thePodcast: Cup costs, controversy and Cascadia connections

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For the week of May 31, 2026: The day after the B.C. NDP government ended the spring Legislature session by weakening the freedom of information law, two of Premier David Eby’s ministers revealed the cost of co-hosting FIFA World Cup in Vancouver could be as much as $729 million. On this edition of thePodcast, highlights of the news conference held by Anne Kang, Minister of Tourism, Arts, Culture and Sports, and Ravi Kahlon, Minister of Jobs and Economic Generation (starting at 00:50). Plus reaction from Carson Binda, the B.C. director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation who remembers when the cost was supposed to be $230 million (starting at 08:40). Vancouver and Seattle are the closest cross-border host cities of the Canada/U.S./Mexico tournament. Prof. Laurie Trautman, director of the Border Policy Research Institute at Western Washington University, on the regional tourism, transportation and security implications (starting at 16:24). CLICK BELOW to listen. Or go to TuneIn , Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Have you missed an edition of theBreaker.news Podcast? Go to the archive. Subscribe to theBreaker.news on Substack. Find out how: Click here .

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