Election 2024: Campaign Roundup - Day 22

Welcome to Day 22 of our British Columbia 2024 Campaign Roundup!

With the 2024 BC election now finally underway, we'll be bringing you daily updates on all the policy proclamations, platform promises, and political point-scoring from the campaign trail.

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Campaign Roundup - Day 22:

• On the first day of advance voting, there was a record turnout. Elections BC said that 171,381 people went to the polls, surpassing the previous record of 126,491 in the 2017 election.
  
  
• Advance polls are open again today. Voters can cast their ballots today and tomorrow, until 8:00 pm, and then again October 15th and 16th. After that, the next opportunity will be Election Day - October 19th. More information is available on the Elections BC website.
  
  
• A BC Supreme Court judge denied the BC NDP's request for an injunction to force the Conservative Party to include "BC" in its name on the election ballot. The NDP argued that the omission misleads voters into confusing the provincial party with the federal Conservatives. The judge cited a lack of time to address the matter before the October 19th election.
  
  
• Andrew Weaver, former BC Green Party Leader, endorsed the BC Conservative Party. Weaver delivered letters to voters in the riding of Oak Bay - Gordon Head in support of Conservative candidate Stephen Andrew.
  
  
• Reann Gasper, the BC Conservative candidate for Abbotsford-Mission, appeared in a video with party leader John Rustad. In the video, Rustad pledges to support mothers by increasing healthcare staffing so that more maternity care is available. He said that a Conservative government would reopen the Mission Maternity Clinic.
  
  
• The BC Conservatives also promised to fight cervical and ovarian cancers by increasing funding for research and early detection.
  
  
• Graeme Hutchison, BC NDP candidate for Abbotsford West and former President of MoveUP, the union that represents ICBC workers, posted a video decrying the BC Conservative plan to open up the auto insurance industry to competition.

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