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Former four-term Reform/Alliance/Conservative MP Paul Forseth is seeking the Conservative nomination in Burnaby-New Westminster in the pending election.He wishes to take on NDP incumbent Peter Julian. Forseth and Julian sat in Parliament together re...

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The Burnaby-Douglas Liberals are picking their candidate on Saturday.Bill Cunningham, who stood for the Liberals in 2004, 2006 and 2008, is not expected to be in the running....

topics: burnaby, candidate, liberals

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Paul Forseth appears to be gearing up for a bid for the Conservative nomination in Burnaby-New Westminster. The Conservative nomination opened late last week and the filing deadline is on September 25.Forseth could be acclaimed, which would put him u...

topics: burnaby, candidate, coquitlam, councillor, elected

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The Throne Speech was delivered today in Victoria.This is likely the last one before the Olympics as the province gears up for the world spotlight in February. Is this Campbell's last stand before bowing out after the games, or will he stay to hit t...

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The BC Liberal government's campaign in support of the highly unpopular HST continues today with an e-mail blast from Finance Minister Colin Hansen. In an e-mail to party loyalists, Hansen explains what the HST is and why it's a good thing, defends ...

topics: election, liberal, liberals, ndp, premier

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The NDP convention kicks off later this week in Halifax. The party does not want the focus to be on policy, but since New Democrats go to convention to discuss policy they cannot help it. Here are the policies that are being proposed by the two Bur...

topics: burnaby, ndp, new-democrats, new-westminster, union

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Former Burnaby-New Westminster Liberal candidate Gerry Lenoski is going to take a run at being the New Westminster-Coquitlam by-election candidate for the Ignatieff Liberals. Lenoski squares off against Ken Beck Lee at the Executive Plaza Hotel in C...

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In a Maclean's-Institute for Market Studies survey of the best and worst run cities in Canada, Burnaby was number one.The survey rated the cities on a variety of factors - governance and finance, taxation, safety and protection, transportation, envir...

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Paul Forseth, the former Reform-Canadian Alliance-Conservative MP, who lost just as the Conservatives came to government in 2006, is again being rumoured as a potential Tory candidate in Burnaby-New Westminster.Forseth had been rumoured as a potentia...

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The Green Party ridings in the Burnaby and New West area are going to learn about campaigning from former B.C. Green leader and current federal Green 2010 Olympics critic Adriane Carr later this week.Last election the Greens won 3,067 votes in Burnab...

topics: burnaby, election, new-westminster, olympics