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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: British Columbia should prepare themselves for an eye-watering deficit in next month’s provincial budget.

Happy New Year, Happy Politics, Sad Topic.

Jody Vance: Barge Chilling Beach is whimsical, sure. But also shows that official signage can change very quickly, when wanted.

Rob Shaw: If history repeats, the province will resist the early preventative efforts seen elsewhere, and insist the situation here is entirely different. Until it isn’t. At which point it will be too late to implement the measures anyway.

Rob Shaw: BC businesses shut down by pandemic orders spent two anxious days waiting to hear about aid.

Interim (and outgoing) BC Liberal leader Shirley Bond looks back not just at 2021, but serving as Leader of the Opposition.

Rob Shaw: One extraordinary and sobering pandemic press conference showed BC is headed on a worrisome direction – and increasingly swimming against the tide on several fronts.

As a Christmas present to our loyal viewers, we're not talking about ovid-cay ineteen-nay.

Rob Shaw: Despite the government’s doublespeak, 1 out of 206 First Nations signed onto the NDP’s proposals – and even that came with an asterisk.