Today's show features Connecticut sex worker Sensual Stormi on her work with disabled clients and dangers faced by contemporary sex workers, followed by Michael Laxer, publisher of the Left Chapter and former Ontario Socialist Party leader on the state of the left in English Canada, particularly Ontario.

Communications and journalism professor Sean Holman returns to the show to talk about recent revelations at the Cullen Commission, BC's commission on illegal gambling, money laundering and real estate. Before he was a professor, Sean was an investigative journalist who helped break the original story of political interference in the BC government's decision to disband the RCMP taskforce investigating this. Then, Sean Frackowiak, our entertainment columnist, returns to the show with Christmas movie advice and a review of Borat.

Our regular post-election political panel, comprising Cheryl Wiens of the BC Green Party, Sam Schechter of the BC NDP, Ryan Campbell of the BC Liberals and Nathan Giede of the BC Conservative Party evaluates the new regional political of BC post-campaign and looks at shifting public opinion on BC's management of the pandemic.

We touch down in two swing states with members of the most coveted demographics in the US.  Scott Moore of suburban Raleigh, North Carolina and Arthur Hatfield of suburban Atlanta, Georgia offer their observations from the vantage point of coveted voters in swing states. Edward Kopp follows up, talking about the post-election work from Brooklyn, New York.

I tried to feature the parties that made a difference in this election that did not appear on last week's political panel. Very interesting interview with the former mayor of Telkwa and first-ever candidate for the Rural BC Party. And another warm and nostalgic interview with Doug Gook, the Green candidate in Cariboo-North. This was followed by some election analysis by me because the Christian Heritage Party declined their interview.

Join Sam Schechter from the BC NDP, Ryan Campbell from the BC Liberals and Nathan Giede from the BC Conservatives for a discussion of BC's issue-less election, the disastrous BC Liberal campaign, the place of social conservatism in BC politics and the relevance of the BC Greens.  With the BC Ecosocialists declining to run candidates in the election, Jeremy Stewart has left the panel and Cheryl Wiens' substitute, Wes Regan, was unable to join the call. 

Cheryl Wiens of the Greens, Nathan Giede of the Tories, Ryan Campbell of the Liberals, Sam Schechter of the NDP and Jeremy Stewart of the BC Ecosocialists discuss the drug poisoning epidemic, the return to school and the correctly-predicted imminent election call. Sorry for the three-day delay in putting this one up. Those in the know might know I've been a tad busy.

I interview Rebecca Smith, Executive Director of Surrey Hospice Society about the challenges of providing hospice care during Covid, the tough decisions she has had to take regarding staffing, programming and a shrinking budget, and then I interview Donna Flood, who does the same job in Prince George, who tells us a very different story. While there are important commonalities between these interviews about grief, loss, community and their interaction with Covid, the differences are the subject of a short post-show editorial.