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PolitiCoast: The BC Politics Podcast — 428 episodes

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Untitled Peter Milobar Project

2

Either way, Eby wins

3

Summer of Discontent

4

The Smallest Shuffle

5

Eby’s no Starmer

6

Principles of convenience

7

David Eby Has Lost Touch

8

Big Dam Power Plans

9

Not a teflon premier

10

Oldest and craziest candidate wins

11

Deftless handling

12

Shades of blue

13

A plan to plan for a country

14

One point trend

15

White Cap-sizing Hospitals

16

Political Misfortunes

17

The cheque is in the mail

18

Just Trust Us Act

19

Strongish Freeish Elections

20

Step 3: Profit

21

Iran So Far Away

22

The emergence of Carneyism

23

Least worst province

24

Budgets are about not making choices

25

Elbows somewhere

26

Former and forever Conservative leaders

27

Weird week with words

28

The speech heard round the world

29

If I Go to China, I’m Going to See Some Sights

30

2026 is off to a start

31

John Horgan In His Own Words with Rod Mickleburgh

32

A second MP has left the Cons

33

Professionally incapacitated

34

Is there someone Carney forgot to ask?

35

It’s curtains for the Conservatives

36

Nation Building of Good Vibes and Sour Grapes

37

The Ostrich of Bay Street

38

We’d all be speaking German now

39

All my critics are crazy terrorists

40

What are you doing?

41

Should Be Digging Up

42

Pipeline purity tests

43

Our first zoomer leader

44

This party contains dead people

45

Only Moe can go to China

46

Fast-track the office to build the things

47

Ben Woodfinden

48

Green Party Leadership Interviews

49

The Greens’ Choice

50

Blue Grit Honeymoon

51

Let’s nuke Oak Bay

52

Feet in the file

53

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

54

Quote-unquote blackmail

55

Henry VIII Clauses

56

One More BC Party

57

It’s not 2015 anymore

58

The Canadian King’s Speech

59

Sovereignty by any other name

60

Pick your cabinet better

61

Canada Is Not For Sale

62

The Two Party Election

63

The Most Canadian Election

64

The debate commission lost the debate

65

Read the law before proposing to change it

66

The candidate shuffle

67

Still campaigning like it’s 2024

68

The guv goes to the polls

69

Free Enterprise Fractures

70

A budget about nothing

71

Cantankerous caucus

72

BC goes to war

73

Mr Eby goes to Washington

74

Carbon tax election grief

75

It’s hard being a small party

76

Seven Liberals Enter, One Will Leave as Prime Minister

77

Liberal’s last gasp

78

Trudover

79

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

80

Trudeau’s final chapter

81

Conservative Caucus Cracks

82

He posts and we deal with it

83

Ep 400 – Eby must wait rebate

84

The election is finally over

85

Every vote matters

86

Technically a majority

87

The final stretch Election 2024

88

The Americanization of bcpoli

89

Retconning Trudeau

90

It’s getting sad

91

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

92

May and Singh are the reasonable ones

93

Petty foreign interference

94

Ottawa Tries Something

95

The Big Budget

96

Scoring the Rent

97

Mostly Online Harmless

98

Did the mob win? (ft Mo Amir)

99

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

100

The crime of existing in public (ft Dustin Godfrey)

101

Stop trying to make ‘CostBC’ happen

102

Airbnb Gone

103

Fined Ferries

104

Target Troubles

105

Four parties in the House

106

Broken BC

107

Summertime Assortment

108

The Dog Days of Rebranding

109

The Big Shuffle, Feat. The Boys in Short Pants

110

BC’s dirty little secret

111

Where’s the corporate subsidy for Taylor Swift?

112

Won’t find us on Facebook

113

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

114

Canadian Streaming

115

Less pithy budgets

116

Responsible government is a thing of the past

117

Resources, Reconciliation and Rapporteur

118

Budget day with Alex Hemingway

119

Throne away from home

120

The cost of coronation

121

Bridging the political divide

122

Cabinetry refinishing

123

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

124

This is not episode 300

125

Ep 298: Uncooperative Federalism

126

Ep 298: Uncooperative Federalism

127

Ep 297: Eby and Skippy or bust

128

Emergency Pod: Horgan Quits

129

Ep 295: OpenMedia for an Open Internet

130

Ep 293: The numbers don’t add up

131

Ep 289: Sad Trombone

132

Ep 287: A BC Police

133

Ep 286 Scotts for Scott

134

Ep 285: Contesting Quilchena

135

Ep 284: The fiscal house

136

Ep 283: Plans upon plans

137

Ep 282: No surprises

138

Ep 281: Operation Malt Barley

139

Ep 280: Greatest BC Premier Bracket Championship

140

Ep 279: Third Time’s a Charm

141

Ep 278: Not the emergencies we deserved

142

Ep 276: Falcon has landed

143

Ep 275: Mildewed and smoldering

144

Ep 274: Injunctions back on

145

Ep 273: Predictions in Unpredictable Times

146

Ep 272: Party Operating Systems

147

Ep 271: Unclear Goals

148

Ep 270: Holidays are cancelled

149

Ep 269: Who are you winning over?

150

Ep 268: No floods of information

151

Ep 267: BC Renewal Party

152

Ep 266: The atmospheric river

153

Ep 265: Anti-anti-masker shadow cabinet

154

Ep 264: Low hanging economic fruit

155

Ep 262: Free the trees

156

Ep 260: Tofino to Toronto

157

Ep 259: Meng, Michaels and Micah

158

Ep 258: Stewart Prestient

159

Ep 257: A nonzero percent chance

160

Ep 256: The Debate debate LIVE

161

Ep 255: We’re halfway there

162

Ep 254: I’ve made a huge mistake

163

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

164

Beers to 250

165

Ep 249: The Scheduled Emergency Pod

166

Ep 247: A hopefully less embarrassing pick

167

Ep 246: Cancelada Day

168

Ep 245: Kindness Week

169

Ep 244: Failures in elections; failures in housing

170

Ep 243: Who speaks for the trees?

171

Ep 242: Every child matters

172

Ep 241: Teenagers are scary

173

Ep 240: BC’s Unequal Women

174

Ep 239: We have sick leave at home

175

Ep 237: Failures to Communicate

176

Ep 236: Budgets, budgets everywhere

177

Ep 235: War on carbon

178

Ep 233: Get off my lawn energy

179

Ep 232: Not doing better and not doing more

180

Ep 231: By the power of statutory immunity

181

Ep 230: Steady drip of troubles in CPC HQ

182

Ep 229: No cannons for kids

183

Ep 228: Anti-Green bias

184

Ep 227: Prying guns from cold dead hands

185

Ep 226: Decriminalization on the horizon

186

Ep 225: Big bucks and COVID muck

187

Ep 224: No cheques from the government

188

Ep 223: Twice removed

189

Ep 222: Missing from the Village

190

Ep 221: 2021 is off to a helluva start

191

Leg-in-Boot Media 2020 Live Winterval Special

192

2020 Holiday Special: Ep 80 Matter of Confidence replay

193

Ep 220: Short session

194

Ep 219: Vaccines for Christmas

195

Ep 218: Darryl Plecas’ last hurrah

196

Ep 217: NDP Cabinetry

197

Ep 216: Masking Up

198

Ep 215: Every vote counted

199

Ep 214: Make politics boring again

200

Ep 213: 2020 BC Election dissection with Mario Canseco

201

Ep 212: A quiet end

202

Bonus: The Platforms Podcast

203

Ep 211: He was resigned

204

Ep 210: Buying votes

205

Ep 209: Andy’s PST Holiday

206

Ep 208: Much Trudeau about nothing

207

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

208

Ep 207: Stronger BC elections

209

Ep 206: A good war

210

Ep 205: A third challenger emerges

211

Ep 204: Tooles for Schools

212

Ep 203: Candy laden budgets

213

Ep 202: Thanks, I hate it

214

Ep 201: Spotlight on Evidence

215

Episode 200

216

Ep 199: Mask up

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Ep 198: Kim Darwin for BC Green leader

218

Ep 197: Crochet, camping and fringe separatist movements

219

Ep 196: BC to WE

220

Ep 195: Phase 3 brings the bills

221

Ep 194: The sin of calling someone racist

222

Ep 193: Defund the BCPP

223

Ep 192: Black BC Lives Matter with Stephanie Allen

224

Ep 191: COVID Pharma Politics

225

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

226

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

227

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

228

Ep 188: Trudeau comes for some of your guns

229

Ep 187: The railroad to normalcy

230

Ep 186: Clearing the COVID air

231

Ep 185: Where was Andrew Wilkinson?

232

Ep 184: Political Decisions in a Time of Crisis

233

Ep 183: To mask or not to mask?

234

Ep 182: Money printer go brrr

235

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

236

Ep 180: Flatten the curve

237

Ep 179: The rights agreement

238

Ep 178: Reconciliation is dead, long live reconciliation

239

Ep 177: Stay the Course, Budget Edition

240

Ep 176: Protesting the Throne

241

Ep 175: The Fault In Our Insurance

242

Ep 174: BC also stands for birth control

243

Ep 173: A new deal MAID

244

Ep 172: Tax time on the Expo Line

245

Ep 171: All eyes on Iran

246

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

247

Ep 168: Scheexit

248

Ep 167: Together in a vague, somewhat forward direction

249

Ep 166: Conventional oppositions

250

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

251

Ep 163: Live at VanPodFest 2019

252

Ep 162: Prairie Alienation

253

Ep 161: A minor election

254

Ep 160: Promises and Platforms

255

Ep 159: It’s Debatable

256

Ep 158A – A Lot Can Happen on a Friday

257

Ep 158 – Back to the Leg

258

Ep 157: #FakeStraws

259

Ep 156: The Trudeau Scandal

260

Ep 155: Writs Are Dropping Like They’re Hot

261

Ep 154: How Many Greens Are There?

262

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

263

Ep 152: Calling the Question on SNC

264

Ep 151: SNC Thanks for nothing DPPSC

265

Ep 150: Chocolate milk is good live show

266

Ep 149: Self-entitled jerks

267

Ep 148: Intersectional disasters

268

Ep 147: Cascadia Rail

269

Ep 146: We need a climate mobilization with Seth Klein

270

Ep 145: Alan Mullen’s summer road trip

271

Ep 144: Now we can build some transmission lines

272

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

273

Ep 142: The pharmacare election

274

Ep 141: It’s not the size that matters

275

Ep 140: The Michael Scott approach to Legislature management

276

Ep 139: How green are the Greens?

277

Ep 138: The Leg needs a liquor policy

278

Ep 137: #TeamTrudeau vs the Defence Establishment

279

Ep 136: No one gets any oil anywhere

280

Ep 135: King of the Island

281

Ep 134: For the UCP 1+1=2.2

282

Debate: Is social media destroying democracy?

283

Ep 133: Social media is bad

284

Ep 132: The BC Liberals score a win

285

Ep 131: What are they, the Alberta NDP?

286

Ep 130: David Moscrop wrote a book

287

Ep 129: Civil asset forfeiture

288

Emergency Pod: Erosions of trust

289

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

290

Ep 127: Some light interference

291

Ep 126: Darryl throws shade

292

Ep 125: Rookie mistakes

293

Ep 124: The data piggy bank is running dry

294

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

295

Ep 122: The alleged truckload of alcohol

296

Ep 121: No press conferences at the Burnaby Library

297

Ep 120: BC isn’t woke

298

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

299

Ep 118: 2018 End of Year Extravaganza

300

Ep 117: A bridge too far

301

Ep 116: Canada’s Archduke Ferdinand situation

302

Ep 115: Bad Ass Bowinn Ma

303

Ep 114: Chaos closes the legislature

304

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?

307

Ep 110: John picked a date

308

Ep 109: The Great Canadian Club Electoral Reform Debate

309

Ep 108: Taxing houses, jobs and weed

310

Ep 107: Policy Pop-Up

311

Ep 106: Back to the Leg ft Shannon Waters

312

Ep 105: David Eby for the record

313

Ep 104: All smoke and no stores

314

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

315

Ep 102: We’re not international trade experts

316

Ep 101: Rabid dog days of summer

317

Ep 100: Live at The Belmont ft Shannon Waters

318

Ep 99: Conservative diversity ft Stewart Prest

319

Ep 98: Too dumb for democracy ft David Moscrop

320

Ep 97: A Fair Vote for PR ft Keith Poore

321

Ep 96: A premiere Premier’s Meeting

322

Ep 95: Fishy business

323

Ep 94: Sean Graham’s Dual Member Proportional

324

Ep 93: One simple trick to solve student housing

325

Ep 92: BC is part of a crime syndicate

326

Ep 91: Dogwood Benefits for TWU

327

Ep 90: Bernier was on a break

328

Ep 89: Potpourri pipelines and Ontario election hot takes

329

Ep 88: Wars of trade and electoral reform

330

Emergency Podcast: Canada buys Trans Mountain pipeline

331

Ep 87: A very litigious week

332

Ep 86: Emails in the pipeline

333

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

334

Ep 84: Buzz off Davidoff

335

Ep 83: Breaking Betty

336

Ep 82: The drain the swamp model of the constitution

337

Ep 81: Pipeline pause puts provinces in a pickle

338

Ep 80: A Matter of Confidence

339

Ep 79: “Shoot the mayor in the head and burn down houses” – A look at Nanaimo politics

340

Ep 78: The new LNG champion

341

Cambie Report Ep 01: Elections are weird

342

Ep 77: Horgan blocks World Cup bid

343

Ep 76: What the heck Ontario?

344

Ep 75: We budgeted more time for budgets

345

Municipal Election Announcement

346

Ep 74: Baby’s first budget

347

Ep 73: An affordable throne

348

Ep 72: Wine pipelines

349

Ep 71: Lieutenant Governoring the youth

350

Ep 70: #MeToo comes to Canadian politics

351

Ep 69: Minimum wage and War of Plates potpourri

352

Ep 68: Sunset for Mayor Moonbeam

353

The PolitiCoast Star Wars Holiday Special

354

Ep 67: The 2017 Finale

355

Ep 66: Of dams and beers

356

Ep 65: Is it a Better BC with David Moscrop

357

Ep 64: The Docket in Short Pants Crossover

358

Ep 63: Justin McElroy kills your nostalgia

359

Ep 62: Underway with challenges

360

Ep 61: Minister of Silly Names

361

Ep 60: Stephen Carter rants

362

Ep 59: The Vancouver Special

363

Ep 58: David King’s IDEA for Alberta education

364

Ep 57: The Mayor’s secret party of disappointment

365

Ep 56: How not to sell a tax plan

366

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

367

Bonus Pod: Vancouver Byelection Housing & Homelessness Forum

368

Ep 54: More leadership races means more content

369

Ep 53: John’s allowance

370

DD 03: NDP Leadership Race

371

Ep 52: Tedds takes on the budget update

372

Ep 51: Betrayal!

373

Ep 50: The Live Show!

374

Ep 49: Evan Balgord on right wing extremism

375

Ep 48: Countering white supremacy

376

Ep 47: Ian’s Ottawa Adventure

377

Ep 46: Lindsay Tedds

378

Emergency pod: Christy Clark resigns

379

Ep 45: Niki Ashton

380

Ep 44: Tom Davidoff

381

Ep 43: Fantasy cabinet

382

Ep 42: Politics, the universe and everything

383

Ep 41: A confident end to the jiggery-pokery

384

Ep 40: Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

385

Ep 39: The Neverending Election

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Ep 38: Dave’s hot takes

387

Ep 37: Clark’s GreeNDP nightmare

388

Ep 36: And the winner is…

389

Ep 35: Improbable outcomes

390

Ep 34: New Conservatives on the Block

391

Ep 33: Everyone’s a winner!

392

PolitiCoast Live Election Night Part 2

393

PolitiCoast Election Live Part 1

394

Ep 32: I am Linda’s prediction model

395

Ep 31: Hulk Horgan Strikes Back

396

Ep 30: No one puts Andrew in the corner

397

Ep 29: YPP and Libertarians and Economists Oh My!

398

Ep 28: Elections are not the time for serious issues

399

Ep 27: Teflon Clark and David Eby

400

Ep 26: The Greens in Mouseland

401

Ep 25: Red ink is expensive

402

Ep 24: Tinkering with the rules

403

Ep 23: BC does have one campaign finance law

404

Ep 22: One giant Leap

405

DD 02: Conservative Leadership Race

406

Ep 21: The forget me not budget

407

Ep 20: Playing with fire

408

Ep 19: Alternative Hacks

409

Ep 18: RIP Electoral Reform

410

Ep 17: Alternative electoral reform

411

Ep 16: The O’Leary Factor

412

Ep 15: Trudeau’s friends with benefits

413

Ep 14: Fall Finale

414

Ep 13: Make ethics great again

415

Ep 12: Rachel Notley comes to town

416

Ep 11: Trudeau kerfuffles

417

Ep 10: Selling the farm

418

Ep 09: Empty homes and empty promises

419

Ep 08: Supreme Court Smackdown

420

Ep 07: The Darkest Timeline

421

Ep 06: Doubling down on deficits

422

DD 01: Electoral Reform

423

Ep 05: 99 Red Walloons

424

Ep 04: You’re Fired!

425

Ep 03: Trumpster Fires

426

Ep 02: Green Shift 2.0 – Shift Harder

427

Ep 01: Band-aids on gaping flesh wounds

428

Ep 00: The NAFTA Debate