"Fire Weather" with John Vaillant

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🏨🌄 This week Hotel Pacifico welcomes award-winning, Vancouver-based author John Vaillant whose book, Fire Weather: the Making of a Beast, is a bestseller that follows the aftermath of the 2016 Fort McMurray wildfire.  #FireWeather has sparked an important discussion on community readiness for fires.  Kate, Geoff, and John discuss the recent major structural fire in Vancouver and the City’s vulnerability to a major urban fire, along with the nature of the evolving fire risk across our land base. Plus, a discussion about how cynical politicians inflame public sentiment. 

In the strategy suite, Mike joins Kate and Geoff to talk about the latest provincial poll, an update on candidate nominations in advance of the BC election, BC United’s big tax cut promise, and some of the issues that the NDP government is dealing with as the ballot box nears.

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