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Lawsuit seeks ruling that Premier John Horgan and Lt. Gov. Janet Austin broke the law in approving vote that gave majority to B.C. New Democratic Party.

Democracy watch lawyer and Integrity BC founder say BC Premier John Horgan and lieutenant governor Jane Austin broke BC’s fixed election date law in 2020.

The case is not aimed at overturning or voiding the election results, said the group, but to prevent future unfair snap elections

The government is ‘trying to keep British Columbians in the dark,’ says BC Liberal critic Bruce Banman.

Fri, May 7th 2021 10:45am — Mike Masnick I remember when Wired was the key magazine for understanding the potential of innovation. I subscribed all the way back in 1993 (not the first issue, but soon afterward, after a friend gave me a copy of their launch issue). Over the years, the magazine has gone through many changes, but Im surprised at how much its outlook has changed. The latest example is a big cover story by reporter Gilad Edelman, basically arguing that people who support Section 2...

“This is a very important priority for me,” Crookes said. “We need to communicate more effectively with journalists — especially editors — about the risks of climate change and the threats to biodiversity that humanity as a whole is facing. I believe climate change is an existential threat that the world is not doing enough to meet.” The professor will be appointed later this year within UVic’s writing department. UVic president Kevin Hall said Crookes’s support for environme...

by Carlito Pablo on December 24th, 2020 at 9:53 AM 1 of 1 2 of 1 There’s an old saying that goes, “Fortune favours the bold”. It means that those who take risks get rewarded. One might be tempted to say that this adage applies to both B.C. premier John Horgan and his New Brunswick counterpart, Blaine Higgs. They may not have much in common ideologically, but the two Canadian provincial politicians did a similar thing in the time of COVID-19. In the middle of a pandemic and amid harsh...