Alex Zoltan

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'Canada's most serious and least racist white journalist'. I make skateboard videos about politics. BC Leg and Politics Reporter for the Western Standard

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HAPPENING NOW: Union activist and NDP leadership candidate Rob Ashton suggests we "eat the damn rich" to thunderous applause at the party's convention.

Someone asked us to track down a video of what appeared to be South Asian men shooting guns into the woods on-top of a Jeep Wrangler with a B.C. license plate. Ask and ye shall receive. Here's how we did it. A 🧵.

The BC government didn't think this qualified as an emergency.

TRUDEAU: "A mosque was vandalized and we will call out Islamophobia as unacceptable every chance we get." ALSO TRUDEAU: "Burning down a Catholic church is fully understandable."

Vancouver, BC, Canada. The American flag stands above the rest — completely surreal given the broader geopolitical context.

I'm on my way back to court to hear more about the case involving the Drug User Liberation Front, or DULF, for short. The group's founders have been convicted on three charges each for selling cocaine, heroin and meth after David Eby's NDP government paid them $200,000 to do it.

TRUDEAU: Renters should be able to walk into a bank and say "'get me a mortgage.'" This man clearly has no idea how anything in the real world works.

UPDAtE: I can confirm it is becoming progressively less mellow here.

Especially surreal for the political nerds who followed this race from beginning to end: the underdog, despite being the most inexperienced; attacked for her age, then called a racist; backstabbed by her own staffers; and then, they tried to disqualify her at the eleventh hour.

HAPPENING NOW: Chrystia Freeland is in the House but they're not letting her speak, as she looks dissociative and disturbed.

When asked if there was any potential for "over cautiousness" as regards hantavirus, B.C.'s Provincial Health Officer Bonnie Henry responds, "I don't think we can be over cautious given the trauma we've all been through."

The Good ol' Calgary Stampede pancake toss. Carney flubs it worse than Trudeau and ya love to see it.

ANDREW SCHEER: "The Charter is there to protect the people from the government, not to protect the government from accountability." 🔥🔥🔥

Fred Hahn enters the ANTIFA chat.

A group of port workers in Vancouver came out to spontaneously support and cheer on Pierre Poilievre during his presser today.

HAPPENING NOW: Not a single journalist bothers to ask BC Premier David Eby or federal minister Randeep Sarai about the federal government's claim from this morning that "private property owners are not at risk" in the fallout of the Cowichan decision.

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One significant advantage Canada has in the ongoing trade war with the United States is that Canadians have an immense, almost obsessive, understanding of their country, whereas they know almost nothing about us.

Heart-pumping footage taken on Friday August 7 at 6:30pm from Fish Lake Rd in Summerland. The driver, following a horse trailer ahead, was able to get everyone out safely along with 10 equines, 5 goats and 2 rabbits. Gives you a real sense of the danger. 🎥 Equineimity on FB.

A woman in Vancouver was denied access to a "2SLGBTIAQ+-friendly" outdoor theatre because her hair violated the venue's "Code of Conduct Cultural Appropriation policy."

HAPPENING NOW: Another question for Trudeau on Donald Trump followed by another spastic and unhinged response.

HAPPENING NOW: It's time for the "Emergency Resolutions" portion of the 2026 NPD leadership convention.

REPORTER: “Some of the Indian extortionists are first-time offenders.” POILIEVRE: “I don't care.”

REPORTER TO FREELAND: "Donald Trump doesn't like you." JOLY: [Laughs] FREELAND: "Word salad, word salad with croutons, and word salad with tomatoes and olives." JOLY: "I'd just like to add that I have Poilievre Derangement Syndrome, not Trump Derangement Syndrome."

It has come to my attention that today is Day Three of the 2026 NDP leadership convention and that yesterday was Day Two. I feel terrible about the mix up given the seriousness of the event and the gravity of the moment—so I've gone back and compiled some highlights from Day One.

HAPPENING NOW: Someone identifying himself as a local counselor hijacks the Toronto police media event on today's mass shooting at a street festival to say how "disgusting this is," just moments after Chief Frank Barredo claimed "Toronto is one of the safest cities in the world."

Winnipeg Police: "One of our senior officers is a psychopathic serial criminal who—while maybe high on coke and mushrooms—sold drugs, extorted people and took grotesque pictures with dead women in their underwear. But before we get to that, let's do a dozen land acknowledgments."

BREAKING: Trudeau Housing Minister Sean Fraser also resigns, making him the second cabinet minister to resign on the Monday morning before the Fall Economic Update. When asked why he's resigning, Fraser cites a total lack of public support - even amongst his own family, he says

Justin Trudeau is so unhinged it's not funny anymore.

HAPPENING NOW: After four years childishly belittling the richest and most influential person in the world and the next President-Elect of the United States in Question Period, it's finally occurring to a rattled looking Freeland and Joly that this probably wasn't a good idea.

HAPPENING NOW: Pierre Poilievre is asked about his opinion on Canada's dairy supply management system, which has been a sticking point in CUSMA renegotiations according to sources. He responds by saying that he is opposed to any "unilateral concessions" in a new Trump trade deal.

HAPPENING NOW: Jagmeet Singh calls for "sanctions on Indian diplomats" and then exits the room to the sound of reporters laughing at him. One yells "that's not how it works" as her colleagues continue mocking Singh for another disastrous press conference.

HAPPENING NOW: BC Premier David Eby is asked if the Summerland catastrophe is the largest evacuation number in the province's history. He doesn't know but responds anyway—defending his decision to not declare a state of emergency on account of its potential to "descensitize" ppl.

Harsh post-game interview from Connor McDavid.

HAPPENING NOW: When asked why people in Summerland weren't given an evacuation alert, including those whose homes burned down, David Eby — speaking in Penticton — says it may provide "cold comfort" to know "the system is a hundred times better than it was a couple years ago."

Justin Trudeau being chased down and sworn at by a lynch-mob of his own citizens has been an almost daily occurrence for three years now.

Reporter: "How do you make housing more affordable?" Jagmeet Singh: "By making 100% of the housing affordable." Reporter: "How though?" Singh: "I've talked to a whole bunch of people who told me 'I can't afford luxury condos" Singh brings nothing to the table on this subject.