Nathan Giede, former BC Conservative candidate, Sam Schechter, former BC NDP candidate and city councilor, Cheryl Wiens, former BC Green Party candidate and Ryan Campbell, BC Liberal Party organizer discuss provincial and national childcare programs and promises. 

This episode includes more archival recordings of the Leon Bibb interviews of 2011. Leon is then followed by musician, musicologist and polymath Naomi Kavka, continuing on themes of race and musical genre. 

Andrew Loman is a most erudite man, a professor of literature at Memorial University and popular essayist. We spend an hour reading and discussing his work.

I still post my interviews from other shows here. I guess the cancellation is wearing off. Mike Smyth puts me back on CKNW.

Darcy Repen, former mayor of Telkwa and Rural BC Party candidate, James Steidl, Prince George woodworker and anti-glyphosate activist and Meaghan Cursons, Executive Director of Cumberland Forest on democratizing land use decisions in BC. 

The regular panel of Sam Schechter (BC NDP), Nathan Giede (BC Conservatives), Cheryl Wiens (BC Greens) and Ryan Campbell (BC Liberals) discuss questions of municipal jurisdiction and representation.

We spend the whole hour talking with Jordan Brown about his re-election in Newfoundland to the riding of Labrador West and how it is that New Democrats like him remain popular and relevant in rural and industrial communities, unlike their political fate in BC, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

Sean Frackowiak, our film correspondent returns with a discussion of Zac Snyder superhero ensemble movies and the problems of Medicaid. Naomi Kavka, musician, musicologist and singer joins the show as our regular music correspondent.  

In 2011, I received permission to write the authorized biography of civil rights leader, actor, director and writer Leon Bibb. Leon has since passed away, the interviews and writing project incomplete. But I have been left with some great archival footage of candid interviews I conducted in the summer and fall of 2011, along with notes from my interviews with the Bibb family in Louisville, Kentucky in the spring of 2012. For the next few weeks, I will be airing the portions of those interviews suitable for radio broadcast as part of a new approach to completing the biography. 

We join our regular political panel, Ryan Campbell of the BC Liberals, Nathan Giede of the BC Tories, Sam Schechter of the BC NDP and Cheryl Wiens of the BC Green Party in discussing the implications for each provincial party of a likely federal election call.