Ryan Clayton

It was one of the Burnaby ridings that first caught my eye. ‘In Burnaby!?’ I thought to myself. If they were losing that much in a riding that had generally been considered safe for them, they were in for a rough night. itsryanclayton.substack.com/p/its-over

It's funny when people message me begging me to vote a certain way. I already voted five days ago.

The parties' final pitches: Green: Vote your values NDP: Voters are stupid Conservative: No comment

It's almost over, BC. youtu.be/IddP8AAIGTQ?...

The argument that the NDP would win if Greens didn’t split the vote emotionally resonates, but the numbers do not support it. Quite the opposite, in fact. itsryanclayton.substack.com/p/vote-split...

Okay, I thought about it. I'm not voting for the party that defunded SOGI 123.

The moment long-time Liberal MP, Hedy Fry found out her son had won.

When you vote Green you get Greens.

This is, of course, the correct way to vote. So is however you decide to vote. Because you, and only you, decide what your vote means. itsryanclayton.substack.com/p/only-you-c...

My biggest takeaway from the BC leaders debate is no one seemed like they wanted to be there.

NEW: We got consent from 7 unhoused people sheltering along Pandora Ave to hide Apple AirTags in their possessions. This is after years of City of Victoria denying allegations from unhoused ppl & witnesses who said bylaw don't follow their own policies. Now we have proof. Part 1 of 2 stories ⬇️

Over the past couple years, I have written several times about SOGI 123. What more is there to say? Obviously the BC NDP were not persuaded. itsryanclayton.substack.com/p/incomprehe...

Conservatives have candidates in every riding. Greens managed to run in more ridings in this snap election than they did in the previous scheduled one. NDP fall just short of a full slate despite controlling election timing. One is actually ⅓. Centre BC ironically has no candidates in central BC.

I'm one again reminding people that aggregate projections (like 338) are not polls and presenting them at the riding level as a poll is LYING.

The ARC Foundation is shutting down after being defunded by the BC NDP government. That means the end of SOGI 123. Thanks David Eby. Great work. 🤬 www.arcfoundation.ca/wind-down-an...

When Bernier took on Centre BC he put a lot of emphasis on being thoughtful and serious about policy and not feeding "divisive and fear-tactic politics." One week under Sturko and they're back to shallow rhetoric, fanning flames and fear mongering about harm reduction.

Garden to dinner; carrot soup.

Here is your cynical, begrudgingly written 2026 provincial election primer. itsryanclayton.substack.com/p/technical-...

It's not really election season until I bust out the button maker.

BC - Leader Net-Favourables: 🟢Lowan: -9% 🔵Doerkson: -10% 🟠Eby: -27% Angus Reid / Sept 24, 2026

The Greens are once again campaigning on their lack of ambition. They want all the decision making power without having to actually win seats. Balance of power is a lucky draw, not a serious strategy.

Finally, they can rest.

One of the biggest tensions I've found in politics, especially local government, is that the skills needed to win a political campaign are often different from those needed to be successful in the role once elected. itsryanclayton.substack.com/p/the-title-...

This happened to me once in Yellowknife and it was one of the greatest things I have ever seen.

Conservatives looked at a moment where there has been more appetite for right of centre governance than any point in the last 15 years and decided to make themselves completely unelectable. Just incredible work by those with terminal Twitter brain poisoning.

people on other social media sites debate endlessly about tactics and ideology and wedge issues and purity, and all of that is super fun but if your leader is someone who can't deal with other people, all that other stuff doesn't really matter, and these debates are sort of pointless

The funniest parts of the BC Conservative Party caucus saga is each of the parts.

I haven't been here much lately but I made this just now and my coworkers said I should post it

I am begging political parties to stop using "historic" as an adjective to describe something that happened, with the same outcome, in 2014, 2018, 2022 and now 2026. Also, the city needs to get over itself and stop making people go to court to defend their own names.

Imagine being John Rustad. You build a party from almost nothing, almost win government, get kicked out as leader by the caucus you got elected, and then the leader who replaces you throws you out of caucus altogether. Like I don't agree with him on much, but jeez he did not deserve this.

The BC Conservatives have now lost 19 seats since the last election.

Imagine being in a caucus meeting and finding out your own party sent a private investigator after you. What a circus.

Violent. Cruel. Adversarial. How it feels growing up next to the United States. itsryanclayton.substack.com/p/america-th...

The allegations around the Victoria school board firing are shocking and serious. The public deserves answers. itsryanclayton.substack.com/p/force?utm_...

One thing we don't talk about much, but is shaping BC political discourse is the fact that house prices today are below what they were five years ago, and continuing decline (and this is before inflation is taken into account)

I've started just refreshing the "current party standings" page for the BC Legislature every couple hours.

Boundary-Similkameen MLA Donegal Wilson quits B.C. Conservative caucus, the eighth to do so since Aug 14. "I never imagined things could go this wrong, this quickly.”

The Conservative leader goes into a by-election amidst chaos and mass defections. These last two weeks have been baffling to behold. itsryanclayton.substack.com/p/keeping-up...

NEW: MapQuest is currently the number one navigation app on the Apple App Store, overtaking Google Maps thanks to Google's decision to follow Trump's lead in renaming Lake Ontario as Lake America.

I have heard the phrase “silent majority” invoked twice this month as a reason to do something and once was by the Mayor of Vancouver for his plebiscite on drug use and the other was by John Cena to Foghorn Leghorn as a reason why ACME should get to explode the Looney Tunes

Rumours of Monarch helicopters en route to the region unconfirmed at this time.

There was a kid who bullied me all through elementary school. For years and years. One day in grade 6 I'd had enough, grabbed him by the backpack, and threw him into a tree; right smack into the trunk, Wile E. Coyote-style. My teachers were so mad. I got suspended. He never bullied me again though.

“When economic data is released, it’s no longer reliable. When casualty counts for military actions are announced, they’re wrong.” The only truth about Trump‘s America is that everything is a lie. Everything.

More cuts, more questions, and a lingering feeling this is just the start. itsryanclayton.substack.com/p/the-defund...

If a man in a trashy outfit can run for office, so can you. open.substack.com/pub/itsryanc...

Whenever McElroy says "here is a montage" I know it's gonna be good.

The government insists it didn't "defund" SOGI 123, they just cut all provincial funding. open.substack.com/pub/itsryanc...

I miss being able to breathe.

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