Canada’s premiers meet in New Brunswick, but did they accomplish anything? And a shooting in Toronto prompts a national outcry for gun reform. Plus quick takes on pipelines, Site C and more.

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Segment 1: Premier’s Meeting

Segment 2: Gun debate

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Ian’s back from vacation so we have a full show to catch up on everything bcpoli.

First, we talk all things salmon with BC Green MLA Adam Olsen. Then catching up on BC politics we look at Greyhound’s decision to pull out of Western Canada, the BC government’s labour infrastructure deal and kicking the ridesharing can down the road. We also talk about Trudeau’s latest cabinet shuffle and then we’re into the usual quick takes.

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Segment 2: Catching up on BC politics

Segment 3: Shuffling the deck chairs on the Trudanic

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We spoke with Sean Graham, the creator of dual member proportional, one of the systems on the upcoming BC electoral reform referendum ballot.

Find out more about DMP and follow @Sean_Gra

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We spoke to Patrick Meehan about a report he wrote for the Alliance of BC Students detailing a simple solution to student housing and how it’s resulting in thousands of new spaces for next to no cost to the government.

Read the report here.

BC’s casinos are being used to launder money by the millions. Ian speaks to BC’s Attorney General David Eby about the shocking details in the Dirty Money report by Peter German.

Plus we look at the latest updates in the upcoming campaign for the PR referendum.

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Segment 1: Damn dirty dollars

Segment 2: The pieces are in place

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We dive into the MSP Task Force report with Lindsay Tedds and play part of an interview with The Docket’s Michael Spratt and BC Humanist Association pro-bono counsel Wes McMillan on the Supreme Court of Canada’s TWU decision. Plus a litany of quick takes from a surprisingly busy week.

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Segment 1: A taxing Task Force

Segment 2: School’s out for TWU

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MLA Leonard Krog announces a run for Mayor of Nanaimo but will only resign his seat if he wins. Maxime Bernier gets kicked out of Andrew Scheer’s shadow cabinet for continuing to question supply management. And Ian speaks with the Out of Left Field crew about why the NDP can’t seem to win elections (listen to the full discussion here).

Listen to Ian’s full discussion with Out of Left Field at https://soundcloud.com/outofleftfieldpodcast (it should be available online soon).

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And apologies for the audio quality in this episode. We recorded it mostly at the Vancouver Public Library’s inspiration lab but we’re still trying to optimize their mics. Also, Scott’s fighting off allergies.

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Segment 1: Leonard Krog

Segment 2: Bern(ier)ing the sacred cows

Segment 3: Why can’t the NDP win?

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A grab-bag of bcpoli news including pipelines, electoral reform and more. Plus we end with our first reactions to the Ontario election results as they broke.

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Canada and the USA go to war over steel, maple syrup and toilet paper. Meanwhile details emerge about BC’s fall electoral referendum and we check in on the state of the Ontario election with TVO’s John Michael McGrath.

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Correction from our emergency podcast:

@PolitiCoastPod just listening to the emergency show. Harper’s govt made a loss on the GM share sale. pic.twitter.com/bWtt3xbU1w

— Belseat (@belseat) May 30, 2018

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Segment 1: Trade war, what is it good for?

Segment 2: Electoral reform to the moon

Segment 3: What the fuck Ontario?

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The presser with Horgan ends. He then shouts “Kinder Morgan!” into the microphone because, he says, he was surprised he didn’t have to say those words during the Q and A

(It was weird)

— Justin McElroy (@j_mcelroy) May 25, 2018

John Horgan just compared his PR referendum to JFK challenging his country to go the moon. As weird as that is I guess he could be correct if JFK and his cabinet ignored the engineers and scientists and built the rocket themselves.

— Brad Zubyk (@Bzubyk) June 1, 2018

The Government of Canada announced it will drop $4.5 billion to buy the Trans Mountain Expansion Pipeline, will provide a loan to restart construction immediately and will fund the project to completion if it has to before selling it off. It’s a big deal so we brought you an emergency podcast.