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A flurry of federal dollars floating down from Ottawa onto projects across the valley heralds one thing—it’s election time. Prime Minister Stephen Harper has yet to reveal his plans for the election launch, but many are speculating an early call is in the works.
“We have heard it could happen as early as this Sunday,” said Stephen Fuhr, Liberal candidate for Kelowna Lake Country. If Harper does drop the writ after this weekend, it will be more than 11 weeks before voting day—making it the longest campaign in Canadian history. “We have no control over
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that—it is what it is,” said Fuhr, noting that his intuition tells him that it won’t happen until the third Sunday of this month. “But it’s completely irresponsible. Dropping the writ early benefits Conservatives because they get more.” Last year electoral law was tweaked with the Fair Elections Act. Previously, spending limits
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Kelowna RCMP Const. Steve Holmes illustrates how hot the inside of a vehicle gets under the Okanagan summer sun to illustrate the danger for dogs locked inside. See story on page A4.
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