Chapter 1: Welcome news for so many people out there. Restrictions on visiting loved ones in long term care are being loosened. Starting July 19th, you no longer have to make an appointment, and there is no limit on the number of visitors someone can have.

Guest: Isobel Mackenzie, Seniors’ Advocate.

Chapter 2: With vaccination rates climbing, so is spending.  What are people rushing out to spend their pay cheques on these days? 

Guest: Brian Green, Country Head of Canada at Fiserv, on industry and provincial spending trends

Chapter 3: Vancouverites have a quieter, more environmentally-sound car race to look forward to in 2022… when it hosts the 2022 FIA Formula E World Championship car race!

Guest: Sarah Kirby-Young, City of Vancouver Councillor

Chapter 4: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was in Coquitlam, yesterday to announce that the federal government will reach an average of $10-per-day child care in regulated spaces for children six years old and younger over the next five years.

Guest: Catherine McKenna, Minister of Infrastructure and Communities on affordable childcare, infrastructure and climate change.

Chapter 5: BC is outpacing the rest of the country when it comes to job numbers.  With the ground starting to level off, how is BC going to compete to get top workers for the industries hardest hit by the pandemic.

Guest: Ravi Kahlon, Ministry of Jobs, Economic Recovery and Innovation.

Chapter 6: Independent MP Jody Wilson-Raybould will not seek re-election.

Guest: Jody Wilson-Raybould, Member of Parliament for Vancouver Granville.

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