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BY-ELECTION – Leslie Lax: Are core services reviews a cure or a curse?

September 21, 2017 // 2 Comments

Candidates in the Sept. 30 Kamloops civic by-election are invited to make submissions to ArmchairMayor.ca on their platforms, biographical information, contact information or [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Those who would ban election signs are party poopers

September 21, 2017 // 0 Comments

An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. I’m a fan of election signs. Always have been. A lot of people aren’t. They say they’re a blight on the landscape, [Continue]

IN THE LEDGE – ‘They don’t want to get big money out of politics’

September 20, 2017 // 0 Comments

An exchange in the B.C. Legislature on Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2017 between Opposition House Leader Mike de Jong and Premier John Horgan on campaign finance reform: M. de Jong: [Continue]

BY-ELECTION – McQuarrie: Homeless wrongly targeted on shopping cart issue

September 20, 2017 // 0 Comments

Candidates in the Sept. 30 Kamloops civic by-election are invited to make submissions to ArmchairMayor.ca on their platforms, biographical information, contact information or [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Taxpayers shouldn’t have to subsidize political campaigns

September 20, 2017 // 0 Comments

An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IT REALLY IS hard to know who to cheer for in Victoria these days. The NPD government is ending the so-called “Wild [Continue]

COLLINS – Not much time to get to know candidates’ views

September 20, 2017 // 0 Comments

I AM NOT IMPRESSED with how the municipal candidates are presenting themselves in the short civic byelection campaign. Even those of us in the news media are finding it hard [Continue]