BC Conservative Kelowna Centre candidate posted conspiracies, pandemic holocaust comparisons, and more

Social media posts from BC Conservative candidate Kristina Loewen include comparisons between COVID-19 regulations and the holocaust, conspiracy theories, and promoting a multi-level marketing company selling essential oils as effective medicine. Opposition research on the BC Conservatives, collected by the BC United Party and recently released, included numerous screenshots of Loewen’s social media posts. Some of the screenshots were benign like celebrating a home upgrade, to more controversial posts like comparing pandemic regulations to the holocaust. “With the jews it started with relocation and isolation didn’t it?” Loewen wrote in one social media post. “Like some of you I also thought of the jewish star. . .because I think it’s really important not to debate in extremes I do think it’s important to look broadly at the effects of labelling.” Loewen declined a request for an interview for this story. She has also refused several past requests for interviews and hasn't allowed interviews from journalists so far in her campaign. READ MORE: Kelowna's Rotary Arts Centre the latest battleground in the culture wars https://infotel.ca/newsitem/kelownas-rotary-arts-centre-the-latest-battleground-in-the-culture-wars/it104700 Loewen also posted links to videos from Ron Valliant, a People’s Party of Canada candidate, who the report calls a conspiracy theorist. “The video mocks Stephen Harper and Pierre Poilievre. Valiant has posted anti-Papist messaging claiming that the Pope is harnessing Indigenous, pagan power, that the Vatican ‘created Islam,’ believing chemtrails kill, and that women can’t drive,” the opposition research said. Loewen posted several times about selling Young Living Essential Oils, a multi-level marketing company, and how essential oils are an effective medicine despite a lack of supporting research. “Sometimes love includes a drop of lavender on a wound, a tummy rub with digize, and peppermint for a stuffy nose. I teach and inspire others with these oils and today is the last chance to get the best ever sales price on a kit that I’ve ever seen,” Loewen wrote on social media. A Castanet reader also wrote to the site https://www.castanet.net/news/Letters/503348/Disagrees-with-candidate about an alleged incident when Loewen knocked on their door and spoke against sexual orientation and gender identity education. Click here for the full opposition report. https://www.scribd.com/document/773463481/Oppo-Research To contact a reporter for this story, email Jesse Tomas mailto:jtomas@infonews.ca  or call 250-488-3065 or email the editor mailto:news@infonews.ca . You can also submit photos, videos or news tips to the newsroom mailto:tips@infonews.ca  and be entered to win a monthly prize draw. We welcome your comments and opinions on our stories but play nice. We won't censor or delete comments unless they contain off-topic statements or links, unnecessary vulgarity, false facts, spam or obviously fake profiles. If you have any concerns about what you see in comments, email the editor in the link above. SUBSCRIBE to our awesome newsletter here https://infotel.ca/newsletter .