PolitiCoast

We talk about his upcoming book: Are we too dumb for democracy? Jagmeet Singh's decision to run in Burnaby South and the war of words between Saudi Arabia and Canada. Plus our usual quick takes. RSVP for our ep 100 live show! https://politicoast.eventbrite.com Sign up for our Patreon to hear the full episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/uncut-ep-98-too-20678380

Fair Vote Canada's Keith Poore joins us to break down the upcoming proportional representation referendum, and what MMP and Rural Urban Proportional Representation are.

Canada's premiers meet in New Brunswick, but did they accomplish anything? And a shooting in Toronto prompts a national outcry for gun reform. Plus quick takes on pipelines, Site C and more.

Ian's back from vacation so we have a full show to catch up on everything bcpoli. First, we talk all things salmon with BC Green MLA Adam Olsen. Then catching up on BC politics we look at Greyhound's decision to pull out of Western Canada, the BC government's labour infrastructure deal and kicking the ridesharing can down the road. We also talk about Trudeau's latest cabinet shuffle and then we're...

We spoke to Sean Graham, creator of dual member proportional, one of the systems on the upcoming electoral reform referendum.

We spoke to Patrick Meehan about a report he wrote for the Alliance of BC Students detailing a simple solution to student housing and how it's resulting in thousands of new spaces for next to no cost to the government.

BC's casinos are being used to launder money by the millions. Ian speaks to BC's Attorney General David Eby about the shocking details in the Dirty Money report by Peter German. Plus we look at the latest updates in the upcoming campaign for the PR referendum.

We dive into the MSP Task Force report with Lindsay Tedds and play part of an interview with The Docket's Michael Spratt and BC Humanist Association pro-bono counsel Wes McMillan on the Supreme Court of Canada's TWU decision. Plus a litany of quick takes from a surprisingly busy week.

MLA Leonard Krog announces a run for Mayor of Nanaimo but will only resign his seat if he wins. Maxime Bernier gets kicked out of Andrew Scheer's shadow cabinet for continuing to question supply management. And Ian speaks with the Out of Left Field crew about why the NDP can't seem to win elections. Check out their feed at https://soundcloud.com/outofleftfieldpodcast for the full discussion.

A grab-bag of bcpoli news including pipelines, electoral reform and more. Plus we end with our first reactions to the Ontario election results as they broke.

Canada and the USA go to war over steel, maple syrup and toilet paper. Meanwhile details emerge about BC's fall electoral referendum and we check in on the state of the Ontario election with TVO's John Michael McGrath.

The Government of Canada announced it will drop $4.5 billion to buy the Trans Mountain Expansion Pipeline, will provide a loan to restart construction immediately and will fund the project to completion if it has to before selling it off. It's a big deal so we brought you an emergency podcast.

Rachel Notley uses the Western Premiers Meeting to try again to make the case for the Transmountain Pipeline while BC files suit against her Bill 12. Kinder Morgan also won two more lawsuits while they face another. Then, we turn our attention to the first year of Andrew Scheer's leadership over the Conservative Party of Canada.

The BC NDP are in hot water for deleted emails by senior staff and cabinet ministers. And the federal government looks to indemnify the Kinder Morgan pipeline from BC judicial actions.

Jillian P Stead, of the new podcast Majority of BC, joins us to look back at the year since the fateful 2017 BC election.

The rich are in revolt and some are calling for UBC to censor economist Tom Davidoff. So we brought Tom back to walk us through the school tax and how he's coping. Plus we look at David Eby's decision to cancel a town hall and Mike Harcourt's decision to interject himself into the debate.

The Government has filed its reference question with the BC Court of Appeal and dropped its new cannabis legislation. One question that we're still waiting for is the electoral reform referendum, and it's sounding like we'll have to wait until the fall for it.

The Supreme Court of Canada has returned its ruling in the Comeau beer case, so we invited Micah back on the show to help us break it down. That leads us into the constitutional questions that surround the Kinder Morgan TransMountain pipeline. Finally we get into the latest pipeline politics.

The Kinder Morgan TransMountain pipeline debate finally exploded. Kinder Morgan announced a pause on all non-essential construction and will cancel the project by May 31st if it doesn't extract guarantees from the federal and provincial governments. Naturally, everyone responded calmly and rationally - just kidding! Then, we take a diversion from pipelines to talk with criminal defence attorney Ky...

Rob Shaw and Richard Zussman are authors of the new bestseller A Matter of Confidence, which tells the stories behind the headlines from the end of the Gordon Campbell era through to the inauguration of John Horgan.

Carole James announces updates to the speculation tax that will see fewer people charged less tax but it will raise the same amount of money. Then we dive into Nanaimo politics with Jesse Woodward to find out why a city councillor was charged with assault and a city manager was charged with uttering threats. Finally, Michael Spratt joins us to break down the federal Liberal's new justice reform bi...

The BC NDP announced a wave of new LNG subsidies to try to do what the Clark Liberals couldn't: Make LNG work in BC. Then BC has a connection to the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica data breach. Plus quick takes on polls and new gun laws (and more).

John Horgan's NDP effectively killed Vancouver's chance to be a part of the 2026 FIFA World Cup: Was it an epic save or an own goal? Then we follow up last week's conversation with a look at the results of the Ontario PC leadership contest. It was a mess and Doug Ford won. And check out Ian's new podcast: Cambie Report, coming soon to cover Vancouver municipal politics

John Michael McGrath of TVO's The Agenda on Politics joins us to break down what the heck has been going on in Ontario politics for the past couple weeks as we careen toward the Ontario PC Leadership race this weekend. Then BC Today's Shannon Waters talks about what it's like covering the BC Legislature and she sticks around to run through our gamut of quick takes.

We heard you liked our last episode on the BC budget so we followed it up with even more budget takes! We start with more followup reactions to the BC Budget before diving into the federal government's Equality + Growth 2018 Budget.