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It's been a wild week for B.C. Politics with a snap election call, new party leaders emerging and voters calling foul on the timing of everything. We look at the week that was and what you want to hear from party leaders to earn your vote.

B.C. Today Gardening Columnist Brian Minter is back to answer all your gardening questions.

B.C. now has two elections happening one week apart, and the campaigns for both are underway. How do you feel about provincial and municipal votes happening at the same time? Does one matter more to you? Is it hard to keep track of it all? CBC municipal affairs reporter Justin McElroy and political scientist Darin Nesbitt joined the program to make sense of it all.

Premier David Eby has called a snap election for Oct. 24, just one week after the already-scheduled municipal elections. The announcement has already set provincial parties' campaigns in motion. CBC's Katie DeRosa joined us to share what she heard at a CentreBC presser in Victoria Wednesday.
UBC political science lecturer Stewart Prest shared his thoughts on the snap election and what we might expect from the campaign.
This is Vancolour host Mo Amir took your calls as we discussed the impact the provincial election could have on the municipal elections.

Kerry-Lynne Findlay resigned Sunday as leader of the B.C. Conservative Party after eight MLAs defected to the upstart CentreBC party and a handful of others were either removed from caucus or quit. Conservative MLA Gavin Dew and ex-Conservative MLA Rosalyn Bird, now with CentreBC, joined the program as we get your reaction.-- And rumblings of a snap provincial election continue. Should Premier David Eby call an early election? How do you feel about holding provincial and municipal votes at the same time? University of the Fraser Valley political scientist Hamish Telford joined the program to share his thoughts.