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Louise Arbour will be Canada’s new governor general, Chinese officials wanted to stop Vancouver’s Shen Yun performances, and Alberta’s electors list sees a data breach. Also, US Indigenous tribes are using BC’s DRIPA legislation to halt resource projects.

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“I have never seen anything like this… over six terms of governments, working for the provincial government. I have never seen this level of ineptitude and incompetence.” – Geoffrey Moyse former legal counsel in the B.C. Ministry of Attorney General’s Office, on Premier Eby’s troubles with DRIPA.

Duration: 1:14:17
Hosts: Shane and Patrick

• PM Carney names Louise Arbour as Canada’s next governor general
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• Chinese consulate met Vancouver official in bid to stop event critical of communist rule
• Elections Alberta alerted to improper use of voters’ information in late March, journalist says
• U.S. tribes demand a say in key B.C. economic decisions
• Word of the Week: Pejorative

Canada’s federal court overturns the TikTok ban, BC will revise its First Nations DRIPA legislation, and the US is looking at Alberta’s independence movement with interest. Also, Carney’s Davos speech sends a political shockwave across the world.

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“Today I will talk about a rupture in the world order, the end of a pleasant fiction and the beginning of a harsh reality, where geopolitics, where the large, main power is submitted to no limits, no constraints.” – Prime Minister Mark Carney’s opening to his speech in Davos on the changing geopolitical structure of the world.

Duration: 1:10:46
Hosts: Shane and Patrick

• Canada’s TikTok operations ban overturned by Federal Court
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• B.C. will revise DRIPA legislation to scale back court power over Indigenous rights, Eby says
• MAGA has its sights on Alberta
• Carney’s Davos speech highlights that it is Liberal rhetoric that doesn’t match reality
• Word of the Week: Hegemony