Provincial Politics

Welcome to UnSpun - The Orca's current events podcast and YouTube show. Every week, Jody Vance and George Affleck unspin the latest news in local, provincial, federal politics, and much more.

Rob Shaw: The province is unrolling the most ambitious plan yet to deal with homelessness – but there’s a catch.

Rob Shaw: Asking the minister solely tasked with tourism about tourism warrants a better answer than ‘the government is focused on immunization.’

Jody Vance: There will be time for Big Questions and Big Problems after. But right now, the most important thing is to stay focused on the goal of getting as many people vaccinated as fast as possible.

Let's just get this out of the way: yes, Jordan's microphone is noisy. You're gonna hear some static. But it's worth it! Mostly!

Rob Shaw: By introducing ‘experts’ with dubious credibility, a group of churches challenging restrictions on in-person religious services did themselves no favours.

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A new report says the North is well-positioned to help BC recover from the pandemic – and as Dene Moore notes, it will do even better if several longstanding issues are addressed.

Rob Shaw: BC’s latest vaccine plan update is an example of the difficult decisions that must be made by provincial health officials – and an unambiguous win for the BCTF.

Maclean Kay: FOI issues keep bedeviling governments – and having made transparency a key issue, the NDP really should know better.