All Episodes

Eby’s no Starmer

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

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

The final stretch Election 2024

The Americanization of bcpoli

Retconning Trudeau

It’s getting sad

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

May and Singh are the reasonable ones

Petty foreign interference

Ottawa Tries Something

The Big Budget

Scoring the Rent

Mostly Online Harmless

Did the mob win? (ft Mo Amir)

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

The crime of existing in public (ft Dustin Godfrey)

Stop trying to make ‘CostBC’ happen

Airbnb Gone

Fined Ferries

Target Troubles

Four parties in the House

Broken BC

Summertime Assortment

The Dog Days of Rebranding

The Big Shuffle, Feat. The Boys in Short Pants

BC’s dirty little secret

Where’s the corporate subsidy for Taylor Swift?

Won’t find us on Facebook

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

Canadian Streaming

Less pithy budgets

Responsible government is a thing of the past

Resources, Reconciliation and Rapporteur

Budget day with Alex Hemingway

Throne away from home

The cost of coronation

Bridging the political divide

Cabinetry refinishing

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

This is not episode 300

Ep 298: Uncooperative Federalism

Ep 298: Uncooperative Federalism

Ep 297: Eby and Skippy or bust

Emergency Pod: Horgan Quits

Ep 295: OpenMedia for an Open Internet

Ep 293: The numbers don’t add up

Ep 289: Sad Trombone

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 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 262: Free the trees

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

Beers to 250

Ep 249: The Scheduled Emergency Pod

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 237: Failures to Communicate

Ep 236: Budgets, budgets everywhere

Ep 235: War on carbon

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 horizon

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 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 168: Scheexit

Ep 167: Together in a vague, somewhat forward direction

Ep 166: Conventional oppositions

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 Pod: Erosions of trust

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

Ep 127: Some light interference

Ep 126: Darryl 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 Ma

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 to 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

Ep 100: Live at The Belmont ft Shannon Waters

Ep 99: Conservative diversity ft Stewart Prest

Ep 98: Too dumb for democracy ft David Moscrop

Ep 97: A Fair Vote for 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: The drain the swamp model of the constitution

Ep 81: Pipeline pause puts provinces in a pickle

Ep 80: A Matter of Confidence

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

Ep 78: The new LNG champion

Cambie Report Ep 01: Elections are weird

Ep 77: Horgan blocks World Cup bid

Ep 76: What the heck Ontario?

Ep 75: We budgeted more time for budgets

Municipal Election Announcement

Ep 74: Baby’s first budget

Ep 73: An affordable throne

Ep 72: Wine pipelines

Ep 71: Lieutenant Governoring the youth

Ep 70: #MeToo comes to Canadian politics

Ep 69: Minimum wage and 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?

Bonus Pod: Vancouver Byelection Housing & Homelessness Forum

Ep 54: More leadership races means more content

Ep 53: John’s allowance

DD 03: NDP Leadership Race

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 Adventure

Ep 46: Lindsay Tedds

Emergency pod: 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 Election Live 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 01: Band-aids on gaping flesh wounds

Ep 00: The NAFTA Debate