B.C. Conservatives Leadership Race Deadline

0:00Today, March is a big deadline for the British Columbia Conservative leadership race, where candidates must pay a final $60,000 entrance. Feed is stay in the running. It's also 5 p.m. cutoff for folks in BC, to join the party and get a vote in picking the new leader to replace John Restad. Five contenders are still battling it out, MLA, Peter Millibar, entrepreneur Yuri Fomer, commentator Caroline Elliott, former BC. Liberal Cabinet Minister Iain Black, and XMP Carrie Lynn Finley. They've already showed out $55,000 each to keep going, plus a refundable $20,000 deposit for rule compliance. Party members are buzzing about this shift, as the Conservatives gear up to challenge the political landscape in BC with fresh leadership. Voters from every riding will have a say, making it a grassroots push that could reshape provincial politics. While let's go out main knife, using a ranked choice system where points come from first preference votes periding, weighted in smaller ones, and lowest.

1:02Scores get eliminated round by round until someone hits over 50%. Expect the new leader crown May 30th at the convention, setting the stage for what's next in BC's conservative revival. Stay informed with Canada News Today AI-powered updates. I'm Cory with the story.