Image: Dr. Tim Cooper / Dr. Tim Cooper, UFV professor emeritus, will run for the B.C. Green Party in next month's provincial election in the Chilliwack North riding. He previously ran in 2020 in Chilliwack, garnering 10 per cent of the vote.

By Mike Vanden Bosch

Provincial election

UFV professor emeritus to run again for the B.C. Green Party in Chilliwack

Sep 26, 2024 | 11:24 AM

CHILLIWACK — A retired UFV professor who has given over 200 presentations on the science, economics and fundamentals of climate change plans to give it another go in next month’s provincial election.

Dr. Tim Cooper, who was born in England and came to Canada to complete a PhD in nuclear physics at the University of Alberta, before transferring to what is now the University of the Fraser Valley, will run for the B.C. Green Party in the Chilliwack North riding.

Cooper taught for many years at UFV, winning the faculty of science teaching prize in 2014, and publishing over 50 research papers in the field of intermediate energy nuclear physics.

Cooper ran for the Greens in the Chilliwack riding in 2020, garnering nearly 11 per cent of the vote, while Jeff Hammersmark captured eight per cent of the vote in the Chilliwack-Kent riding in 2020. Three years prior, the B.C. Greens received 17 per cent in Chilliwack and roughly 15 per cent in the Chilliwack-Kent riding.

The B.C. Green Party is currently polling at about 9.1 per cent, according to Mainstreet Research. It is presently projected to win one seat in the legislature.

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The Chilliwack North riding has four candidates including B.C. NDP incumbent MLA Dan Coulter, Chilliwack school trustee Heather Maahs of the Conservative Party of B.C., Chilliwack lawyer and independent candidate Dan Grice, and Cooper.