Communications, Issues + Advisory. Recovering journalist. 🇱🇰 born, 🇨🇦 raised. She/Her 🌈 https://xitter.cf/t.co/XfCtAEjccF
Vancouver, BC
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Charmaine de Silva retweeted
Well, Felicia, this didn’t age very well.
On September 21, you were telling us about your 75 million views a month. The voters were yours. Yours, not anybody else’s. You even put it in capital letters, just so we’d understand how important you were.
Apparently, you forgot to tell the voters.
I’ve been involved in a few elections, Felicia, and here’s something I learned: the voters don’t belong to you. You have to earn their trust. And buying a ring light doesn’t make you a kingmaker.
But please, tell us again about your views.
Bye, Felicia.
Charmaine de Silva retweeted
Lorne Doerkson meets with volunteers and candidate Alex McMillan in Eby’s riding of Vancouver-Point Grey. It was supposed to be a photo op but a reporter asked Doerkson how he responds to Eby calling him a “Trojan horse” for extreme candidates. Here’s what he said:
#bcpoli
Charmaine de Silva retweeted
One of the most important elections of our time is hours away, BC.
On Saturday, your vote will shape the future of our province. Vote in who you know will partner with local and federal leaders to build BC and Canada strong. That means delivering on affordable homes, resilient community infrastructure, and the transit we need to keep moving - building sustainably and in partnership with First Nations.
Vote with your values, and for leaders with the experience to deliver in these tough times and for the generations to come. See you at the polls!
Charmaine de Silva retweeted
Excellente conversation aujourd’hui avec Pete Fry, maire élu de Vancouver.
Nous sommes prêts à travailler ensemble pour bâtir plus de logements abordables et pour accroître et améliorer les infrastructures dans toute la ville.
Nous offrons une plus grande prospérité et un avenir meilleur aux gens de Vancouver et de partout au Canada.
Charmaine de Silva retweeted
Neil Bush, brother of one President Bush & son of another President Bush, just posted that he voted for @JamesTalarico. Neil still lives in the same neighborhood as father did for decades here in Houston.
Charmaine de Silva retweeted
What Vivek Ramaswamy has done here is despicable beyond words
Amy Acton's brother slams Vivek Ramaswamy featuring her estranged mother in a campaign ad.
"After he was arrested and Amy and I were removed from their custody, our birth mother stayed married to Amy’s rapist until he died. This desperate, disgusting attack reveals exactly who Vivek Ramaswamy is at his core – a pathetic excuse for a man who is willing to hurt anyone as long as it gets him what he wants."
ALT Dr. Amy Acton’s Brother’s Statement on Ramaswamy Platforming Their Estranged and Abusive Mother COLUMBUS, OH– Today, Dr. Amy Acton’s brother, Philip Stearns, released the following statement condemning Vivek Ramaswamy’s attempt to platform their estranged and abusive mother: “It’s not surprising that Vivek Ramaswamy has stooped to such a despicable low as to attempt to turn the sexual abuse Amy endured at twelve years old from our birth mother's husband into a political talking point,” said Philip Stearns, Dr. Acton’s brother. “After he was arrested and Amy and I were removed from their custody, our birth mother stayed married to Amy’s rapist until he died. This desperate, disgusting attack reveals exactly who Vivek Ramaswamy is at his core – a pathetic excuse for a man who is willing to hurt anyone as long as it gets him what he wants.”
Charmaine de Silva retweeted
Oct 19, 2007 when evil took my Christopher’s life and shattered my life forever, time only tells me how much I miss my Babes..
Charmaine de Silva retweeted
Not only will the BC NDP always support a united Canada - but we're clear that there's absolutely no room for separatism in our party.
Why are Conservative MLAs Bryan Tepper, Heather Maahs, and David Williams in the separatist BC Prosperity Project Facebook group?🧵
Charmaine de Silva retweeted
So proud of my son Pete fry the new Mayor of Vancouver. He did it on his own steam as his own man with clear ideas for making this city we love a vibrant livable city for all.. #petefryourguy. Congrats your Worship and now the hard work begins
Charmaine de Silva retweeted
He says the name just fine when he’s begging the Qataris for a personal jet or the Saudis for funding for his son-in-law’s private equity firm.
Wonder what’s changed?
Charmaine de Silva retweeted
🚨#UPDATE: 🙏 RIP, Rhoam Summer.
Five year-old Rhoam Summer has been identified as the first victim of the horrific shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon.
Rhoam was only 5 years old..
Please keep Rhoam's family, the other victims' families, and the entire Bend community in your thoughts and prayers during this unimaginable tragedy.
A MealTrain has been set up for the family of Rhoam Summer, the 5 year-old who was killed in yesterday’s shooting at Silver Rail Elementary in Bend.
mealtrain.com/trains/42e92m
Charmaine de Silva retweeted
What I’m about to write is incredibly stupid, has no social value, and is silly. I just want to make everyone aware of that. But, since the moron in Brooklyn has decided to leverage his media contacts for marketing, and change his story 11 times to get people into his store, while disparaging a genuinely good person in show business, I figured it’s time. 🧵
Charmaine de Silva retweeted
At some point, the question is no longer about vetting, it’s “why do BC Conservatives attract and recruit candidates who hold bigoted and hateful beliefs?”
Charmaine de Silva retweeted
Disagree. The official opposition is a government in waiting and should have a plan for something as fundamental as the fiscal mess.
Maybe not every jot and tittle, but surely a broad approach. Proposing a big tax cut without any offset is an own goal
Yes. In fairness to @LDoerkson and unexpected, snap election precluded a serious assessment of deficit reduction plan. @Dave_Eby has no excuse.
Charmaine de Silva retweeted
The BC Conservatives confirmed to me that Jordan McIntosh was dropped as a candidate around 1pm. They said the anonymous account appears to show him when he was 15, he's 18 now. Similar to Victoria-Beacon Hill, they're dropping this candidate in a very safe NDP seat. #bcpoli
Charmaine de Silva retweeted
🚨 NEW: THE BC CONSERVATIVES SCRAMBLED TO DROP ONE CANDIDATE. WHAT ABOUT THE OTHER 15, AND THE PERSON RUNNING THEIR CAMPAIGN?
1. Heather Maahs: called gay people immoral
2. Sheldon Clare: said local politicians “need hanging”
3. Anna Kindy: said it's better to get sick than get vaccinated
4. Tony Luck: health care will “take the brunt” of cuts
5. Kristina Loewen: compared pandemic rules to the Holocaust
6. Steve Kooner: called inclusive education “garbage perverted ideology”
7. Jody Toor: presented herself as a medical doctor. She isn’t one.
8. Ward Stamer: wants American booze back on B.C. shelves
9. Harman Bhangu: said antifa dressed as Trump supporters stormed the Capitol
10. Sharon Hartwell: says Democrats stole the 2020 election from Trump
11. Bryan Tepper: called Jan. 6 a “lie”
12. David Williams: shared a map of western Canada as a U.S. protectorate
13. Bruce Banman: needs “more information” on whether climate change is real
14. Lawrence Mok: blamed B.C. for Trump’s tariffs
15. Macklin McCall: criticized police for responding to an illegal protest
16. The Campaign Director: posted “F*** Islam”
Charmaine de Silva retweeted
BREAKING: This event has now been cancelled because all three @Conservative_BC candidates (@BruceBanman, @KorkyNeufeld and Darryl Kropp) withdrew their participation in the event.
More to come
Abbotsford provincial candidates debate planned for UFV’s Evered Hall
abbynews.com/2026/10/13/abbo…
