Toronto Star articles, please go to:John Horgan calls an election in British Columbia for Oct. 24,From snuggling babies to sipping beers at the bar: How B.C.’s reopening plan gets the province to a ‘new normal’,B.C. Upon winning the BC Greens' leadership last Monday, Sonia Furstenau expressed her opposition to an early election, primarily for public health concerns. Click here to learn more. The government has had good reviews for its handling of the.But Horgan’s political rivals have already started slamming the election call.Shortly after Horgan insisted a trip to the polls is needed to bring stability the newly minted leader of the provincial Green Party, Sonia Furstenau, called him out for the decision.Furstenau said she told Horgan last week his government was in no danger of being toppled by her party.“I met with him on Friday and made it clear that we were willing to continue to work together in the best interest of British Columbians,” reads a statement from Furstenau. The new BC Green Party leader is worried about what British Columbia's snap election means for diverse representation.Upon winning the BC Greens' leadership last Monday,“What snap elections do generally is that they diminish, for all parties, the capacity to have more diverse candidates because in a snap election situation, it is much harder for a woman of colour or for a young person… The people that can [run for office with little notice] typically are what we have way too many of in the B.C. “I guess I want to get the election behind us, not for myself, but for the people of B.C.”.Public anger about the election might not be the only issue with which the NDP has to wrestle. Third-party candidates may be off the ballot this November unless petitioning requirements are relaxed, Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins told Yahoo News on Wednesday. To order copies of THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston,Elections BC predicts up to 40 per cent of ballots could be mail-ins.Elections BC predicts up to 40 per cent of ballots could be...Have the Tri-City News delivered to your inbox twice a week! It just is that much more challenging. Legislature already, which are white men of a certain age.”.This validates Furstenau’s concerns that Premier Horgan's early election call will result in rushed candidate searches that disadvantage underrepresented groups.“What we lose in a moment like this — we lose it in all the parties — is that capacity for us to do what we all need to right now, which is to put up diverse candidates.”,Furstenau says that diverse candidates bring different perspectives to the Legislature to “make decisions that serve everybody, not just the decisions that have been typically made which serve too small of a group of people.”.She points to B.C. .
The 2020 Green Party presidential primaries were a series of primary elections, caucuses and state conventions in which voters elected delegates to represent a candidate for the Green Party's nominee for President of the United States at the 2020 Green National Convention.The primaries, were held in numerous U.S. states on various dates from early spring into early summer of … Party members will cast votes online or by telephone, using ranked ballots if there are more than two candidates … “That could turn into grumbling where people accept this is just an inevitable part of democracy, or it could metastasize into some kind of voter rage.”.The BC NDP hold power through a confidence and supply agreement brokered with the Green Party, and with the support of independent MLA and former Green leader Andrew Weaver. HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The Green Party's candidate for president did not strictly follow procedures for getting on Pennsylvania's ballot in … All Minister of Advanced Education Melanie Mark whose commitment to trades represents, as Furstenau claims, how Mark “has seen in her community and other Indigenous communities that trades programs change people’s lives”.Furstenau further acknowledges Minister of State for Child Care Katrina Chen for recognizing the urgency of child care programs because Chen “understands what that’s like right now, in real time” being a mother with a young child herself.Granted, Furstenau has only been party leader for a week, but her commitment to diversity lacks a tangible equity mandate for the BC Greens.