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Volume 17, Issue 43
Sunshine Coast, British Columbia • www.thelocalweekly.ca • Thursday, October 24, 2019 A Female Take On Shakespeare Page 12
Hungry Bears Page 2
Weiler Wins
School Road Hearing Page 3
Gospel Rock Proceeds Page 5
Forestry Funds For Roofs Page 5
“100 Women Who Care” Page 7
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The new MP for the Sunshine Coast will be Liberal Patrick Weiler, a 33-year-old environmental lawyer. Weiler won the West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky riding with 34.9 per cent of the vote, ahead of Conservative Gabrielle Loren at 26.9 per cent, Green Dana Taylor at 22.2 per cent and the NDP’s Judith Wilson at 13.9 per cent. While the Liberal party nationally went from a majority government to a minority, the Liberal vote in this riding dropped about 19 percentage points from 2015, when Pamela Goldsmith-Jones took 54 per cent. The Conservative vote remained roughly stable (26 per cent in 2015) while the lost Liberal votes went to the Greens (up from 9 per cent in 2015) and the NDP (up from 10 per cent). The turnout in this riding was 67.2 per cent, down only slightly from 68.5 per cent four years ago. How the Coast voted – compared to West Vancouver, Squamish and Whistler – was not immediately known since the poll-by-poll results are not released until several days after the election. JOHN GIBBS PHOTO
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