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Mike is home alone at the Hotel this week and has hired temps to come in to keep the discussing going. He’s joined by Sitka Media’s Jarryd Jäger, formerly of the Western Standard. Jäger discusses the vision for the fledgling news service and where it fits between the echo chambers. The Maple Ridge product also discusses his advocacy for free speech and how generational frustration is expressed through commentary.

In the Strategy Suite, Mike is joined by Leah Holoiday, a veteran of the Notley government and BC Public Service, and Carling Dick, an experienced campaigner with the BC Liberals and BC Conservatives. The trio review the recent Canada-BC Prosperity Agreement (is it aging like a fine wine or a quart of milk?), the NDP’s voluntarily increasing involuntary care, a Carney insider makes his move on the North Shore, and does BC need its own Stampede to curry political favour?

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Geoff and Mike welcome BC Green Party leader Emily Lowan to Hotel Pacifico. The trio sustain a busy discussion touching on Oligarchs!, her critique of the Eby government, her admiration for Avi Lewis, her support of DRIPA, her poker face when Geoff and Mike put forward their guesses which seat she will contest in the next general election - if a byelection doesn’t happen first.

In the Strategy Suite, Geoff and Mike review the Canada-BC Prosperity Agreement and what it means for David Eby, the Massey Tunnel project, Boultbee bolting to the NDP, a nurses strike, and KLF’s second trip to Calgary in 35 days.

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A jam packed agenda on the pod this week for an extended Strategy Suite. Joining Geoff back at Hotel Pacifico is Dimitri Pantazopoulos! Dimitri is a politico vet and widely-respected Conservative organizer and pollster whose most recent project was the BC Conservative leadership campaign of Iain Black. Plus ... Kate Hammer returns to give us a reality check on the policy files while Mike is off gazing at the birds.

This week we’ll be digging into:

• Condo bailout fallout – a major federal-provincial housing announcement that triggered a major backlash
• Rare praise for a provincial crime initiative regarding repeat offenders
• David Eby’s China trip coverage – it’s been cut short to do and MOU with Prime Minister Mark Carney on major projects
• And Kerry Lynne Findlay has announced her new caucus leadership team – who’s on it and who’s not?

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Mike and Geoff are home alone this week and convene a full-length Strategy Suite covering eight (8!) topics including: Fire in the Canyon, the Carney Condo bailout, Eby's trip to China, the Massey 'Deas'-aster, Vancouver's World Cup branding win, Red Chris and what it means for DRIPA, nurses on the march, and what's KLF up to?

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Geoff and Mike welcome economist Jim Stanford, director of the Centre for Future Work, a think tank in Vancouver. For twenty years, Jim was chief economist and policy director for Unifor, Canada’s largest private sector union, as well as a research associate with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Jim, Geoff, and Mike tour through the turbulent economic landscape with Jim providing his perspective on Canada’s economy as it is today, taxing the rich, the potential of the manufacturing sector, and the ins and out of energy exports.

In the Strategy Suite, Mike and Geoff discuss breezy summertime caucus meetings, the new Conservative chief of staff, the radical centre, the world arrives on ours shores for the World Cup, and even Geoff is aware of such sporting events.

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Welcome to our bonus episode of Hotel Pacifico's Race to Replace, a special series focused on the ins and outs of the BC Conservative leadership race, which concluded on May 30. Mike McDonald is joined by the campaign manager for Kerry-Lynne Findlay's winning campaign, Chris Dyson.

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Geoff and Mike welcome the 34th Premier of BC, Gordon Campbell, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of his government taking power in 2001. His ’New Era’ government ran the rockpile on Belleville Street for the next 16 years. Campbell reflects on some lessons learned, but not too much, as he weighs in on the politics and issues of today.

In the Strategy Suite, Geoff and Mike ponder the first week of KLF, a new poll that teases out a centrist option, the disclosure of a Special Prosecutor and uncertain fate of an independent MLA, the political definition of success for FIFA, and, oligarch or no oligarch, always nice to get $40 million for a new medical school.

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Geoff and Mike welcome the Hon. James Moore to dissect the BC Conservative leadership results and the insurgent victory of Kerry-Lynne Findlay.

In the Strategy Suite, Geoff and Mike discuss the wrap up of the spring sitting, the latest on an oil pipeline, the latest on BC Hydro firing up gas plants, a PMO to North Van Liberal candidate, and the outlook for David Eby. Finally, a report out on Snickers’ predictions.

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