UnSpun with Jody Vance and George Affleck

Welcome to UnSpun - your current events podcast and YouTube show. Every week, Jody Vance and George Affleck unspin the latest news in local, provincial, and federal politics and much more. This week, Jody and George zip through a whole bunch of topics, including … zippering, but before you try to cut them off, let’s find out why things are getting ugly in Surrey, why a politician needs a fake Twit...

Welcome to UnSpun - your current events podcast and YouTube show. Every week, Jody Vance and George Affleck unspin the latest news in local, provincial, and federal politics and much more. This week, Jody and George get into whether or not putting a bunch of local mayors on a luxury yacht for all the world to see is the wisest political move; Park Board — oh Vancouver Park Board — bike lane freedo...

Welcome to UnSpun - your current events podcast and YouTube show. Every week, Jody Vance and George Affleck unspin the latest news in local, provincial, and federal politics and much more. This week, Jody and George check off a few things from their to-done list. Drinking in parks…or not, housing supply and the province’s game of chicken, and spies amongst us (George has a few stories).All that an...

Welcome to UnSpun - your current events podcast and YouTube show. Every week, Jody Vance and George Affleck unspin the latest news in local, provincial, and federal politics and much more. We are back after a three-week hiatus, and this week, Jody and George question the reasoning behind Surrey’s stubbornness to not accept or even seriously review the province’s recommendations related to the Surr...

Welcome to UnSpun - your current events podcast and YouTube show. Every week, Jody Vance and George Affleck unspin the latest news in local, provincial, and federal politics and much more. This week, from tax returns and credit ratings to the future of policing and rejuvenating Vancouver’s historic Chinatown, UnSpun hits it from coast to coast and corner to corner. Tune in and top up on politics f...

Welcome to UnSpun - your current events podcast and YouTube show. Every week, Jody Vance and George Affleck unspin the latest news in local, provincial, and federal politics and much more. This week, it was 4/20 again — seriously — is this “protest” in a Vancouver city park about cannabis really necessary anymore or is it all smoke, no fire? And while we have you … in the park … if you plan to tak...

Welcome to UnSpun - your current events podcast and YouTube show. Every week, Jody Vance and George Affleck unspin the latest news in local, provincial, and federal politics and much more. This week, what’s in a name … or a logo, for that matter? Well, everything, if you are the BC Liberals who are now BC United and the reviews are already coming in…oggy oggy oggy! Meanwhile — crime watch from coa...

Welcome to UnSpun - your current events podcast and YouTube show. Every week, Jody Vance and George Affleck unspin the latest news in local, provincial, and federal politics and much more. This week, big moves on Vancouver’s downtown eastside as tents were finally removed from the sidewalks of the city. The decision by Vancouver City Council came after fires and violence threatened not only those...

Welcome to UnSpun - your current events podcast and YouTube show. Every week, Jody Vance and George Affleck unspin the latest news in local, provincial, and federal politics and much more. This week, Jody and George go big or go home on the latest decision by the City of Vancouver related to the plans for Broadway in the city. The staff wanted to slow down. Council said no! While we are on Council...

Welcome to UnSpun - your current events podcast and YouTube show. Every week, Jody Vance and George Affleck unspin the latest news in local, provincial, and federal politics and much more. This week, Jody and George go around the world in 30 minutes. But whether it’s China and Russia or Canada and the USA or Vancouver and Ottawa, a concerning theme is developing and unravelling, which makes it our...

Welcome to UnSpun - your current events podcast and YouTube show. Every week, Jody Vance and George Affleck unspin the latest news in local, provincial, and federal politics and much more. This week, Jody and George get into the spies that love us and what impact they may or may not be having on local, provincial and federal elections; most recently, a story about the 2022 election in Vancouver is...

Welcome to UnSpun - your current events podcast and YouTube show. Every week, Jody Vance and George Affleck unspin the latest news in local, provincial, and federal politics and much more. This week, Jody and George look at the larger importance of why postponing Drag Storytime in Nelson is more than a fight over dresses and wigs. Pay Transparency introduced in Victoria, Living Wage cut in Vancouv...

Welcome to UnSpun - your current events podcast and YouTube show. Every week, Jody Vance and George Affleck unspin the latest news in local, provincial, federal politics and much more. This week, Jody and George get into the fact the taxman cometh at all levels of government and at a time when we can all least afford it. Have you looked at the price of butter, eggs and other staples? Meanwhile, Ch...

Welcome to UnSpun - your current events podcast and YouTube show. Every week, Jody Vance and George Affleck unspin the latest news in local, provincial, federal politics and much more. This week, Jody and George blow up the two billion dollar — yes two billion — budget in Vancouver. But hey — what’s another 10% tax increase amongst friends? Ugh. At least the streets and parks will be cleaner, and...

Welcome to UnSpun - your current events podcast and YouTube show. Every week, Jody Vance and George Affleck unspin the latest news in local, provincial, federal politics and much more. This week, Jody and George give some long-awaited kudos to Vancouver Park Board for making the tough and politically charged decision to remove a massive and expensive temporary bike lane in Stanley Park and instead...

Welcome to UnSpun - your current events podcast and YouTube show. Every week, Jody Vance and George Affleck unspin the latest news in local, provincial, federal politics and much more. This week, Jody and George take a healthy look at healthcare and the new funding from the federal government. Is it a drop in the bucket, or is the bucket just leaky? Then in Vancouver, recession woes begin, but the...

Welcome to UnSpun - your current events podcast and YouTube show. Every week, Jody Vance and George Affleck unspin the latest news in local, provincial, federal politics and much more. This week, Jody and George review Mayor Ken Sim’s first-ever state of the city address to Vancouver’s Board of Trade. How’d he do? Will he regret some of what he said? What can taxpayers and businesses expect over t...

Welcome to UnSpun - your current events podcast and YouTube show. Every week, Jody Vance and George Affleck unspin the latest news in local, provincial, federal politics and much more. This week it is Episode 202 — Season 5! Jody and George ask why hundreds of thousands of dollars every year is spent on “micro-cleaning” (what’s that exactly?) on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, yet things seem to ge...

Welcome to UnSpun - your current events podcast and YouTube show. Every week, Jody Vance and George Affleck unspin the latest news in local, provincial, federal politics and much more. This week it is Episode 201 — Season 5! Jody and George get into the awkward discovery of classified documents at US President Joe Biden’s home. I mean, really!? What the hell? And then we bring it home — with a foc...

Welcome to UnSpun - your current events podcast and YouTube show. Every week, Jody Vance and George Affleck unspin the latest news in local, provincial, federal politics and much more. This week it is Episode 200! Jody and George talk about what it’s been like hosting a podcast for four years and how there were never any stories to focus on. It’s been a busy four years in local, provincial and nat...

Welcome to UnSpun - your current events podcast and YouTube show. Every week, Jody Vance and George Affleck unspin the latest news in local, provincial, federal politics, and much more. This week, Jody and George talk about the freedom to drink and drive in Vancouver’s parks — in a good way and certainly not at the same time. The Vancouver Police might be getting body-cams, or will they? Can they?...

Welcome to UnSpun - your current events podcast and YouTube show. Every week, Jody Vance and George Affleck unspin the latest news in local, provincial, federal politics, and much more. This week, Jody and George give a bit of Christmas cheer but not too much because you know what they say in Vancouver when it snows, it … it … it … rains, terrible drivers and chaos on our roads. What to do? Stay o...

Welcome to UnSpun - your current events podcast and YouTube show. Every week, Jody Vance and George Affleck unspin the latest news in local, provincial, federal politics, and much more. This week, Jody and George dig into Vancouver’s park board as we see the barge on the beach sale off (in pieces) into the sunset along with some pretty terrible decisions by the previous administration — we hope; m...

Welcome to UnSpun - your current events podcast and YouTube show. Every week, Jody Vance and George Affleck unspin the latest news in local, provincial, federal politics, and much more. This week, Jody and George shorten the usual 100 days of judgment for a new leader down to 10 for Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim. Ugh. Cops in Surrey — it looks like they may end up with two police forces. The rumour of t...

Welcome to UnSpun - your current events podcast and YouTube show. Every week, Jody Vance and George Affleck unspin the latest news in local, provincial, federal politics, and much more. This week, Jody and George start with a quick analysis of the surprising results of the US Midterm elections and how that might play out for some hot-button issues down south. Then it’s back home to talk about the...