Coastal Front

Coastal Front

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Coastal Front episodes

  • Cycles of Abuse with Pany Aghili
    Pany Aghili is the Executive Director of the Dixon Society, an organization which provides shelter and support to women and children who have been impacted by violence.
    Unfortunately, the number of impacted women far exceeds the available resources that organizations like the Dixon Society have, and every year hundreds of women are turned away or denied shelter.
    Pany has devoted her career to ending the cycles of abuse around women. In this episode we dive into the causes and solutions that exist, and hear some incredible stories of women who have escaped a life of violence and gone on to do incredible things.
    52 min
  • Marvel & DC Comic Book Artist Kaare Andrews
    Kaare Andrews is a comic book writer, artist and filmmaker from Saskatoon, Canada. Kaare broke into comics at a time when it seemed as though the industry was dying, and went on to pursue an incredibly successful career where he worked with both Marvel and DC on comics such as Spider-Man, Iron Fist, Thor, Incredible Hulk, Batman, X-Men, Star Wars, Superman, and Wonder Woman, to name just a few.
    Kaare’s prominence in the comic industry enabled him to simultaneously pursue a career in writing and directing feature films. In an industry that appears so glamorous to work in, Kaare explains how tragically difficult it really is to achieve success, and at what cost it all comes at.
    Host Andrew Johns and Kaare Andrews discuss whether people truly value quality any more in an industry that seems to produce new movies, tv shows and music at a seemingly impossible rate.
    2 hr 23 min
  • BC's Speculation Tax in Belcarra with Neil Belenkie
    Neil Belanke is the Mayor of Belcarra, and the first new mayor that the Village has seen in 35 years. The Village of Belcarra is the smallest municipality in Metro Vancouver, with no sewage, one bus, one business, and many properties that are boat access only.
    However, unlike Lions Bay, Bowen Island, and Whistler, the Village of Belcarra has been left off of the speculation tax exemption list.
    People who are not familiar with Belcarra share a perception that it is a community of super rich residents with multi-million dollar ocean front mansions. Yes, a handful of Belcarra’s 700 residents would fall into this category. However, as Neil has desperately been trying to explain to the NDP, the truth is that Belcarra is in fact a rural cabin land that does not suffer from a rental or real estate flipping problem.
    As a result of the speculation tax, a significant portion of Neil’s constituents are going to be unfairly nailed by this tax. Many will be forced to sell their generational family cabins because these properties are water access only with no potable water, rendering them unrentable.
    1 hr 6 min
  • The Business of Clean Water with Ed Quilty
    Ed Quilty has been in the business of water for over 25 years. He started by cleaning fish poop out of tanks, and now owns a highly successful software company which provides water management solutions to over 1,000 organizations across the globe.
    Listen to how Ed grew his business from its grassroots beginnings to having over 200 employees.
    Ed also speaks to the quality of water here in BC and in Canada, and highlights that there are many communities throughout our country that are without clean drinking water.
    Ed holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Victoria, completed four years of a PhD in hydro-informatics at the University of British Columbia, and completed the Entrepreneurial Masters Program at MIT.
    1 hr 28 min
  • Vancouver's Housing Debacle with Tom Davidoff
    Few people are more qualified to discuss topics surrounding housing in British Columbia than Tom Davidoff.
    -BA (Harvard), MPA/URP (Princeton), PhD (MIT)
    -Director of UBC's Centre for Urban Economics and Real Estate.
    -Associate Professor, Strategy and Business Economics Divisions
    -Five selected publications
    Tom Davidoff has a truly deep understanding of the housing issues in BC, and specifically in Vancouver. In this podcast Andrew and Tom dissect many of the prominent housing issues including affordability, foreign investment (or lack there of), speculation, and the looming condo debacle. They talk about the prospect of an upcoming financial crisis, and Tom lays out how he would address the issue of affordability in Vancouver city.
    1 hr 10 min

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Coastal Front is a Vancouver-based media company providing in-depth reporting and opinion, with a strong focus on government accountability at all levels in Canada. As part of our work, the Coastal…

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