Former MLA Judi Tyabji, CEO of Tugboat Enterprises, returns to the program to talk to Joseph Planta about the current provincial election and referendum campaign; discussed include: the sense of disengagement amongst the electorate, the Liberals candidates problems, the NDP’s campaign, and STV, which she is not supporting.
Veteran Vancouver Sun columnist Vaughn Palmer joins Joseph Planta to discuss the current election and referendum campaign; the John Van Dongen story, the forthcoming television leaders debate, whether STV will pass, and the NDP’s lacklustre campaign thus far are discussed.
Political blogger (Oldtown News) Jamie Lee Hamilton returns to the program after a four-year absence to discuss the current provincial election and referendum campaign, her support of Green candidate John Boychuk in Vancouver-Mount Pleasant, STV, and more.
CBC Radio One’s Mark Forsythe joins Joseph Planta to discuss the current provincial election and referendum campaigns, as well as the future of his program BC Almanac, and his 25th anniversary with the CBC.
The 24 Hours paper’s Irwin Loy talks about the current provincial election and referendum campaigns, looking at the John Van Dongen situation, the NDP campaign stumbles, Ray Lam dropping out of the race, the carbon tax, and what to expect in some Vancouver ridings, with Joseph Planta.
Dr. Mark Jaccard, a professor at Simon Fraser University’s School of Resource and Environmental Management and a former member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, discusses the essay he contributed to the Thomas Homer-Dixon edited book Carbon Shift: How the Twin Crises of Oil Depletion and Climate Change Will Define the Future (Random House, 2009), as well as the current provincial election campaign especially the NDP’s plan to axe the carbon tax, with Joseph Planta.
Paul Willcocks, columnist and editorial writer at the Victoria Times-Colonist discusses the latest in the provincial election and referendum campaigns.
Veteran broadcaster, Save Our Rivers spokesman, and former Socred cabinet Rafe Mair discusses environment issues, and the current provincial election campaign and the STV referendum in an interview with Joseph Planta; Mair also brands David Suzuki a ‘pseudo-environmentalist.’
Award-winning investigative journalist Sean Holman, editor of Public Eye Online, discusses the current provincial election and referendum campaigns with Joseph Planta.
Dr. James Maskalyk, an emergency physician and assistant professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine, discusses his memoir, Six Months in Sudan: A Young Doctor in a War-Torn Village (Doubleday, 2009), with Joseph Planta.
BC Entertainment Hall of Fame president and former Vancouver City Councilor Elizabeth Ball talks to Joseph Planta about the latest group of honourees, and the induction ceremony this Sunday, 19 April 2009 at the Orpheum.
Dr. George Friedman, the founder and CEO of STRATFOR, the world’s leading private intelligence and forecasting company discusses his new book, The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (Doubleday, 2009), with Joseph Planta.
The noted health and medical journalist Ray Moynihan discusses the book he co-authored (with Melissa Sweet), Ten Questions You Must Ask Your Doctor (Greystone, 2009), with Joseph Planta.
The outgoing NDP MLA for Vancouver Kensington David Chudnovsky talks to Joseph Planta about the past four years in provincial politics, the state of COPE, and what to expect in the forthcoming election.
The author Robyn Harding talks to Joseph Planta about her book, Mom, Will This Chicken Give Me Man Boobs? My Confused, Guilt-Ridden, and Stressful Struggle to Raise a Green Family (Greystone, 2009).