PolitiCoast Podcast

The House of Commons is back with a predictable throne speech and the BC legislature wraps up with predictable time allocation.

The post Ep 267: BC Renewal Party appeared first on PolitiCoast.

How did our politicians react to the floods ravaging BC and the latest legislation introduced at the end of the session

The post Ep 266: The atmospheric river appeared first on PolitiCoast.

The Conservatives announce their shadow cabinet and other federal updates.

The post Ep 265: Anti-anti-masker shadow cabinet appeared first on PolitiCoast.

Urgently needed action will occur after a reasonable period.

The post Ep 264: Low hanging economic fruit appeared first on PolitiCoast.

More bills, CleanBC 2.0 and a new cabinet

The post Ep 263: Prepare to be disappointed appeared first on PolitiCoast.

Two major new bills from the BCNDP.

The post Ep 262: Free the trees appeared first on PolitiCoast.

Aaron Gunn is officially wants to be in the race for leader of the BC Liberals but other contestants are divided over whether he should get the green light.

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Trudeau goes to Tofino, Annamie Paul calls it quits, the BC Leg is back and Toronto loses at the Supreme Court.

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The election is over and everyone lost, except Stewart Prest, who called it.

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It's the final countdown!

The post Ep 257: A nonzero percent chance appeared first on PolitiCoast.

Ian and Scott react to the English language leader's debate, live on YouTube

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A look at the past week of the campaign and the Liberal platform.

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Is Trudeau regretting his election call as much as BC is regretting the fourth wave?

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David Moscrop returns to discuss the start of the 44th Canadian Election and the policy promises made in the first week.

The post Ep 253: Campaign Kick Off appeared first on PolitiCoast.

The election is (almost) underway with a scheduled start and the NDP releasing their platform. And we check in on the Greatest Premier Bracket

The post Ep 252: And They’re (almost) Off appeared first on PolitiCoast.

We kick off the greatest premier bracket looking at 14 (of 16) of the first non-partisan premiers of BC.

The post Ep 251: Greatest Premier Bracket – The non-partisan premiers preliminary round appeared first on PolitiCoast.

Two hundred and fifty episodes down

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It’s another emergency, both in BC and in the Federal Green Party

The post Ep 249: The Scheduled Emergency Pod appeared first on PolitiCoast.

With a rumoured federal election only days or weeks away, we break down each party's goals, challenges, and what we want to see from them.

The post Ep 248: The Election Speculation Episode appeared first on PolitiCoast.

We have a new Governor General, which must mean we're having a federal election.

The post Ep 247: A hopefully less embarrassing pick appeared first on PolitiCoast.

Was Canada Day cancelled this year?

The post Ep 246: Cancelada Day appeared first on PolitiCoast.

A check in on federal politics as the House rises for summer break

The post Ep 245: Kindness Week appeared first on PolitiCoast.

We dive into reports on the BC Liberals election loss and the state of housing in BC.

The post Ep 244: Failures in elections; failures in housing appeared first on PolitiCoast.

Deferrals in old growth logging and Green fractures

The post Ep 243: Who speaks for the trees? appeared first on PolitiCoast.

We reflect on the terrible discovery in Kamloops and check out the new forestry intentions paper.

The post Ep 242: Every child matters appeared first on PolitiCoast.

Lowering the voting age and restarting again.

The post Ep 241: Teenagers are scary appeared first on PolitiCoast.

Hotel workers fight to save their jobs and candidates line themselves up to run

The post Ep 240: BC’s Unequal Women appeared first on PolitiCoast.

The end is nigh for safe BC Liberal seats in Northern BC and the BCNDP's paid sick leave policy seems like too little, too late.

The post Ep 239: We have sick leave at home appeared first on PolitiCoast.

NACI muddies the vaccination waters and partisan allegations tarnish the reputation of a rehab clinic.

The post Ep 238: Preferred vaccines appeared first on PolitiCoast.

BC Today‘s Shannon Waters fills in for Ian for a discussion of the BC Government’s COVID communication challenges and the legislation making it way through the BC Legislature. Main Segment Links Do not pass Go. (Unless you want to, I guess? Nobody’s stopping you.) All bark and no bite? Still no enforcement of B.C. travel...

The post Ep 237: Failures to Communicate appeared first on PolitiCoast.

We compare and contrast the new federal and provincial budgets and rant once more about the (non) response to COVID-19.

The post Ep 236: Budgets, budgets everywhere appeared first on PolitiCoast.

MLAs are back in the legislature for a new throne speech and new bills and Erin O’Toole comes around on the carbon tax

The post Ep 235: War on carbon appeared first on PolitiCoast.

Our interview with BC Liberal Leadership hopeful Gavin Dew and a crossover with Unbound

The post Ep 234: Do the Dew appeared first on PolitiCoast.

Circuit breakers, emergency brakes and no brakes as provinces deal with spiking covid cases, which is all us young people’s fault.

The post Ep 233: Get off my lawn energy appeared first on PolitiCoast.

Shannon Waters returns to recap the most recent session of the legislature and then we look the Supreme Court of Canada’s finding that the federal carbon tax is constitutional.

The post Ep 232: Not doing better and not doing more appeared first on PolitiCoast.

Housing Minister David Eby overrules Penticton City Council to keep a supportive housing project open. And Bill C-7 becomes law, expanding Canada’s medical assistance in dying regime.

The post Ep 231: By the power of statutory immunity appeared first on PolitiCoast.

It’s been a bad week and a half of headlines for Erin O’Toole’s Conservatives. Their upcoming convention presents the chance to turn things around or create further headaches for the new leader.

The post Ep 230: Steady drip of troubles in CPC HQ appeared first on PolitiCoast.

John Horgan moves ahead with a dam and unleashes the legislative floodwaters with a raft of new bills.

The post Ep 229: No cannons for kids appeared first on PolitiCoast.

We respond to some feedback on our alleged anti-Green bias and a roundup of smaller stories from the past week.

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The Liberals introduce new gun control and justice reform bills and China continues to befuddle Canadian foreign policy.

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