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[Kapten Kapsell]

Well, to be fair to FogPub, the SaskTel crown corporation is able to provide much lower telecom prices than the big publicly-traded players in the cellular space, though they (admittedly) only have to maintain infrastructure in a single province...

[Victoria Watcher]

and you might notice sasktel has no timeline for 5g.  other provinces have it now.

[kxl]

On the BC Liberals ad card featuring Wilkinson there is a quotation: “Businesses are literally hanging on by a thread and waiting for funds...we are not getting any help”. It is attributed to “Globe and Mail, Oct. 5, 2020”.
Who is not getting any help? Wilkinson? The Globe and Mail?
Sloppy, ambiguous citation.

[Kapten Kapsell]

On the BC Liberals ad card featuring Wilkinson there is a quotation: “Businesses are literally hanging on by a thread and waiting for funds...we are not getting any help”. It is attributed to “Globe and Mail, Oct. 5, 2020”.
Who is not getting any help? Wilkinson? The Globe and Mail?
Sloppy, ambiguous citation.

This is behind a paywall, but the Globe and Mail - which is anything *but* a left-leaning journal- has all but endorsed the NDP in a recently published editorial.  They went after Wilkinson's party on the proposed PST tax cut, saying that Horgan's plans are more fiscally responsible.  They also said that the Liberal proposals on the Opioid public health emergency are inadequate.  From the final paragraph:  "On the unusually quiet pandemic campaign trail, Mr. Wilkinson’s leadership has at times been unsteady, from ill-conceived promises to poor handling of issues with some candidates. Incumbency can sometimes be a disadvantage in politics, but not this time around for the NDP. On the whole, they have governed well and in particular during the pandemic."   See:  https://www.theglobe...reversed-roles/

[johnk2]

In Horgan's ads he looks approachable, like he would actually listen to you. Wilky looks like someone who has made up his mind about you and wants you to go away.

[m3m]

In Horgan's ads he looks approachable, like he would actually listen to you. Wilky looks like someone who has made up his mind about you and wants you to go away.

I relate very much to Andrew Wilkinson when it comes to people approaching me

[AllseeingEye]

I see our friend Ben is at it again.....

 

Not sure if his endorsement to destroy a neighbourhood near you is a good one for the Greens...

 

https://twitter.com/...237679138471937

 

He is also out looking for you to pay for his Pension.....

 

https://twitter.com/...348602880610304

 

I rather enjoyed this response to his Tweet:

 

".....I’ve already mailed in my vote but I haven’t felt the need to broadcast my choice on twitter...." 

[Tom Braybrook]

This is behind a paywall, but the Globe and Mail - which is anything *but* a left-leaning journal- has all but endorsed the NDP in a recently published editorial.  They went after Wilkinson's party on the proposed PST tax cut, saying that Horgan's plans are more fiscally responsible.  They also said that the Liberal proposals on the Opioid public health emergency are inadequate.  From the final paragraph:  "On the unusually quiet pandemic campaign trail, Mr. Wilkinson’s leadership has at times been unsteady, from ill-conceived promises to poor handling of issues with some candidates. Incumbency can sometimes be a disadvantage in politics, but not this time around for the NDP. On the whole, they have governed well and in particular during the pandemic."   See:  https://www.theglobe...reversed-roles/

https://mediabiasfac...globe-and-mail/ ...

 

see it's easy!

[vortoozo]

I was quite surprised by the Globe and Mail editorial. It falls slightly short of an endorsement, I would think, but newspapers have been endorsing leaders less as of late. I don't think they endorsed any leader/party for the last couple of federal elections.

[Kapten Kapsell]

I was quite surprised by the Globe and Mail editorial. It falls slightly short of an endorsement, I would think, but newspapers have been endorsing leaders less as of late. I don't think they endorsed any leader/party for the last couple of federal elections.

I've been a subscriber for several years now.  In the 2015 Federal election, they issued a strange endorsement:  they called for the reelection of the conservative party but simultaneously said that Harper shouldn't stay on as Tory leader.  

 

On several issues, the NDP runs to the 'right' of the Greens which really makes them the 'centrist' party in the provincial election.  Key NDP/Green differences:

• Greens would like to move to a universal basic income & 4-day workweek
• Greens oppose LNG (supported by BC NDP)
• Greens would make BC Ferries a crown corporation again, something that the NDP no longer supports (due to the addition of BCF debt to the provincial balance sheet)

[rmpeers]

I rather enjoyed this response to his Tweet:

".....I’ve already mailed in my vote but I haven’t felt the need to broadcast my choice on twitter...."

Ah but when you go a-courtin', you've got to let the object of your affections know how you feel. Otherwise you'll never get MLAyed.

[Victoria Watcher]

Officials with Elections BC say they hope to deliver the final results of Saturday's election by Nov. 16, but the date is not set in stone since it's unclear how much extra time it will take to count mail-in ballots.

 

Vote-by-mail packages are collected centrally and cannot be counted for at least 13 days after the election, allowing time for the ballots to be sent back to voters' ridings for sorting and screening.

 

https://www.cbc.ca/n...unted-1.5774372

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 23 October 2020 - 01:16 PM.

[Mike K.]

Wow! I had no idea. Why wasn’t this more widely broadcast prior to so many of us opting for this choice? Honestly, I would have voted in person had I know.

[Nparker]

Why was an election called at all during a pandemic?

[vortoozo]

Wow! I had no idea. Why wasn’t this more widely broadcast prior to so many of us opting for this choice? Honestly, I would have voted in person had I know.

 

They've said that mail in ballots cannot be opened for 13 days from the outset.

Given the sheer number of ballots received it's easy to infer that counting will take some time. Lots of the ballots are write in, etc.

[vortoozo]

Why was an election called at all during a pandemic?

 

This question has been asked numerous times throughout the campaign. Horgan has attempted (poorly, IMO) to explain the rationale.

[UDeMan]

BC election spokesperson explained that each mail in ballot is held for 13 days , then each ballot is run through the voting registry to confirm they have not already voted in an advance poll or on election day. Just because you mail in a ballot does not prevent you from going down and voting in person on Oct 24.

[Mike K.]

They've said that mail in ballots cannot be opened for 13 days from the outset.
Given the sheer number of ballots received it's easy to infer that counting will take some time. Lots of the ballots are write in, etc.

Crazy. I never heard about this.

[JohnsonStBridge]

This question has been asked numerous times throughout the campaign. Horgan has attempted (poorly, IMO) to explain the rationale.

 

Didn't you know, it's never a bad idea to ask people what they think

[vortoozo]

Crazy. I never heard about this.

 

Here's a TC article from a few days after the election was called that mentioned this, and one from The Globe.

I know it's been mentioned on CHEK as well.

 

Not sure why that would change anyone's voting method. The results will be the same whether announced on election night or not. And with so many people wanting to avoid public spaces, a few people deciding not to vote by mail because of the length of time it takes to count wouldn't make much difference. Maybe if 100,000+ people decided against voting by mail because of that we'd have results a day sooner. But still doesn't change the results.