He's been a very good friend to the fossil-fuel industry dating back to his time as a senior government staffer in the 1990s.
The B.C. NDP used to have lots of environmentalists.
Let’s not forget that the B.C. NDP created the Agricultural Land Reserve when Dave Barrett was premier.
During these years from 1972 to 1975, there was a doubling of parks and wilderness areas, including the formation of Cypress Provincial Park on the North Shore
The NDP has managed to make what could have been an energizing leadership transfer into a debacle.
What a very bad day for the BC NDP. Its leadership campaign has descended into chaos and controversy.
David Eby will become party leader and premier even though he’s likely supported by a minority of current members. And the competence of the party’s old guard appears highly questionable.
The B.C. NDP’s provincial executive council voted to disqualify Anjali Appadurai from the party’s leadership race last night, against strong objections from party members and elected NDP representatives across the province and country who called on the party to let her run.
The party’s decision paves the way for former attorney general and minister responsible for housing David Eby to assume the party leadership — and premiership — unopposed.
There were no pets, dead people, or ghosts involved.
Nonetheless, the B.C. NDP has disqualified leadership candidate Anjali Appadurai, citing collusion with a third party (the campaigning organization Dogwood) in recruiting many thousands of new members.
And with that, one of the fastest, most dramatic political insurgencies in Canadian history reaches the end of its first phase. But I don’t think we’re anywhere near done yet.
The school system in the U.S. has emerged as a prominent front in the right’s never-ending culture war, and Canada’s system may be next.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, the school system in the United States has increasingly been targeted by the political right in its never-ending culture war.
As disaster looms in our old-growth forests, BC needs to address this burning question.
Two respected news organizations have aired recent investigative documentaries showing how trees in B.C.’s drastically over-cut primary forests are chopped down, only to be turned into wood pellets that are burned by the millions of tonnes to make electricity in the United Kingdom.
Candidate says she did nothing wrong after report said she improperly used third parties for membership drive
The official in charge of the B.C. NDP's leadership race has recommended candidate Anjali Appadurai be disqualified after an investigation into a wave of new membership sign-ups during the campaign, according to a leaked report.
Website editor: Take a listen to this! Very good points made here!
Oct. 19, 2022:
The BC NDP will vote tonight whether or not to disqualify Anjali Appadurai, after the climate activist and leadership hopeful is alleged to have engaged in "serious improper conduct". We hear from political science professor Hamish Telford to get his reaction.
