{"id":137842,"date":"2025-09-04T19:19:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T19:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interior-news.com\/2025\/09\/04\/bc-green-party-leader-hopeful-makes-okanagan-stops\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T19:19:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T19:19:00","slug":"bc-green-party-leader-hopeful-makes-okanagan-stops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interior-news.com\/2025\/09\/04\/bc-green-party-leader-hopeful-makes-okanagan-stops\/","title":{"rendered":"B.C. Green Party leader hopeful makes Okanagan stops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Her inner circle of friends may have asked the toughest question of all of B.C. Green Party leadership hopeful Emily Lowan.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Emily, don&#39;t you want to have fun in your 20s?&quot; her friends queried as she made her political aspirations known.<\/p>\n<p>Lowan, who turns 25 on Sept. 18, is having the greatest fun&nbsp;of her young life, hitting the hustings on a mini tour that included stops in Nelson, Kamloops, Kelowna, and at Armstrong&#39;s Memorial Park Tuesday, Sept. 2.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;In terms of&nbsp;what my experience has been like, I&#39;ve been having a lot of fun,&quot; said Lowan prior to speaking to a gathering of close to 40 people at Memorial Park. &quot;This has felt like the time of my life in a lot of ways.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I really wrestled with the decision (to run for leader). I tried to get a lot of other people to run, and just got a lot of fingers pointing back at me. So here we are, and I think this is, like, I felt the call.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZKfdB29Yd-s?si=JpkQ8yEao2-ILEBO\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Lowan is from Victoria. She graduated from Claremont Secondary School, then the University of Victoria, where she studied political science, environmental studies, and economics.<\/p>\n<p>She is a climate activist and an employee of&nbsp;Climate Action Network Canada, which is a group that hopes to stop&nbsp;fossil-fuel expansion and promotes&nbsp;renewable energy. Lowan is currently on-leave from her job where she was the network&#39;s fossil fuel supply campaigns lead, guiding coalitions in B.C. across environmental and First Nations groups against the LNG Pipeline Expansion.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lowan also worked federally with coalitions on policy and a pollution cap.<\/p>\n<p>She is running for the Green Party provincial leadership against Jonathan Kerr, a 44-year-old doctor from Comox, and&nbsp;Adam Bremner-Akins, 23, a political science student.&nbsp;She and her two counterparts are competing to replace Sonia Furstenau as B.C. Green leader.<\/p>\n<p>Furstenau lost her seat in the October 2024 provincial election, and the Greens barely held on to party status, winning only two seats.<\/p>\n<p>The political bug for Lowan kind of came about as a result of whimsy, and a glimpse into life south of the Canadian border.<\/p>\n<p>At Claremont, she entered the Institute for Global Solutions program on a fluke with the promise of a cross-Canada rail trip.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I just wanted to get out of Victoria, and it was transformative,&quot; said Lowan. &quot;They&nbsp;took us on a train odyssey, to go all&nbsp;the way to Parliament Hill (Ottawa), and while we were on that train trip, Donald Trump was elected.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;And I remember it was sort of the first time I felt like my future was being stolen for me, and I&nbsp;quickly, sort of spiralled into despair. Then I had this conversation &nbsp;with my peers about what we could do.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>What Lowan and her peers did was develop a program to shuttle all eligible high school voters out to the polls in the next provincial election. That&#39;s when she caught the activism bug, seeing herself as part of the world and doing her part for change, rather than being an observer.<\/p>\n<p>Lowan has caught the eye of young adults in the province, as well as that of a former North Okanagan Shuswap political hopeful.<\/p>\n<p>Jacqui Gingras from Vernon ran federally in the 2015 election for the NDP (lost to Conservative Mel Arnold) but joined the Green Party just a few weeks ago. She is a campaign volunteer for Lowan.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Emily has revitalized&nbsp;the Green Party membership by building the youth membership from 100 to more than&nbsp;1,800 in only five weeks,&quot; said Gingras, a university professor currently on sabbatical.&nbsp;&quot;Emily is a principled young leader who has accomplished so much already&#8230;She is exactly who we need for B.C. at just the right time.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>While being rather uncomfortable with &quot;having my face splashed around everywhere,&quot; and having prominent members of the B.C. Conservative Party, she said, &quot;speculate where I live,&quot; the foray into provincial politics has been a blast.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#39;m happy that I&#39;m the only candidate that&#39;s received that kind of attention from the B.C. Conservatives, I&#39;m glad I&#39;m being viewed as a threat by people that are deeply invested,&quot; said Lowan.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;When I started out, I didn&#39;t know how big this was going to get, and it&#39;s totally blown past every expectation that I had when I began.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I thought, you know, maybe it would grow past the circle of climate activists that I knew and their friends. But we&#39;ve brought in thousands to the party. Voters, non-voters, some young Conservatives that voted Conservative for the first time in the last election. I just really resonate with my&nbsp;message of building power against billionaires in the corporate class of B.C.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Lowan took questions from the crowd as she explained her platform.<\/p>\n<p>Green Party members in B.C. will vote for the new leader from Sept. 13 to 23. 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