Stephen Carter, former co-host of The Strategists podcast and president of QED Marketing Inc, joins us in Vancouver to rant about Alberta politics.

The BC Utilities Commission has delivered its verdict on the state of the Site C Dam. Why Vancouver needs electoral reform with Keith Poore of 123Vancouver and our interview with newly minted councillor Hector Bremner. Find the full interviews on our Patreon

Congrats Lindsay Tedds (our premier sponsor) on your appointment as chair of the MSP elimination task force!

Honoured to be asked to chair the BC governments task force on MSP premiums https://t.co/CwN9Nsr4Aq @uvicnews @HSDResearch

— LindsayTedds (@LindsayTedds) November 2, 2017

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Segment 1: Plan B for Site C

Segment 2: Keith Poore – 123 Vancouver

Segment 3: Hector Bremner

Quick takes

Bill Morneau has a bit of good news this week as he announces smaller than projected deficits, which means the Liberals can continue spending on new and expanded programs.

Then we speak to former Alberta Education Minister David King about his new petition for a referendum to end the separate Catholic school system in that province.

Plus an extra dose of quick takes from Vancouver, BC and Canadian political news.

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Segment 1: Bill’s Tricks and Treats

Segment 2: David King has an IDEA

Quick takes

The results of the Vancouver byelection are in and not even 11% of Vancouverites bothered to vote. Nevertheless, Ian and Scott can surely overanalyze these results to tell you who wins in 2018.

Then we get into the BC NDP and Greens battle over ridesharing and whether it will ever happen in this province. And as a bonus third segment, we look at the bad week that federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau has been having. Then we have a bunch of follow ups and quick takes.

As always, thanks to Lindsay Tedds and all our Patrons for helping make the show possible!

Quick note from Ian: Apologies for the background clicking/noise in this episode. Our mixer or recorder picked up some weird noise and I did my best to filter it out but some got through. Hopefully next week we’ll have sorted out all this fancy gear and actually get our shit together.

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Segment 1: Hector the Connector Connected

Segment 2: Ridesharing hits a speed bump

Segment 3: Morneau he didn’t

Quick takes & follow ups

We finally get around to talking about the Liberal’s small business tax changes and then we look at how BC casinos are being used for money laundering by organized crime.

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Vancouver byelection

Segment 1: A taxing headache

Segment 2: Blackjack but not busts

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Quick takes

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Our extended take on Thursday night’s Housing & Homelessness Forum as part of the Vancouver council byelection. Then we look at Jagmeet Singh’s win in the NDP leadership race and the BC NDP’s first steps to an electoral reform referendum. Plus a roundup of quicktakes from provincial and federal politics.

It rained briefly in the middle of our recording and some of that picked up.

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Segment 2: Jagmeet Singh

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Segment 3: Electoral Reform

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Quick Takes

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We recorded the October 5, 2017 West End Housing & Homelessness Forum as part of the coverage of the 2017 Vancouver Byelection. The debate was moderated by UBC Economist (and past guest of the show) Tom Davidoff and Law Professor Margot Young. It was hosted by West End Seniors’ Network, Watson Goepel LLP, Metro Vancouver Alliance and Gordon Neighbourhood House.

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We have candidates but we don’t have an agreed hashtag yet, so can we really call it a leadership race? In any case, Scott phones this one in (literally from Kingston) in a shorter episode looking at the initial state of the BC Liberal leadership race and a roundup of usual quick-takes.

Remember to check out the Vancouver byelection forum taking place on October 5 at St Andrews Wesley Church in Vancouver at 7 PM.

Thanks to our Patrons, particularly our premier Patron Lindsay Tedds, for helping us buy new gear. We should have this whole podcasting thing figured out soon.

Ian’s in a rush tonight so no links (Google is your friend). We should be back to regular amounts of editing & production next week.

Big corporate money is out and big government money is in for BC politics. But is John Horgan’s allowance for political parties a good or bad thing? Ian & Scott debate it out.

Then Ian speaks with BC Civil Liberties Association Executive Director Josh Paterson about efforts to reform BC’s justice system.

And our usual quick takes.

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Our Deep Dive look at the NDP leadership race. Make sure to go back to Episode 45 for our interview with Niki Ashton and the clip on Patreon from the Burnaby JagMeet & Greet.

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