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OCTOBER 16, 2019 | Volume 32 No. 83
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WIN WITH TRIMMINGS
COUNT ON HUMOUR
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WCT’S latest take on Dracula is slapstick, not scary
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ON TOPIC: CANDIDATES TACKLE TAXES AND AFFORDABILITY PAGE A12 HOW MUCH ARE CANDIDATES SPENDING ON FACEBOOK ADS? PAGE A13 A LIST OF PARTIES’ POLITICAL PROMISES PAGES A14-A16
May arrives in October in waning days of campaign JESSICA WALLACE
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MICHAEL POTESTIO/KTW Green Leader Elizabeth May (right) campaigned in Kamloops on Tuesday with local candidate Iain Currie as the pair led supporters on a walk through downtown Kamloops. Voters go to the polls on Monday, Oct. 21.
Green leader Elizabeth May was in Kamloops on Tuesday, six days before the federal election, to promise tax reform measures and show support for Kamloops-ThompsonCariboo candidate Iain Currie. “A strong Green caucus will start with Greens being elected in the Maritimes, will continue across the country and, of course, with British Columbia. That’s where we know that we are strongest,” May said, stating she is proud of “quality” candidates fielded by the party and its platform. The local campaign
Federal Election Oct. 21, 2019 office, at 135 Victoria St., was filled with Green supporters and journalists during May’s first visit to the riding during the election campaign. (May did, however, visit the city in March.) Citing volunteers, donations, doorknocking, social media presence and people who demand action on climate change, Currie said the party has seen
an upswing in support locally. Asked of her party’s chances federally and in the riding, May cited success in the 2017 provincial election and insisted her party could win in KamloopsThompson-Cariboo. “When I saw the provincial Greens in 2017, having not even had a candidate here in previous provincial elections, run Dan Hines and Donovan Cavers and get 20 per cent of the vote, then we thought, ‘OK,’” May said. “KamloopsThompson-Cariboo is an area where the Greens can do well. In fact, we can win. Especially now we see the Liberals trying so hard with Terry Lake.” See MAY, A6
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