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Premier Christy Clark wins close Point Grey fight

Liberal leader Christy Clark will take a seat in the legislature after narrowly beating New Democratic Party candidate David Eby to win in the Vancouver-Point Grey by-election. Read more…

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Point Grey by-election results arriving

Polls closed at 8 p.m. in the Vancouver-Point Grey by-election, with the initial results now arriving. Read more…

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NDP question Clark's Point Grey announcements

This morning Premier Christy Clark made a $6.7 million housing announcement in a constituency where she just happens to be running as a candidate in a by-election. Read more…

Minister Lake fended off recall for free

Environment Minister Terry Lake fought off recall in the Kamloops constituency he represents without spending a cent. Read more…

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Clark says she's listening, but disappoints parents' group organizing debate

Premier Christy Clark said she wants to listen to the public, not politicians, during her run in the Vancouver-Point Grey by-election.

That approach is disappointing to Jane Webster, a parent advisory council member at a local school who is organizing an all-candidates meeting scheduled for this evening. Read more…

Voting system skews results, delivers phony majority: Fair Vote

The Conservative and New Democratic parties will be over-represented in Parliament thanks to a voting system that cheats Canadians, according to an analysis by Fair Vote Canada. Read more…

Ignatieff says he'll step down as federal Liberal leader after historic defeat

TORONTO - Michael Ignatieff, the professorial leader of a decimated Liberal party, is ending his tenure in politics after steering the party to a devastating electoral defeat. Voters slashed the ranks of Liberals in the House of Commons to an all-time low as Stephen Harper's Conservatives vaulted to majority status. Read more…

Voter turnout less than hoped for

Vote mobs and exhortations appear not to have improved voter turnout in the 2011 federal election. Read more…

How nine prime 'strategic voting' races in BC ended up

In the run-up to the election, The Tyee pointed out some B.C. races so close that strategic voters might make the difference in defeating the Conservative candidate. Here's how those races turned out: Read more…

Leader Elizabeth May wins Green Party's first Canadian seat

Green Party Leader Elizabeth May has won election in the British Columbia riding of Saanich-Gulf Islands, becoming the first person from her party ever elected to the Canadian parliament. Read more…

Pollsters all over map on election eve

On the last day of a dramatic election campaign, pollsters offered dramatically different previews of its outcome, with the New Democrats ending up with anywhere from 78 to 123 seats. Read more…

Eco-groups tout poll showing broad oil tanker opposition in BC

Three B.C. environmental groups say their polling finds 79 per cent of people in the province support a ban on oil tanker traffic in B.C.’s inside coastal waters, and 38 per cent say the issue will influence how they vote Monday. Read more…

Strategic voting could determine winners in 7 BC ridings

With pollsters nationally predicting everything from a Conservative majority to a New Democrat majority, B.C. voters in most ridings can vote their consciences. But in seven ridings, strategic voting could deny the Conservatives some crucially needed seats. Read more…

Twitterverse reacts to Layton story

Canadian reporters and pundits on Twitter have been in an uproar since Friday night. The cause: Sun Media's report that Jack Layton was found in a Toronto bawdy house in 1996. Read more…

Layton dismisses report of massage clinic visit as a smear campaign

Jack Layton's streaking NDP campaign was rocked Friday by a report that he visited a massage parlour 15 years ago — a report the NDP leader immediately dismissed as a smear. Read more…

Parties weigh in on CETA

A fair trade awareness group has released the results of their questionnaire for political leaders on the proposed Canadian--European Union free trade agreement, revealing levels of concern ranging from strong to non-existent among the party leaders. Read more…

West Van Liberal candidate suing Tory opponent

The Liberal candidate in West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country is taking his Conservative opponent to court over allegations John Weston's campaign has defamed his character. Read more…

Harper stokes fear of NDP, calls for Conservative majority

Stephen Harper is hoping a wave of fear about the NDP will carry him to a majority government on Monday. Read more…

Dhaliwal (not laughing) says attendance criticism based on wrong data

Liberal MP Sukh Dhaliwal is not amused. Accused by NDP opponent Jinny Sims of having the 13th worst attendance record in House of Commons, Dhaliwal retorted he’d resign if it were true. Is it? Read more…

Premier Clark's staff changes cost $2.4 million in severance

British Columbia taxpayers funded more than $2.4 million in severance payments for senior people fired after Premier Christy Clark took power. Read more…