VICTORIA — Premier-designate Lorne Doerkson kicked off his first news conference with an outreach to Northern, rural and Interior B.C., areas of the province that haven’t produced a premier in decades. “It has been a long time since you’ve had a…
First elected to council in 1965 and serving as Milton’s mayor since 1980, 89-year-old Gord Krantz’s bid for a historic re-election has been upset. While results are not yet official, former Ward 1 Councillor George Minakakis defeated Krantz by a wide margin on…
'When this government is sworn in, it will be ready on day one, and it will hit the ground running' – Lorne Doerkson Just hours after his supermajority victory in the provincial election Saturday, B.C. premier-designate Lorne Doerkson suggested he may…
Ontario Premier Doug Ford is breaking the bank on self-promotional government advertisements and making former premier Kathleen Wynne look fiscally responsible. Anyone who lives in Ontario can tell you that advertisements from the provincial government are almost inescapable. Even if…
October 22, 2026 — 2:57pm Senior public servants repeatedly queried why NSW One Nation leader Mike Newman was charging taxpayers for hotels, trips and restaurant bills, including a $7791 dinner with a Japanese trade delegation which included 71 beers and 23 bottles of wine. Documents released through…
Opinion: In past years, newly elected Vancouver councils expressed optimism, early on, about cross-partisan collaboration. Can the new left-leaning coalition actually achieve it over four years? After Vancouver’s left-leaning civic parties successfully co-operated to take control of the city’s mayor’s…
The Washington Post The liberal justice took aim at the conservative majority’s rulings on the Voting Rights Act, campaign finance and partisan gerrymandering. With pivotal midterm elections two weeks away, Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan said Tuesday the high court’s…
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October 19, 2026 — 11:30am An independent Sydney councillor is quitting after years of traumatic experiences at a lower north shore council that he said pointed to a snowballing problem of toxicity within the entire local government sector. Hunters Hill councillor Marc Lane handed…
(This referendum was problematic from the start.) The issue here is the strategy to ‘vote only yes on question 10.’ Leaving the ‘nine’ blank prevents the ‘yesers’ from gaining an advantage or having their vote counted. A ‘blank’ vote becomes useless…
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