Live blog: Let the Trail forum begin
Posted on 26. Apr, 2011 by Chris Shepherd in Federal Politics, Live Blog
Editor’s note: This post is a live blog of the B.C. Southern Interior riding’s candidates forum in Trail. The forum starts at 7 p.m. A live blog is a constantly updated account of the forum that is meant to give the reader a sense of being at the event. This could be important given tonight [...]
Live blog of Trail candidates forum tonight
Posted on 26. Apr, 2011 by Chris Shepherd in Federal Politics
The B.C. Southern Interior candidates are going to hash it out in Trail tonight, starting at 7 p.m. Live coverage of that forum starts shortly after at News in the Kootenays. There’ll be questions from the media and public and, if time, rapid-fire questions from the media. Colin Payne has already live blogged two other [...]
Harper opened a can of worms
Posted on 26. Apr, 2011 by admin in Federal Politics, Opinion
Dear editor: Oh, boy, did Harper ever opened the door for unfavourable comparisons with the “a vote for a Liberal is a vote for Ignatieff plus all the other riff-raff” ads. Because it is even more true that this time around a vote for a Conservative is a vote for Harper – and Harper alone. [...]
B.C. Southern Interior voters passionate about Cda/US relations
Posted on 25. Apr, 2011 by Chris Shepherd in Federal Politics
According to the CBC’s federal election Vote Compass, voters in the B.C. Southern Interior don’t want stronger economic ties with the United States. The CBC released a compilation of the most passionate ridings on a variety of issues related to the questions from the online questionnaire and responders from the B.C. Southern Interior were among [...]
Candidates forum on poverty
Posted on 20. Apr, 2011 by admin in Federal Politics
Sky rocketing rents, frozen welfare allowances, long waits for the hospitals lack of jobs, increased homelessness, child poverty, 80 per cent increase in the use of food banks all point to a social crisis. What is the answer? On Friday April 29th at 6:30 pm in the Anglican Hall (Ward and Carbonate Street, Nelson) the [...]
Live blog from the Nelson all-candidates debate
Posted on 19. Apr, 2011 by Colin Payne in Federal Politics, Live Blog
5:36 p.m. Tonight I embark on my third live blog experience, this time at the all candidates debate at the Hume Hotel in Nelson. For those unfamiliar with the format, live blogging means I will be writing an ever-evolving story about the debate, live,as it happens. I will update the story periodically with time stamps [...]
Candidates debate for students
Posted on 19. Apr, 2011 by Chris Shepherd in Federal Politics
Mount Sentinel Secondary School hosted an all-candidates debate yesterday and Colin Payne, editor of the Slocan Valley Current was on hand to capture the debate as it happened. The questions and answers were fast and furious and Payne made a valiant effort to report on the proceedings as they happened. It’s a raw report of [...]
Hill apologizes over forum comments
Posted on 19. Apr, 2011 by Chris Shepherd in Federal Politics, Nelson
Stephen Hill, Conservative candidate in the B.C. Southern Interior riding, has issued an apology for comments made at a public forum earlier this year, reports Greg Nesteroff at the Nelson Star. Hill posted the mea culpa Sunday on a Nelson email list in response to Anna Santos, who called him “rude, crude, mean-spirited” and compared [...]
Send me to Ottawa to keep Canada on track: Atamanenko
Posted on 18. Apr, 2011 by Chris Shepherd in Federal Politics
Alex Atamanenko wants voters in the B.C. Southern Interior riding to send him back to Ottawa to put the country back on track, he says. “I believe the job is still not finished,” says Atamanenko. “I feel even more strongly and passionately about the fact that we’re at a cross roads, more so than ever, [...]
Candidates debate in Castlegar
Posted on 14. Apr, 2011 by Chris Shepherd in Federal Politics
The candidates for the B.C. Southern Interior riding met in Castlegar to debate, answer questions in their efforts to win votes. The debate looks pretty tame thought it appears the audience did give Stephen Hill a hard time for how he answered one question. Read about the evening in a story by Kim Magi in [...]
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