PolitiCoast Podcast

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April 17, 2020Ep 185: Where was Andrew Wilkinson?
BC Liberal Leader Andrew Wilkinson asked on This Is Vancolour “Where is John Horgan?” But where has Andrew Wilkinson been? More to the point, how do his criticisms of the BC NDP’s economic response compare against reality?
Plus a look at how politics is slowly shifting in response the crisis.
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#71 – Andrew Wilkinson — This is VANCOLOUR
State of emergency extended to continue B.C.’s COVID-19 response
Dan Gardner Opinion: Pandemics are low-probability, high-consequence events. We should have been prepared
New COVID-19 supports for businesses, local governments | BC Gov News
New virtual mental health supports for COVID-19 on the way
COVID-19: Stabilizing BC care home staffing to cost $10 million a month
Applications open for temporary rental supplement
AB spent $14-20,000 on Facebook ads promoting the donation
‘Neither necessary nor advisable’: Premiers tell PM there is no need for Emergencies Act
UK MPs to sit in ‘virtual’ parliament
We should have a virtual Parliament during the crisis
Yes, we can have a ‘virtual’ Parliament — but we shouldn’t get used to the idea
Elections Canada looking at how it could run an election during the pandemic
Scheer, Conservatives raise concerns about WHO data, relationship with China
Kenney to use tests, medications from ‘peer’ countries, won’t wait for Health Canada to play ‘catch up’
Federal government open to new law to fight pandemic misinformation
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April 10, 2020Ep 184: Political Decisions in a Time of Crisis
David Moscrop, political scientist and Washington Post columnist, returns to discuss how we make political decisions in a time of crisis, whether our institutions are up to the task, and what comes after.
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Public Health Agency of Canada Coronavirus disease (COVID-19): Outbreak update
HealthLinkBC Coronavirus (COVID-19)
BC Prosecution Service Concludes Investigation into Jinny Sims
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1h 8min
April 03, 2020Ep 183: To mask or not to mask?
Dr Rob Tarzwell (@Rob_Tarzwell) is a psychiatrist and nuclear medicine specialist and has been helping distill the scientific debates around COVID-19 for lay audiences. He’s a cohost of the new Viral Transmissions weekly streamed update. He joins Scott to talk about coronavirus science, policy and how we can look after our mental health.
Remember: Wash your hands and stay home.
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Viral Transmissions – A weekly streamed update on COVID-19
The Korean clusters (Patient 31)
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1h 10min
March 27, 2020Ep 182: Money printer go brrr
We’ve successfully sabotaged the economy on a global scale and hopefully we did it fast enough to save enough lives and our healthcare system.
Labour economist Kevin Milligan (@kevinmilligan) joins us once again to break down the federal and provincial aid packages and how they hope to keep Canadians staying home and staying healthy. And we answer the all important question of whether we can just make money printer go brrr?
Then we invite back political scientist Stewart Prest (@stewartprest) to consider the deeper political implications of the crisis. What is the role of government, how do we balance civil liberties with a protection of public health and what can the opposition even do?
Oh and the Conservatives called off their leadership and the BCTF reached a tentative deal with the province.
Note: Trudeau announced the small business wage subsidy was jumping from 10 to 75% on the morning after we recorded.
Remember: Wash your hands and stay home.
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Canada’s COVID-19 Economic Response Plan
BC Protecting jobs during difficult times
BC COVID-19 Action plan
Supporting renters, landlords during COVID-19
Province takes unprecedented steps to support COVID-19 response
Conservative leadership committee suspends race amid COVID-19 pandemic
Tentative agreement reached between BCTF, BCPSEA
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1h 17min
March 20, 2020 Ep 181: Politics & Pop Culture at FanExpo with Pop This!
We’re joined by Andrea Warner and Lisa Christensen of Pop This! podcast at Fan Expo Vancouver on February 15 to talk politics and pop culture. Our conversation touched on Parks & Recreation, Star Trek, Real Housewives and Star Wars.
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BC Centre for Disease Control resources
BC COVID-19 self assessment tool
Join the Leg-in-Boot media Slack for free
Photo by Daniel Chai
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1h 1min
March 13, 2020Ep 180: Flatten the curve
The only thing on anyone’s minds in the latter half of this week has been the novel coronavirus COVID-19. We review the current (as of March 12, 2020) state of the virus in BC and the latest advice from BC’s Chief Public Health Officer and the Public Health Agency.
Then we get into the political reactions, both who’s directly affected and who thinks they have a better plan. And what other policy alternatives are out there.
Remember: Wash your hands and stay home if you’re sick.
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Public Health Agency of Canada Coronavirus disease (COVID-19): Outbreak update
HealthLinkBC Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Joint statement on update on new and existing COVID-19 cases in B.C.
In ‘extraordinary’ move, B.C. officials ask retired doctors to re-register in case COVID-19 worsens
Sophie Trudeau tests positive
Trudeau announces $1B fund to respond to COVID-19
Peter MacKay calls for a travel ban
Erin O’Toole wants a travel ban too and less foreign aid
Derek Sloan doesn’t trust experts
Spring Magazine: Coronavirus: Paid sick days now
Coronavirus: Chaos Follows Trump’s European Travel Ban; EU Says It Wasn’t Warned
BC Greens cancel all public events amidst leadership race
Image credit: Flickr/BCgovphotos
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March 06, 2020Ep 179: The rights agreement
Carole James and Rich Coleman are leaving politics, David Eby unveils the ICBC overhaul bill and the speculation tax is called sexist.
In our main segment, Canada, British Columbia and the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs reached a tentative agreement on rights and title but have not resolved the outstanding pipeline dispute.
Plus our interview with MLA Sonia Furstenau on her bid for leader of the BC Greens.
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BC poli roundup
Carole James announces she has Parkinson’s and won’t seek re-election
Rich Coleman also not running again
Kate Ryan-Lloyd appointed Clerk
Bill 5: Paid leave for workers facing domestic or sexual violence
Without sick leave, staying home due to COVID-19 ‘not an option’ for precarious workers, BC woman says
Legislation introduced to transform ICBC, deliver lower rates
‘Thanks for ripping me off’: BC government, ICBC hit with $900M proposed class action lawsuit
Progress of bills (M-203 is mentioned)
Supreme Court will not hear B.C. groups’ Trans Mountain challenges
B.C.’s speculation tax ‘sets women back many decades,’ human rights complaint says
Main segment: An agreement reached
The draft deal between the Wet’suwet’en and the government explained
Wet’suwet’en elected chiefs demand inclusion in negotiations with government
Groups linked to oil companies funded Facebook ads denouncing the rail blockades
Ipsos Trudeau approval rating down as Wet’suwet’en solidarity blockades linger
Angus Reid Premiers’ Performance: In the wake of pipeline problems, approval of both Kenney and Horgan falls
Leger Federal Politics – March 4th, 2020 (incl Conservative leadership numbers)
Sonia Furstenau interview
Economic platform
Leadership roundup
Kim Darwin
Outspoken social conservative Richard Decarie rejected from Tory leadership
MacKay, O’Toole, Gladu all vow to force an election if they win the Conservative leadership
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney endorses Erin O’Toole for Conservative leader, takes shot at Peter MacKay
Quick takes
Ottawa orders cellphone providers to cut prices by 25%
Doug Ford’s Buck-A-Beer plan made beer prices in Ontario go up, expert says
Yukon to make Daylight Saving Time permanent after final time change Sunday
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1h 5min
February 28, 2020Ep 178: Reconciliation is dead, long live reconciliation
Alberta wins a carbon tax ruling but loses out on Teck Frontier Oil Sands. Canadians are souring on protests over the Coastal GasLink pipeline, while the pipeline faces some regulatory challenges. Plus BC stands up for access to medical assistance in dying and the federal government proposes changes.
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BC Politics Roundup
Bill 7 Province to modernize arbitration rules to improve access to justice
Bill 9 B.C. government introduces legislation to cap expert reports in ICBC settlement cases and Evidence Act changes to speed up motor vehicle claims
Bill 10 Tax relief for small businesses, non-profits, arts and culture groups and Vancouver mayor Kennedy Stewart blasts new B.C. law meant to lessen taxes for some small businesses
Bill 8 B.C. families to benefit from school-age child care on school grounds
Bill 13 Introduction of miscellaneous bill
BC money laundering inquiry to begin amid hopes for answers, accountability
Nearly three people a day died from illicit drugs in 2019
B.C.’s maritime museum finds new home in Langford
City of Langford rebrands, announces several projects
Main segment: Reconciling resource development and climate change
Alberta appeal court sides with province, rules federal carbon tax is unconstitutional in 4-1 decision
Teck Withdraws Regulatory Application for Frontier Project
Coastal GasLink told to consult further with Wet’suwet’en by B.C. environmental office
Growing Proportion of Canadians Have Unfavourable (60%, +11) View of Blockades
Meeting of Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs, federal, provincial governments set after ‘miscommunication’
A foot on both sides of the line’: Q&A with Indigenous MLA Adam Olsen on Wet’suwet’en conflict
Segment 2: MAID Updates
Ladner hospice to lose BC funding for banning medically assisted dying
Adrian Dix: Medical assistance in dying: Compassion and balance puts patients first
BC Humanists: Don’t stop with Delta Hospice
Bill C-7 An Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying) first reading
BC Humanists: Government tables bill to expand MAID
Leadership roundup
CBC: It’s deadline day for Conservative leadership candidates – so who’s in?
CTV: Conservative leadership race: Who’s running?
Globe and Mail: Nine candidates expected to make it through first hurdle of Conservative leadership race
Quick takes
Lynn Beyak has been suspended from the Senate for a second time
Global Affairs warns Trudeau government about perils of deepening ties with China
Conservative MPs split over Buffalo Declaration that says Alberta referendum is inevitable
Andrew Scheer Defends Free-Market Capitalism And ‘Paw Patrol’
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1h 5min
February 21, 2020Ep 177: Stay the Course, Budget Edition
It is Budget Week in BC. Shannon Waters from BC Today guest co-hosts to discuss a stay the course budget, what an economic strategy document says about how the province views cities and the latest developments in the dispute between the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs and Coastal Gas Link.
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BC Budget
Budget cuts B.C. transit funding, government cites agency’s surplus
BC GOVERNMENT ECONOMIC STRATEGY CALLS FOR FEWER JOBS IN VANCOUVER, MORE SPRAWL
BC Government Economic Plan 2019-20
Vaughn Palmer: Provincial economic plan calls for dispersing growth away from Vancouver
Trudeau pleads for patience on blockades crisis, but cuts Scheer out of leaders’ meeting
Feds say RCMP offer to move off Wet’suwet’en land ‘significant’ step towards ending blockades
Photo credit: flickr/BCGovPhotos
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1h 12min
February 14, 2020Ep 176: Protesting the Throne
Solidarity protests with the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs erupt across British Columbia and Canada. The Government was able to present its Speech from the Throne, which largely stayed the course the NDP has been plotting.
Matthew Naylor fills in for Scott this week. Check out the latest Cambie Report for additional comments on the protests and Throne Speech from a Metro Vancouver lens.
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Final reminder to find us and Pop This! on Saturday, February 15 at 5:15 PM at Vancouver FanExpo for a live show about politics and pop culture.
Image credit: Flickr/bcgovphotos
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Idle No More Once More
RCMP backtracks, says officers won’t stop journalists from reporting on Wet’suwet’en raid
Still reports of media having issues
Matriarchs arrested in exclusion zone
Are protests effective?
Angus Reid: Coastal Gaslink Chaos: Two-in-five support protesters in natural gas project dispute; half support pipeline
BC throne speech disrupted by Wet’suwet’en supporters
Victoria councillor Ben Isitt calls protester assault allegations “fake news”
Indigenous services minister offers to meet with protesters if they end blockade along CN tracks
Globe and Mail backgrounder: Beyond bloodlines: How the Wet’suwet’en hereditary system at the heart of the Coastal GasLink conflict works
Flurry of pro-pipeline Indigenous voices show up on Twitter feeds just as Royal Dutch Shell faces financial predicament
2020 Throne Speech
Leadership roundup
John Baird weighing Conservative leadership run, says party must be ‘modern’
John Baird ultimately decides not to run
Green party’s leadership race rules, entry fee has some candidates balking
Quick takes
Trudeau secures Senegal’s vote for UN Security Council seat
Canada’s military wants Trudeau to ban Huawei from 5G networks: report
279 Canadians aboard cruise ship now in Cambodia after entry refused elsewhere
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46min

FAQs about PolitiCoast Podcast:

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