The Jas Johal Show
The Jas Johal Show is the Lower Mainland’s town square, helping you connect with the stories that matter. It’s about finding the solutions to the challenges facing our region, even when we disagree. Jas’s decades of experience as a local news reporter, a Global News bureau chief in China and India, as well as a BC MLA have strengthened his conviction that no one “side” has all the answers. The Global News Radio newsroom rounds out the team keeping you in the know on developing stories from the North Shore to the Fraser Valley. The Jas Johal Show provi...
The Jas Johal Show: Nov. 13, 2026
Today on The Jas Johal Show:
All flights in the states are grounded Surrey’s lone opposition councillor makes his stand The Great Outlook Outage of 2026
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Mining BC’s Future: BC Is Sitting On What the World Wants
GUEST: John Steen, director of the University of British Columbia’s Bradshaw Research Institute for Minerals and Mining
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The Jas Johal Show: Nov. 12, 2026
Today on The Jas Johal Show
Seeking a pause. The new Conservative government wants to commit to building a bridge Scandal and National Security Concerns. What’s next after Nvidia’s CEO resigns? Mining BC’s Future
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Trio of Canadians canoe 8,000km to raise funds
Guest host Rob Fai talks to Nolan Aziz, Fundraiser, Canoe’r’?
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Trio of Canadians canoe 8,000km to raise funds
Guest host Rob Fai talks to Nolan Aziz, Fundraiser, Canoe’r’?
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Have we lost our way with workplace ethics?
Guest host Rob Fai talks to Sandra Lavoy, Regional Vice President at Robert Half
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Taking care of your four-legged family members this winter
Guest host Rob Fai talks to Heather Quilty, Program Manager, Clinical Learning at VetStrategy
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Stories from our Canadian military
Guest host Rob Fai talks to Lieutenant Hamid (Sam) Hussam, Finance Officer at the Canadian Army Support Division HQ
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Special Olympics Canada recently launches 'Joy Is Gold’ campaign
Celebrating the joy, confidence, belonging and connection that sport creates for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities
Guest host Rob Fai talks to Gail Hamamoto, CEO, Special Olympics Canada
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As the fifth-year anniversary of the 2021 atmospheric river floods nears, how do we keep it from happening again?
Guest host Rob Fai talks to Andrew Platt, Regional Operations Manager, B.C., at First Onsite Property Restoration
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How are we ‘selling’ the military experience tothe next generation of Canadians?
Guest host Rob Fai talks to Lieutenant-Colonel Sandra Price, RMC’s Deputy Director of Cadet
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Four Grizzlies captured and destroyed in Bella Coola attack: is it time to lift hunting ban?
Guest host Rob Fai talks to Lana Ciarniello, Researcher with Aklak Wildlife Consulting, Co-Chair Human-Bear Conflicts Expert Team at the International Union for Conservation of Nature
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History and significance of the moment of silence at 11am 11/11, poppy, In Flanders Field
Guest host Rob Fai talks to Craig Baird, Host; Canadian History Ehx Podcast
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How did the Democrats let Pete Hegseth slip through the impeachment cracks?
Guest host Rob Fai talks to Reggie Cecchini, Washington Bureau Correspondent, Global News
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The Jas Johal Show: Nov. 10, 2026
Today on The Jas Johal Show:
Grizzly hunt debate Who Holds the CEO Accountable? Lessons From the Nvidia Scandal Mining BC’s Future: The World Wants B.C.’s minerals. Can Explorers Get to It?
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Who Holds the CEO Accountable? Lessons From the Nvidia Scandal
GUEST: Craig Hemer, Managing partner at Boydon Canada
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Mining BC’s Future: The World Wants B.C.’s minerals. Can Explorers Get to It?
GUEST: Todd Stone, President and CEO of Association for Mineral Exploration BC, Former BC Liberals MLA for Kamloops-South Thompson and Minister of Transportation
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The Jas Johal Show: Nov. 9, 2026
Pulling the Plug on the Massey Tunnel: Smart Savings or Costly Do-Over? (0:51)
Werner Antweiler, Associate Professor at UBC’s Sauder School of Business
Gas Bans in 30 B.C. Cities: Should the Province Override City Hall on Natural Gas? (14:54)
Bill Tielman, Director of B.C. Coalition for Affordable Dependable Energy
Nvidia’s CEO, an Alleged Chinese Spy, and What It Means for Canada (29:01)
Michel Juneau-Katsuya, former senior intelligence officer and manager at CSIS
Mortgage-Free Homeowners Still Get a Cheque. Should BC Kill the...
Nvidia’s CEO, an Alleged Chinese Spy, and What It Means for Canada
Michel Juneau-Katsuya, former senior intelligence officer and manager at CSIS
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The Jas Johal Show: Nov. 6, 2026
Missing the Boat: Why B.C. Keeps Losing the Ferry Funding Fight (0:51)
Eric McNeely, President of the BC Ferry and Marine Workers’ Union
Inside The House: Back to Work Before Christmas? Doerkson Eyes a Quick Fall Session (10:55)
Keith Baldrey, Global B.C. Legislative Bureau Chief
Ten Grand for a Mattress? Surrey’s Crackdown on Illegal Dumping (25:21)
Doug McCallum, Mayor of Surrey
380,000 or 600,000? The Immigration Number Ottawa Didn’t Count (34:52)
Barj Dhahan, Co-founder and director of the Canada India Educat...
The Jas Johal Political Happy Hour
Welcome to The Jas Johal Show Political Happy Hour — where the week’s best political conversations keep going.
This week:
New Sheriff, Empty Wallets: Doerkson’s Fast Start and the Findlay Money Flood. B.C.’s new government isn’t even sworn in yet, and it already wants back in the chamber. Lorne Doerkson is weighing a quick fall session before Christmas: smart move, or rookie rush? Then follow the money. Kerry-Lynne Findlay walked out the door, and Conservative donations poured in, including $800,000 in a single day, while NDP donors kept their wallets shut. Keith Baldrey breaks it...Inside The House: Back to Work Before Christmas? Doerkson Eyes a Quick Fall Session
Keith Baldrey, Global B.C. Legislative Bureau Chief
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The Jas Johal Show: Nov. 5, 2026
Budget 2026: Carney Bets Big on Canada - But Who Benefits? (0:43)
Mackenzie Gray, Global News Ottawa Correspondent
Budget 2026: Feds extend foreign buyers’ ban, while sparing new builds (15:30)
Michael Geller, President of The Geller Group, Architect, Planner and Real Estate Consultant
Mining B.C'.s Future: The Waiting Game: Why does it take so long to open a mine in B.C.? (28:03)
Michael Goehring, President and CEO of the Mining Association of British Columbia
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Mining B.C.'s Future: The Waiting Game: Why does it take so long to open a mine in B.C.?
Michael Goehring, President and CEO of the Mining Association of British Columbia
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The Jas Johal Show: Nov. 4, 2026
Trump’s Midterm Beating and Canada’s Leverage
GUEST: Maxwell Cameron, Professor at UBC’s Department of Political Science
Is Carney the Big Winner of the Midterms?
GUEST: Matt Stickney, Senior Partner at Quorum Strategies
The Massey Tunnel Nobody Wants to Finish
GUEST: Bryan Railton, Business Manager with the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 115
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Is Carney the Big Winner of the Midterms?
GUEST: Matt Stickney, Senior Partner at Quorum Strategies
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Is Your Town Ready for the Next Disaster?
GUEST: Michael Lee, former MLA for Vancouver-Langara and now Chief Strategy Officer at UrbanLogiq
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The Massey Tunnel Nobody Wants to Finish
GUEST: Bryan Railton, Business Manager with the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 115
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Mining B.C.'s Future - Striking Gold: Inside One of BC’s Biggest Mining Success Stories
Ryan Beedie, President of Beedie, and a member of Artemis Gold Inc.’s Board of Directors Steven Dean, executive chair, founder, and former CEO of Artemis Gold Inc.
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The Jas Johal Show: Nov. 3, 2026
Lame duck or Angry Duck: Is a Cornered Trump Worse for Canada?
GUEST: Julian Karaguesian, Lecturer at McGill University’s Department of Economics.
Bridge or Tunnel? The Bill for Changing Course on the Massey
The latest on the U.S Midterm elections
GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Global News Washington correspondent
MINING B.C’S FUTURE - Striking Gold: Inside One of BC’s Biggest Mining Success Stories
GUEST:
-Ryan Beedie, President of Beedie, and a member of Artemis Gold Inc.’s Board of Directors
The Jas Johal Show: Nov. 2, 2026
Canucks’ Practice Facility Hunt Moves Downtown. Is This the One? (0:42)
Patrick Johnston, Sports columnist for the Vancouver Sun and The Province
A Former NDP MLA Says Kill the Six-Plex Law (18:22)
Kathy Corrigan, former B.C. NDP MLA
Years in B.C.’s Backcountry: Brad Sills on a Life in Search and Rescue (48:51)
Brad Sills, Search and Rescue veteran, author of Echoes on the Wind: Fifty Years of Search and Rescue in British Columbia’s Coast Mountains
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Years in B.C.’s Backcountry: Brad Sills on a Life in Search and Rescue
Brad Sills, Search and Rescue veteran, author of Echoes on the Wind: Fifty Years of Search and Rescue in British Columbia’s Coast Mountains
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The Jas Johal Show: Oct. 30, 2026
Ottawa fast tracks Roberts Bank Terminal 2 (0:45)
Peter Xotta, President and CEO of the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority
Inside The House (9:47)
Keith Baldrey, Global B.C. Legislative Bureau Chief
Out With the Old, In With the New: Metro Vancouver Delays Budget Vote (23:58)
Dylan Kruger, Delta City councillor
B.C.’s permanent time shift: Could Your Calendar Be Wrong? (35:03)
Andy Baryer, Tech and Digital Lifestyle expert at HandyAndyMedia.com
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The Jas Johal Political Happy Hour
Welcome to The Jas Johal Show Political Happy Hour — where the week’s best political conversations keep going.
This week:
Keith Baldrey on the Conservative Sweep and the Cabinet Scramble (1:11) How the B.C. Conservatives Won: Inside the War Room with Dimitri Pantazopoulos (15:28) Geoff Meggs on What Went Wrong for the NDP (43:25)Pull up a chair. Fire up the expense account.
The Political Happy Hour starts now.
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Inside The House
Keith Baldrey, Global B.C. Legislative Bureau Chief
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The Jas Johal Show: Oct. 29, 2026
The NDP’s Wreckage: Can Jennifer Whiteside Rebuild? (1:10)
Ben O’Hara Byrne, Global B.C Legislative Reporter
Remembering Patrick Stewart: From a Yorkshire Outhouse to the Enterprise (10:54)
Rick Forchuk, TV Week Magazine columnist and CKNW contributor
A $14 Billion Hole and a $1,000 Promise: Can Doerkson Balance the Books? (19:00)
David Williams, Vice President of Policy for the Business Council of B.C.
Why RBC, TD and BMO Are Slamming the Door on AI Agents (43:59)
Carmi Levy, Technology Analyst & Jour...
Why RBC, TD and BMO Are Slamming the Door on AI Agents
Carmi Levy, Technology Analyst & Journalist
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A $14 Billion Hole and a $1,000 Promise: Can Doerkson Balance the Books?
David Williams, Vice President of Policy for the Business Council of B.C.
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Remembering Patrick Stewart: From a Yorkshire Outhouse to the Enterprise
Rick Forchuk, TV Week Magazine columnist and CKNW contributor
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The Jas Johal Show: Oct. 28, 2026
Higher Rates, Shakier Market: Sutton Group’s CEO on What’s Coming (0:54)
Ross McCredie, CEO and Chairman of Sutton Group
The Snap Election Disaster: Inside the NDP Collapse (25:52)
Michael Gardiner, Managing Partner at Current Public Affairs, former executive director of the BC NDP, was the director of John Horgan’s successful leadership campaign
Refugee Roots, Michelin Honours, and a Pop Star Who Couldn’t Stay Away (41:51)
Vincent Nguyen, Co-founder & owner Anh and Chi & Good Thief
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