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  1. Article · Sep 10, 2026 · Alistair Waters

    Long-time West Kelowna city councillor Carol Zanon running for re-election (opens the original)

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    The longest-serving municipal politician in the Central Okanagan wants to extend her 19 years on West Kelowna city council. Carol Zanon, elected to the first municipal council in 2007 in what was then the District of Westside, is the last council incumbent to announce her political plans. She did so with just days to go before all candidates must file their nomination papers. The deadline for filing is 4 p.m. Friday. Zanon, who is in her late 80s, is seeking her seventh term on council. Over the

  2. Article · Sep 9, 2026 · Alistair Waters

    Local accountant adds his name to growing Kelowna city councillor candidate list (opens the original)

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    Long-time Kelowna accountant and volunteer Todd Sanderson has announced a bid for a Kelowna city council seat. Sanderson, a former president of the Kelowna Chamber of Commerce, the Downtown Kelowna Association and founder and first president of the Uptown Rutland Business Association, said he wants to bring his decades of business, financial and community leadership experience to city hall. “Kelowna is a remarkable city and I am grateful for the opportunities I have had to serve this community,”

  3. Article · Sep 3, 2026 · Alistair Waters

    West Kelowna city councillor Jason Friesen not seeking re-election (opens the original)

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    West Kelowna city Coun. Jason Friesen is calling it quits. After eight years on council (two terms), Friesen announced on Facebook Wednesday night he will not seek re-election in the Oct. 17 municipal election. “After a great deal of thought, I have decided that I will not be seeking re-election this fall, Friesen wrote. “As I come to the end of my second term on West Kelowna council, I do so with an incredible amount of gratitude and a real sense of pride in what we have accomplished over the p

  4. Article · Sep 2, 2026 · Alistair Waters

    Wooldridge calls Kelowna drug site closure push ‘political pandering’ (opens the original)

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    A Kelowna city councillor says the city’s call to close the supervised consumption site downtown is "political pandering” as an election looms. Coun. Loyal Wooldridge says he was not in attendance at the closed-door meeting on May 25 when council voted to send a letter to the federal government requesting the centre be closed. “Residents are fed up with open drug use and disorder on our streets, as am I," said Wooldridge, who ran for the provincial NDP in Kelowna in the last provincial election.

  5. Article · Sep 2, 2026 · Alistair Waters

    Kelowna to lobby provincial ministers on crime, mandatory care at UBCM (opens the original)

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    While the City of Kelowna will not put any resolutions on the floor at the upcoming Union of B.C. Municipalities convention in Vancouver later this month, city councillors, the mayor and city staff will all be working behind the scenes lobbying provincial ministers in private on a number of issues. Top of the list will be the introduction of compassionate mandatory care in the region and the appointment of five more Crown prosecutors, assigned to the Kelowna courthouse to help ease a backlog in

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