Politics

BY-ELECTION – Mayoral candidate Cindy Ross Friedman withdraws from race

August 5, 2017 // 5 Comments

Ken Christian appears to have a clear path to the mayor’s chair after Dr. Cindy Ross Friedman withdrew from the Sept. 30 by-election today (Aug. 5, 2017). Ross Friedman [Continue]

COLLINS – Is this Todd’s time?

August 3, 2017 // 1 Comment

HE WAS PROBABLY hoping he didn’t have to make the decision quite this early. Todd Stone will decide soon whether or not he will seek the leadership of the B.C. Liberal [Continue]

BEING MAYOR – Life at City Hall, Chapter 2

July 31, 2017 // 0 Comments

This is the second in a series on my experiences as the mayor of Kamloops from 1999 to 2005, first published in 2008. With a by-election for mayor and two council seats [Continue]

FORSETH – Good-bye, Christy, let the next chapter in B.C. politics begin

July 30, 2017 // 1 Comment

EARLY IN THE MORNING Friday, I go outside to work in the yard and the next thing I know Christy Clark had resigned. Let me tell you, if I’d known sooner, that was all [Continue]

CLARK – ‘This morning I decided to resign as leader of the BC Liberal Party’

July 28, 2017 // 4 Comments

This morning I decided to resign as leader of the BC Liberal Party. I love our party and our province with all my heart – and it’s been the honour of a lifetime to [Continue]

FORSETH – Conservative merger: focus on the 95 per cent, not the other five

July 24, 2017 // 2 Comments

NEXT DOOR in Alberta over the weekend, members of the Progressive Conservative Party — and the Wildrose Party — both agreed to a merger. And how was that hailed by the [Continue]