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Renewed hope for Dogwood’s Beyond Coal team
Two post-election updates from members of our Beyond Coal team. Another bottle of champagne, please The weekend after the federal election the Ross family in Tsawwassen uncorked a bottle ...
Which voting system is best?
When a favourite sports team falls short in the playoffs, fans are quick to find fault with the umpires, the weather, the league – in short, blaming everything the ...
Strategic voting didn’t defeat Harper. Voter turnout did.
History rarely repeats itself, but it does rhyme. Long before Justin Trudeau ever contemplated a life in politics, his father stoked the embers of Western alienation that would give ...
Federal B.C. Battleground Ridings Too Close to Call
Media Release For immediate release 15/10/2015 Contact: Kai Nagata 778-829-6493 Federal B.C. Battleground Ridings Too Close to Call BURNABY – With days left in the federal election campaign, riding-level ...
Defence Against the Dark Arts
My daughter loves Harry Potter. As the federal election campaign passes the halfway point, she and I are halfway through the fourth book. As I read to my daughter ...
Riding-level polls show many mid-island voters still undecided
Media Release For immediate release 07/10/2015 Contact: Kai Nagata 778-829-6493 DUNCAN – New telephone polls conducted by Insights West show a similar pattern across the federal ridings of Nanaimo-Ladysmith ...
Spare a Thought for the Cannon Fodder Candidates
This article first appeared in TheTyee.ca on Monday, Sept. 28, 2015. In the last federal election, 1,279 brave Canadians, most of them earnestly wishing to serve their country, ran ...
If our MP won’t turn up in Ladner, how can she stand up for us in Ottawa?
On a sunny Saturday in Ladner, over 150 Delta residents attended an all-candidates forum to find out who can best represent the values of Delta residents, and who will ...
Conservatives Edge Upward in B.C. Ridings as Local Races Tighten
Media Release For immediate release 16/09/2015 Contact: Kai Nagata 778-829-6493 Liberals make gains, NDP loses support, a mixed bag for Greens BURNABY – Fresh telephone polls conducted in seven ...
