The provincial election again proved popular as did local issues in the next two articles which took the eighth and seventh spots in the countdown.
The writ dropping and at the time, only two candidates in Peace River North interested almost as many readers as Fort St. John city councillor Byron Stewart’s assertion that the city should stop providing water to rural residents, eliciting much discussion on social media.
#8 – The Writ has dropped: Let the battle of the Conservatives begin
It’s a two-party race in most of BC since Kevin Falcon torched his BC United (Liberal) party less than a month ago, but not in Peace River North. The BC NDP can’t even be bothered to field a candidate up here – ignoring our existence as usual.
It was clear that this election was going to be interesting when the BC Conservatives rose from the ashes to challenge the NDP and BC United for the privilege of forming government. Now that it’s back to a two-party race, with the addition of approximately 29 independent candidates scattered throughout the province, it’s sure to be a nail-biter, with the two remaining major parties currently pretty much tied in the polls.
What we have in the North is a nail-biter of a different sort. A battle between two conservatives – Jordan Kealy, a local farmer, Peace River Regional District director, a newcomer to provincial politics and candidate for the Conservative Party of British Columbia; and Dan Davies, MLA since 2017, former teacher and city councillor, former BC United candidate and self-professed fiscal conservative.
Two conservatives, duking it out for our votes on October 19th.
When John Rustad took the helm of the BC Conservatives and began re-building the party, it was interesting to see that both he and Kevin Falcon’s freshly rebranded BC United (Liberals) were calling for the same changes, promoting the same policies.
Even though Falcon folded up his party tent and left his candidates without a political home, Davies is still in favour of many of his former party’s policies. Policies that are largely echoed by Kealy as the BC Conservative Party candidate.
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#7 – Councillor says FSJ should stop providing water to rural residents
In the wake of concerns expressed by rural residents surrounding the upcoming three-week closure of the bulk water station on the West Bypass Road near Ma Murray Community School, Fort St. John city councillor Byron Stewart wants the city to wash its hands of the service altogether.
Last week the City of Fort St. John announced the coming closure, from July 3 to 22 for paving of the severely deteriorated lot surrounding the rural water station and the subsequent temporary closure for a system upgrade of all water station software from July 22 to 29. This means that individuals and commercial water hauling businesses will be unable to access the station for almost a month. Given that a load of water in most cisterns lasts 15-16 days, having access to the water station that thousands of rural residents rely on cut off for such a long time has users concerned.
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Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas – and enjoyed today’s post. Tomorrow will see posts from January and July.
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