BC Liberal leader Andrew Wilkinson joins the Jon McComb show to respond to comments made by the Premier last week over the spending scandal that has rocked the legislature.  Are the BC Liberals at fault for letting the spending fester out of control for so long?

Last week marked a ribbon cutting on a $5 million dollar expansion of Abbotsford Airport, as it aims to compete with Bellingham International as North America’s top low cost airport. In conjunction with low-cost airlines, how is it disrupting the air travel market?

350 first responders and mental health experts will converge on Richmond from Thursday for a three day conference examining the unique challenges police officers, firefighters and ambulance and dispatch workers face on the frontline.

How did it happen that the senior officers of the legislature were exempted from scrutiny on their spending habits? The Vancouver Sun's Vaughn Palmer is here with his take on the day's headlines.

The Premier has denied a request by BC Liberal leader Andrew Wilkinson for a ‘political ceasefire’ over the expenses and entitlements scandal rocking the BC legislature.  Premier John Horgan joined the show to tell us what his government plans to do to curb the alleged abuses going on at the legislature.

The lawyer for those formerly accused in the now defunct e-pirate money laundering case isn’t happy with how Attorney-General David Eby is handling the money laundering file.  In an opinion piece in The Province Newspaper, lawyer Matthew Nathanson takes aim at what he calls Eby’s ‘naked politicking’ and compares the A-G to Donald Trump.  We spoke to him about why he wrote the Op Ed and his views on Eby’s handling of the money laundering file.

There was a crowd of more than 400 people for the all candidate meeting in Nanaimo.  This reinforcing the idea of a high level of interest in the by-election. The top issue was the fallout from the Provincial Government's response to the removal of tent city.

It turns out B.C. has few friends among the provinces but we might be doing better than Quebec who has bigger rivals.  Canada is a big country and with a family this large, not everyone is going to get along and a new Angus Reid poll shows some family feuds between the provinces.

We look at if it’s time for a reset on expense entitlements of politicians, after the flagrant spending revealed in the Plecas report.  We talk to Steve Chaplin, who was involved in writing the bylaws relating to spending back in 2012.

Canada’s top Chinese diplomat is raising eyebrows after telling a Chinese media only news conference in Toronto this week that Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou has a ‘strong case to fight extradition to the US’.  Is There any validity to such a statement?

The RCMP’s workplace culture has been called ‘dysfunctional,’ proven to have affected their policing ability and derailed decades of attempts at reform. Can civilian oversight change that? Global News examines the RCMP’s culture, as part of a week long series.

We are getting the first public comments from Speaker Darryl Plecas who says he wants the money back after allegations of misuse of funds at the legislature.  The Province newspaper's Michael Smyth is here with his take on the day's headlines.

This is Making Cents of the Markets with Senior Vice President & Sr. Portfolio Mgr at Raymond James Lori Pinkowski.  As always if you have any questions you can contact her team directly at 604-915-LORI or visit pinkowski.ca.

Continuing coverage of the spending practices at the Legislature.  The wood splitter and trailer have surfaced on the grounds of the legislature.  The Vancouver Sun's Vaughn Palmer is here with his take on the day's headlines.

Is the wealth gap getting bigger?  Every day last year, the fortunes of billionaires grew by a whopping $3.3 billion, while the rest of us saw our wealth fall. We talk to Oxfam Director of Policy and Campaigns, Lauren Ravon about whether or not any changes have occured in the inequality gap?

-A long term study by researchers at SFU has found tests widely used to diagnose concussions in hockey players often miss important changes to brain function.  Which begs the question “Are we sending players back out onto the ice too early”?

After those topics we bring in Burnaby Mayor Mike Hurley for Mayors Day to talk everything from Demovictions to Pipelines.