Doug Baker - Elbows Up! 🇨🇦This one, I think, is all on #MelanieMark, who, as minister, sprung a half-baked and deeply unpopular $800M museum project (no real plans, no real bids) on an unsuspecting #BritishColumbia population (and, I suspect, Premier). https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/ceo-of-beleaguered-royal-b-c-museum-resigns-1.6880465
BC Info BotGlobal News BC: B.C. Premier David Eby announces byelection date for two vacant ridings https://globalnews.ca/news/9727408/b-c-premier-david-eby-byelection-date-vacant-ridings/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #Vancouver-MountPleasant #LangfordJuandeFuca #BCbyelections #Byelections #MelanieMark #BCpolitics #JohnHorgan #Politics #DavidEby #BC
Global News BC: Eby close to calling byelections in ridings once held by former premier, minister https://globalnews.ca/news/9724186/eby-call-two-byelections-shortly-bc/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #Vancouver-MountPleasantbyelection #LangfordJuandeFucabyelection #Vancouver-MountPleasant #LangfordJuandeFuca #BCbyelection #BCgovernment #MelanieMark #BCpolitics #JohnHorgan #Politics #BCMLAs
Another part of #MelanieMark's legacy?
Budget for Royal B.C. Museum facility balloons to $270M | CBC News
The new Royal B.C. Museum collections and research building set to be built in the Victoria suburb of Colwood is now projected to cost almost $100 million more than the original estimate, according to figures released by the B.C. government.
Monte Paulsen, Climate Ready Buildings Group“This place felt like a torture chamber… The nastiness from white men in here is awful… I've put up with enough abuse in my life.” #melaniemark #bcndp #vancouver
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/melanie-mark-resigns-1.6756804
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/melanie-mark-resigns-1.6756804
Franke JamesFormer B.C. NDP cabinet minister #MelanieMark to resign #Vancouver seat, cites health:
“There’s a lot that I’m proud of, but this journey has been challenging and has come at a significant personal toll,” she said. “The place felt like a torture chamber... The fact is the political environment is cutthroat and dysfunctional.”
"She said she entered politics to stand up for society’s underdogs and speak up for the voiceless and those who don’t vote."
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2023/02/22/former-bc-ndp-cabinet-minister-melanie-mark-to-resign-vancouver-seat-cites-health.html #indigenous
I wish #MelanieMark all the best in the future, and thank her for her service, BUT it should be noted that her leadership in the #BC Provincial Museum re-build initiative last year was a complete and unmitigated disaster. No real consultation, no real planning, just a casual estimate of $800M to be spent.
It was such a blunder that #PremierHorgan had to take over and bail her out. And then she left the portfolio.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/melanie-mark-resigns-1.6756804
It was such a blunder that #PremierHorgan had to take over and bail her out. And then she left the portfolio.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/melanie-mark-resigns-1.6756804
Global News BC: MLA Melanie Mark calls BC legislature ‘torture’ in resignation speech https://globalnews.ca/news/9504781/mla-melanie-mark-bc-legislature-torture-resignation-speech/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #Vancouver-MountPleasant #DowntownEastside #BCLegislature #MelanieMark #Politics #colonial #Resigns #BCNDP
