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Vaughn Palmer: B.C.'s left-wing premier's snap election call unites the right

Opinion: David Eby assumed he'd be running against a fractured right-wing. Instead, it coalesced under Conservative Lorne Doerkson

VICTORIA — NDP Leader David Eby’s bid for another term in government was predicated on the twin assumptions that he could run hard against Donald Trump and a chaotic B.C. opposition.

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But half of that strategy went sideways Tuesday with the news that the B.C. Conservatives were reuniting, a development that seemed unthinkable a few days ago.

Eby and his overconfident team of advisers grounded their pitch in large measure on attacking Kerry-Lynne Findlay, only to see her........

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