Daybreak South
with Chris Walker

Recently we heard about Brittany. A third year law student at the University of Victoria out celebrating her graduation at a nightclub when she became a victim of the date rape drug. She had three glasses of wine over the course of several hours and suddenly couldn't walk or talk. Eventually she lost consciousness.

For Brittany, the amount of alcohol she drank didn't match how she felt. Without her knowing, she'd been drugged with a so-called date rape drug. The story raises a lot of questions so Daybreak's Chris Walker sat down with CBC's Jennifer Chrumka who first brought us the story.

(photo by Tim Wohlberg)

How does Ottawa explain the deep cuts at Agriculture and Agri Food Canada?

Daybreak's Chris Walker speaks with Okanagan Coquihalla Conservative MP Dan Albas and NDP MP from BC Southern Interior Alex Atamanenko.

Daybreak's Chris Walker talks to an American man who is smitten with the town of Fernie, BC, even though he's never been there.

We need to eat more bugs. That's according to a report the United Nations released this week.

In fact, there are almost two thousand different kinds of edible creepy crawlies on Earth and apparently we should be eating them because they're good for us!

Ann Armstrong agrees! She's a camp leader at Adventure Camps in Penticton and started making cookies with some extra crunch! She spoke with Chris Walker.

The tree fruit and vine industry in the Okanagan is bracing for yet another hit. In recent years, the Pacific Agri Food Research Centre in Summerland has lost four research scientists. Nobody was laid off, the positions were lost through retirement.  Fruit growers say one of those positions was a much-needed plant pathologist.

And now, Ottawa is doing more pruning. Seven more positions will soon be cut, including a research scientist, a biologist, two lab technicians and three IT professionals.

The triming is part of Ottawa's plan to cut 700 jobs at agriculture research stations across Canada. Christine Dendy is the President of the BC Cherry Association and joined Daybreak's Chris Walker in studio.

You can call it being roofied or dosed or having your drink spiked but it all means the same thing. You've been drugged and it could happen anywhere.  In a bar, a club or someone's house party.

In BC it happens on a regular basis. The CBC's Jennifer Chrumka has the story from Victoria.

Once upon a time, opinion polls predicted the Wild Rose party would govern Alberta. Polls also suggested that the NDP would govern BC. Both counts the polls were off the mark.

The NDP actually lost seats, giving the Liberals a stronger majority in the BC Legislature.

Meredith Lindsey is a marketing strategist and teaches at Simon Fraser University.  He spoke with Daybreak's Chris Walker this morning and tried to explain the poll results.

Our CBC voter panelists Jeff Hay and Lynden Beesley have been keeping a close watch on the campaign.

This morning, they spoke with Daybreak's Chris Walker one last time to talk results.

The public opinion polls couldn't have been more wrong. Not only did the NDP lose, the party lost seats.

The Liberals are back in with a majority government under Christy Clark.

UBCO political scientist Wolf Depner has been helping Daybreak understand the issues during the campaign and this morning joined Chris Walker to explain how the Liberals won and why the NDP lost.

This election season, we're looking back at some of the more interesting races in BC history.
We're doing it using UBC's new archive of historical newspapers.

These days, it's hard to imagine an election in BC without political parties but until 1903, all candidates were independent candidates.

Chris Walker takes a look back at the race of 1903, as chronicled in the pages of the Nelson Tribune.