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GUEST COLUMN – Regional divides in politics are not necessarily a bad thing

May 13, 2026 // 1 Comment

By NICHOLAS HAMSON Guest Columnist FOR YEARS, politics in British Columbia followed a fairly familiar pattern. You had the BC Liberals, later rebranded as BC United, the BC [Continue]

FORSETH – Here’s the candidate best suited to lead the BC Conservatives

May 10, 2026 // 2 Comments

The primary job of the next BC Conservative leader will be to build a team and platform that will defeat the BC NDP I CONSIDER MYSELF to be a long-suffering member of the [Continue]

STAMER – Fight against FOI bill is about govt accountability, transparency

May 8, 2026 // 0 Comments

By WARD STAMER MLA, Kamloops-North Thompson WEDNESDAY our Interim leader for the Conservative Party of BC, stated: “When government makes it harder for people to access [Continue]

JOHNSON – The challenges of building a gondola from McArthur Island to TRU

May 8, 2026 // 6 Comments

AN ARTICLE popped up this week. Mitch Forgie – owner of Red Beard Café and Nigel’s Speakeasy, a partner of Bright Eye Brewing and involved with the Brewloops Beer [Continue]

IN THE LEDGE – ‘Why is the government hiking taxes on small businesses?’

May 8, 2026 // 0 Comments

An exchange during Question Period in the B.C . Legislature on Wednesday, May 6, 2026 between Peter Milobar of the BC Conservatives and jobs minister Ravi Kahlon of the BC [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – When Canada’s king met the mad king

May 7, 2026 // 2 Comments

IT WAS BIZARRE that King Charles III should address the U.S. Congress with President Trump in attendance. Here was a hereditary monarch lecturing Americans about [Continue]