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A few brief thoughts about the recent BC CDC leaks. Can't figure out if these Qs have been covered: 1. Who if anyone has asked CDC & PHO to immediately

Amy Tan: in BC we should be keeping an eye on the variants, actually doing the genome sequencing, not just assuming (as we are) that everyone has a variant. Which

I'm going to live-tweet tonight's panel, "Charting the Strategic Path Out of COVID-19: A Public Panel Discussion," sponsored by @SFU_Science & moderated by @a_longhurst. It seems to be sold out

ER pediatrician/epidemiologist to me, when I asked about long-term effects on children of catching #Covid19 & if they were seeing anything in the ER: "So far what we are seeing

Let's do NDP highlights, starting with: When NDP took power they kept a right-wing, BC Lib-appointed top bureaucrat in the Energy Ministry, conspiracy theory fan Dave Nikolesjin. Recently they replaced

Calling all progressives: if you're taking your voting cue from a fauxgressive lobbyist who takes $$$$$ money from some of the worst special interests in B.C., you're not a progressive.

I tend to dislike demographic analyses of politics as they are too often depoliticized (ie overfocus on "millennials" not class &c). But the gender gap in the US election is

Enough with these pearl-clutching articles! The number of evictions in the DTES due to predatory RE dev't is huge: whole buildings emptied, hence uptick in homelessness. I live in Strath.

What if you're an environ'l funder in BC, or an ENGO funded by them, & you've developed a friendly relationship w the NDP & so you've muted your criticism of

Treaty 8 First Nations have had to watch ancestral lands dug up for the future reservoir of the troubled #SiteC dam. To grasp the sheer size of that needless reservoir,

Now that serious geotechnical problems have materialized in #SiteC's foundations, as many experts predicted they would, my engineer friend has some questions about dam design given the unstable geology. I

Sorry to use a topical weather aphorism, but it never rains but it pours at #SiteC. The 2 reservoirs above Site C are reaching full pond; heavy rains pushed woody