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Katie DeRosa

@katiederosa.bsky.social
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Legislative reporter for CBC News BC. LSE alum, Travers Fellowship recipient, Amnesty International Canada media award recipient. Loves to travel (even with two toddlers apparently).

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Katie DeRosa @katiederosa.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
NEW - Premier David Eby did not rule calling an early election if the NDP cannot pass the North Coast Transmission Line bill. He slammed the Conservatives for trying to delay the bill, says BC Greens don’t support it. “I will stake my government on it.” #bcpoli
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Katie DeRosa @katiederosa.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
I spoke to @MistyVanPopta and her 20-year-old daughter Amelia about the deeply personal reason behind their push to strengthen BC’s Intimate Images Protection Act. In a show of cross-partisan support, AG @NikiSharma2 agreed to those changes. #bcpoli www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
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Story of B.C. Conservative MLA's daughter leads to stronger Intimate Images Protection Act
The daughter of a B.C. Conservative MLA is sharing her experience years after she says someone shared intimate images of her without her permission. Amelia Van Popta and her mother, Misty, have been c...
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Katie DeRosa @katiederosa.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
“…the constant and prolonged discord shows no signs of abating," the BC Conservative Party management committee writes of John Rustad. “We ask that you immediately step down as leader." #bcpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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B.C. Conservatives management committee calls on John Rustad to resign as leader | CBC News
John Rustad is facing calls to resign as leader, according to a scathing letter from the B.C. Conservative Party management committee.
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Katie DeRosa @katiederosa.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
BREAKING - The BC Conservative party’s management committee has written a letter calling on John Rustad to resign as leader, citing the “unprecedented level of turmoil that has engulfed our party.” #bcpoli
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Katie DeRosa @katiederosa.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
“I feel like my family and the people who are being affected by this are being held hostage by a war between the government and the unions.” CBC’s Emily Fagan talks to a Vancouver woman about how the stalemate between the govt and BCGEU is impacting her IVF funding. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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B.C woman seeking IVF funding says she faces delays, uncertainty amid BCGEU strike | CBC News
Fertility clinics say they're seeing delays in patients being approved for IVF funding due to the B.C. General Employees Union Strike. For patients who have rested their last hopes of conception on B....
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Katie DeRosa @katiederosa.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
There’s growing backlash to the way John Rustad handled the most recent MLA departure. He denies he brought up @amboultbee’s mental health but refuses to apologize. The former head of the BC Conservatives is calling on Rustad to resign. #bcpoli youtu.be/VI29iyXlLbA
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John Rustad faces renewed calls to resign, after another MLA defects
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Katie DeRosa @katiederosa.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
NEW - Amelia Boultbee, Conservative MLA for Penticton-Summerland, says she’s leaving the Conservative caucus. “I have witnessed the unraveling of John Rustad.” She’s calling on Rustad to resign because the party cannot beat the NDP under his leadership. #bcpoli
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Katie DeRosa @katiederosa.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
The seven OBGYNs from Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops admit that a mass resignation is unprecedented, but they say it’s the only option given the safety issues and short-staffing they’ve witnessed, a problem happening across BC. #bcpoli youtu.be/Al0mbXBkwdg
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Expectant parents nervous as some Kamloops ob-gyns announce end of in-hospital service
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Katie DeRosa @katiederosa.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Thousands of striking BCGEU and PEA members and their supporters rally on the legislature lawn demanding a better wage offer. The PEA lead negotiator says the government latest offer “takes us backwards” when considering inflation and cost of living increases. #bcpoli
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Fascinating example of the urban and rural split at the Union of BC Municipalities convention. A resolution pushing B.C. to declare a right for renters to have pets (within guidelines) in their units was supported by Vancouver and others. But was narrowly defeated by rural and landlord delegates.
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Katie DeRosa @katiederosa.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
NEW - 2 BC projects are on the list of 5 major projects being prioritized by Ottawa: LNG Canada, Red Chris copper mine. No pipeline. The big question I have is, since these projects are already approved, does being on the list mean they get federal cash? #bcpoli www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Carney recommends 5 'nation-building projects' for approval, including LNG expansion | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled several “nation-building” projects Thursday morning that his government identified as part of a promise to bolster Canada's economic independence amid a turbulent t...
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Katie DeRosa @katiederosa.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I talked to @Dave_Eby yesterday about backlash - including among New Democrats - to comments blaming Canada’s immigration system for filling up shelters and food banks. He didn’t backtrack, but doubled down on his concerns about the TFW program #bcpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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B.C. premier faces backlash — including from New Democrats — to immigration comments | CBC News
B.C. Premier David Eby blamed Canada's immigration system for filling up food banks and homeless shelters. Service providers and some New Democrats say that scapegoats marginalized groups that rely on...
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Katie DeRosa @katiederosa.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
New data obtained by CBC News shows the employees meant to keep hospitals safe are themselves being injured at an alarming rate. Hospital security guards were injured 170 times last year, which amounts to an injury almost every other day. Here’s the story: #bcpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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WorkSafeBC data shows 'concerning' rate of injury among hospital security guards | CBC News
Last year, a hospital security guard was injured nearly every other day. Relational security guards who spoke to CBC News describe being punched, kicked and spat on.
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Katie DeRosa @katiederosa.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
BC has gone from being a leader in affordable child care, to now being at the back of the pack. Five BC cities have the highest median infant child care fees and the province has stalled on its universal $10-a-day child care goals, a new report finds. Here’s the story. #bcpoli youtu.be/1z0JzKtzA4U
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New report finds B.C access to affordable child care worst in the country
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Katie DeRosa @katiederosa.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
NEW - CBC has confirmed that an explosive device was thrown at Bowinn Ma’s North Vancouver constituency office early this morning. The office was empty and no one injured. Many NDP MLAs are closing their constituency offices as a precaution. RCMP investigating. #bcpoli
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Katie DeRosa @katiederosa.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
NEW - Interior Health CEO Susan Brown is stepping down, earlier than her planned retirement in Dec. This amid a health care staffing crisis that forced the closure of Kelowna General Hospital’s pediatric ward and warnings about dire staffing levels in the maternity ward #bcpoli
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Katie DeRosa @katiederosa.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Two of B.C.'s three Independent MLAs have formed a political party that wants to lower taxes, take away teachers' right to strike, open the door for private health care and "defund the reconciliation industry.” Here are the details. #bcpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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New political party courts social conservatives | CBC News
Independent MLAs Dallas Brodie and Tara Armstrong have formed a new political party called One B.C.
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Katie DeRosa @katiederosa.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
B.C. government approves new LNG pipeline with terminus near Prince Rupert. By @akurjata.ca #bcpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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B.C. government approves new LNG pipeline with terminus near Prince Rupert | CBC News
The B.C. government has approved the continued construction of a new pipeline project that could supply natural gas to a proposed floating liquefied natural gas export terminal off B.C.'s North Coast.
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Katie DeRosa @katiederosa.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Interim Opposition leader Andrew Scheer called Premier David Eby a "radical" for not throwing his support behind a new oil pipeline. “The radical B.C. premier is saying no pipeline through his province." Here’s the story. #bcpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Tory interim leader calls Eby a 'radical' for not supporting another B.C. pipeline | CBC News
Interim Opposition Leader Andrew Scheer called B.C.'s premier a "radical" for not throwing his support behind a new oil pipeline through the province.
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Katie DeRosa @katiederosa.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
NEW - BC Assembly of First Nations Terry Teegee is pulling out of Premier David Eby’s Asia trade mission because of bills 14 and 15. The fallout continues. #bcpoli
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Katie DeRosa @katiederosa.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Side drama in the legislature over a blurred zoom background during a vote. NDP MLA Rick Glumac is voting virtually and during his vote on bill 14, had a blurred background. BC Conservatives say that qualifies as a “virtual background” and therefore vote should be DQ’d. #bcpoli
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Katie DeRosa @katiederosa.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
NEW - Bill 15 - which will fast track public and private infrastructure projects - has passed in the legislature, 47 to 46 with the Speaker breaking the tie. First Nations leaders have vowed to fight the bill in court. Former NDP cabinet minister Melanie Mark has come out against. #bcpoli
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Katie DeRosa @katiederosa.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
NEW - MLAs have voted to pass Bill 14 - which will fast track clean energy projects - by a one vote margin. It was a tie: Cons, Greens and Independents voted against. The speaker voted to break it. At 8pm, MLAs will vote on Bill 15, which will fast track infrastructure projects. #bcpoli
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Katie DeRosa @katiederosa.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
BC’s Chief Electoral Officer Anton Boegman released a report into election 2024. Despite human error involving some ballot boxes in Prince George, says new electronic tabulation model was successful, delivered results faster and overall it was a free and fair election #bcpoli
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Katie DeRosa @katiederosa.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Yesterday Premier David Eby unveiled his vision for accelerating mining projects. Eby insisted it’s not connected to controversial Bill 15, even though that bill - once passed - can accelerate mining projects deemed “provincially significant”. #bcpoli youtu.be/DbH5jkSWo3c
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Eby’s mining announcement overshadowed by backlash to controversial Bill 15
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Katie DeRosa @katiederosa.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Premier David Eby is in Yellowknife today and tomorrow for the western premiers’ conference. They’ll talk trade, tariffs and energy security. But the elephant in the room will be western separatism as the debate escalates in Alberta. #bcpoli www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
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Western Canada's premiers to meet this week amid talks of western separatism
B.C.'s premier and his counterparts from western Canada will meet in Yellowknife this week to talk about tariffs, trade and natural resources. But as Katie DeRosa reports, it's happening at a time whe...
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Katie DeRosa @katiederosa.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
NEW - Michael Bryant, the Downtown Eastside czar hired by Premier David Eby, for $150K for 6 months work, has had his contract ended. “Debate and discussion around this time-limited contract is distracting from the important work underway.” Eby will take Qs about this at 3pm. #bcpoli
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Katie DeRosa @katiederosa.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
BC Conservative public safety critic Elenore Sturko says the RCMP investigation into a whistleblower who leaked documents about safe supply will have a chilling effects on other whistleblowers. David Eby and Garry Begg have distanced themselves from the investigation #bcpoli youtu.be/_PmaGq_wxd0
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MLA says RCMP questioned her about leaked safer supply government documents
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Katie DeRosa @katiederosa.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Premier David Eby is at the Finest at Sea wharf, talking about his trade mission to Japan, Malaysia and Korea. He says the majority of sablefish harvested by this company is sent to Japan. But the trade mission will not go to China, which has levied tariffs on Canadian seafood. #bcpoli
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Michael Bryant, former Ontario attorney general, tapped to be the Downtown Eastside 'czar.' NDP government promised to tackle the entrenched poverty, mental health and addictions issues facing residents in DTES, by @katiederosa.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #ToxicDrugCrisis
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Appointment of Downtown Eastside 'czar' under scrutiny | CBC News
A former Ontario attorney general and head of Legal Aid B.C. has been appointed to help fix issues in the area once described as Canada's poorest postal code.
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Katie DeRosa @katiederosa.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
A nurse from Texas says she’s considering moving to Nanaimo with her wife, also a nurse. She says as a same sex couple in a red state, under Trump, they’re compelled to move here. BC is trying to make that process faster for American health care workers like her. youtu.be/fQlVxtE072o
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B.C. fast-tracks process for U.S. nurses to get registered in province
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Katie DeRosa @katiederosa.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Premier David Eby says next month the province will launch an ad campaign to run in US states to recruit nurses and doctors trained in the US. It’s part of the province’s work to fast-track the credential process for US health care workers, which Eby says is already bringing doctors and nurses to BC
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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Happy 99th birthday to the man who gave voice to the wild. 🎉 Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace. You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.
This photograph captures Sir David Attenborough seated outdoors on the rugged terrain of Skomer Island. Behind him, the ocean and coastal cliffs form a scenic backdrop under a clear sky. Sir David, dressed in a khaki jacket and light trousers, looks towards the camera with a gentle expression, exuding a sense of warmth, calm, and wisdom. Around him, puffins can be seen flying and perched on the rocky ground, illuminated in rays of golden sunlight as the sun sets behind the cliffs.
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Katie DeRosa @katiederosa.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
The owner of Universal Ostrich farm in Edgewood BC is at the legislature today to speak against the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s order to kill all the farm’s ostriches because of an avian flu outbreak. It’s worth noting that this is a federal issue, not a provincial issue.
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Katie DeRosa @katiederosa.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Retired chief Justice Christopher Hinkson will lead a commission to look into improving event safety after the Lapu Lapu tragedy. But both @elenoresturko and @KenSimCity say the more pressing issue is dealing with the underlying mental health crisis. #bcpoli www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
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B.C. appoints former chief justice to review festival safety measures
B.C.'s premier has appointed a retired chief justice to look into improving safety at large public events, following last month's Lapu-Lapu Day festival tragedy. As Katie DeRosa reports, some say the ...
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Katie DeRosa @katiederosa.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
NEW - The province has appointed former chief Justice Christopher Hinkson as head of the independent commission which will look into improving safety for public festivals following the Lapu Lapu tragedy. Terms of reference will be released today. Eby hopes for a quick turnaround.
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Katie DeRosa @katiederosa.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Premier David Eby speaks to media following a call this morning with Canadian premiers and PM Mark Carney, following his meeting w Trump. “There's a consensus among the premiers that the Prime Minister did well yesterday to baseline a new relationship between Canada and the US.” #bcpoli #cndpoli
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Katie DeRosa @katiederosa.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
B.C. Conservative MLA Elenore Sturko is upset after her fellow MLA Heather Maahs attended a speaking event at the legislature this week by a Christian lobby group that opposes same sex marriage, medical assistance in dying, abortion and gender transition for youth. #bcpoli youtu.be/j0DgApJT030?...
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Furor over religious group's visit to B.C. legislature
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Katie DeRosa @katiederosa.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Following the Lapu Lapu day tragedy, Premier David Eby says Health Minister Josie Osborne will undertake a review of the mental health act to make sure it’s working the way it should. This follows criticism from Mayor Ken Sim that province must do more on mental health. #bcpoli
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Katie DeRosa @katiederosa.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I didn’t get a live hit until midnight last night but will be on CBC News Network shortly after 1pm to talk about the NDP collapse in BC and the future of the party which could still be needed to prop up Mark Carney’s Liberal minority. #Canadavotes
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Katie DeRosa @katiederosa.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Premier David Eby gives an update on the “horrific mass murder” at Lapu Lapu Day. Says if a criminal trial does not produce answers, there will be a public inquiry. He will task an independent commission to look into ways to better product crowds during large street festivals. #bcpoli
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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 29/04/2025
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh has lost his riding. Stepping down as party leader. #cdnpoli www.youtube.com/watch?v=SATB...
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Katie DeRosa @katiederosa.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
NEW - NDP leader Jagmeet Singh announces he’ll be stepping down as party leader as soon as an interim leader can be appointed. This after the NDP’s support has collapsed and the party appears poised to lose party status. #Canadavotes
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Katie DeRosa @katiederosa.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Silence from the NDP supporters in Greater Victoria as the CBC projects a Liberal government. However, whether the Liberals get a majority or minority could be decided in BC. #CanadaVotes
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Katie DeRosa @katiederosa.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I’m at Swan’s Pub where NDP volunteers for Laurel Collins, Colin Plant and Maja Tait will be watching election results come in. The New Democrats are trying to hang onto their six seats on the island, where the Liberals and Conservatives are trying to make inroads #canadavotes
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Katie DeRosa @katiederosa.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Thousands of people gathered at a Nanoose Bay farm to rally behind Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre. One supporter I spoke to says it’s emblematic of the “blue wave” sweeping over Vancouver Island. He accused the NDP of “abandoning the working class.” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Pierre Poilievre draws thousands to Vancouver Island rally in final campaign push | CBC News
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre set his sights on B.C.'s Vancouver Island in the final days of the election campaign, speaking to thousands of people who packed into a farm outbuilding near Nanai...
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Katie DeRosa @katiederosa.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
With five days until voting day, Liberal leader Mark Carney visits Victoria in a bid to capture a riding which the NDP has held since 2006 and where NDP’s Laurel Collins is trying for a 3rd term. Carney will visit 5 battleground ridings in BC today which the Liberals hope to pick up. #bcpoli
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Katie DeRosa @katiederosa.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
If you’re tuning into CBC’s Power & Politics this afternoon, I’ll be on alongside Rob Shaw and Justine Hunter at 3pm PST talking about the battle ground ridings on Vancouver Island in the final week of the federal election. #cndpoli
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Katie DeRosa @katiederosa.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
The Victoria riding has been an NDP stronghold for the last 20 years but it’s become an intense battleground as the Liberals gain popularity under Mark Carney. Polls are showing nearly every seat on the Island could change hands. Here’s the story. #cndpoli www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
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Victoria riding could be up for grabs this federal election
The federal riding of Victoria has been held by the New Democrats for two decades, but it's just one of several districts on Vancouver Island that could see an upset in this month's election. Katie De...
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Katie DeRosa @katiederosa.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
At a presser at Phillips brewing, Eby weighs in on the federal election. “I will say it's obviously going to be a challenging election for the federal NDP” but he said he hopes to see NDP incumbents like Laurel Collins re-elected. #bcpoli
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