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One week into the Kamloops fun, Matt and Nik break down key camp battles shaping up and react to the exciting news of Snoop Dogg performing 2025 Concert Kickoff. VP of Football Operations Neil McEvoy joins the show to give a perspective on how the roster is shaping up and some camp memories from years past with the team. The fellas also bring our always-entertaining 'Go For It Or Punt' and 'They Not Like Us' segments, plus introduce Between The Lines with Cam Tucker from BCLC! 0:00 - Intro 1:11 - Snoop Dogg performing at Concert Kickoff 3:36 - Training Camp updates 14:21 - Between The Lines with Cam Tucker of PlayNow 25:06 - Neil McEvoy interview 44:56 - Go For It Or Punt 48:56 - They Not Like Us

Most of the Fold em episodes have been for those of you who decided to stop gambling.  We've been helping you stop and stay stopped. This episode is different.  It's for those of you are currently gambling or know someone who is. We explore the fine line between recreational gambling and losing control. Our hope is that you better understand the risks when gambling and that some of us are more vulnerable to gambling harm.  We share information, strategies and tools to help you keep gambling in control, recognize warning signs of problem gambling, and know where to turn for help. We're joined by two experts, Luke Clark (Director, Centre for Gambling Research at the University of British Columbia) and Ryan McCarthy (Director, Player Health, British Columbia Lottery Corporation). They share the latest research and concrete strategies.  They also discuss how the gambling industry and government can do more to reduce gambling harm. Listen to episode 90 and learn: Are you at risk for gambling getting out of control? How to recognize warning signs of a gambling problem Tools and strategies to help keep gambling in check What steps to take when gambling isn't fun anymore To read a summary of this episode, visit the blog at www.gamblingproblemhelp.ca.  For more information on how gambling games work as well as tools and supports, visit BCLC's GameSense. If you live in British Columbia, you can reach out to a GameSense Advisor at 1-866-815-0222 ext 3, via Live Chat, or by visiting a GameSense Info Centre at a casino. If you live in British Columbia and would like help for gambling concerns, reach out to our free, confidential counselling and outreach services.  Connect with us online at Gambling Support BC or call 1-888-795-6111. To connect with gambling problem help outside of British Columbia: Canada:  click here United States:  National Council on Problem Gambling United Kingdom:  GamCare Australia:  Gamblers' Help If you live outside of these areas, search online for "Gambling Problem Help" in your country. To connect with online groups and supports, here's some options: Gamblers Anonymous Gam-Anon GamTalk (online chat forum) Recovery Road Online Gamblers, Families and Friends in Recovery The Broke Girl Society Reach out to us at Fold em through Facebook or Instagram. Find us at Foldem Podcast.  You can also send us an email to Foldempodcast@gmail.com.  We welcome feedback. Fold em is funded by Gambling Support BC.  

Guest host Rob Fai rants on Jagmeet saying he'll call for non-confidence when parliament returns. Top tech stories of 2024 & Top tech products of 2024 GUEST: Andy Baryer, Tech and Digital Lifestyle Expert at HandyAndyMedia  Sports gambling and BCLCs #GiftSmart campaign GUEST: Ryan McCarthy, BCLC's Director of Player Health Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

These are heady times for the British Columbia Lottery Corporation. Just weeks after hosting its annual New Horizons in Safer Gambling conference, BCLC was awarded the Best Flagship Responsible Gaming Award – Level 4 in Paris at the World Lottery Association's annual global summit. So, we invited the corp's director of player health, Ryan McCarthy to make his return to the Gaming News Canada Show. McCarthy, who joined BCLC in August 2022, spoke about the recognition by the WLA, and his three key takeaways from the latest New Horizons conference. Highlighted was a keynote address by Dr. Shawn DuBravac on Gambling on the Safer Side: A Different Approach to Creating Competitive Advantage. He also dug into the continued changes around responsible gaming involving not only BCLC, but other provincial lottery and gaming corporations, operators, regulators and, of course, players. For BCLC, that includes its highly acclaimed GameSense initiative which is also used by operators including MGM Resorts and BetMGM. Our conversation not surprisingly included a segment on artificial intelligence. We also asked McCarthy about the collaboration between player health advocates, revenue teams and others within BCLC to maintain balance between growing the business and prioritizing protecting customers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Earlier this month, the British Columbia Lottery Corporation bid adieu to the old days of sports bettors stopping by the local convenience store to make their picks on paper with the launch of its ProLine digital sportsbook.Brett Hanson, BCLC's Manager – Retail Sports was our latest guest on the Gaming News Canada Show to dig into the deets of the new ProLine, which went live just before the start of the NFL regular season. Hanson, who previously worked for offshore sportsbooks before joining the provincial lottery corporation in April 2018, talked about the race to launch ProLine before the start of the four-down football campaign and the challenges and opportunities around creating a new and improved sportsbook product for retail customers. That includes some new features and an expanded offering of wagers for Lions, Canucks, Seahawks and other favourite teams of sports fans in Canada's most-western province. We also asked Hanson about changing the habits of ProLine customers to move into the digital world, and on the opportunity to educate those customers about responsible gambling with the new sportsbook. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

GUEST: Aaron Myette, senior manager for Sports for BCLC and former MLB pitcher Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is it time to reopen the auditor general's office for local government? GUEST: Daniel Fontaine, New Westminster City Councillor Potential concrete strike keeps Vancouver's construction industry on its toes GUEST: Jeannine Martin, President of the Vancouver Regional Construction Association The last of the baby boomer generation in politics GUEST: Ben O'Hara Byrne, host of A Little More Conversation with Ben O'Hara Byrne Is it time to end view cones in Vancouver to make room for housing? GUEST: Pete Fry, Green Party Vancouver City Councillor Blue Jays or Mariners - Who is B.C's baseball team? GUEST: Aaron Myette, senior manager for Sports for BCLC and former MLB pitcher How much does fertility treatment actually cost?  GUEST: Geri Mayer-Judson, Show Contributor & Shannon Terrell, Lead Writer & Personal Finance Expert at NerdWallet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jade hangs with us and helps us decide if this is in fact, the last one. Also, when i say I'm going to cut something in and on the day I edit, I have no access to it, just like when I brought it up the first time, it makes me sad, so if you want to hear my add, you'll have to call the BCLC yourself. It's a great time! That is all.

Dr. Shaalan Beg and Dr.Mohamed Salem discuss key abstracts that will be presented at the 2024 ASCO Annual Meeting, including hypoxia-response CAR T- cell therapy for solid tumors, GPC3-specific CAR T- cell therapy in hepatocellular carcinoma, and the promising efficacy of targeted therapies in GI cancers.  TRANSCRIPT Dr. Shaalan Beg: Hello and welcome to the ASCO Daily News Podcast. I am Dr. Shaalan Beg, your guest host of the podcast today. I'm an adjunct associate professor at UT Southwestern's Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center. In today's episode, we'll be discussing some key abstracts in GI cancers that will be presented at the 2024 ASCO Annual Meeting. I'm delighted to welcome Dr. Mohammed Salem, a GI medical oncologist at the Levine Cancer Institute at Atrium Health, for this discussion. Our full disclosures are available in the transcript of this episode. Mohammed, it's great to have you back on the podcast. Dr. Mohamed Salem: Thank you, Dr. Beg. It's always a pleasure to be here. Thanks for having me.  Dr. Shaalan Beg: So we're seeing more and more exciting data emerge on the role of ctDNA in GI cancers. And that's a topic that we've covered fairly extensively on the podcast. This year, in Abstract 3513, investigators used a novel, highly sensitive HPV ctDNA assay to evaluate the clinical outcomes of HPV ctDNA status in people with localized anal cancer treated with chemoradiation. And we know that prior HPV infection is associated with 90% of anal cancers. Can you give us a summary of the study and why it's so important to the clinical care we're giving our patients today?  Dr. Mohamed Salem: Sure. So, as you already alluded to, in the current era of precision oncology or precision medicine in general, there is an effort to try to maximize treatment efficacy and minimize the side effects. We're trying to understand how to do that by developing more biomarkers. I think this was a very interesting study that was led by Dr. Morris of MD Anderson. As you mentioned, he tried to determine the correlation between that circulating tumor DNA at different timelines and also associated that with the relapse. Obviously, as we all know, HPV infection is linked to about over 90% of anal cancers, and anal cancer is increasingly common in the U.S.  The study design includes patients from stage 1, 2, and 3 anal cancer treated with curative intent concurrent chemo radiation and the plot sample to collect circulating DNA was taken at five weeks of treatment and then at various intervals, including 3months, 6  months, 9 months and 12 months, to detect the HPV circulating DNA. And the analysis was done to correlate detection of circulating DNA with a relapse.  So what they observed is after collecting the samples at the end of the treatment, which is 5 weeks, followed by 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, and 12 months following treatment using the correlation between the detection of circulating tumor DNA as well as the recurrence rate, they were able to identify that about 22% was seen at 5 weeks, 13% was seen at three months, then 10% was seen at 6 months, and 0% actually was seen at 12 months. In the final analysis, they concluded that detection of circulating DNA at 3 months was significantly associated with a relapse rate of those patients. And also, they looked at the baseline stage, T stage, end stage, age and other perhaps prognostic factors. But the clinical implication of that trial is this finding supports the potential of integrating now the circulating DNA analysis and routine post-treatment surveillance, which hopefully will help us identify those patients with high risk of relapse and whether they can be treated with adjuvant therapy  in context-free drug trial or even like more close surveillance. Obviously, this is a very novel study, so it needs validation. Also, we need to understand more about the platform used because with the immersion technology and how fast this field is moving, I think it's important to look at this platform or other platforms. I think as a concept it's very interesting and hopefully will help us to identify patients with higher risk. So, I'm looking forward to hearing the full presentation. Dr. Shaalan Beg: Moving on to colorectal cancer, Abstract 3514 is a trial of hypoxia-responsive CEA CAR T-cell therapy for people with heavily pretreated solid tumors where this was administered intraperitoneally or intravenously. And you know, as a solid tumor oncologist or GI oncologist, we've been watching the hematologic space evolve so dramatically in the last five years with cellular therapies that it's exciting to see these CAR T-cell approaches being applied in solid tumors with some results. So can you talk about this study and whether you think it will influence clinical practice?  Dr. Mohamed Salem: Of course, I'm actually very excited to see this study because as you mentioned, CAR T-cell therapy has been utilized in hematological malignancies for the last several years and in fact it's becoming a center of care. As you know, it's very effective in certain tumors. Unfortunately, we did not see a similar result in solid tumors thus far. I know we are trying to make progress, but we are definitely not seeing the same efficacy in solid tumors. And also, of course, in CRC and many other tumors, we need more target options, so I was very excited to see this abstract. And I want to give a little bit of background why this abstract is important. Many solid tumors have a low oxygen level environment, hypoxia obviously, which can impact the effectiveness of CAR T therapy. So hypoxia can suppress the immune response, leading to poor performance of the immune cells like the T cell within the tumor. The investigators, to overcome that challenge, meaning hypoxia impacting the efficacy of the T cell, they were actually able to engineer a CAR T cell to be hypoxia responsive. And what does that mean? That the cells are designed to become more active in low oxygen conditions, which is more difficult in many of the solid tumors. The reason that's very interesting is because, one, it reduces exhaustion of the T cell, meaning like when you have the T cell active all the time, they get exhausted. So when you have the T cell in the resting state, until they reach the tumor environment and they get activated by the hypoxia status, now you reduce the expulsion of the T cell. But also that one overcomes the resistance. So once activated in the tumor hypoxic environment, this CAR T cell shows increased efficacy in targeting and killing the cancer cell.  Based on that concept, the investigators conducted a phase 1 dose escalation study in solid tumors. So this was a phase 1 open label group escalation study involving patients with tumor suppressed CEA and also had relapsed refractory second line treatment. The trial actually included 2 routes of administration, which I think was very interesting – IV versus intraperitoneal, IP, way of administration. And they enrolled about 40 patients between June of 2022 and January 2023. And 35 patients had colorectal cancer, 3 patients had gastric cancer, and 2 patients had non-small cell lung cancer. Overall, there was no surprising safety data. In terms of side effects, it was largely macrocystis, colitis. Unfortunately, they had 1 treatment that did not finish. But the interesting feature was the efficacy of that concept was demonstrated and in fact they were able to see more disease response and control at this rate with IP infusion, which I think is a very novel approach. I would look forward to trying and looking into this kind of delivery, especially in CRC and other tumors. Dr. Shaalan Beg: Because we've known that historically managing disease intraperitoneally has been challenging with cytotoxic chemotherapies and even surgical approaches that have been deployed can be fairly morbid as well. So looking at novel delivery mechanisms can help us understand, maybe be able to manage side effects of treatments in different ways and open doors for treatment in diseases that otherwise we couldn't manage. So definitely a very novel and exciting approach on this study.  Dr. Mohamed Salem: I agree. I think the idea of administering an IP route is a very interesting idea.   Well, Shaalan, there is another study in CRC, Abstract 3515. This is the first human study of ABBV-400, cMET–targeting antibody-drug conjugate in advanced solid tumors. Can you tell us about this promising data? Dr. Shaalan Beg: Yeah, so we've known that cMET is a very relevant biomarker across many cancers, particularly colorectal cancer, and it is overexpressed in a fairly large proportion of multiple diseases. But there hasn't been an effective regimen that has been found to be tolerable to target this specific biomarker. In this study, the investigators are evaluating an antibody drug conjugate, which takes the cMET targeting antibody telisotuzumab and conjugates it to a novel topoisomerase one inhibitor payload. And there's a phase one study that enrolled people across multiple different tumor types. This was presented at ASCO 2023. And this year, the investigators are coming in and giving the results of a colorectal cancer cohort within that study. Patients were enrolled in the dose escalation phase, and in the dose expansion phase, there were 122 colorectal cancer cases; so a fairly healthy size colorectal cancer population. And the median number of prior lines of therapy was 4, which is fairly consistent with what we would expect in our clinical population for people with colorectal cancer. So what they found in terms of efficacy is that the response rates, the confirmed overall response rates, were between 15 and 20%, depending on what dose of the medication the patients had received. They enrolled people regardless of cMET expression and then evaluated the response based on a higher or lower cMET expression. And those with higher cMET expression had an overall response rate of >30%, while those with lower cMET expression had a response rate of 10 to 15%. So they still had a response rate, which for fifth-line colorectal cancer is something to be aware of and it could be a marker of more significant clinical activity than other treatments that are out there.  And with the antibody drug conjugates, it's also important for us to keep an eye on the side effect profiles because a lot of these agents can have distinct side effect profiles that otherwise we wouldn't be familiar with. And in this study, 64% of participants had a grade 3 or above treatment emergent adverse events, and 41% had serious adverse events. So definitely something to think about. And most of these were hematologic toxicities, 30% had grade 3 or worse anemia. Neutropenia was seen, in grade three and above, was seen in 25%, leukopenia or grade three and above was seen in 12%, and thrombocytopenia again around 12%. And the non-hematologic toxicities were nausea, fatigue, vomiting and diarrhea. There was some interstitial lung disease, pneumonitis, which was seen in 7% of the total population, of which 2% had grade three or above. So definitely something to think about. From my perspective, I really am excited about this presentation because we're seeing evidence of clinical activity focused on cMET for refractory colorectal cancer compared to other agents that are out in the market. If this pans out in future studies, it could definitely change the way we deliver our treatments. Dr. Mohamed Salem: I totally agree that we actually need more therapy for those patients. And I'm not surprised that the myelosuppression, as you mentioned, was in fifth-line treatment. So this patient had large exposure to cytotoxic agents before.   So, looking at CAR T once more, there is a very interesting Abstract 4019, which is a study of C-CAR031, a GPC3-specific TGFβRIIDN armored autologous CAR T, in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). What are your key takeaways from this study, Shaalan? Dr. Shaalan Beg: This is a first-in-human study. It enrolled people with advanced HCC who failed on one or more lines of prior therapy and they were given one single infusion of C-CAR031 after standard lymphodepletion and they enrolled 24 patients across 4 dose levels. If we look at the overall response rate, 50% of the 22 people who were eligible for response assessments had a partial response. This response rate varies based on the dose level itself and the investigators claim a 90% disease control rate. So definitely when we think about standard treatments for hepatocellular cancer after first line therapy, this is something which will catch a lot of people's attention. Again, with CAR T-cell therapy, we need to be aware of the risk of potential toxicities. There were no dose limiting toxicities and CRS or cytokine release syndrome was observed in 91% of patients, while a very small proportion, about less than 5%, had grade three CRS. Most of the side effects here were, again, lymphocytopenia, neutropenia, thrombocytopenia, and some transaminitis in 16% of patients. They did see tumor reduction in 90%, not only in the intrahepatic disease, but also in the extrahepatic disease. And again, these are people who had BCLC stage C disease. So this included people with hepatic and extrahepatic metastases. And in terms of prior lines of therapy, 96% of patients had either received immune checkpoint inhibitors and TKIs.  If we think about how some other immune therapy regimens are being developed in the GI cancer space, there is some indication that liver lesions may respond differently compared to extra hepatic disease. So in this case, they saw responses in both scenarios, which makes it very exciting, because even though we've seen many approvals of TKIs and immunotherapy, anti-androgenic therapy in hepatocellular cancer, the treatment of these patients is still extremely difficult because of their underlying hepatic dysfunction. And it'll be very interesting to see how this treatment unfolds.  Dr. Mohamed Salem: You summarized it very well, Shaalan. I echo your thoughts. What is also interesting about that study, it's actually targeted at the GPC strain, which is prevalent in HCC but not normal tissue, which goes back to your comment about the toxicity, and hopefully we can also manage treatment in the context of underlying liver disease.  Dr. Shaalan Beg: I guess it's fair to say that we're both very excited to see what's ahead in GI cancers at the Annual Meeting.   Mohamed, thanks as always for sharing your great insights with us on the ASCO Daily News Podcast.  Dr. Mohamed Salem: Thank you all for having me, and I'm looking forward to meeting you and all our colleagues in Chicago in a couple of weeks. Dr. Shaalan Beg: And thank you to our listeners for your time today. You'll find links to the abstracts discussed today in the transcripts of this episode. I'll be back to cover late breaking abstracts and other key advances in GI oncology after the annual meeting, so please join me for more key insights from ASCO24 and on the ASCO Daily News Podcast. Finally, if you value the insights that you hear on the podcast, please take a moment to rate, review, and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.   Disclaimer: The purpose of this podcast is to educate and to inform. This is not a substitute for professional medical care and is not intended for use in the diagnosis or treatment of individual conditions. Guests on this podcast express their own opinions, experience, and conclusions. Guest statements on the podcast do not express the opinions of ASCO. The mention of any product, service, organization, activity, or therapy should not be construed as an ASCO endorsement.   Find out more about today's speakers:  Dr. Shaalan Beg  @ShaalanBeg  Dr. Mohamed Salem  @SalemGIOncDoc    Follow ASCO on social media:  @ASCO on Twitter ASCO on Facebook ASCO on LinkedIn   Disclosures: Dr. Shaalan Beg:  Consulting or Advisory Role: Ispen, Cancer Commons, Foundation Medicine, Genmab/Seagen  Speakers' Bureau: Sirtex  Research Funding (An Immediate Family Member): ImmuneSensor Therapeutics  Research Funding (Institution): Bristol-Myers Squibb, Tolero Pharmaceuticals, Delfi Diagnostics, Merck, Merck Serono, AstraZeneca/MedImmune    Dr. Mohamed Salem: Consulting or Advisory Role: Taiho Pharmaceutical, Exelixis, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Exelixis, QED Therapeutics, Novartis, Pfizer, Daiichi Sankyo/Astra Zeneca  Speakers' Bureau: Genentech/Roche, Taiho Pharmaceutical, Daiichi Sankyo/Astra Zeneca, BMS, Merck 

It was a homecoming of sorts when Will Hill joined the Canadian Lottery Coalition as its executive director. Hill, who spent 11 years with OLG, these days represents a collaboration of the Alberta Lottery and Gaming Corporation, the Atlantic Lottery Corporation, BCLC, Loto-Québec, the Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries Corporation, and the Saskatchewan Indian Gaming Authority. On the latest episode of the Gaming News Canada Show, he addressed the coalition's advocacy for legal gambling across Canada and the work that's been done in trying to limit gambling advertising by regulated operators in Ontario within the province's borders. And, we asked him about the apparent road to regulation that's happening in Alberta. The former journalist and Toronto Blue Jays employee also teed up a panel discussion at the Canadian Gaming Summit in June which is scheduled to include crown corporation leaders Kandice Machado (AGLC), Pat Davis (BCLC), Patrick Daigle (ALC) and Jean-Francois Bergeron (Loto-Québec). Hill also provided some thoughts on the current state of the gambling industry in North America, including a decline in casino visitors in some U.S. states. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When Brianne Doura-Schawohl joined the Massachusetts Council on Compulsive Gambling in the fall of 2013, the overturning of the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act in the United States was five years away and amending the Criminal Code of Canada to pave the way for legal single-event sports betting was eight years away. Since then, Doura-Schawohl has gone on to become a leading voice on responsible gambling and problem gambling in senior leadership roles with the National Council on Problem Gambling, and EPIC Risk Management. In her current role as CEO of Doura-Schawohl Consulting LLC, she's working with stakeholders across the regulated gambling industry to address the growing concern around problem gambling. On the latest episode of the Gaming News Canada Show, Doura-Schawohl discussed the impact that the fast-moving mobile/online gambling industry in the U.S. is having on people, the influence of gambling advertising and famous brand ambassadors on players, concerns about increased gambling activity among college students, the need for more research into problem gambling, and the responsibility that stakeholders across the industry have to make gambling safer. Doura-Schawohl, who doesn't shy away from advocating for more tangible action on RG, also provided more than a few words of praise to RG efforts in Ontario and across the rest of Canada by the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario – when creating the province's regulated sports betting and igaming marketplace – the Responsible Gambling Council and BCLC with its GameSense self-exclusion program that is being used by operators in the U.S. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode centres around an article recently published in the Journal of Hepatology, presenting a new treatment algorithm positioned as an evolution of the BCLC system and aimed at addressing its limitations in the staging and therapy hierarchy for HCC. This discussion covers the implications of this fresh approach in the management of HCC patients, challenging the standard paradigm.FacultyBruno Sangro (Moderator)Umberto Cillo (Faculty) Helen Reeves (Faculty)María Reig (Faculty)This EASL Studio is supported by AstraZeneca. EASL has received no input from AstraZeneca with regards to the content of this programme.Related episodesEASL Studio S5E13: Basics in decision-making for liver cancer treatmentEASL Studio from EASL Congress 2023: Highlights of the liver cancer research at EASL Congress 2023EASL Studio S4E16: Highlights from the EASL Liver Cancer Summit 2023EASL Studio S4 Special Edition 1: A new strategy for liver cancer screening: EASL Policy Statement on risk-based surveillanceEASL Studio S3E16: Liver cancer in 2022: Wrap-up & outlookEASL Studio S3E8: Transplanting patients with cancer – Is there a limit?EASL Studio S2E15: JHEP Live on the best animal model for HCC – Lost in translation?All EASL Studio Podcasts are available on EASL Campus.

In this episode: a provincial divide in Canada's job market, actions that journalist take to improve their mental health, union strike updates, latest happiness index from ADP, and other topics. Stay with us to get the latest HR updates.Follow us on: Youtube @ Canada HR News - YouTube;  X @cadHRnews; LinkedIn @ Canada HR News Podcast.The sponsor of this episode is careergoals.ca, a career and image consulting agency committed to making your career dreams come true. To receive a job search playbook that will set you up for success with your career in Canada visit careergoals.ca. Canada's labour market has experienced a growing provincial divide |  The Provincial Divide in Canada's Job Market (td.com) A Series of forums announced to examine best practices for mental health in the journalism industry | Series of forums announced to examine best practices for mental health in the journalism industryThe British Columbia Lottery Corp. is allowing employees to substitute up to 6 statutory holidays in a calendar year for other personal, cultural or religious days | BCLC allowing employees to swap statutory holidays for personal, cultural days of significance | Benefits Canada.com Negotiations have resumed between  Air Transat and the union representing its 2,100 flight attendants | Air Transat: negotiations resume after union rejects tentative agreement | CTV News There was overall decrease in satisfaction for workers across Canada in December|  ADP Canada Happiness@Work Index: Workers' Happiness DwindlesIt's been a big year for the Government of Saskatchewan's Red Tape Reduction Committee | 2023 Marks Another Successful Year of Red Tape Reduction | News and Media | Government of Saskatchewan 

Trainee editorial board member, Dr. Vishnu Chandra interviews Dr. Julius Chapiro about his recent published paper titled Optimization of the BCLC Staging System for Locoregional Therapy for Hepatocellular Carcinoma by Using Quantitative Tumor Burden Imaging Biomarkers at MRI. Optimization of the BCLC Staging System for Locoregional Therapy for Hepatocellular Carcinoma by Using Quantitative Tumor Burden Imaging Biomarkers at MRI. Borde et al. Radiology 2022; 304:228–237.

Call it one way to become. . . er. . . . more wordly. OK, OK, apologies for the lousy pun. Truth is, however, that the latest episode of your friendly neighbourhood GNCS podcast has a distinct international flavour. The latest episode started in Berlin, where Bayes Esports head of growth and finance Christopher Bohlmann joined us to expand on the comments he made in the Gaming News Canada newsletter about the “healthy transformation” of the esports industry over the first two months of 2023. Then it was off to New York, where iGaming Next managing director Pierre Lindh was setting up his automatic “We're Sold Out” reply (OK, that's a statement of the Trumpian/Santos kind) while giving our listeners a lay of the land for next week's NYC23 conference in The Big Apple. https://twitter.com/iGamingNEXT/status/1631217862751682560 Ryan McCarthy, the BCLC's person in charge of player health, called in from Vancouver to set the table for the lottery corporation's New Horizons in Responsible Gambling get-together next week along with the BCLC's five-year extension of its GameSense partnership with MGM Resorts International and BetMGM that was announced this week. https://twitter.com/BCLC/status/1631101227730898944 PointsBet Canada CCO Nic Sulsky returned to the show for the first time in a few weeks to discuss the operator's new responsible gambling message from Kerri Einarson's four-time Canadian curling championship rink. https://youtu.be/zxT6TIumRhk Sulsky also provided a few thoughts on the announcement this week that Bally's was shutting down Monkey Knife Fight, the daily fantasy sports business which Sulsky helped create in 2017. Finally, regular contributors Amanda Brewer of Kindred Group and Kris Abbott of Kaizen Gaming/Betano also provided their usual keen insight into the latest news from around the industry. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Premier David Eby scraps new model of autism support in favour of maintaining individualized funding Kaye Banez, President of Autism BC reacts to Premier David Eby's decision on autism funding. BC announces a $5 billion surplus With more on B.C's $5 billion surplus is Keith Baldrey. Global News Legislative Bureau Chief. Why is a BC man facing a lifetime ban from the US for crossing the border with an empty bottle of CBD oil? Len Saunders, Immigration Lawyer at Blaine Immigration describes why some Canadians are unknowingly at risk to face lifetime bans from the United States Is the World Cup supporting the growth of single-game betting? Matt Lee, Senior Communications Specialist for BCLC provides us with an update on just how man British Columbians are participating in single-game betting during the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar What can we expect from Vancouver's relaunched counterculture newspaper? What does the future hold for The Georgia Straight? We talk to Farhan Mohammed, CEO of OverStory Media - the new owners of the longtime newspaper. The Wrap: If you got a free ticket to the World Cup, would you go to Qatar despite its human rights allegations? Do you care about Black Friday? On The Wrap this week: Leah Holiove - TV Reporter and Radio Host Sarah Daniels - South Surrey Real Estate Agent, Author, and Broadcaster Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matt Lee, Senior Communications Specialist for BCLC provides us with an update on just how man British Columbians are participating in single-game betting during the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dan and Sat preview the Canucks season as they break down their expectations for individual players, special teams, and much more as the season gets underway. Also, hear from Matt Lee of BCLC on some of the props for the team.The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts and guests and do not necessarily reflect the position of Rogers Media Inc. or any affiliate. 

GUEST:  Jawn Jang, The Jas Johal Show Contributor Matt Lee, Senior Communications Specialist for BCLC

It's been a few weeks since the NFL season started and now that single-event sports betting is legal in Canada, more and more Canadians are placing bets on these games! Guest: Matt Lee - Communications officer for BCLC

In deze podcast kunt u luisteren naar een gesprek tussen nucleair geneeskundige prof. dr. Lioe-Fee de Geus-Oei en interventie-radioloog dr. Mark Burgmans, beiden uit het Leidsch Universitair Medisch Centrum, waarin zij praten over de plaats van transarteriële radio-embolisatie in de behandeling van hepatocellulair carcinoom. Tijdens dit gesprek nemen zij door wat de behandelopties zijn bij very early en early stage HCC, intermediate stage HCC en advanced stage HCC.Klik hier voor de podcast met prof. dr. Marnix Lam over de procedurele aspecten van geïndividualiseerde radio-embolisatie. Referenties BCLC-richtijn: Reig M, et al. J Hepatol 2022;76:681-93. Salem R, et al. Hepatology 2021;74:2342-52. Kim E, et al. Lancet Gastroenterol Hepatol 2022;7:843-50. Dhondt E, et al. Radiology 2022;303:699-710. Chow PK, et al. J Clin Oncol 2018;36:1913-21. Vilgrain V, et al. Lancet Oncol 2017;18:1624-36.

"Hepatobiliary cancer, the final frontier." So begins our double-headed sojourn into two of the most challenging to-treat cancers many oncologists will encounter, but one that ends on a surprisingly positive note. Also, there's a cameo that absolutely no one will see coming...Links to studies discussed in this episode (subscription may be required):TOPAZ-1: https://evidence.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/EVIDoa220001IMbrave150: https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa1915745Barcelona Liver Cancer Staging: https://els-jbs-prod-cdn.jbs.elsevierhealth.com/cms/attachment/fb5943f9-9201-4128-848a-626d744c651f/gr1_lrg.jpgSource: Reig M, et al. "BCLC strategy for prognosis prediction and treatment recommendation: the 2022 Update." Journal of Hepatology. November 2021. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhep.2021.11.018Art courtesy of Taryn SilverMusic courtesy of AlexiAction: https://pixabay.com/users/alexiaction-26977400/Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational purposes only. If you are unwell, seek medical advice. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Peter ter Weeme is the Chief Social Purpose Officer & Vice President of Player Experience for BCLC, the British Columbia Lottery Corporation. Peter is responsible for the corporation's social purpose commitment, overall reputation management, end-to-end player experience, and marketing strategies. His mandate is to transition BCLC to a purpose-driven organization.   Peter is a 25-year veteran of the values-driven marketing, sustainability, and social purpose movement. His professional experience spans the world of corporate, government, and non-profit clients in North America, Europe, and Asia. He has lived and worked in Canada and the Netherlands, as well as India where he advised companies on a range of values-based issues.   Previously Peter was the EVP, Purpose and Brand Citizenship for Elevator Strategy (now Palmer Stamnes DDB), a Vancouver-based marketing and communications firm that works at the intersection of data, emerging technologies, and social purpose. With an MBA specializing in environmental management, he has founded two successful consultancies and previously led the marketing and communications at Mountain Equipment Co-op, Canada's national retail leader in social and environmental responsibility.     In this episode we discuss: Turning a vice into a virtue The mess inherent in progress The largest non-tax source of revenue for British Columbia The psychological impact of being for something, as opposed to against something   Key Takeaways: Early in our conversation, we talked about the importance of transparent dialogue for creating healthy communities while removing stigma and taboo. The Netherlands is a great example of a society that's done that across many areas. For industries like gambling and alcohol, education and transparent dialogue are incredibly important to remove stigma, raise awareness, and provide support for the population that cannot safely partake in these activities. There shouldn't be any shame in opting out. Whether you cannot safely partake, or you just don't want to partake. What does that mean for you? There are small things you can do, for example, next time you're out with colleagues or friends, don't assume everyone wants to drink. Remove having an adult beverage as the assumed default setting. When it comes to protecting the planet and society, collectively we have failed. Talking openly about what's failed and what's broken is the first step in finding a new path forward. You need to know where you are before you can chart a path to where you want to be. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals show in detail what's broken, and where we need to get to for a sustainable planet and equitable society. As your company works on its ESG strategy, connect that strategy back to the Sustainable Development Goals, to clearly show how you're contributing to collective action to help solve our most pressing global challenges. As your company travels your ESG journey, transparency is incredibly important. Transparency is a fundamental ingredient to create a culture of continuous improvement. This is where internal communication and external ESG reporting come into play. Collectively we're evolving the way capitalism and corporations work, and by doing what's never been done before, there will be failures along the journey. There is no doubt that we will be collectively stronger if we are humbly willing to share our failures openly, so others can learn from them. This transparency does two things: First, it removes the misconception that failure can be avoided on the road to progress; second, we don't have time for everyone to make the same failures along the way. With the collective challenges we're facing, impatience is a virtue.   References: Connect with Peter on LinkedIn British Columbia Lottery Corporation (BCLC) GameSense Paper: How is Marketing Different in a Social Purpose Company   The Bonfire of the Vanities written by Tom Wolfe The Bonfire of the Vanities directed by Brian DePalma Canadian Business for Social Responsibility End AIDS India The Hero Trap by Thomas Kolster   Connect & Share: If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really makes a difference in helping to convince hard-to-get guests. I also love reading them!   If this episode resonated with you, I ask you to send it to a friend. Help bring even more visibility to these leaders that are using business as a force for good!   Subscribe to the Purpose and Profit newsletter to make sure you don't miss future episodes.   This podcast is for you, the listener. I'd love to hear what resonated with you, or if you have a suggestion on who would be a great guest for this show. Please send me a note at info@KathyVarol.com.

More and more commonly, workplaces and institutions are adopting the usage of pronouns in email signatures or in classrooms, and this is a really important step to ensure that all gender identities are welcomed and supported! However, discrimination against 2SLGBTQIA+ community is still extremely prevalent, and transgender people face epidemic levels of violence. It is more important than ever to discuss gender, identity, and preferences with our friends and family to create safer experiences for those who are nonbinary.This week on the podcast, we couldn't be more excited to welcome a guest who has had their own journey coming to be proud of who they really are, and is willing to share their experiences and knowledge with our listeners!Ashton O'Brien (they/she), a 32 year old non-binary person, is the current President of Kamloops Pride Society, being involved with the organization since 2019. Alongside their work organizing inclusive and fun events for the Kamloops community, Ashton also does countless hours of work off the side of their desk to help make their workplace more inclusive at BCLC, where Ashton has worked as an IT professional for 11 years. Through this interview, Ashton and I actually realized we not only work together, but in the same department, and at the time of the interview, were both working on putting on BCLCs International Women's Day event! - so throughout the episode you'll hear us mention our workplace and IWD. This interview could have gone forever, and we touched on so many topics - from Ashton's experience with their own gender and identity growing up in BC interior, ways to talk to those people in your life who are not as understanding of different gender identities or preferences, how workplaces can take action to be more inclusive, and how to be better feminists!Follow Kamloops Pride on Instagram and Facebook at @kamloopsprideCheck out www.kamloopspride.com for educational and community resources.Follow the Boss Chicks on Instagram: @thebosschickproject @cassandramilk and @kenn_gabrielle_Download, subscribe & leave a review to get your next Wordle on your first try!

The fight to end Canada's internet monopoly Jason Speers, CEO of Babbl Communications joins us to discuss how his company is trying to internet more affordable  Canada's first Chinese Canadian Museum to open in Vancouver's Chinatown Bob Rennie, real estate developer in Vancouver discusses his involvement in helping open Canada's first Chinese Canadian Museum.  Legendary composer and conductor John Williams turned 90 this week A look at the career of legendary composer and conductor John Williams, who celebrated his 90th birthday earlier this week. We're joined by Eric Alper, Music Industry Expert and Publicist Concussions: The Ugly Truth Nearly one hundred million people will be glued to their screens this Sunday as we prepare for Super Bowl 56– perhaps the biggest television event in North America. But before you cheer on the players this weekend, we bring you this special feature from show contributor Jawn Jang.  The most popular prop bets and betting lines for Super Bowl LVI  Matt Lee, Senior Communications Specialist for BCLC helps us prepare for Super Bowl LVI  

 Matt Lee, Senior Communications Specialist for BCLC helps us prepare for Super Bowl LVI

Sat, Dan and Randip are joined by Don Taylor (CHEK TV's Donnie and Dhali) to dissect last night's 4-1 loss in Pittsburgh, and give a historical context to exactly how bad the Canucks have been to start the season. Plus Matt Lee of BCLC unveils betting odds on potential trades the team might make to try and right the ship.

Sat and Dan are joined by Nashville colour analyst Hal Gill to talk about the Predators' success coming into Friday's action, and what he likes about the Canucks so far this season. Then Matt Lee of BCLC joins the show to talk about the weekend's best bets.

 Our show contributor Jawn Jang explains just how much British Columbians are spending on sports betting.

BCLC's Matt Lee talks about the Canucks upcoming season, the fact that odds makers believe there is a better chance they miss the playoffs than make it and ponder the likelihood of some individual hardware being claimed by Vancouver players.

Today is the day where British Columbians can legally place a bet on a single sporting event. Prior to today, in order to legally make a wager BC bettors had to correctly predict the outcome of two or more sporting events. BCLC's President discusses the change and why this is a good thing for the province.

With word that Edmonton's Adam Larsson is set to test the open market, Sat, Dan and Randip ponder if he is long-term solution next to Quinn Hughes. And if not him, then who? Plus Matt Lee of BCLC tells us the latest odds and prop bets ahead of the Seattle expansion draft. The views and opinions […]

Dan, Sat, and Randip are joined by former Canuck Jannik Hansen to talk about the needs for the Canucks this offseason and how aggressive they should be. They are also joined by Matt Lee of BCLC, and get your takes on the show in Not Sayin', Just Sayin'. The views and opinions expressed in this podcast […]

Dan, Sat, and Randip discuss the upcoming game between the Canadiens and Golden Knights. They are joined by Cam Tucker of BCLC, and Kevin Hodgson of HEROS Hockey winner of NHL's 2021 Willie O'Ree Community Hero Award. Also, it's the third edition of The Friday Quiz! The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those […]

On this episode of The Food Professor podcast, my co-host Dr. Sylvain Charlebois and I unpack the sweet and sour of the latest news that's shaping the Canadian food landscape. We also sit down with a very special guest, Michael Graydon, President of Food Health and Consumer Products of Canada to talk about the latest in sustainability and trends in part one of a two part interview.The Food Professor is brought to you by omNovos - THE digital customer engagement solution for grocery and restaurant marketers helping you deliver personalized and segmented experiences at scale. Find out how you can get personal and grow sales by making EVERY customer interaction count with omNovos at www.realcustomerengagement.comAs drought hits the Canadian Prairies, Sylvain expresses his expansive concerns regarding North America's water under the reality of the climate crisis. On the flip side, we talk about the latest promising agriculture innovations from biotech farming to McCain Foods' recent commitment to regenerative agriculture practices.From Christmas in July to chicken crises, Sylvain and I reflect on new alternatives to long-standing classics and the grim consequences of the supply chain issue faced by poultry processing plants. We cover the future of lab-grown meats and Sylvain explains just how this chicken processing plant issue happens.Finally - is Newfoundland's sugar tax as sweet as some advocates think? Sylvain talks about the successes and failures of sugar taxes around the world and methods for discouraging the consumption of sugary beverages.As proud sponsors of The Retail Council of Canada's 28th Grand Prix New Product Awards, we take a moment to celebrate the innovation that we saw and continue to see across the Grand Prix finalists and winners. We talk about highlights from this year's gala and our predictions for next year's line-up. Stay tuned for more interviews with finalists. Michael GraydonMichael is an accomplished CEO, with experience in both the public and private sectors. A proven brand builder with a history of generating compelling strategies generating significant top and bottom line growth. He has an extremely well defined ability to understand and serve consumer markets with improved and innovative products and services. Michael is a passionate leader, visionary and very creative in his approach to creating a very strong corporate culture and employee engagement.Michael is the CEO of Food, Health & Consumer Products of Canada (FHCP), formerly Food & Consumer Products of Canada (FCPC). Under his leadership, FCPC merged with Consumer Health Products of Canada (CHP) in September 2020. FHCP is the voice of Canada's leading food, health, and consumer products manufacturers. Our industry employs more people than any other manufacturing sector in Canada, across businesses of all sizes that manufacture and distribute the safe, high-quality products at the heart of healthy homes, healthy communities, and a healthy Canada.Under his leadership, Food & Consumer Products of Canada merged with Consumer Health Products of Canada in September 2020 to create Food, Health & Consumer Products of Canada.As President of Parq Holdings Michael was responsible for the oversight and strategic business development plans for the development of the new Parq Resort in Vancouver. Mr. Graydon joined PHLP in 2014 after six years at BCLC where he led that company to become a recognized leader in the gambling and entertainment industry worldwide and was instrumental in the launch of the first regulated on-line gaming site in North America. Previously, Mr. Graydon held several senior roles in large corporations including Canada's largest retail buying company Mega Group, food manufacturer J.D. Sweid, food retailer Sobeys, The Keg Restaurants and Carling O'Keefe Breweries. His community commitments have included his role on the Advisory Board of the School of Business and Economics at Thompson Rivers University; the Board of Directors of the Interprovincial Lottery Corporation and the Board of Directors of Brand Source USA. He has also served as Vice Chair of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce and was the Co-Chair of the 2014 Grey Cup in Vancouver.Michael LeBlanc  is the Founder & President of M.E. LeBlanc & Company Inc and a Senior Advisor to Retail Council of Canada as part of his advisory and consulting practice.   He brings 25+ years of brand/retail/marketing & eCommerce leadership experience, and has been on the front lines of retail industry change for his entire career.  Michael is the producer and host of a network of leading podcasts including Canada's top retail industry podcast,       The Voice of Retail, plus        Global E-Commerce Tech Talks  and       The Food Professor  with Dr. Sylvain Charlebois.  You can learn more about Michael       here  or on       LinkedIn.  Sylvain Charlebois Dr. Sylvain Charlebois is a Professor in food distribution and policy in the Faculties of Management and Agriculture at Dalhousie University in Halifax. He is also the Senior Director of the Agri-food Analytics Lab, also located at Dalhousie University. Before joining Dalhousie, he was affiliated with the University of Guelph's Arrell Food Institute, which he co-founded. Known as “The Food Professor”, his current research interest lies in the broad area of food distribution, security and safety. Google Scholar ranks him as one of the world's most cited scholars in food supply chain management, food value chains and traceability.He has authored five books on global food systems, his most recent one published in 2017 by Wiley-Blackwell entitled “Food Safety, Risk Intelligence and Benchmarking”. He has also published over 500 peer-reviewed journal articles in several academic publications. Furthermore, his research has been featured in several newspapers and media groups, including The Lancet, The Economist, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, BBC, NBC, ABC, Fox News, Foreign Affairs, the Globe & Mail, the National Post and the Toronto Star.Dr. Charlebois sits on a few company boards, and supports many organizations as a special advisor, including some publicly traded companies. Charlebois is also a member of the Scientific Council of the Business Scientific Institute, based in Luxemburg. Dr. Charlebois is a member of the Global Food Traceability Centre's Advisory Board based in Washington DC, and a member of the National Scientific Committee of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) in Ottawa.

The Interim President of BCLC talks about the reopening of casinos in the province which is tentatively scheduled for July 1.

Dan, Sat and Randip are joined by former Canuck Jannik Hansen on an NHL player's approach to a game 7. They also hear from Matt Lee with BCLC, and get your takes on the show in Not Sayin', Just Sayin'! The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts and guests and do not […]

BCLC's Matt Lee joins Newsday to talk about some popular picks to win the Stanley Cup and who people like to lead the playoffs in scoring.

BCLC's Matt Lee discusses Bill C-218, a private members bill that passed in the House of Commons on Thursday that looks to legalize single event sports betting in Canada. Is is a move that could generate hundreds of millions of dollars for BC. We also look ahead to the Oscars this weekend and discuss some potential wagers people could look at on playnow.com.

Even though PlayNow.com is a great online gambling website, the problem is that it is owned and operated by the BCLC, i.e., the British Columbia Lottery Corporation. The Provincial Government sponsors the BCLC, and it owns the only legal and regulated gambling website for players from both Manitoba and British Columbia. Due to all of this, PlayNow effectively holds a monopoly on most gambling forms in these two provinces of Canada. As we all know, such monopolies often lead to trouble, which is precisely why we are here today, as we want to offer a few alternative sports betting and casino websites that will allow you to get a better gambling experience. Screenshots of PlayNow.com Why Choose an Alternative to PlayNow? If the reasons we've given you aren't enough, there are others that will make you consider different options. Most notably, Canadians can find better game selections on numerous alternative sportsbook and casino sites, especially on the ones we'll cover later. PlayNow features a massive library of casino games and lots of sports betting markets, but it's still a single site that can't possibly cover everything Canadians want to experience. Many other sportsbook and casino sites cover better lotteries and offer more sports betting markets that can't be found on PlayNow — and that's just the tip of the iceberg. Furthermore, PlayNow lacks deals with several crucial software providers, which is why you can't find a lot of top-rated video slots and other exciting casino games. As if that weren't enough, PlayNow is also not big on bonuses. Don't get us wrong, this is a big sportsbook and casino site that does boast a wide range of promotions, but many of them can't be compared to some of the best casino bonuses, available. For instance, PlayNow offers a meagre welcome bonus of $20, while you can get matched deposit bonuses of up to $1,000 or more on different gambling sites. Speaking of money, payment options are another major problem on PlayNow. Namely, there aren't too many ways for Canadians to make deposits on this site, and when you compare these options to the ones offered by its competitors, this truly becomes a problem. Canadians can only use a debit or credit card and Interac to make deposits and withdrawals. There are no popular e-wallets like Neteller and Skrill, which are two of the most used payment methods by gamblers all over Canada and the rest of the world. Furthermore, the alternatives we'll cover are not from British Columbia, so they don't have to follow the strict laws and regulations PlayNow has to abide by. This gives players a lot more options and has barely any drawbacks. There's no need to worry about security, as we've made sure to recommend only those sites that have respected licenses and top-notch security measures. Of course, you can also talk to other players and see why they like other sites more. Many people use other sports betting and casino sites because they are simply higher quality casinos and sportsbooks, and the popularity of PlayNow cannot even be compared to theirs. Maybe this will change in the future, but for now, the competitors seem to offer a better gambling experience. So, with that in mind, let's take a look at some of the best online casinos you definitely need to try out. Captain Spins Casino If you are looking for another place to create a gambling account, Captain Spins Casino could be the right choice for you. The site is huge and has more than 1,500 casino games from a wide range of notable providers like NetEnt, Evolution Gaming, Red Tiger, 1×2 Gaming, Quickspin, and Microgaming. The welcome bonus is downright amazing, as it offers a 100% match deposit bonus of up to $1,200 and 260 free spins. It's split into four deposit bonuses, so you'll be able to use it for quite a while. What's more, the spins can be used on a popular video slot game, Book of Dead. You can experience the gambling site on both your computer and your phone. There's no need to download any...

On today's show: Skip the Dishes brings in a new fee for BC customers! Has Trudeau botched the Canadian vaccine rollout? What's happening in Strathcona Park? BCLC is calling on Canada to legalize 'single-event' sports bets

BCLC is urging Ottawa to pass proposed legislation, known as Bill C13, to allow Canadians to make single-event sports bets. PlayNow.com is the only regulated gambling website in B.C., and it is believed that legalized single-event betting would quickly create a new suite of sports-betting opportunities that players currently access on websites operating illegally in B.C.

BCLC's Matt Lee says British Columbians are enthusiastic about the new NHL season and they are showing it with their wallets. People betting on the Calder Trophy, the Norris Trophy the Hart Trophy and of course people are putting a few dollars down on the Vancouver Canucks to win the Stanley Cup.

BCLC's Matt Lee joined Halford & Brough to discuss the latest on sports gambling in BC.

In this hour, Mike & Jason are joined by The Athletic Calgary's Scott Cruickshank, as well as BCLC's Matt Lee.

Today's highlights:  Halloween 2020, the spookiest of all?! Call 311 if you see people having parties that they shouldn't be is the message from City officials. So, how will you cope this Halloween?  Long term care homes leave little room for hope  After Lynda expressed her grief around her father in long term care, we had an outpouring of response from our listeners in similar situations. We speak to one today.  US ELECTION DAYS AWAY!Will it be scarier than Halloween 2020? Probably. We talk to Global Washington's Jackson Proskow.    NAVIGATE THE PODCAST:  Chapter 1 2020 offering a very different kind of Halloween Well, that's the hope anyway. The hope is people aren't having large scale parties, inviting COVID-19 into their hopes, creating a further spike in the midst of this second wave. First we talk to Global Radio News Senior Reporter Janet Brown about alternative plans people are making, and then we talk to Surrey RCMP's Cpl. Elanore Sturko, about enforcement. Chapter 2 How will poppies look in 2020? Distribution of poppies ahead of Remembrance Day 2020 will be very different. We talk to Jim Howard, Administrator of the Vancouver Poppy Fund  Chapter 3 Long term care home situation is dire We talk to a listener who heard Lynda's concerns, and has some of her own.  Then we talk to the CEO of the care providers of BC, Terry Lake Chapter 4 US Election preview! All bets are off! Though Biden is leading most if not all polls, 2016 showed us that anything can happen. Chapter 5 A trip into Vancouver's haunted past, and its haunted present Featuring Eve Lazarus Chapter 6 Racism and the US election, how will it unfold? Brad Galloway. Chapter 7 Making money on the US election through BCLC Are you able to cast a ballot? If not, you might be interested in casting a bet! Right now you're poised to make more money on a bet, if Trump wins.  Matt Lee with the BCLC explains. ___________   Remember to wash your hands, practice physical distancing, and stay home at all costs if you are sick. We're not out of the woods yet!    The Lynda Steele Full Show podcast includes all the individual segments that can be found on the Lynda Steele Show page, digitally stitched together for your convenience.    Listen live online at globalnews.ca/radio/cknw/ 3-6 PM!

In the fourth episode of this season’s Offshore Litigation Take 10 podcast, Ian Mann is joined by guest speaker Victor Joffe QC of Temple Chambers to discuss the UK Supreme Court case of Sevilleja v Marex Financial Ltd [2020] UKSC 31, a case that looked at whether the rule against reflective loss prevented creditors of a company from claiming directly against a third party for asset-stripping the company.Key Takeaways:Sevilleja v Marex – The facts:Mr Sevilleja controlled two BVI companies which were sued by Marex Financial Ltd. In the Court of Appeal, Marex was successful in obtaining a judgment of over US$5 million and costs. A copy of the draft judgment was provided to both parties, prior to the final judgment due to be handed down a few days later. During those days, Mr Sevilleja caused his BVI companies to transfer over US$9.5 million out of their accounts and subsequently put the companies into liquidation, making it impossible for Marex to receive payment on the judgment debt.As a result, Marex brought claims against Mr Sevilleja, seeking damages for violating Marex’s rights in avoiding the judgment and other intentional economic torts.Mr Sevilleja’s defence stated that Marex’s claims were barred by the principle of reflective loss.Reflective loss:The reflective loss principle states that if a company suffers a loss, only the company can sue in respect of that loss. The shareholders cannot sue in respect of the loss because the loss suffered is not a personal loss, but a reflection of the loss suffered by the company.In Prudential Assurance Co Ltd v Newman Industries Ltd (No 2) [1982] Ch 204, the Court of Appeal held that reflective loss applied to claims brought by shareholders in respect of diminution in the value of their shares, and diminution in the flow of distributions, caused by a wrongdoer who had acted in breach of duty both to the company and to the shareholders.In a number of subsequent cases, Johnson v Gore Wood & Co [2000] UKHL 65 has been relied upon to justify an expansion of the reflective loss principle, particularly due to Lord Millet’s speech. For example, the rule was expanded to apply to shareholders who are creditors (as seen in Gardner v Parker [2004] 2 BCLC 554) and then to apply to creditors who are not shareholders, as seen in the Court of Appeal in Sevilleja v Marex.Ultimately, the Supreme Court in Sevilleja v Marex pairs back the reflective loss rule to its original and limited scope as decided originally in the decision of Prudential - making it clear that reflective loss only applies to diminution in shareholdings and diminution in the flow of distributions. It does not apply any further and there are no exceptions to the rule. It does not prevent creditors of a company from claiming directly against a third party for asset-stripping the company.

In the fourth episode of this season's Offshore Litigation Take 10 podcast, Ian Mann is joined by guest speaker Victor Joffe QC of Temple Chambers to discuss the UK Supreme Court case of Sevilleja v Marex Financial Ltd [2020] UKSC 31, a case that looked at whether the rule against reflective loss prevented creditors of a company from claiming directly against a third party for asset-stripping the company. Key Takeaways: Sevilleja v Marex – The facts: Mr Sevilleja controlled two BVI companies which were sued by Marex Financial Ltd. In the Court of Appeal, Marex was successful in obtaining a judgment of over US$5 million and costs. A copy of the draft judgment was provided to both parties, prior to the final judgment due to be handed down a few days later. During those days, Mr Sevilleja caused his BVI companies to transfer over US$9.5 million out of their accounts and subsequently put the companies into liquidation, making it impossible for Marex to receive payment on the judgment debt. As a result, Marex brought claims against Mr Sevilleja, seeking damages for violating Marex's rights in avoiding the judgment and other intentional economic torts. Mr Sevilleja's defence stated that Marex's claims were barred by the principle of reflective loss. Reflective loss: The reflective loss principle states that if a company suffers a loss, only the company can sue in respect of that loss. The shareholders cannot sue in respect of the loss because the loss suffered is not a personal loss, but a reflection of the loss suffered by the company. In Prudential Assurance Co Ltd v Newman Industries Ltd (No 2) [1982] Ch 204, the Court of Appeal held that reflective loss applied to claims brought by shareholders in respect of diminution in the value of their shares, and diminution in the flow of distributions, caused by a wrongdoer who had acted in breach of duty both to the company and to the shareholders. In a number of subsequent cases, Johnson v Gore Wood & Co [2000] UKHL 65 has been relied upon to justify an expansion of the reflective loss principle, particularly due to Lord Millet's speech. For example, the rule was expanded to apply to shareholders who are creditors (as seen in Gardner v Parker [2004] 2 BCLC 554) and then to apply to creditors who are not shareholders, as seen in the Court of Appeal in Sevilleja v Marex. Ultimately, the Supreme Court in Sevilleja v Marex pairs back the reflective loss rule to its original and limited scope as decided originally in the decision of Prudential - making it clear that reflective loss only applies to diminution in shareholdings and diminution in the flow of distributions. It does not apply any further and there are no exceptions to the rule. It does not prevent creditors of a company from claiming directly against a third party for asset-stripping the company.

We are pleased to introduce our new series, AI.2Day: a podcast for business lawyers about corporate covernance, AI regulation, litigation and all things related. In this episode, Stuart Riback (BCLC chair) interviews Bradford Newman (Chair of BCLC’s new Artificial Intelligence subcommittee and the host of this Podcast) about what artificial intelligence really is and how it is already affecting our lives. Brad discusses the current state of regulation, thought-leadership regarding AI regulation, and proposals now in the works.

We talk to Harpreet Pandher Analyst for Hockey Night in Canada Punjabi Edition, and then Matt Lee with BCLC about this exciting time for Canucks fans.

Episode 1: Introduction and History of the Annual Review In this episode of “Annual Review - Key business law developments in bite-size pieces”, we discuss the history of the book and its evolution over the past two decades with Judge Elizabeth Stong and Heidi McNeil Staudemaier. Judge Elizabeth Stong is a United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Eastern District of New York. Judge Stong is also actively involved in the leadership of the ABA Business Law Section and Judicial Division. Heidi McNeil Staudemaier is a Partner at Snell and Wilmer where she is nationally renowned in the fields of Native American Law and Gaming Law and Business Litigation. Heidi has also served as the President of International Masters of Gaming Law, as well as the Executive Editor of Gaming Law Review and Economics. Judge Elizabeth Stong and Heidi McNeil Staudemaier are both leaders of the BCLC and Business Law Section and were instrumental in establishing the Recent Developments publication almost 20 years ago. Interviewees: Judge Elizabeth Stong, United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Eastern District of New York, and Heidi McNeil Staudemaier, Partner at Snell & Wilmer

BCLC student Ahmed Diakhate owns his own clothing brand and during this time of quarantine, he has made over 250 masks for local hospitals. We discuss why he decided to do this as well as what challenges he has faced with his business during this pandemic. Ahmed leaves us with some advice to any prospective student entrepreneurs.Hosts: Ryan Stone and Priya Chelladurai Music by David Hilowitz and Rony Friedman

Anyone else suffering from COVID-19 burnout? Good! Let's keep talking about other topics then! British Columbia's Lower Mainland has been a haven for organized crime for an extended period of time, and while the provincial government has started to take action, the question that remains is "will it be enough"? With so many facets to the money laundering activities occurring in BC, the task ahead is daunting. Adam & Mike discuss some of the points relating to money laundering as it occurred in BC casinos, with some insight from Mike as a former casino cashier in Ontario. Subscribe to listen to all of our episodes! Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/poutine-politics/id1468816897 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/77wDAUeqUdHpJwAWLMdMOC Google Play - https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Inalkep3ipxrgbhsoia3jyhgm3a YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1TRUHywSyYytmVpsa_l2yQ Become a Patron and gain access to our UNCUT and bonus episodes! https://www.patreon.com/poutinepolitics

Will you be watching the Super Bowl this weekend? If you consider yourself a betting person, who will you be placing your money on? CKNW Contributor Claire Allen caught up with Matt Lee, spokesperson for BCLC, to discuss some of the bets you can participate in through PlayNow.com and Sports Action…

In today's show I am joined by BC Attorney General David Eby to talk about BCLC after Kamloops-South MLA Todd Stone raised concerns about the possibility of jobs leaving Kamloops for the lower mainland. I talk with the Founder of Brave & Broken, an organization that is aiding veterans dealing with PTSD and other mental health issues. Dennis MacKenzie and I are joined by Justin Whitehall with the Avail Cannabis Clinic. It is looking to move ahead with studies to find out how beneficial cannabis can be to deal with mental health issues like post traumatic stress disorder. I also chat about financial literacy with John Schmuel of lowestrates.ca and Dean Prentice with MNP joins me to talk business insolvency.

Consider Episode 15 (season two) of in our tribe a love letter to the community of North Highlands/Foothill Farms. Nestled in on the Northside of Sacramento County- North Highlands/Foothill Farms has often been overlooked by local government and seen as "just outside the lines" to participate as an active partner in regional youth development efforts. Gladly all of that seems to be changing and North Highlands/Foothill Farms is showing that they can turn a youth development party out given an opportunity and resources. Join us for a fun and passionate conversation with Crystal Harding and Paris Dye from The Black Child Legacy Campaign as they share how youth development and authentic youth voice/choice is alive and well on the North Side of Sacramento County. 

Wonder what it was like to be in the BCLC last year? Learn what it was like to go on the international business immersion trip to Portugal with Tyler Barrett, take part in the case competition sponsored by McLagan with Priya Chelladurai, go on exclusive corporate field trips throughout Fairfield County and NYC with May Fung, as well as sit in on a BCLC specific business fundamentals class with Catherine Lainas. More information: https://bclc.business.uconn.edu/bclc-stamford/Host: Ryan Stone Music by David Hilowitz and Rony Friedman 

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On today's Woodford Show B.C.'s Attorney General Dave Eby joins us to discuss the scrapping of the BCLC downtown Kamloops headquarters replacement project and his meeting with Kamloops business groups, money laundering, legal aid, and more. Then NL News Director Shane Woodford is joined by Tourism Kamloops CEO Beverly DeSantis to discuss the tourism season to come. Next Kamloops Airport Managing Director Ed Ratuski is in studio to talk about his return to the city and what is next for the airport. Last but not least Kamloops North MLA Peter Milobar is in studio to talk BCLC HQ concerns and pipelines.

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Documents obtained by Global News reveal concerns that senior police in BC had about sharing information with the BC Lottery Corp. and possibly others in BC's government, as police mounted massive investigations into organized crime suspects in legal and illegal casinos in 2015. Distrust was building by September 2015, and that was before a series of Richmond raids in mid Oct.ober 2015, targeting an alleged kingpin, Paul King Jin, that according to documents, were compromised. The story will track back to the start of discussion between BCLC and RCMP about the E-Pirate operation targeting organized crime, and several key meetings leading up to the raids, and an investigation into ‘integrity' of gaming that has since occurred. Guest: Sam Cooper Global News investigative reporter

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Several former investigators who say they lost jobs in B.C.'s casino industry for whistle-blowing are questioning whether some B.C. officials deliberately allowed government-regulated casinos to be used as hubs for money laundering. In an exclusive investigation, Global News has conducted extensive interviews with the casino industry sources, and also reviewed documents and court testimony from several of the sources. The sources all pointed to allegations of “willful blindness” of dirty cash transactions in B.C. casinos. And one questioned whether a “conspiracy” has occurred, that would allow dirty funds estimated at up to $2-billion, to flow through Lottery Corp. casinos. Meanwhile, the BC Government and Service Employees Union has commissioned a study that suggests 77% of British Columbians favor a public inquiry, and 84% say it would be an important issue for them if a provincial election were called tomorrow. Guest: Sam Cooper Global News Investigative Reporter

On this edition of the Inside The Book Podcast powered by PlayNow Sports, we go in-depth with our analysis of the sports betting news surrounding Super Bowl LIII between the New England Patriots and Los Angeles Rams! We break down the Money Line and Point Spread, and look at which team bettors are favouring heading into Sunday's game. We also look at our favourite prop and novelty bets, and BCLC president and CEO Jim Lightbody stops by the show to talk about his favourite Super Bowl memories and how the public perception of sports betting is changing.

Hour 3 of the program this weekend features a conversation with Tim Whitehead of BCLC on the future of sports betting, a look at the Podium as well as another edition of Buy/Sell/Hold including the topics: who wins Super Bowl 53, which North American league does All-Star festivities the best, who wins the next Grand Slam as a Canadian.

BCLC CEO Jim Lightbody - Former BC Sports Hall of Fame chair - joins The Sport Market to discuss the work done by the BCLC in bringing various events and games to locations in BC, who to credit with putting on these truly great events, and why the World Juniors are such a hit.

BCLC CEO Jim Lightbody - Former BC Sports Hall of Fame chair - joins The Sport Market to discuss the BCLC connection and assistance in bringing the World Juniors to Vancouver/the Island this winter, and what it means for the province to have events such as these.

Today on BIV... The BIV tech panel (1:15) featuring Progressa’s Ali Pourdad and Gluu’s Linda Fawcus discuss whether Compass wristbands are the wearable tech that transit riders have been waiting for, how the newly unveiled Vancouver Titans could ratchet up enthusiasm in eSports and why Amazon drones have yet to begin deliveries five years since the promise from the company. Then, the BCLC’s Pat Davis (13:29) discusses the gaming agency’s new innovation lab in the Okanagan and what technologies have emerged from it to help the organization streamline business operations. Tyler Orton hosts, see more at https://biv.com/.

BCLC has approved a new gambling and entertainment facility in the City of Delta. Cascades Casino Delta, operated by Gateway Casinos & Entertainment Limited, will include a hotel, restaurants, meeting space and a casino with approximately 500 slot machines, 24 table games and up to six electronic table games. BCLC has approved the Cascades Casino in Delta. Do you support the approval of additional casinos in B.C.? Yes, great entertainment! No, potential problems!

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Peter German, the former RCMP deputy commissioner and former Corrections Services deputy commissioner, has chronicled the extent of money laundering in British Columbia casinos. In his newly released report for the provincial government, he identifies weaknesses in the system and prescribes measures to reduce crime. In this episode of the BIV Interview, he talks about his career and the report with Kirk LaPointe, editor-in-chief of Business in Vancouver.

BCLC spokesperson Doug Cheng broke down the sport betting habits of BC sports fans with BC radio sport business commentator Tom Mayeknecht last week.

We had the great pleasure of moderating a panel on the intersections among different library professionals at this year's British Columbia Library Conference. It was a fascinating, frank and inspiring conversation, and we're glad to be able to bring it to you. Watch for a similar panel at the upcoming CHLA Conference. Voices you'll hear: Christina Neigel is Associate Professor in the Library and Information Technology Department at the University of the Fraser Valley. She is currently completing a Doctorate in Education at Simon Fraser University with a research focus on the role of gender in LIS leadership. Pat Cumming is the Information Services Department Head at West Vancouver Memorial Library. She holds a Library Technician Diploma from Algonquin College in Ottawa and an MLIS from the University of Western Ontario. Her career in libraries spans more than 30 years and includes work as a library technician, librarian and departmental manager. She has experience in public, academic, school and special libraries. She also serves on the BCLA Mentorship Committee. Tamarack Hockin is a Library Technician with Surrey Libraries. Holding a LIT Diploma and Bachelor’s degree from UFV, Tamarack is also an MLIS candidate at San Jose State University. Ashley Van Dijk graduated in 2009 with her Library and Information Technology diploma, and is currently working at SFU Burnaby in the Information and Instruction division. Ashley is the Chair of the Library Technicians Assistants Section of BCLA.

Drs. Stephen Harrison and W. Ray Kim discuss the paper: Model to estimate survival in ambulatory patients with hepatocellular carcinoma Abstract Survival of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is determined by the extent of the tumor and the underlying liver function. We aimed to develop a survival model for HCC based on objective parameters including the Model for Endstage Liver Disease (MELD) as a gauge of liver dysfunction. This analysis is based on 477 patients with HCC seen at Mayo Clinic Rochester between 1994 and 2008 (derivation cohort) and 904 patients at the Korean National Cancer Center between 2000 and 2003 (validation cohort). Multivariate proportional hazards models and corresponding risk score were created based on baseline demographic, clinical, and tumor characteristics. Internal and external validation of the model was performed. Discrimination and calibration of this new model were compared against existing models including Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer (BCLC), Cancer of the Liver Italian Program (CLIP), and Japan Integrated Staging (JIS) scores. The majority of the patients had viral hepatitis as the underlying liver disease (100% in the derivation cohort and 85% in the validation cohort). The survival model incorporated MELD, age, number of tumor nodules, size of the largest nodule, vascular invasion, metastasis, serum albumin, and alpha-fetoprotein. In cross-validation, the coefficients remained largely unchanged between iterations. Observed survival in the validation cohort matched closely with what was predicted by the model. The concordance (c)-statistic for this model (0.77) was superior to that for BCLC (0.71), CLIP (0.70), or JIS (0.70). The score was able to further classify patient survival within each stage of the BCLC classification. Conclusion: A new model to predict survival of HCC patients based on objective parameters provides refined prognostication and supplements the BCLC classification. (HEPATOLOGY 2012)