Weekly check-in with Keith Baldrey. This week: Proportional Representation in BC, Trump & Joshua Boyle.

Guest: Keith Baldrey - Legislative Bureau Chief, Global BC

If you’re tuning in from the East Coast tonight - batten down the hatches! Environment Canada has issued storm, blizzard, wind and freezing cold warnings across nearly all of central, eastern and atlantic Canada tonight. Global’s Ross Lord is in Halifax and has more on the deteriorating conditions.

As we’ve been mentioning already today, the release date of a book critical of U-S President Donald Trump has been moved up to tomorrow from next Tuesday.

And a story that just broke a few minutes before our show started. Senator Lynn Beyak has been kicked out of the Conservative caucus according to a statement from party leader Andrew Scheer

Would a tax on meat convince you to put down a hamburger or stop eating steak? PETA is calling for such a tax, claiming a meat-based diet is bad for the environment and hard on our health.

We’ve spoken before about our love of Game of Thrones on this show...but now confirmation of some bad news for viewers of the series….

And this could be the “woops” story of the day. According to a news report released this week - North Korea accidently hit one of their own cities with a missile last spring.

U.S. President Donald Trump‘s legal team is furiously attempting to stop tomorrow’s publication of an explosive tell-all book. Trump has also threatened his former chief strategist Steve Bannon with legal action over “defamatory” statements in the book about a meeting Trump’s son and son-in-law held with Russians during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign. Charles Harder, Trump’s personal lawyer, said on Thursday he will seek to block the publication of the book, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by author Michael Wolff, which offers a lacerating portrait of an accidental presidency and a dysfunctional White House. Harder told Reuters that “legal action is imminent” regarding Bannon.

Guest: David Akin - Chief Political Correspondent, Global News

Heads up Canadian drivers! 2018 could bring about the highest gas prices in Canada in the past four years. Just how much will we be paying, and why will prices be so high?

Guest: Dan McTeague - Senior Petroleum Analyst, GasBuddy

Earlier this week, we spoke about the carbon tax and where it is heading in 2018, where those living in carbon taxed provinces will be paying at least $600 million in higher fuel costs. Meanwhile, in Alberta, this has launched another political clash between the ruling NDP who are trying to sell carbon tax to consumers, and Jason Kenney who is strongly opposing the idea. How will this play out in the 2019 election?

Guest: Markham Hislop - Publisher and editor, North American Energy News​

Tens of thousands of Iranians took part in pro-government demonstrations in several cities across the country on Wednesday, Iranian state media reported, a move apparently seeking to calm nerves after a week of protests and unrest that have killed at least 21 people.

Guest: Terry Glavin - National Columnist

Weekly check-in with Geoff Currier. This week: Joshua Boyle, Trudeau, Trump’s twitter presence and more.

Guest: Geoff Currier - Host, CJOB

Police have charged a Vancouver Island man with second-degree murder in the deaths of his four and six year-old daughters. The charges come as 43 year-old Andrew Berry is released from hospital. Here’s more from Global News reporter, Liza Yuzda.

Former terrorist hostage Joshua Boyle appeared briefly via teleconference in an Ottawa courthouse this morning as he faces 15 charges ranging from sexual assault to unlawful confinement. Here’s Global’s Abigail Bimman with the latest.

And there was trouble in the White House today, as President Trump and his team denounced a new book featuring provocative comments by former adviser Steve Bannon about the Trump family, and the Russia investigation.