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Trudeau calls one byelection but snubs Jagmeet Singh and Burnaby South, while voters in Nanaimo will be looking at a provincial (and maybe? federal byelection) soon. Controversies continue to surround the proportional representation referendum as we approach the big Horgan v Wilkinson debate. And Trudeau unveils his carbon pollution pricing scheme (it's not a tax anymore). Also: Ian will be at Van...

Proportional representation: A fairer vote or the path to chaos? How should British Columbians choose their elected officials? That question is being put to the province this fall as the current first-past-the-post electoral system is put against three variations of proportional representation. At this panel, moderated by the hosts of the BC politics podcast PolitiCoast, the Hon Suzanne Anton QC s...

Speculation tax, employer health tax and cannabis is legal

We speak to Alyson Tan, founder of Policy Pop-Up, a new effort to engage millennials in conversations about complex policy issues that are in the news. Then we look at BC's Auditor General's latest report on tax expenditures, why the homebuyer credit is bad and why transparency is good. And the IPCC has a new report out basically conceding that no one is doing enough to stop catastrophic climate c...

BC Today's Shannon Waters joins us for an update on the first week of the legislature's fall sitting, BC's LNG deal and NAFTA 2.0: USMCA.

Scott speaks to BC's Attorney General David Eby about the money laundering inquiry and the upcoming fall session.

The Conservatives gain a new MP through a surprise floor crossing from the Liberals. BC is going to have one single cannabis store open on October 17 but you'll have to drive to Kamloops to visit it. But first, we respond to feedback around Doug Ford's decision to invoke the notwithstanding clause (and why it's off the table again). Plus quick takes on Senator Larry Campbell's hot water, tent citi...

Maxime Bernier's launched his new party: The People's Party of Canada and everyone's already made the requisite PP jokes. Meanwhile in Ontario a court ruling invalidated Doug Ford's attempt to halve the size of Toronto's City Council, so naturally he is invoking the Notwithstanding Clause to overrule the courts. And one former BC premier decided to weigh in with her thoughts on the matter. Everyth...

We check in on Canada's desperate attempts to save NAFTA and how BC's paper industry narrowly avoided massive US tariffs.

In this episode, we talk to our resident legal analyst Micah Goldberg about BC's lawsuit against big pharma, the Federal Court of Appeal's ruling crushing the TransMountain pipeline expansion and the Sasquatch case. Then we look at what happened at the federal Conservative convention and we talk about how partisan we should be when a controversial figure like John McCain dies. Plus our usual handf...

BC Today's Shannon Waters joins us for our 100th episode live show! We talk about what the legislature's been up to over the summer and what's coming up this fall. Then we get into Maxime Bernier's decision to split from the Conservative Party of Canada to launch a new party. Then we have quick(ish) takes on Christy Clark's podcast reemergence and who the best BC cabinet members are. And we close...

Next week, join us at The Belmont in Vancouver for our episode 100 live show at 7pm on August 23. RSVP at politicoast.eventbrite.com Fires, statues and Conservatives - with political scientist Stewart Prest. BC is on fire, again. We break down whether this is the new normal and how we can derive some hope for better politics in an emergency. Then we get into the statue debate set off in Victoria w...