The BC NDP announced a wave of new LNG subsidies to try to do what the Clark Liberals couldn’t: Make LNG work in BC. Then BC has a connection to the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica data breach. Plus quick takes on polls and new gun laws (and more).
We didn’t obsessively monitor Twitter enough this week so we cut our #bestofbcpoli segment, please nominate Tweets for next week.
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Intro music: “My Water’s On Fire Tonight” by David Holmes and Andrew Bean (CC-BY-SA)
Links
Cambie Report, Ian’s Vancouver politics show
Segment 1: It’s not corporate welfare when we do it
Segment 2: Why Trump is BC’s fault
at 12m30s
- Guardian piece on Christopher Wylie
- Globe & Mail profile of Wylie
- Victoria Times Colonist profile
- BC Liberals connected to Cambridge Analytica
Quick takes
at 22m25s
- New BC Lieutenant Governor is Janet Austin
- Former cabinet minister named LG of Newfoundland
- Mainstreet BC politics poll
- Angus Reid premier approval poll
- Vancouver-Seattle-Portland high speed rail study (we’re not talking about Vancouver politics so we didn’t touch on the $7B Metro Vancouver transit deal)
- Amplify BC gets $7.5m to promote BC music
- Mike Smyth scores a copy of FIFA contract
- New federal firearms legislation
THREAD: Today we’re taking action for common sense gun control, better background checks, and safer communities – while protecting the rights of law-abiding gun owners. pic.twitter.com/r6VSKrGmdX
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) March 20, 2018
