Politics

When the Vancouver Police Union launched its Vote Public safety campaign last week, the website prominently featured the claim that violent crime is “now at its lowest point since tracking began in 2022.”

The B.C. Conservatives lost another member of caucus Sunday, with the resignation of Linda Hepner.

Some candidates running for office in Vancouver’s civic election next month scored a big win Friday.

Vancouver residents will elect a new mayor, council, park board and school board in the municipal election next month. As always, it will be a long ballot.

In a move that will certainly add fuel to the flames of snap election speculation, the B.C. government announced Friday that it is delaying the implementation of its controversial expansion of the Provincial Sales Tax.

Three B.C. Conservative MLAs—including two former leaders—have been expelled from caucus, as several defectors join the fledgling CentreBC party.

British Columbia Premier David Eby will speak to local politicians at their annual convention today just as he contemplates disrupting their upcoming municipal elections with his own provincial vote.

There is more turmoil within the B.C. Conservatives after allegations emerged that a private investigator was hired to snoop on critics of the party.

As speculation intensifies that B.C. Premier David Eby is poised to call a snap election, the president of the Union of B.C. Municipalities is warning that “overlapping elections” would distract voters from local races.

A member of British Columbia Conservative Leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay’s caucus is calling her out for what she says is a failure to unite the provincial Opposition.

B.C. Premier David Eby says he’s told his legislators that they need to be “election ready,” amid disruption posed by the trade war with the United States.

Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim has changed the way he’s depicting a media briefing where he told reporters a councillor “handed out illegal drugs” on Christmas Day in 2025, with an amended legal filing in the defamation case against Sim calling it a “non-public and closed event.”

Another former B.C. Conservative MLA has joined the yet-to-be-named team of defectors from the party, bringing its total to seven seats in the legislature.

An annual gathering of municipal leaders from across British Columbia opens in Vancouver today with the province’s Indigenous rights legislation high on the agenda, along with housing and public safety, among other topics.

A high-stakes byelection race is underway in the Fraser Valley, where B.C. Conservative Leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay is working hard to connect with voters.