While this is true, the party didn’t do a good job at communicating that. Instead, the way the CASA cancellation was announced made it look like the NDP was capitulating to Poilievre and the Conservatives, which is not a good look.

A better strategy would’ve been to come out with a demand to renegotiate to ensure that the CASA was meeting people’s needs. That would’ve held Liberals to the fire. Instead, they got an opportunity to turn it around on us and claim all the credit.

If you have so much of a problem, you could move to Calgary.

The barriers faced aren’t people from COPE and OneCity, who would want to see more supportive housing built (and social housing in general) across the city, but pushback from NIMBYs everywhere else, which is why all supportive housing developments get concentrated in the DTES. People elsewhere just don’t want to take responsibility.

The ABC solution is to not build supportive housing in more places, expanding its reach to more communities, but rather to stop building it, which will put more strain on existing limited resources, and exacerbate the problems in the DTES.

I am 100% with you on the position that the DTES faces an unfair burden for supporting vulnerable people in society.

There’s honestly a bit of schadenfreude in seeing Conservative incompetence to this degree. More conservative Muslims would be a natural ally for the CPC with their socially reactionary positions, but their repeated insistence on being so blatantly for Israel and against Palestine make sure that they can’t get that support.

Honestly, I don’t think he has. There are very few places in this country where being anti-Palestine will win you votes. Everywhere else either won’t make a difference or it will actively lose you support.

Pulling out of the CASA the way the NDP did was a huge mistake. It was poorly timed, poorly communicated, and also made the party lose its leverage. It gave the Liberals an opportunity to say the NDP abandoned pharmacare. We also didn’t get the changes to elections that we would have gotten otherwise (such as a 3-day election period).

Quite frankly, dropping the agreement is what turned the Liberal minority into what now looks like a Liberal majority.

Is there a source on what actually happened that isn’t some right-wing rag? I want to know more details about the duration but I’ve only seen crap from NatPo and some more blatant propaganda outlets.

I don’t want to trust whatever they’re saving because it is in their best interests to weaken any and all opposition to the Cons.

If you have a good local candidate with a shot, vote NDP. Jagmeet’s likely to lose his seat anyways.

I really wish season 3 was full-length rather than just three episodes, especially considering that Amphibia had a full-length season 3 where they were able to do more world building (and we got moments like Hop Pop yelling "eat the rich!"). We were robbed.

All of the 3 female main characters, honestly. Adora, Catra, and Glimmer all have their own flaws that push them into making bad decisions (especially Catra). Catra's arc in particular is quite agonizing to me, because you get frustrated as she chooses to continue her rivalry with Adora, yet you can't help but feel bad for all her mental turmoil.

Now that I think about it, Entrapta fits this too, particularly with her helping Catra. I don't think she gets a lot of flak for it though.

That's what makes it so good: they all feel like real people.

I worked on the OneCity campaign, and I share in your joy.

It was amazing to see voters soundly reject the entrenchment of billionaires and the police in municipal politics espoused by ABC, the privileged nativism of TEAMfaLV, as well as the spinelessness of the Greens.

The fact that both COPE and OneCity got a similar amount of support shows that people clearly want a left-wing movement in power that’ll make this city a safer and better place to live for everyone of all income levels.

OneCity’s whole ethos is explicitly that people should be able to live in Vancouver without being pushed out due to financial burdens, while COPE is about not wanting the city to be dominated by the rich. I’d say both are aligned with different sections of the NDP, and with the more progressive wing of the Liberals (in OneCity’s case).

Some people enjoy having a persecution complex.

This map honestly seems like it’s from the early 2010s.

The Greens didn't even bother running that much of a proper campaign. The vibe we got in OneCity was that they were just coasting off having the word "Green" in their name for the most part.

COPE and OneCity, meanwhile, put in the work of running an actual campaign, getting out as many supporters as they could. Around 4:00 p.m. we changed our strategy from contacting existing supporters to just barnstorming everyone to see if we could get turnout even higher.

While I was out canvassing, I noticed the most signs for COPE, a bunch of OneCity signs, a handful of Green signs, and one big TEAMfaLV and ABC sign respectively. (Funnily enough, the place where I saw the TEAMfaLV sign was an apartment building where there were COPE campaign materials in the windows.)

The conservative vote wasn't split, people are just tired of the right.

I would disagree. In this election, ABC clearly lost.

Votewell is far better.

From what I’ve heard, that’s the plan! I recall reading some time back the VDLC endorsed OneCity for the 2026 elections.

I was at the OneCity victory party. There were three of us tasked with refreshing the election results site for everyone to see. We’d practically jump in joy watching our lead increase each time the results were updated.

We won, bigly, and it was thanks in part to the hard work we all did. It feels ecstatic.

And we won!