the latest:

The B.C. government hired a Liberal party staffer into a supposedly non-partisan communications post, only to allow her to return to party organizing less than a month into the job.

Kirsten Hamilton was hired in January as an events coordinator in the government’s communications wing, after a three-year stint as events planner for the B.C. Liberal party.

On Wednesday — four weeks into her taxpayer-paid gig — Hamilton’s managers allowed her to take a day off work so she could return to her old party position and volunteer to help organize a noon-hour B.C. Liberal press conference in downtown Victoria, where Premier Christy Clark unveiled her Vancouver Island candidates in a campaign-style rally.