We interview a local social entrepreneur and school trustee for District 57 (Prince George), Trent Derrick, along with Joanne Hapke, President of the SD57 BCTF and Andrea Beckett, President of the SD57 District Parent Advisory Committee. On BC's back-to-school plans and how they are going to shake down locally here in Prince George and the Upper Fraser. 

Nicole Lindsay, an organizer of the August 31st Prince George vigil for families who have lost loved ones in the drug poisoning crisis speaks about her experience of losing her son to the epidemic and the need to move beyond discourses of overdose and addiction. Scott Costen the Canadian correspondent for Redaction Politics, a new leftist news source for the Anglosphere talks Maritime politics, police violence and the Green Party leadership race. 

We finished my first year as a radio broadcaster with the BC politics panel, featuring our regulars, the NDP's Sam Schechter, the BC Liberals' Ryan Campbell, the BC Greens' Cheryl Wiens and the BC Tories' Nathan Giede. Filling in for BC Ecosocialist  Jeremy Stewart was UNBC's Nicole Lindsay, former editor of BC Hansard.

This week, we discussed how to do "big tent" politics in BC, especially with respect to social conservatism. We also spent some time considering whether there is a "third rail" in BC politics as there is or was in the US

I spend a little under an hour interviewing Harold Steves about BC politics, eco-politics and socialism, past and present. Harold has served as a Richmond city councilor for nearly fifty years, following three years as the member of the BC legislature for Richmond.

There has been a lot of bad news in Canadian journalism the past year with the developments at the Toronto Now, Georgia Straight, Metro and Torstar. The one bright spot has been the arrival of the Narwhal, providing not just non-profit, ecologically conscious journalism but old school investigative reporting with close editing, travel budgets and a careful careful research. We interview their newest journalist, Matt Simmons, the BC Northwest beat reporter. But before that, we check-in with Michael Demers, our regular sports reporter, on the rush back to work by Anglo America's main sports leagues.

In honour of the holiday weekend, we recorded a whole episode on barbecuing. Our first interviewee was June Starkey, an an Adjunct Professor of Education at the University of Toronto's OISE, speaking after her successful cottage country barbecue near Prince Edward County. She was followed by Culinary Institute of America-trained executive chef Edward Kopp in Brooklyn. Ron Shewchuk, PR flak, award-winning competitive barbecuer and barbecuing cookbook author, both of who talked about the relationship between barbecuing and grilling, while passing on some solid culinary ideas.

Over the last weekend of July, the BC Politics panel of Missing Peter Gzowski in Prince George met to discuss the ethics of a fall election. John Horgan has been talking about ending the Confidence and Supply Agreement with the Green Party as early as September. Is this legal? Is this ethical? Is this good for regular folks in BC?

This episode welcomed Cheryl Wiens as our permanent Green Party representative. She joined the NDP's Sam Schechter, BC Liberals' Ryan Campbell and the Ecosocialists' Jeremy Stewart. The BC Tories' Nathan Giede was not able to join us from his long work assignment in Churchill MB.

This show, we interviewed Martha Rans, head of the Artists Legal Outreach Clinic, whose practice of providing pro-bono legal advice to artists is becoming a Canada-wide enterprise. This was followed with an interview with my romantic partner Corey Matthews on her up coming show at Two Rivers Gallery in Prince George as well as landscapes, reservoirs and the kinds of things Martha's organization seeks to protect artists from.

I am teaching three courses at UNBC this fall on The Indian Rim Since Antiquity, Historiography and Early Modern World history. So, to promote enrollment in my classes, I thought I would feature a sample on my show. So, what you will hear on today's podcast are excerpts from my lecture on the idea of landscape, delivered at Simon Fraser University last spring.

Anthony Dunn, one of our UK election commentators was back for a wide-ranging chat about the state of the post-Brexit scene. The model for the Captain Morgan painting on the Anglosphere's most illustrious mid-priced rum, he has variously worked as an assembly line factor worker, used car dealer, tour guide, university lecturer, TV actor, West End stage leading man and Ibizan dance instructor/comedian/sex worker. He grew up in Norfolk in a working class Anglo-Indian household.  He recently had a letter on class analysis published in Private Eye Magazine.