B.C.’s governing New Democrats have barely a half-dozen rural MLAs, so nobody was expecting much of a high profile presence for those parts of the province in Premier David Eby’s first cabinet. Boy were we wrong. Eby not only named Kootenay West’s Katrine Conroy as Minister of Finance, he offered a promise to the province’s […]
The Opposition blazed through the opening days of the fall legislative session, beginning and ending the week with demands for Health Minister Adrian Dix to resign. BC Liberal Leader Kevin Falcon kicked off the first Question Period with a litany of the province’s “crumbling” health care system deficiencies: one million British Columbians wait-listed to see […]
So, that’s it. Hours after the race was officially launched, 48 MLAs were already queued up in lock-step behind the single NDP leadership candidate declared so far: Attorney General and Housing Minister David Eby. Without waiting to see who else might run; before knowing what myriad of skills or new perspectives another candidate might bring […]
