Provincial Politics

Welcome to UnSpun - The Orca's current events podcast and YouTube show. This week, Jody Vance and Sarah Kirby-Yung unspin the latest news in local, provincial, federal politics, and much more.

The NDP still lead in the polls, but it hasn’t been a good first week. How did they put themselves in this position?

Dene Moore: The milk is spilled; we’re having an unscheduled election. The pandemic and decline of local media will force parties to find new ways to engage with voters – especially young ones.

Karen Ogen-Toews: The Road to Reconciliation begins when Indigenous people can stand on their own two feet financially, and when their quality of life increases.

Jody Vance: Of course Elections BC will make voting as safe as possible. But that doesn’t make forcing a by-definition unnecessary election healthy.

The first big story of BC’s early pandemic election is that internal equity rules, like confidence and supply agreements, can be cast aside for a better offer.

Roslyn Kunin: Until we’ve looked after the challenges we already face, neither we nor our governments should be taking on new ones.

There's a real economic and reputational opportunity for the taking.

Quick thoughts as BC plunges headfirst into a snap pandemic election.

In search of stability - or because someone amended a bill - or because the pull of the polls was like a supermassive black hole - we're really doing a pandemic election.