... short and unpredictable as it is to begin with, of NDP MLAs Helmut Giesbrecht and Paul Ramsey respectively.
For all those friends of recall, I have an even better idea: why not do away with general elections ...
VICTORIA – Decision 97 was a unique election in which everybody won. Well, not everybody. My son Chuck, who ran for the NDP in Saanich-Gulf Islands, lost, but that’s neither here nor there.
Prime Minister ...
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The pre-election television address, paid for by the New Democratic Party, got mixed reviews. Some of my colleagues believe it did little to influence the all-important undecided vote. I don’t see i ...
... the current fiscal year.
This session will be a grandstanding prelude to the election that is likely to be called within a few weeks. It will be the starting short for an election campaign that promises ...
... friends of Campbell who have contributed to his election campaign.
That, however, should not be at the centre of the government’s attempts to find a solution for the condo purchasers who got burned ...
... e started getting similar letters. Newspapers were flooded with them. The handwriting was always the same. It went on for years after the election.
When Hustwick was elected to Parksville council, alo ...
VICTORIA – When David Stockell got the green light from B.C. Supreme Court Justice Bryan Williams to file a class action suit against the NDP for alleged fraudulent pre-election claims, Premier Glen Clark ...
... across the back with a two-by-four, swung by an angry protester during the 1972 election campaign, at the end of which he and the Social Credit Party were defeated.
Cyril comes from true British Columbia ...
VICTORIA -- It’s not fair to kick a guy when he’s down, but Wilf Hanni is practically asking to be publicly chastised.
When Hanni, immediately following his election as leader of the Reform Party of ...
... moved "dramatically out of favor with the B.C. public."
The date the poll ended is important. It’s the date on which the Surrey-White Rock byelection was held – Sept. 15.
Ever since Premier Clark calle ...
VICTORIA – Maybe Liberal leader Gordon Campbell won’t have to go looking for a new job yet.
The Liberal victory in Monday’s Surrey-White Rock byelection wasn’t nearly as stunning as in the last general ...
VICTORIA – Remember when the price of gasoline went up dramatically during the last provincial election?
Smelling a nice little election issue, Premier Glen Clark, widely considered the underdog in that ...
... effective opposition and take on the NDP in the next election.
"They are telling me we had better get our act together, and I’m sure the Reformers are getting the same message."
What Wilson says ...
... g in the next election than it did in the last one, the poor results of which prompted Weisgerber to resign as party leader.
Since then, the polls have shown rather strange results. Despite the fact th ...
... , not a career. We cannot ask others to tighten their belts if MLAs are not willing to tighten theirs," said Campbell in a 1996 Liberal Party election platform document. "We will vote to wipe out pensi ...
VICTORIA – In the hilariously funny movie "Where the Buffalo Roam," Bill Murray, playing the hard-drinking, anti-establishment journalist Hunter S. Thompson, asks Richard Nixon during an election campaig ...
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What Morfitt intends to find out is how a budget that, before the last election, according to the government, would deliver a surplus, ended up deeply in red ink. And the outcome could be very embarrassing ...
... have been burning the midnight oil to make our premier look like Sir Gallahad, riding into battle.
You see, the premier’s image was a little tarnished by the balanced-budget fibs he told before the election. ...
... d her Ladysmith constituency office and turned it over to the federal NDP for the duration of the recent election campaign.
The water temperature go even hotter when she told the legislature that she h ...
... retention of domestic industries."
George Monbiot, one of the UK’s leading environmentalists, lambasted the British media for having so vocally defended the cause of democracy during the recent elections ...