A BC politics heavy podcast this week: The BC Liberals have a new leader but how much is he just like the old leaders? Alberta stops importing BC wines after BC puts a moratorium on diluted bitumen shipments, prompting Scott to have an aneurysm. We check in on how these two stories will play in the Kelowna West byelection. In quick takes we look at a slew of BC Government announcements, Trudeau’s town hall woes, a new national environmental review process and which dictatorial regime we’re selling arms to this week. And we finish off with a few of the many great tweets from this past week in our #bestofbcpoli segment.

Intro music

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Segment 1: Another Andrew at the helm

* Andrew Wilkinson’s Platform

* Chad Skelton’s raw data analysis

Alrightee then. Now that we’ve got the data, let’s have some fun! DATA NERD THREAD! #bcpoli https://t.co/yH6WgA21Ov

— Chad Skelton (@chadskelton) February 6, 2018

Segment 2: Drunkirk

at 25m17s

#BCWine?

Come on #ableg, #bcpoli and #cdnpoli. #Drunkirk was right there for you.

— Strategists Podcast (@strategistspod) February 7, 2018

* Some background from CBC

Segment 3: Wine country votes

at 39m02s

* Martyn Brown really reaching this time

* Advance voting numbers

“Quick” takes

at 44m17s

* New BC cannabis regulations

* Eby tries to put out the ICBC dumpster fire – listen to Pod Keep Our Land Ep XX for more

* BC to collect taxes on AirBnB

* First report of Fair Wages Commission

* Trudeau interrupted by protesters in Nanaimo

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