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NDP to donors: We haven’t won anything yet
With fewer than six months to go before the next election, it comes as no surprise that both of B.C.’s major political parties are in full fundraising mode. Word out of the BC Liberal Party is they...
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John Les launches complaint over ‘partisan’ NDP press release
BC Liberal MLA John Les launched a complaint today, asking Speaker Bill Barisoff to investigate a press release that New Democratic Party MLA HArry Lali sent from his constituency office earlier this...
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New firm combines BC’s political foes
Premier Christy Clark’s former chief of staff Ken Boessenkool surfaced today announcing he’d teamed up with top strategists Brian Topp and Don Guy to form a new consulting company: Kool Topp & Guy....
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NDP caucus sings Bud the Spud
Lots of tributes on Parliament Hill today to Stompin’ Tom, a native of my home town of Saint John, N.B., but by far the most impressive came from the NDP caucus. It’s kind of an unfair advantage as...
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NDP fights dismal-decade campaign with an ad of its own
New Democratic Party leader Adrian Dix released an online advertisement Monday — April Fool’s Day — to take on the ubiquitous BC Liberal Party attack that the province suffered a dismal decade of...
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NDP dumps candidate over “unacceptable” comments (with video)
The New Democratic Party has been forced to dump one of its candidates, less than two hours into the provincial election. In a short written statement, NDP leader Adrian Dix said he had been “made...
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Get the raw data for Vancouver Sun’s campaign donation series right here
A couple weeks ago, The Vancouver Sun ran a five-part series about campaign finance in B.C. The series identified the Top 20 donors to both the BC Liberals and BC NDP and looked at the 60+ companies...
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Vancouver-False Creek candidates differ on resource issues
Vancouver-False Creek NDP candidate Matt Toner says B.C. needs to look beyond its history as a resource-based province and help develop its creative industries, like Vancouver’s growing video game...
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Observers to watch close races during final count
Final count in the provincial election begins Monday, and observers will be keeping a close eye on six ridings where the margin between first and second place is less than 400 votes. Of those six,...
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Ottawa polling firm says B.C. campaign began to close after TV debate
Ottawa-based Campaign Research released information Wednesday that it says shows that voters in B.C. began turning on the New Democratic Party after the televised debate. The company’s polling found...
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Work In Progress: Plight of younger workers a political issue, says...
My recent post on the Broadbent Institute’s poll showing millennial job anxiety reaching across generations earned some attention from interesting sources. First, Yahoo Canada Finance called me up to...
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Are temporary foreign workers the new ‘coolies?’ (map)
B.C. Premier Christy Clark and members of other parties today apologized for discriminatory policies imposed in the province’s history, in which Chinese migrant workers were denied the right to vote...
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Notes from the Sun newsroom: Five things you need to know today
Good morning from Vancouver, home of the greatest park in the world. These are some of the stories we talked about in our morning news meeting and that our reporters are now working on. In News,...
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Vancouver woman leads push to drop U.S. citizenship
Like many people in Canada who still have American citizenship, Pat is both scared and angry. The semi-retired suburban Vancouver woman is trying to relinquish her U.S. citizenship because she feels...
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If the shoe fits : Finance minister footwear often a fashion flash point in B.C.
As weird Canadian traditions go, finance ministers buying new shoes before delivering budgets ranks right up there with football fans riding horses through hotel lobbies, sourtoe cocktails in the Yukon...
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On Jes Odam’s lesson and how a government scandal was uncovered
In this fast-changing era of journalism, when Tweeting or Facebooking some inane comment passes for reporting, and when hard-pressed media companies cut resources in search of a black-ink bottom line,...
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Prime Minister Harper snubs Nardwuar at North Vancouver campaign stop
Nardwuar was denied a chance to ask Prime Minister Stephen Harper a question during a morning campaign stop in North Vancouver — and the PM missed an opportunity to join the exclusive “Hip Flip Club.”...
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#elxn42 on Twitter: What the numbers say
During the 2011 Canadian election, 74 per cent of Canadians who were on Twitter voted, compared to a 61 per cent turnout among non-Twitter users. Today some 86 per cent of Canadian Twitter users say...
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In #elxn42 it’s not enough that they’re spelling your name right
Forget the polls. How are Canada’s political parties faring on social media in the countdown to Tuesday’s election? According to a project by Tradable Bits and Pound & Grain, in Ontario they’re...
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Live: Vancouver Sun’s federal election live blog
Welcome to the Vancouver Sun’s live federal election blog. Watch this space for breaking news and results from Canada’s 42nd federal election. Results for the 42 federal ridings in B.C. are still...
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