Sunday May 28, 2023 | LANGFORD, BC
by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends
On this sunny warm May 28 afternoon, Langford-Juan de Fuca candidate Ravi Parmar held his campaign office opening under the Langford noon-day sun.
Parmar was introduced by local MLA Mitzi Dean (Esquimalt-Metchosin) and enjoyed the company of two federal MPs — Alistair MacGregor (Cowichan-Malahat-Langford) and Laurel Collins (Victoria) as well as many other supporters from the party and around the community.
The Parmar campaign office is located at 3100 Jacklin Road next door to the new Long & McQuade retail music store and almost directly across the street from the Sooke School District 62 administration office building. There is plenty of parking.
The spacious campaign office was loaded up with signs, buttons, stickers, balloons and other campaign materials, ready for all the action of the 29-day by-election campaign (leading up to election day June 24, 2023).
Premier David Eby was in Langford on May 25 doing a walkabout with Parmar along on Goldstream Avenue.
On May 27 Premier Eby announced the June 24, 2023 by-election date for Langford-Juan de Fuca as well as Vancouver-Mount Pleasant.
Also attending the relaxed BBQ-style luncheon buffet event today were SD62 Trustee Russ Chipps; SD62 Secretary-Treasurer Harold Cull; Esquimalt Councillor Darlene Rotchford, former Langford councillor Norma Stewart; former John Horgan constituency worker Hans Frederiksen; former SD62 Trustee Neil Poirier (who works on the Parmar campaign team); campaign manager Ed May; campaign workers Shannon Russell and Sue Stroud; and dozens of other supporters young and older.
Attending with Laurel Collins was her husband James McNish and their two-year-old daughter Alora. Collins is expecting their second child in just two weeks from now.
===== RELATED:
- Two BC by-elections called for June 24 (May 27, 2023)
- Premier Eby expected to call by-election on May 27 (May 26, 2023)
- Eby calling by-election shortly, Parmar expects tight race in Langford-Juan de Fuca (May 25, 2023)
- Upcoming by-elections are critically important for voters, says Eby (May 24, 2023)
- Langford-Juan de Fuca by-election candidates at Luxton Spring Fair (May 20, 2023)
- Strategies for Langford-Juan de Fuca by-election timing (May 16, 2023)
- Passing the BC NDP torch in Langford-Juan de Fuca (May 14, 2023)
- Three provincial electoral areas for west shore (April 18, 2023)
- BC Greens launch their Langford-Juan de Fuca candidate (April 6, 2023)
- John Horgan wraps up 18 years in BC elected politics (February 9, 2023)
- Decoupling of Langford and Sooke in proposed new BC electoral boundaries (Nov 22, 2022)
===== ABOUT ISLAND SOCIAL TRENDS:
Island Social Trends has been covering politics, business, education and communities through a socioeconomic lens since 2008 on south Vancouver Island (previously as West Shore Voice News, and before that both Sooke Voice News and MapleLine Magazine).
Island Social Trends posts news daily at islandsocialtrends.ca (2020-2023). A new bi-weekly print edition will launch in mid-July 2023, with the online news portal continuing robustly.
Mary P Brooke is the editor and publisher of Island Social Trends. Ms Brooke followed and wrote extensively about the COVID pandemic during 2020-2022, and continues to follow that topic as new developments arise. She has covered news of Sooke School District 62 (SD62) in-depth since 2014 and BC education more broadly for over 10 years. In the west shore she also reports on West Shore Parks and Recreation.
Ms Brooke now reports with the BC Legislative Press Gallery. She is actively covering the by-election in Langford-Juan de Fuca. | BY-ELECTION ARCHIVE
Among other qualifications, Ms Brooke holds a health sciences B.Sc. (Foods & Nutrition), a university Certificate in Public Relations, and an industry certificate in digital marketing. She was awarded the McGeachy Prize in Journalism (University of Saskatchewan). Mary Brooke is building a FOOD RESILIENCE NEWS ARCHIVE.
