PolitiCoast: The BC Politics Podcast

BC Today’s Shannon Waters ( @sobittersosweet ) fills in for Scott this week and helps recap the past few months of BC politics. Then we look at the PEI election results with reactions from Vancouver Green Councillor Adriane Carr. Check out our partner: BC Today is the daily newsletter dedicated exclusively to BC Politics. Sign up for a free two-week trial and listen to the episode for your c...

Ian takes the main part of the episode to ramble about the recent Alberta election and what it means for BC with some interjections from Scott. Plus our usual quick takes. Thanks to Cambie Report ‘s Matthew Naylor for the intro tune. Check out our partner: BC Today is the daily newsletter dedicated exclusively to BC Politics. Sign up for a free two-week trial and listen to the episode for yo...

Thanks to SFU Public Square for allowing us to share the audio from their recent debate . Here’s their information: Is Social Media Destroying Democracy? A Debate on Social Media in the  Age of Disinformation Democracy, the fundamental idea that an individual can express their personal choices through a vote, hangs in the balance. There’s no denying that social media has become a centra...

In an effort not to let the scandal that’s been plaguing his government for months die, Justin Trudeau has threatened the Official Opposition Leader Andrew Scheer with a libel lawsuit. Meanwhile, ousted Liberal MP Jane Philpott accused the Prime Minister of violating the Reform Act. Then, we interview the four panellists of an SFU Public Square and BC Civil Discourse Society debate on whethe...

The NDP lose their first vote as the BC Liberals possibly set a new precedent for how speakers will break ties in the Legislature. The party’s financial situations paint a rosy picture for the NDP, however, and a bleak one for the Liberals. On the SNC scandal, Jody Wilson-Raybould releases a recorded conversation, which gets her and Jane Philpott kicked out of the Liberal caucus. Is there an...

Ridehailing is coming to BC… eventually. LNG is really coming though. And of course SNC continues to engulf the Prime Minister’s Office. Finally, women in the BC Legislature protest for the #RightToBareArms Check out our partner: BC Today is the daily newsletter dedicated exclusively to BC Politics. Sign up for a free two-week trial and listen to the episode for your code for an exclus...

Recorded over beers at Big Rock Urban, we talk to friend of the pod, David Moscrop, about his new book Too Dumb For Democracy. We also look at the federal budget and the litany of news around the SNC Lavalin affair. Plus our usual quick takes. And let us know if we should record more episodes in the pub! Check out our partner: BC Today is the daily newsletter dedicated exclusively to BC Politics....

The BC Government is looking to make it easier for the government to take your stuff. We talk to the BCCLA’s Counsel (Policy) Meghan McDermott about why that is bad. Plus, another week of updates to the SNC Lavalin affair. And quick takes on Brexit and BC politics. Check out our partner: BC Today is the daily newsletter dedicated exclusively to BC Politics. Sign up for a free two-week trial...

Scott reacts to Trudeau’s morning press conference. Sorry for the repost. We had to repost a few updates following some updates with our server.

Yes, more SNC Lavalin drama as former PMO Principal Secretary Gerald Butts speaks his truth to the Justice Committee and PCO Clerk Michael Wernick returns for round two. Then, we welcome back friend of the pod and lawyer Micah to break down the recent BC Court of Appeal ruling vindicating his prediction that the Park Board would ultimately triumph over the Vancouver Aquarium. Plus, in BC Politics...

More SNC drama as Jody Wilson-Raybould delivers an explosive testimony at the Justice Committee. Meanwhile three federal byelections deliver few interesting results but we’ll break them down anyway. Oh and Andrew Wilkinson thinks renting is just a “wacky time” people live by choice. Check out our partner: BC Today is the daily newsletter dedicated exclusively to BC Politics. Sign...

The 2019 BC Budget is out to the luke-warmest of receptions. Meanwhile at LAMC, Speaker Darryl Plecas straight out calls the Clerk and Sergeant-at-Arms liars. And in the ongoing l’affaire SNC, Gerald Butts is out as Trudeau’s principal secretary. Check out our partner: BC Today is the daily newsletter dedicated exclusively to BC Politics. Sign up for a free two-week trial and listen to...

The Vancouver Sun released a copy of the Clerk and Sergeant-at-Arms replies to Darryl Plecas’ report last week but that news was basically buried by the return of the Legislature and the Speech from the Throne. We dig into all of those goodies. Then, we turn our attention back to the ongoing SNC-Lavalin affair and the Vice Admiral Norman pretrial hearings. Both cases are tied together by all...

How much money did each of BC’s political parties raise in 2018? Not much relative to the Wild West days. We look at what that means going forward for each of the parties and whether a damning report on party’s data practices might further impede their fundraising capabilities. Next, the Prime Minister’s Office is alleged to have tried to influence former Justice Minister Jody Wi...

The Nanaimo byelection results are in and they’re exactly what everyone expected. Plus, follow up on Plecas’ report on legislature misspending, continuing Canada-China tension and a couple other quick takes. Full show notes at politicoast.ca Check out our partner: BC Today is the daily newsletter dedicated exclusively to BC Politics. Sign up for a free two-week trial and listen to the...

Darryl Plecas dropped his laundry list of concerns that led to the dismissal of the Clerk and Sergeant-at-Arms last November and it’s all anyone in bcpoli is talking about, so it’s basically all we’re going to talk about. Check out our partner: BC Today is the daily newsletter dedicated exclusively to BC Politics. Sign up for a free two-week trial and listen to the episode for yo...

Karen Wang is out as the Liberal candidate in the Burnaby South byelection following comments on WeChat but she’s still mulling a comeback. Trudeau also used the past week to mix up his cabinet. And Brexit continues to be a mess. In our quick takes we tackle the speculation tax, new forestry approaches and the latest pipeline news. Full show notes at www.politicoast.ca Check out our partner:...

Scott’s back with his take on why the PR referendum failed. We catch byelection fever. And we dip our toes into discussing the ongoing protests by the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs against an LNG pipeline. Check out our partner: BC Today is the daily newsletter dedicated exclusively to BC Politics. Sign up for a free two-week trial and listen to the episode for your code for an...

Right after we finished recording our last episodes for 2018, Elections BC generously released the results of the electoral reform referendum showing that British Columbians had chosen first past the post over any of the proportional representation systems on offer by 61% to 39%. While Scott is sick this week, Ian was able to speak to Too Close To Call’s Bryan Breguet ( @2CloseToCall ) about...

What a year in BC politics. We jump back to our predictions from ep 67 and see how well we did. Then we go month-by-month through our catalogue of episodes in 2018 and look at the major highlights. And we finish by making some big, bold and probably foolish predictions for 2019. See you in the New Year! The intro features Michael Bublé’s Santa Baby.

The study on the George Massey Tunnel replacement has come back with a report recommending further study. But first, Ian speaks to BC Green Party House Leader Sonia Furstenau about her parties’ successes in 2018 and what she’s looking forward to working on in 2019. We’ll have one more episode next week to wrap up the year. Check out our partner: BC Today is the daily newsletter d...

First, we talk about the latest in the ongoing legislative drama embroiling Speaker Darryl Plecas, the Clerk and Sergeant-at-Arms. Is Plecas all huff and no puff or will we see his laundry list in January? Time will tell. Then we have an interview with Clean Energy Canada’s Dan Woynillowicz on the Government of BC’s new Clean BC plan. BC is set to become a climate leader again with thi...

Ian interviews North Vancouver-Lonsdale MLA and Parliamentary Secretary for Translink Bowinn Ma. But first, we give you a bit of the audio from Darryl Plecas at the recent Legislative Assembly Management Committee Meeting. Listen to the full audio here . Check out our partner: BC Today is the daily newsletter dedicated exclusively to BC Politics. Sign up for a free two-week trial and listen to the...

The scandal over the dismissal of the Clerk and Sergeant-at-Arms continues this week, while the legislature also closes out with the NDP rushing through a number of bills in two days. Political scientist Stewart Prest ( @stewartprest ) subs for Scott this week. Check out our partner: BC Today is the daily newsletter dedicated exclusively to BC Politics. Sign up for a free two-week trial and listen...

It’s been one of the wildest weeks in BC politics, so we’ve brought back BC Today’s Shannon Waters to help us understand what led up to and has happened since the Clerk and Sergeant-at-Arms were put on administrative leave. Plus we look at the various pieces of legislation flying through the House before the legislature rises for the holidays on Tuesday. Follow Shannon @BCTodayOf...