British Columbia

Illicit snacks mimicking real-life candies include 'Reefers' and 'KushKat' chocolates

As Halloween approaches, police on Vancouver Island are urging the public to use caution after officers seized more than 120,000 cannabis-laced edibles, including chocolate and candies with packaging that mimics recognizable treats.

RCMP shared photos showing illicit cannabis snacks with names such as "Reefers" for cannabis-infused peanut butter cups in yellow and orange packaging similar to Reese's Pieces, as well as "KushKat" chocolates in a red wrapper like a KitKat bar.

A statement from the Mounties says the contraband candies resemble professionally manufactured products, but investigators found they were produced in "highly unsanitary and heavily contaminated" modular trailers.

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Eby not ruling out possibility of Conservative Speaker of the House

The morning after his party was asked to form government, Premier David Eby said he was feeling well rested for the "first time in a long time."

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But now, the premier says he and his party have their work cut out for them after a close election showed that British Columbians want more from the NDP.

"They're asking us to do better, but they're also giving us the opportunity to do better," Eby said.
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But he said none of that can be accomplished without the support of Conservative and Green MLAs in the legislature.

NDP wins 47 seats, but CBC not projecting a majority, pending judicial recount

B.C. NDP Leader David Eby was asked Monday afternoon by Lt.-Gov. Janet Austin to form the next government.

Austin's request came hours after CBC News projected Eby as the winner of the 2024 provincial election following a day-long recount of razor-thin margins in critical ridings that gave his party a narrow win.

The NDP has been elected in 47 ridings, with the Conservatives elected in 44. The B.C. Greens have won two seats.

A majority requires a party to win at least 47 of the 93 seats in the B.C. Legislature, however, even though the NDP has achieved that number, CBC News is not projecting a majority government pending a judicial recount in Surrey-Guildford which the NDP won by just 27 votes.

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The British Columbia NDP appears to have fended off the Conservative surge by a razor thin margin and will form the next provincial government, CBC News projects.

Whether the party forms a minority or majority government is still uncertain.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/31762027

Signatures is at 22,853.

A tallying of mail-in and absentee voting ballots has widened the B.C. NDP's lead in two ridings, but the outcome for both districts won't be known until a full manual recount is completed on Sunday and Monday.

The election agency also says in a statement that screening of uncounted absentee and mail-in ballots has identified 65,000 votes provincewide that will also be tallied from Saturday until Monday, up from the previous estimate of 49,000.