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There is cause for cautious celebration in B.C., just over two weeks after an election result that was devastating to progressive and environmentally minded people in British Columbia.

The good news: the B.C. government formally came out against Enbridge's Northern Gateway pipeline proposal. The B.C. Liberals' Minister of Environment, Terry Lake, announced the official position in conjunction with submitting a formal letter from the province to the Joint Review Panel currently underway.

The brief statements announcing the resignation of Stephen Harper's Chief-of-Staff Nigel Wright leave all the key questions in the Senate expenses scandal unanswered. 

In fact, Wright's statement raises new questions, especially this line: "I did not advise the Prime Minister of the means by which Sen. Duffy's expenses were repaid, either before of after the fact."

A reminder that all of rabble.ca's B.C. election coverage can be found here. This is my latest, originally published in The Source. 

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In May 1989, the student newspaper at Simon Fraser University ran a story about embattled student union president-elect Christy Clark under the headline 'Unfit for office?' Clark was late paying a fine for violating election rules, and so she was removed from office.

Twenty-four years later, Christy Clark is desperately trying to avoid being kicked out of office again.