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Conservative child care critic says subsidized child care is “attempt to reshape” the role of parents
The BC Conservatives have been silent in this campaign on if they would reverse their historic opposition to the BC NDP’s child care fee caps, and Conservative platform chair Gavin Dew recently acknowledged, “we haven’t established a fee cap presently.” (Global, Oct 6, 2026)
The B.C. NDP’s fee...
BC NDP to add new Urgent and Primary Care Centre in Coquitlam
Conservatives promise cuts that would put primary care at risk
COQUITLAM - The BC NDP will add a new Urgent and Primary Care Centre in Coquitlam, making it easier for people to get care for minor illnesses and injuries closer to home, and reducing pressure on hospital emergency...
BC NDP to add new Urgent and Primary Care Centre in North Delta
Conservatives promise cuts that would put primary care at risk
NORTH DELTA - A re-elected BC NDP government will add a new Urgent and Primary Care Centre in North Delta, making it easier for people to get care for minor illnesses and injuries closer to home, and reducing pressure on hospital emergency...
Eby will protect public health care from U.S.-style privatization
Warns BC Conservatives would follow Danielle Smith’s for-profit approach to health care
DELTA – David Eby outlined new rules to strengthen public health care in B.C. and guard against U.S.-style privatization. Every BC NDP candidate has signed on to a Public Health Care Guarantee that commits to...
BC Conservative health critic supports two-tier healthcare: “they pay from their own pockets… that’s great, right?”
The BC NDP has released an audio clip of BC Conservative Health Critic Anna Kindy explicitly supporting two-tier, user-pay healthcare:
Kindy: “Eventually what happens is you open up to a private system, which we already have. So then there's competition and some people will want to pay. So you get people...
BC Muslim Association joins calls for Merrifield’s firing
Calls continue to grow for Interim Conservative Leader Lorne Doerkson to fire Campaign Director Katy Merrifield.
Merrifield has said her original post was a momentary lapse because of past trauma, but she has not apologized, and she has not addressed her amplification of a series of posts over the last four...
CentreBC platform shows their conservative colours
Her party name may have changed, but Elenore Sturko’s fiscal conservatism hasn’t. The platform CentreBC released today is a plan for cuts to the services people rely on.
By CentreBC’s own numbers, their platform would add an additional $13.7 billion in operating spending over four years - and yet projects...
Statement from BC NDP Surrey City Centre candidate Amna Shah on racism within the BC Conservative party
“When Lorne Doerkson learned about his candidate Joachim Agou’s racist social media posts, he acted quickly. He said “‘There is no excuse for this. I will not tolerate it.’ But he has now been silent for more than 48 hours since Katy Merrifield’s anti-Islam social media posts came to light.
“This...
BC NDP will expand access to Louis Brier for Jewish seniors
Commitment builds on successful pilot program prioritizing Holocaust survivors at B.C.'s only Jewish long-term care home
VANCOUVER – A re-elected BC NDP will work with Vancouver Coastal Health and Louis Brier Home to ensure more Jewish seniors can access long-term care in a community that reflects...
BC NDP would put locals first with new ferry reservation pilot
POWELL RIVER – BC NDP leader David Eby, alongside Randene Neill, BC NDP candidate for Powell River–Sunshine Coast, announced today a locals-first ferry reservation pilot to help residents in coastal communities travel when they need to.
“Ferries are not a luxury for coastal communities,...
Eby calls on Doerkson to remove his top advisor after Islamophobic posts
The National Council of Canadian Muslims has issued a statement characterizing posts from BC Conservative Campaign Director Katy Merrifield’s as showing “a pattern of Islamophobic views.”
Merrifield posted “f*ck Islam. Defend Western...
Doerkson welcomes new climate change conspiracy theorist to Conservative slate
Interim Conservative Leader Lorne Doerkson has added a new climate change denier to the conservative slate.
His Esquimalt-Colwood candidate Dave Johnston has posted or amplified climate change conspiracies at least a dozen times, including writing:
“Turns out the climate always changes with our without...