Adam Stirling: The Podcast

ICBC’s new driver-based rate model will model rates based on each driver’s 10-year driving history. Incidences will now follow the driver, not the vehicle. ICBC states that the changes are meant to reward safe drivers and to hold drivers with at-fault crashes and serious driving convictions accountable.

Adam discusses B.C.s failure to get Uber onto the island and the new housing development in View Royal.

Adam discusses B.C.'s dismal cannabis sales and the so-called “self-help” kits no longer used to resolve employment standards complaints

Legally speaking with Michael Mulligan and the removal of Victoria's beloved tree.

Only P.E.I, with roughly the same population as Victoria and Sanncih, sold less weed then B.C. While the black market proliferates. 

The much loved tree on Humboldt is gone forever, did council give the public a chance at saving it?

Today, the B.C. NDP government announced that the Employment Standards Branch will no longer require workers to use the so-called “self-help” kit to resolve employment standards complaints. The self-help kit forced workers to first file workplace complaints with their employer before a worker could reach out to the Branch for help.

New mixed-housing development coming to View Royal, on the old Thetis Lake campground site.

Adam and Michael discuss the legal news of the world.

Uber will not be coming to Victoria any time soon, despite political promises. 

Adam discusses the complicated world behind our pensions and the BCGEU calling on the B.C. government to scrap detrimental pension rules. He also had Ned Taylor, Sannich Councillor speak about the possibility of allowing food trucks, vendors and other commercial goodies being allowed in our parks. 

Adam speaks with Michael Curry on the opioid crisis, the upcoming trial against the producers of the drug and the horrendous effect of being addicted to these narcotics.  Also speaks with Cheryl Wooley on the Feds launch of an “innovative tool” to help first time, middle class home buyers, buy their first home.

Adam discusses the uptake in crime in our city, the upcoming report on the prices of fuel and the opioid crisis, the necessity of pain relief and the trial against the producers of the drug. 

Adam opens up the phone lines to a variety of topics discussed earlier in the day.

Feds launch “innovative tool” to help first time, middle class home buyers, buy their first home.

Adam discusses how Purdue had influenced and mislead doctors in prescribing opioids to patients when it may have not been necessary.

Sannich Councillor Ned Taylor gives his input on the future of food truck and other commodities in our parks.

Defined benefit pension plans are the best way to guarantee your retirement security, but in B.C. they are subject to a type of valuation that can paradoxically weaken their value.

Large Majorities of Canadians Endorse Poutine, Pineapple on Pizza. Adam's studio guest, Mario Canseco, president, Research Co. speaks on Canadian food preferences + Taxpayers want Prime Minister Trudeau to tear down 24 Sussex.  Aaron Wudrick, federal director, Canadian Taxpayers Federation speaks on that

There is a crisis on our streets and the fallout is concentrated on the boulevard in front of Our Place. Adam speaks with studio guest, director of communications, Grant McKenzie, Our Place Society on the need for enough overnight shelter beds to accommodate the homeless + Adam Sherk, post-doctoral fellow at the University of Victoria’s Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research (CIS...

A brand new $18.5-million overpass is coming to a busy intersection of the Patricia Bay Highway. According to an announcement made by the District of Central Saanich and the federal government Monday, a new "flyover" overpass will be coming to the Keating Cross Road intersection of the highway, allowing drivers who are travelling northbound on the highway to access the popular street without havin...

An overwhelming amount of Canadians have feelings towards the deliciousness or disdain towards the prolific pineapple on pizza. 

Cigarettes and food are labeled to keep the public aware of what exactly is going into their bodies. So why isn't alcohol?

The unsolved murder of a Metchosin man coinciding with the timing of two escaped inmates from a nearby prison has local residents feeling unsafe. Mayor Stew Young wants answers. 

Our Place Society is one of the few institutions actively trying to mitigate the homeless and addictions problems Victoria faces. So why are they under attack?