Western Context

The BC NDP isn’t giving info on the electoral referendum, the U of A gives an honorary degree to David Suzuki, and the federal government blacks out the cost of a carbon tax. Also, the federal government is funding groups that want to stop Trans Mountain.

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Duration: 42:36
Hosts: Shane and Patrick

• Vaughn Palmer: NDP stacking the deck in favour of proportional representation
• U of A dean posts scathing letter against granting honorary degree to David Suzuki
• Tories demand government explain how much a carbon price will cost Canadians
• Federal program funds summer job to help ‘stop Kinder Morgan pipeline’
• Word of the Week: Hypocrisy

We review the media’s shift of the Humboldt crash to gender and race politics, and the Alberta government’s ploy to gain political points on social issues. Also, Trans Mountain spending is halted, and how the pipeline debacle affects Canadian rule of law.

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Duration: 51:05
Hosts: Shane and Patrick

• Social justice warrior misses the boat on Humboldt
• Jason Kenney will abstain from abortion clinic buffer zone vote
• Kinder Morgan Canada Limited Suspends Non-Essential Spending on Trans Mountain Expansion Project
• John Robson: Do we have rule of law in this country? Do we have a functional government
• Word of the Week: injunction

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

A 21 hour Parliament session protests the Atwal cover-up by the PMO, Alberta’s budget draws criticism for its rising debt, protests at Trans Mountain result in MPs’ arrests and work delays, and an important look at data-mining on social media.

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Duration: 49:39
Hosts: Shane and Patrick

• I think we made our point’: Conservatives end their nearly 21-hour-long House of Commons voting marathon
• Alberta Budget 2018 met with mixed reaction
• B.C. MPs Elizabeth May, Kennedy Stewart arrested at Kinder Morgan facility
• Chris Wylie says he’ll testify in U.S., U.K. about Cambridge Analytica
• Word of the Week: filibuster

Alberta could shut off oil to BC resulting in a market shock, Edmonton’s LRT project cost jumps by $440M, StatsCan reports 15k more jobs while ignoring 39k full time job losses, and Jagmeet Singh walks a fine line on political violence.

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Duration: 42:52
Hosts: Shane and Patrick

• How Alberta could sow gas price Armageddon in Vancouver
• Projected cost of Edmonton’s Valley Line West LRT jumps by $440M
• We lost 39,000 full-time jobs, not that Stats Canada will tell you that
• Jagmeet Singh attended 2016 seminar with Sikh youth leader who advocated political violence
• Word of the Week: Talking points

Alberta halts BC wine imports in response to Trans Mountain stalling, the BC Liberals elected Andrew Wilkinson as leader, the NEB could be replaced by the fed govt to streamline energy assessments, and we learn about Trudeau’s use of the word peoplekind.

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Duration: 45:07
Hosts: Shane and Patrick

• Rachel Notley halts imports of BC Wine
• BC Liberal Leadership Election Feb 3rd – Andrew Wilkinson elected leader
• Ottawa to scrap National Energy Board, overhaul environmental assessment process for major projects
• What’s behind the Justin Trudeau ‘peoplekind’ controversy?
• Word of the Week: Mankind

Elizabeth May is accused of bullying; her party says she wouldn’t be if she were a man, the BC and Alberta governments spar over Trans Mountain, ICBC losing 1.3B will cost drivers more in insurance, and we detail the federal government’s drinking problem.

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Duration: 44:12
Hosts: Shane and Patrick

• Green Party defending leader Elizabeth May from accusations of bullying
• BC government strikes another blow to stop Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion
• Shocking massive losses revealed at ICBC, huge rate hikes feared
• 400 bottles of wine on the plane: Federal politicians have access to limitless alcohol on government flights
• Word of the Week: Rhetoric