Becoming One City for Unity and Democracy

(Sent to the Alberni Valley News May 8 2023 – Published on May 24) Dear Editor, I was born in Beaver Creek and now live within City limits. I believe the residents of this place we all call Port Alberni are being poorly served by their democratic systems. Sproat Lake residents worry a major development …

Followup Blog: Graphs from the Referendum

I wrote a blog a few weeks ago poking at the media for making such a big kerfuffle about the “low turnout” in the Referendum after just a few days of data coming back from Elections BC.  I noted the differences in numbers indicated a likely connection to patterns in how ballots were mailed out, …

Don’t Panic, just Vote! (and return your ballot)

Updated graphs to Nov 16 and Added individual coloured ridings graphs at bottom. Update 2: Elections BC announces actual packages returned so far. I see this Global News report that Elections BC is changing the way it is announcing numbers of ballots received. Turns out they have already received almost 20% but the number on …