The MP for Vernon-Lake Country-Monashee is confident in the leader of the Conservatives ability to continue to lead the party.Pierre Poilievre won the August 18 by-election in Battle River-Crowfoot with 40,548 votes, or 80.4 per cent of the ballots cast. That figure was based on all but one polling station reporting as...

The New Democratic Party candidate for Kelowna in the recent federal election, Trevor McAleese, says there could be renewal under a new leader and a more powerful positioning as the distinctive progressive choice in Canada.Speaking to VernonMatters after the poor showing by the party Monday night that led to the steppi...

Outgoing Conservative MP for Kelowna, Tracy Gray, has congratulated Liberal winner Stephen Fuhr, and thanked her team and supporters following the nail-biting tussle on election night.In a social media post Gray said it had been an honour to stand up for issues important to people in the community in Ottawa. There were...

The new Vernon-Lake Country-Monashee riding had a large turnout for the 2025 Federal Election.Elections Canada said 67,093 of 92,192 registered voters in the region cast votes, reflecting a 72.78 per cent voter turnout.Conservative candidate, Scott Anderson, won the seat with 33,852 votes, or 50.5 per cent support.Libe...

Liberal Stephen Fuhr is destined to become a local MP again.With all 203 polls reporting and special ballots counted in the Kelowna riding, Fuhr now leads Conservative Tracy Gray by over 1,077 votes in preliminary results.Fuhr secured 47.8 per cent of the votes cast at 28,702, compared to Gray's 47.3 per cent at 27,625...

The Conservative Party can be proud of their showing in the federal election, especially when some were predicting a Liberal super majority just a few weeks ago.That's the reaction from Dan Albas, who won the Okanagan Lake West- South Okanagan riding Monday night to record his fifth successive election victory dating b...

The Conservative that used to represent the now-dissolved North Okanagan-Shuswap riding will be returning to the House of Commons.Preliminary results show Mel Arnold was elected as the Member of Parliament for the new Kamloops-Shuswap-Central Rockies in the 2025 Federal Election.As of the latest update, Arnold earned o...

The spoils of the federal election were shared on either side of Okanagan Lake with very contrasting results. In Kelowna there was a remarkably close encounter that saw Liberal Stephen Fuhr defeat incumbent Tracy Gray by the narrowest of margins. Meanwhile Conservative Dan Albas won relatively comfortably over Liberal ...

-- 11:10 p.m. Update --The Conservative Party of Canada has clinched the local seat in Parliament.With 180 of the 239 polls reported, Elections Canada named Scott Anderson as the winner in the Vernon-Lake Country-Monashee riding. At latest update he had 21,689 votes, or 50.9 per cent support.With 228 of the polls count...

People casting their votes in the 2025 Federal Election weren't facing any lines on general voting day in Vernon and other areas in our region.Vernon Matters visited three voting stations between 12 and 12:30 p.m. Monday, and found there were no lines at the Vernon Recreation Centre, the Schubert Centre, or the voting ...

The mayor of Kelowna says the city wants a productive federal government with a strong mandate.In an op-ed Friday, a few days before Monday's general election, Tom Dyas listed the many areas in which Kelowna needs backing from Ottawa.Among those: housing and affordability, investment in infrastructure and transit, impr...

With just days to go before Election Day on April 28, it appears the national and provincial popularity of Advance Voting over the four-day Easter Weekend was also the case across the three local ridings.A total of 82,248 people made their mark in advance polling April 18-21, which suggests an increase over total early...

A different, and free way to go vote in Kelowna on Monday.E-scooter and e-bike rental company Lime is offering two free 30-minute rides on Election Day so no one can feel excluded because of a lack of wheels.There are no other free transit options for Kelowna on Monday.Lime said it is working with youth organization Ap...

Former British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell has thrown his support behind Tracy Gray, the Conservative Party candidate for the federal election in Kelowna. In a statement issued by the Gray campaign Wednesday, Campbell - who was premier from 2001 to 2011- said there is a clear choice in the upcoming April 28 electi...

The Vernon-Lake Country-Monashee candidates had two opportunities to share their parties platforms and answer questions about key issues.All four candidates, Scott Anderson (Conservative), Anna Warwick Sears (Liberal), Leah Main (NDP), and Blair Visscher (Green), participated in an all-candidates forum hosted by the Gr...