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Kirk LaPointe

Kirk LaPointe is a transplanted Ontarian to British Columbia. Before he left, he ran CTV News, Southam News and the Hamilton Spectator. He also helped launch the National Post as its first executive editor, was a day-one host on CBC Newsworld, and ran the Ottawa bureau of The Canadian Press. His B.C. experiences include being managing editor of the Vancouver Sun, the English-language ombudsman of the CBC, and most recently the publisher and editor-in-chief of Business in Vancouver and vice-president editorial of its parent company, Glacier Media. He ran and finished second for the Vancouver mayoralty in 2014. He has taught for two decades at the UBC School of Journalism and now writes columns for Glacier Media.

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Kirk LaPointe

Kirk LaPointe: Mr. Poilievre, the CBC must be fixed not nixed

Kirk LaPointe: The B.C. election is now the Conservatives’ to lose

Kirk LaPointe: Is Kevin Falcon the new John Turner?

Kirk LaPointe: Ken Sim has stumbled out the gate as Vancouver’s mayor. Can he regain his former momentum?

Kirk LaPointe: The heated politics of B.C.’s growing wildfires

Kirk LaPointe: Poilievre should make a strong statement and endorse Rustad’s BC Conservatives—for both their sakes

Kirk LaPointe: B.C. could soon reject hometown boy Justin Trudeau

Kirk LaPointe: Fed up with disorder, British Columbians are desperate for change. That’s bad news for the NDP

Kirk LaPointe: B.C. Premier Eby’s support is collapsing as the newly minted Conservatives surge ahead