Chapter 1: Well the Super Bowl kind of felt like it was over before it even began.  A complete blowout for the Buccaneers might have meant some happy Tom Brady fans but still a really disappointing result for anyone who wanted to see some real competition. 

Guest: Eric Alper, music publicist, pop culture commentator.

Chapter 2: Conservation agencies pulled in a massive haul of illegal traps from Boundary Bay over the past few weeks.  You might have heard the big headline in the news, almost 350 of what they call “ghost traps” were recovered from a relatively small area.  Our show producer Victor Young spoke with Art Demsky, a Detachment Commander with the Department of Fisheries, for more.

Chapter 3: Rumours about a connection between several cases of missing women are being called unfounded by local police.  The stories began circulating on social media app TikTok with commenters sharing first hand stories of being followed, as well as second and third-hand accounts of women being pursued. 

Guest: Angela MacDougall, Executive Director at Battered Women’s Support Services.

Chapter 4: Cancelling the 2021 cruise ship season was obviously going to have a massive impact on tourism and their spinoff industries here in Vancouver, but in Victoria it may be even worse.  Greater Victoria Harbour Authority CEO Ian Robertson joins us to talk about how they’re going to cope, and what comes next. 

Guest: Ian Robertson, CEO of the Greater Victoria Harbour Authority.

Chapter 5: More drama with local food delivery apps in the news recently after customers spotted extra “B-C Fees” on their bills.  Pidgin restaurant owner Brandon Grosutti launched a local zero-commission delivery service last spring, he joins us now to talk about the success they’ve had. 

Guest: Brandon Grosutti, owner of Pidgin restaurant in Gastown and founder of FromTo delivery app.

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Chapter 1: Transport Canada has banned cruises through next February in one of the most significant decisions they’ve made since the beginning of the pandemic.  It’s easy to forget but early on in the pandemic, Canadians stuck quarantined on cruise ships around the world was a HUGE story.

Guest: Walt Judas, CEO, Tourism Industry Association of BC.

Chapter 2: In recognition of Black History Month there’s a number of different educational opportunities people in the Lower Mainland can participate in.  It’s part of our history that has been largely ignored in the past and it’s refreshing to see a broader effort to amplify the historical experiences of Black people in British Columbia. 

Guest: Lolly Bennett, Chair of the Board of the National Congress of Black Women Foundation.

Chapter 3: The final report on anti-indigenous racism in healthcare here in B-C uncovered some staggering findings.  Indigenous people in B-C are 75 percent more likely to end up in the emergency room than a non-Indigenous person. They’re also less likely to have access to prenatal care and screening for cancer. 

Guest:  Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, UBC law professor, director of the Residential School History and Dialogue Centre at the Peter Allard School of Law.

Chapter 4: We’ve been looking forward to talking about this all day.  Since the beginning of the pandemic we’ve talked repeatedly about supporting local businesses, because local businesses are run by people who live here and work here and give back to our own community.   We talked with Gord MacDonald earlier in the week about sending Valentine’s cards for seniors to the Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House, and now one local business is going and doing a whole lot more. 

Guest: Daniel Poncelet, Master Chocolatier at Daniel Chocolates.

Chapter 5: Job losses in the month of January were MUCH higher than economists expected, over 200,000 more Canadians were out of work according to the figures released this morning. 

Guest: Ravi Kahlon, Minister of Jobs, Economic Recovery, and innovation.

Chapter 6: A stay-at-home Super Bowl Sunday was the last thing restaurant owners needed right now as the industry continues to struggle.  Donnelly Group operates around a dozen popular restaurants in Vancouver but they haven’t been immune to the effects of the pandemic, recently closing their Blackbird Public House on Dunsmuir for good. 

Guest: Jeff Donnelly, Donnelly Group President.

Chapter 7: The murder of 78-year-old Usha Singh has put the spotlight back on the issues connected to the homeless encampment in Strathcona Park.  One of the suspects was arrested there, and police faced open hostility from park residents when they took him into custody. 

Guest: David Eby, BC Attorney General

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Chapter 1: After almost a year of unemployment figures recovering, we saw tens-of-thousands of job losses in the last month of 2020.  January numbers will be released tomorrow morning, so which way are we expecting this to go?

Guest: Brendon Bernard, Economist with Indeed.ca.

Chapter 2: In what may be a landmark report in Canada, a company called Clearview AI was determined to have violated privacy laws protecting personal images.  The technology was used by dozens of Canadian agencies, including the RCMP, and the entire thing has identified huge gaps in legislation. 

Guest:  Ann Cavoukian, Executive Director of the Global Privacy & Security by Design Centre, and  former 3 term Information and Privacy Commissioner for Ontario.

Chapter 3: What would a long term care home look if it were built with all the lessons we learned during the pandemic?  That’s what Baptist Housing is thinking about as they redesign the Inglewood Care Centre in West Vancouver. 

Guest:  Marc Kinna, president and CEO of Baptist Housing.

Chapter 4: One of the impacts this pandemic had was forcing some seniors to reconsider where they want to live.  Long term care homes have suffered countless outbreaks, and the vast majority of deaths from COVID-19 have been in the senior population.  That’s led to a boom in the home care industry, helping people stay home instead of moving to a facility. 

Guest:  Jeremiah Cristall, head of the Home Instead Senior Care office servicing Richmond, Surrey North Delta and Queensborough.

Chapter 5: How much should companies like Google and Facebook pay for the content they’re sharing?  Social media giants suck up over 80 percent of digital advertising revenue, and a lot of their traffic is generated by news content they pull from Canadian companies. 

Guest: John Hinds, CEO of News Media Canada, a lobby group that represents media companies in Canada.

Chapter 6: We’ve now learned that dozens of tickets have been issued for COVID-19 rule breaking in the past couple of weeks.

Guest: Mike Farnworth, Public Safety Minister and Solicitor General

Chapter 7: You likely heard about this in the news a couple of days ago, but we want to take a couple of minutes here to talk about the legacy of Charan Gill.  He was an icon in the community, known for his organizing of B-C farmers and his work to fight racism. 

Guest: Raj Chouhan, NDP MLA for Burnaby Edmonds, Speaker of the House.

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