charged with murder after deadly Vancouver stranger attacks
The suspect in an Vancouver 'unprovoked stranger attack' that left one man dead and another with his hand cut off has been charged
vancouverisawesome.com/highlig…
* random attack by mentally ill person
#Vancouver #BritishColumbia #VPD #ViolentCrime #populism #BCconservatives #JohnRustad
Man charged with murder after deadly Vancouver stranger attacks
Alanna Kelly (Vancouver Is Awesome)Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ • • •Climate Denier John Rustad Now Major Player in British Columbia 2024-Oct Election
desmog.com/2024/09/05/climate-…
* BC United (Liberals) party imploded
* leader of Conservative Party of BC John Rustad no longer fringe player
* fast-approaching provincial election
* Rustad’s fringe ideas, shared on Jordan Peterson’s podcast, condemned by Indigenous grps
* expressed incredulity that people worry about carbon emissions
#BCconservatives #JohnRustad #JordanPeterson #ClimateDenial #FarRight #disinformation
Climate Denier John Rustad Is Now a Major Player in BC’s October Election - DeSmog
Taylor Noakes (DeSmog)Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ • • •Russian Disinformation/Right-Wing Influencers
mastodon.social/@persagen/1131…
BC Conservative exec Angelo Isidorou; Lauren Southern
mastodon.social/@persagen/1131…
Lauren Southern
* Cdn alt-right political activist/propagandist/commentator/transphobe/wh. nationalist
* Great Replacement/white genocide conspiracy theories
Angelo Isidorou
* billionaire-backed Vancouver is Dying homelessness/addiction-demonizing copaganda film
#LaurenSouthern #AngeloIsidorou #FarRight #antiLGBT #JohnRustad #BCconservatives
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ (@persagen@mastodon.social)
MastodonVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ • • •Anti-Climate Culture War Led by Jordan Peterson & Project 2025
Canadian influencer, U.S. religious right allies want people to see climate action as pseudo-religion
desmog.com/2024/09/09/inside-t…
Comment: so many intersections that combinatorially appear, du jour:
#conservatism #BCconservatives #JohnRustad #JordanPeterson #JoeRogan #Poilievre #populism #ConspiracyTheories #ClimateChangeDenial #disinformation #libertariaianism #FarRight #ChristianRight #antiLGBT #transphobia #Project2025 #theocracy
Inside the Anti-Climate Culture War Led by Jordan Peterson and Project 2025 - DeSmog
Geoff Dembicki (DeSmog)Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ • • •BC United leaks extremism file on B.C. Conservative director Angelo Isidorou
bc.ctvnews.ca/bc-united-source…
Comment: Isidorou was the producer of the Chip Wilson (billionaire: Pacific Prosperity Network; Take Back Alberta far-right political funder)-backed "Vancouver is Dying" copaganda film that demonized the homelessness and addiction treatment services (safe injection / harm reduction)
#LaurenSouthern #AngeloIsidorou #FarRight #antiLGBT #JohnRustad #BCconservatives #ChipWilson #TBA #billionaires
BC United sources leak 'extremism' file on B.C. Conservative director
British ColumbiaVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ • • •John Rustad Is Old-School Climate Change Denier
It’s ‘real’ but not really real, he says - certainly not the fault of humans
thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/09/10…
#conservatism #BCconservatives #JohnRustad #JordanPeterson #JoeRogan #Poilievre #populism #ConspiracyTheories #ClimateChangeDenial #disinformation #libertariaianism #FarRight #ChristianRight #antiLGBT #transphobia #Project2025 #theocracy
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ • • •Unpacking Rustad’s Pledge to Review British Columbia’s Textbooks
Educators/advocates ready for a fight
thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/09/12…
* proposing to review B.C. school books to ensure they’re "neutral" - By whose standards?
* pending election: statistical tie w. Premier David Eby’s incumbent BC NDP
#Canada #BritishColumbia #BCUnited #BCLiberals #BCconservatives #conservatism #JohnRustad #antiLGBT #SOGI #FarRight #populism #disinformation #ChristianRight #ParentalRightsMovement #BookBans #censorship
Doug Baker - Elbows Up!
in reply to Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ • • •Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ • • •Far-Right Content on BC Conservatives Social Media
White nationalism; far-right German politician’s speech
thetyee.ca/News/2024/09/25/Tro…
Lindsay Shepherd: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindsay_…: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindsay_…
#BritishColumbia #BCconservatives #JohnRustad #LindsayShepherd #populism #disinformation #ConspiracyTheorists
#racism #SystemicRacism #StructuralViolence #WhiteSupremacism #WhiteNationalism
#discrimination #antiLGBT #SOGI #ParentalRightsMovement #BookBans #censorship #FarRight #ChristianRight
Canadian educator and free speech activist
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ • • •[Canada] B.C. Conservatives laser-focused on mining as potential multi-billion revenue source
bc.ctvnews.ca/bc-conservatives…
#Canada #BritishColumbia #NaturalResources
#capitalism #libertarianism #corporations #WealthInequality #inflation #WealthTax
#BCconservatives #JohnRustad #populism #disinformation #ConspiracyTheorists #racism #SystemicRacism #StructuralViolence #WhiteSupremacism #WhiteNationalism #discrimination #antiLGBT #ParentalRightsMovement #BookBans #censorship #FarRight #ChristianRight
BC Conservatives 'laser-focused' on mining as potential multi-billion revenue source
British ColumbiaVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ • • •[Canada] John Rustad Is Threat to First Nations, Threat to Reconciliation’
Indigenous leaders unpack BC Conservative leader’s statements on DRIPA, First Nations title ...
thetyee.ca/News/2024/09/27/Rus…
Comment. On eve of Sep 30 Truth & Reconciliation Day, it's noted that John Rustad was minister of Aboriginal relations & reconciliation under BC Liberals so he knows better. No issues swapping ethics for votes, apparently.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_h…
#BCconservatives #JohnRustad
Wikimedia list article
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ • • •[Canada:BC] Leaked Dossier Reveals 200 Pages of Conspiracies & Controversial Statements f. John Rustad’s BC Conservative Candidates
Opposition research raises new questions about far-right extremism w.i. BC Conservative Party
pressprogress.ca/leaked-dossie…
NDP uses BC United research to attack crackpot BC Conservatives
bc.ctvnews.ca/ndp-uses-bc-unit…
#BritishColumbia #BCconservatives #JohnRustad #antiLGBT #FarRight #disinformation #ChristianRight #censorship #ConspiracyTheorists #SystemicRacism #transphobia
Leaked Dossier Reveals 200 Pages of Conspiracies and Controversial Statements From John Rustad’s BC Conservati
PressProgressVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ • • •Comment: exemplar, negative political/social effect of hucksters like John Rustad on progressive politicians (David Eby)
* ditto federal level: huckster Pierre Poilievre viz-a-viz Justin Trudeau
Critics say overdose crisis politicized in BC election
bc.ctvnews.ca/critics-see-drug…
* NDP would open "secure facilities" for involuntary care for people w. severe drug addiction or mental health problems
* policy unity with rival B.C. Conservatives ahead of fall election
#PublicHealth #addiction #populism
Critics see drug debate tainted by politicization in B.C. election campaign
British ColumbiaVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ • • •B.C. voters: your future leadership
BC Conservative Candidate Mike Harris Blames Staff for Video Claiming Hairdryers Can Cure COVID-19
Video on BC Conservative candidate’s LinkedIn profile claimed blowing hairdryer up your nose can “kill” COVID-19 virus
pressprogress.ca/bc-conservati…
#Canada #BritishColumbia #BCconservatives #JohnRustad #MikeHarris #conservatism #antiLGBT #FarRight #homophobia #transphobia #disinformation #ChristianRight #ConspiracyTheorists #ClimateDenial #pseudoscience
BC Conservative Candidate Blames Staff for Video Claiming Hairdryers Can Cure COVID-19
PressProgressVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ • • •Rustad wants B.C. Indigenous rights law repealed. Chief sees that as 40-year setback
bc.ctvnews.ca/rustad-wants-b-c…
Rustad Threat to First Nations, Reconciliation
mastodon.social/@persagen/1132…
First Nations leader Says BC Conservative Candidate’s Residential School Postings are ‘Outrageous, Disgusting and Very, Very Sad’
pressprogress.ca/first-nations…
#BCconservatives #JohnRustad #antiLGBT #ClimateDenial #FarRight #populism #ConspiracyTheorists #disinformation #Indigenous
First Nations leader Says BC Conservative Candidate’s Residential School Postings are ‘Outrageous, Disgusting
PressProgressVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
2024-09-27 14:54:49
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ • • •Where Does Rustad Draw the Line on Toxic Candidates?
After booting 5 of his own he echoes some of them
thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/10/01…
* misogynist, anti-LGBTQ views expressed by BC Conservative candidates
* Rustad espouses belief that “climate narrative” conspiracy to reduce global population
* unclear where Rustad draws the line
#BritishColumbia #BCconservatives #JohnRustad #antiLGBT #FarRight #disinformation #censorship #ConspiracyTheorists #InstitutionalRacism #transphobia #ClimateDenial #populism
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ • • •[Canada] Drug Policy Experts Say BC Conservatives’ ‘Dehumanizing’ Rhetoric About People Who Use Drugs is Going Too Far
‘They’re eliciting emotional reactions like disgust, fear and anger’
pressprogress.ca/drug-policy-e…
#PublicHealth #addiction #populism #HarmReduction #SafeInjection #poverty
#demonization #rhetoric #discrimination #InstitutionalRacism #StructuralViolence
#BCconservatives #JohnRustad #conservatism #Poilievre #antiLGBT #ClimateDenial #FarRight #ConspiracyTheorists #disinformation
Drug Policy Experts Say BC Conservatives’ ‘Dehumanizing’ Rhetoric About People Who Use Drugs is Going Too Far
PressProgressVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ • • •[Canada] BC Conservatives Scrub Right-Wing Culture War Policies, Rhetoric f. Website
pressprogress.ca/bc-conservati…
* John Rustad/BC Conservatives/proto-fascists
* removed sections on education, law and order, homelessness, drug policy
#PublicHealth #addiction #populism #HarmReduction #SafeInjection #poverty
#demonization #rhetoric #discrimination #InstitutionalRacism #StructuralViolence
#BCconservatives #JohnRustad #conservatism #antiLGBT #ClimateDenial #FarRight #ConspiracyTheorists #disinformation
BC Conservatives Scrub Right-Wing Culture War Policies, Rhetoric From Platform Posted on Party’s Website
PressProgressVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ • • •BC Conservatives Threaten Notwithstanding Clause If Courts Rule Involuntary Care Violates Human Rights
pressprogress.ca/bc-conservati…
* Rustad threatens to override Charter of Rights & Freedoms
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian…
#PublicHealth #addiction #populism #HarmReduction #SafeInjection #poverty
#demonization #rhetoric #discrimination #InstitutionalRacism #StructuralViolence
#BCconservatives #JohnRustad #conservatism #antiLGBT #ClimateDenial #FarRight #ConspiracyTheorists #disinformation #ProtoFascism
1982 Canadian constitutional legislation
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ • • •Lululemon billionaire / far-right political activist Chip Wilson Denounces BC NDP as Communists
1 day later
BC Conservative Leader John Rustad Accuses BC Premier David Eby of Being a Communist
mastodon.social/@persagen/1132…
#ChipWilson #Lululemon #billionaires #WealthTax #FarRight #TakeBackAlberta #JohnRustad
#propaganda #VancouverIsDying #homelessness #PovertyIndustrialComplex #discrimination
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ (@persagen@mastodon.social)
MastodonVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ • • •[Canada] BC Conservative Leader Rustad Suggests Nuremberg-Style COVID-19 Trials
pressprogress.ca/bc-conservati…
* Nuremberg 2.0: idea pushed by conspiratorial far-right groups
* prosecute politicians, doctors, others for ‘crimes against humanity’
Revisionism:
Rustad: Nuremberg/Nazi comparisons to COVID-19 measures 'unacceptable'
bc.ctvnews.ca/nuremberg-and-na…
#PublicHealth #COVID19
#BCconservatives #JohnRustad #populism #antiLGBT #ClimateDenial #FarRight #ConspiracyTheorists #disinformation #ProtoFascism
BC Conservative Leader John Rustad Suggests Province Would Participate in ‘Nuremberg’-Style COVID-19 Trials
PressProgressVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ • • •Public health consequences of conspiracy theorists John Rustad (B.C.), Danielle Smith (Alberta)
Alberta Drug Czar departing
cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/mar…
* champion: abstinence-based treatment
* foe: harm reduction
thetyee.ca/Opinion/2024/10/09/…
* recovery model biased against harm reduction
* drug overdose deaths surged 2019+ under M. Smith
* BC Conservatives John Rustad promised to copy Alberta's approach
#BritishColumbia #Alberta #DanielleSmith #JohnRustad #MarshallSmith #PublicHealth #HarmReduction
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ • • •23 Metro Vancouver doctors sign letter questioning BC Conservative policies
bc.ctvnews.ca/23-doctors-from-…
* concerns about health-care system if John Rustad/Conservatives elected
* essent. that leaders make decisions based on science, best available evidence, rather than pandering to specific subsets of society
* “... we are extremely concerned by John Rustad’s comments on vaccines, undermining public health advice/medical science"
#JohnRustad #BCconservatives #ConspiracyTheorists #antivax #populism
23 doctors from Metro Vancouver sign letter questioning B.C. Conservative policies
British ColumbiaVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ • • •BC Conservatives Using 2SLGBTQIA+ Student Supports as Wedge Election Issue, Experts Say
Rustad kicked off the election campaign by stating the SOGI 123 initiative is “too divisive"
pressprogress.ca/bc-conservati…
Transphobia tactics
mastodon.social/@persagen/1130…
#BritishColumbia #dickhead #JohnRustad #BCconservatives #transphobia #WedgeTactics #antiLGBT #populism #DivisiveRhetoric #CultureWars #SOGI #conservatism #ConspiracyTheorists #WedgeIssue #FarRight #ChristianRight #discrimination #PublicEducation
BC Conservatives are Using 2SLGBTQ+ Student Supports as a Wedge Election Issue, Experts Say
Rumneek Johal (PressProgress)Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ • • •[Canada] 5 memorable moments from the B.C. leaders' debate
bc.ctvnews.ca/5-memorable-mome…
* John Rustad's populist policies, conservative ideology attacked (poorly defended)
Party Leaders Trade Barbs in TV Pitch to Voters
Rustad faced criticism re: lack of costed platform
thetyee.ca/News/2024/10/09/Par…
* costed platform i.e. platform costing (funding accountability): papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
#JohnRustad #BCconservatives #antiLGBT #populism #SOGI #conservatism #ConspiracyTheorists #FarRight #CostedPlatform
5 memorable moments from the B.C. leaders' debate
British ColumbiaVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ • • •Q. Did John Rustad witness overdose death on way to BC leaders' debate (as he claimed)? A: No. He lied
bc.ctvnews.ca/did-john-rustad-…
* BC Emerg. Health Services: no records of any patient events Oct. 8 at location Rustad mentions
* Rustad later on social media: happened at diff. location AND person did not die
* avg 6 people/d dying 2024
* ann. rate of death f. toxic drugs lowest over 3 y
#JohnRustad #BCconservatives #antiLGBT #populism #disinformation #ConspiracyTheorists #FarRight #HarmReduction
Did John Rustad witness an overdose death on his way to the B.C. leaders' debate?
British ColumbiaVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ • • •Rustad changes story on fatal overdose coroner had no record of
B.C. Conservative leader had claimed at televised debate that he saw overdose at Robson and Hornby streets
Q. Did John Rustad witness overdose death on way to BC leaders' debate (as he claimed)? A: No. He lied
mastodon.social/@persagen/1132…
#JohnRustad #BCconservatives #antiLGBT #populism #disinformation #ConspiracyTheorists #FarRight #HarmReduction
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ (@persagen@mastodon.social)
MastodonVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ • • •BC Conservative Leader Was ‘Offensive and Insulting’ During BC Election Debate, First Nations Leaders Say
First Nations chiefs take issue with John Rustad’s paternalistic rhetoric and plan to roll back Indigenous rights
pressprogress.ca/bc-conservati…
#JohnRustad #BCconservatives #antiLGBT #populism #disinformation #ConspiracyTheorists #FarRight #HarmReduction #ClimateDenial #FarRight #disinformation #Indigenous #colonialism #TRC #racism #SystemicRacism #StructuralViolence #conservatism #ChristianRight
BC Conservative Leader Was ‘Offensive and Insulting’ During BC Election Debate, First Nations Leaders Say
PressProgressVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ • • •BC Conservatives Under Fire Over Spokesperson Known for Insults, Slurs, Online Abuse
Anthony Koch repeatedly made misogynistic, divisive, & inflammatory remarks, targeting Muslims, Sikhs & women of color
pressprogress.ca/bc-conservati…
#BCconservatives #JohnRustad #AnthonyKoch #conservatism #antiLGBT #ClimateDenial #FarRight #ConspiracyTheorists #disinformation #ProtoFascism #populism #racism #misogyny #poverty #demonization #rhetoric #discrimination #InstitutionalRacism #StructuralViolence #deception
BC Conservatives Under Fire Over Spokesperson Known for Insults, Slurs and Online Abuse
PressProgressVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ • • •A convenient distraction: Is racist messaging being used in BC provincial election?
policynote.ca/racial-equity
Comment: yes, it's the far right play book/wedge tactic/noise (distraction) ...
BC Conservatives Under Fire Over Spokesperson Known for Insults/Slurs/Online Abuse
mastodon.social/@persagen/1132…
#BCconservatives #JohnRustad #AnthonyKoch #conservatism #antiLGBT #FarRight #ConspiracyTheorists #disinformation #populism #misogyny #rhetoric #discrimination #InstitutionalRacism #StructuralViolence
A convenient distraction: Is racist messaging being used in BC’s provincial election?
Policy NoteVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
2024-10-11 02:19:12
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ • • •B.C. Muslim Association calls for Conservative candidate’s removal over racist remarks
bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-muslim-assoc…
A convenient distraction: Is racist messaging being used in BC provincial election?
mastodon.social/@persagen/1132…
#BCconservatives #JohnRustad #AnthonyKoch #conservatism #antiLGBT #FarRight #ConspiracyTheorists #disinformation #populism #misogyny #rhetoric #discrimination #InstitutionalRacism #StructuralViolence #ProtoFascism #racism #poverty #demonization #deception
B.C. Muslim Association calls for Conservative candidate’s removal over racist remarks
British ColumbiaVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ • • •Lululemon billionaire Chip Wilson posts 3rd large sign criticizing NDP ahead of BC election
mastodon.social/@persagen/1132…
#billionaires #Lululemon #ChipWilson #TakeBackAlberta #PacificProsperityNetwork #capitalism #libertarianism #WealthTax #VancouverIsDying #copaganda
#BCconservatives #JohnRustad #conservatism #antiLGBT #FarRight #ConspiracyTheorists #disinformation #populism #misogyny #discrimination #InstitutionalRacism #StructuralViolence #ProtoFascism #poverty #deception #addiction #homelessness
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
2024-10-11 16:02:48
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in reply to Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ • • •BC Conservative Candidate Brent Chapman’s Campaign Shared Graphic Comparing Public Health Policies to Nazi Holocaust
pressprogress.ca/bc-conservati…
* BC Conservatives face calls to remove Chapman, who posted anti-Muslim/anti-refugee content
#BCconservatives #JohnRustad #BrentChapman #AnthonyKoch #conservatism #antiLGBT #ClimateDenial #FarRight #ConspiracyTheorists #disinformation #ProtoFascism #populism #misogyny #discrimination #InstitutionalRacism #StructuralViolence #xenophobia #Islamophobia
BC Conservative Candidate's Campaign Shared Graphic Comparing Public Health Policies to Nazi Holocaust
PressProgressVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ • • •BC Conservative candidate Dallas Brodie under fire for comments about First Nations
bc.ctvnews.ca/bc-conservative-…
"... when people ... want to be First Nations & want autonomy & equal footing, those rights also come w. responsibility. When a large % of your people are on the Downtown Eastside ..."
* audible gasps in reaction to Brodie's statement
#BCconservatives #DallasBrodie #JohnRustad #antiLGBT #FarRight #discrimination #InstitutionalRacism #StructuralViolence #Indigenous #Vancouver #DTES
BC Conservative candidate under fire for comments about First Nations
British ColumbiaVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ • • •John Rustad Wants Nuclear Power for BC. We Don’t Need It
BC Conservatives energy policies based on wrong assumptions
thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/10/12…
6 Things re: Rustad’s Chat w. Jordan Peterson
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Climate Denier Rustad Major Player in BC Election
mastodon.social/@persagen/1130…
Anti-Climate Culture War Led by Jordan Peterson & Project 2025
mastodon.social/@persagen/1131…
Rustad: Climate Change Denier
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#BCconservatives #JohnRustad #JordanPeterson #ClimateDenial
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
2024-09-05 15:26:54
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ • • •BC Conservative Candidate Brent Chapman Warns United Nations ‘Conspiracies’ to Take Control of Canada
Warns UN taking control of Cdn municipalities, while crediting far-right leaders in Argentina, Hungary, El Salvador
pressprogress.ca/bc-conservati…
#BCElxn2024 #BCconservatives #JohnRustad #BrentChapman #AnthonyKoch #conservatism #antiLGBT #transphobia #ClimateDenial #JordanPeterson #FarRight #ConspiracyTheorists #disinformation #ProtoFascism #populism #misogyny #discrimination #racism #xenophobia
BC Conservative Candidate Warned of United Nations 'Conspiracies' to Take Control of Canada
PressProgressVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ • • •BC Conservative candidate Brent Chapman: Mass shootings share sketchy stories
bc.ctvnews.ca/mass-shootings-s…
* B.C. Conservative candidate Brent Chapman under fire once again
* Facebook comments cast doubt on official accounts of mass shooting events in Canada & USA
BC Conservative Candidate Brent Chapman Warns United Nations ‘Conspiracies’ to Take Control of Canada
mastodon.social/@persagen/1132…
#BCElxn2024 #BCconservatives #BrentChapman #FarRight #ConspiracyTheorists #disinformation #JohnRustad #antiLGBT
Mass shootings share 'sketchy stories,' B.C. Conservative candidate claims in resurfaced social post
British ColumbiaVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
2024-10-13 00:00:12
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ • • •BC Conservative Candidate Brent Chapman Posted Graphic Instructing Critics of Donald Trump on How to Kill Themselves
pressprogress.ca/bc-conservati…
* graphic shared by Chapman ft. imagery of handguns/violent suicide rhetoric
#BCElxn2024 #BCconservatives #BrentChapman #Trumpism #FarRight
#JohnRustad #ConspiracyTheorists #disinformation #antiLGBT #AnthonyKoch #conservatism #ClimateDenial #ProtoFascism #populism #misogyny #discrimination #InstitutionalRacism #StructuralViolence #xenophobia #Islamophobia
BC Conservative Candidate Posted Graphic Instructing Critics of Donald Trump on How to ‘Kill Themselves’
PressProgressVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ • • •BC Conservative Platform Promises Bigger Deficits, Lacks Detail
‘Laughable’ the costed platform comes 4 days before election day, says Greens’ Furstenau
thetyee.ca/News/2024/10/15/BC-…
* costed platform i.e. platform costing (funding accountability): papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
#JohnRustad #BCconservatives #antiLGBT #populism #education #SOGI #conservatism #ParentalRightsMovement #ConspiracyTheorists #ClimateChange #JordanPeterson #ClimateDenial #FarRight #CostedPlatform
#transphobia #disinformation
Policy Forum: Public Costing of Party Platforms — Learning from International Experience
papers.ssrn.comVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ • • •/1
These populist shills ramp up toxic/divisive rhetoric, demonizing vulnerable populations with no solutions/ability to pay for those programs if they magically materialize (usually corporate).
The ploy is to outsource to private groups (e.g. Cicero Institute in the USA - billionaire Joe Lonsdale). On the back end Cicero writes anti-homelessness model legislation.
B.C.: Chip Wilson, Pacific Prosperity Network, "Vancouver Is Dying" copaganda.
#billionaires #capitalism #libertarianism #WealthTax
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ • • •Incompetence or Worse? BC Conservatives’ Education Platform
Rustad’s party set education plans, changed them hours later
thetyee.ca/Opinion/2024/10/16/…
* Voters worried BC Conservatives plan to implement secret/extreme agenda
* “remove classroom material that instills guilt based on ethnicity, nationality or religion, focusing instead on uplifting students & helping them thrive”
* i.e. schools couldn’t teach about residential schools, or internment of 22k Japanese Canadians during WWII
#BCWElxn2024
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ • • •Very Dangerous: BC Conservatives Seek to Force Far-Right Anti-2SLGBTQIA+ Ideology on BC Schools
pressprogress.ca/very-dangerou…
* BC Teachers’ Federation: BC Conservative education platform echoes language of U.S.-style right-wing culture war politics
* focus on purging “ideology” f. classrooms
* ban SOGI 123: educational tools that make schools safer/more inclusive for students of ALL sexual orientations, gender identities
#BCWElxn2024 #BCconservatives #JohnRustad #antiLGBT #FarRight #transphobia
‘Very Dangerous’: Educators Warn BC Conservative Platform Seeks to Force Far-Right Anti-LGBTQ+ Ideology on BC
PressProgressVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ • • •Who's Running the BC Conservatives? The party is a new force on BC’s political scene
thetyee.ca/News/2024/10/17/Who…
Comment: this smacks of conservative Lululemon billionaire, far-right political activist Chip Wilson (same players, agendae)
mastodon.social/@persagen/1108…
#BCWElxn2024 #BCconservatives #JohnRustad #antiLGBT #FarRight #SOGI123 #transphobia
#ChipWilson #Lululemon #WealthTax #PacificProsperityNetwork #disinformation #copaganda #propaganda #VancouverIsDying #TakeBackAlberta #protofascism
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ (@persagen@mastodon.social)
MastodonVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ • • •Alberta Freedom Convoy group helping elect B.C. far right Conservatives
breachmedia.ca/freedom-convoy-…
* radical right-wing BC Rising
* mobilizing to get B.C. Conservatives elected
* effort to replicate Take Back Alberta
Who's Running the BC Conservatives?
mastodon.social/@persagen/1133…
#BCWElxn2024 #BCconservatives #BCrising #JohnRustad #antiLGBT #FarRight #SOGI123 #transphobia
#ChipWilson #WealthTax #PacificProsperityNetwork #disinformation #copaganda #VancouverIsDying #TBA #TakeBackAlberta #protofascism
Influential ‘Freedom Convoy’ group in Alberta is helping B.C.’s far right elect Conservatives ⋆ The Breach
Mary Stuart (The Breach)Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
2024-10-17 15:29:46