Gareth Roberts✓

RT @TristinHopper: In just 15 days, I found *two* separate instances in which a career criminal was sentenced for pimping out an Indigenous girl ... only to have his sentence reduced because he was black and "systemic racism" had made him do it.

RT @TristinHopper: In another case, an immigrant carjacker who tried to murder a cop was told "systemic racism" had made him do it ... only for the judge to note that his victims were also "racialized," which made the crime more serious. We've never seen institutionalized racism quite like this.

RT @cremieuxrecueil: I'm shocked that The Economist was willing to publish this!

RT @timthielmann: New Prosperity is one of Canada’s largest gold-copper mines, with deposits worth over $100 billion CAD. The company has sunk $200 million into regulatory processes and court defences over 33 grueling years. And what do they have? A humiliating deal giving the Tsilhqot’in an iron-clad veto over the project and a 22.5% equity share it the mine is ever permitted to proceed. That was thanks mostly to the dominant position the Supreme Court of Canada gave the Tsilhqot’in in 2014 by awarding them the first aboriginal title lands in Canadian history. I don’t blame the Tsilhqot’in for putting up a fight. Who’d want a mine in their backyard? But we are the elephants here afraid of the mouse. It’s absurd. Imagine scaling aboriginal title across BC—that’s what DRIPA says to do. Absurd. And everyone who knows anything about the issues understands that. scale this across BC Most large mines look for a 15-20% return on investment. Poof! Gone. No rational investor should touch BC until this is dealt with. And that will mean not only repealing DRIPA but constitutional reforms to abolish aboriginal title. Lorne gets this. He’s too nice to come out and say it plainly like I do, but he gets it. So if he wins tonight, which seems likely, it’s up to every other British Columbian who wants to actually bring normal back to BC to be the uncompromising radicals that he has to please in order to make that happen.

It's tempting to blackpill over Lorne being "too nice" to get anything done, but he's the incumbant in the ridingwhere aboriginal title was first declared. He knows it's been a disaster. He knows it has to go.

RT @Austen: I remember sitting around a campfire shortly after the Ukraine war had just started with some Ukrainian friends. They shared that after they learned that Russian forces were jamming all communications they called Elon begging for Starlink support. Elon and the Starlink team instantly dropped everything they were working on, loaded a private jet with as many Starlink terminals as they could (terminals were in short supply at the time), and started flying the jet eastward while writing code to make terminals work over Ukraine. There was no contract or promise of payment for doing so, and no time to solve for that. My Ukrainian friends believed this saved the nation of Ukraine, and that without this effort Ukraine would have lost the war nearly instantly.

RT @Tim_Pettit_: The NDP is taking B.C. apart piece by piece gradually destroying it: transferring land, power and wealth from the Province to indigenous groups. See the Haida Agreement which removed 1% of BC from provincial control. Mr Eby considers that a template so multiply by 200 bands and there is nothing left of BC. Add co-governance and the veto in UNDRIP which DRIPA requires be made law in BC and what provincial power remains? This doesn’t even contemplate the institution of Haida law which, if extended, creates a patchwork of legal systems and frankly legal chaos.

RT @WestcoastWood: BC Conservative candidate a founding director of group promoting China's foreign policy via @BIVnews

RT @empire_res66190: In solidarity with the young 15 year old lad arrested for sharing this image of a politician. You know what to do people. Let’s flood X with this.

RT @TristinHopper: Idea: Export acknowledgements. Open public meetings with a cursory summary of what pays the bills.

RT @Rainmaker1973: Guy shows how nothing is real now on social media.

RT @RichardDias_CFA: The Canadian government's mass immigration policies of the last 10 years were highly regressive. Having seemingly learned nothing, they are dead set on turning back on the taps rather than letting the country heal. On cue, the media has begun parroting the government's narrative and gaslighting anyone who disagrees. This suggests that they remain blissfully unaware that the Bank of Canada has written extensively about how (mass) immigration has negatively affected housing, rents, inflation, labour supply, wages, and productivity. So I've compiled an inexhaustive list to help these folks. 🏘️- Monetary Policy Report, October 2023 🔗 ▶️"The strength in rent and other housing costs is partly due to strong housing demand, which is supported by rapid population growth, and a structural lack of housing supply" 🏘️- Staff Analytical Note, December 2023 🔗 ▶️"The rise in immigration is nonetheless contributing to pressures in inflation components linked to house prices, given that it is adding more to housing demand than to housing supply in the context of structural imbalances in the Canadian housing market." 🏘️ - Speech by Toni Gravelle, December 2023 🔗 ▶️"When a country’s population is growing quickly, the supply of housing also needs to increase to avoid a worsening in affordability. Shortly after immigration began ramping up in 2015, Canada’s vacancy rate—a measure of how many apartments and houses there are available to rent or buy—started to fall." 🏘️ - Monetary Policy Report, January 2024 🔗 ▶️"A larger increase in newcomers than in the past is adding pressure to the structural supply constraint in housing. This has helped to push the overall housing vacancy rate to record lows, which has underpinned house prices and led to higher rents (Chart 3-A)." 🏘️ - Staff Analytical Note, April 2024 🔗 ▶️"Meanwhile, the composition of immigrants coming to Canada has changed considerably since 2015. Historically, growth of the immigrant population in Canada came mostly from permanent residents....While the wages of the earlier immigrants are closer to those of Canadian-born workers and have been increasing over time, those of non-permanent residents are much lower and have fallen over this period. Because real hourly wages are typically correlated with labour productivity, this piece of evidence is consistent with non-permanent residents working in less productive occupations." 🏘️ - Monetary Policy Report, July 2024 🔗 ▶️"The increase in housing demand from newcomers is being felt across all types of housing, but the largest initial impact tends to be in rental markets. This is because most newcomers start out as renters." 👨‍🌾 - Staff Analytical Note, May 2025 🔗 ▶️"if newcomers’ conditional wages reflect their labour productivity, the productive capacity of the Canadian economy grew less than it would have if recent newcomers had the same socio-economic characteristics as in the past." ▶️"However, this gain has been particularly acute for certain industries such as accommodation and food services, business, building and other support services, and retail trade. Labour productivity in these industries—which are comprised of a sizable share of lower-skilled occupations—is lower than the average in the business sector." 👨‍🌾 - Staff Analytical Note, May 2025 🔗 ▶️"Youth—individuals 15–24 years of age—represent a significant portion of the overall increase in unemployment since the start of 2023. This is a larger share than during other periods of rising unemployment (Chart 5). This is partly due to the high number of immigrants, who are generally younger than the rest of the population." 👨‍🌾 - Speech by Nicolas Vincent, May 2026 🔗 ▶️“The labour market is particularly challenging for young people”: The 2022–24 influx of young newcomers “intensified competition in Canada for lower-skill and entry-level jobs”. Youth unemployment has risen above 14%, and he expects it may normalize now that immigration has been cut. 🏘️ - Staff Article, September 2026 🔗 ▶️"Strong population growth drove asking rents higher in recent years"

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RT @FranYanor: Landowners in Richmond BC were blindsided by the Cowichan ruling. How could BC's top court strip private property protections? After slogging through 12 years of court submissions, testimony and rulings, the answer emerged, but it's not good news for British Columbians. My investigation for @BeatNorthern:

RT @timthielmann: The indigenous people of British Columbia do NOT need to be conquered. Their subjugation by the British Crown was completed over 150 years ago. Just ask the Chilcotin war chiefs who massacred a road crew in 1864 believing it to be an act of war. Governor Frederick Seymour marshalled 100 men, tracked them down, took them as prisoners, had them tried, convicted, and then hanged for murder under British law. Or ask the 200 Cowichan tribesmen who in 1853 grabbed their arrows and rowed out in war canoes in defiance of a colonial order to relinquish a man accused of murder. Governor James Douglas gathered 150 men on two warships and sailed under commission of the Crown into their village. It only took two hours. The man was handed over without a shot fired. Ask the Penelakut who, the following year, made the mistake of firing upon and killing a sailor aboard another Douglas gunboat arriving to arrest men accused of murdering two settlers. The village was shelled for 30 minutes and then burned. Within weeks, the culprits were apprehended, tried, convicted, and executed for the murders. There was never any need or desire among the colonial authorities to enter treaties after these skirmishes because the sovereignty of the Crown was abundantly clear. The few treaties on southern Vancouver Island that Douglas did enter early in his tenure were not offered out of necessity, but practicality. Sometimes you settle not because you accept the legitimacy of another party’s claim, but to avoid unnecessary conflict. What you did not see during the founding of British Columbia, however, was colonial malice or revenge. Slavery, torture, and retributive cycles of violence which had prevailed on the land since time immemorial quite suddenly came to an end. Crown justice was buttressed by the Mercy of the Cross. In 1872, Judge Matthew Begbie, who had sentenced the Chilcotin Chiefs eight years earlier, commuted the death sentences of four Metlakatla men, including the Chief, convicted for murder. They were returned to their village and trusted into the care of Anglican priest William Duncan. Begbie wrote: “When the head is white, the heart ought to be prudent and moderate.” Duncan reported in the years following that the men had become happy and docile under his instruction. When gold miners surged northward from San Francisco, colonial protection was provided. When smallpox broke out in 1862, thousands were vaccinated. These too were gracious acts of sovereign power. The natives are restless in British Columbia today. We don’t need to reconquer them. We don’t necessarily need treaties either. What we do need is to restore the peace, order, and good governance that colonial authorities established long ago through the sovereign exercise of the will of the Crown tempered by the wisdom and grace of the Cross.

RT @Nick_Decap: This article is amazing, but depressing. @FranYanor walks us through the Cowichan decision: what it means, how we got here, and how it's already changing things. Her conclusion: "So it goes that private landowners, relegated to the sidelines by a disinterested court and ideological governments, remain locked out of the process deciding the fate of the largest financial investment many will ever make in their lives. Instead of British Columbians having a say, the destiny of their fee simple titles now rests in the same hands that allowed them to be stripped of protections in the first place." Cowichan Rulings: A relentless legal strategy wins, landowners lose

I see many people calling the Tesla Roadster gimmicky, but I think the jets could prove to be a great safety feature, particularly in slippery winter conditions. Rather than sliding into a ditch or off a cliff, the car could land itself safely. We'll see. @elonmusk

RT @timthielmann: The lawyers defending BC’s sovereignty in this pivotal aboriginal title case will be instructed by an Attorney General elected on October 24. Niki Sharma finds the whiteness of our founders “unbearable”. David Eby calls BC a “colonial mistake.” Vote accordingly.🗳️

Another big Supreme Court of Canada case to watch: Court has granted leave to appeal in British Columbia v The Nuchatlaht - will be the fifth Aboriginal title case that the Supreme Court of Canada has ever heard in the 50+ years from Calder.

RT @Slatzism: The level of retardation happening in Canada rn almost surpasses belief. Let me try and explain: Canada has race-based sentencing guidelines. Native criminals are supposed to get shorter sentences than white criminals because the courts are required to consider racism, colonialism, etc. But at the same time, people who kill or assault native women are supposed to get longer sentences than people who kill or assault white women. Because, again, racism, colonialism, etc, The problem? It’s mostly native men killing and assaulting native women. And liberal judges have been caught in the legislative middle, wobbling stupidly on this comically high tightrope from which a fall to either side is a snake-filled pit of inevitable racism accusations. If they start cracking down on the killers and abusers of native women, the native male prison population will explode (racist). If they don’t, they are making it effectively legal for native women to be killed and abused (also racist). It’s like shitlib zugzwang. And no one in this entire country seems to have an IQ high enough to figure out how to deal with this.

Supreme Court split over sentencing when the offender and the victim are both Indigenous

RT @RichardDias_CFA: Canada's Mass Immigration (2017 to 2025) was the worst economic policy decision in Canadian history. It was NOT progressive; it was, in fact, extremely REGRESSIVE. It transferred wealth and market power: ➡️from the Young to the Old, ➡️from the Poor to the Rich, ➡️from Labour to Corporations, and ➡️from the Renter Class to the Owner Class. Prior to 2015, immigration to Canada was high and focused on high-skilled, high-wage labour. In 2015, THIS government CHANGED the RULES, which shifted the focus to low-skilled, low-wage labour. This hurt the job prospects of young Canadians entering the labour market, put downward pressure on wages and lowered Canada's productivity. ➡️ It also increased housing costs, particularly for renters, who tend to be poorer and younger. ➡️ In short, it was horrific for the youngest, poorest and most vulnerable in our society. Never mind the social upheaval it caused. Now that Job Vacancies have normalized and rents are falling, this government is floating the idea of raising immigration. It is outrageous. Worse, it is, again, being pitched as progressive when it is not. It hurts the Working Class; Bernie Sanders was right... The only thing that will improve the standard of living for working-class people is productivity growth. That's it.

RT @mzlizn: I’m seeing a lot of comments from people saying they don’t know anyone who has access to $10-a-day daycare. After looking into which centres receive funding and their enrolment policies, I can understand why. Here’s what many people don’t realize. BC’s government selects which daycare operators receive $10-a-day funding, prioritizing certain types of providers, communities and populations. But those operators manage their own enrolment policies, and many don’t operate on a first-come, first-served basis. Some actual examples: • UVic Child Care: Only families affiliated with the university are currently eligible. • Vancouver City Hall Child Care: Siblings and centre employees first, then City Hall employees, then the general public. • The Cridge Centre in Victoria: Existing families, clients of other Cridge programs, employees and designated referrals before general community applicants. • Certain YMCA centres: Priority for Vancouver Coastal Health, Provincial Health Services Authority or other designated employees. And here’s another important detail: When an existing daycare is approved for $10-a-day funding, families already enrolled automatically receive the reduced rate, regardless of household income. So a family doesn’t necessarily get a spot because it needs financial assistance. It may simply have been enrolled in the right daycare when funding was awarded. Not every centre has these restrictions, but the program isn’t a universal, income-tested benefit either. Now BC has paused adding new providers to the $10-a-day program. I’d like to know how government measures whether its funding decisions are actually reaching families most in need, how many subsidized spaces are genuinely accessible to the general public, and why those results aren’t readily available. Public funding should come with transparent selection criteria AND measurable outcomes.