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.
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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.
A group funded by Lululemon founder Chip Wilson sponsored an event that brought together Vancouver’s police union and right-wing political activists
Vancouver’s police union president, city council candidates and far-right political activists came together at a film screening event last week that was sponsored by an organization funded by the founder of Lululemon.
BC NDP leadership hopeful Anjali Appadurai is promising a sweeping climate action plan including free transit in urban centres, an immediate moratorium on new fossil fuel extraction permits and a new oil and gas excess profits tax.
An independent modelling group says that B.C. is underreporting all major COVID-19 metrics, making it impossible for residents to know their true risk.
According to a report published last week by the B.C. COVID-19 Modelling Group, blood sample data shows that the number of new cases could be underreported by as much as 100 times.
Pellets from virgin forests fuel the U.K.'s Drax Power Station, backed by politicians and subsidies
From the highway just south of Prince George, B.C., you can see the logs, thousands of them, piled neatly in rows.
They were cut from trees in old growth and primary forests in the province's Interior.
This timber won't be used to build homes or furniture, or even to make paper. These logs will be ground and compressed into tiny pellets, shipped to Europe and Asia and burned to produce fuel for electricity.
What’s behind the surge of new members? ‘Bad faith’ by Green interlopers? Or New Dems who’ve felt neglected for too long?
The controversy over memberships in the British Columbia NDP is just the latest skirmish in a struggle that goes back decades, says Harold Steves, a former MLA and an honorary lifetime member of the party.
