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CP NewsAlert: B.C. Green candidate wins in Saanich North
By The Canadian Press on October 19th, 2024
B.C. Green Party candidate Rob Botterell has won the riding of Saanich North and the Islands, maintaining his party’s presence in the provincial legislature. However party leader Sonia Furstenau was defeated after switching ridings to Victoria – Beacon Hill. The Greens went into the election with two seats in the legislature... Read More »
Be the first to comment!CP NewsAlert: B.C. Green Leader Sonia Furstenau loses seat after changing ridings
By The Canadian Press on October 19th, 2024
VICTORIA – Green Party Leader Sonia Furstenau has lost her seat in the legislature after changing ridings to Victoria-Beacon Hill. Furstenau lost to Grace Lore, the minister of children and family development in the previous NDP government. The Green leader was first elected 2017, when her party played a key roll in helping the New ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!CP NewsAlert: B.C. NDP Leader David Eby wins his riding of Vancouver Point-Grey
By The Canadian Press on October 19th, 2024
VANCOUVER – British Columbia Premier and NDP Leader David Eby has won re-election in the riding of Vancouver-Point Grey. Eby was first elected to the riding in 2013, when he defeated then-premier and former B.C. Liberal leader Christy Clark. He is a former executive director of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association who became premier in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Early tally neck and neck in rain-drenched British Columbia election
By Chuck Chiang, The Canadian Press on October 19th, 2024
VANCOUVER – Predictions of a close election were holding true in British Columbia on Saturday, with early returns showing the New Democrats and the B.C. Conservatives neck and neck. Conservative Leader John Rustad was elected in Nechako Lakes, and 20 minutes after polls closed, his party was elected or leading in 46 ridings, with the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!CP NewsAlert: B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad elected in his riding
By The Canadian Press on October 19th, 2024
VANDERHOOF, B.C. – British Columbia Conservative Leader John Rustad has been re-elected in his riding of Nechako Lakes. Rustad was kicked out of the Opposition BC United Party for his support on social media of an outspoken climate change critic in 2022, and last year was acclaimed as the B.C. Conservative leader. Buoyed by the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Polls close in rain-drenched British Columbia election
By Chuck Chiang, The Canadian Press on October 19th, 2024
VANCOUVER – Polls have closed in British Columbia after a rain-drenched election day in much of the province. Voters braved high winds and torrential downpours brought by an atmospheric river weather system that forced closures of several polling stations due to power outages. Residents faced a choice for the next government that would have seemed ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!CP NewsAlert: Polls close in rain-drenched British Columbia election
By Chuck Chiang, The Canadian Press on October 19th, 2024
VANCOUVER – Polls have closed in British Columbia after a rain-drenched election day in much of the province. Voters braved high winds and torrential downpours brought by an atmospheric river weather system that forced closures of several polling stations due to power outages. More coming... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Here’s the latest on British Columbia’s wet and wild election
By The Canadian Press, The Canadian Press on October 19th, 2024
British Columbians have gone to the polls on an election day marked by torrential rain and high winds across much of the province. Here’s the latest on the race to form the next provincial government between the New Democrats, led by David Eby, and John Rustad’s B.C. Conservatives, with Green Leader Sonia Furstenau hoping her ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!B.C. faces once-unthinkable choice on drenched election day after Rustad’s rise
By Chuck Chiang, The Canadian Press on October 19th, 2024
VANCOUVER – Voters in British Columbia have been braving torrential rain and high winds across much of the province to take part in an election where they face a choice that would have been unthinkable just a few months ago. The B.C. Conservatives, whose party won less than two per cent of the vote last ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘Hateful and mean’: LGBTQ+ advocates slam Sask. Party’s proposed change room policy
By Aaron Sousa, The Canadian Press on October 19th, 2024
Blake Tait says he’s still healing from being outed by his school’s guidance counsellor when he was 14. Feeling safe at his school in Saskatoon, he started telling people he was transgender. But he felt uneasy when his guidance counsellor set up a meeting for Tait to tell his family. His parents were supportive. His ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘Sleeping with an elephant:’ What will a Republican or Democrat win mean for Canada?
By Kelly Geraldine Malone, The Canadian Press on October 19th, 2024
WASHINGTON – Pierre Trudeau famously described living next to the United States as “sleeping with an elephant,” a sentiment his son is intimately aware of amid this year’s tumultuous and polarized American election. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has likely reflected on his father’s words about Canada’s proximity to the U.S.: “one is affected by every ... Read More »
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