IF there was every any doubt that Stephen Harper's Conservatives bear zero resemblance to the long ago reformers who railed against government corruption and pork barrel politics, the expense scandal that's engulfed Senator Mike Duffy has surely put ...
THE professional pollsters may have got the election result wrong, but award-winning columnist Trevor Lautens - swimming against the stream as he often does - correctly predicted a win for Christy Clark in this newspaper on May 10 (read it at nsnews....
THE B.C. Liberals handily defeated the NDP on Tuesday while staving off the numerous polls and surveys that pointed to the party's demise. The election gave the Liberals 50 seats, although Vancouver-Point Grey voters declined Premier Christy Clark a ...
CHANCES are if you are reading this, you're already the type who votes, so we aren't going to come at you with a heavy-handed "soldiers-died-for-your-democratic-right" kind of editorial.
DESPITE a referendum on the ballot, only 55 per cent of eligible voters headed to the polls in 2009. Participation in provincial elections has been on a downward slide since 1983, when more than 77 per cent of British Columbians made their mark. With...
