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Hundreds of federal Liberals expected for B.C. convention in Kelowna

Hundreds of federal Liberals expected for B.C. convention in Kelowna | iNFOnews.ca
FILE PHOTO - Federal Liberal party delegates vote on a resolution during the party's biennial convention in Montreal on Feb. 23, 2014. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes

KELOWNA – A pre-election convention and training session is expected to bring hundreds of card-carrying federal Liberals to Kelowna next month.

There are 18 Liberal MPs in B.C. but Kelowna-Lake Country’s Stephen Fuhr is the only one from the Interior.

The agenda and list of guest speakers is not yet available for the B.C. convention, which is held every two years, so it's not known if Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be attending.

Marjolaine Provost, the party’s manager of media relations, says in an email this is the first time in recent years that the Liberal Party of Canada (B.C.) has held this event in Kelowna. It was held in Penticton in 2004 and at Sun Peaks near Kamloops in 2008.

The convention will be held at Kelowna’s Delta Grant Okanagan hotel from Friday, Nov. 16 to Sunday, Nov. 18.

Anyone interested in attending as a delegate has to become a party member by Nov. 2.

More information is available at the convention website here.

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Rob Munro has a long history in journalism after starting an underground newspaper in Whitehorse called the Yukon Howl in 1980. He spent five years at the 100 Mile Free Press, starting in the darkroom, moving on to sports and news reporting before becoming the advertising manager. He came to Kelowna in 1989 as a reporter for the Kelowna Daily Courier, and spent the 1990s mostly covering city hall. For most of the past 20 years he worked full time for the union representing newspaper workers throughout B.C. He’s returned to his true love of being a reporter with a special focus on civic politics

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