The Mike Smyth Show

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Mayor Ken Sim has alloted 2 million dollars for a fireworks event to replace the Celebration of Light. Is this a good use of taxpayer funding? Prime Minister Mark Carney is announcing new rebates for EV purchases. Will it be enough to convince YOU to buy an electric car? Are robots and AI coming to take your job? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is the Canadian economy in danger? Guest: David Rosenberg - Chief Economist and founder of Rosenberg Research Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Prime Minister Carney is announcing new EV rebates. Finance Minister Brenda Bailey says there are some difficult budget choices looming. Conservative MP Jamil Jivani says he went to Washington DC to help Canada get a trade deal. Guest: Keith Baldrey - Global News Legislative Bureau Chief Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The government has already spent SO MUCH MONEY on the Massey Tunnel replacement. Does it make sense to go back to the original bridge plans? It's the story making waves around the world... the Epstein files! We unpack the latest on that. Finally, we bring on the CEO of ICBC to talk about no-fault auto insurance! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Whitecaps have been offered a seemingly amazing deal in an effort to convince the team to stay in BC Place . Will they take it, or will they come back saying they want more? Guest: Keith Baldrey - Global News Legislative Bureau Chief Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mike brings on MLA Elenore Sturko to go through and unpack the latest info on the Surrey extortion crisis. Guest: Elenore Sturko - Independent MLA for Surrey-Cloverdale Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Whitecaps stadium negotiations have hit an impasse. Could we possibly lose the caps to another city? The Massey tunnel rebuild continues to be plagued with problems. It's getting so bad that it's re-igniting calls to go back to building a bridge! Dog owners are speaking out against proposed plans to reduce off-leash areas in Pacific Spirit Park. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphon...

Could Vancouver possibly lose the Whitecaps? BC Premier David Eby is tripling down on his comments about Alberta separatists are committing treason. Guest: Keith Baldrey - Global News Legislative Bureau Chief Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BC Premier David Eby is TRIPLING down on his comments saying thay Alberta separatists are committing treason. Guest: Thomas Lukaszuk - Former Deputy Premier of Alberta, Head of the “Forever Canadian” campaign to keep Alberta in Canada Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trump indicated HUNDREDS of times in latest Epstein file dump GUEST: Dave Levinthal, Investigative reporter in Washington DC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Metro-Vancouver taxpayers are being burned to a crisp with wasteful spending by the government. Guest: Daniel Fontaine - New West city councillor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are the Liberals taking over the BC Conservatives? How much density is good in order to get more housing in this city? Millions of pages from the Epstein files have been released, but there's still millions more being held back. What are they hiding? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Conservative MP Kerry-Lynne Findlay (running for the BC Conservative leadership) says Liberals are trying to take over the party! Is this true? Poilievre recently underwent a leadership review. How did he do? Guest: Keith Baldrey - Global News Legislative Bureau Chief. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New data shows that BC hospitals are filling up with elderly patients. Why? because there's a shortage of long term care beds! Should Alberta separatists actually be called treasonous? We have a very interesting conversation about it with the CEO of the Alberta Prosperity Project. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hotel owners in Las Vegas are desperate to get Canadian visitors back. Some places are even taking the Canadian dollar at par to as an incentive! Should Canada cancel it's deal to purchase F-35 jets from the US? And finally, are head-lights way too bright nowadays? There's a growing number of calls to do something about it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BC Premier David Eby recently met with PM Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith. How did the meeting go? Alberta separatists met with US officials on three different occasions, and Premier Eby is calling it an act of treason! Pierre Poilievre is undergoing a leadership review this week. Will he pass? By how much? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former Alberta Premier Jason Kenney joins us for a conversation covering a wide range of topics. Guest: Jason Kenney - Former premier of Alberta, Canada's former defence minister Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Road closures continue to batter businesses along the Broadway corridor amid ongoing construction. Is there an end in sight? Over 50% fewer Canadians are applying for a Nexus card to travel to the US. Should Canada create its own version of the Nexus card? There's gold in them thar hills! The price of gold surged past $5000/ounce for the first time ever! What's causing this massive boom? Learn mor...

Jimmy Pattison company agreed to sell a warehouse to ICE. Should they try to bow out of the deal? Darrell Jones is officially in the running for BC Conservative leadership. Does he have a shot? Guest: Keith Baldrey - Global News Legislative Bureau Chief Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is the Carney GST grocery credit actually going to help Canadians? Or is this just another example of political pandering? We talk more about the boondoggle that is the costly wastetwater treatment facility. Not only is it billions of dollars over budget, there's now talks that they might be building ANOTHER ONE! We give you some tips for living on a tight budget in Vancouver. Learn more about you...

Broadway businesses are struggling with ongoing road closures. Guest: Ron MacGillivray - Owner of Fable Diner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jimmy Pattison is making headlines for his plans to sell a Virginia warehouse to ICE. Ken Sim is defending his election-year property tax freeze. Guest: Keith Baldrey - Global News Legislative Bureau Chief Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Prime Minister Carney's electric vehicle deal with China is drawing a lot mixed reactions, so we'll dig into that. This is gonna sound hard to believe, but the already controversial North Vancouver wastewater treatment facility is about to get worse. Award winning crime reporter from the Vancouver Sun comes on to discuss a huge money-laundering property scheme in Metro Vancouver AND the arrest of...