The BC NDP comes up a candidate short, Lorne Doerkson keeps his cards close, and George calls a Conservative majority. Plus a dead heat for mayor.

Jody Vance and George Affleck on Episode 341:

• The NDP campaign: one candidate short after a paperwork error, and why the election call came from the top.
• New MRIs and CT scanners now. Where were they for the last ten years?
• Lorne Doerkson's likability, the Vassy Kapelos interview, and the leader or front man question.
• SOGI 123, the UBC bullying study, and why governments cut programs that work.
• The ridings in play: Yaletown, South Vancouver, Surrey and maybe Eby's own Vancouver-Point Grey.
• Dueling tax breaks, and cutting the paperwork that buries doctors.
• The predictions: Jody says NDP minority, George says massive Conservative majority.
• Inside the polling station: a two-sided ballot, the plebiscite, and the viral video that got it wrong.
• Vancouver mayor: a dead heat between Ken Sim and Pete Fry, and why Rebecca Bligh drifted left.
• Surrey: Janet Brown runs for council and the mayor's race is wide open.
• Trump tells a rally Iran could take out Los Angeles and San Diego, and George calls it treason.
• Anne Carson wins the Nobel Prize in Literature, and Canada gets a poet's answer.

Advance voting October 10 and 13. Municipal election day October 17. Provincial election day October 24.

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