Latest poll BC Election 2013 reports 9 point gap in favour of NDP Today’s the last day of advanced polling for BC Election 2013. Tuesday’s election day. Christy Clark’s hell-bent-for-leather campaign to keep her BC Liberals in government has not quite made it. For a while, early last week, it looked as though she’d really made [...]
BC NDP leader Adrian Dix in Richmond Tuesday, supports strong riding campaigns Even though all three Richmond ridings are projected to go Liberal, the races are closer than expected, which is why BC NDP leader Adrian Dix was in town Tuesday to help with the campaigning. Dix says the nasty attacks against Richmond Centre candidate Frank [...]
Langley candidate Mary Polak accuses Hauptman of leaking campaign strategy to NDP The B.C. provincial election became even weirder Tuesday as the campaign manager for Liberal incumbent Mary Polak resigned over “hateful attitudes” by party members toward gays, followed by allegations from the candidate that he leaked campaign strategy to the NDP. Todd Hauptman resigned Tuesday [...]
Oak Bay – Gordon Head riding held by Liberal Ida Chong in play during BC Election 2013 The big news in BC Election 2013 as the week ends, ten days before election day, is how the BC Liberals have closed the gap on the BC NDP. Ipsos-Reid says they’re 10 points behind the NDP. Others [...]
Jane Shin accused by Liberals of doctoring her resume B.C. NDP candidate Jane Shin appears to have gone into seclusion following heavy fire from opposition parties over her professional credentials and a racial slur in which she called Chinese people “chinkasauruses” a decade ago. The B.C. NDP has not returned calls seeking comment on Shin. [...]
Skills training for BC mining a key plank in Liberal, NDP platforms The BC mining industry enjoyed a stellar 2012, according to a new survey, and campaigning politicians have been pledging new policies and programs to help the sector expand in the future. International consultancy PriceWaterhouseCooper (PwC) says profits for British Columbian mining companies were [...]
No knockout punch from Clark during televised BC election debate Monday Embattled Liberal Premier Christy Clark needed a knock-out victory last night during the BC election debate among the four party leaders and she didn’t get it. Two weeks of campaigning had generated only around three points of momentum. With two weeks left, and 14 [...]
NDP projected to take 65 seats if BC Election 2013 was held today After two weeks of BC Election 2013 campaigning, the BC NDP remain comfortably ahead of the Liberals and appear headed for a resounding victory on May 14. An Angus Reid poll released Friday shows the Christy Clark and the Liberals gained three [...]
Liberal leader projected to lose Vancouver Point Grey While out for a stroll Saturday, Russ Batstone and his wife were shocked to see Christy Clark’s Vancouver Point Grey campaign office locked and dark. “At one in the afternoon we walked by her campaign office and there wasn’t a single person there, the door was locked with [...]
Former Alberta treasurer endorses Christy Clark and BC Liberals By Stockwell Day Balancing a budget and controlling spending takes discipline, determination, and real leadership. I know about this from first-hand experience. I did that in the Alberta government, as Treasurer. It was also the task I faced in the federal government as President of [...]
