YEAR IN REVIEW: The Most-Read Story of 2025
Here we are. The moment has arrived. Not only is it New Year’s Eve, with the promise of 2026 upon us, but it’s time to reveal the broken typewriter’s Most Read Story of the Year!
Like last year’s top story, this one is a hot-button issue, one that generated many comments from both sides online. Not only were the comments interesting but in researching the topic, I learned some fascinating things. And re-learned a few. Just please keep in mind, the poll on the subject was NOT scientific. If you didn’t respond, I can’t know what you’re thinking.
Without further ado, or me babbling on any more, here’s the top story of 2025!
Northern BC residents favour joining Alberta, reader survey finds
When Vancouver-Quilchena MLA Dallas Brodie stood up in the legislature on May 1st and asked Premier David Eby if he would engage in meaningful consultation with British Columbians anxious about the future of the province and country, she didn’t really get an answer.
A week later, in a press conference, a reporter asked Eby about Canadian unity. Eby’s answer? “The idea of separating here is a non-starter.”
Yet The Broken Typewriter’s reader poll shows that more than two-thirds of respondents, 66 percent, disagree with the premier.
He implied that the only reason for growing separation sentiment in Alberta and Saskatchewan is because the premiers’ “preferred candidate was not successful in the Federal election,” and urged them to “push back strongly on any kind of separatist sentiment.”
Eby seems to think that this is a new concern, one that arose out of the election, not something that has been building for decades, since Pierre Elliot Trudeau was prime minister, if not longer. For fifty years, the West has felt disrespected, overlooked and taken advantage of by the government in Ottawa.
There’s a reason for the birth of both the Reform Party of BC and the Reform Party of Canada in the 1980s. Just as there’s a reason for the conservative surge on the provincial and federal political stage.
Something needs to change.
What David Eby also doesn’t seem to understand, even though his government has been told numerous times over the past few years, is that he is at fault too. Vancouver and Victoria’s attitude towards the northern reaches of British Columbia is eerily similar to Ottawa’s towards the West. Good for filling the government coffers, but otherwise, who cares what we need, want or deserve?
Brodie, in her question in the Legislature, said that according to recent polls, in the last year the number of British Columbians who want to leave Canada has grown from 20 to 28 percent.
But again, Eby refuses to discuss the matter, refuses to engage with British Columbians who feel left out, ignored and unrepresented in government.
Reform Party founder Preston Manning, in his recent article – Canada is in a unity crisis. A Canada West Assembly would investigate why – talked about the need for Ottawa to “recognize and accommodate the regional character of this country.” He advocates the creation of a Canada West Assembly, to help pinpoint and remove those things that are fracturing the country.
Things such as the treatment of the natural resources sector, which many business leaders, industry leaders, and politicians have acknowledged as key to building a strong economy. Something Prime Minister Mark Carney, and Premier Eby have professed to want.
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