Trump Blinks on Tariffs, Booze Back on the Shelves & Vancouver's $500K Plebiscite | UnSpun Ep. 334

Episode 334 of UnSpun with Jody Vance and George Affleck lands mid-negotiation, the 50% tariff deadline came and went, Trump hit pause, and Canada looks closer to a deal than it has in months. Then it's straight back to BC, where the attack ads got ugly and Vancouver is about to spend half a million dollars asking a question it can't answer itself.Here's what's inside:Trump Hits Pause on the 50% Tariffs: The deadline passed, the hammer didn't drop, and the LeBlanc–Greer press conference sounded legitimately positive. Is this a deal, or just another week of taco diplomacy?What Relief Could Look Like: Word from inside: reductions on autos, softwood lumber, steel and aluminum, plus the smaller tariffs on everything else. Including, yes, tubas and washer dryers … the "national security threats" nobody can explain.American Booze Returns to BC Shelves: Carney gets ahead of it, Eby calls it Team Canada, and Quebec's premier does her due diligence. Jody's take: put it back and still don't buy it.Keystone, Trust & a Rising Loonie: Why the pipeline's Canadian backers want congressional approval before they'd touch it, and how a stronger dollar hurts both sides like a tariff nobody voted for.Dairy on the Table: If supply management cracks, cheap American cheese comes north and Ottawa ends up subsidizing our own producers to compete. $2 cheese has a price.Loblaws Pulls the Canada Signs: The maple leaf labels are coming down across the stores. Liability cleanup or quiet retreat? Either way, it's back on us to read the label.Small Business Is Getting Hammered: Clients down in gross revenue, marketing cut first, and George and Jody on the year they've been asked to work for free more than ever.Media Cuts & the Journalism Subsidy Rumour: Big cuts underway, one-person newsrooms doing 50 jobs, and word that Canada's support for local news could be on the negotiating table. Why that should worry everyone.The BC Conservatives' Ugly Attack Video: Nazi-adjacent imagery and culture-war editing aimed at David Eby. Not funny, not clever, and not how a serious opposition behaves.Centre BC and the 5% Problem: Mike Bernier's new centrist party polls small but sits exactly where most voters live. The pundits agree on one thing: it's a threat to the BC Conservatives, not the NDP.mRNA, Cancer & the Anti-Vax Hangover: Personalized mRNA vaccines are now targeting melanoma recurrence. So where do the anti-vaxxers land when it's their cancer? Plus: the tech traces back to UBC, and Operation Warp Speed was Trump's own win.Vancouver's $500K Plebiscite: Rebecca Bligh takes aim at Ken Sim: three years to pick up the phone to the premier, and instead a non-binding vote. George argues it's about handing the next council a mandate. Jody asks the harder question … where are people actually supposed to go?Called a Murderer at City Hall: George on a 5% budget line vote and the emotional theatre that passes for municipal debate, including the meetings spent arguing over the word "institution."From a tariff truce nobody trusts to a plebiscite nobody can enforce, Episode 334 is classic UnSpun: local frustration, national stakes, zero spin.💥 Subscribe, comment, and tell us: should American liquor go back on the shelves — and would you buy it?📬 Follow Jody: @jodyvance 📬 Follow George: @george_affleck