After the recounts overseen by a judge, Rustad said he accepted the results. This was a lie. Conservatives will sow doubt on any election they lose in order to cheat their way to power. This is now their standard operating procedure post-election.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-conservatives-election-irregularities-1.7426559
“A link” to the “shadowy online world of conservatism”: Former Harper minister Stockwell Day is a director of West Coast Proud, which poured money into ads boosting BC Conservatives.
Zak Vescera reports. An investigation with @IJFmedia. #BCElxn2024
The BC NDP was able to eke out a majority government this #BCElxn2024.
What about the seats they lost? Where did the BC Greens and BC Conservatives gain ground?
Let’s have a look, with a little help from some visuals.
@gemelliz
Here’s a link to the corresponding @thetyee article. (Non-paywalled)
https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/11/11/Stockwell-Day-Secretive-Role-BC-Election/
Canada needs to address these 3rd party ‘advertisers’ that are clearly backdoors for Conservative dark-money to work around campaign financing laws.
Edit: apparently I forgot to actually link to the article. 😀
Good news about one election, anyway.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/ndp-majority-holds-1.7378584
In the last fundraising quarter ahead of the provincial election, the surging BC Conservatives raised more money than the governing NDP.
Andrew MacLeod reports. #BCElxn2024
Tax cuts were promised by both the Conservatives and the NDP in the #BCElxn2024, framed as a way to ease cost-of-living pressures.
But tax cuts would do little to address the structural problems underlying those cost pressures. 🩹 Alex Hemingway writes.
“It was heartening to see members of the BC Conservative party saying they accepted the result.”
The BC Conservatives raised many culture war topics. But one expert praises them for rejecting claims that the #BCElxn2024 was compromised, despite right-wing influencers casting doubt on the process.
Did BC Conservatives breach voters’ privacy?
BC United claimed members’ personal data was put at risk in July. Why we need an investigation, writes Charlie Smith. #bcpoli #BCElxn2024
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The Tyee
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