{"id":911983,"date":"2026-09-27T20:24:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T20:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/911983\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T20:24:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T20:24:21","slug":"bc-conservatives-makes-1st-policy-announcement-of-election-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/911983\/","title":{"rendered":"BC Conservatives makes 1st policy announcement of election campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>B.C. Conservative Interim Leader Lorne Doerkson is set to make a campaign announcement as the provincial snap election nears the end of its first week.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790540659_1_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Doerkson is expected to unveil the party\u2019s first policy announcement as it kicks off the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790540661_164_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you'll never miss the day's top stories.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you&#8217;ll never miss the day&#8217;s top stories.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also Doerkson\u2019s first official campaign appearance since the election began.<\/p>\n<p>Days after the election was called on Tuesday, Doerkson\u2019s party leads the way with a new poll suggesting 43 per cent of leaning and decided voters intend to vote for the Conservatives. The number is up six points in just 11 days.<\/p>\n<p>The BC NDP are now down six points at 35 per cent, dropping from a slim four-point advantage they held 12 days earlier.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size B.C. Conservative Interim Leader Lorne Doerkson is set to make&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":911984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[110683,314898,48,43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-911983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-bc-conservatives","tag-bc-election","tag-canada","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/911984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}