Western Context

An Ontario Liberal MP is criminally charged, Vancouver and Edmonton vie to be NHL hub cities, and Trudeau’s foreign affairs Minister may be compromised by the Bank of China. Also, Trudeau’s show of protest solidarity contradicts health orders as well as logic.

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Duration: 50:35
Hosts: Shane and Patrick

• Ontario MP allegedly watched home for three months before arrest there for assault, break and enter, harassment
• Vancouver ready to welcome NHL after B.C. premier announces revised quarantine plan
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• Foreign Affairs Minister has two mortgages with state-run Bank of China
• A hollow gesture’: Social justice activist calls on Trudeau to do more than kneel with protesters
• Word of the Week: Vacuous

BC’s referendum is complete as 61.3% vote to stick with FPTP, the federal government loans $1.6B to Alberta’s oil sector, and we look at Trudeau’s foreign policy failures. Also, pure fake news on the Chamber of Commerce’s support for the carbon tax.

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Duration: 43:06
Hosts: Shane and Patrick

• No change: B.C. voters back first-past-the-post system in electoral reform referendum
• Alberta critical of Ottawa’s $1.6B package for ailing energy sector
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• Out in the cold: Canada’s year in foreign policy
• Statement on Carbon Pricing from the Canadian Chamber of Commerce
• Word of the Week: Reform