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CP NewsAlert: Polls close in rain-drenched British Columbia election
By Chuck Chiang, The Canadian Press on October 19th, 2024
VANCOUVER – Polls have closed in British Columbia after a rain-drenched election day in much of the province. Voters braved high winds and torrential downpours brought by an atmospheric river weather system that forced closures of several polling stations due to power outages. More coming... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Here’s the latest on British Columbia’s wet and wild election
By The Canadian Press, The Canadian Press on October 19th, 2024
British Columbians have gone to the polls on an election day marked by torrential rain and high winds across much of the province. Here’s the latest on the race to form the next provincial government between the New Democrats, led by David Eby, and John Rustad’s B.C. Conservatives, with Green Leader Sonia Furstenau hoping her ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!B.C. faces once-unthinkable choice on drenched election day after Rustad’s rise
By Chuck Chiang, The Canadian Press on October 19th, 2024
VANCOUVER – Voters in British Columbia have been braving torrential rain and high winds across much of the province to take part in an election where they face a choice that would have been unthinkable just a few months ago. The B.C. Conservatives, whose party won less than two per cent of the vote last ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘Hateful and mean’: LGBTQ+ advocates slam Sask. Party’s proposed change room policy
By Aaron Sousa, The Canadian Press on October 19th, 2024
Blake Tait says he’s still healing from being outed by his school’s guidance counsellor when he was 14. Feeling safe at his school in Saskatoon, he started telling people he was transgender. But he felt uneasy when his guidance counsellor set up a meeting for Tait to tell his family. His parents were supportive. His ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘Sleeping with an elephant:’ What will a Republican or Democrat win mean for Canada?
By Kelly Geraldine Malone, The Canadian Press on October 19th, 2024
WASHINGTON – Pierre Trudeau famously described living next to the United States as “sleeping with an elephant,” a sentiment his son is intimately aware of amid this year’s tumultuous and polarized American election. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has likely reflected on his father’s words about Canada’s proximity to the U.S.: “one is affected by every ... Read More »
1 responseB.C. voters face a once-unthinkable election choice, after stunning rise of Rustad
By Chuck Chiang, The Canadian Press on October 19th, 2024
VANCOUVER – The choice facing British Columbians in the provincial election today would have been unthinkable just a few months ago. The B.C. Conservatives, whose party won less than two per cent of the vote last election, stand on the brink of forming government or, at least, becoming the official Opposition, with Leader John Rustad ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Where will B.C.’s election be won or lost? Here are five bellwether ridings to watch
By Chuck Chiang, The Canadian Press on October 19th, 2024
British Columbia voters are heading to the polls, and political podcast co-host Mike McDonald says he is watching five ridings as bellwethers. Here are the five ridings he’s watching as indicators of whether the NDP or the B.C. Conservatives will form government, and why: Nanaimo-Lantzville McDonald says one of the key factors in determining bellwethers ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Groundwater at Eagle Gold mine in Yukon shows high cyanide levels
By Chuck Chiang, The Canadian Press on October 18th, 2024
The Yukon government says groundwater samples at the site where a mine’s ore containment facility failed in June “continue to reveal high levels of cyanide.” In a written update, the Yukon government says tests from Dublin Gulch below the slide at the Eagle Gold mine also show metals such as cobalt, copper, mercury, nickel, silver ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Lawyer for family members of Pickton’s victims wants copy of killer’s ‘tell all book’
By Darryl Greer, The Canadian Press on October 18th, 2024
VANCOUVER – A Vancouver lawyer representing families of the victims of serial killer Robert Pickton says he’ll be asking for a copy of a “tell all book” seized from Pickton’s cell after he died following an attack in a Quebec prison earlier this year. Jason Gratl says he and his clients, who have pending lawsuits ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Indian diplomats ‘clearly on notice’ after high commissioner expulsion: Joly
By David Baxter, The Canadian Press on October 18th, 2024
OTTAWA – Canada isn’t ruling out expelling additional diplomats from India, Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly suggested Friday following bombshell allegations that Indian diplomats in Toronto, Ottawa and Vancouver were involved in state-sponsored violence targeting Canadian citizens. Canada expelled the Indian high commissioner and five other diplomats on Monday and when asked at a news ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!B.C. faces a rain-soaked election day after a campaign drenched in negativity
By Dirk Meissner, The Canadian Press on October 18th, 2024
VANCOUVER – British Columbians go to the polls on Saturday after a too-close-to-call campaign that saw David Eby’s New Democrats and John Rustad’s B.C. Conservatives tangle over housing, health care and the overdose crisis – as well as plastic straws and a billionaire’s billboards. Forecasters say election day will be soaked in several parts of ... Read More »
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