View From Victoria:

A local look at politics from the Provincial capital.  The Vancouver Sun's Vaughn Palmer, joins the show with his take on the day's headlines.

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Chapter 1: From what we heard yesterday, the BC Liberal government did everything it could to deal with money laundering in our province - at least according to former premier Christy Clark. The Cullen Commission on money laundering in B.C. is hearing testimony from a series of high-profile witnesses, beginning with the former premier.

Chapter 2: Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer, has been found guilty of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died after Chauvin knelt on his neck for more than nine minutes during an arrest on May 25, 2020.

Guest: Allan J. Lichtman, American Historian  teaches at American University in Wash, DC, and author of “The Case for Impeachment”.

Chapter 3: The B.C. government on Tuesday set aside nearly $6 billion in new spending to address the COVID-19 pandemic in its first budget since the fall election.

Guest: Dr. Paul Kershaw, University of British Columbia, School of Population & Public Health Director, Master of Public Health Program.

Chapter 4: Following the BC Budget, how was education and schools addressed?  A new grant for students was announced, the BC Access Grant, for low and middle income post-secondary students, up to $4,000.  Did the province need to address more for education in the budget?

Guest:  Teri Mooring, BCTF President.

Chapter 5: Health officials in B.C. announced plans to distribute the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine to British Columbians 40 years of age and older as the province sets up clinics in COVID-19 hot spots.  The provincial government said Monday that the AstraZeneca vaccine is now available to people aged 40 and older at pharmacies across the province.

Guest: Adrian Dix, BC Health Minister

Chapter 6: The B.C. government is clarifying how the province will crack down on those that break COVID-19 travel restrictions.

Guest: Mike Farnworth, BC Public Safety Minister and Solicitor General.

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Making Cents of the Market:

Time for Making Cents of the Markets with Lori Pinkowski.  Lori Pinkowski is the Senior Vice President and Portfolio Manager at Canaccord Genuity. You can contact The Pinkowski Wealth Management team directly at 604-695-LORI or visit their website at Pinkowski.ca

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View From Victoria: 

A local look at politics from the Provincial capital.  The Vancouver Sun's Vaughn Palmer, joins the show with his take on the day's headlines.

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Chapter 1: Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland‘s Budget 2021 plan to deal with the historic deficits created by COVID-19 spending are raising concerns from Conservatives that the targets are not clear enough.

Guest: Mike Lecouteur, Global National Reporter.

Chapter 2: The province’s COVID-19 case numbers and hospitalization and ICU capacity levels released this afternoon continue to be of great concern to BC Nurses’ Union president Christine Sorensen, who says nurses are at a breaking point as they work through this third wave.

Guest:  Christine Sorensen, BC Nurses Union President.

Chapter 3: The Liberal government will need the support of at least one other political party in order to pass its budget bill and avoid a federal election. But a key ask from the NDP is missing from the budget document: a wealth tax.

Guest: Jagmeet Singh, Federal NDP Leader and MP for Burnaby-South

Chapter 4: Early yesterday, many Rogers customers (which includes Fido & Chatr) experienced service disruptions all over the country. Even our show had technical difficulties due to the outage. This caused many on social media to voice their displeasure in the telecommunications giant, and to further push for more competition in the telecommunications industry.

Guest: Brett Caraway, Associate Professor Assistant Director, Digital Enterprise Management at the University of Toronto.

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