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The Jas Johal Show

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The Jas Johal Show is the Lower Mainland’s town square, helping you connect with the stories that matter. It’s about finding the solutions to the challenges facing our region, even when we disagree. Jas’s decades of experience as a local news reporter, a Global News bureau chief in China and India, as well as a BC MLA have strengthened his conviction that no one “side” has all the answers. The Global News Radio newsroom rounds out the team keeping you in the know on developing stories from the North Shore to the Fraser Valley. The Jas Johal Show provides fresh perspective and lively conversati...

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Is it the last call for B.C bars thanks to the alcohol tax hike this April? 10.02.2024 7:37

GUEST: Jeff Guignard, Executive Director, ABLE BC (BC’s Alliance of Beverage Licensees Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Week That Was in BC Politics 10.02.2024 14:44

GUEST: Keith Baldrey, Global BC Legislative Bureau Chief Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eight in ten Black Canadians think diversity & inclusion at work has improved, but same number experienced workplace racism this year 09.02.2024 8:17

GUEST: Geri Mayer-Judson, Show Contributor & Tamika Miller, Senior Manager in Audit & Assurance, KPMG Canada Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is B.C on the right track to provide quicker access to family doctors? 09.02.2024 10:04

GUEST: Adrian Dix, B.C’s Minister of Health Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Full Show with Guest Host Rob Fai: Could community radio find a silver lining in today’s Bell cuts, Vancouver Sun Run making changes ahead of 40th Anniversary & Are you obligated to pay private parking ticket fees? 09.02.2024 42:39

Could community radio find a silver lining in today’s Bell cuts? Guest: Guest host Rob Fai Betting on the Super Bowl: Sports Gambling’s biggest week. GUEST: Matt Lee, Senior Communications Specialist for BCLC Vancouver Sun Run making changes ahead of 40th Anniversary GUEST: Tim Hopkins, Race Director The Challenges with RoundAbouts. ICBC says they work, but some say they lack confidence in using...

More than just football? The pop-culture significance of the Super Bowl 09.02.2024 7:06

GUEST: Geri Mayer-Judson, Show Contributor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are you obligated to pay private parking ticket fees? 09.02.2024 8:02

GUEST: Paul Doroshenko, traffic lawyer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Challenges with RoundAbouts. ICBC says they work, but some say they lack confidence in using them. 09.02.2024 6:43

GUEST: Grant Gottgetreu. Former traffic officer in New West and West Vancouver, now a forensic criminal and traffic consultant at Forensic-traffic-pro.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vancouver Sun Run making changes ahead of 40th Anniversary 09.02.2024 6:58

GUEST: Tim Hopkins, Race Director Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Betting on the Super Bowl: Sports Gambling’s biggest week. 08.02.2024 8:13

GUEST: Matt Lee, Senior Communications Specialist for BCLC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Could community radio find a silver lining in today’s Bell cuts? 08.02.2024 6:22

Guest Host Rob Fai talks about the BCE Inc./Bell Media’s layoffs today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Full Show: Trucking firm sues the B.C government to overturn suspension, The new Oakridge Mall for the ultra-wealthy, or is there space for locals, Does Vancouver have a rat problem? 08.02.2024 55:43

Trucking firm sues the B.C government to overturn suspension GUEST: Dave Earle, President and CEO of BC Trucking Association The real world cost of the digital race for bitcoin GUEST: Josie Osborne, B.C’s Minister of Energy, Mines and Low Carbon Innovation "Free" speech in politics: Lessons from Selina Robinson's removal GUEST: Mary Polak, Strategic Advisor for Maple Leaf Strategies and former Min...

Does Vancouver have a rat problem? 08.02.2024 7:36

GUEST: Geri Mayer-Judson, Show Contributor & Rat Apologist Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An update on the B.C man who went to Mexico to avoid long waits for surgery 08.02.2024 10:56

GUEST: Bruce Gordon, B.C patient currently in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico for a left hip replacement surgery since 2018 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The new Oakridge Mall for the ultra-wealthy, or is there space for locals. 08.02.2024 9:03

GUEST: Geri Mayer-Judson, Show Contributor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Free" speech in politics: Lessons from Selina Robinson's removal 08.02.2024 11:32

GUEST: Mary Polak, Strategic Advisor for Maple Leaf Strategies and former Minister of Environment for B.C Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The real world cost of the digital race for bitcoin 07.02.2024 8:18

GUEST: Josie Osborne, B.C’s Minister of Energy, Mines and Low Carbon Innovation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trucking firm sues the B.C government to overturn suspension 07.02.2024 8:44

GUEST: Dave Earle, President and CEO of BC Trucking Association Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Full Show: Vancouver Park Board’s battle with City Hall escalates, AI doesn’t have common sense… yet & Should the B.C government allow clinics to hire physician assistants to deal with waitlists? 07.02.2024 48:34

Vancouver Park Board’s battle with City Hall escalates GUEST: Brennan Bastyovanszky, Vancouver Park Board Commissioner Jewish community offended by the removal of Selina Robinson from cabinet GUEST: Nico Slobinsky, Vice President of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs [CIJA] AI doesn’t have common sense… yet. GUEST: Geri Mayer-Judson, Show Contributor Should the B.C government allow clinics...

Wine War: battling Alberta's ban on B.C wine sales 07.02.2024 7:59

GUEST: Miles Prodan, President and CEO of Wine Growers of British Columbia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Should the B.C government allow clinics to hire physician assistants to deal with waitlists? 07.02.2024 10:26

GUEST: Dr. Kevin McLeod, Internal Medicine specialist at Lions Gate Hospital in North Vancouver, and Whitehorse Hospital in the Yukon Territory Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

AI doesn’t have common sense… yet. 07.02.2024 10:32

GUEST: Geri Mayer-Judson, Show Contributor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jewish community offended by the removal of Selina Robinson from cabinet 07.02.2024 9:54

GUEST: Nico Slobinsky, Vice President of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vancouver Park Board’s battle with City Hall escalates 06.02.2024 9:23

GUEST: Brennan Bastyovanszky, Vancouver Park Board Commissioner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Selina Robinson steps down as B.C’s Minister of Post-Secondary Education 06.02.2024 1:11:44

Selina Robinson steps down as B.C’s Minister of Post-Secondary Education GUEST: Keith Baldrey, Global BC Legislative Bureau Chief & Richard Zussman, Global BC Legislative Reporter Former B.C labour minister joins the race for Conservative nomination in 2025 GUEST: Iain Black, former Labour minister of B.C, running for the federal Conservatives in the Coquitlam-Port Coquitlam riding. Was Selina Ro...