Western Context

Morneau is replaced by Freeland as Finance Minister amidst financial crisis and the WE scandal, Trudeau unveils CERB changes before he shutters Parliament, and old growth forests are under threat in BC. Also, the Conservatives pick new leader Erin O’Toole.

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Duration: 57:12
Hosts: Shane and Patrick

• Freeland replaces Morneau as Trudeau’s finance minister
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• Liberals unveil $37B for CERB transition to new benefits, EI changes
• Activists continue blockade of logging road on Vancouver Island to protect giant cedar
• CPC Leadership Race Results
• Word of the Week: Chaos

The federal debt hits $1.2T with $343b spent just this past year, a tug of war arises in BC over police street checks, and a UCP bill reverts power given to unions by the NDP. Also, Trudeau and his finance minister engage in yet another ethics scandal.

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Duration: 1:00:55
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• The challenge of our lifetime’: Federal deficit to hit $343 billion this year
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• More than 70 organizations sign open letter calling for ban on police street checks in B.C.
• Union picketing and political campaigning curbed under proposed Alberta bill
• Maybe we should have been looking at WE Charity earlier
• Word of the Week: Snapshot

The Alberta carbon tax takes from low income seniors, an erosion of national unity with the Trans Mountain pipeline, skewed articles about Trudeau’s failing poll numbers, and the media ignores Morneau calling opponents of his feminist budget neanderthals.

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Duration: 36:55
Hosts: Shane and Patrick

• Some low-income Alberta seniors face carbon tax rebate clawback
• Burnaby mayor refuses to pay ‘ludicrous’ policing costs for Trans Mountain pipeline protests
• Justin Trudeau is losing the male voter. Can the PM win him back?
• Conservatives demand apology from Morneau over ‘neanderthal’ comment
• Word of the Week: Jurisdiction

Alberta’s NDP government released a fiscal update that looked rosy but is not, the BC NDP government created an electoral reform survey to sway opinion despite appearing “neutral”, and we cover Finance Minister Morneau’s continuing clash with ethics.

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Duration: 36:15
Hosts: Shane and Patrick

• As economy improves, Alberta’s NDP government says it’s time to cut spending
• Mike Smyth: NDP and Greens stack the deck in referendum vote
• Bill Morneau threatens to take Tories to court over ethics allegations
• Word of the Week: Ethics

A BC mosque is entitled to federal grant money despite terrorist ties, in Alberta the media struggles with the truth about GSA’s and Bill 24, another ex-Guantanamo captive sues the government for 50M, and we uncover the depths of Liberal corruption.

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Duration: 40:50
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• Terror linked BC Mosque receives $53K “security grant” from Trudeau Liberals
• Jason Kenney says UCP will oppose gay-straight alliance Bill 24
• Ex-Guantanamo captive plans to sue Canada for $50 million for alleged complicity in his torture
• Trudeau’s chief fundraiser linked to Cayman Islands tax scheme
• Word of the Week: Corruption

BC fish farms are under increased scrutiny from the BC government, Mainstreet is singled out as polls get another election wrong in Alberta, Singh refuses to denounce the Air India terrorists, and Bill Morneau gets caught in an a conflict of interest.

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Duration: 47:07
Hosts: Shane and Patrick

• Popham pens ‘eviction’ notice-like letter to B.C. fish farms
• Mainstreet’s future with Postmedia uncertain after botched Calgary election poll
• Jagmeet Singh Suggests CBC’s Insistent Questioning About Alleged Terrorist Was Racist
• Bill Morneau didn’t place assets in blind trust, raising conflict-of-interest risk
• Word of the Week: Conflict of Interest