The importance of Monday’s federal byelection in Durham is not what
the results revealed but rather what they confirmed — namely, that the
Conservatives are in a position to win a strong majority government and
that the Liberals, unless anything changes, are on track for defeat.
As
expected, the Conservatives’ Jamil Jivani won the byelection in Durham,
a riding in the eastern Greater Toronto Area that was previously held
by Erin O’Toole and, before that, by Bev Oda and the Conservative Party
since 2004. He took 57.4% of the vote, a significant jump of 11 points
over O’Toole’s performance in the 2021 general election. It’s the
Conservatives’ best result in this part of Ontario since the 1984
election, when the PCs under Brian Mulroney won their massive landslide . . . .
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In the wake of several high-profile police drug seizures of suspected safer supply that put the BC NDP government on the defensive last month, BC RCMP “E” division issued a gag order on detachments, directing them to run all communications on “hot button” public safety issues through headquarters in the lead-up to the provincial election. “It is very clear we are in a pre-election time period and the topic of ‘public safety’ is very much an issue that governments and voters are discussing,” writes a senior RCMP communications official in an email dated Mar. 11 in what appears to have gone out to all BC RCMP detachments . . . . CLICK HERE for the full story
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