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The Condo Bailout: Who Really Pays When Developers Bet Wrong? (0:40) Andy Yan, Urban Planner - and Director of the City Program at Simon Fraser University Too Hot to Live: Why Your Strata Can Say No to AC (10:13) Tony Gioventu, Executive Director of the Condominium Home Owners Association Wesgroup's Beau Jarvis on the Condo Plan (20:04) Beau Jarvis, President and CEO of Wesgroup Properties The File That Should Keep Them Up at Night: A Summer Agenda Special (34:46) Margareta Dovgal, political commentator and resource industry analyst Richard Zussman, Western Canada Vice President of Public Affairs at Burson Locking Kids Off Social Media: Can Canada Actually Pull It Off? (52:43) Andrew MacDougall, Senior Policy Fellow at The Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy, partner at Trafalgar Strategy, and former Director of Communications to Prime Minister Stephen Harper Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Locking Kids Off Social Media: Can Canada Actually Pull It Off? Andrew MacDougall, Senior Policy Fellow at The Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy, partner at Trafalgar Strategy, and former Director of Communications to Prime Minister Stephen Harper Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Points or Pain: How Loyalty Cards Became a Survival Tool Bruce Winder, Retail Analyst and President of Bruce Winder Retail Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Beau Jarvis, President and CEO of Wesgroup Properties Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Too Hot to Live: Why Your Strata Can Say No to AC Tony Gioventu, Executive Director of the Condominium Home Owners Association Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Condo Bailout: Who Really Pays When Developers Bet Wrong? Andy Yan, Urban Planner - and Director of the City Program at Simon Fraser University Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week: MP Jamil Jivani: men in crisis, Restore the North & his JD Vance friendship (1:10) Min. Mike Farnworth on the Massey Tunnel mess (15:33) Keith Baldrey: room for a centrist party in B.C.? And is the World Cup a political lift or liability? (31:36) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Young men in crisis, Restore the North & his JD Vance friendship Jamil Jivani, federal Conservative MP for Bowmanville - Oshawa North in Ontario Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Swimmers take Vancouver City Hall to court over Aquatic Centre pool downsizing Jon Girard, managing director of Protecting Our Vancouver Aquatic Centre Society Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feds work with province to lower development cost charges by up to 50% (0:45) Michael Drummond, CEO of the Urban Development Institute Inside The House (17:11) Keith Baldrey, Global B.C. Legislative Bureau Chief World Cup fans fill downtown Vancouver for Canada vs. Qatar (31:48) Phil Figueiredo, producer of The Jeff O' Neill Show on CFOX 99.3 FM, live from Roxy Burger Kitchen and Bar on Granville Surrey Police Board bans officials from commenting on government decisions (40:48) Ryan Buhrig, President of the Surrey Police Union Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Surrey Police Board bans officials from commenting on government decisions Ryan Buhrig, President of the Surrey Police Union Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Phil Figueiredo, producer of The Jeff O' Neill Show on CFOX 99.3 FM, live from Roxy Burger Kitchen and Bar on Granville Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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

Feds work with province to lower development cost charges by up to 50% Michael Drummond, CEO of the Urban Development Institute Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How a Vancouver bar keeps up with overwhelming World Cup demand Guest host Charis Hogg talks to Tyler Broers, General Manager of Dublin Calling Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cars vs. e-scooters: where do we draw the line on road access? Guest host Charis Hogg talks to Rose Gardner, Executive Director of HUB Cycling Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vancouver crisis line extends hours for the World Cup, seeing a 20% call increase Guest host Charis Hogg talks to Angela Marie Macdougall, Executive director at Battered Women's Support Services Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why do B.C. residents in the Interior drink more than those in Metro Vancouver? Guest host Charis Hogg talks to Andrew Neuner, Executive Director of the Canadian Alcohol Use Disorder Society Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest host Charis Hogg talks to Reggie Cecchini, Global News Washington correspondent Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest host Charis Hogg talks to Rob Dhanu, Former Federal Crown prosecutor, Criminal defense Lawyer and co-founder of Dhanu Dhaliwal Law Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Massey Tunnel project: will it cost the province $11 billion? Guest host Charis Hogg talks to Dylan Kruger, Delta City councillor and mayoral candidate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Massey Tunnel back to square one: How did we get here? Chris Gardner, President of the Independent Contractors and Businesses Association of B.C. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Still Waiting: How Politicians Turned a Simple Fix Into a multi billion dollar mess (0:34) Massey Tunnel contractor dumped (16:20) Mike Farnworth, B.C.'s Minister of Transportation and Transit Did we need the World Cup to close off Granville Street? (32:17) Brent Toderian, City planner; Urbanist at TODERIAN UrbanWORKS; formerly chief planner of the city of Vancouver Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Did we need the World Cup to close off Granville Street? Brent Toderian, City planner; Urbanist at TODERIAN UrbanWORKS; formerly chief planner of the city of Vancouver Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mike Farnworth, B.C.'s Minister of Transportation and Transit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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

B.C. maps out plan to meet electricity demand to 2050 Adrian Dix, B.C.'s Minister of Energy and Climate Solutions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why more parents are sending their kids to private schools Filiz Antinoglu, Certified Educational Consultant, Founder of FutureBright Canada, and Primary & Secondary School Placement Expert Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

U.S./Iran agreement; what this means for prices at the pump (0:48) Dan McTeague, President of Canadians for Affordable Energy Why more parents are sending their kids to private schools (11:48) Filiz Antinoglu, Certified Educational Consultant, Founder of FutureBright Canada, and Primary & Secondary School Placement Expert B.C. Dumps Tunnel Contractor, Starts Over on George Massey Replacement (26:00) Ian Paton, B.C. Conservative MLA for Delta South B.C. maps out plan to meet electricity demand to 2050 (35:36) Adrian Dix, B.C.'s Minister of Energy and Climate Solutions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

B.C. Dumps Tunnel Contractor, Starts Over on George Massey Replacement Ian Paton, B.C. Conservative MLA for Delta South Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Elon Musk becomes world's first trillionaire after SpaceX IPO surge Mike Agerbo, CEO and Executive Producer, Get Connected Media Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ottawa invests $3.2 billion towards food production and affordability (0:57) Lenore Newman, Director of the Food and Agriculture Institute, University of the Fraser Valley Inside The House (16:27) Keith Baldrey, Global B.C. Legislative Bureau Chief Our Energy Future: Building another pipeline in B.C.'s tidewater (31:47) Gary Mar, CEO of the Canada West Foundation Should parents be accountable for youth e-scooter injuries? (47:32) Mahyar Saeedi, founder of Vancouver ESK8, the official Personal Electric Vehicle community of Vancouver Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mahyar Saeedi, founder of Vancouver ESK8, the official Personal Electric Vehicle community of Vancouver Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gary Mar, CEO of the Canada West Foundation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week: The B.C. Conservatives have a new leader, a new chief of staff, and a platform drawing battle lines. Plus David Eby's approval just hit a personal low. 31 percent. After nine years of NDP government, British Columbians are losing patience. Keith Baldrey fill us in (1:07) Canada's auto industry says there's no future without the U.S. Now they want Ottawa to scrap a deal letting 49,000 Chinese EVs in every year. Will Mark Carney blink? (16:31) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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

Bob Cheng, Director of Project Delivery for the Coquitlam Water Supply Project and Coquitlam Water Main Project at Metro Vancouver Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Canada Post converts half a million addresses to community mailboxes (0:49) Marvin Ryder, Associate professor at McMaster University's DeGroote School of Business 12-year-old's guardian ticketed after child riding e-scooter hits car (10:56) New poll rates Premiers' performance; Eby hits new low (21:33) Richard Zussman, Western Canada Vice President of Public Affairs at Burson No whey: Is Canada heading towards a protein shortage? (33:33) Ellen Goddard, Agricultural Economist at the University of Alberta's Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences The world arrives in Vancouver as the FIFA World Cup kicks off (48:23) Murray Mollard, author of Winning Pitch: The Canadian Men's Soccer Team at the World Cup and Beyond Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Richard Zussman, Western Canada Vice President of Public Affairs at Burson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trump not looking to renew CUSMA (0:47) Mackenzie Gray, Global News Ottawa Correspondent Nearly 380,000 Canadians weighed in on Ottawa's LED headlight survey (17:20) Grant Gottgetreu, Former traffic officer, now a forensic criminal and traffic consultant at Forensic-traffic-pro.com Our Energy Future: Is there room for nuclear energy in B.C.? (25:32) David Novog, Professor of Nuclear Engineering at McMaster University Should Canada walk away from Chinese EVs and focus on the U.S auto market? (42:05) Jeremy Cato, Automotive Journalist at CatoCarGuy.com Ottawa introduces bill to restrict social media for teens, regulate AI chatbots (55:04) Peter Chow-White, Professor in the School of Communication and Director of the genalab at Simon Fraser university Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ottawa introduces bill to restrict social media for teens, regulate AI chatbots Peter Chow-White, Professor in the School of Communication and Director of the genalab at Simon Fraser university Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our Energy Future: Is there room for nuclear energy in B.C.? David Novog, Professor of Nuclear Engineering at McMaster University Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nearly 380,000 Canadians weighed in on Ottawa's LED headlight survey Grant Gottgetreu, Former traffic officer, now a forensic criminal and traffic consultant at Forensic-traffic-pro.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Landlords in New West now have to keep rental units under 26 degrees Celsius Nadine Nakagawa, New Westminster City councillor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Daniel Fontaine, New Westminster City councillor and mayoral candidate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Local business forced to close during FIFA World Cup match days (0:45) Kreig LeBlanc, co-owner and manager of Aquariums West Auto industry group wants feds to scrap Chinese EV deal and focus on U.S market (11:16) Brian Kingston, President and CEO of the Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers' Association Should water and sewer no longer be managed by Metro Vancouver? (20:49) Brad West, chair of the Metro Vancouver Water Committee, and mayor of Port Coquitlam Average rent prices in B.C. drop, but remain among the highest in Canada (32:24) Brendon Ogmundson, Chief Economist for the B.C Real Estate Association Metro Vancouver's Stage 3 water restrictions (39:56) Daniel Fontaine, New Westminster City councillor and mayoral candidate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Should water and sewer no longer be managed by Metro Vancouver? Brad West, chair of the Metro Vancouver Water Committee, and mayor of Port Coquitlam Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices