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Jody Vance: This year’s graduating class have already missed so many moments they’ll never get back. Let’s help give them a cap-and-gown memory most of us take for granted.

Rob Shaw on “a complex mess of fee reductions, benefits, applications, special exemptions, income-based subsidies, pilot programs, federal funding, licensed versus unlicensed spaces, funded versus open spaces, and other measures that make it almost impossible to gauge progress.”

Some new entrants in the BC Liberal leadership field, and everything happens in ministerial budget estimates.

Rob Shaw: The NDP promised to do better on freedom of information, but BC’s privacy commissioner calls the situation ‘untenable’ – and likely got even worse during the pandemic.

When "putting politics behind us" is front and centre.

Rob Shaw: BC’s Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions spends most of its tiny budget on staff, doesn’t fund any programs or control services in other ministries, and isn’t involved in decisions at locations it trumpets as success. So why does it exist?

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.

A difficult week to absorb, process, and discuss.

Jody Vance: Canada must recognize the crimes of the past, honour the victims and survivors, name the perpetrators, and make whatever amends we can.