BC Election 2024
'Certainty of supply'; BC Conservatives unveil election policy on forestry
KAMLOOPS - The BC Conservative Party is starting to lay out major policy initiatives ahead of next month's provincial election.The Tories unveiled their forestry plan over the weekend, entitled 'Saving BC Forestry: For Workers, Communities and Biodiversity.' One of the key planks of the plan is to remove the current st...
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Former Enderby mayor and BC United candidate for Salmon Arm-Shuswap to run as an Independent
SALMON ARM, B.C. - The former mayor of Enderby and BC United candidate for Salmon Arm-Shuswap will not be crossing the floor this October. Greg McCune announced he would be running as an Independent in the upcoming provincial election. In a written statement, McCune said he is centre-right minded and had been a support...
Sep 16, 2024
Williams Lake city councillor to run for BC NDP in Cariboo-Chilcotin
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - A Williams Lake city councillor and member of the Lower Nicola Indian Band will carry the BC New Democratic Party (NDP) in the Cariboo-Chilcotin riding. In a news release, the BC NDP say Michael Moses has spent more than 30 years in the Cariboo-Chilcotin area. He's also a graduate of Simon Fraser ...
Sep 13, 2024
Conservative Party of B.C. selects candidate for Salmon Arm-Shuswap
SALMON ARM, B.C. - A new person has entered the race for the Salmon Arm-Shuswap provincial riding.The Conservative Party of B.C. has announced that David Williams will run for the party in the 2024 provincial election.The party said Williams worked in the heating, ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC) industry before sh...
Sep 13, 2024
BC Election 2024
Kidder to carry Green banner in Cariboo-Chilcotin
ASHCROFT, B.C. - The B.C. Greens have added a group of new candidates to their provincial election slate, including a longtime environmental and social activist in Cariboo-Chilcotin.John Kidder will carry the Green banner in the riding. He is credited with being one of the founders of the provincial party in 1983, maki...
Sep 10, 2024
With Tegart's retirement, Fraser-Nicola set for new MLA after 11 years
ASHCROFT, B.C. - Another veteran BC Liberal and then BC United MLA has made the decision to step away ahead of this October's provincial election. Jackie Tegart, who spent 11 years as the MLA for Fraser-Nicola, is retiring from public office and withdrawing her name from the ballot following the collapse of her party l...
Sep 04, 2024
MLA Milobar to run for BC Conservatives in Kamloops Centre
KAMLOOPS - Veteran MLA Peter Milobar has announced he will run for the Conservative Party of B.C. in the October provincial election. Milobar made the announcement with family members by his side Tuesday afternoon (Sept. 3).Milobar will run in Kamloops Centre, where he had initially intended to run for the BC United pa...
Sep 03, 2024
Veteran MLA Jackie Tegart announces she will not run in provincial election
ASHCROFT, B.C. - Veteran M.L.A. Jackie Tegart has announced she will not seek a fourth term in this fall's provincial election. She had been expected to represent the BC United Party in the election in the riding of Fraser-Nicola.Tegart was first elected in the 2013 provincial election as a member of the BC Liberal Par...
Sep 03, 2024
Kamloops candidate Maddi Genn believes extreme Conservative views will bring BCU support to NDP
KAMLOOPS - With Todd Stone stepping down, the Kamloops-North Thompson riding has become a two-horse race, with only the BC Conservatives, with Ward Stamer, and BC NDP fielding candidates.Rookie politician and NDP candidate Maddi Genn is carrying the NDP banner in the race, and while like many others she was shocked by ...
Aug 30, 2024
'Now is my time to step back'; MLA Todd Stone retires from provincial politics, endorses Ward Stamer
KAMLOOPS - "Earlier this week, I made the difficult decision that the best thing that I could do right now, to support our coalition, is to take a step back and withdraw my candidacy in this next election," announced Kamloops-South Thompson MLA Todd Stone Thursday (Aug 29) morning.After more than a decade of ...
Aug 29, 2024
Human services professional Maddi Genn named BC NDP candidate for Kamloops-North Thompson
KAMLOOPS - The governing BC New Democratic Party (NDP) has its candidate for the redrawn Kamloops-North Thompson riding. Maddi Genn, a human services professional and union activist, was unveiled as the NDP's candidate for Kamloops-North Thompson during a news conference at Valleyview Community Hall Wednesday (Aug. 21)...
Aug 21, 2024
Former B.C. Liberal leadership candidate runs for Rustad's Conservatives in Kelowna
KELOWNA, B.C. - A former leadership rival to BC United Leader Kevin Falcon is joining John Rustad's British Columbia Conservatives to run in Kelowna in the fall election. Gavin Dew was a candidate in the B.C. Liberal leadership race in 2022 that Falcon won, but he is now running in the Kelowna-Mission riding under the ...
Aug 14, 2024
BC United pledge to eliminate income tax for 60 per cent of British Columbians
KAMLOOPS - The BC United Party has unveiled arguably their biggest policy initiative ahead of this October's provincial election. Leader Kevin Falcon is promising that if his party is elected this fall, that they would eliminate provincial income tax for 60 per cent of British Columbians, resulting in an average of jus...
Aug 14, 2024
BC United faces fourth defection as October's election nears
KAMLOOPS - It has been another shaky week for the bc united party. On Monday (July 29), BCU MLA Teresa Wat crossed the floor and will run for the BC Conservative party in this October's provincial election. Then on Wednesday (July 31), the party publicly admitted their name change has not gone perfectly to plan, reques...
Aug 02, 2024
Opposition BC United party looks to add former Liberal party name to election ballot
VICTORIA - British Columbia's Opposition BC United says it wants to include the party's previous Liberal name on the fall election ballot after internal polling shows up to 30 per cent of people didn't know the party changed its name. BC United communications director Adam Wilson says the party is preparing to formally...
Jul 31, 2024
BC MLA Teresa Wat says quitting BC United and joining B.C. Conservatives to beat NDP
RICHMOND, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - Teresa Wat says quitting the Opposition BC United Party to join John Rustad's British Columbia Conservatives is the only path available for a free-enterprise coalition to defeat the New Democrats in the fall election. Wat, an 11-year veteran at the B.C. legislature and a strong mult...
Jul 30, 2024
Third BC United MLA set to go to B.C.'s Conservatives
RICHMOND, B.C. - BC United Leader Kevin Falcon is losing a third member of the legislature to the Conservative Party of British Columbia. BC United's director of communications Adam Wilson says in a statement that Teresa Wat, who represents the riding of Richmond North Centre, has indicated her intention to join John R...
Jul 30, 2024
Strange summer for B.C. politics gone wild, as alliances shift ahead of fall vote
VICTORIA - British Columbia's political landscape is undergoing a shake-up of seismic proportions a little over three months ahead of this fall's Oct. 19 election. Former political foes are forging once unimaginable unions, an established party faces annihilation at the ballot box and heavyweights from the ruling New D...
Jul 12, 2024
'Support the policy initiatives that are delivering results'; Grewal makes first venture into politics with BC NDP
KAMLOOPS - The ballot in the newly shaped riding of Kamloops Centre is filling up, with the BC NDP acclaiming Kamal Grewal as the party's candidate, joining incumbent Peter Milobar of BC United, BC Conservative candidate Dennis Giesbrecht and the Green's Randy Sunderman.This will be Grewal's first foray into the politi...
Jul 04, 2024
B.C. Green Party leader comes to Kamloops to support Kamloops Centre candidate Sunderman
KAMLOOPS - Ahead of the upcoming provincial election, B.C. Green Party leader Sonia Furstenau made a rare visit to Kamloops Thursday (June 6) in support of Kamloops Centre candidate Randy Sunderman. Furstenau joined Sunderman at a downtown coffee shop to hear from local residents as to what they see as the main politic...
Jun 07, 2024
New BC Conservatives Doerkson, Sturko praise 'grassroots' movement
KAMLOOPS - The exodus from the BC United party ahead of October's election grew larger on Monday (June 3) with Surrey MLA Elenore Sturko being the second United member to cross the floor to the Tories in three days. The move from Sturko followed Cariboo-Chilcotin MLA Lorne Doerkson joining the BC Conservatives on Frida...
Jun 04, 2024
Tobiano, Savona and Cherry Creek turn into political battleground with Doerkson's defection
KAMLOOPS - An incumbent BC United MLA has crossed the floor to the BC Conservatives, just months before British Columbians head to the polls this October. Lorne Doerkson, the MLA for the Cariboo-Chilcotin riding, which after recent electoral boundary changes includes the Tobiano and Savona areas just west of Kamloops c...
Jun 01, 2024
Cariboo-Chilcotin MLA Doerkson joins BC Conservatives
VICTORIA - The caucus chair for the BC United party is defecting to the BC Conservatives, adding to the woes of the province's official opposition.Lorne Doerkson, who represents Cariboo-Chilcotin, and BC Conservative Leader John Rustad announced the move that increases the party's numbers in the legislature to three.Th...
May 31, 2024
B.C's centre-right party leaders jostle for votes on key policy differences
KAMLOOPS - When British Columbians head to the polls in October, there will be two right-of-centre political parties vying for their vote. They will choose between current official opposition and former BC Liberals - now rebranded as BC United under leader Kevin Falcon - and the upstart BC Conservative party led by for...
May 31, 2024
'They are dictating terms'; BC Conservative leader looking ahead after failed deal with BC United
KAMLOOPS - John Rustad, the leader of the BC Conservative Party, was not happy that BC United's Kevin Falcon was dictating terms on a non-compete agreement and that led him to shut down talks last week."And here we are today with the offer from them - once again they are dictating terms. They aren't actually sitti...
May 28, 2024
BC Conservative leader visits Kamloops as the party preps for possible spring election
KAMLOOPS - Conservative Party of BC Leader John Rustad was in Kamloops over the weekend, as he and his party make preparations for an expected provincial election that many are suggesting will take place in the spring of 2024."David Eby and the NDP are really jamming through all kinds of legislation. A lot of it, ...
Nov 28, 2023
Green Party names challenger for BC United-held Fraser-Nicola riding
MERRITT, B.C. - A familiar face will be running again for the B.C. Green Party in the newly-redrawn Fraser-Nicola riding - which will encompass the communities of Merritt, Logan Lake, Lytton, Boston Bar and Hope. For a second provincial election, Jonah Timms will run for the party. BC United incumbent Jackie Tegart has...
Nov 17, 2023
Final B.C. election count sees NDP win 57 seats, BC Liberals 28, Greens 2
VICTORIA - With the final count complete in a dozen too-close-to call ridings, the BC NDP have won a large majority of 57 seats.The BC Liberals captured 28 seats, while in a surprise turnaround, the BC Greens were reduced to two.Sunday's final count means the NDP have one the second-best electoral finish of any B.C. pa...
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