[thread] British Columbia political sewer 🪠

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

BC United suspends campaign amid surging support for BC Conservatives
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/bc-united-to-suspend-campaign-amid-surge-in-support-for-bc-conservatives-sources-1.7017556

* official opposition BC United/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

BC United - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

#Canada #BCWElxn2024
#BCUnited #BCLiberals
#BCconservatives #JohnRustad #antiLGBT #FarRight #transphobia

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad Not Aw Shucks Guy He Bills Himself As
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113006024737921943

[Canada] B.C. Conservative leader meets Jordan Peterson, praises Freedom Convoy accused
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/112968510846662033

Checked: B.C. Conservatives Claims about Trans People
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/112989524182396653

#Canada #BritishColumbia #BCUnited #BCLiberals #BCconservatives #conservatism #JohnRustad #antiLGBT #SOGI #FarRight #homophobia #transphobia #disinformation #JordanPeterson #JoeRogan #ChristianRight

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
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-united-suspends-campaign-to-merge-with-b-c-conservatives-1.7307302

* 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 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

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
https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/b-c-liberal-party-name-change-to-bc-united-builds-bridges-to-the-future-falcon-1.6353924

* 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

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
https://pressprogress.ca/freedom-convoy-donor-list-includes-names-of-several-candidates-for-john-rustads-bc-conservatives

Canada convoy protest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_convoy_protest
John Rustad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rustad

Canadian Far-Right Convoy to Save the Children
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110834884648022953

Convoy org. try to quash $300M lawsuit
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110798517195711411

#Canada #conservatism #JohnRustad #antiLGBT #FarRight #ChristianRight #FreedomConvoy

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

B.C. Conservative leader outlines views on energy, education in Jordan Peterson interview
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-conservative-leader-outlines-views-on-energy-education-in-jordan-peterson-interview-1.7023336

* 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

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Right’s War on Media Comes to British Columbia
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2024/09/05/Right-War-Media-Comes-BC

* 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 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

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
https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/09/05/Six-Things-Rustad-Chat-Jordan-Peterson

B.C. Conservative leader outlines views on energy/education in Jordan Peterson interview
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113074391811061384

#education #ClimateChange #BCconservatives #JohnRustad #JordanPeterson #antiLGBT #transphobia #ClimateDenial #FarRight #ConspiracyTheorists #PseudoIntellectualism #disinformation

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Populist rhetoric

BC Conservatives cry lawlessness after Vancouver stranger attacks
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/bc-conservatives-decry-lawlessness-after-gruesome-vancouver-stranger-attacks-1.7026421

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
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110873929767684022

#conservatism #Vancouver #BC

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

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
https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/highlights/man-charged-after-deadly-vancouver-stranger-attacks-9480580

* random attack by mentally ill person

#Vancouver #BritishColumbia #VPD #ViolentCrime #populism #BCconservatives #JohnRustad

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Climate Denier John Rustad Now Major Player in British Columbia 2024-Oct Election
https://www.desmog.com/2024/09/05/climate-denier-john-rustad-is-now-a-major-player-in-bcs-october-election

* 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

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Russian Disinformation/Right-Wing Influencers
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113108176086366850

BC Conservative exec Angelo Isidorou; Lauren Southern
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113108176086366850

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 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

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
https://www.desmog.com/2024/09/09/inside-the-anti-climate-culture-war-led-by-jordan-peterson-and-project-2025

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

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

BC United leaks extremism file on B.C. Conservative director Angelo Isidorou
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/bc-united-sources-leak-extremism-file-on-b-c-conservative-director-1.7031235

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

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
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/09/10/John-Rustad-Old-School-Climate-Change-Denier

#conservatism #BCconservatives #JohnRustad #JordanPeterson #JoeRogan #Poilievre #populism #ConspiracyTheories #ClimateChangeDenial #disinformation #libertariaianism #FarRight #ChristianRight #antiLGBT #transphobia #Project2025 #theocracy

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Unpacking Rustad’s Pledge to Review British Columbia’s Textbooks
Educators/advocates ready for a fight
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/09/12/Unpacking-Rustad-Pledge-Review-BC-Textbooks

* 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

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Far-Right Content on BC Conservatives Social Media
White nationalism; far-right German politician’s speech
https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/09/25/Troubling-Far-Right-Content-BC-Conservatives

Lindsay Shepherd: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindsay_Shepherd: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindsay_Shepherd

#BritishColumbia #BCconservatives #JohnRustad #LindsayShepherd #populism #disinformation #ConspiracyTheorists

#racism #SystemicRacism #StructuralViolence #WhiteSupremacism #WhiteNationalism

#discrimination #antiLGBT #SOGI #ParentalRightsMovement #BookBans #censorship #FarRight #ChristianRight

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

[Canada] B.C. Conservatives laser-focused on mining as potential multi-billion revenue source
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/bc-conservatives-laser-focused-on-mining-as-potential-multi-billion-revenue-source-1.7051358

#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

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 ...
https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/09/27/Rustad-Threat-First-Nations-Reconciliation

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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Day_for_Truth_and_Reconciliation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_Canada#Federal_statutory_holidays,_also_observed_in_some_provinces

#BCconservatives #JohnRustad

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
https://pressprogress.ca/leaked-dossier-reveals-200-pages-of-conspiracies-and-controversial-statements-from-john-rustads-bc-conservative-candidates

NDP uses BC United research to attack crackpot BC Conservatives
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/ndp-uses-bc-united-research-to-mount-attacks-on-crackpot-b-c-conservatives-1.7055991

#BritishColumbia #BCconservatives #JohnRustad #antiLGBT #FarRight #disinformation #ChristianRight #censorship #ConspiracyTheorists #SystemicRacism #transphobia