The Lynda Steele Show

Guest host Rob Fai talks to Eric Kam, Professor of Economics at Toronto Metropolitan University Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest host Rob Fai talks to Tom Mayenknecht, Sports Business Commentator, Host of The Sports Market Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What to expect Guest host Rob Fai talks to Nicole Tran, Co-Chairperson of Vancouver Pride Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Should guests be expected to help cover the cost? Guest host Rob Fai talks to Vanessa Lapointe, parenting educator, best-selling author, international speaker, and former registered psychologist based in British Columbia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest host Rob Fai talks to Sylvain Formo, Autism Director and Founder of ORCAS Society of B.C. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest host Rob Fai talks to Kevin Quinn, Translink CEO Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vancouver Farmers Market wants more infrastructure investment (0:46) Laura Smit, Executive Director of the Vancouver Farmers Market The Villages Plan is dead - Why one councillor voted for it (10:50) Lucy Maloney, Vancouver City councillor Inside the House: Findlay's leadership under fire. No seat, no strategy, no Isidorou (25:19) Keith Baldrey, Global B.C. Legislative Bureau Chief Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week: Keith Baldrey: No Seat, No Strategy, No Isidorou: Findlay's Leadership Under Fire (1:09) Russ Taylor: Interfor Quietly Leaves B.C. (20:11) Sarah Kirby-Yung: Fake Callers, AI Scripts, and 100 No-Shows (30:21) Thanks for listening to The Jas Johal Show Political Happy Hour Podcast. If you like what you heard, subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. You can always catch The Jas Johal Show live, Monday to Friday, from 3 to 6 p.m pacific or subscribe to our YouTube Channel at 730 CKNW. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

No seat, no strategy, no Isidorou Keith Baldrey, Global B.C. Legislative Bureau Chief Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vancouver's MLB dreams takes one step forward with new partner (0:56) Steve Ewen, Sports Reporter for the Vancouver Sun and The Province Carney Says Ottawa Has Taken Back Control of Immigration. At What Cost to B.C.? (11:21) Barj Dhahan, Co-founder and director of the Canada India Education Society Bailout or Breakthrough? Metro Vancouver Split on Government Condo Buying Plan (43:11) Evi Mustel, co-founder and President of the Mustel Group BC Place Is Not for Sale. Should It Be? (49:19) Ravi Kahlon, B.C.'s Minister of Jobs and Economic Growth Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Villages Plan Dead: Smart Listening or Election-Year Retreat? (0:44) Mike Klassen, ABC Vancouver City councillor E-Scooters Are Sending Kids to the ER. Doctors Say It's Preventable (9:48) Dr. April Kam, pediatric emergency medicine division head at McMaster Children's Hospital Interfor Quietly Leaves B.C. (18:21) Russ Taylor, President of Russ Taylor Global – Wood Business & Market Consulting AI Is Rewriting B.C. Politics, and Not for the Better (28:25) Eric Woodward, Langley Township Mayor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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

Russ Taylor, President of Russ Taylor Global – Wood Business & Market Consulting Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sandy James, former City of Vancouver Planner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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

300 Cities Have Banned Data Centres. Vancouver Marchers Want to Make It 301 Carmi Levy, Technology Analyst and Journalist Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It Breaks Vancouver's Own Rules Rebecca Bligh - Vancouver City councillor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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

Metro Vancouver board votes to shrink board down to 34 (0:51) Dylan Kruger, Delta city councillor Inside The House (9:24) Keith Baldrey, Global B.C. Legislative Bureau Chief Vancouver council cries foreign interference at recent public hearing (23:32) Richard Zussman, Western Canada Vice President of Public Affairs at Burson B.C. is open to selling BC Place to the Whitecaps, Ravi Kahlon (34:46) Patrick Johnston, Sport columnist with the Vancouver sun and Province Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week: Keith Baldrey: Victoria just fast-tracked a two billion dollar LNG expansion in Delta, and why is Eby's support cratering? (1:17) Patrick Johnston: Should the Whitecaps just buy BC Place? The province isn't saying no (15:30) Richard Zussman: Mike Bernier is back with a new party called CentreBC. Threat or footnote? (29:34) 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

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

Metro Vancouver board votes to shrink board down to 34 Dylan Kruger, Delta city councillor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Prime Minister Carney meets with Premiers as First Ministers Meeting concludes (1:00) David Akin, Global News Chief Political Correspondent Can we slow aging? A UBC professor says it's possible (10:51) Dr. Michael Kobor, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Social Epigenetics , and Director of the Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Aging at UBC New Cultural Precinct could reshape Downtown Vancouver (24:02) Suzanne Anton, Chair of the Vancouver Concert Hall and Theatre Society and former Attorney General of B.C. Could better forest management reduce B.C.'s wildfire risk? (38:16) Dr. Jamie Stephen, Managing Director of TorchLight Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Jamie Stephen, Managing Director of TorchLight Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Suzanne Anton, Chair of the Vancouver Concert Hall and Theatre Society and former Attorney General of B.C. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A UBC professor says it's possible Dr. Michael Kobor, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Social Epigenetics , and Director of the Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Aging at UBC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lenore Skenazy, President of Let Grow, and author of Free-Range Kids Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Council of the Federation: what did Premiers achieve? (0:47) David Akin, Global News Chief Political Correspondent Drones join the frontlines of B.C.'s wildfire fight (14:19) Fons Raedschelders, superintendent of cultural and prescribed fire with the B.C. Wildfire Service Commentary: No More Concessions (25:37) B.C. Place's pitch finds new life after the World Cup (33:26) Tony Valente, Senior Director of Capital Projects at PavCo (B.C. Pavilion Corporation) Why Metro Vancouver residents are leaving for other parts of B.C. (43:42) Wendy Waters, real estate expert Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wendy Waters, real estate expert Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tony Valente, Senior Director of Capital Projects at PavCo (B.C. Pavilion Corporation) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fons Raedschelders, superintendent of cultural and prescribed fire with the B.C. Wildfire Service Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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GUEST: Don Chapman, Deputy Police Chief for the Vancouver Police Department Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Family Reunification on Hold: What the Sponsorship Freeze Means for BC GUEST: Barj Dhahan, Co-founder and director of the Canada India Education Society The Great Reversal: BC's Population Declines for the First Time in Modern History GUEST: Ken Peacock, economist who writes about the B.C economy on Substack, formerly the chief economist and senior vice president of the Business Council of B.C Beyond Resources: Why Canada Can't Stop the New Megafires GUEST: Jesse Winter, climate disaster journalist and author of Wild Fire: Dispatches from a Country Ablaze Jerome Gessaroli on the Price of Project Approval in BC  GUEST: Jerome Gessaroli, Senior Fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Beyond Resources: Why Canada Can't Stop the New Megafires GUEST: Jesse Winter, climate disaster journalist and author of Wild Fire: Dispatches from a Country Ablaze Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

No Helmet, Deadly Consequences: the VPD's Urgent Scooter Warning  GUEST: Sgt. Adam Donaldson, Media Relations Officer with the Vancouver Police Department The bid is in: Could the Whitecaps run B.C Place? GUEST: Patrick Johnston, Sports columnist for the Vancouver Sun and The Province Next steps: how a car-free Granville Street could work post-World Cup GUEST: 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

Next steps: how a car-free Granville Street could work post-World Cup GUEST: 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

Mayor Ken Sim is pivoting on the Park Board, blaming BC. A $13 billion Meta AI data centre is headed for Alberta. Is B.C missing something? If someone on an E-scooter in BC gets injured... who pays? Is Ottawa setting trade barriers on the new pipeline? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ottawa setting trade barriers on the new pipeline? Guest: Jack Mintz, President's Fellow at the University of Calgary's School of Public Policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If someone on an e-scooter in BC gets injured, who pays? Guest: Greg Phillips, a personal injury lawyer with Johnston Franklin Bishop and Board Member for the Trial Lawyers Association of BC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices