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1

One point trend

2

White Cap-sizing Hospitals

3

The debasement party

4

Political Misfortunes

5

The cheque is in the mail

6

Just Trust Us Act

7

Strongish Freeish Elections

8

Step 3: Profit

9

Iran So Far Away

10

The emergence of Carneyism

11

Least worst province

12

Budgets are about not making choices

13

Elbows somewhere

14

Former and forever Conservative leaders

15

Weird week with words

16

The speech heard round the world

17

If I go to China, I’m going to see some sights

18

2026 is off to a start

19

John Horgan In His Own Words with Rod Mickleburgh

20

A second MP has left the Cons

21

Professionally incapacitated

22

Is there someone Carney forgot to ask?

23

It's curtains for the Conservatives

24

Nation Building of Good Vibes and Sour Grapes

25

The Ostrich of Bay Street

26

We'd all be speaking German now

27

All my critics are crazy terrorists

28

What are you doing?

29

Should Be Digging Up

30

Pipeline purity tests

31

Our first zoomer leader

32

This party contains dead people

33

Only Moe can go to China

34

Fast-track the office to build the things

35

Ben Woodfinden

36

Green Party Leadership Interviews

37

The Greens' Choice

38

Blue Grit Honeymoon

39

Let's nuke Oak Bay

40

Feet in the file

41

The first rule of the BC Green Leadership race is don’t talk about the BC Green Leadership race

42

Quote-unquote blackmail

43

Henry VIII Clauses

44

One More BC Party

45

It's not 2015 anymore

46

The Canadian King's Speech

47

Sovereignty by any other name

48

Pick your cabinet better

49

Canada Is Not For Sale

50

The Two Party Election

51

The Most Canadian Election

52

The debate commission lost the debate

53

Read the law before proposing to change it

54

The candidate shuffle

55

Still campaigning like it's 2024

56

The guv goes to the polls

57

Free Enterprise Fractures

58

A budget about nothing

59

Cantankerous caucus

60

BC goes to war

61

Mr Eby goes to Washington

62

Carbon tax election grief

63

It's hard being a small party

64

Seven Liberals Enter, One Will Leave as Prime Minister

65

Liberal's last gasp

66

Trudover

67

This government's time is up (and new year's predictions)

68

Trudeau's final chapter

69

Conservative Caucus Cracks

70

He posts and we deal with it

71

Ep 400 - Eby must wait rebate

72

The election is finally over

73

Every vote matters

74

Technically a majority

75

Deja Vu

76

The final stretch Election 2024

77

Cadaverous

78

A very mid election strategy

79

John Rustad's a Facebook uncle

80

The New Liberal Party of BC (no associated with BC United (formerly known as BC Liberal Party))

81

The Americanization of bcpoli

82

Musical chairs

83

Autodefenestration

84

Nothing unites like political success

85

Don't tell people what you're not

86

Retconning Trudeau

87

It's getting sad

88

A transit election

89

Friendship ended with Ottawa, now premiers are my new best friend

90

Trying to save the ship

91

Done with Trudeau

92

F the drivers, build some homes

93

May and Singh are the reasonable ones

94

A baker's dozen

95

We're being led by a bunch of dorks

96

Highlander Logic

97

Some kind of United Conservative Party

98

Petty foreign interference

99

Ottawa Tries Something

100

Jurisdictional jousting

101

The Big Budget

102

Eby's war chest

103

Just make it look different

104

Scoring the Rent

105

If this man kicked a dog, he'd still win the election

106

Not the Beaverton

107

Brokenhearted

108

Mostly Online Harmless

109

Stay the course

110

BC BuildsHousingHub

111

Did the mob win? (ft Mo Amir)

112

If you're rebranding, you're losing

113

Foreign funding of a public college was a public great (ft Alex Usher)

114

The crime of existing in public (ft Dustin Godfrey)

115

Out with 2023, in with 2024

116

So long from the BC Leg

117

Stop trying to make 'CostBC' happen

118

'Smart' Density

119

YIMBY wet dreams

120

Small scale multi unit for all

121

Let the western bastards freeze in the dark

122

Airbnb Gone

123

A smorgasbord of tragedy

124

Fined Ferries

125

Target Troubles

126

Assassination allegations

127

Four parties in the House

128

Broken BC

129

Bank you I won't do what you tell me

130

Shitstorm in the Shuswap

131

Summertime Assortment

132

The Dog Days of Rebranding

133

Quarterly repetitions

134

The Big Shuffle, Feat. The Boys in Short Pants

135

Beefcake realpolitik

136

BC's dirty little secret

137

Where's the corporate subsidy for Taylor Swift?

138

Bee Cee Who

139

Summer speculations

140

Resignations and reports that won't get read

141

Won't find us on Facebook

142

BC's naughty list

143

[email protected]

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What's happening with BC Housing? (ft Jen St Denis)

145

Not your grandfather's ANDP (ft Daveberta)

146

Legally associated unions

147

Canadian Streaming

148

The most annoying man in the world

149

BC United

150

'Homes' for People

151

Less pithy budgets

152

Responsible government is a thing of the past

153

Resources, Reconciliation and Rapporteur

154

Reluctantly reasonable ft Paul Champ

155

Budget day with Alex Hemingway

156

Escaping the torture chamber

157

Halfway to being a real party

158

Throne away from home

159

D-Day arrives

160

Ep 311: The cost of coronation

161

Canada Dry

162

Bridging the political divide

163

2022: The freest of years

164

Winter freeze

165

Cabinetry refinishing

166

Dammit Jim, I'm the premier, not a doctor

167

Eby gets tough

168

If you have to tell people you are united, you’re probably not

169

China influence

170

Notwithstanding a strike

171

Eby Sunomono

172

This is not episode 300

173

Ep 299: BC Yesterday

174

Ep 298: Uncooperative Federalism

175

Ep 297: Eby and Skippy or bust

176

Ep 296: Canada Day Potpourri

177

Emergency Pod: Horgan Quits

178

Ep 295: OpenMedia for an Open Internet

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Ep 294: Lots of fault to go around

180

Ep 293: The numbers don't add up

181

Ep 292: Drugs not guns

182

Ep 291: Wagged by Doug

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Ep 290: It belongs in a museum

184

Ep 289: Sad Trombone

185

Ep 288: What Conservatives don't really want to debate

186

Ep 287: A BC Police

187

Ep 286 Scotts for Scott

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Ep 285: Contesting Quilchena

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Ep 284: The fiscal house

190

Ep 283: Plans upon plans

191

Ep 282: No surprises

192

Ep 281: Operation Malt Barley

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Ep 280: Greatest BC Premier Bracket Championship

194

Ep 279: Third Time's a Charm

195

Ep 278: Not the emergencies we deserved

196

Ep 277: Things will never be "normal" again

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Ep 276: Falcon has landed

198

Ep 275: Mildewed and smoldering

199

Ep 274: Injunctions back on

200

Ep 273: Predictions in Unpredictable Times

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Ep 272: Party Operating Systems

202

Ep 271: Unclear Goals

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Ep 270: Holidays are cancelled

204

Ep 269: Who are you winning over?

205

Ep 268: No floods of information

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Ep 267: BC Renewal Party

207

Ep 266: The atmospheric river

208

Ep 265: Anti-anti-masker shadow cabinet

209

Ep 264: Low hanging economic fruit

210

Ep 263: Prepare to be disappointed

211

Ep 262: Free the trees

212

Ep 261: Anthropomorphized Facebook Comment Sections

213

Ep 260: Tofino to Toronto

214

Ep 259: Meng, Michaels and Micah

215

Ep 258: Stewart Prestient

216

Ep 257: A nonzero percent chance

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Ep 256: The Debate debate LIVE

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Ep 255: We're halfway there

219

Ep 254: I've made a huge mistake

220

Ep 253: Campaign Kick Off

221

Ep 252: And They’re (almost) Off

222

Ep 251: Greatest Premier Bracket - The non-partisan premiers preliminary round

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Beers to 250

224

Ep 249: The Scheduled Emergency Pod

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Ep 248: The Election Speculation Episode

226

Ep 247: A hopefully less embarrassing pick

227

Ep 246: Cancelada Day

228

Ep 245: Kindness Week

229

Ep 244: Failures in elections; failures in housing

230

Ep 243: Who speaks for the trees?

231

Ep 242: Every child matters

232

Ep 241: Teenagers are scary

233

Ep 240: BC's Unequal Women

234

Ep 239: We have sick leave at home

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Ep 238: Preferred vaccines

236

Ep 237: Failures to Communicate

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Ep 236: Budgets, budgets everywhere

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Ep 235: War on carbon

239

Ep 234: Do the Dew

240

Ep 233: Get off my lawn energy

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Ep 232: Not doing better and not doing more

242

Ep 231: By the power of statutory immunity

243

Ep 230: Steady drip of troubles in CPC HQ

244

Ep 229: No cannons for kids

245

Ep 228: Anti-Green bias

246

Ep 227: Prying guns from cold dead hands

247

Ep 226: Decriminalization on the hroizon

248

Ep 225: Big bucks and COVID muck

249

Ep 224: No cheques from the government

250

Ep 223: Twice removed

251

Ep 222: Missing from the Village

252

Ep 221: 2021 is off to a helluva start

253

Leg-in-Boot Media 2020 Live Winterval Special

254

2020 Holiday Special: Ep 80 Matter of Confidence replay

255

Ep 220: Short session

256

Ep 219: Vaccines for Christmas

257

Ep 218: Darryl Plecas' last hurrah

258

Ep 217: NDP Cabinetry

259

Ep 216: Masking Up

260

Ep 215: Every vote counted

261

Ep 214: Make politics boring again

262

Ep 213: 2020 BC Election dissection with Mario Canseco

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Ep 212: A quiet end

264

Bonus: The Platforms Podcast

265

Ep 211: He was resigned

266

Ep 210: Buying votes

267

Ep 209: Andy's PST Holiday

268

Ep 208: Much Trudeau about nothing

269

Emergency Pod: I guess we're actually doing this fucking thing

270

Ep 207: Stronger BC elections

271

Ep 206: A good war

272

Ep 205: A third challenger emerges

273

Ep 204: Tooles for Schools

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Ep 203: Candy laden budgets

275

Ep 202: Thanks, I hate it

276

Ep 201: Spotlight on Evidence

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Episode 200

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Ep 199: Mask up

279

Ep 198: Kim Darwin for BC Green leader

280

Ep 197: Crochet, camping and fringe separatist movements

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Ep 196: BC to WE

282

Ep 196: BC to WE

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Ep 195: Phase 3 brings the bills

284

Ep 194: The sin of calling someone racist

285

Ep 193: Defund the BCPP

286

Ep 192: Black BC Lives Matter with Stephanie Allen

287

Ep 191: COVID Pharma Politics

288

Ep 190: A scientist runs for Green leader w Dr Amita Kuttner

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Bonus: Lindsay Tedds on basic income during COVID-19 paper

290

Ep 189: My baby doesn't have a job yet

291

Ep 188: Trudeau comes for some of your guns

292

Ep 187: The railroad to normalcy

293

Ep 186: Clearing the COVID air

294

Ep 185: Where was Andrew Wilkinson?

295

Ep 184: Political Decisions in a Time of Crisis

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Ep 183: To mask or not to mask?

297

Ep 182: Money printer go brrr

298

Ep 181: Politics & Pop Culture at FanExpo with Pop This!

299

Ep 180: Flatten the curve

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Ep 179: The rights agreement

301

Ep 178: Reconciliation is dead, long live reconciliation

302

Ep 177: Stay the Course, Budget Edition

303

Ep 176: Protesting the Throne

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Ep 175 The Fault In Our Insurance

305

Ep 174: BC also stands for birth control

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Ep 173: A new deal MAID

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Ep 172: Tax time on the Expo Line

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Ep 171: All eyes on Iran

309

Ep 170: Is Harperism dead and other thoughts on the decade

310

Ep 169: 2020 Vision

311

Ep 168: Scheexit

312

Ep 167: Together in a vague, somewhat forward direction

313

Ep 166: Conventional oppositions

314

Ep 165: Down to the wire

315

Ep 164: What do the BC Liberals stand for in 2019?

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Ep 163: Live at VanPodFest 2019

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Ep 162: Prairie Alienation

318

Ep 161: A minor election

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Ep 160: Promises and Platforms

320

Ep 159: It's Debatable

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Ep 158A - A Lot Can Happen on a Friday

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Ep 158 Back to the Leg

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Ep 157 #FakeStraws

324

Ep 156 The Trudeau Scandal

325

Ep 155: Writs Are Dropping Like They're Hot

326

Ep 154: How Many Greens Are There?

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Ep 153: Ian's going to sit out this awful election

328

Ep 152: Calling the Question on SNC

329

Ep 151: SNC Thanks for nothing DPPSC

330

Ep 150: Chocolate milk is good live show

331

Ep 149: Self-entitled jerks

332

Ep 148: Intersectional disasters

333

Ep 147: Cascadia Rail

334

Ep 146: We need a climate mobilization with Seth Klein

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Ep 145: Alan Mullen's summer road trip

336

Ep 144: Now we can build some transmission lines

337

Ep 143: If everyone's mad at you, you must be doing something right

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Ep 142: The pharmacare election

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Ep 141: It's not the size that matters

340

Ep 140: The Michael Scott approach to Legislature management

341

Ep 139: How green are the Greens

342

Ep 138: The Leg needs a liquor policy

343

Ep 137: #TeamTrudeau vs the Defence Establishment

344

Ep 136: No one gets any oil anywhere

345

Ep 135: King of the Island

346

Ep 134: For the UCP 1+1=2.2

347

Debate: Is Social Media Destroying Democracy?

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Ep 133: Social media is bad

349

Ep 132: The BC Liberals score a win

350

Ep 131: What are they, the Alberta NDP?

351

Ep 130: David Moscrop wrote a book

352

Ep 129: Civil asset forfeiture

353

Emergency Podcast: Erosions of trust

354

Ep 128: No criminal behaviour, that's the standard?

355

Ep 127: Some light interference

356

Ep 126: Plecas throws shade

357

Ep 125: Rookie mistakes

358

Ep 124: The data piggy bank is running dry

359

Ep 123: Don't believe everything you hear on Mainstreet

360

Ep 122: The alleged truckload of alcohol

361

Ep 121: No press conferences at the Burnaby Library

362

Ep 120: BC isn't woke

363

Ep 119: Apparently it wasn't too close to call

364

Ep 118: 2018 End of Year Extravaganza

365

Ep 117: A bridge too far

366

Ep 116: Canada's Archduke Ferdinand situation

367

Ep 115: Bad Ass Bowinn

368

Ep 114: Chaos closes the legislature

369

Ep 113: Never a dull moment in BC politics ft Shannon Waters

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Ep 112: Proportionally known unknowns

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Ep 111: How woke is PR?

372

Ep 110: John picked a date

373

Ep 109: The Great Canadian Club Electoral Reform Debate

374

Ep 108: Taxing houses, jobs and weed

375

Ep 107: Policy Pop-up

376

Ep 106: Back in the leg ft Shannon Waters

377

Ep 105: David Eby for the record

378

Ep 104: All smoke and no stores

379

Ep 103: It's not the people's People's Party

380

Ep 102: We're not international trade experts

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Ep 101: Rabid dog days of summer ft Micah Goldberg

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Ep 100: Live at The Belmont ft Shannon Waters

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Ep 99: Conservative diversity

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Ep 98: Too dumb for democracy ft David Moscrop

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Ep 97: A Fair Vote on PR ft Keith Poore

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Ep 96: A premiere Premier's Meeting

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Ep 95: Fishy business

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Ep 94: Sean Graham's Dual Member Proportional

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Ep 93: One simple trick to solve student housing

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Ep 92: BC is part of a crime syndicate

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Ep 91: Dogwood Benefits for TWU

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Ep 90: Bernier was on a break

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Ep 89: Potpourri pipelines and Ontario election hot takes

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Ep 88: Wars of trade and electoral reform

395

Emergency Podcast: Canada buys Trans Mountain Pipeline

396

Ep 87: A very litigious week

397

Ep 86: Emails in the pipeline

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Ep 85: A year for the books with Jillian P Stead

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Ep 84: Buzz off Davidoff

400

Ep 83: Breaking Betty

401

Ep 82: Drain the swamp model of the constitution

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Ep 81: Pipeline pause puts provinces in a pickle

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Ep 80: A Matter of Confidence with Rob Shaw & Richard Zussman

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Ep 79: "Shoot the mayor in the head and burn down houses" - A look at Nanaimo politics

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Ep 78: The new LNG champion

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Ep 77: Horgan blocks World Cup bid

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Ep 76: What the heck Ontario?

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Ep 75: We budgeted time for more budgets

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Special Announcement

410

Ep 74: Baby's first budget

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Ep 72: Wine pipelines

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Ep 71: Lieutenant Governoring the youth

413

Ep 70: #MeToo comes to Canadian politics

414

Ep 69: Minimum wage & War of Plates potpourri

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Ep 68: Sunset for Mayor Moonbeam

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The PolitiCoast Star Wars Holiday Special

417

Ep 67: The 2017 Finale

418

Ep 66: Of dams and beers

419

Ep 65: Is it a Better BC with David Moscrop

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Ep 64: The Docket in Short Pants Crossover

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Ep 63: Justin McElroy kills your nostalgia

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Ep 62: Underway with challenges

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Ep 61: Minister of Silly Names

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Ep 60: Stephen Carter rants

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Ep 59: The Vancouver Special

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Ep 58: David King's IDEA for Alberta education

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Ep 57: The Mayor's secret party of disappointment

428

Ep 56: How not to sell a tax plan

429

Ep 55: Vancouver decides - Hashtag socialism or Hector the Connector?

430

Vancouver Byelection Housing & Homelessness Forum

431

Ep 54: More leadership races means more content

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Ep 53: John's allowance

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DD 03: NDP Leadership Race Deep Dive

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Ep 52: Tedds takes on the budget update

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Ep 51: Betrayal

436

Ep 50: The Live Show!

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Ep 49: Evan Balgord on right wing extremism

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Ep 48: Countering white supremacy

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Ep 47: Ian's Ottawa Adventures

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Ep 46: Lindsay Tedds

441

Emergency Podcast: Christy Clark Resigns

442

Ep 45: Niki Ashton

443

Ep 44: Tom Davidoff

444

Ep 43: Fantasy cabinet

445

Ep 42: Politics, the universe and everything

446

Ep 41: A confident end to the jiggery-pokery

447

Ep 40: Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

448

Ep 39: The Neverending Election

449

Ep 38: Dave's hot takes

450

Ep 37: Clark's GreeNDP nightmare

451

Ep 36: And the winner is...

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Ep 35: Improbable outcomes

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Ep 34: New Conservatives on the Block

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Ep 33: Everyone's a winner

455

PolitiCoast Live Election Night Part 2

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PolitiCoast Live Election Night Part 1

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Ep 32: I am Linda's prediction model

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Ep 31: Hulk Horgan Strikes Back

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Ep 30: No one puts Andrew in the corner

460

Ep 29: YPP and Libertarians and Economists Oh My

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Ep 28: Elections are not the time for serious issues

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Ep 27: Teflon Clark and David Eby

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Ep 26: The Greens in Mouseland

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Ep 25: Red ink is expensive

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Ep 24: Tinkering with the rules

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Ep 23: BC does have one campaign finance law

467

Ep 22: One giant Leap

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DD 02: Conservative Leadership Race

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Ep 21: The Forget Me Not Budget

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Ep 20: Playing with fire

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Ep 19: Alternative Hacks

472

Ep 18: RIP Electoral Reform

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Ep 17: Alternative electoral reform

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Ep 16: The O'Leary Factor

475

Ep 15: Trudeau's friends with benefits

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Ep 14: Fall Finale

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Ep 13: Make ethics great again

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Ep 12: Rachel Notley comes to town

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Ep 11: Trudeau Kerfuffles

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Ep 10: Selling the farm

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Ep 09: Empty homes and empty promises

482

Ep 08: Supreme Court Smackdown

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Ep 07: The Darkest Timeline

484

Ep 06: Doubling down on deficits

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DD 01 - Electoral Reform

486

Ep 05: 99 Red Walloons

487

Ep 04: You're Fired

488

Ep 03: Trumpster Fires

489

Ep 02: Green Shift 2.0 - Shift Harder

490

Ep 00 - The NAFTA Debate

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Ep 00 - PolitiCoast Teaser