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05/02/2026

05/01/2026

NDP cutting health projects! And why did we vote the NDP into power?!?!?

Now we’ll all pay . So what’s going on now?
Latest announcement by Bowinn Ma while premier takes cover!

Let me start by relaying Business in Vancouver’s breaking new:

“ Five B.C. health construction contracts axed, including Burnaby Hospital's new phase

VICTORIA — The B.C. government says construction contracts for five health-care projects have been cancelled, after depicting them as being "re-paced" in the February budget.

Wolfgang Depner,
The Canadian Press
April 30, 2026

“VICTORIA — The B.C. government says construction contracts for five health-care projects have been cancelled, after depicting them as being "re-paced" in the February budget.

Infrastructure Minister Bowinn Ma said the projects were still part of the government's capital plan, while the Opposition B.C. Conservatives said the cancellations represented a "betrayal."

The cancellations include contracts for the second phase of the Burnaby Hospital redevelopment, the Beedie Long-term Care Centre in Delta, as well as long-term care projects in Abbotsford, Chilliwack and Kelowna. Ma's ministry confirmed on Thursday.

The government had previously confirmed two cancellations on Wednesday, in response to questions from the Conservatives.

"We can call them deferred, we can call them rescheduled," Ma told reporters on Thursday. "The bottom line is that those projects were not ready to go."

She added that their estimated budgets were coming well over projections and it was incumbent on government to work with project teams and health authorities to make sure tax dollars were being respected.

“This project is cancelled," he said in the legislature on Wednesday. "This isn’t re-pacing, it’s betrayal. Why did this government promise long-term care to nearly 125,000 people in Delta, only to walk it back and abandon the seniors who trusted them?"

The sites were among nine projects that the government said in February were being slowed to get the province's costs under control in light of a record-setting deficit projection of $13.3 billion.

Ma said projects generally unfold over different phases, and the contracts being cancelled were agreements that health authorities had signed before the government's decision to delay construction.

"So, I understand why it would be disappointing for community members to hear that project that they were expecting to be delivered on a certain timeline is now delayed because additional work has to be done," she said. "But I want to be very clear — these projects remain in our capital plan."

Ma's ministry said in a statement that the cancellations represent the most fiscally responsible way forward given the changes to the timelines of the projects, but the government remained committed to them.

Conservative Ian Paton, the legislature member for Delta South, said his community had raised just under $20 million for the proposed $180-million Beedie long-term care facility of 200 beds.

"This project is cancelled," he said in the legislature on Wednesday. "This isn’t re-pacing, it’s betrayal. Why did this government promise long-term care to nearly 125,000 people in Delta, only to walk it back and abandon the seniors who trusted them?"

Paton said it was "embarrassing" for the government to have announced these projects, only to say they have since become too expensive.

"What farmer would be building a barn, knowing that he doesn't have enough to complete the project?"

Brennan Day, the Conservative critic for rural and seniors health, said in the legislature on Thursday that B.C. faces a shortage of long-term care beds, but instead of investing more, the government was cancelling projects.

He cited the latest report from Office of the Seniors Advocate, which says the average wait time for long-term care has grown to 287 days from 144.

Health Minister Josie Osborne acknowledged that wait times were unacceptable, and the government was working with "urgency on seniors’ care."

Osborne said earlier this week that 7,829 British Columbians were wait-listed for long-term care.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 30, 2026.

Wolfgang Depner, The Canadian Press

04/30/2026

Yup you got that right. Dogwood, the non profit political advocacy group is know to interfere… they got busted carrying bc election ballot boxes in Victoria …. To where?!?!

Read here how you and our provincial elections are in fact controlled by outside (bad) actors.

“Dogwood BC (Tides Funded) intends to manipulate upcoming Municipal Elections”
January 8, 2026

West Coast Outpost

“Dogwood BC is already well known for election interference in the past as noted below, let me quote.

Recruiting dual members: Dogwood allegedly encouraged its supporters, including existing Green Party members, to join the BC NDP specifically to vote in the leadership election, with the intention of rejoining their original parties later. BC NDP rules prohibited members of other political parties from joining, and the BC Green Party also prohibited dual memberships.
Paying for memberships: There were also allegations that an Appadurai supporter offered to pay the $10 membership fee for new members, which is a violation of the BC Election Act.

Independence of Dogwood/Appadurai campaign: The BC NDP’s election CEO investigated the connections between Dogwood and the Appadurai campaign, concluding that their claims of independence from each other were contradicted by the evidence.

Outcomes
Anjali Appadurai disqualified: The BC NDP’s election CEO concluded that the integrity of the membership list was “seriously undermined” by the solicitation of fraudulent memberships by Dogwood and others, and disqualified Anjali Appadurai from the leadership race in October 2022. This made David Eby the sole candidate, and he became the premier.

Elections BC Review: Elections BC, the province’s independent election watchdog, also reviewed Dogwood’s activities to ensure that, as a third party, it did not make an indirect political contribution to a leadership contestant.

Foreign Funding Concerns: Dogwood has also previously faced scrutiny for receiving a portion of its funding from U.S.-based foundations, which has been a point of discussion in Canadian political circles regarding foreign influence in Canadian elections.

There are still some very serious questions to be asked in connection with Taylor Bachrach and his elections both municipal and federal in regards to the roles Dogwood BC played in his election campaigns.

Now Dogwood BC has its eyes set on controlling who wins municipal elections in BC

I will post screenshots as evidence below, but its clear they are willing to fund, but I will copy paste verbatim the first part of the job offer.

Dogwood brings people together to transform our democracy, uphold Indigenous rights and defend the climate, land and water that sustain life in B.C. With our allies, we work to break free from fossil fuels, supercharge decarbonization, and counter corporate influence on our democracy and rising right-wing narratives. All of this work takes place on unceded, stolen Indigenous territories amidst ongoing colonial violence, racial injustices and profound wealth inequalities. Thus, Dogwood will contribute, always, to the generations-long project of repairing the injustices of colonialism and dismantling systems of oppression.

In a nutshell when Dogwood BC says quote “rising right-wing narratives” They in fact are going to support “left wing” meaning NDP and Green Party candidates.

The candidate’s job is to coordinate with their choices of who should run our town and city councils, as is stark contrast with voters deciding that choice. Dogwood BC Intends to use American funding, to manipulate our munic0ple elects,

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04/30/2026

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04/30/2026

NDP has destroyed BC …. How can the province function with First Nations co-government? David Eby should charged with treason!

“Vaughn Palmer: B.C. premier dances rather than admitting DRIPA means co-government Regional Chief Terry Teegee”

“Teegee was asked point blank last week if “we are now in a position where roughly 200 First Nations are co-governing this province with the B.C. government.”

“Is that true?” Asked CKNW radio host Jill Bennett.

“Yes, that’s exactly right,” replied Teegee and went on to explain that co-governance was the essence of DRIPA.

Read what Vaughn Palmer - who is Vaughn Palmer?

FYI
“Vaughn Palmer’s hard-hitting columns have seen him cover the feats and follies of British Columbia’s premiers for almost 40 years”

“Vaughn Palmer: B.C. premier dances rather than admitting DRIPA means co-government
Regional Chief Terry Teegee has been clear it means co-government and that's where First Nations want to be”

Author of the article:By Vaughn Palmer
Apr 28, 2026
Vancouver Sun

“VICTORIA — Premier David Eby faced tough questions this week for abandoning his changes to the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act in the face of strong opposition from First Nations.

Are the New Democrats “now co-governing the province with First Nations leadership?” asked Opposition Leader Trevor Halford.

Eby’s initial response was to accuse the Conservatives “of deliberately twisting this to spread fear.”

But Halford pointed out that he was simply quoting Terry Teegee, B.C. regional chief of the Assembly of First Nations.

Teegee was asked point blank last week if “we are now in a position where roughly 200 First Nations are co-governing this province with the B.C. government.”

“Is that true?” Asked CKNW radio host Jill Bennett.

“Yes, that’s exactly right,” replied Teegee and went on to explain that co-governance was the essence of DRIPA.

“Ultimately we have to get into a room — and First Nations have to get in the room — and to the negotiations table to make decisions on these important matters. Really, it is putting the spotlight on how development occurs.”

Was the regional chief wrong when he said Indigenous leaders are now co-governing with the province, Halford asked the premier.

Eby tried a second deflection. “This parliament remains supreme,” he replied. “But we are bounded by a Constitution that obliges us to do important work with First Nations.”

However, Halford was not to be turned. He pressed Eby a third time on whether he agreed with Teegee’s claim of co-governance: “It’s a yes or no, premier.”

No way was Eby going directly acknowledge the regional chief on co-governance. Instead the premier put the onus back on the Opposition.

“We’ve got parliamentary representatives that are elected from every part of the province. We have to vote on laws,” replied Eby. “The sort of Conservative conversation that, at the end of the day, the parliament no longer matters — that it is some sort of different arrangement now — is simply not the case.”

Eby’s ducking aside, it remained an open question whether the premier or the regional chief was the more reliable source of information on co-governance.

Teegee was a central figure in the adoption of DRIPA under premier John Horgan. In a posthumous memoir published last year, Horgan named Teegee as one of the Indigenous leaders who persuaded him to endorse the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

He indicated that Teegee was among the Indigenous leaders who oversaw the drafting of DRIPA itself. He further cited him as an authority on whether the UNDRIP guarantee of “free, prior and informed consent” for Indigenous people would amount to a veto.

Horgan quoted Teegee as follows: “We don’t have a veto but we need to know what you’re doing on our territory. If we disagree with what you are doing, we can make it very difficult for you.”

That sounds a little like the recent threat from Indigenous leaders to engage in “collective resistance” if the Eby government went ahead with changing DRIPA.

Before Eby backed down, he said that the province could not delay amending or suspending DRIPA. He cited the “substantial legal threat” posed by a recent Court of Appeal finding that the province’s mineral claims legislation was inconsistent with the UN Declaration.

Attorney General Niki Sharma was asked Monday if the government had decided that the threat was no longer all that substantial or urgent.

“We’ve been pretty clear that we see that there is litigation risk and legal risk related to the (court) decision,” she replied. “We are taking every measure at the Ministry of Attorney General to tackle that, not only with the appeal application to the Supreme Court, but also with our legal strategies.”

At the same time “we are also hard at work sitting down with our partners to solve this challenge. We’ve already had a few meetings that have been very productive, and I look forward to finding a really durable solution.”

The schedule calls for the two sides to try to sort things out before the Oct. 5 opening of the fall session of the legislature, leaving time to revive changes or amendments to DRIPA.

Sharma tried to sound optimistic about those prospects. But contrast that against what Teegee said last week when he was asked about the likelihood of Indigenous leaders agreeing to change DRIPA.

“Are you open to any changes to DRIPA?” asked radio host Bennett.

“At this point, no. Absolutely not,” replied Teegee. “I think DRIPA is working. I think, ultimately, it gets us to the place where we want to be in terms of how decisions are made.”

DRIPA gets Indigenous leaders to the place where we want to be in terms of how decisions are made, says Teegee. Meaning, according to him, actual co-government.

Against that, there’s the premier’s denial of co-government.

But I’m more inclined to believe an Indigenous leader who has consistently supported and shaped DRIPA for the better part of 10 years, over a premier who has changed his mind a half dozen times in the past few weeks alone.

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04/30/2026

BC is ungovernable…. Read up people.
YOU voted in the NDP.

04/29/2026

Ellis Ross warned people about DRIPA and UNDRIP and is now speaking up again.

04/29/2026

If David Eby and the BC NDP are too scared to repeal DRIPA then British Columbians should be allowed to it themselves in a referendum.

Sign the petition for a DRIPA Referendum: https://1bc.ca/petitions/dripa