More BC Conservative leadership candidates enter, BC Green leadership candidates fundraising, Centre BC leadership drama and Carney goes to China

Links

• Former B.C. Liberal minister Iain Black enters B.C. Conservative leadership race | Maple Ridge News
• Reconciliation critic Caroline Elliott seeks to head BC Conservatives | Vancouver Sun
• ‘I’m in’: Caroline Elliott confirms run for B.C. Conservative leadership – Richmond News
• 2025 BC Green Party Leadership Contestant Financing Reports Available | Elections BC
• Minister’s statement on status of the decriminalization pilot program
• Decriminalizing people who use drugs in B.C. (reports) – Province of British Columbia
• B.C. officially ends decriminalization pilot project after concerns about public drug use
• What Canada failed to learn from drug decriminalization in Portugal – Canadian Affairs
• Carney’s 1st day in China secures agreement on energy — but no tariff breakthrough yet | CBC News
• B.C. and feds sign lumber understanding with China, as province looks beyond U.S. | CBC News
• Slim Majority of Canadians (54%) Support Stronger Trade Ties with China | Ipsos
• Two Liberal MPs cut Taiwan trip short ahead of Carney’s China visit – The Globe and Mail
• Canada not considering a ban on X over deepfake controversy, AI minister says
• Musk’s Grok Is Abusing Women and Children. Our Government Needs to Act | The Tyee
• Why Canada’s reaction to the Grok scandal is so muted in the midst of a global outcry
• X ‘acting to comply with UK law’ after outcry over sexualised images | Grok AI | The Guardian
• NDP leadership candidate apologizes for using AI to respond to Reddit questions | CBC News
• r/ndp on Reddit: I’m Rob Ashton, union leader and candidate for Leader of the NDP — AMA
• I’m Tony McQuail and an NDP Leadership Candidate, AMA! : r/CanadaPolitics

We made predictions for 2025. They… weren’t great. So let’s make more for 2026, as difficult as that seems.

Plus, OneBC fully imploded and kinda repaired itself over our break. We recap that and other political stories from the holidays.

Links

• Eby’s approval rating
• Aaron Gunn out
• Kelowna MLA Gavin Dew won’t run for B.C. Conservative leadership, citing family
• B.C. Conservative Party forms committee to select new leader | CBC News
• Harman Bhangu says he will ‘most likely’ run for leadership of B.C. Conservatives – Energeticcity.ca
• Kamloops MLA Milobar considering run at B.C. Conservative leadership – CastanetKamloops.net
• B.C. Conservatives should welcome more people, Yuri Fulmer says, as he enters leadership race – The Globe and Mail
• Former grocery executive Darrell Jones considers run for B.C. Conservative leadership – Vancouver Is Awesome
• West Kootenay advocate ready to lead B.C. Conservative Party | Castlegar News
• OneBC ousts MLA Dallas Brodie as leader — but she says she’s fighting back | CBC News
• BREAKDOWN: The very public implosion of OneBC
• Who Is Othman Mekhloufi, the Far-Right Poster Behind OneBC’s Strife? | The Tyee
• Dallas Brodie back in control of OneBC as a party of one after almost 10 days of negotiations – Victoria Times Colonist
• Chrystia Freeland to step down as MP on Friday | CBC News
• Pilot phase of Liberal gun buyback program collects 25 firearms | CBC News