Pipeline purity tests

The BC Legislature returns on Monday and the NDP aren't giving us much to be excited about. However, the BC Conservative meltdowns continue with a high profile firing. Alberta is pushing through a pipeline that no one is really asking for, Carney faces budget vote challenges. What constitutes terrorism in the government's eyes? Apparently Irish rappers and Indian gangs. And the NDP race has some candidates now.

Links

• NDP house leader says B.C. gov't plans to pass 18 bills during fall session | CBC News
• Rustad Fires Lindsay Shepherd for Residential School Comments | The Tyee
• Rob Shaw: Local shipyards could have built some BC Ferries ships rather than China, says leaked report
• Alberta to draw up proposal for new oil pipeline to B.C. coast by May - The Globe and Mail
• David Eby response
• Blanchet says upcoming budget has ‘no legitimacy,’ Bloc unlikely to support it
• Davies meets with Carney as he calls on the Liberals to tackle 'job crisis' in upcoming budget - iPolitics
• Is Irish hip-hop trio Kneecap still banned from entering Canada? Were they ever? It's unclear | CBC News
• Canada lists India’s Bishnoi Gang as terrorist entity - The Globe and Mail
• Ottawa launches Defence Investment Agency to streamline procurement - The Globe and Mail
• World's first AI minister will eliminate corruption, says Albania's PM
• ‘Eat the rich’: Rob Ashton joins race to lead federal NDP
• Edmonton MP Heather McPherson enters NDP leadership race | CBC News
• NDP leadership candidate McPherson stands by 'purity test' remarks after criticism from fellow MP
• Heather McPherson
• Avi Lewis for NDP Leader
• Rob Ashton
• Tanille Johnston
• Yves Engler for NDP Leader
• Tony McQuail Green Progressive 2026
• Current leadership contestants – Elections Canada *