New Premier Of BC Won His Constituency With 70% Of The Vote

 

47+% CONSERVATIVE POP VOTE TO 37% for the NDP

And they didn't have a leader until there was an election. So if the Conservatives had run a cardboard cutout, 50% of the province was going to vote for it.

Besides half the people in tonight's celebration, who else is asking the question, "Who is Lorne Doerkson?" 

I bet Mainstream Media didn't mention his name once since September. I bet his caucus needs formal introductions. The deeper story is: "Why would British Columbians choose a man like Lorne Doerkson right now?"

Albertans Voted as Albertans and Chose Canada

 

A referendum meant to test the limits of Confederation instead revealed something far less dramatic

 and far more Canadian: the willingness to complain vigorously while staying put

Political movements often promise earthquakes and turn out to deliver municipal sewage reports. Such was the curious beauty of Alberta's referendum.

For months, commentators deployed its usual inventory of existential dread, and professional outrage merchants stocked the shelves for what was advertised as a historic reckoning. The atmosphere suggested Confederation itself might soon be loaded onto a flatbed truck and driven toward the US border.

BC’s Long Exhale Before the Polls

   

A province marching toward Oct. 24  with worries, shadows, and the uneasy coalescence that always precedes a reckoning

British Columbia doesn’t do loud panic, politically speaking (unless you're talking about home ownership and UNDRIP); the province does quiet dread routinely. And right now, the dread is thick enough to taste. BC is walking toward Oct. 24's election like a province approaching a midnight appointment it didn’t schedule. Advance polls open Oct.16. Meanwhile there is an air of electricity about this election — not with excitement, but with the low, electrical hum of a place bracing for impact.