ELECTION 2015: Where you can hear from the Kelowna-Lake Country candidates

CENTRAL OKANAGAN - Local candidates in the federal election will be trading barbs at five different all-candidates forums in the riding of Kelowna Lake Country over the next several weeks. Students at the Okanagan campus of the University of British Columbia will be first to hear from the Conservative, Liberal and NDP candidates at a student...

ELECTION 2015: Kelowna votes together unless you’re in that area that looks a little like a…

CENTRAL OKANAGAN - They almost got it right when they re-drew the federal electoral boundaries — nearly all of Kelowna votes together in the Kelowna-Lake Country riding except for one little lump of electoral boundary confusion that pushes downtown Kelowna into a different riding. You've heard of Gracie's finger? We call this the Kelowna nipple....

ELECTION 2015: Liberal Fuhr says air force experience will help in political dogfight

KELOWNA - It was logic honed by 20 years in the air force that brought Stephen Fuhr to where he is today; federal Liberal candidate in Kelowna-Lake Country. “It was the F-35 program that got me involved in big P politics,” Fuhr says, noting he voted Conservative before then. “When I heard two cabinet ministers...

ELECTION 2015: NDP candidate Bill Sundhu faces opposition from next door

KAMLOOPS – A local business is showing its disapproval with the federal New Democratic Party by placing anti-party signs in its store front windows. The business in question is located right next door to Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo NDP candidate Bill Sundhu’s headquarters on Tranquille Drive. The owner of Powderkeg Shooters Supply Inc. didn’t want to speak about...

ELECTION 2015: Why North Okanagan-Shuswap candidate Cindy Derkaz wants to earn your vote

VERNON - You might know her from her days working at Derkaz Shoes, her parent’s shop, or from her involvement in organizations like the Shuswap Community Foundation or Shuswap Trail Alliance. And now, Cindy Derkaz is introducing herself in a new capacity, as the Liberal party candidate for the North-Okanagan Shuswap riding. Derkaz grew up...