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    As Calgary repeals multi-unit zoning, should B.C. do the same?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 1, 2026 61:33


    Dec. 31, 2025: Guest host Bruce Claggett in for Jas Johal Calgary moves to repeal multi-unit zoning; should B.C. to do the same? (0:00) Guest: Mark Sager, Mayor of West Vancouver How to achieve your health and diet goals in the New Year (13:16) Guest: Dani Renouf, Registered Dietitian at St. Paul's Hospital The State of the DTES heading into 2026 (22:45) Guest: Sarah Blyth, Advocate for the DTES and Executive Director of the Overdose Prevention Society Vancouver The biggest entertainment and pop culture stories of 2025 (35:09) Guest: Dana Gee, Arts reporter for Vancouver Sun and The Province Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    The biggest entertainment and pop culture stories of 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 1, 2026 25:54


    Guest host Bruce Claggett talks to Dana Gee, Arts reporter for Vancouver Sun and The Province Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Ringing in the New Year safely

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 1, 2026 6:44


    Guest host Bruce Claggett talks to Constable Darren Wong, Media Relations Officer for the VPD Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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    The state of the DTES heading into 2026

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 1, 2026 14:06


    Guest host Bruce Claggett talks to Sarah Blyth, Advocate for the DTES and Executive Director of the Overdose Prevention Society Vancouve Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Calgary moves to repeal multi-unit zoning; should B.C. to do the same?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 1, 2026 14:55


    Guest host Bruce Claggett talks to Mark Sager, Mayor of West Vancouver Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Fun without fireworks? What's going on with New Year's Eve celebrations in Vancouver?

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 31, 2025 60:29


    Dec. 30, 2025: Guest host Bruce Claggett in for Jas Johal Fun without fireworks? What's going on with New Year's Eve celebrations in Vancouver? (0:00) Guest: Fred Lee, Vancouver's ‘Man About Town' - columnist, broadcaster, and perpetual Gala Gala Doo attendee B.C.'s most popular baby names; what made the list? (10:06) Guest: Kathryn Stewart, Director of Talk and Talent for 730 CKNW How a 9.0 magnitude earthquake could shake B.C. up (16:47) Guest: Edward Nissen, Professor of Earth and Ocean Sciences at University of Victoria How uncertainty over property rights puts B.C.'s economy at risk (32:33) Guest: David Livingstone, senior fellow at the conservative leaning Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy and professor in Liberal Studies and Political Studies at Vancouver Island University The new St. Paul's hospital: a medical facility of the future? (44:52) Guest: Dan Fumano, City columnist for Vancouver Sun and The Province Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    The most unusual 911 calls in 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 31, 2025 8:37


    Guest host Bruce Claggett talks to Bailey Mitchell, emergency police call taker for E-Comm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    The new St. Paul's hospital: a medical facility of the future?

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 31, 2025 14:05


    Guest host Bruce Claggett talks to Dan Fumano, City columnist for Vancouver Sun and The Province Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    How uncertainty over property rights puts B.C.'s economy at risk

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 31, 2025 14:02


    Guest host Bruce Claggett talks to David Livingstone, senior fellow at the conservative leaning Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy and professor in Liberal Studies and Political Studies at Vancouver Island University Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    How a 9.0 magnitude earthquake could shake B.C. up

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 31, 2025 17:29


    Guest host Bruce Claggett talks to Edward Nissen, Professor of Earth and Ocean Sciences at University of Victoria Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Staffing challenges cause overnight ER closures in Mission

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 30, 2025 50:32


    Dec. 29, 2025: Guest host Bruce Claggett in for Jas Johal Staffing challenges cause overnight ER closures in Mission (0:00) Guest: Ian Tait, Communications Director with the Ambulance Paramedics of B.C. Whitecaps reach settlement in class action suit over Messi no-show (7:33) Guest: Squire Barnes, Global B.C. Sports Director and Anchor What can B.C. do to prevent further E.R closures from happening? (15:31) Guest: Trevor Halford, Surrey-White Rock MLA and interim leader of the B.C. Conservatives Is the B.C government doing enough to protect private property rights? (23:58) Guest: Brad West, Mayor of Port Coquitlam U.S. border photographs Canadian travellers: will cross border trips become more difficult? (34:44) Guest: Richard Kurland, Immigration lawyer and policy analyst Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Renewable housing sees ongoing rise in B.C., despite some skepticism

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 30, 2025 15:41


    Guest host Bruce Claggett talks to Kirk LaPointe, Vice President, Fulmer & Company; and columnist at Lodestar Media and The Hub Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    What can B.C. do to prevent further E.R closures from happening?

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 30, 2025 9:08


    Guest host Bruce Claggett talks to Trevor Halford, Surrey-White Rock MLA and interim leader of the B.C. Conservatives Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Whitecaps reach settlement in class action suit over Messi no-show

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 30, 2025 8:40


    Guest host Bruce Claggett talks to Squire Barnes, Global B.C. Sports Director and Anchor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Why Canada's foreign buyer ban should stay

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 27, 2025 66:36


    Why Canada's foreign buyer ban should stay (0:46) Guest: Barj Dhahan, Co-founder and director of the Canada India Education Society The downward trend in gas prices continues (15:59) Guest: Dan McTeague, President of Canadians for Affordable Energy The Week That Was in Politics (29:16) Guest: Keith Baldrey, Global B.C Legislative Bureau Chief The Richmond resident who worked as Ringo Starr and Frank Sinatra's tour manager (45:00) Guest: Marty Kramer, author of Road Boss: Untold Stories from Entertainment's Ultimate Tour Manager Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Can AI chatbots influence your voting decisions?

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 27, 2025 13:14


    Guest: Gordon Pennycook, Associate Professor at Cornell University's Department of Psychology Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    The Richmond resident who worked as Ringo Starr and Frank Sinatra's tour manager

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 27, 2025 20:05


    Guest: Marty Kramer, author of Road Boss: Untold Stories from Entertainment's Ultimate Tour Manager Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Are Boxing Day sales still worth it?

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 27, 2025 13:19


    Guest: Bruce Winder, Retail Analyst and President of Bruce Winder Retail Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Should Canada reopen to foreign investment? - Is DRIPA a risk to B.C's democracy? - Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays? - the plight of restaurants in 2026

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 24, 2025 43:26


    Should Canada reopen the door to foreign investment? GUEST: Tom Davidoff, Director of UBC's Centre for Urban Economics and Real Estate, and associate professor at the Sauder School of Business DRIPA: A risk to democracy in B.C? GUEST: Werner Stump, President of the B.C Cattlemen's Association Will more restaurants shut down in 2026? GUEST: Sylvain Charlebois, Director of the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University, co-host of The Food Professor Podcast, and visiting scholar at McGill University Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Canada Post'a new deal - The Metro Vancouver Witchhunt - and all about Curling!

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 23, 2025 38:11


    Canada Post – New Deal, same problems. GUEST: Marvin Ryder, Associate Professor at McMaster University's DeGroote School of Business Metro Vancouver sidesteps leadership problems with leak investigation GUEST: Keith Baldrey, Global B.C Legislative Bureau Chief Curling, From Club Ice to the Olympics: A Sharp, Funny, and Serious Look at the Roaring Game GUEST: John Cullen, author of Curling Rocks! Chronicles of the Roaring Game Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Protecting Land, Losing Food: Why B.C.'s Farmland Isn't Feeding the Province

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2025 14:03


    GUEST: Lenore Newman, Director of the Food and Agriculture Institute, University of the Fraser Valley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

     Drugs Beneath the Hull: Claims of Marine Smuggling and Why Vancouver May Be More Exposed Than We Think

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2025 17:19


    GUEST: Kareem Allam, Leader of Vancouver Liberal party, running for mayor in the next election, and former Chief of Staff for Mayor Ken Sim Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    The Week That Was in B.C. Politics

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2025 23:58


    GUEST: Keith Baldrey, Global B.C Legislative Bureau Chief Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Is it time to sell U.S. booze gathering dust in BC warehouses?

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2025 14:49


    GUEST: Gavin Dew, BC Conservative MLA for Kelowna-Mission Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Time to sell US booze? - Cowichan ruling - The week that was in politics - How drugs are smuggled to Vancouver

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2025 69:47


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    The Vancouver Canadians have been named Baseball America's Minor League Organization of the Year!

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 19, 2025 6:18


    GUEST: Rosemary Alberts, Manager of Marketing Services at the Vancouver Canadians Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Metro Van Board - BC School food program - PNE redevelopment? - BC Cons year in review

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 19, 2025 36:01


    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

     If not Pierre, then who? Potential leadership candidates

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 18, 2025 11:52


    GUEST: Tasha Kheiriddin, Author & Columnist at the National Post Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Tackling food insecurity: Second Harvest

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 18, 2025 12:51


    GUEST: Arlene Dickinson, entrepreneur, a dragon on the TV show Dragon's Den, and Second Harvest Ambassador Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Vancouver council greenlights disputed social housing project in the Downtown Eastside

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 18, 2025 14:42


    GUEST: Pete Fry, Vancouver city councillor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    DTES zoning change - Economic impact of Abbotsford floods - Canada population drop - Tackling food insecurity

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 18, 2025 58:36


    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Metro Vancouver leadership chaos

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 17, 2025 53:00


    Metro Vancouver leadership chaos (0:49) Guest: Catharine Urquhart, Global News investigative Reporter The OneBC implosion (8:35) Guest: Hamish Telford, Associate professor of political science University of the Fraser Valley Climate change and the impact on Vancouver's cranberry harvest (15:42) Guest: Dr. Lauren Erland, Director of the Berry Environmental Resilience Research & Innovation (BERRI) Centre at the University of the Fraser Valley Cowichan ruling and its impact beyond Richmond (22:48) Guest: Geoffrey Moyse, Public Land Use Chair and previous Aboriginal law consultant to the B.C. government Remembering Vancouver architect Stanley Kwok (39:29) Guest: John D'eathe, author, retired developer, and long time friend and business partner to Stanley Kwok Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Remembering Vancouver architect Stanley Kwok

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 17, 2025 12:00


    Guest: John D'eathe, author, retired developer, and long time friend and business partner to Stanley Kwok Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Cowichan ruling and its impact beyond Richmond

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 17, 2025 18:23


    Guest: Geoffrey Moyse, Public Land Use Society Chair and previous Aboriginal law consultant to the B.C. government Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Climate change and the impact on Vancouver's cranberry harvest

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 17, 2025 7:48


    Guest: Dr. Lauren Erland, Director of the Berry Environmental Resilience Research & Innovation (BERRI) Centre at the University of the Fraser Valley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    More on the Board of Metro Vancouver's drama-filled emergency meeting

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 17, 2025 12:38


    Guest: Kash Heed, Richmond City councillor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    An update on the Abbotsford floods with a dairy farmer on Sumas Prairie

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 16, 2025 57:26


    An update on the Abbotsford floods with a dairy farmer on Sumas Prairie (1:01) Guest: Matt Dykshoorn, owner of a dairy farm on the Sumas Prairie Vying for a chair at the table: Langley Township applies for ‘intervenor status' in Cowichan land appeal case (8:04) Guest: Eric Woodward, Mayor of Langley Township Statistics Canada reported a whopping 4.7% increase in food prices compared to last year (17:19) Guest: Dr. Sylvain Charlebois, Director of Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia A tribute to a well-loved Hollywood legend: Rob Reiner (27:03) Guest: Rick Forchuk, TV Week Magazine Columnist and CKNW Contributor Author Derek Hayes live in studio (37:47) Guest: Derek Hayes, well-known B.C. historian and author of Coastal Connections: A History of British Columbia Ferries and Passenger Ships Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Are loan guarantees a false comfort? The impacts of the Cowichan decision

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 16, 2025 11:47


    Guest: Alexa Loo, Richmond City councillor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Author Derek Hayes live in studio

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 16, 2025 18:08


    Guest: Derek Hayes, well-known B.C. historian and author of Coastal Connections: A History of British Columbia Ferries and Passenger Ships Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Langley Township applies for ‘intervenor status' in Cowichan land appeal case

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 16, 2025 9:57


    Guest: Eric Woodward, Mayor of Langley Township Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    The Wrap: If you won a million dollars, would you take it upfront or take $1000 a week for life?

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2025 13:29


    Plus, which parts of your social media history would you present to U.S border security? (5:51) Guests: Sarah Daniels, real estate agent in South Surrey; author and broadcaster Steven Chang, Producer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    The latest on the Abbotsford floods

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2025 58:59


    The latest on the Abbotsford floods (0:48) Guest: Matt Dykshoorn, owner of a dairy farm on the Sumas Prairie Atmospheric river update (10:25) Guest: Kristi Gordon, Senior Meteorologist for Global B.C. The Week That Was in B.C. Politics (13:04) Guest: Keith Baldrey, Global B.C. Legislative Bureau Chief Is the provincial government really to blame for our inability to meet housing targets? (27:10) Guest: Kathy Corrigan, former NDP MLA ‘Landman' actress Kayla Wallace live in-studio (38:48) Guest: Kayla Wallace, actress in Paramount+ show ‘Landman' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    ‘Landman' actress Kayla Wallace live in-studio

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2025 18:39


    Guest: Kayla Wallace, actress in Paramount+ show ‘Landman' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    The Week That Was in B.C. Politics

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2025 15:48


    Guest: Keith Baldrey, Global B.C. Legislative Bureau Chief Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Abbotsford floods: an update from a local dairy farmer

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 12, 2025 60:27


    Abbotsford floods: an update from a local dairy farmer (0:54) Guest: Matt Dykshoorn, owner of a dairy farm on the Sumas Prairie Why Metro Vancouver's Mayors push back on B.C.'s housing targets (15:36) Guest: Mike Hurley, Burnaby Mayor and Chair of the Metro Vancouver Board What's in the future for the Vancouver Whitecaps? (28:26) Guest: Axel Schuster, CEO and Sporting Director of the Vancouver Whitecaps B.C. Green Party leader Emily Lowan live in-studio (39:52) Guest: Emily Lowan, B.C. Green Party Leader Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Whitecaps and City of Vancouver officially in talks for potential Hastings Park stadium

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 12, 2025 8:01


    Guest: Mike Klassen, ABC Vancouver City councillor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    B.C. Green Party leader Emily Lowan live in-studio

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 12, 2025 19:03


    Guest: Emily Lowan, B.C. Green Party Leader Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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