BC Today from CBC Radio British Columbia
Summary: BC Today is where British Columbians connect on issues facing their lives and their community. Every week day at noon PT and 1pm MT, BC Today host Michelle Eliot delves into the top story for the province in a vibrant, interactive hour of conversation, in which listeners are invited to have their say on the open line and on social media.
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Podcasts:
Dyna Tuytel, a staff lawyer at Ecojustice, and Andrew Trites, director of the Marine Mammal Research Unit at the University of British Columbia.
Glen Hansman, president of the B.C. Teachers' Federation, Neha Shivhare, a visiting scholar at Simon Fraser University's Faculty of Education, and Ann Douglas, a regular CBC weekend parenting columinst and author of Parenting Through the Storm: How to Handle the Highs, the Lows and Everything in Between.
Professor of international trade at the Sauder School of Business with the University of British Columbia, Keith Head, B.C. Dairy Association Chairman and Vancouver Island-based dairy farmer, Dave Taylor, Managing Director of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, Brian Lee Crowley.
Canadian lawyer and the author of Native Law, Jack Woodward, manager of the Sacred Trust, Reuben George, Chief of the Whispering of Pines First Nation, Mike LeBourdais, president of the Progressive Contractors Association of Canada, Paul de Jong, West Coast Environmental Law staff lawyer, Eugene Kung.
The British Columbia government is suing drug companies to recoup costs related to the opioid overdose crisis. Minister for Mental Health and Addictions, Judy Darcy, director of the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition at SFU, Donald Macpherson, CBC reporter Yvette Brend, lawyer and lecturer of drug policy at the University of Ottawa.
James Brander, an economics professor at the University of British Columbia's Sauder School of Business, and Dan Baxter, the policy director for the B.C. Chamber of Commerce.
Co-author, of "Addressing the New Normal: 21st Century Disaster Management in British Columbia", George Abbott, Director of Professional Practice & Forest Stewardship with the Association of B.C. Forest Professionals, Michael Larock, Fire ecologist with R.W. Gray Consulting, Robert W Gray.
CBC producer and columnist Ash Kelly, Mt. Waddington's Outdoors, Sam Waddington, Fire Information Officer with the BC Wildfire Service, Kyla Fraser.
Brian Minter of Minter Country Garden in Chilliwack takes questions from across British Columbia about gardening.
Professor of political science at the University of British Columbia, Kathryn Harrison, associate professor of political science at the University of the Fraser Valley, Hamish Telford, sociology professor with the University of British Columbia, David Tindall.
Fraser Lake resident, Kim Watt-Senner, assistant deputy minister of emergency management B.C., Chris Duffy, retired fire researcher with the Canadian Forest Service, Timothy Lynham.
CBC reporter Andrew Kurjata, executive director, Canadian Mental Health Association, Julia Payson, respirologist at St. Paul's Hospital and the director for the Heart and Lung Innovation Center, Don Sin, Provincial Health Officer, Ministry of Health, Bonnie Henry.
B.C. Chief Fire Information Officer Kevin Skrepnek, mayor of Kimberly Don McCormick, Chilliwack fire ecologist Robert Gray, Nadleh Emergency Operations Center information lead, Miranda Louie, CBC reporter Wil Fundal.
BC's Chief Fire Information Officer, Kevin Skrepnek, Fire ecologist Robert Gray, Don McCormick, Mayor of Kimberley, Communications Representative with the Emergency Operations Center based in Nadleh, Miranda Louie, and CBC Reporter Will Fundal.
CBC reporter Yvette Brend, B.C. environmentalist Tzeporah Berman, former police accountability lawyer Doug King, former commanding officer, crowd control unit, Vancouver Police Department, Kash Heed and executive director of Resource Works Society, Stewart Muir.