All Episodes
Hotel Pacifico — 177 episodes
"By the Book" with Howard White
"Cold industry, hot forests" with Kim Haakstad
“BC Unpacked” with Terry Glavin
"The Smell of Money" with Thomas Seal, Bloomberg’s Vancouver Bureau Chief
"Proof is in the pudding" with Jarryd Jäger + Leah Holoiday and Carling Dick
“All In” with Emily Lowan, Leader of the BC Green Party
"Policy Dead Man Walking" with Dimitri Pantazopoulos + Kate returns!
"8 is Enough" (including the Carney Condo bailout)
"Labouring over Economics" with Jim Stanford
RACE TO REPLACE: “Winner's Podium” with Chris Dyson
"25 and 34" with former B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell
"KLF WTFFF!" with James Moore
"Photo Finish" with Dylan Kruger + Richard Zussman
RACE TO REPLACE: “Down the Stretch” with Angelo Isidorou
"The Rocky Mountain Divide" with Erika Barootes and Shannon Phillips
RACE TO REPLACE: “Rounding the Turn"
"Club Z" with Brad Zubyk
RACE TO REPLACE: “Making the Move”
"War Zones to Question Period" with Ben O’Hara-Byrne
RACE TO REPLACE: “The Backstretch”
“How we got to DRIPA” with Don Bain
RACE TO REPLACE: “Jockeying for Position”
"DRIPA Drama" with Á’a:líya Warbus
RACE TO REPLACE: “Settling into Stride”
"BC in a World in Flux" with Bob Rae
RACE TO REPLACE: "First Lap"
"The Brain Train" with Benoit-Antoine Bacon
"It's a Dance" with George Heyman
"Is Culture the new Data?" with Kyla Ronellenfitsch and Gabe De Roche
"Nuance & No Nonsense" with Chief Aaron Pete
"Chainsaw Politics" with Scott Lunny + Lesli Boldt
"Cowbirds and BC's Fair Share" with Ray Castelli + Jess Ketchum
"Paying the bond traders" with Kevin Milligan + Larry Neufeld
"Budget Drift"
"3% or Bust" with Bridgitte Anderson + Michael Gardiner
"Hotel Arctico" with Premier Currie Dixon
"Deluxe Davos Discussion" with Glen Clark & James Moore + Aileen Machell
“Indigenous Street and Resources Road” with Doug Caul
"Caring Body of People" with Elenore Sturko
"6-7 BC Conservative Leadership Candidates" with Trevor Halford
Holiday Extravaganza: Clark, Harcourt, Davies, McElroy & Zussman
"The Evolution of Eby" with Vaughn Palmer + 12 Substacks of Christmas
"I'm not going to be silenced" with John Rustad + Gurpreet Vinning
"Pipelines, Politics and the Pacific” with Danielle Smith, Premier of Alberta + Dimitri Pantazopoulos
"Invest & Build for Good" with Ryan Beedie + Strategy Suite
"Defining moments in B.C. politics" with Richard Zussman + Carlie Pochynok
"BC NDP Convention" with Raj Sihota + Katie DeRosa and Wolfgang Depner
"B.C. does it better than anywhere in the world" with Todd Stone + Maeghan Dewar
"Targeting Trump on Tariffs" with Premier Eby + Kory Teneycke
"Canadians not travelling to the US" Tamara Vrooman + Bob Kronbauer
"Both provinces have a champion" with Cheryl Oates and Erika Barootes + George Abbott
"John Horgan: In His Own Words” with Rod Mickleburgh + Maria Dobrinskaya
"Mayors of BC, Unite" with Fran Yanor
"No Groundswell" with Dimitri Pantazopoulos
Special Episode: BC Cities and Towns with Richard Zussman
"Infiltrating A Beauty Contest" with Judy Darcy
“Blindingly Obvious” with Don Wright
“Take me to the Greek” with Dimitri Pantazopoulos
"Conservative Stereotypes" with Claire Rattée + Nicole Brassard
"Evolution of Indigenous Journalism" with Wawmeesh Hamilton + Richard Zussman
"Business and Government Parallels" with Glen Clark, BC's 31st Premier
"Crack Down On Gender-Based Violence" with Angela Marie MacDougall
BC Politics Trivia Duel with Baldrey & McElroy
"Hotel Pacifico Rim" with Canada’s Ambassador to Japan Ian McKay + Anita Zaenker
BREAKING NEWS: Emergency Pod Cabinet Shuffle Reaction
"Fires, Closures, and Loss" with Kim Haakstad + Jess Ketchum
"The Whole Story" with Aaron Gunn
"It all fits" with Dallas Smith + Duncan Wlodarczak
"The BC NDP has a younger, more dynamic bench" with Adrian Dix
"Tough Grandma" Mayor Brenda Locke
🔥 Heat and Fire with Sean Holman + Fran Yanor
Harman Bhangu: The difference between BC Conservatives & national Conservatives
What to do with BC natural resources? ft. Stewart Muir
Multicultural Communications & Media with Jatinder Rai
Western Alienation with Cheryl Oates and Erika Barootes
Super Strategy Suite with Bob Dewar, Caroline Elliott and Brittney Kerr
100th Episode Post-Election Special with David Herle
Battle for BC: Predictions!
"Poilievre was channeling Trump" with Don Davies + Caroline Elliott
Battle for BC: Vancouver and North of Fraser Review
"Keep Connor McDavid on the Ice" /w former premier, Gordon Campbell + Marko Dekovic
Battle for BC: Fraser Valley & Beyond Hope Review
Election Polling with Greg Lyle + Guest Co-Host Aisha Estey
Battle for BC: Suburban Battleground Review
"When Sh*t Really Hit The Fan" with Matt Stickney
Battle for BC: Riding x Riding Review
"A Chaotic and Dysfunctional System" with Allan Gregg + Caroline Elliott
"More to be Desired" with Áʼa꞉líya Warbus
"The Tariff War and Budgets" with Trevor Tombe
Emerging from BC Budget Lockup
"Remove the partisan rhetoric" with former BC LG, Janet Austin
"Consolidate and Moderate" with Jas Johal
"A centrist alternative" with Karin Kirkpatrick
"Working people up for grabs" with Sussanne Skidmore
"It's the economy stupid" with Laura Jones
"Sphere of Influence" with Yukon Premier Ranj Pillai
"What the h*ll is a critical mineral anyway" with Michael Goehring
"ChatGPT versus doctors" with Terry Lake
Holiday Party with LG Austin, James Moore, Joy MacPhail, and Richard Zussman
"Command performance" with Murray Rankin
"Cheaper energy and a new economy for Canada" with Merran Smith
Housing Gatekeepers with Mayor Eric Woodward
"The Steve Martin of Hotel Pacifico": Don Wright, former head of BC public service
Remembering the Honourable John Horgan
Aisha Estey, President of the BC Conservative Party
BC NDP Campaign Director Marie Della Mattia + Strategy Suite with Don Guy
And the winner is ...
🎵 Eve of D̶e̶s̶t̶r̶u̶c̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ Election 🗳️
T-minus 2 with the 34th premier of BC, Gordon Campbell
T-minus 3 with the 31st premier of BC, Glen Clark
T-minus 4 ... with new polling!
T-minus 8
T-minus 9 with Mary Polak
T-minus 10
T-minus 11
T-minus 12
T-minus 15 with Richard Zussman
T-minus 16
T-minus 17 with Don Guy
T-minus 18
T-minus 22 with special guest Kory Teneycke
T-minus 23 with special guest David Herle
T-minus 24
T-minus 25
The election is on!
BONUS POD: Riding by Riding Review with Richard Zussman
John Rustad, Leader of the BC Conservative Party
David Eby: 37th Premier of British Columbia
BREAKING NEWS: Hotel Pacifico is going daily during the election!
Emergency Pod: BC United suspends campaign + BC Green Party leader Sonia Furstenau
"Elites under every cushion" with Katie DeRosa + Bruce Young
"Fire Weather" with John Vaillant
"Populism overwhelms elite consensus" with Angus Reid
"Unaffordable housing killed Halloween" with Minister Ravi Kahlon
“Rights exist whether Crown politicians acknowledge them or not” with Adam Olsen
"Throwing Darts" with Andrew Weaver + Strategy Suite with Bob Kronbauer
"There is a town called Lytton" with Mayor Denise O'Connor
"Time stamp this episode" with James Moore
"Untold Tales" with Daniel Marshall + Strategy Suite guest Sarah Sidhu
"Why are the Conservatives up 20 in Canada and down 20 in the UK" with Andrew Percy + Strategy Suite guest Stepan Vdovine
"The math is the math" with Neil Sweeney
BC Housing with "Condo King" Bob Rennie + Strategy Suite guest Andrea Reimer
"BC is Back" with Carole James
"Populism for all the right reasons" with Andrew Petter
"Tell your gut to shut up" with Dan Arnold
"It's toast" with Eric Denhoff
“You don’t get the whole picture” with Carole Taylor
"Hopeful populism" with James Moore
"Wanting power to wanting to help people fight power" with Michael Bryant
Bringing suburban populism to the people with Mayor Brad West
"If you want to build in BC, be in BC" with Susannah Pierce
“Assertive, aggressive, but not nuts” with Joy MacPhail
Christy Clark, 35th Premier of British Columbia
"Talk Show Politician" with Greg Lyle
"It can't all be polite" with Mike de Jong
Special LIVE episode of Hotel Pacifico with Civix!
"Be the voice of people" with Bhupinder Hundal
SPECIAL EPISODE: BC Budget Breakdown
BC Crime with Kim Bolan + Throne Speech Reaction
"Full-throated, fire-breathing, long-time Conservative" with Kory Teneycke
Public Policy Counsel with Don Wright
BC Budget Warm-Up with Bryan Yu
"Road to Recovery" with Marshall Smith, Chief of Staff to Premier Smith
Hitting the jump shot, energy and reconciliation with Crystal Smith
"The political fabric of British Columbia" with Vaughn Palmer
Glen Clark, 31st Premier of British Columbia
"Baldrey's Books" with Keith Baldrey
"The Rockies are more than a physical divide" with Rachel Curran
"That group is very susceptible right now" with Shachi Kurl
Free enterprise versus the other guys with Jess Ketchum
BC NDP Convention table setting with Raj Sihota
SPECIAL EPISODE: John Horgan, 36th Premier of British Columbia
Political "stock-in-trade" with Bridgitte Anderson
"Political Animal" with special guest Kareem Allam
Inaugural episode with special guest Bob Dewar
One Podcast Sitting Inside Another: #HotelPacifico sneak peek on #TheHerleBurly
TRAILER: Welcome to Hotel Pacifico