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Here are some of the developments on British Columbia's election campaign on Thursday, Oct. 15.
CONSERVATIVES VOW TO SCRAP TUNNEL, BUILD BRIDGE
The B.C. Conservatives have announced a plan to scrap the Massey Tunnel replacement project and instead build a new 10-lane bridge linking Richmond and Delta.
The party says the new bridge would cut commutes by up to 30 minutes.
The policy is a revival of plans under the previous BC Liberal government for a bridge that were switched to a new tunnel under the New Democrats, but the Conservatives say that "after nine years of the NDP, nothing has been built."
The Conservatives also pledged to complete the new hospital in Surrey's Cloverdale neighbourhood, a project that has suffered delays and budget overruns, while building another new hospital specifically for women and children.
NDP OFFERS SENIORS FREE BUS PASSES
New Democrat Leader David Eby has turned his campaign to transit with a pledge to roll out free bus passes for 350,000 low-income seniors across the province.
He says a re-elected NDP government would also support an "updated" bus route to the new Cowichan-region hospital set to open next year.
Eby has made two Surrey-specific announcements, saying his government would earmark $250 million to leverage federal funding and expand rapid bus service along King George Boulevard from Surrey to nearby White Rock.

Eby also says Surrey would be given its own municipal charter, granting the city the same kind of authority Vancouver has.
BC GREENS PUSH COLLECTIVE BARGAINING CHANGES
BC Greens Leader Emily Lowan has released a labour plan she says will "strengthen and support B.C.’s workers and unions."
She says the NDP has used its "brand" as a party to cover up an "anti-labour agenda."
The Greens say the party will increase the minimum wage annually, at a rate of one per cent over inflation, until it matches the living wage.
It says it will also change bargaining to allow unions to reach collective agreements that covers all workers in an economic sector, instead of covering individual workplaces.

CENTREBC PLANS MORE POLICE AND PROSECUTORS
CentreBC has announced a plan to deliver 500 new RCMP officers and 60 more Crown prosecutors along with "practical interventions" to reduce repeat offending.
The party, whose Leader Elenore Sturko is a former RCMP officer, says that includes doubling funding for two programs which target repeat and violent offenders to about $26 million annually.
The party says it would also open two voluntary recovery units in provincial corrections facilities, one for men and one for women, by 2028-2029, and ask Ottawa to direct prosecutors to charge those found in possession of drugs in public.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 15, 2026.
Copyright 2026, The Canadian Press. All rights reserved.
Imagine tiny organisms that eat our pollution and help reduce emissions. This might sound like something straight out of science fiction, but university researchers are making it a reality.Laura Hug, a researcher at the University of Waterloo, is turning to an unexpected ally buried deep within waste: microbes. These tiny organisms are proving powerful tools in helping in the fight against methane emissions from landfills, which account for roughly 17 per cent of national methane emissions.
In any given landfill, a microscopic war is underway. Some microbes generate methane, while others consume it. Hugs’ research explores ways to use methane-eating microbes to reduce “legacy” methane, the ongoing, long-term gas emissions produced by decades-old organic waste buried deep underground.
“We see organisms that are able to oxidize that methane [break down the molecule],” said Hug, adding that the microbes that produce methane and feed on it are very separate from each other.
“They never see each other. The organisms generating methane are buried in the waste”
Hug leads a research team called Mitigation of Methane Emission Hot-Spots from Municipal Landfills. Her work blends soil science and environmental microbiology to better map and understand emissions from Canada’s landfills. A core focus of the project is reducing legacy and poorly quantified methane leaks from older or active waste sites.
For more than ten years, Hug has been studying landfills across Ontario and the United States. Her lab maintains a decade-long collaboration with the Region of Waterloo’s Division of Waste to collect field samples. However, collecting data at a landfill is delicate; doing it incorrectly can accidentally release the very gas they are trying to track.
“What we do is we sample the liquid that builds up in the landfill. It’s called leachate, and it is developed by organic matter breaking down and rainwater infiltrating,” explained Hug.
Beyond methane, Hug and her team use these leachate samples to develop tools that can transform other pervasive environmental contaminants using natural microbial processes.
“There are organisms that can degrade chlorinated solvents. Things like dry cleaning fluid or degreasing fluid for planes, or [chemicals] electronics are dipped into before they’re sealed, and a lot of older landfills have legacy contamination of these solvents, and they’re toxic,” said Hug.
“They partially degrade pretty readily. But there’s only a few organisms that we’ve found that are able to degrade them to a completely non-toxic end product.”
A more precise understanding of these microbes allows Hug’s team to identify which species are most efficient at destroying methane. The goal is to use these organisms to engineer more effective landfill barriers.
“The idea would be that you would be able to mix these into cover soils and put them onto landfills as you were closing and capping them, so that you were kind of starting from a position of this is your enhanced capacity for methane oxidation at a landfill from day zero,” explained Hug.
When it comes to managing aging landfills, physical engineering options are often limited and expensive, which makes microbes all the more promising as a solution.
“They don’t have a lot of physical engineering options for reducing that methane, but that methane is going to be generated and it will work its way out of the system eventually. So, having more effective cover soils would be a really important layer for controlling methane emissions at these aging landfill [sites],” noted Hug.
Copyright 2026, Woolwich Observer. All rights reserved.
Meg Deak, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Woolwich Observer.
You can see the festive train in Toronto and the GTA!
The magical CPKC Holiday Train will illuminate cities, towns and communities all over Canada with festive lights.
A lot of stops are scheduled in Ontario during November and December, so you might be able to see the lit-up train cars where you live.
There are actually two holiday trains, a Canadian train and a U.S. train, but each has a route that spans both countries.
During the 2026 holiday train season, 182 stops are scheduled in both countries, including more than 100 in Canada and 40 in Ontario.
Each train will travel thousands of miles throughout the 32-day journey, so some events will happen during the day. But the holiday-themed boxcar lights will stay on as the trains travel on the CPKC rail network, even during the day.
All of the CPKC Holiday Train events in Canada are free to attend, but food and monetary donations for local food banks will be accepted at each stop.
The stops in Ontario will also feature musical performances by American Authors, Tyler Shaw, Magic! and MARIS.
At each stop, the train arrives in front of the crowd, and the boxcar door lowers to reveal a stage for the musical performance.
The bands and artists perform classic and modern holiday songs and their original songs, then the boxcar door closes, and the train goes to the next stop on the route.
Now, let's get into the dates, times and locations of CPKC Holiday Train stops in Ontario if you want to see the festive lights and musical performances.
These are the stops on November 20:
These are the stops on November 21:
These are the stops on November 22:
These are the stops on November 28:
These are the stops on November 29:
These are the stops on November 30:
These are the stops on December 1:
These are the stops on December 2:
These are the stops on December 3: