One of the brighter contributors on my Twitter feed is Reema Faris. She is a PHD student at SFU, a former West Vancouver school trustee and member of a family that has long given extraordinary support to the arts in Canada.

Reema’s social media contributions are invariably astute, logical and worthy of attention. With permission, here are threads she published in response to insubstantial punditry found in Postmedia’s Vancouver pages.

There are real political issues the mainstream pundits could explore because BC will soon be evaluating and perhaps altering long standing conventions of parliamentary government. However, when the aim is to promote the party of the minority, accurate and informational content is secondary.

Take, for example, Rob Shaw’s statement, “Even New Democrats admit that Clark could be a terrifyingly good Opposition leader.”

Did Shaw survey the thousands of NDP members to learn that consensus? Or, did he invent it because it seemed helpful to a politician who, in recent years, barely visited the legislature and had little time for studying complicated public policies?

Finally ready to dig into my #bcpoli rant about this @VaughnPalmer article from @VancouverSun. Hope you’ll enjoy this one @MervAdey! 1/? pic.twitter.com/Q59ogpIwur

— Reema Faris (@rmfaris) June 2, 2017

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So that Rob Shaw wouldn’t feel slighted about being overlooked, Ms. Faris also critiqued his effort on Christy Clark eyes narrow road to redemption: