A different kind of BC Conservative candidate -- Á’a:líya Warbus sees a progressive side to her party. But do voters—or her leader? (Fraser Valley Current)
Á’a:líya Warbus wants a seat at the table. What she does if gets there is still an open question. Earlier this month, the BC Conservative Party announced its candidates in Chilliwack’s two ridings. Heather Maahs, a Chilliwack school board trustee who has opposed gender neutral washrooms, fits the mold of a candidate for a party whose leader has asked for SOGI educational material to be pulled from schools. But Warbus—a staffer in the Stó:lō Xwexwilmexw Government, an artist, a university instructor, and the director of a film about a Stó:lō trans woman’s search for acceptance—very much does not. In a system where governments rise and fall on party loyalty, parties rarely nominate candidates whose personal histories and beliefs seem like they might clash with those of their leader and caucus . . . . CLICK HERE for the full story The Fraser Valley Current provides an independent focus on local news, events, and people in Abbotsford, Chilliwack, Langley, Mission, and the rest o...