text: For these and many other reasons (including the collaborative and compassionate Sonia Furstenau, the leader of the B.C. Greens) increasing numbers of NDP'ers are turning to the enlightened Green Party. And, for these as well as solid economic reasons, so are many disenchanted Liberals.
  Most tellingly, the Green candidates who continue to be elected receive a large number of votes from the half of the electorate who otherwise have given up on the traditional parties. They sense that Greens alone cannot be bought by big industry and their unions, but actually say what they intend to do, and best represent their interests.
  I hope that the NDP continues. It offers a valuable perspective. It will, once again, need to return to its roots. And learn how to work with other MLA's as it was largely doing when responding to the pandemic --before abruptly terminating its government-stabilising agreement with the Greens.
  Thank you, Albert. I have a lot of positive (albeit shocked) feedback on social media, but few have ever posted directly on my blog.
  yes, Horgan and the brown wing turned its back on the green movement that looks now to disappoint them. What arises from your statement for me is that while the greens have been doing a lot of work trying to give assistance and options for working people caught in this climate change/financial/energy mess, showing that good jobs are available without destroying the sustainability of the province, the Browns can't be bothered to even discuss the harm being done to the planet by their ongoing quest for a resource extraction job.
  In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and, (for most) the sense that life is weird, many are anxiously wondering whether they or their loved ones will catch this virus. Governments are bleeding red ink (about a generation’s worth!). Many are out of work, especially smaller businesses are failing, the economy is in deep trouble, and nobody knows when, or even whether, we will ever return to “normal.” We can passively wait around and hope that a vaccine will save the day (maybe, but it might take more than a year, and, as do all pharmaceuticals, i t will have side-effects ). Or we can empower ourselves by building up our body’s natural immune system. This novel coronavirus has not been the first, nor the last, that will spread through the population. Can we afford to shut down whole societies in an effort to defeat them, or will we instead arm ourselves and thus enjoy healthier, longer, lives -viruses or not? As it turns out worrying or stressing is hard on our immune sy