EDITORIAL – New civic election expense rules penalize newcomers
An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. CAMPAIGN FINANCIAL DISCLOSURES released by Elections BC for last fall’s civic election seem to reveal a long-held suspicion — big [Continue]
Civic Vote 2018
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]
FORSETH – In politics, as in life, no defeat is ever permanent
SATURDAY BROUGHT interesting results, from all around the province, as polls closed at 8 p.m. on municipal and school board elections. For starters, Saturday’s civic [Continue]
PETERS – Not a person in Kamloops could have defeated Ken Christian
THE CONCLUSION of Saturday’s mayoral election in Kamloops was as foregone as the conclusion to the movie Titanic. Ken Christian was going to defeat William Turnbull, [Continue]
Happy Election Day! Enjoy the experience of exercising your franchise!
It’s Election Day in B.C. Exercise your franchise and take a trip to the polls. It will take only a few minutes out of your day and it gives you a good feeling to take [Continue]
ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – The loneliness of the civic-election candidate
Campaigning is stressful, and there’s no more stressful time than the home stretch. At the same time, there’s a sort of relief that it will soon be over. I wrote [Continue]
EDITORIAL – Give high marks to candidates who’ve shown up
An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. SO HOW TO DECIDE who to vote for in Saturday’s civic election? A lot goes on behind the scenes that affects the outcome. Door knocking, [Continue]
EDITORIAL – Council candidates should just say no to “Yes or No” questions
An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. PITY THE POOR civic election candidates. One of their burdens during campaigns is to respond to a seemingly unending series of [Continue]
EDITORIAL – It will be a sad day when we have to pay people to vote
An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. SPECULATION CONTINUES that the turnout for this civic election will be somewhere between lousy and dismal. Kamloops council candidate Gerald [Continue]
CIVIC ELECTION – Oct. 15 candidates’ forum to focus on seniors’ issues
Voters will get another chance to listen to civic election candidates in Kamloops at a forum Monday, Oct. 15 in Desert Gardens. Organizer Nancy Bepple, a former City [Continue]
TRAVIS – The mud is flying – it must be civic election time in B.C.
JUDGING BY THE MUD flying, it would seem – splat – local elections are well underway across B.C. If the campaign turns out anything like the opening acts, there’s [Continue]
KNOX – Civic election campaign might be new but the cast is familiar
THEY CLOSED THE NOMINATIONS for B.C.’s local elections Sept. 14, and not a moment too soon. By my count, there are 179 people standing for municipal government in the [Continue]
ARMCHAIR MAYOR – Running twice, running in place and not running at all
SOME CIVIC ELECTION odds and ends to catch up on this week. I’ve recently written about a couple of quirks of our civic election system. One is that people are allowed to [Continue]
