The Jill Bennett Show

Is Vancouver on the brink of becoming a retail dead zone?  Guest: Sunan Spriggs - CityLux Owner  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Loopholes in anti-foreign interference Bill C-70 allow for ongoing secret interference activities. Guest: Duff Conacher - Co-Founder, Democracy Watch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BC Hydro is aiming to ease peak hour power usage with overnight discounts! The Canadian Paediatric Society is urging primary-care providers to screen all adolescent patients for eating disorders during routine checkups and other medical visits. New data shows BC is delivering more MRIs and CT scans than ever before! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New data finds BC is delivering more MRIs and CT scans than ever before! Guest: Dr. Brenda Farnquist - President, BC Radiological Society Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BC Hydro aims to ease peak hour power usage with overnight discounts. Guest: Richard McCandless - Retired BC Government Policy Manager Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Canadian Paediatric Society is now urging primary-care providers to screen all adolescent patients for eating disorders during checkups as well as other visits. Guest: Dr. Holly Agostino - lead author of the new guidelines Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

WorkSafeBC advises employers to plan ahead to protect workers from extreme heat and wildfire smoke. Guest: Barry Nakahara - Worksafe BC Director of Prevention of Field Services Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BC Hydro is hoping to ease peak hour power usage with overnight discounts. Guest: Susie Rieder - BC Hydro Spokesperson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Another downtown Vancouver business is shutting down due to ongoing crime and disorder. Guest: Courtney Watkins - Owner of Mine and Yours Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kitsilano Outdoor Pool to remain closed this summer! Guest: Aaron Jasper - Former Park Board Commissioner Tales of a safe-supply child soldier. Guest: Adam Zivo - Freelance Writer and weekly columnist at the National Post Another downtown Vancouver business is calling it quits. Guest: Courtney Watkins - Owner of Mine and Yours Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

B.C. mayors ‘dumbfounded’ after Ottawa rejects bid for flood prevention cash. Organizations and now even the government is falling victim to cyber security attacks. Online streaming services must now pay into fund for Canadian news and content. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Online streaming services must now pay into fund for Canadian news & content! Guest: Michael Geist - University of Ottawa Law Professor  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The number of homes changing hands in Metro Vancouver last month fell nearly 20 per cent from the same time last year, though new properties were coming online. Guest: Andrew Lis - Director, Economics and Data Analytics, Greater Vancouver Realtors Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An advocacy group is saying BC seniors should have free shingles and RSV vaccines. Guest: Ajit Johal - Community Pharmacist practicing in Vancouver and Clinical Director, Immunize.io Health Association Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Organizations and now governments are falling victim to cyber security attacks. Guest: Roger Gale - Program Head, BCIT Industrial Network Cybersecurity program Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BC mayors have been left ‘dumbfounded’ after Ottawa rejects their bid for flood prevention cash. Guest: Matt Dykshoorn - Dairy Farmer who was stranded on his dairy farm in Sumas Prairie Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

FireSmart BC™ is launching a new campaign following the devastating 2023 wildfire season. Guest: Hannah Swift - Acting Program Lead for FireSmart BC  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Surrey South MLA Elenore Sturko is joining the provincial Conservatives, saying she wants to rebuild the coalition that's needed to defeat the governing New Democrats. Guest: Elenore Sturko - now running for the BC Conservatives in Surrey-Cloverdale in the next provincial election BC author Daniel Kalla delves into psychedelics, psychiatry and murder in his latest thriller! Guest: Dan Kalla - best...

Drivers in British Columbia now have to meet minimum distances between their vehicle and people walking or riding on provincial roads. The new rules start Monday and require drivers to stay at least a metre away from vulnerable road users if the speed limit is up to 50 kilometres an hour, and a metre-and-a-half at speeds over that. Guest: Kyla Lee - Lawyer, Acumen Law Corporation  Learn more about...

BC author Daniel Kalla's latest thriller delves into psychedelics, psychiatry and murder! Guest: Dan Kalla - best selling Vancouver Author and emergency room doctor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Surrey South MLA Elenore Sturko is joining the provincial Conservatives, saying she wants to rebuild the coalition that's needed to defeat the governing New Democrats. Sturko is the second member to leave the B-C United party and join the Conservatives in the last few days and it comes just months before the next provincial election. Guest: Elenore Sturko - Now running for the BC Conservatives in...

The death of serial killer Robert Pickton is sparking sombre reaction. Guest: Wally Oppal - Was the Commissioner of the Missing Women Inquiry that probed the mishandling of the police investigation into Robert Pickton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Another BC United member has left the party to join the Conservative Party of BC just months before the provincial election. Guest: Hamish Telford - Associate Professor of Political Science, University of the Fraser Valley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vancouver Police are investigating an arson attack on a synagogue as a possible hate crime, with its rabbi saying the incident took place while members were inside. Cities are asking for more time in order to comply with BC's zoning laws. Hummingbirds have feelings too! New research shows that an acute sense of touch could be helping them hover. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm...

The books of the month are: Joan by Katherine Chen  Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum One Perfect Couple by Ruth Ware Calamity of Souls by David Baldacci Lies and weddings by Kevin Kwan Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson Guest: Holly Morgan - Manager, Black Bond Books Ladner Village  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices