Will they? Won’t they? Within 48 hours we went from the chance of BC United and BC Conservatives merging, to Port Coquitlam Mayor Brad West taking over to it all crumbling apart. And this all took place against the final week of the BC Legislature’s sittings before the fall’s election. So we naturally have a number of MLAs retiring. We also learned this week that the CRA is seemingly more interested in collecting taxes from renters than from the many delinquents in the real estate sector. Links Gordon Campbell urged to broker BC United-Conservative merger – The Orca  Former B.C. premiers join in calls for a right-of-centre party merger Port Coquitlam Mayor Brad West considering leading merged BC United-Conservative party | Globalnews.ca https://x.com/bradwestpoco/status/1790977293998756065 https://x.com/johnrustad4bc/status/1790969336691347583 https://x.com/richardzussman/status/1791174944627528132 Rustad quashes BC Conservative, United party merger rumours BC United, BC Conservative merger shot down by Kevin Falcon https://x.com/JasJohalBC/status/1790428285597614422 BC NDP leads by 6 over the BC Conservatives as the gap closes from 18 to 6-points – Abacus Data Pallas British Columbia Poll: Conservatives 38, NDP 37, BC United 13, Green 9 Retiring incumbents https://twitter.com/richardzussman/status/1791176479109451797?t=35_zsExFcMotLruBOW76SA&s=19 Taking action to help people the focus of final legislative session | BC Gov News https://twitter.com/RobShaw_BC/status/1790122604453376047 https://twitter.com/RobShaw_BC/status/1790123146743284014  https://www.leg.bc.ca/content/data%20-%20ldp/Pages/42nd5th/1st_read/m222-1.htm  Joint statement: B.C.’s new online action table sets stage to help keep more people safe | BC Gov News State actor blamed for cyberattack on B.C. government systems | CBC News B.C. real estate: CRA audits uncover $1.3 billion in unpaid taxes | Vancouver Sun https://twitter.