CIVIC ELECTION – O’Reilly tops the charts with campaign spending
Council candidate Mike O’Reilly spent the most money campaigning for election in last October’s Kamloops civic election, according to numbers released by [Continue]
Politics
POLITICS – Trudeau is wrong to back intervention in Venezuela
Apparently it’s wrong for Russia to interfere in U.S. or Canadian elections, but okay for the U.S. and Canada to pick Venezuela’s leader By GUS VAN HARTEN York University [Continue]
IN THE LEDGE – Clerk, Sergeant at Arms placed on administrative leave
Solicitor General Mike Farnworth in the B.C. Legislature today, Nov. 20,. 2018: Hon. M. Farnworth: By leave, I move: That Mr. Craig James, Clerk of the Legislative [Continue]
IN THE LEDGE – Tribute to Pat Wallace for contributions to city of Kamloops
Statement by Kamloops-North Thompson MLA Peter Milobar today (Oct. 16, 2018) in the Legislature. NOTE: The last meeting for the current council is actually Oct. 30, not [Continue]
IN THE LEDGE – ‘Kamloops seems to think we’ve done it right’ on pot
Excerpt from debate during Question Period in the Legislature on Monday, Oct. 15, 2018 between Solicitor General Mike Farnworth and Kamloops-North Thompson MLA Peter Milobar. [Continue]
NATIONAL PULSE – Trudeau’s approval among his base tops Scheer’s, Singh’s
Liberal love-in? Opposition leaders must overcome significant unknown factor among their own supporters By ANGUS REID INSTITUTE October 16, 2018 – As stopwatches are set in [Continue]
POLITICS – Cathy McLeod says she’s ready to run again in 2019 election
Cathy McLeod will run again in the next federal election. McLeod, the MP for Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo, announced today (Oct. 12, 2018) she will be the Conservative candidate [Continue]
ELECTIONS – The federal Liberals’ lukewarm shift toward electoral reform
The Trudeau government’s belated commitment to election law revisions is welcome, if far short of earlier promises By PAUL THOMAS University of Manitoba THE RECENT [Continue]
POLITICS – Regrets, this nation has had more than a few
But when will our national breast-beating end? By GERRY BOWLER Senior Fellow Frontier Centre for Public Policy PRIME MINISTER Justin Trudeau mounted the national apology [Continue]
ELECTORAL CHANGE – Eby report recommends multiple-choice ballot
B.C. Attorney General David Eby today (Wednesday, May 30, 2018) released his report on the proposed referendum for electoral-system changes, including 18 recommendations to [Continue]
POLITICS – Why are B.C.’s voters being kept in the dark on electoral reform?
By Dr. SHINDER PUREWAL and JORDAN BATEMAN ON PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION (PR), it seems the NDP government is taking the mushroom approach with voters – keeping British [Continue]
IN THE LEDGE – ‘Premier arrogant, dismissive on referendum issue’
Debate in the Legislature on Tuesday, April 24, 2018 between Opposition Leader Andrew Wilkinson and Premier John Horgan on proportional representation: A. Wilkinson: Last [Continue]
POLITICS – Canada needs another politician like John G. Diefenbaker
In the hyper-sensitive world of modern politics, opposition politicians aren’t brave enough to talk about critical issues By BRIAN GIESBRECHT Senior Fellow Frontier [Continue]
ABORTION – Liberals’ “values test” a threat to freedom in Canada
The freedom of Canadian citizens to peacefully oppose anything, including abortion, is the very base on which all rights are founded NDP MP David Christopherson gets it. [Continue]
