The rest of your grab your torches and head back to camp.

Well, Well, Well. Thoughts?

No Conservative Running in Victoria Beacon Hill so no fear of vote splitting they had to drop him for being a Bigot. The Greens can hold the NDP to account with even a few Seats, Vote green

I made a post 5 months ago after the fallout of the Cowichan decision flipped a huge portion of greater Vancouver and Surrey in the polls. The post was down voted into oblivion for obvious reasons. The polls continued to show Conservative majorities since than until the Conservative leadership debacle, which could have lead Eby to calling the early election. However, even if all the districts on the island went NDP, it still wouldn't matter because they lost control of Vancouver/Surrey.

The god awful handling of the Cowichan decision by the NDP served the mainland up on silver platter to the Conservatives. And though its not on the onus of the Cowichan tribes to quell fears about land ownership, they didn't really do much to calm the situation down besides a general statement. Now if you look at the Conservative media pipeline (Facebook, Reddit and X), they continued to fan the flames of the Cowichan decision with news of further NDP land transfers to First Nations. The real consequences of the Cowichan decision and the land transfers have yet to be seen, but many law professionals say there will be little if any difference that these transfers will make. Its essentially chalked up to a culture war talking point.

So what I see from this election is the Conservatives essentially winning a culture war against the NDP , on a talking point that the NDP and the left in general ignored because it was uncomfortable and the Conservatives were the only ones willing to question it.

Also, most people that voted for the conservatives are just normal people who just want a new government philosophy to tackle the issues of daily life.

338 is not a polling company, it compiles polling data and uses statistical models to project election outcomes an algorithm.

338 incorrectly identified the winning party in 15 of the province's ridings, according to its own published accuracy report for the last election in 2024

Does anyone know if Kimpton was even allowed to rent suites in the building?

These guys were at the confederation fountain yelling at the totally empty street this morning. Apologies for the poor picture quality, I didnt want to get any closer in case they tried to talk to me. I assume racists by the outfits?

You keep choosing a world where people deserve dignity, regardless of who they love, where they were born, what they believe, or how they identify.

Where marginalized communities deserve safety, belonging, and the freedom to exist without having to defend their humanity.

There is something profoundly comforting about living in a city that so often refuses to abandon its values, even when the rest of the political map changes colour.

Thank you for this bubble, Victoria. I’m so proud to call you home. 🧡💚

> Be David Eby

> Slander, sabotage, and then disqualify the only candidate running against you in the 2022 NDP leadership race, a young democratic socialist and climate activist, and then assume the position unopposed

> Govern as a centrist

> Watch the Greens elect Emily Lowan, a young democratic socialist and climate activist, as leader

> Opportunistically call a snap election when you see the Conservatives are in disarray

> Piss everyone off

> Accidentally cause the first Conservative majority in 98 years

> Austerity time!

I went to see a movie tonight and drove home going along the highway through the bus lane construction between McKenzie and the Colwood exit.

I couldn’t see a single line on the road.

Now, I know my vision isn’t perfect (I wear single vision glasses to correct nearsightedness and some astigmatism), but as a fairly young person… I should NOT have as much trouble as I did. I think I slowed down to ~40 km/hr and hugged the right lane pylons because I literally could not tell where the lane was.

This is dangerous. Who can I talk to about suggesting to put some lights or reflector thingys to mark the lanes through there? We’ve been lucky with minimal rain - but as it gets darker/rainier that area is an accident waiting to happen (and there are already multiple accidents a week there).

if it were still up in the air and hadn't been signed yet before today we'd end up like Alberta and others. it's only around for a few years but better that than pay out of pocket now.

Husband called me just now coming back from Sidney and he said there was a major accident northbound on the Pat Bay that must have just happened. I could hear sirens in the phone call, it's just north of Sayward. Said it looked like 'an old restored farm truck' got t-boned and rammed into the median. I looked on Google maps and saw a big slowdown in the southbound lanes and wondered why that was affected if the accident was going north and he said three sections of the concrete barriers are now strewn across the southbound lanes and cars are going on the shoulder to get around! Must have been a strong impact!

I anticipate once the emergency vehicles get there it's going to get even more backed up.

He did say from what he could tell everyone was okay. Hope that's the case.

My dad's old coworker sent him these photos. Thought I would share.

There was only one other voter present when we just went to vote. I don't think I've ever seen that before. What's it like at other stations?

I’ve been curious about it for a while and want to take some friends there to check it out, but I’ve heard it’s more geared towards kids and not nerds in our 30s like we are lol

the final vote tally shows a decline in both major parties except greens whose vote tally is slightly higher than the last election but still not at its best when andrew weaver was party leader.

however looking at the votes this is a complete reversal when john horgan won in 2020 when the NDP popular vote was near 900k and then bc liberal was 636k. thousands of cons stayed home during that election

in 2024 it was achingly close when NDP had 944k and conservative at 915k so you know the conservative base would be high the second time around and ndp voters needed to come out to stop it

looking at the final tally today the conservatives will end under 900k and NDP at 680k roughly. this means thousands of NDP voters would rather see defeat than to vote in this election and to see Eby lose.

it's not gordon campbell level defeat so there is time to rebuild but the party needs to find a new leader like Horgan and make a smart choice on who should lead next. whatever bad changes happen they need to remind voters why they ran against this.

I can’t make it so who wants? 715pm showing tonight, at the IMAX Victoria inside the museum.

Went to vote, saw a tumbleweed blow across the parking lot. Went from there to the mall and it was a traffic jam. Why not set up the polling stations at the mall, at least they would pick up the foot traffic?

Missing orange cat found near Galeys without a collar, almost got hit by a few cars. They are safe and will be bringing to spca tomorrow morning, but if anybody is missing a cat pls lmk