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"Common sense" is easy to sell. The truth takes work.
“Common sense” has become a popular phrase in recent elections. From Poilievre’s slogans to B.C.’s carbon tax cut, here’s why the phrase so often hides costly trade-offs, and the questions worth asking before the Oct. 17 and Oct. 24 elections....
Langley Township's independents: five candidates, no slate, and the balance of power
Five Langley Township council candidates belong to neither slate. All five answered our questions on taxes, debt, housing and SkyTrain. Here is what they told us, and why independents could decide whether one slate controls council....
Achieving for Langley City's support for an amalgamation referendum is a big deal, actually
Delaney Mack's Achieving for Langley City has had every chance to rule out an amalgamation referendum and hasn't, leaving the path open while the Township's mayor openly questions whether the City should exist. Nathan Pachal's Langley City First has firmly rejected a referendum....
Baillie says partner held phone in 216 Street video
Progress for Langley incumbent council candidate Tim Baillie says his partner held the phone that filmed his drive on newly reopened 216 Street. The Facebook reel drew concerns online. Baillie says the video followed B.C. rules on electronic devices....
Climate change deserves a place in every Langley platform
Only one of the four major slates in the Langleys makes cutting emissions an explicit platform commitment. Achieving for Langley City and Progress for Langley never mention climate change at all in their platforms....
Langley Strong: a detailed plan, with the costs to come
Langley Strong has a 39-page plan to restore respect at Township Hall, and all eight of its mayor and council candidates answered our questions. We test it against our values on debt, housing, transit, renters and farmland, and note where the costs are still to come....
Nathan Pachal and Langley City First: the record behind the promises
Mayor Nathan Pachal's Langley City First slate is running seven candidates in the 17 October Langley City election. Here is its record and platform on housing, SkyTrain, public safety, the Innovation District and Invest Langley City, where it fits our values, and where it falls short....
Progress for Langley: the record behind the promises
Progress for Langley holds a 5-4 majority on Township council and is asking voters for four more years. Here is the slate's platform in its own terms, the record behind it, and our concerns on debt, housing, transit and shared services....
Progress for Langley trustee candidate urged families to leave public schools. Now she wants a board seat.
Norma Jean Maxwell helped build a portal for families leaving public schools and urged parents to pull their kids out. Now the Progress for Langley candidate wants a seat on Langley's school board. She also opposed LGBTQ+ lessons and compared some masking teachers to Nazis....
Orange Shirt Day asks more of us than a shirt
Orange Shirt Day honours residential school Survivors and the children who never came home. As DRIPA faces repeal calls and Langley heads into two October elections, we ask readers to carry these hard lessons to the ballot box....
Delaney Mack and Achieving for Langley City: what the slate promises, and what her council votes show
Delaney Mack's Achieving for Langley City is running on lower taxes and public safety. We looked at the record: votes against new housing, a call to put amalgamation to a referendum, and a vote against the budget that funded four first responders. None of the six candidates answered our questions....
Why we celebrate Labour Day
The eight-hour day, the weekend, paid maternity leave, the right to refuse unsafe work. None of it was given to Canadian workers. All of it was won, usually by people who broke the law first and changed it after. A Labour Day reminder of what the barbecue is actually for....
A Farewell to the Little Red House (1887 - 2026)
For almost 140 years, the Little Red House stood alone in a Glen Valley field. On August 27 it burned down. This is the story of the people who built it, lived in it, and slowed down to look at it, from Murdoch McIver's 1876 homestead to the last photograph....
BC Day and the manufactured Cowichan panic
A year after the Cowichan ruling, politicians are still telling British Columbians their homes are at risk. The decision says the opposite. Here is what the court actually found at Tl'uqtinus, where DRIPA really came from, and why blaming Indigenous people for a colonial theft is an old BC habit....
The blood supply is collapsing. Show up.
Canadian Blood Services says the national blood supply has fallen nearly 20 per cent since June 1. Hospital demand is outpacing donations by thousands of appointments a week. Donating is one of the few acts left that reminds us we belong to one another....