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B.C. Election Heats Up as NDP and Conservatives Focus on Metro Vancouver

On the second day of the British Columbia election campaign, NDP Leader David Eby and Conservative Leader John Rustad concentrated their efforts on Metro Vancouver, addressing key issues such as healthcare and community challenges. Both leaders are vying for voter support in the region, with Rustad criticizing the limitations of federal healthcare legislation and Eby defending the NDP's approach. The campaign is expected to intensify as both parties seek to sway voters in this critical area.

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 @XtraordinaryCrowConservatismfrom Ontario  commented…3mos3MO

It's about time someone like Rustad challenges the NDP's failed policies, especially when it comes to healthcare in Metro Vancouver!

 @7MRJ584Progressivefrom Quebec  commented…3mos3MO

It’s no surprise that the NDP is focusing on Metro Vancouver — it's where a lot of the province’s most important issues, like housing and healthcare, are hitting hardest. David Eby seems like the only one with actual solutions rather than just complaints, unlike the Conservatives who keep dodging the real problems. I hope voters see through the noise and stick with a party that actually cares about progressive change.

 @7KJ8KXNLibertarianfrom British Columbia  commented…3mos3MO

Classic example of politicians making big promises and focusing on government "solutions" that just lead to more regulation and less freedom. Instead of letting the free market handle healthcare and community issues, they keep doubling down on inefficient bureaucratic systems. Rustad's got a point about federal healthcare limitations, but honestly, neither of these guys seem interested in reducing government intervention where it counts. Metro Vancouver doesn't need more political grandstanding—it needs less government in the way.

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Party leaders Eby and Rustad joust over health care as B.C. election campaign gets under way

https://theglobeandmail.com

NDP Leader David Eby kicked off the election... B.C. During a pre-campaign event in Fort St. John in August, Mr. Rustad told a gathering of supporters that he cannot promise a private care option under the current federal legislation, but he railed...

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Day 2 of B.C. campaign sees Conservatives and New Democrats focus on Metro Vancouver

https://timescolonist.com

NDP Leader David Eby and B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad zeroed in on the challenges facing Metro Vancouver communities on the second official day of campaigning.

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Vetting Fiasco: Trump's Defense Pick Caught in Sexual Assault Allegation Storm

CNN commentator and New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman said President-elect Donald Trump’s team missed Pete Hegseth’s payoff to a sexual assault accuser when they vetted him to be secretary of defense.Hegseth is among a raft of cabinet picks facing tough confirmations, and who aren’t being subjected to the customary FBI checks, instead being vetted by private firms. Over the weekend, Hegseth’s attorney dropped the bomb that there was a confidential settlement with a woman who accused the former Fox News host of sexual assault. On Monday night’s edition of CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins, Haberman revealed that her sources in Trump world did not know about the payoff, which was missed in the vetting “because it was a private settlement”HABERMAN: There’s more concern from some people around Trump than there is from Trump himself, about this whole issue. Trump has really dug in, and has told advisers that he is going to stick with Hegseth. Now, we’ll see if anything else emerges.They did do a vet, we are told. This did not show up, this issue, because it was a private settlement, according to the people, who were briefed on what took place. Trump really likes Pete Hegseth. But this did introduce the thing Trump doesn’t like, which is an element of surprise and a negative headline. And so, we will see where this goes.

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Inside the Podcast Revolution: Trump’s Unfiltered Strategy and Harris’s ‘Meltdown’ Risk

Tech billionaire Elon Musk attributed President-elect Trump’s election victory, at least in part, to the lengthy podcast interviews he did during the campaign.In an interview late Tuesday with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, Musk said Trump’s podcast appearances showed the American public that he was a normal person.“I think it made a big difference that President Trump and soon-to-be Vice President Vance went on lengthy podcasts,” Musk said in the interview.“I think this really makes a difference because people look at, like, Joe Rogan’s podcast, which is great, and Lex Fridman’s and the All-In podcast, and, you know, to a reasonable-minded, smart person — who’s not, like, hardcore one way or the other — they just listen to someone talk for a few hours and that’s how they decide whether, you know, you’re a good person, whether they like you,” he added, according to a clip highlighted by Mediaite.Trump conducted many interviews with new media during his campaign, as well as with legacy news organizations such as Fox News.Last month, he joined Joe Rogan’s podcast for a 3-hour long interview. The celebrity host later endorsed his candidacy.His opponent, Vice President Harris, did not appear on Rogan’s podcast because, according to “The Joe Rogan Experience” host, the Harris campaign only had an hour and required him to travel to her. Rogan said he felt “strongly” that the “best way to do” an interview with the vice president would have been in his studio in Austin, Texas.Musk recalled posting on his social platform X account that “nothing would do more damage” to Harris’s campaign than going on Rogan’s podcast, “because she would run out of non-sequiturs after about 45 minutes.”“You can’t hide for three hours,” Carlson replied.Musk added, “Yeah, like, hour two and three would be a complete melted puddle of nonsense. So it would just be absolute game over. That’s why she didn’t go on.”“But on the other hand, Trump, he’s there, and there’s no, there’s no talking points,” the Tesla CEO continued. “He’s just being a normal person who’s having a conversation, and doing three hours of Rogan, no problem.”

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Defense Bill Blocks Transgender Care To Minors

The Senate on Wednesday gave final approval to a defense policy bill directing $895 billion toward the Pentagon and other military activities, moving over the objections of some Democrats who opposed a provision added late in the negotiations that would deny coverage for transgender health procedures for minors.The 85-to-14 vote, coming a week after a divided House passed the same measure, cleared the bill for President Biden’s signature.Most Republicans and many Democrats supported the measure, which provides a 14.5 percent pay raise to junior enlisted service members and a 4.5 percent pay raise for all other service members. It also expands access to meal assistance, housing and child care programs that benefit those in uniform.But several Democrats withheld their backing in protest of a provision preventing TRICARE, the military’s health care plan for service members, from covering “medical interventions for the treatment of gender dysphoria that could result in sterilization” for children under 18.The language, which would affect the gender-transitioning children of service members, was recently added to the measure at the insistence of Speaker Mike Johnson, Republican of Louisiana, who refused to bring a defense bill to the House floor without it, according to aides familiar with the negotiations.Twenty-one Democrats, led by Senator Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, proposed an amendment to strip the provision from the bill, but the matter was never brought to a vote. Several of them took to the floor on Tuesday to lodge their objections.“It’s flat-out wrong to put this provision in this bill and take away a service member’s freedom to make that decision for their families,” Ms. Baldwin said, estimating that the provision could negatively affect as many as 6,000 to 7,000 military families.

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