The Jill Bennett Show

Guests: Denis Agar, Executive Director, Movement: Metro Vancouver Transit Riders and Arden English, elected councillor at the Simon Fraser Student Society Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest: Warren Kinsella, Former special Advisor to Jean Chretien and founder of the Daisy Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest: Josie Osborne, B.C. Minister of Health Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Have you been blinded by headlights while driving at night? Transport Canada wants to hear about your experience with a survey. A familiar name is set to spearhead the B.C. Treaty Commission, they join us to talk about playing the key role in Indigenous negotiations and relations. And could a GST exemption on new homes happen in B.C.? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest: Daniel Stern, vehicle lighting and regulation expert based in Vancouver and Chief Editor of Driving Vision News - the technical journal of record for driver vision and vehicle lighting around the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest: Claire Newell, President and Founder of Travel Best Bets Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest: Alex Marland, professor at the Acadia University dept. of politics, co-author of No I in Team, Party Loyalty in Canadian Politics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The 8th edition of the annual State of Downtown report has been released today. This publication offers an exclusive look into the economic and social landscape of downtown Vancouver, supported by cutting-edge data. Rogers Field at Nat Bailey Stadium(better known as “The Nat”) is celebrating its 75th anniversary in 2026, marking three-quarters of a century as a community landmark, baseball hub, an...

If you play Lotto Max, big changes are coming this month... including higher jackpots, more prizes, and a shift in the odds. Guest: Michael Wallace - Associate professor of biostatistics in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Waterloo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A new singer dominating the ITunes charts is AI generated. Is this the future? Guest: Eric Alper - Publicist and Music Commentator Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week's edition features a story about a woman suing Tim Hortons after falling off a toilet. Guest: Michael Shapray - Criminal Lawyer with Stern Shapray Criminal Lawyers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Most of us have encountered someone like this: a friend who turns on you without warning, a colleague who quietly undermines your work, or a partner who initially seemed perfect but later revealed a much darker side. While we might call them difficult, toxic, or even a “bad apple,” personality researchers have a more specific term: the “dark tetrad.” Guest: Leanne Ten Brinke - associate professor...

Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen and his three American crewmates have surpassed the distance record of 400-thousand-171 kilometres set by Apollo 13 in 1970. Guest: Scott Tilley - Amateur Astronomer and blogger at skyriddles.wordpress.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kelowna is pushing the B.C. government to fast-track an exemption to the province’s new short-term rental rules, arguing that changes could help bring hundreds of units back into the tourism market just as demand is expected to surge. Guest: Chris Petty - General Manager, Basil & Mint Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’ve all heard the phrase “age is just a number”—but what if that number doesn’t tell the whole story? Guest: Scott Lear - Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rising fuel costs are hitting nearly every corner of the economy, but in British Columbia’s wine industry, the impact is being felt from vineyard to shelf. Trump's threating to blow "everything up" if Iran won't make a deal in the latest ceasefire bid. Multiple sailings were cancelled over the Easter long weekend due to mechanical issues affecting key vessels. Learn more about your ad choices. Vis...

Guest: Bronwyn Lewis, food and travel writer and content creator. Follow her on Instagram and YouTube @FeastWriteGrow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why is Good Friday widely observed even among the non-religious? More and more Canadians identify as non-religious, what does the religious landscape look like and how has it changed? Guest: Joel Thiessen, Professor of Sociology at Ambrose University and Director of the Flourishing Congregations Institute Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BC Ferries has another disastrous long weekend, how are the coastal communities dealing with it? A tax expert joins us to talk about how changes to the property tax deferral program may unexpected impacts. Another major Aboriginal land claim decision out of the B.C. Court of Appeal, what does this mean for future land claims decisions across the country? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit meg...

B.C. scales back EV mandates, but is it enough? Independent grocers are warning they might have no choice but to pass on the cost of the global energy shortage on to consumers. Are the already sky-high grocery prices set to increase even more? New Westminster council approves bylaw to protect tenants from dangerously hot indoor conditions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adcho...

NASA’s Artemis II mission is set to launch, carrying four astronauts on a journey that will test the systems and technology needed to return to the lunar surface and, eventually, push further into deep space. Guest: Gordon Osinski - Professor at Western University - in Florida to watch the launch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former Vancouver mayor and senator Larry Campbell says his work in the Downtown Eastside began as a “depressing and traumatic experience,” but that his perspective has shifted as he’s seen signs of new housing and what he describes as a “vibrancy” returning to the neighbourhood. Canada’s craft brewing industry is raising a glass to new federal tax measures that aim to give small and independent br...

Claire Newell of Travel Best Bets comes on to discuss all the major stories coming out of the travel sector! Guest: Claire Newell - President and Founder, Travel Best Bets Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A new report is raising fresh concerns about the future of affordable child care in British Columbia. Despite promises to deliver $10-a-day spaces, progress appears to be slowing, with fewer new spots than expected and growing pressure on a system already struggling with long waitlists and staffing shortages. Guest: Eric Swanson - Principal of Third Space Planning and consultant to the Coalition o...

New polling suggests overwhelming public support for banning social media use for kids under 16, with concerns ranging from mental health and addiction to cyberbullying and exposure to misinformation. A new report is raising concerns about student achievement in British Columbia, suggesting test scores have declined more sharply than in any other province following curriculum changes over the past...