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21/10/22
Author: 
Alex Cosh
Anjali Appadurai/Twitter

Oct. 20, 2022

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.

21/10/22
Author: 
Avi Lewis
Anjali Appadurai on Monday announced her bid to run for the leadership of the B.C. NDP — and the province's premiership. Photo provided by Anjali Appadurai

Oct. 20, 2022

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.

 

21/10/22
Author: 
Matthew McCreadie
Screenshot via CHCH News coverage on YouTube.

Oct. 20, 2022

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. 

20/10/22
Author: 
Associated Press
Vehicles are seen on a flooded road in Lokoja, Nigeria, on Thursday. Nigeria experiences annual flooding, especially in coastal areas, but this year's floods are the worst in more than a decade. (Ayodeji Oluwagbemiga/Reuters)

Oct 17, 2022 

More than 1.3 million people have been displaced by heavier than usual rains

The death toll from floods in Nigeria this year has increased to 603 as local authorities race to get relief items to hundreds of thousands being evacuated from their submerged homes.

More than 1.3 million people have been displaced by the disaster, which has affected people across 33 of Nigeria's 36 states, the country's Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs said late Sunday.

20/10/22
Author: 
The Associated Press
Hundreds of homes have been flooded in Melbourne and other cities in Australia’s southeast. With more rain in the forecast, officials expect river levels to remain dangerously high for days.

Website editor: Extreme weather -  In BC drought.  In Australia floods.

Oct 14, 2022

Man found dead inside submerged car in New South Wales, 2 others reported missing

Homes were flooded in Melbourne and other cities in Australia's southeast on Friday with rivers forecast to remain dangerously high for days.

20/10/22
Author: 
Mark Gruenberg
Train - Gene J. Puskar / AP

Oct. 18, 2022

LAS VEGAS—For the first time in slightly more than 100 years Railroad Workers United, is demanding public ownership of railroad infrastructure in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Then, railroads “would be operated in the public interest,” it says.

Unlike the major media in the U.S. which tries to divorce the threat to democracy from the fight for economic justice, their call for nationalization, clearly a demand for economic democracy, is an aspect of democracy that papers like the New York Times don’t touch with a ten-foot pole.

19/10/22
Author: 
CBC - The Early Edition
Anjali Appadurai in Burnaby, B.C., on Sept. 17. The B.C. NDP leadership candidate now faces being disqualified after the official in charge of the race said she broke campaign rules. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press)

Oct. 19, 2022

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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