Tom Fletcher 🇨🇦
@tomfletcherbc
Journalist. Skeptic. Former oil and gas worker. Contributor @WSOnlineNews, @BeatNorthern
Going thru old photos: 2002 in my editor office, windows smashed second weekend in a row. I had written an editorial saying the local high school should have invested in shops, not a new theatre. #bcpoli #bced

Jody Wilson-Raybould’s directive to federal lawyers was “no longer to vigorously defend the Government of Canada’s legal position in court, but essentially to surrender.” westernstandard.news/opinion/flanag… #
"A whole team of bureaucrats are continuing to amend B.C. laws to bring them into alignment with whatever interpretation civil servants and their government lawyers have placed on the 46 Articles of UNDRIP ... a frightening scenario." northernbeat.ca/opinion/mixed-…
“Data suggests AI will disrupt the labour market faster and more profoundly than even offshoring manufacturing did.” westernstandard.news/opinion/rempel… #
An actual entry in the diary of Egerton Ryerson in 1826 speaks to the mutual respect and admiration between Ryerson and First Nations.
From the "Rebuild Jasper" Facebook page. "Last night at 10:00 pm I received an email from the Municipality saying we owe $11,125.00 to replace the sidewalks in front of our lost home due to damage from the contractor that did the debris removal. There are a few cracks in the…
U.S. D-Day veteran celebrates long-awaited bar mitzvah at 101 years of age nationalpost.com/news/world/u-s…
"Israel is starving children in Gaza" turned out to be Hamas propaganda (again) that the entire dem-media-podcast establishment uncritically believed and repeated (again)
BREAKING: The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation releases footage showing thousands of pallets of aid sitting in Gaza, waiting for the UN to distribute. GHF has offered to work with the UN, the UN has refused.
It's worse than this. You can't even buy BC salmon in BC stores. My Sobey's affiliated store carries salmon from Alaska and Chile. Even my "fresh fish supplier" brings it in from the States.
@tomfletcherbc, hard to disagree. DRIPA seems to presume shared ownership of Crown land — despite what Canadian law says. We can only hope @PharaBoard’s challenge to the validity of DRIPA prevails.
The Trudeau scientific illiteracy continues under Carney biv.com/news/resources… via @BIVnews
Real pride. Real partnership. Big smiles with Chief and Council of the Lake Babine First Nation, as we sign the expansion of their Woodland License. This is what true reconciliation looks like. It’s a powerful thing, and an honour to be part of. #Reconciliation #BCForests
This would not happen if public hospitals were funded on a per patient encounter basis. Canada is unique amongst developed countries in using block funding/ global budgets as a method of funding hospitals. Every patient represents a cost item! globalnews.ca/news/11303435/…
3 more months? This is a farce.
Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, two leaders of the Freedom Convoy protest, are scheduled to be sentenced for mischief on Oct. 7 in an Ottawa courtroom nationalpost.com/news/canada/ta…
Interesting that he doesn’t condemn Hamas for rejecting yet another ceasefire proposal out of Qatar that would have allowed a surge in humanitarian aid. Like Trudeau before him, he’s more interested in placating his political base than doing the right thing.
Canada condemns the Israeli government’s failure to prevent the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian disaster in Gaza. Israel’s control of aid distribution must be replaced by comprehensive provision of humanitarian assistance led by international organizations. Many of these are…
FREEMAN DYSON [ex Prof. Emeritus Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton] on THOMAS GOLD's [ex Prof. of Astronomy Cornell] theory that oil & gas come from the mantle of the Earth & are NOT fossils. Chemists at the Carnegie Institute proved this correct.
Imagine looking at the current state of Canada and deciding that this is a “top priority” And just because the UK did it, now we must?
Smoke all the crack you want, just make sure the device you buy to light up isn't shaped like a gun!
Vancouver bans sale of 'gun-shaped' lighters westernstandard.news/news/vancouver…