The Canadian Press: Former provincial minister Jennifer Whiteside says she is pleased and humbled to be named the interim leader of the BC NDP with unanimous support from the incoming caucus, after the party’s crushing defeat in last weekend’s election.
…Before the meeting, fellow former ministers Sharma and Ravi Parmar spoke about the scale of the blunder made in calling the election, and described an emotional meeting on Wednesday where Eby apologized to the outgoing caucus for calling the snap poll two years early.