Chapter 1: As we find ourselves in the middle of a second wave of covid cases, and vaccination efforts struggle to gain ground, IPSOS polling exclusively for Global News suggests many of us are losing confidence that the pandemic can be brought under control and life can go back to normal any time soon.

Guest: Darrell Bricker, IPSOS Public Affairs CEO.

Chapter 2: Good news for electric vehicle owners in Surrey.  Just two days after General Motors announced a billion-dollar investment for building electric cars in Canada, the federal government is providing a cash infusion for the charging network in Surrey. 

Guest: Catherine McKenna, Minister of Infrastructure and Communities.

Chapter 3: You’re going to want to check out the special inauguration programming we’ll be running, hosted by Dawna Friesen, tomorrow morning starting at 8. 

Guest: Reggie Cecchini, Global News Washington Correspondent.

Chapter 4: Bad timing for the Conservative Party of Canada.  Just days after proclaiming there’s no place for the ‘far right’ in their party, we’ve learned a prominent white nationalist donated money to controversial Conservative politician Derek Sloan.

Guest:  Tim Powers, Vice-Chairman of Summa Strategies and the Managing Director of Abacus Data.

Chapter 5: Let's talk about the economic outlook for local businesses this year.  Six-in-ten businesses are still experiencing reduced sales volumes, and half of business owners expect that to continue for the next few months.

Guest: Bridgitte Anderson, President and CEO of the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade, part of the Premier’s Economic Recovery Task Force.

Chapter 6: Delays in the delivery of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine are changing how the province is administering vaccines.  Yesterday we learned the province will receive 60,000 fewer vaccines than expected in the month of January. 

Guest: Terry Lake, CEO of the BC Care Providers Association.

Chapter 7: Some unexpected drama at the Cullen Commission last week after they heard from an RCMP spokesperson claiming widespread use of ATMs for money laundering. 

Guest: Chris Chandler, president of the ATM Industry Association.

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A local look at politics from the Provincial capital.  The Vancouver Sun's Vaughn Palmer, and Global News reporter Richard Zussman join the show with their take on the day's headlines.

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Chapter 1: After years in limbo it looks like President-Elect Joe Biden will formally cancel the Keystone XL pipeline expansion when he takes office this week. 

Guest:  Mike Le Couteur, Global National Parliamentary Correspondent.

Chapter 2: Mixed reactions to Premier John Horgan saying they’re looking at the legality of closing provincial borders.  We’ve heard mayors on both sides, but representatives from the tourism industry are speaking up against the idea. 

Guest: Vivek Sharma, Chair of the Tourism Industry Association of BC.

Chapter 3: A trail of money and guns were connected to Nova Scotia killer Gabriel Wortman according to new information published by Global News this morning. 

Guest: Sarah Ritchie, Global News Anchor and Reporter in Halifax.

Chapter 4: There’s a lot of marine traffic in the waters around Vancouver Island and that has always posed a serious threat to the marine mammals that live in and migrate through the area.  Some very exciting news as the Canadian Coast Guard launches a new Marine Mammal Desk in Sidney. 

Guest:  Scott Rear, Regional Program Specialist, Marine Communications and Traffic Services, Canadian Coast Guard.

Chapter 5: Kind of a bombshell for Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe.  Over the weekend we learned the Keystone XL pipelines expansion will likely be cancelled when President-Elect Joe Biden takes office on Wednesday.

Guest: Annamie Paul, Green Part of Canada Leader.

Chapter 6: One of the scariest things about the political polarization south of the border is how many people are seeing family members and loved ones eagerly supporting violent protests. 

Guest: Peter Simi, associate professor of sociology at Chapman University.

Chapter 7: Organizers of the rally in support of Indian farmers in Surrey on Saturday say RCMP overstepped when they shut the event down before it even got underway.  They had a plan in place to adhere to social distancing and the rally itself was highly publicized so it wasn’t a surprise to law enforcement. 

Guest: Meghan McDermott, BC Civil Liberties Association Policy Director and Staff Lawyer.

Guest: Sukhpreet Singh

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Chapter 1: Is Canada’s vaccine rollout going well? Well that depends who you ask. The federal government would say yes, but provincial leaders and academics are a bit more divided. 

Guest: Paul Lucas, retired, president and CEO of GlaxoSmithKline from 1995 to 2012.

Chapter 2: It’s no secret the detached home real estate market has been booming since the fall, but there’s one place in particular that seems to be attracting new residents.  According to data from Statistics Canada, Kelowna had the fourth-highest population growth rate in Canada last year!

Guest:  Kim Heizmann, President of the Association of Interior Realtors.

Chapter 3: Great news in the city of Surrey we want to talk about here for a moment.  Surrey Memorial Hospital will now be able to offer an interventional oncology service for cancer patients who would have had to travel to Vancouver for the same treatment. 

Guest:  Dr. Behrang Homayoon, interventional radiologist at Surrey Memorial Hospital.

Chapter 4: Just a couple days since the announcement that the Canada U-S border will remain closed through February and Premier John Horgan is talking about Canadian travel restrictions as well.  There’s a lot of legal issues to sort through there but let’s talk about it at a practical level with Revelstoke Mayor Gary Sulz. 

Guest: Gary Sulz, Revelstoke Mayor.

Chapter 5: Canadian snowbirds are making the rollout of the COVID-19 more complicated.  Hundreds of thousands go south of the border each year, and we’ve learned that many are still going in spite of the pandemic. 

Guest: Valorie Crooks, SFU professor, Canada Research Chair in Health Service Geographies.

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