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Poll says NDP lead MP Duncan calls it a ‘push poll’; Johns encouraged CANDACE WU news@pqbnews.com
A recent federal election poll shows an orange wave ready to take over four “battleground” ridings in B.C. — including the new local Courtenay-Alberni. But Vancouver Island North Conservative incumbent John Duncan says the data doesn’t mean much. “This is obviously a push poll,” Duncan, who is vying for the Courtenay-Alberni riding, told The NEWS Friday afternoon from Parksville. “I don’t detect anything in my world that reflects what their poll is saying.” According to the Dogwood Initiative poll released Wednesday, 33 per cent of voting age people would elect an NDP candidate in the Courtenay-Alberni riding, which includes Parksville, Qualicum Beach, Courtenay, Baynes Sound, Denman and Hornby Islands, Cumberland, Port Alberni, Tofino and Ucluelet. The poll shows the Conservatives have 23 per cent of the vote, the Liberals have 11 per cent while the Greens have nine per cent in this riding. It notes 23 per cent of voters are undecided. “Anything done by Dogwood Initiative is a push poll and done with an objective in mind,” said Duncan. “I really don’t pay any credence to any result they might be announcing and everyone that I’ve talked to thinks similarly.” The poll also suggests the NDP’s Thomas Mulcair is the preferred prime minister, the majority of constituents don’t believe B.C. would benefit from more oil tankers on the coast, Canada isn’t doing enough to deal with climate change and Canada should adopt a new voting system for federal elections. See NDP FEELS, page A8
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TRIBUTE FESTIVAL: Visitors to the Coombs Emporium got a blast from the past May 23 when a parade of performers from the Vancouver Island Tribute Festival rolled in. Gord Rebel as Roy Orbison and Paul Romhany as Charlie Chaplan were among the stars that mingled among the statues. The annual festival, a fundraiser for the Canadian Cancer Society, was held at the Parksville Community and Conference Centre May 22-24, featuring artists performing the music of icons including Elvis, Rod Stewart and The Beatles.
THE POOP IN PARKSVILLE
Stinky bags littering city lots AUREN RUVINSKY
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It is a bylaw infraction not to pick up after your dogs, and that includes once you bag the evidence. L A B O “This is a great example of what
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not to do with your doo,” said Bentley Dzogan who stumbled on 71 individually bagged surprises in a few square meters of bush along Moilliet Street in R A T O I R E S Parksville on Thursday.
Equipment operator Dzogan was clearing the vacant land at Despard and Highway 19A, the proposed site of a new Quality Foods for Robie’s Contracting.
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