View From Victoria: 

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: The Liberal cabinet retreat starts today so what will be the focus of the two-day event?

Guest: Abigail Bimmen

Chapter 2: The thick wildfire smoke we have been experiencing for the last few days has been coming up from Washington and Oregon. "This could be the greatest loss of human lives and property due to wildfire in our state's history," Oregon Gov. Kate Brown. At least 10 people have died so far in Oregon, including a 13-year old boy and his grandmother; the boy’s mother is in hospital with burns over her entire body. 

Guest: Dana Haynes, Managing Editor of the Portland Tribune

Chapter 3: On Friday, Vancouver city council met for a special meeting to vote on the mayor’s proposed plan on homelessness. But what do organizations with boots-on-the-ground think needs to actually happen to improve Vancouver’s homelessness problem? 

Guest: Jeremy Hunka, UGM

Chapter 4: Today is the first day on the job for Lisa Campbell, the new president of the Canadian Space Agency. So in which direction does she hope the future of CSA will go?

Guest: Lisa Campbell, President of the Canadian Space Agency

Chapter 5: If you tried to do a Google search on Sunday, then you would have seen the artwork of our next guest: Lynn Scurfield. Her image commemorated the anniversary of the very first Terry Fox Run. On Sept 13, 1981, 3-hundred thousand Canadians across the country walked, ran, or cycled in Terry’s memory to raise $3.5 million for cancer research. 

Guest: Lynn Scurfield, artist

Chapter 6: The heavy smoke that lingered over southern parts of British Columbia over these past few days has given us the distinction of having some of the world air quality in the world. 

Guest: Ken Reid - Metro Vancouver Superintendent of Environmental Sampling and Monitoring, Air Quality and Climate Change

Chapter 7: The cables at the Sea-to-Sky Gondola have been cut...again!

Guest: Karen Elliot, Mayor of Squamish

Guest: Kirby Brown, General manager of the Sea-to-Sky Gondola

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SEA-TO-SKY GONDOLA:

Global News has confirmed - the cables at the Sea to Sky gondola have been cut again. A representative at the Sea-to-Sky Gondola has confirmed the second act of vandalism. Happened around 4am. Nobody hurt and Rcmp on scene. 

CN TRAIN DERAILMENT:

We have also received this statement from CN regarding a train derailment near Hope: “CN crews are responding to a train derailment that happened earlier this morning near Hope, BC. Preliminary information indicates that approximately 20 cars derailed. There are no injuries, fires, or dangerous goods reported to be involved at this time.

CN would like to apologize for the inconvenience caused by this incident and thanks the first responders present at the scene. The cause of the incident is under investigation.”​

NEW WEST FIRE STILL BURNING:

The story we are continuing to cover this morning - a blaze that started last night at the New West pier is continuing to burn. Skytrain is operating through the area but traffic is being diverted. 

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View From Victoria: 

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: There have been over 27.5-million cases worldwide of COVID-19 - among humans. So how can we protect our closest animal relatives from being ravaged by this virus as well? 

Guest: Jacqui Sunderland-Groves, a scientific researcher with UBC’s Faculty of Forestry’s Wildlife Coexistence Lab and a senior advisor with the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation

Chapter 2: Are you grinding your teeth more lately? If so, you’re not alone. Dentists say they have seen an increase in stress related damage to teeth through the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Guest: Dr. Kal Khaled, dentist and president of the Ontario Alliance of Dentists

Chapter 3: Today is the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks but services and events will be held a little differently this year thanks to COVID-19.

Guest: Jennifer Johnson, Global News

Chapter 4: The B.C. Supreme Court has ruled private healthcare is not a constitutional right if wait times are too long in a years-long case that will likely have implications across Canada’s health-care system. 

Guest: Christine Sorensen, president of the BC Nurses’ Union

Chapter 5: Earlier this spring, we met some fantastic valedictorians from around the province. Let's catch up with a couple of them now as they start university this week...

Guest: Simon Auclair-Troughton (Saint Patrick Regional Secondary)

Guest: Shifra Hetherington (Langley Fine Arts School)

Chapter 6: At 1pm, Vancouver mayor Kennedy Stewart will hold a special council meeting to address his proposed homelessness plan. 

Guest: Sara Kirby-Yung, Vancouver City Councillor

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