Thoughts on BC Politics and More

Yukon's territorial election campaign will officially begin on Friday. Premier Mike Pemberton says he'll ask Yukon Commissioner Adeline Webber on Friday to dissolve the legislative assembly and set the territorial election for Nov. 3. Pemberton made the announcement in Carcross on Thursday, alongside a handful of Liberal candidates. Pemberton's Liberals are seeking a third mandate with an almost entirely new roster of candidates this time. All but one of the party's sitting MLAs decided not to run again. It's also Pemberton's first campaign after taking over as party leader earlier this year ... CLICK HERE for the full story 

Until early in the week of October 23rd, a very interesting scenario, in BC politics, was being set up.  What you say?  Well it appeared, at least at first glance, that perhaps for the first time in decades, the people of British Columbia might actually have more than two viable parties from which to cast a ballot for. Back in the early 1950s, British Columbians elected members to the Legislative Assembly from the Conservatives, Liberals, Social Credit, Labour and the NDP (1952 / 53).  Again, in 1972 and 1975, voters sent MLA's to Victoria from the Conservatives, Liberals, Social Credit and the NDP. This time around, again at least until early last week when the BC Conservative Party bounced newly re-elected leader Dan Brooks from his post, it appeared that perhaps, we might again see members from four parties in the legislature. And with good reason. 1)  The NDP are stubbornly disenfranchising one of...