Author: Brian Rice

I never liked it when it was said federally about the CPC, and I don’t like it being said about the BC Liberals. Counting non-voters into statistics to claim the lack of a mandate is just plain wrong headed. Those that don’t vote have abdicated their responsibility for choosing government

Paul Hershaw and the team in Vancouver South ran an excellent micro-campaign to put on this Immigration Forum at Langara.

The LPCBC team was at the Vancouver Vaisakhi Parade in Vancouver South!

I just voted in the LPC Leadership race. It has been five months since the race officially started, and nearly a year since the first potential candidates started talking publicly about running. It has been a long year, a longer five months, and I’m looking forward to working with the

I attended the LPC(SK) AGM. The APC(SK) had their AGM at the same time!

2 years ago, the Liberal Party of Canada | Parti libéral du Canada was reduced to 34 seats. The “experts” were quick to declare the Party dead – that the era of centrist politics in Canada was over. The CPC declared that their strategy or trying to destroy the LPC had been

Today, the Hon. James Moore, MP for Port Moddy-Westwood-Port Coquitlam, responded to a question from Joyce Murray, MP for Vancouver Quadra and Liberal Leadership hopeful. The question was in reference to the Hon. MP Peter Penashue’s abrupt resignation due to an election financing scandal.

Before I ended up becoming President of the Liberal Party of Canada in BC, I had been planning on working on George Takach‘s Liberal leadership campaign. Once I ended up as President here in BC, it wasn’t appropriate for me to be senior team member on a Leadership campaign, so I

I just got a PM from a candidate for the upcoming BC Provincial election letting me know that they were advised to shut down their personal FB page for the duration of the campaign. To everyone running for office who reads my posts:  If you are being advised to shut

I’d like to take a moment to thank everyone who worked on the three by-elections this past few months, no matter what party they may have worked for.  Unlike our American cousins, our political system very much runs on volunteer labour. Between our donation limits and our spending limits, a

Alexandra Mendes has lent me a book by Eddie Goldenberg called “The Way It Works”, which is about his time as a senior Chrétien adviser. I’m only a short way into it, but it struck a chord that has been running through my mind a lot lately.