News Stories

MLA JOHN HORGAN TRIES ON HEELS AND NINE YEAR OLD STUDENT GIVES DONATION TO 'WALK A MILE IN HER SHOES'

News Release - May 5, 2010

VICTORIA - MLA John Horgan will be visiting the Victoria Women's Sexual Assault Centre at 9:30am on Thursday, May 6th to pick out the heels he will be wearing in next week's Walk a Mile in Her Shoes event.

HARD TIMES, TOUGH CHOICES

(Opinion) Goldstream News Gazette - Published: February 26, 2009

There has been nothing ordinary about the past few months as your Member of the Legislative Assembly. The spring session usually begins with the speech from the throne followed by the annual budget outlining revenues and expenditures for the coming year.

MAYORS, MPS JOIN FORCES IN SUPPORT OF E&N LINE

Times Colonist - February 21, 2009

By Bill Cleverley

Representatives of three levelsof government were at the Langford rail station yesterday to champion the E&N Rail Line for federal/provincial infrastructure funds. 

Several capital region mayors joined forces with New Democrat MLAs Maurine Karagianis and John Horgan and Liberal MP Keith Martin, who called transforming the E&N into a viable commuter line one of the most pressing infrastructure needs in the area.

POLITICIANS RALLY FOR E&N RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDS

CFAX 1070 - Feb 20, 2009

WITH PROVINCIAL AND FEDERAL INFRASTRUCTURE DOLLARS UP FOR GRABS, A GROUP OF MAYORS AND COUNCILLORS ALONG WITH PROVINCIAL AND FEDERAL POLITICIANS GATHERED IN LANGFORD FRIDAY MORNING TO VOICE SUPPORT FOR THE E&N RAIL LINE.

THEY'VE MADE THE CALL BEFORE, BUT THIS TIME THE GROUP OF POLITICIANS SAY THE FLOOD OF INFRASTRUCTURE SPENDING FROM SENIOR GOVERNMENTS MEANS THE OPPORTUNITY IS HERE NOW TO REVITALIZE THE E&N RAIL BED -- AND, TO START MOVING COMMUTER AND FREIGHT TRAINS AND EVEN SPECIAL BUSES DESIGNED TO TRAVEL ON THE TRACKS.

DISASTER FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE APPROVED FOR FLOODING VICTIMS IN SOOKE, METCHOSIN, LANGFORD AND JUAN DE FUCA ELECTORAL AREA

British Columbia has a program to help those impacted by a disaster to cope with the cost of repairs and recovery from disaster-related property damage.

Provincial Recommendation Puts E&N on Track

By Mike Damour - Cowichan News Leader and Pictorial

Published: November 18, 2008 4:00 PM

E&N Rail advocates are cheering a provincial recommendation to put money into the decaying line.

The select standing committee on finance, made up of Liberal and NDP
MLAs, said Monday in a budget priorities report the project to restore
the line for commuter and freight services should be a capital spending
priority.

CFAX 1070 POLL - Do you agree with MLA John Horgan, who is pushing again for gasoline price regulation?

November 13, 2008

     Votes     %
1. No. Prices are down; the free market obviously works; don't fiddle with it. 123  20%
2. Yes. Prices are not down enough; Victorians are being gouged at the pump; somebody needs to do something about it. 490 80%
   TOTAL  613 100%

JOHN HORGAN ON CKNW's "World Today"

News Release - June 26, 2008

JOHN HORGAN says it's "striking" to hear Premier Campbell talk about the "need for selflessness when the only people he is asking to pay the bills are the ones who can least afford it."  He claims the "speed at which the Premier is making his decisions in isolation of the realities that ordinary people are facing every day" is at the root of the problem with the carbon tax and suggests latest poll results show the public is shifting away from that position.