Welcome to UnSpun - your 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.

This week, Jody and George end the year with a look back and a look forward. From Trump to Trudeau, healthcare to police, parks to people, and the positive versus the negative. It’s 30 minutes you must not miss at UnSpunpodcast.com

Happy New Year, everyone!

Welcome to UnSpun - your 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.

This week, Jody and George dig into the politics of the Vancouver Park Board and the historic decision by the City of Vancouver to ask the Province of BC to dismantle the elected board. Will the province comply or leave Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim hanging and hung out to dry? Maybe. But the only question that should be asked is: Will Vancouver have better parks and recreation with the removal of what has become the most divisive, dare it be said, redundant, elected bodies in Canada?

But wait, there is more. Your tax hike in Vancouver got snuck in there with all the chaos of the Park Board debate and some good news: location restrictions for alcohol sales in Vancouver, a kind of prohibition, were lifted this week. All that and more on UnSpunpodcast.com

Welcome to UnSpun - your 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.

This week, Jody and George are 100% focused on the big news in Vancouver where the mayor announced a process to dismantle the elected park board, the only elected park board in Canada. This decision spiralled into some internal politics of the ruling ABC party in Vancouver, along with the formation of the pro-park board movement and the potential ramifications this will all have in the next election in Vancouver but also in BC. Juicy stuff and some good back stories of the back room. All that and more on UnSpunpodcast.com

Welcome to UnSpun - your 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.

This week, Jody and George gear up for Christmas where only in Vancouver the gift that keeps on giving in politics is related bike lanes and Christmas trains. Never you mind, there’s always budget reviews to keep you enthralled, even if one of them is months behind and too little too late. And finally, is it over for Prime Minister Trudeau? George makes one of his dependable predictions. #georgefact

All that and more on UnSpunpodcast.com

Welcome to UnSpun - your 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.

This week, Jody and George wonder if the people of Vancouver will receive an “emotional rescue” after they read the details of Vancouver’s annual budget, which includes an almost 10% increase in spending and no restraint of any kind. Whyyyyyy? But one thing is for sure: Surrey will literally have to take a Vancouver-style budget to the bank when they see real policing costs, representing 23% of a $2 billion budget in Vancouver—that is a lot of dough. And finally, speaking of emotional rescues, why does the latest video from Mayor Ken Sim about the Rolling Stones coming to Vancouver seem so cringeworthy? It does. But it shouldn’t All that and more on UnSpunpodcast.com

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Welcome to UnSpun - your 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.

This week, Jody and George dig into why politicians think they can play both sides of an issue. From wars on the other side of the globe to events in our backyard, as the saying goes, they can’t have their cake and eat it too. Meanwhile, in Vancouver, election 2026 seems to already be underway, with local political antics becoming a supercharged spin—and UnSpun loves a good spin story. And finally, Surrey police and whether or not Mayor Locke is winning the PR battle. She might be... All that and more on UnSpunpodcast.com

Welcome to UnSpun - your 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.

This week, Jody and George celebrate (?) the one-year anniversary of Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim and his ABC Vancouver party’s sweeping victory. The reviews are in, and so far they seem to be on track, but is that mostly related to a train ride in Stanley Park? Heck, even if Ken Sim or any other mayor in the region wanted to claim victory for achievements, the BC Provincial government is stealing their thunder and their power after yet another major legislation change that impacts housing decision-making and how little municipal governments have a say in it. If this keeps happening, it begs the question: Why do we even have local governments? And finally, Hilary Clinton makes some sense of it all—not Vancouver—the world right now. Find out why. All that and more on UnSpunpodcast.com