Rob Shaw: Parties plot strategy in Nanaimo byelection

VICTORIA — B.C.’s political parties are jockeying for any strategic advantage they can get as the most important byelection in provincial history plays out in Nanaimo.
At stake is the survival of the NDP minority government. If the B.C. Liberals can win on Jan. 30, they’ll deadlock the legislature in a tie and likely force the premature end of the NDP-Green power-sharing deal that has ruled for almost a year and a half.
But that’s a big if. The NDP has solidly thumpe