April 25, 2024

Ipsos Reid poll shows BC Liberals benefiting from decline in support for BC Conservatives

The BC Liberals are gaining support as the BC Conservatives are falling. That's according to a new Ipsos Reid poll. The poll shows that 35% of decided voters in the province support the BC Liberals -- that's up 3 points from September. Support for the Conservatives has gone down 3 points since September -- from 12% to 9%. Since June, support for … [Read more...]

Angus Reid releases poll on the state of BC politics

Angus Reid has released its latest litmus test of the BC political scene, and once again it doesn't have much good news for the BC Liberals. If an election was held tomorrow, the Angus Reid numbers say forty nine percent would vote NDP, twenty six percent would go Liberal. The BC Conservatives sit at sixteen percent after a rough month of internal … [Read more...]

Casting: Gurry, Hiddleston, Basinger, Reid

All You Need Is Kill Aussie actor Kick Gurry ("Speed Racer ," "Spartan") has landed a role alongside Tom Cruise in Doug Liman's sci-fi feature "All You Need Is Kill". Gurry will play a fellow soldier to Cruise who must fight an alien-like battle day after day in a Groundhog Day-type scenario. [Source: The West Australian] Untitled London … [Read more...]

Sam Reid Replaces Sam Claflin In “Belle”

Sam Reid ("Hatfields & McCoys") and Tom Felton (the "Harry Potter" films) have signed up for Amma Asante's 18th century romance drama "Belle" reports Empire. The story is inspired by a 1779 portrait of Dido Elizabeth Belle (played by Gugu Mbatha Raw), a mixed-raised girl brought up as an aristocrat in England who falls in love with a man of … [Read more...]

The leader of the NDP downplays latest Angus Reid polling numbers

Despite ongoing attempts to paint him as bad for BC's economy, NDP leader Adrian Dix is still the most popular choice for premier in the latest Angus Reid public opinion poll.  Dix says his refusal to go negative seems to be working against all his detractors including Premier Christy Clark.  As for whether he's worried about the NDP … [Read more...]

NDP still has upper hand in BC according to Angus Reid poll

The BC NDP continue with a healthy lead over the BC Liberals in the latest Angus Reid public opinion poll.It gives the NDP 45 per-cent support, down 5 points from May.The Liberals are unchanged at 23 per-cent, the BC Conservatives are up 3 points to 22 per-cent, and the Greens are up 2 points to 8 per-cent.When it comes to who would be the best … [Read more...]

Pollster Angus Reid fires back at Premier dismissing latest survey

Premier Christy Clark's attempt to laugh off poll results showing only three in 10 British Columbians like her have offended pollster Angus Reid. “She seems to want to have us stand out in some way. You'd think she'd be happy that we actually are employing 250 people here in the province of British Columbia." Speaking with CKNW's Jon McComb … [Read more...]

Reid Carolin Adapting Koryta’s “Prophet”

"Magic Mike" producer Nick Wechsler and scribe Reid Carolin are re-teaming on a film adaptation of Michael Koryta's upcoming novel "The Prophet" says Deadline. The story follows two distant brothers in a small Ohio town whose torment over the murder of their sister in their teens is compounded when another teen girl is killed. One of the brothers … [Read more...]