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PolitiCoast — 499 episodes
Principles of convenience
David Eby has lost touch
Big Dam Power Plans
Not a teflon premier
Oldest and craziest candidate wins
Deftless handling
Shades of blue
A plan to plan for a country
One point trend
White Cap-sizing Hospitals
The debasement party
Political Misfortunes
The cheque is in the mail
Just Trust Us Act
Strongish Freeish Elections
Step 3: Profit
Iran So Far Away
The emergence of Carneyism
Least worst province
Budgets are about not making choices
Elbows somewhere
Former and forever Conservative leaders
Weird week with words
The speech heard round the world
If I go to China, I’m going to see some sights
2026 is off to a start
John Horgan In His Own Words with Rod Mickleburgh
A second MP has left the Cons
Professionally incapacitated
Is there someone Carney forgot to ask?
It's curtains for the Conservatives
Nation Building of Good Vibes and Sour Grapes
The Ostrich of Bay Street
We'd all be speaking German now
All my critics are crazy terrorists
What are you doing?
Should Be Digging Up
Pipeline purity tests
Our first zoomer leader
This party contains dead people
Only Moe can go to China
Fast-track the office to build the things
Ben Woodfinden
Green Party Leadership Interviews
The Greens' Choice
Blue Grit Honeymoon
Let's nuke Oak Bay
Feet in the file
The first rule of the BC Green Leadership race is don’t talk about the BC Green Leadership race
Quote-unquote blackmail
Henry VIII Clauses
One More BC Party
It's not 2015 anymore
The Canadian King's Speech
Sovereignty by any other name
Pick your cabinet better
Canada Is Not For Sale
The Two Party Election
The Most Canadian Election
The debate commission lost the debate
Read the law before proposing to change it
The candidate shuffle
Still campaigning like it's 2024
The guv goes to the polls
Free Enterprise Fractures
A budget about nothing
Cantankerous caucus
BC goes to war
Mr Eby goes to Washington
Carbon tax election grief
It's hard being a small party
Seven Liberals Enter, One Will Leave as Prime Minister
Liberal's last gasp
Trudover
This government's time is up (and new year's predictions)
Trudeau's final chapter
Conservative Caucus Cracks
He posts and we deal with it
Ep 400 - Eby must wait rebate
The election is finally over
Every vote matters
Technically a majority
Deja Vu
The final stretch Election 2024
Cadaverous
A very mid election strategy
John Rustad's a Facebook uncle
The New Liberal Party of BC (no associated with BC United (formerly known as BC Liberal Party))
The Americanization of bcpoli
Musical chairs
Autodefenestration
Nothing unites like political success
Don't tell people what you're not
Retconning Trudeau
It's getting sad
A transit election
Friendship ended with Ottawa, now premiers are my new best friend
Trying to save the ship
Done with Trudeau
F the drivers, build some homes
May and Singh are the reasonable ones
A baker's dozen
We're being led by a bunch of dorks
Highlander Logic
Some kind of United Conservative Party
Petty foreign interference
Ottawa Tries Something
Jurisdictional jousting
The Big Budget
Eby's war chest
Just make it look different
Scoring the Rent
If this man kicked a dog, he'd still win the election
Not the Beaverton
Brokenhearted
Mostly Online Harmless
Stay the course
BC BuildsHousingHub
Did the mob win? (ft Mo Amir)
If you're rebranding, you're losing
Foreign funding of a public college was a public great (ft Alex Usher)
The crime of existing in public (ft Dustin Godfrey)
Out with 2023, in with 2024
So long from the BC Leg
Stop trying to make 'CostBC' happen
'Smart' Density
YIMBY wet dreams
Small scale multi unit for all
Let the western bastards freeze in the dark
Airbnb Gone
A smorgasbord of tragedy
Fined Ferries
Target Troubles
Assassination allegations
Four parties in the House
Broken BC
Bank you I won't do what you tell me
Shitstorm in the Shuswap
Summertime Assortment
The Dog Days of Rebranding
Quarterly repetitions
The Big Shuffle, Feat. The Boys in Short Pants
Beefcake realpolitik
BC's dirty little secret
Where's the corporate subsidy for Taylor Swift?
Bee Cee Who
Summer speculations
Resignations and reports that won't get read
Won't find us on Facebook
BC's naughty list
[email protected]
What's happening with BC Housing? (ft Jen St Denis)
Not your grandfather's ANDP (ft Daveberta)
Legally associated unions
Canadian Streaming
The most annoying man in the world
BC United
'Homes' for People
Less pithy budgets
Responsible government is a thing of the past
Resources, Reconciliation and Rapporteur
Reluctantly reasonable ft Paul Champ
Budget day with Alex Hemingway
Escaping the torture chamber
Halfway to being a real party
Throne away from home
D-Day arrives
Ep 311: The cost of coronation
Canada Dry
Bridging the political divide
2022: The freest of years
Winter freeze
Cabinetry refinishing
Dammit Jim, I'm the premier, not a doctor
Eby gets tough
If you have to tell people you are united, you’re probably not
China influence
Notwithstanding a strike
Eby Sunomono
This is not episode 300
Ep 299: BC Yesterday
Ep 298: Uncooperative Federalism
Ep 297: Eby and Skippy or bust
Ep 296: Canada Day Potpourri
Emergency Pod: Horgan Quits
Ep 295: OpenMedia for an Open Internet
Ep 294: Lots of fault to go around
Ep 293: The numbers don't add up
Ep 292: Drugs not guns
Ep 291: Wagged by Doug
Ep 290: It belongs in a museum
Ep 289: Sad Trombone
Ep 288: What Conservatives don't really want to debate
Ep 287: A BC Police
Ep 286 Scotts for Scott
Ep 285: Contesting Quilchena
Ep 284: The fiscal house
Ep 283: Plans upon plans
Ep 282: No surprises
Ep 281: Operation Malt Barley
Ep 280: Greatest BC Premier Bracket Championship
Ep 279: Third Time's a Charm
Ep 278: Not the emergencies we deserved
Ep 277: Things will never be "normal" again
Ep 276: Falcon has landed
Ep 275: Mildewed and smoldering
Ep 274: Injunctions back on
Ep 273: Predictions in Unpredictable Times
Ep 272: Party Operating Systems
Ep 271: Unclear Goals
Ep 270: Holidays are cancelled
Ep 269: Who are you winning over?
Ep 268: No floods of information
Ep 267: BC Renewal Party
Ep 266: The atmospheric river
Ep 265: Anti-anti-masker shadow cabinet
Ep 264: Low hanging economic fruit
Ep 263: Prepare to be disappointed
Ep 262: Free the trees
Ep 261: Anthropomorphized Facebook Comment Sections
Ep 260: Tofino to Toronto
Ep 259: Meng, Michaels and Micah
Ep 258: Stewart Prestient
Ep 257: A nonzero percent chance
Ep 256: The Debate debate LIVE
Ep 255: We're halfway there
Ep 254: I've made a huge mistake
Ep 253: Campaign Kick Off
Ep 252: And They’re (almost) Off
Ep 251: Greatest Premier Bracket - The non-partisan premiers preliminary round
Beers to 250
Ep 249: The Scheduled Emergency Pod
Ep 248: The Election Speculation Episode
Ep 247: A hopefully less embarrassing pick
Ep 246: Cancelada Day
Ep 245: Kindness Week
Ep 244: Failures in elections; failures in housing
Ep 243: Who speaks for the trees?
Ep 242: Every child matters
Ep 241: Teenagers are scary
Ep 240: BC's Unequal Women
Ep 239: We have sick leave at home
Ep 238: Preferred vaccines
Ep 237: Failures to Communicate
Ep 236: Budgets, budgets everywhere
Ep 235: War on carbon
Ep 234: Do the Dew
Ep 233: Get off my lawn energy
Ep 232: Not doing better and not doing more
Ep 231: By the power of statutory immunity
Ep 230: Steady drip of troubles in CPC HQ
Ep 229: No cannons for kids
Ep 228: Anti-Green bias
Ep 227: Prying guns from cold dead hands
Ep 226: Decriminalization on the hroizon
Ep 225: Big bucks and COVID muck
Ep 224: No cheques from the government
Ep 223: Twice removed
Ep 222: Missing from the Village
Ep 221: 2021 is off to a helluva start
Leg-in-Boot Media 2020 Live Winterval Special
2020 Holiday Special: Ep 80 Matter of Confidence replay
Ep 220: Short session
Ep 219: Vaccines for Christmas
Ep 218: Darryl Plecas' last hurrah
Ep 217: NDP Cabinetry
Ep 216: Masking Up
Ep 215: Every vote counted
Ep 214: Make politics boring again
Ep 213: 2020 BC Election dissection with Mario Canseco
Ep 212: A quiet end
Bonus: The Platforms Podcast
Ep 211: He was resigned
Ep 210: Buying votes
Ep 209: Andy's PST Holiday
Ep 208: Much Trudeau about nothing
Emergency Pod: I guess we're actually doing this fucking thing
Ep 207: Stronger BC elections
Ep 206: A good war
Ep 205: A third challenger emerges
Ep 204: Tooles for Schools
Ep 203: Candy laden budgets
Ep 202: Thanks, I hate it
Ep 201: Spotlight on Evidence
Episode 200
Ep 199: Mask up
Ep 198: Kim Darwin for BC Green leader
Ep 197: Crochet, camping and fringe separatist movements
Ep 196: BC to WE
Ep 196: BC to WE
Ep 195: Phase 3 brings the bills
Ep 194: The sin of calling someone racist
Ep 193: Defund the BCPP
Ep 192: Black BC Lives Matter with Stephanie Allen
Ep 191: COVID Pharma Politics
Ep 190: A scientist runs for Green leader w Dr Amita Kuttner
Bonus: Lindsay Tedds on basic income during COVID-19 paper
Ep 189: My baby doesn't have a job yet
Ep 188: Trudeau comes for some of your guns
Ep 187: The railroad to normalcy
Ep 186: Clearing the COVID air
Ep 185: Where was Andrew Wilkinson?
Ep 184: Political Decisions in a Time of Crisis
Ep 183: To mask or not to mask?
Ep 182: Money printer go brrr
Ep 181: Politics & Pop Culture at FanExpo with Pop This!
Ep 180: Flatten the curve
Ep 179: The rights agreement
Ep 178: Reconciliation is dead, long live reconciliation
Ep 177: Stay the Course, Budget Edition
Ep 176: Protesting the Throne
Ep 175 The Fault In Our Insurance
Ep 174: BC also stands for birth control
Ep 173: A new deal MAID
Ep 172: Tax time on the Expo Line
Ep 171: All eyes on Iran
Ep 170: Is Harperism dead and other thoughts on the decade
Ep 169: 2020 Vision
Ep 168: Scheexit
Ep 167: Together in a vague, somewhat forward direction
Ep 166: Conventional oppositions
Ep 165: Down to the wire
Ep 164: What do the BC Liberals stand for in 2019?
Ep 163: Live at VanPodFest 2019
Ep 162: Prairie Alienation
Ep 161: A minor election
Ep 160: Promises and Platforms
Ep 159: It's Debatable
Ep 158A - A Lot Can Happen on a Friday
Ep 158 Back to the Leg
Ep 157 #FakeStraws
Ep 156 The Trudeau Scandal
Ep 155: Writs Are Dropping Like They're Hot
Ep 154: How Many Greens Are There?
Ep 153: Ian's going to sit out this awful election
Ep 152: Calling the Question on SNC
Ep 151: SNC Thanks for nothing DPPSC
Ep 150: Chocolate milk is good live show
Ep 149: Self-entitled jerks
Ep 148: Intersectional disasters
Ep 147: Cascadia Rail
Ep 146: We need a climate mobilization with Seth Klein
Ep 145: Alan Mullen's summer road trip
Ep 144: Now we can build some transmission lines
Ep 143: If everyone's mad at you, you must be doing something right
Ep 142: The pharmacare election
Ep 141: It's not the size that matters
Ep 140: The Michael Scott approach to Legislature management
Ep 139: How green are the Greens
Ep 138: The Leg needs a liquor policy
Ep 137: #TeamTrudeau vs the Defence Establishment
Ep 136: No one gets any oil anywhere
Ep 135: King of the Island
Ep 134: For the UCP 1+1=2.2
Debate: Is Social Media Destroying Democracy?
Ep 133: Social media is bad
Ep 132: The BC Liberals score a win
Ep 131: What are they, the Alberta NDP?
Ep 130: David Moscrop wrote a book
Ep 129: Civil asset forfeiture
Emergency Podcast: Erosions of trust
Ep 128: No criminal behaviour, that's the standard?
Ep 127: Some light interference
Ep 126: Plecas throws shade
Ep 125: Rookie mistakes
Ep 124: The data piggy bank is running dry
Ep 123: Don't believe everything you hear on Mainstreet
Ep 122: The alleged truckload of alcohol
Ep 121: No press conferences at the Burnaby Library
Ep 120: BC isn't woke
Ep 119: Apparently it wasn't too close to call
Ep 118: 2018 End of Year Extravaganza
Ep 117: A bridge too far
Ep 116: Canada's Archduke Ferdinand situation
Ep 115: Bad Ass Bowinn
Ep 114: Chaos closes the legislature
Ep 113: Never a dull moment in BC politics ft Shannon Waters
Ep 112: Proportionally known unknowns
Ep 111: How woke is PR?
Ep 110: John picked a date
Ep 109: The Great Canadian Club Electoral Reform Debate
Ep 108: Taxing houses, jobs and weed
Ep 107: Policy Pop-up
Ep 106: Back in the leg ft Shannon Waters
Ep 105: David Eby for the record
Ep 104: All smoke and no stores
Ep 103: It's not the people's People's Party
Ep 102: We're not international trade experts
Ep 101: Rabid dog days of summer ft Micah Goldberg
Ep 100: Live at The Belmont ft Shannon Waters
Ep 99: Conservative diversity
Ep 98: Too dumb for democracy ft David Moscrop
Ep 97: A Fair Vote on PR ft Keith Poore
Ep 96: A premiere Premier's Meeting
Ep 95: Fishy business
Ep 94: Sean Graham's Dual Member Proportional
Ep 93: One simple trick to solve student housing
Ep 92: BC is part of a crime syndicate
Ep 91: Dogwood Benefits for TWU
Ep 90: Bernier was on a break
Ep 89: Potpourri pipelines and Ontario election hot takes
Ep 88: Wars of trade and electoral reform
Emergency Podcast: Canada buys Trans Mountain Pipeline
Ep 87: A very litigious week
Ep 86: Emails in the pipeline
Ep 85: A year for the books with Jillian P Stead
Ep 84: Buzz off Davidoff
Ep 83: Breaking Betty
Ep 82: Drain the swamp model of the constitution
Ep 81: Pipeline pause puts provinces in a pickle
Ep 80: A Matter of Confidence with Rob Shaw & Richard Zussman
Ep 79: "Shoot the mayor in the head and burn down houses" - A look at Nanaimo politics
Ep 78: The new LNG champion
Ep 77: Horgan blocks World Cup bid
Ep 76: What the heck Ontario?
Ep 75: We budgeted time for more budgets
Special Announcement
Ep 74: Baby's first budget
Ep 72: Wine pipelines
Ep 71: Lieutenant Governoring the youth
Ep 70: #MeToo comes to Canadian politics
Ep 69: Minimum wage & War of Plates potpourri
Ep 68: Sunset for Mayor Moonbeam
The PolitiCoast Star Wars Holiday Special
Ep 67: The 2017 Finale
Ep 66: Of dams and beers
Ep 65: Is it a Better BC with David Moscrop
Ep 64: The Docket in Short Pants Crossover
Ep 63: Justin McElroy kills your nostalgia
Ep 62: Underway with challenges
Ep 61: Minister of Silly Names
Ep 60: Stephen Carter rants
Ep 59: The Vancouver Special
Ep 58: David King's IDEA for Alberta education
Ep 57: The Mayor's secret party of disappointment
Ep 56: How not to sell a tax plan
Ep 55: Vancouver decides - Hashtag socialism or Hector the Connector?
Vancouver Byelection Housing & Homelessness Forum
Ep 54: More leadership races means more content
Ep 53: John's allowance
DD 03: NDP Leadership Race Deep Dive
Ep 52: Tedds takes on the budget update
Ep 51: Betrayal
Ep 50: The Live Show!
Ep 49: Evan Balgord on right wing extremism
Ep 48: Countering white supremacy
Ep 47: Ian's Ottawa Adventures
Ep 46: Lindsay Tedds
Emergency Podcast: Christy Clark Resigns
Ep 45: Niki Ashton
Ep 44: Tom Davidoff
Ep 43: Fantasy cabinet
Ep 42: Politics, the universe and everything
Ep 41: A confident end to the jiggery-pokery
Ep 40: Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
Ep 39: The Neverending Election
Ep 38: Dave's hot takes
Ep 37: Clark's GreeNDP nightmare
Ep 36: And the winner is...
Ep 35: Improbable outcomes
Ep 34: New Conservatives on the Block
Ep 33: Everyone's a winner
PolitiCoast Live Election Night Part 2
PolitiCoast Live Election Night Part 1
Ep 32: I am Linda's prediction model
Ep 31: Hulk Horgan Strikes Back
Ep 30: No one puts Andrew in the corner
Ep 29: YPP and Libertarians and Economists Oh My
Ep 28: Elections are not the time for serious issues
Ep 27: Teflon Clark and David Eby
Ep 26: The Greens in Mouseland
Ep 25: Red ink is expensive
Ep 24: Tinkering with the rules
Ep 23: BC does have one campaign finance law
Ep 22: One giant Leap
DD 02: Conservative Leadership Race
Ep 21: The Forget Me Not Budget
Ep 20: Playing with fire
Ep 19: Alternative Hacks
Ep 18: RIP Electoral Reform
Ep 17: Alternative electoral reform
Ep 16: The O'Leary Factor
Ep 15: Trudeau's friends with benefits
Ep 14: Fall Finale
Ep 13: Make ethics great again
Ep 12: Rachel Notley comes to town
Ep 11: Trudeau Kerfuffles
Ep 10: Selling the farm
Ep 09: Empty homes and empty promises
Ep 08: Supreme Court Smackdown
Ep 07: The Darkest Timeline
Ep 06: Doubling down on deficits
DD 01 - Electoral Reform
Ep 05: 99 Red Walloons
Ep 04: You're Fired
Ep 03: Trumpster Fires
Ep 02: Green Shift 2.0 - Shift Harder
Ep 00 - The NAFTA Debate
Ep 00 - PolitiCoast Teaser