Today’s show featured two guests, Jo Graber of PACHA, the People’s Action Committee for Healthy Air, Prince George’s local air quality citizens’ group, speaking about the problems associated with the proposed West Coast Olefins plant and David Merner, the only British Columbians running to replace Elizabeth May as Green Party leader.

After Nine – Monday Edition finished its 2019 broadcasting schedule with two leaders in BC’s alternative media, Gurpreet Singh of Radical Desi and Spice Radio on Indian disaporic politics, the rise of Hindu nationalism and the Kashmir crisis. Charlie Smith, editor of the Georgia Straight also joined us for a wide ranging interview about the climate crisis, challenges in alternative media and key political stories from around BC.

If the harvest show was an homage to Peter Gzowski’s Morningside of the 80s, this show owes credit to Kathryn Gretzinger’s Early Edition.

In our first segment, my partner and famed BC nature artist Corey Matthews speaks on her return to Prince George and our shared project working on landscape through Los Altos Institute. Former Prince George Symphony Orchestra executive director and poet Jeremy Stewart then joins us to compare notes on Prince George’s and South Surrey/White Rock’s moral panics about downtown business and poverty.

Our regular sports columnist Michael Demers joins us to talk about the NHL coaching abuse scandal, followed by our movie reviewer Sean Frackowiak offering a spoiler-free review of the final Star Wars movie now showing in theatres.

This show is a great example of how Canadian politeness gets in the way of responsible journalism. Listen to me have a perfectly civil conversation with a guy from the petrochemical industry that only gets testy once or twice. Never addressed in the show is how polyethylene is used as unnecessary filler to stretch harder plastics that make things other than disposable bags and how the discredited idea that petrochemical production is insensitive to markets and does not respond to the laws of supply and demand.

We begin with Kenneth James, of West Coast Olefins, move on to Art Vanden Berg and finish up with Susanne Weber before closing with Tom Ewasiuk of Los Altos Institute who joined me to help promote an exciting new project I’m rolling out next year.

The December 9th episode of After Nine — Monday edition contains a short UK election primer for those observing from overseas, followed by interviews with actor and historian, Anthony Dunn, and historian and political scientist,Malcolm Coldcleugh, both of whom live in the battleground Central London riding of Battersea.

Our program today featured two guests, Sharel Warrington, a Prince George School trustee since 2005 and one of the seven (of over three hundred) trustees on the BC Public Sector Employers’ Council (PSEA) and Dean McGee, former Surrey Trustee candidate and president of the Surrey District Parent Advisory Council, serving BC’s largest school district. Our discussions focused on current contract negotiations with BC teachers, accommodating disabled students and how we make decisions about education at the provincial and local levels. 

Today’s show features Isabel Krupp from Alliance Against Displacement speaking about the housing crisis in BC, its causes and its effects in our first segment. The rest of the show features Scott Moore, a life coach talking about the growth of his profession and attempts to regulate it. Our final segment is an editorial responding to statements made on our show on November 21st and some of my partner’s and my personal plans to intervene in the debate over downtown.

This week’s After Nine — Monday Edition features three compelling segments dealing with important, current issues: Laura Parent on Jason Luke’s new Prince George downtown property owners organization and their plans for a pogrom; Michael Demers on the firing of Don Cherry by Rogers and Chris Markevich on the Left Behind Podcast.

Today’s episode of After Nine – Monday Edition features two experts and no NDP MLAs. That’s because Ravi Kahlon, the parliamentary secretary for the BC Forest Ministry won’t come on a community radio program in a mill town and the Manitoba NDP has decided it doesn’t want its new northern MLA to talk about representing Northern communities.

So, instead, former broadcaster and waitlisted member of the Sasquatch rewilding program, Sean Frackowiak, tells us about the insanity that is Amazon Prime. And then Art Vanden Berg, inventor, tech entrepreneur, former city councilor and Los Altos Institute fellow explains the electric vehicle revolution and how it’s shaking down in BC. Also, be forwarned: there may be some tech problems with segment 3.

In today’s After Nine Monday edition, on CFIS, I spent most of the show discussing a set of interlocking issues with Sean Holman, founder of Public Eye Radio, producer of Whipped, the documentary and professor of communications at Mount Royal University. His recent interventions on journalistic ethics and the climate crisis have been a subject of major interest and debate.