The Jas Johal Show

Guest host Rob Fai talks to Nolan Aziz, Fundraiser, Canoe’r’? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest host Rob Fai talks to Nolan Aziz, Fundraiser, Canoe’r’? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest host Rob Fai talks to Sandra Lavoy, Regional Vice President at Robert Half Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest host Rob Fai talks to Heather Quilty, Program Manager, Clinical Learning at VetStrategy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest host Rob Fai talks to Lieutenant Hamid (Sam) Hussam, Finance Officer at the Canadian Army Support Division HQ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Celebrating the joy, confidence, belonging and connection that sport creates for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities Guest host Rob Fai talks to Gail Hamamoto, CEO, Special Olympics Canada Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest host Rob Fai talks to Andrew Platt, Regional Operations Manager, B.C., at First Onsite Property Restoration Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest host Rob Fai talks to Lieutenant-Colonel Sandra Price, RMC’s Deputy Director of Cadet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest host Rob Fai talks to Lana Ciarniello, Researcher with Aklak Wildlife Consulting, Co-Chair Human-Bear Conflicts Expert Team at the International Union for Conservation of Nature Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest host Rob Fai talks to Craig Baird, Host; Canadian History Ehx Podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest host Rob Fai talks to Reggie Cecchini, Washington Bureau Correspondent, Global News Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today on The Jas Johal Show: Grizzly hunt debate Who Holds the CEO Accountable? Lessons From the Nvidia Scandal Mining BC’s Future: The World Wants B.C.’s minerals. Can Explorers Get to It? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

GUEST: Craig Hemer, Managing partner at Boydon Canada Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

GUEST: Todd Stone, President and CEO of Association for Mineral Exploration BC, Former BC Liberals MLA for Kamloops-South Thompson and Minister of Transportation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pulling the Plug on the Massey Tunnel: Smart Savings or Costly Do-Over? (0:51) Werner Antweiler, Associate Professor at UBC’s Sauder School of Business Gas Bans in 30 B.C. Cities: Should the Province Override City Hall on Natural Gas? (14:54) Bill Tielman, Director of B.C. Coalition for Affordable Dependable Energy Nvidia’s CEO, an Alleged Chinese Spy, and What It Means for Canada (29:01) Michel Juneau-Katsuya, former senior intelligence officer and manager at CSIS Mortgage-Free Homeowners Still Get a Cheque. Should BC Kill the Homeowner Grant? (50:17) Michael Geller, President of The Geller Group, Architect, Planner and Real Estate Consultant Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michel Juneau-Katsuya, former senior intelligence officer and manager at CSIS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Missing the Boat: Why B.C. Keeps Losing the Ferry Funding Fight (0:51) Eric McNeely, President of the BC Ferry and Marine Workers’ Union Inside The House: Back to Work Before Christmas? Doerkson Eyes a Quick Fall Session (10:55) Keith Baldrey, Global B.C. Legislative Bureau Chief Ten Grand for a Mattress? Surrey’s Crackdown on Illegal Dumping (25:21) Doug McCallum, Mayor of Surrey 380,000 or 600,000? The Immigration Number Ottawa Didn’t Count (34:52) Barj Dhahan, Co-founder and director of the Canada India Education Society Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to The Jas Johal Show Political Happy Hour — where the week’s best political conversations keep going. This week: New Sheriff, Empty Wallets: Doerkson’s Fast Start and the Findlay Money Flood. B.C.’s new government isn’t even sworn in yet, and it already wants back in the chamber. Lorne Doerkson is weighing a quick fall session before Christmas: smart move, or rookie rush? Then follow the money. Kerry-Lynne Findlay walked out the door, and Conservative donations poured in, including $800,000 in a single day, while NDP donors kept their wallets shut. Keith Baldrey breaks it all down. (1:10) No Massey Bridge? The Tunnel at a Crossroads. Is the Massey Tunnel replacement past the point of no return? Bryan Railton, business manager with the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 115, on what’s at stake for the project, the workers and the commuters stuck in the middle. (15:40) A Former New Democrat Takes Aim at Bill 44. Former NDP MLA Kathy Corrigan explains why she’s backing the BC…

Keith Baldrey, Global B.C. Legislative Bureau Chief Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Budget 2026: Carney Bets Big on Canada - But Who Benefits? (0:43) Mackenzie Gray, Global News Ottawa Correspondent Budget 2026: Feds extend foreign buyers’ ban, while sparing new builds (15:30) Michael Geller, President of The Geller Group, Architect, Planner and Real Estate Consultant Mining B.C'.s Future: The Waiting Game: Why does it take so long to open a mine in B.C.? (28:03) Michael Goehring, President and CEO of the Mining Association of British Columbia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michael Goehring, President and CEO of the Mining Association of British Columbia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trump’s Midterm Beating and Canada’s Leverage GUEST: Maxwell Cameron, Professor at UBC’s Department of Political Science Is Carney the Big Winner of the Midterms? GUEST: Matt Stickney, Senior Partner at Quorum Strategies The Massey Tunnel Nobody Wants to Finish GUEST: Bryan Railton, Business Manager with the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 115 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

GUEST: Matt Stickney, Senior Partner at Quorum Strategies Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

GUEST: Michael Lee, former MLA for Vancouver-Langara and now Chief Strategy Officer at UrbanLogiq Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

GUEST: Bryan Railton, Business Manager with the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 115 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ryan Beedie, President of Beedie, and a member of Artemis Gold Inc.’s Board of Directors Steven Dean, executive chair, founder, and former CEO of Artemis Gold Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lame duck or Angry Duck: Is a Cornered Trump Worse for Canada? GUEST: Julian Karaguesian, Lecturer at McGill University’s Department of Economics. Bridge or Tunnel? The Bill for Changing Course on the Massey The latest on the U.S Midterm elections GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Global News Washington correspondent MINING B.C’S FUTURE - Striking Gold: Inside One of BC’s Biggest Mining Success Stories GUEST: -Ryan Beedie, President of Beedie, and a member of Artemis Gold Inc.’s Board of Directors -Steven Dean, executive chair, founder, of Artemis Gold Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Canucks’ Practice Facility Hunt Moves Downtown. Is This the One? (0:42) Patrick Johnston, Sports columnist for the Vancouver Sun and The Province A Former NDP MLA Says Kill the Six-Plex Law (18:22) Kathy Corrigan, former B.C. NDP MLA Years in B.C.’s Backcountry: Brad Sills on a Life in Search and Rescue (48:51) Brad Sills, Search and Rescue veteran, author of Echoes on the Wind: Fifty Years of Search and Rescue in British Columbia’s Coast Mountains Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brad Sills, Search and Rescue veteran, author of Echoes on the Wind: Fifty Years of Search and Rescue in British Columbia’s Coast Mountains Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ottawa fast tracks Roberts Bank Terminal 2 (0:45) Peter Xotta, President and CEO of the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority Inside The House (9:47) Keith Baldrey, Global B.C. Legislative Bureau Chief Out With the Old, In With the New: Metro Vancouver Delays Budget Vote (23:58) Dylan Kruger, Delta City councillor B.C.’s permanent time shift: Could Your Calendar Be Wrong? (35:03) Andy Baryer, Tech and Digital Lifestyle expert at HandyAndyMedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to The Jas Johal Show Political Happy Hour — where the week’s best political conversations keep going. This week: Keith Baldrey on the Conservative Sweep and the Cabinet Scramble (1:11) How the B.C. Conservatives Won: Inside the War Room with Dimitri Pantazopoulos (15:28) Geoff Meggs on What Went Wrong for the NDP (43:25) Pull up a chair. Fire up the expense account. The Political Happy Hour starts now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Keith Baldrey, Global B.C. Legislative Bureau Chief Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The NDP’s Wreckage: Can Jennifer Whiteside Rebuild? (1:10) Ben O’Hara Byrne, Global B.C Legislative Reporter Remembering Patrick Stewart: From a Yorkshire Outhouse to the Enterprise (10:54) Rick Forchuk, TV Week Magazine columnist and CKNW contributor A $14 Billion Hole and a $1,000 Promise: Can Doerkson Balance the Books? (19:00) David Williams, Vice President of Policy for the Business Council of B.C. Why RBC, TD and BMO Are Slamming the Door on AI Agents (43:59) Carmi Levy, Technology Analyst & Journalist Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Carmi Levy, Technology Analyst & Journalist Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

David Williams, Vice President of Policy for the Business Council of B.C. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rick Forchuk, TV Week Magazine columnist and CKNW contributor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Higher Rates, Shakier Market: Sutton Group’s CEO on What’s Coming (0:54) Ross McCredie, CEO and Chairman of Sutton Group The Snap Election Disaster: Inside the NDP Collapse (25:52) Michael Gardiner, Managing Partner at Current Public Affairs, former executive director of the BC NDP, was the director of John Horgan’s successful leadership campaign Refugee Roots, Michelin Honours, and a Pop Star Who Couldn’t Stay Away (41:51) Vincent Nguyen, Co-founder & owner Anh and Chi & Good Thief Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vincent Nguyen, Co-founder & owner Anh and Chi & Good Thief Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michael Gardiner, Managing Partner at Current Public Affairs, former executive director of the BC NDP, was the director of John Horgan’s successful leadership campaign Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eby’s Gamble, and the Fall of the BC NDP (0:48) Geoff Meggs, co-host of the Hotel Pacifico Podcast Massey Crossing: Tunnel Out, Bridge Back In (23:34) Chris Gardner, President and CEO of the Independent Contractors and Businesses Association of B.C. A Lame-Duck Board and a Billion-Dollar Budget (35:17) Daniel Fontaine, New Westminster mayor-elect DRIPA on the Battleground (47:21) Terry Teegee, Regional Chief of the B.C. Assembly of First Nations Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chris Gardner, President and CEO of the Independent Contractors and Businesses Association of B.C. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Blue Wave. How the NDP Lost Everything (0:43) The $14 Billion Question: What Gets Cut First (30:32) Laura Jones, President and CEO of the Business Council of B.C. Inside the Conservative War Room (45:21) Dimitri Pantazopoulos, former strategist for Christy Clark’s B.C. Liberal Party, President of Yorkville Strategies, and partner at Maple Leaf Strategies Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dimitri Pantazopoulos, former strategist for Christy Clark’s B.C. Liberal Party, President of Yorkville Strategies, and partner at Maple Leaf Strategies Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Laura Jones, President and CEO of the Business Council of B.C. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest host Rob Fai talks to Alannah Clamp, Executive & Artistic Director Eastside Arts Society Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest host Rob Fai talks to Alana Dickson, BCHF Executive Director Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest host Rob Fai talks to Nathalie Lambert, Canadian Speed Skating Legend Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest host Rob Fai talks to Dr. Makarand Mody, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Associate Professor of Hospitality Marketing at the Boston University School of Hospitality Administration Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest host Rob Fai talks to Eric Kam, Professor in the Department of Economics at Toronto Metropolitan University Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dark Mornings Forever? B.C.’s Permanent Daylight Time Gamble (0:46) Jamie M. Zeitzer, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences , and Co-Director of the Center for Sleep and Circadian Sciences at Stanford University $14 Billion in the Red: The Last Premier Who Made the Hard Calls (15:51) Gordon Campbell, Former Premier of B.C. 10,000 Interviews and Heading Back to the Mountains: Strombo on Whistler Film Festival (42:37) George Stroumboulopoulos, award winning television and radio host Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices