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After tonight (Sept. 30), there will be a Liberal representative in the Placentia-St. Marys region for the 2015 general provincial election.

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Four candidates have been nominated for the seat in what has been primarily a Progressive Conservative district over the years. Previous to MHA Felix Collins, who held the position since 2006, Senator Fabian Manning was the MHA. Both are PCs.

Collins has previously announced he will not run in the next election.

The Liberals havent held the seat since 1996-1999, when Anthony Sparrow was the districts MHA.

But with the surge in popularity of the provincial Liberals, some are saying this is the district to watch in the upcoming election.

Larry Foley, Des Linehan, Sherry Gambin-Walsh and Edward Moore have all thrown their hat in the ring to fly the Liberal banner in the district.

Meanwhile, things have just become more interesting.

Earlier today, after Premier Paul Davis announced his new cabinet, a Progressive Conservative candidate has also been named for the district.

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Jobs Minister Shirley Bond says the Liberals jobs plan is working, but shes added a few more pillars to prop it up, including a sector for First Nations.

Ms. Bond released an update on the plan Tuesday, including a renewed economic blueprint for the province that makes specific mention of aboriginal participation in the economy.

First Nations, international trade, small business and manufacturing sectors join eight existing key sectors, such as agrifoods, forestry and energy.

It isnt that we havent done it before, Ms. Bond said. Weve made that part of the jobs plan, but I think its appropriate now to look at how we engage their work force, how we support their economic endeavours so it will be a new highlight of the jobs plan.

The resource development landscape across Canada has changed dramatically since a Supreme Court of Canada ruling in June recognized land-title rights for the Tsilhqotin Nation in the B.C. Interior.

Nowhere could the ruling have a greater effect than in the westernmost province, where most aboriginal bands have no treaties with the Crown and where every inch of land is subject to First Nations land claims.

Ms. Bond said B.C. has exceeded its target for non-treaty benefit-sharing agreements, in the absence of progress in treaty talks with the federal government.

The Liberal cabinet met with chiefs and aboriginal leaders last month to discuss the path forward from the Tsilhqotin decision.

From my perspective, when Im looking for a work force of the future, almost 50 per cent of First Nations in British Columbia are under the age of 25, so they are a significant component in terms of our work force of the future, Ms. Bond said.

The focus on First Nations is one of the few bright spots in the three-year update, said Opposition New Democrat jobs critic Shane Simpson.

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MONCTON, N.B. A New Brunswick business is calling on the new Liberal government to reinstate the provinces residential energy efficiency program, scheduled to end Tuesday.

The current program offers financial incentives to homeowners who retrofit their houses to make them more efficient. But the program stopped accepting new applicants in February and homeowners have until Tuesday to complete their renovations and finish their final assessments.

Cody Firth, an energy adviser for EnerCheck Solutions, says his employer is facing a large backlog of clients.

It was very busy. A lot of people were last minute to book the assessment, he said. So with one day left, to call in and book, its very tight. And a lot of people may end up losing out on financial incentives.

Firth estimated there were close to 800 homes waiting to have their final assessment done for the program. He explained that his employer was given an exemption by the government to book into October as long as residents called before September 30, because they did not have the capacity to see all the clients before the deadline.

Theres only so many advisers with each company. So we could not provide enough appointments, for the amount of people calling in, he said. For example, I had four today. I have five tomorrow.

Reinstating the program was one of the Liberals campaign promises, but they havent given a timeline on when they will be doing it or whether the program will be the same.

To qualify for a rebate under the current program, homeowners had to contact an energy efficiency company like EnerCheck Solutions to complete an initial assessment on their homes. During the assessments, advisers like Firth, calculated the volume of the homes, checked insulation levels and the efficiency of current heating and cooling systems, and how air-tight the home was, before making recommendations.

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Want to find all the bigpolitical discussions that are taking place on the Internet? For the most part, they don't exist, according to data released earlier this month by Quantcast -- a service that tracks the demographics of Internet users.

In the aggregate, social media users are younger, more liberal ... andless politically engaged than the general populace. Facebook is the closest thing we have to a neutral and all-inclusive public forum -- and that's only because so many people are onit that the overall politics and demographics of the platform are a wash.

But looking at the demographics ofall people using a social media servicekind of misses the point. In fact,these serviceshost many different groups who often use them in very productive ways (journalists on Twitter, for example). At this point, looking at the demographics of social media site is kind of like looking at the demographics of people who have mailboxes; you can learn a lot more from digging into what people are receiving in them than the fact that they have an address.

Regardless, it is kind of fun to look at how politics function on these different sites.

Herearea few scenes from the front.

Pinterest is one of the most conservative social networking sites -- something that was already established bya Harvard Institute of Politics study of young adults from earlier this year. In 2012, Gawker called Pinterest"the mostinoffensive, white-bread place on the internet, a gated community of perfectly curated boards sprinkled with Etsy-made children's toys and food blog recipes, sheltered from the blasted racist hellscape of the rest of the web."

This photo posted by Ann Romney is what all posts on Pinterest aspire to be.

Quantcast also found that Pinterest users were wealthier and older than the users of other major social-media platforms. Since the site gathers those who want their apartments to look like the unrealistic living spaces in sitcoms, this is not surprising.

Twitter, on the other hand, leans the furthest left and features far more active political creatures than Pinterest. Quantcast found that Twitter users were the one exception to the rule that social media users tend to pay attention to politics far less thanmost Americans. The Harvard Institute of Politics study also found that Twitter users aremore likely to be Democrats.

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The Fix: Twitter is for liberals; Pinterest is for conservatives