The Orca Podcasts

Ongoing economic fallout from Coronavirus fears, the Vancouver area luxury home market continues to soften, and another bank profit surprises analysts.  Bob Price has all the details in the February 26 edition of the Orca Business Beat, brought to you by Simply Computing. 

Bob Price gets you up to speed with the business news that matters on the February 25 edition of The Orca Business Beat, brought to you by Simply Computing. 

A thunderclap in Canadian business, gold soars and more bank earnings are on the way this week.  Bob Price has all the details in the Monday, February 24 edition of The Orca Business Beat, brought to you by Simply Computing. 

Tough talk from Telus and the price of gold is suddenly at a 7 year high.   Bob Price gets you fully up to date on the business happenings with the February 21 edition of The Orca Business Beat, brought to you by Simply Computing.  

Welcome to UnSpun - The Orca's current events podcast and YouTube show. Every week, Jody Vance and George Affleck unspin the latest news in local, provincial, federal politics, and much more.

In this week's episode Jody and George focus on the challenges politicians are having behind closed doors on what to do with the spiralling out of control protests; speaking of spiralling out of control, it was budget week in Victoria and guess what, taxes are going up; speaking of taxes, how much will it cost to have Olympics 2030 and can we pull it off again; and finally, because we could not take our eyes off it, the Democratic debate and the addition of Mayor Mike Bloomberg — good or bad, it sure livened things up.

Yet more fallout from those anti pipeline protests, a higher cost has led to lower support for the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, and Home Depot is hiring!  Bob Price has these stories and more in the 02-20-2020 edition of The Orca Business Beat, brought to you by Simply Computing. 

Jordan Bateman and Maclean Kay were both in Victoria for Budget 2020, and weigh in on everything from the surplus (razor thin!), new revenue streams (read: taxes), and whether it’s ever appropriate to protest at someone’s house. (No, it’s not. Ever.)

Some key numbers in the latest BC budget, Ottawa's mortgage stress test is easing, and the price of gold is on the rise.  Bob Price has this and more in the February 19 edition of The Orca Business Beat, brought to you by Simply Computing. 

Budget day in BC, another well known retailer closing shop, and another bank planning layoffs.  Bob Price has these stories and more in the February 18 edition of The Orca Business Beat, brought to you by Simply Computing. 

Welcome to UnSpun - The Orca's current events podcast and YouTube show. Every week, Jody Vance and George Affleck unspin the latest news in local, provincial, federal politics, and much more.

In this week's episode Jody and George go deep into the protests taking place in Vancouver, Victoria and across Canada and how this hot button issue is dividing how we govern; then coronavirus has us asking” “what would you do if you couldn’t leave a quarantined cruise ship for weeks and weeks?” and finally the fate of golf courses in Vancouver, green space for all or development site for condos — you be the judge.