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No value in all-candidates' meetings: Premier's campaign chair
Premier Christy Clark's byelection campaign chair said there are better ways for candidates to spend their time than participating in all-candidates' meetings.
Asked if he sees the value of such debates, Colin Hansen said, "no." Read more…
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Are you watching the winter Olympics this year? Read the results of that poll here.
Anti-Harper strategic voting website names four 'crucial' BC ridings
Catch-22, a self-described grassroots group out to “stop Stephen Harper’s Conservatives from attaining a majority” has named four close fought “vital ridings” in British Columbia where one candidate has a much better chance than others of knocking off the Tory in the race. Read more…
NDP wonder (with a wink) if Liberal Dhaliwal will resign
The NDP is asking if Liberal Sukh Dhaliwal is on the verge of resigning -- but only because Dhaliwal said he would quit if proven wrong on a point. Read more…
Globe endorses Harper; EKOS sees Layton coalition
The Globe and Mail has endorsed Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party in next Monday's election. Meanwhile, a major Canadian pollster says the next government could well be a coalition led by Jack Layton and the New Democrats. Read more…
Carson likely to elude ethics punishment: Democracy Watch
Stephen Harper’s close advisor, convicted fraudster Bruce Carson, very likely committed ethics violations by having dealings with government less than a year after he left the PMO’s employ.
But don’t expect Carson to be found guilty, says Duff Conacher, Coordinator of the corruption monitor Democracy Watch. Read more…
Judge to decide whether to hear case calling for G8 report release
A Federal Court judge will rule Thursday on whether to hear a case that calls for the auditor general to release her report on G8 spending before next week's election. Read more…
BC will keep cap and trade schedule says minister
The British Columbia government is moving ahead with a plan to start carbon trading in 2012, environment minister Terry Lake said today. Read more…
Ignatieff to campaign alongside former PM as days tick down
The alarm bells have gone off in the Liberal big red tent and Michael Ignatieff is calling up the reserves, including Jean Chretien. Read more…
Dix announces BC NDP shadow cabinet
British Columbia New Democratic Party leader Adrian Dix released his shadow cabinet this morning, ahead of the April 27 return to the legislature. Read more…
Layton strikes leaderly tone in ads, rhetoric as polls put NDP second
The NDP's latest ad, titled "Imagine," urges viewers to think seriously about making a prime minister of Jack Layton — a man whose party has never had the heft to genuinely challenge the Liberals or the Conservatives. Read more…
Ignatieff eats pie; Dosanjh attacks Tory rival
Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff opined more openly about soft flaky crusts than hard-hitting issues during a campaign stop in West Vancouver.
Hours earlier, Liberal MP Ujjal Dosanjh sought to secure his slice in the federal riding of Vancouver-South when he served up an attack on Conservative rival Wai Young. Read more…
EKOS projects 100 seats for the NDP
The polling organization EKOS today projected that the New Democrats next Monday will win 100 seats in the 41st Parliament. Read more…
500 pages of Harper's most controversial quotes compiled by Tories
A 500-page dossier of potentially damaging remarks by Stephen Harper has hit the election campaign, but don't blame the opposition parties — it was prepared by the Conservatives. Read more…
Conservative caregiver program changes unfair to employers, says industry association
Changes made to the country's Live-in Caregiver program by the Conservatives put families who need childcare at great financial risk by forcing them to pay for caregiver's travel, medical insurance, and workers compensation with no guarantee the caregiver will stay with the family. Read more…
Calgary singer launches 'Yes We Can' of 2011 election
Calgary singer Melissa D'Souza has written and performed the most interesting political video of the 2011 election, lending an unexpected boost to the Liberal campaign but, she says, really intended to turn out the vote for all candidates. Read more…
Morton canvasses candidates on wild salmon
Most bloggers watch elections from one location. Wild-salmon advocate Alexandra Morton has been touring B.C. to ask federal candidates about their positions on wild versus farmed salmon. The answers tend to fall along predictable party lines. Read more…
Shuttle mobs: UVic students' latest voting innovations
Across the nation, vote mobbers are saying, "Well, that was fun, now what?" Students at UVic and other campuses have invented an answer. The "voter social" is a pub party this weekend you can be transported to -- after you've voted at an advanced poll. Read more…
Dosanjh says Ripudaman Singh Malik supports Conservative Wai Young
Vancouver South Liberal candidate Ujjal Dosanjh today lodged a complaint about his Conservative opponent, Wai Young, and the support she has allegedly received from Ripudaman Singh Malik, a businessman who was acquitted in the Air India bombing trial. Read more…
Federal election polls, analysts galloping off in all directions
Analysts and election-watchers are entering the long weekend not sure which polls to believe, or what they portend for post-election Canada. Read more…
Delay on election reform shows government incompetence: NDP critic
From the time the British Columbia government announced the task force on local elections until the resulting changes are in place for a vote will have been six years, said Scott Fraser, the New Democratic Party's critic for community and rural development. Read more…
