An interview with long-time friend of the show, Nathan Giede, BC Tory and Roman Catholic activist, broadcaster and writer and Aaron Eckman, former treasurer of the BC Federation of Labour on their new BC issues and identity podcast, Ram & Stag.

We interview author, philosopher and activist for eco-politics Derrick Jensen about his latest (of more than two dozen) book, Bright Green Lies and related matters. You can purchase the book here: https://www.monkfishpublishing.com/products-page-2/environmentalism/bright-green-lies/

We interview Ken Boon, president of the Peace Valley Landowners' Association about the current state of the Site C megaproject and then follow up with our regular science and energy guy, Art Vanden Berg, tech entrepreneur and former city councilor. 

The BC Government has finally released its report on Basic Minimum Income. The answer: we're not doing it. Cheryl Wiens of the Greens, Sam Schecter of the NDP, Ryan Campbell of the BC Liberals and Nathan Giede of the BC Tories weigh in.

In this episode, we return from another unexpected broadcasting hiatus to talk with Prince George activist and yoga instructor about her campaign to label architecture hostile to unhoused folks. We then move to Rebecca Smith and Dean McGee on the defection of Asad Syed, Niovi Patzicakis and themselves from the NDP to the Greens on the eve of last fall's election in Surrey.

Our regular panel of Nathan Giede (Conservative Party), Ryan Campbell (BC Liberal Party), Sam Schechter (BC NDP) and Cheryl Wiens (BC Green Party) weigh in on last year's #DefundThePolice campaign and its implications and effects in BC politics. 

Our broadcast covers the two issues I feel we covered best last year, (1) efforts by the Wet'suwet'en to stop the #HorganPipeline being built through their territory without consent and (2) a generation of mistreatment of rural and Northern BC by BC's Ministry of Education, right up to the reopening of our schools in September.

It features past interviews with guests Patti Bacchus, Jerome Turner, Karla Tait, Molly Wickham, Adam Finch, Joanne Hapke and Joanna Larson. Thanks folks for coming on the show last year and explaining events as they transpired.

This episode is a shorter show featuring a longer interview with Samuel Getachew, an Ethiopian-Canadian journalist who helps to put the Tigray political and humanitarian crisis in sharper relief. The show also features a historical background on Ethiopia and Samuel, who is slumming it by coming on our show after writing for the Washington Post.

This is our year in review, 2020, program featuring a panel comprising Piers Brown, a professor of English at Kenyon College in Ohio, Jeff Ranger, a college instructor in Vancouver and Arthur Hatfield, a data security professional in Atlanta, GA. Piers, former Secretary of the BC Green Party, Jeff, a former director of the BC Ecosocialist Party and Arthur, a director of Los Altos Institute, bring a materialist, left perspective to their observations.

Sam Schechter (NDP), Nathan Giede (Conservative), Ryan Campbell (BC Liberal) and Cheryl Wiens (Green) discuss the entangled questions of emissions, exports, rural-urban differences and economic fairness in BC's climate change debate.