The province of BC has a new leader by default after the candidate who broke with the party establishment by opposing the establishment candidate was ruled to have violated election rules
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2022/10/20/With-Appadurai-Out-Can-Eby-Rest-Easy/ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/david-eby-ndp-leadership-campaign-elections-bc-1.6623522 This really does not look good, because BC is in the middle of multiple crises: floods in winter, droughts in summer, refusal to mitigate COVID-19, mass deaths of trees and salmon, tainted drugs, and unaffordable housing. To me, this is not the time for the government to say "everything we are doing is fine, this leadership contest should be a formality."
Party leadership contests in recent years have a history of irregularities which the courts and police keep at arms length from.
Another Albertan is calling Daniel Smith's faction of the UCP (foreign, irrational) Republicans rather than (native, rational) Conservatives
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/conservatives-alberta-united-conservative-party-annual-general-meeting-edmonton-1.6623529 That is an eccentric reading of the conservative movement in Canada but it does show that merging two parties into the United Conservative Party did not make factions go away or let both sides speak the same language. "conservatives and republicans no longer speak the same social language. They do not consume the same media and therefore do not have the same social frames of reference."
IIRC, there is an argument that public opinion does not exist without mass media to create it.
BC had its municipal elections this week, the local mayoral campaign was basically personality politics (the two candidates could not describe different policies they would impliment, just utter polite nothings and accuse each other of being all talk, no action or just in the race out of a desire for attention).
Edit 2022-10-26: oh, and the police who arrested the First nations grandfather and granddaughter for opening a bank account refused to attend the apology feast so the nation says they can't accept the apology
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/heiltsuk-reject-apology-call-out-vancouver-police-chief-adam-palmer-for-denying-vpd-racism-1.6628452