A possibly historic supply and confidence deal between the federal Liberals and NDP.

Then the latest from the chaos that is Alberta politics.

Segment 1: SACA

* Delivering for Canadians Now « Canada’s NDP

* Cost estimate of a federal dental care program for uninsured Canadians

* Provincial and Territorial Coverage for Children’s Dental Services – The Health of Canada’s Children and Youth

* Federal Cost of a National Pharmacare Program

* Possibly bromance

* ‘Power grab’: Opposition parties lambaste Liberals, NDP for deal keeping Trudeau in power until 2025 | National Post

* What federal parties can learn from confidence and supply in BC – Politics Today

Segment 2: Kooks

* Braid: Why mail-in ballots? They give Kenney a better chance | Calgary Herald

* Alberta Premier Jason Kenney present for money discussions in sham leadership campaign: witnesses | CBC News

* ‘I don’t need this job’: Kenney says he has to stay to keep ‘lunatics’ from ‘trying to take over the asylum’ | CBC News

Quick takes

* Marc Dalton joins CPC race

* Leona Alleslev launches Conservative leadership bid website as race heats up – National | Globalnews.ca

* A Plan for Western Canada – Patrick Brown

* Mayor Patrick Brown Announces Hon. Michelle Rempel Garner as a National Campaign Co-Chair, Announces Western Canadian Platform

* McElroy uncovers Vander Zalm movie

* Sinterklaas Fantasy | SuperEpicFailpedia Wiki

* Chairman Zalm’s little red book

We look at the CRTC decision banning RT from Canadian airwaves. Then we look at a BC Supreme Court decision finding the province did Fets wrong when they seized their whisky. And maybe daylight savings will finally end because the worst Senators weren’t paying attention.

But first we announce the winner of the Greatest BC Premier Bracket!

Links

* The Full Bracket

* CRTC bans Russian state-controlled TV channels RT, RT France from Canadian airwaves | CBC News

* RT and RT France can no longer be distributed by Canadian television service providers – Canada.ca

* Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2022-68

* Ottawa discussing next steps after magazine spreading COVID misinformation received funding | CBC News

* BC judge orders LCRB to give Vancouver whisky bar records

* Fets Fine Foods Ltd. (Fets Whisky Kitchen) v. British Columbia (Liquor and Cannabis Regulation Branch), 2022 BCSC 410

* Jean Charest: It’s time to increase defence spending

* How the U.S. could push Canadian provinces to adopt permanent daylight time

* US legislative action spells end of time changes for BC | Vancouver Sun

* The Senate’s Daylight Saving Time Move Shocked Senators

* BC privacy law applies to federal political parties, commissioner’s office finds | CBC News

* Conservative Party of Canada (Re), 2022 BCIPC 13 (CanLII)

* Province launches review of pandemic response | BC Gov News

From 34 premiers down to two. Over the past several months we’ve been pitting BC’s premiers against one another to find the greatest. Inevitably we were headed to this conclusion: Social Credit titan WAC Bennett and the NDP legend Dave Barrett.

To make the case for these two premiers, we invited experts in the two premiers, people who literally wrote the books on them. David J Mitchell, author of WAC Bennett and the Rise of British Columbia, presents the case for Bennett. Rod Mickleburgh, co-author of The Art of the Impossible, argues for Barrett.

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Then Stewart Prest fills in for Scott to help Ian break down Dr Bonnie Henry’s announcement that the mask mandate is ending. They then turn to the federal Conservative leadership race where Leslyn Lewis, Jean Charest, Patrick Brown  and Roman Baber are in; and Tasha Kheiriddin is out. And finally in Ukraine news, they discuss the tweet that kicked off a conversation about what is the role of cabinet members during a time of international conflict.

Links

* Greatest BC Premier Bracket championship voting

* David J Mitchell

* Rod Mickleburgh

Segment 1: COVID

* COVID-19: BC to drop mask mandate Friday for indoor public spaces, vaccine card in April | Globalnews.ca

* UBC continues masking

* Ian’s comparison of when mask mandates are ending

Segment 2: Conservative race

* Leslyn Lewis runs for Conservative leadership again — this time with a political track record | CBC News

* CTV expresses ‘regrets’ over story that derailed Patrick Brown’s provincial political career | The Star

* Jean Charest says he’s opposed to Bill 21 and favours more oil and gas production

* Patrick Brown and Jean Charest have a deal that could make one of them the next Conservative leader | The Star

* Tasha Kheiriddin bows out of Conservative leadership race | The Star

* Roman Baber promises to ‘disrupt politics’ in Tory leadership bid

* Leger poll

* Abacus poll

Segment 3: ‘The taxpayer dime’

* The tweet

Canada and BC find ways to respond to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Conservatives release the rules for their third leadership since we started recording.

Links

* Vote in the Greatest BC Premier Bracket semifinal

Segment 1: Empty vodka bottles

* British Columbia pulling Russian products from government liquor stores | Globalnews.ca

* BCI is Actively Working to Sell Remaining Russian Securities

* BC government comes up empty-handed in first search for Russian-owned properties | Globalnews.ca

* Anita Anand announces more weapons for Ukraine

* Further details

* Canada prepared to welcome an ‘unlimited number’ of Ukrainians fleeing war, minister says | CBC News

* Rogers, Bell and Shaw pull Russian state-controlled channel RT over invasion of Ukraine | CBC News

*  House passes motion calling for Ottawa to rename street

Segment 2: Yet another Conservative leadership race begins

* Conservatives to announce new leader on Sept. 10, giving time for more candidates to join race | CBC News

* Shannon Stubbs goes after Charest

* Conservative MP Scott Aitchison preparing a bid for party leadership – National | Globalnews.ca

Quick takes

* BC legislature clerk case: Crown lacks evidence, defence says | CTV News

* Smallest possible BC cabinet shuffle

* Electoral Boundaries Commission: Make a Submission

From the almost mundane to the perpetually unprecedented – we’re talking budgets, the end of an emergency declaration and war in Europe.

Links

* Greatest BC Premier Bracket voting

Budget

* BC Budget 2022

* Main budget doc: Budget and Fiscal Plan 2022/23 – 2024/25

* Highlights

* From 911 calls to child care, here are 10 things you need to know about BC’s budget

* BC budget moves in the right direction but too slowly to address pressing challenges like housing, climate, toxic drug supply and poverty : Policy Note

* British Columbia cabinet ministers in line for 10 per cent ‘pay raise’: Opposition – Victoria Times Colonist

Emergencies Act

* PM Trudeau revokes Emergencies Act | CTV News

* Federal government facing lawsuits over Emergencies Act – The Globe and Mail

* Parties clashing over makeup of Emergencies Act review committee

War! What is it good for? Territorial expansion

* Statement by the Prime Minister on Russia’s attack on Ukraine

* Pierre Poillievre

* Jason Kenney

* Singh condemns Russia attacks and urges Trudeau to sanction Putin where it hurts most « Canada’s NDP

* Canada announces new sanctions against Russia. This is what they’re targeting

* Another 3,400 Canadian troops placed on standby to deploy to Europe if necessary, Defence Minister says – The Globe and Mail

* More than 1,700 people detained in widespread Russian protests against Ukraine invasion | CBC News

* Stewart Prest for Daily Hive: How Canada should be involved in the Ukraine crisis, both short and long term

Ongoing protests trigger the federal Emergencies Act for the first time. BC has a new economic plan and a new COVID restart plan.

Links

* Vote for the Greatest NDP Premier

Segment 1: Just(in) watch him

* Seven in 10 British Columbians approve of John Horgan’s job performance: poll – Commentary | Business in Vancouver

* Federal government invokes Emergencies Act for first time ever in response to protests, blockades | CBC News

* CCLA response Twitter

* CCLA Will Fight Invocation Of Emergencies Act In Court

* BCCLA response

* Svend Robinson response

* Jagmeet Singh vs Candice Bergen

* Trudeau argues Conservatives stand with swastikas

* An inquiry must probe the collapse of policing and government abdication | The Star

Segment 2: Strongish BC

* StrongerBC Economic Plan

* Rob Gillezeau

* Kirk LaPointe

* Kevin Falcon

* Sonia Fursteneau

* Andrew Weaver

* StrongerBC Survey

Segment 3: Everybody cut footloose

* British Columbians’ COVID-19 efforts allow easing of restrictions | BC Gov News

Quick takes

* Andrew Wilkinson resigns and via Richard Zussman

* Speaker rules on point of privilege

* Link to ruling

* Redacted FOI

A former cabinet minister for the BC Liberals is set to be the voice to bring renewal to the party as Kevin Falcon has a (relatively) decisive fifth ballot win in the party’s leadership contest. Meanwhile the BCNDP introduced a very stay the course Throne Speech.

And in Ottawa and across the country, protests are paralyzing the police and all levels of government and tearing the Conservative movement apart.

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* BC surpassed 5 million

* Vote in the Greatest BC Premier Bracket

Segment 1 Falcon has landed

* Results from wikipedia

* Vision – Kevin Falcon

* Former BC Liberal leader to vacate seat in Vancouver-Quilchena | CTV News 

Segment 2 The Throne Speech you forgot about

* Read the speech

* Throne speech lays out plans to build a stronger BC by putting people first | BC Gov News

* BC throne speech lays out post-pandemic plans, including child care and safe workplaces | Globalnews.ca

* Did the Minister of Citizens’ Services intentionally mislead the House? – Adam Olsen. MLA for Saanich North and the Islands

* Speaker to rule next week

Segment 3 Ottawacupation

* Ottawa police receiving fake 911 calls

* MPs get suspicious packages

* Ontario invokes emergency measures

* Ontario prepares fines, possible seizure of trucks to reopen Windsor bridge, sources say 

* US offers Trudeau government help to end border blockade | CBC News

* Auto plants close due to blockade

* How organizers with police and military expertise may be helping Ottawa convoy protest dig in | CBC News

* Liberal MP Joël Lightbound’s full remarks: ‘It’s time to choose positive, not coercive methods’ | National Post

* Quebec Liberal MP Robillard also breaks ranks, questions Trudeau government’s handling of pandemic, sides with Lightbound – The Hill Times

Voting for the BC Liberal Leadership race is on now. We’ll know by Saturday evening who the new leader of the opposition will be.

One of the people vying for that job is political outsider Stan Sipos. We talk to him about why he’s seeking the job.

And then we look at the federal Conservatives, where the caucus invoked the powers of the Reform Act to remove Erin O’Toole as leader. Will the freedum convoy take over the Conservative movement?

Links

* Vote in the Greatest BC Premier Bracket

* Vote in the BC Liberal Leadership Race

* Stan Sipos

* Bid to suspend announcement of party leadership results goes to court | Vancouver Sun

* Falcon bails on CBC interview

* Merrifield calls out Falcon, endorses Ross 2nd, Lee 3rd

* Litwin promises to quit if Falcon wins

* 2021 Fourth Quarter Interim Financial Reports Available | Elections BC

* O’Toole resigns as Conservative leader, will stay on as MP

* Statement on interim Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada

* Potential federal Conservative leadership contenders’ phones are already ringing | National Post

* Peter MacKay: An international court to crack down on corruption | National Post

* Help Peter MacKay pay off debt from leadership race, Stephen Harper urges Conservatives | The Star

* Abacus Data | Pandemic frustration may be running high, but more don’t side with the so-called “Freedom Convoy”

* Stewart Prest: The fault lines in Canadian politics run right through the conservative coalition

* The sun sets on Erin O’Toole as leader of the Conservative Party of Canada

The BC Court of Appeal has overturned a previous decision that suspended the injunctions around Fairy Creek old growth logging sites. Erin O’Toole’s grip on the Conservative leadership is more tenuous than ever. And the trial of Craig James has begun.

Links

* Vote in the Greatest BC Premier Bracket

* Teal-Jones wins appeal, injunction against Fairy Creek old-growth protests extended – Victoria Times Colonist

* Decision:Teal Cedar Products Ltd. v. Rainforest Flying Squad,     2022 BCCA 26

* Election review report calls on Conservatives to improve outreach with ethnic communities, source says – The Globe and Mail

* Denise Batters will remain in Sask. Conservative caucus after bid to oust her fails | CBC News

* Opinion: Erin O’Toole’s days as Conservative leader appear to be numbered – The Globe and Mail

* Erin O’Toole plans to meet with truckers protesting vaccine mandates in Ottawa | CBC News

* Canada criticized for ‘soft, tentative language’ amid Ukraine-Russia crisis – National | Globalnews.ca

* Poll

* Chrystia Freeland tops Justin Trudeau as preferred Liberal Leader, poll finds – The Globe and Mail

* Crown alleges former legislature clerk used his job for personal gain | Vancouver Sun

* Spending a ‘marked departure’ from former BC legislature clerk’s duties, Crown says – The Globe and Mail

* Housing Minister warns of red-tape delays in Vancouver’s new housing plan | Urbanized

* Canada extends military operation in Ukraine for three years

* NDP Statement on Ukraine

Vote in the Greatest BC Premier Bracket

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* John Horgan announces he has completed his cancer treatment

* 2021 Prediction Episode (Ep 221: 2021 is off to a helluva start)

* BCCDC apologizes for creating confusion by repeatedly changing isolation advice  

* Canada set to extend training mission in Ukraine as it considers aid request – The Globe and Mail

* Adam Tooze: Chartbook #68 Putin’s Challenge to Western hegemony – the 2022 edition. 

* Government quietly seeks influencers to push out good news about troubled shipbuilding program | Ottawa Citizen

* Jagmeet Singh and his wife have ‘realized their error,’ will pay for $1,895 rocking chair gift

* Last Green leadership vote was not ‘legitimate,’ says interim leader | The Star