HeyJaredQueerly Beloved with Wilbur Turner
Queerly Beloved covers Canadian politics, human rights, and 2SLGBTQIA+ life at their intersection. Written by Wilbur Turner, a queer elder and human rights advocate in Kelowna, BC. Free to read, published several times a week. Views are my own.
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Disrupting the Transmission (opens the original)
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An Essay by Wilbur Turner – September 30, 2026The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="294" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/
OneBC’s Brodie Promises to Support “True” BC Conservatives (opens the original)
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Dallas Brodie has announced that OneBC will field a candidate in every BC riding except where it judges the BC Conservative candidate to be a “true conservative.” Political analysts have a name for this. It’s a purity test, and I have questions.<img
What Kind of Province, and What Kind of Country, Do We Want? (opens the original)
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Every so often a single week holds up a mirror. This was one of those weeks in British Columbia and in Canada, and the reflection was not flattering. Still, I finished the week more hopeful than I started it, because a mirror only shows us what is there. What we do about it is still up to us.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1592111332908-f8f7fe1bb041?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHwzfHx5JTIwcm9hZCUyMHNpZ2
The Raccoons of Election Season (opens the original)
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The Stench Behind the Doerkson Promise (opens the original)
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Did your parents ever tell you to hold your nose and pretend that a smell wasn’t bad enough to make you gag? This week Tim Thielmann, a former research director with the BC Conservatives, told The Canadian Press that people upset with how the party is handling its leadership should “plug your nose,” let the Conservatives have this term and then spend the next four years building a different party.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1720128401402-8
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