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Knives out: War rooms throw pot shots and hope they land
With just days to go before voting day, the parties’ war rooms are still looking for a scandal that will stick.
Read MoreHorgan apologizes for ‘inappropriate’ answer to debate question on white privilege
NDP Leader John Horgan, Liberal Leader Andrew Wilkinson and Green Party Leader Sonia Furstenau squared off Tuesday evening for the campaign’s first and only leaders’ debate.
Read MoreNDP promises new recovery benefit as part of 2020 platform
Recovery, affordability and security are top issues in the NDP’s re-election platform, which proposes to spend $6.9 billion over the next three years — not including capital costs.
Read MoreScheduling ‘skullduggery’ on the campaign trail
There may be many hours in a day, but during the second week of the election campaign the NDP and Liberal leaders zeroed in on just one: 9 a.m. to 10 a.m.
Read MoreInside the leaders’ campaigns
It’s an election unlike any before, but the leaders of B.C.’s three main parties have surrounded themselves with familiar faces on the campaign trail.
Read MoreLiberals promise immediate one-year suspension of PST
If elected, a BC Liberal government would immediately suspend the provincial sales tax (PST) for a year — then set it at three per cent “until the economy recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Read MoreSurgical backlog to be cleared by end of 2021, health minister says
B.C. has made “extraordinary progress” in addressing its surgical backlog since restarting non-urgent procedures in mid-May, according to Health Minister Adrian Dix.
Read MoreFurstenau wins leadership race, calls idea of election ‘irresponsible’
It did not take long for newly minted BC Green Party Leader Sonia Furstenau to address the prospect of a fall election during the pandemic.
Read MoreStrong polling numbers may tempt NDP to early election
Premier John Horgan is the most popular premier in the country with a 69 per cent approval rating and 48 per cent of British Columbians would vote NDP if an election were called tomorrow, according to polling from Angus Reid
Read MoreHow is COVID-19 affecting minority communities? B.C. doesn’t know
B.C. will not begin collecting data on how minority communities — including racialized people, ethnic groups and people with disabilities — are being affected by COVID-19 until a national data-gathering system is hashed out.
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