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Oct 21, 2026
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Can Lorne Doerkson Become the Accidental Premier? - The Tyee
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Listen to this article 12 min The British Columbia political scene has seen some improbable developments of late.
When Doerkson was 12 his family relocated from Surrey to Salmon Arm, and he eventually found work selling advertising at the Salmon Arm Observer.
But it was the newspaper career that stuck, and Doerkson eventually moved on to papers in Prince George, 100 Mile House and Williams Lake, all of them owned by David Black’s Black Press.
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ML v2 (DistilBERT)
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The British Columbia political scene has seen some improbable developments of late. And Lorne Doerkson may be on track to provide one of the most improbable outcomes of all.
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Doerkson — former rodeo rider, newspaper publisher and largely unknown MLA — could become B.C.’s accidental premier.…
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