ELECTION 2020: Live blog from B.C. party headquarters

BC NDP projected to win majority government – but celebrations will look different this election

by Ashley Wadhwani
updated 4 mins ago

NDP headquarters on election night, Oct. 24, 2020. (Katya Slepian/Black Press Media)

Green leader Furstenau declared victor in her home riding on Vancouver Island

B.C. Green Party leader Sonia Furstenau outlines her party's climate action platform at Nanaimo's Vancouver Island Conference Centre earlier this month. (News Bulletin file photo)

Cowichan Valley voters elect freshly minted party leader for her second term

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Solidarity rally in Nanaimo sees support for Mi’kmaq lobster fishers
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Horgan trounces challengers to be re-elected in his Vancouver Island riding
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Non-profit fair-trade store in Nanaimo offering new ways to shop
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Pair of Roosevelt elk shot and left in woods south of Nanaimo
Nanaimo man wanted for throwing merchandise at convenience store clerk

Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer Theresa Tam responds to a question during a news conference Friday October 23, 2020 in Ottawa. Canada’s top physician says she fears the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths may increase in the coming weeks as the second wave continues to drive the death toll toward 10,000. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

Canada’s top doctor warns severe illness likely to rise, trailing spike in COVID-19 cases

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An Elections BC sign directs voters to the advance polling station at the Smithers Curling Club Oct. 15, 2020. (Thom Barker photo)

Platform Points: Each party’s 2020 B.C. election promises

by The Canadian Press

Two men were stranded on Snake Island after their small boat was blown away by strong winds Wednesday. (News Bulletin file photo)

Boat blows away, stranding fishermen on Snake Island in the strait near Nanaimo

by Chris Bush

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A Le Chateau retail store is shown in Montreal on Wednesday July 13, 2016. Le Chateau Inc. says it is seeking court protection from creditors under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act to allow it to liquidate its assets and wind down its operations.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz

Clothing retailer Le Chateau plans to close its doors, files for CCAA protection

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100 Mile Conservation officer Joel Kline gingerly holds an injured but very much alive bald eagle after extracting him from a motorist’s minivan. (Photo submitted)

B.C. driver thought he retrieved a dead bald eagle – until it came to life in his backseat

by Angie Mindus

Chastity Davis-Alphonse took the time to vote on Oct. 21. B.C’s general Election Day is Saturday, Oct. 24. (Chastity Davis-Alphonse Facebook photo)

B.C. reconciliation advocate encourages Indigenous women to vote in provincial election

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Nanaimo-North Cowichan election results roll in

NDP incumbent, Doug Routley out to an early lead

by Ladysmith News Staff

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NDP Leader John Horgan elbow bumps NDP candidate Coquitlam-Burke Mountain candidate Fin Donnelly following a seniors round table in Coquitlam, B.C., Tuesday, October 20, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward

Horgan, NDP head for majority in B.C. election results

Record number of mail-in ballots may shift results

by Tom Fletcher

updated 2 mins ago

B.C. VOTES 2020 MAP: Provincial election results, riding by riding
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B.C. chooses NDP government, Malcolmson re-elected as Nanaimo MLA
- updated 1 min ago
VIDEO: British Columbians vote for province’s next leadership in 2020 election
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Customer throws hot coffee on employee through McDonald's drive-thru window in Nanaimo

Anti-maskers hold rally along the highway in Nanaimo

Residents give tour of forest trail at Eden Gardens Nanaimo

Elections BC aiming for results on November 16

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B.C. provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry gives a daily briefing on COVID-19 cases at an almost empty B.C. Legislature press theatre in Victoria, B.C., on March 25, 2020. (Don Craig/B.C. government)

B.C. sees 223 new COVID-19 cases, now 2,009 active

Two new care home outbreaks in Surrey, Burnaby

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Nanaimo Track and Field Club race walker sets national record at her first meet of the season

Olivia Lundman breaks 30-year-old mark in U18 3,000-metre race walk

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Bathtub power propels Nanaimo motocross racer to B.C. title

Seby Sulyok wins his division in FutureWest provincial series

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