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Election results: A rock wins in Burnaby Central
May 12, 2025Election night 2025 was a joyous one for Prime Minister Mark Carney, boomers, and the Liberal party, winning a minority government with 169 seats in Parliament. Perhaps one of the biggest surprises of the night was in Burnaby Central where a rock received 98% of the vote, ousting NDP incumbent Jagmeet Singh. The “campaign” to elect the rock in Burnaby Central had a grand total of one polling station (located at SFU, even though we aren’t even in its riding) and only spent around $3 — on a temporary tattoo of the Liberal party logo to place on its torso. …
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MP Patrick Weiler proposes M-83 to end old-growth logging
June 2, 2023On May 3, Liberal MP Patrick Weiler initiated a private member’s motion, or M-83, to make forestry more sustainable in BC. The motion calls for three demands: the end of old-growth logging on federal lands, a ban on the selling…
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Liberals vote against pharmacare
March 16, 2021On February 24, 2021 Parliament voted against Bill C-213, the “Canada Pharmacare Act,” which aimed to provide Canadians with universal access to prescription drugs. The proposed legislation was blocked by the Liberals, Conservatives, and Bloc Quebecois at its second reading…
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Political Breakdown: A friendly reminder of all the negatives from each party and their ideologies
October 22, 2020A snap provincial election has been called for October 24, and while voting during a pandemic is less than desirable, so are the options of who to vote for. Despite this, elections remain an important, but singular form of political…
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An overview of BC’s 42nd provincial election
October 10, 2020On September 21, Premier John Horgan called a provincial election for October 24. While BC had an election date set for October 2021, Horgan cited COVID-19 as the reason for the early election, stating that “this pandemic will be with…
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People need to stop using the present to excuse and ignore past injustices
June 28, 2020Catastrophic wildfires in Australia, a global pandemic, and worldwide anti-racism protests, amongst other impactful events, all equal a 2020 that never seems to end. At least, that’s what people keep saying. In reality, these types of tragedies and injustices happen…
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World News Beats
September 1, 2018Florida shooting leaves three dead An armed individual killed two people before turning the handgun on himself at a video game event in Jacksonville, Florida. 11 others were injured, nine of them by gunfire. The shooter, David Katz, had…
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The future of electoral reform
June 2, 2017After the federal Liberal government announced the broken promise of electoral reform back in February, there remained another vote with the potential to bring about a big change. However, the House of Commons voted on Wednesday to reject an all-party…
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Liberal Crime Squad is the most topical game of 2017
January 30, 2017Republicans have gained majority control of the House of Representatives, Senate, Supreme Court, and the Oval Office with commentators describing it as the beginning of a new Conservative era. This is the world of Liberal Crime Squad, the 2002 freeware…
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Promises and performance: How the Trudeau government stacks up
October 31, 2016[dropcap]I[/dropcap]t has been a full year since seven million Canadians, charged to action by bright-eyed optimism, voted for real change, social progress, and a really great haircut. On October 19, 2015, the Liberal Party of Canada was elected to not…
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