Steele & Drex

Ottawa set to scrap EV mandates, while making room for Chinese EVs (0:53) Guest: Brian Kingston, President and CEO of the Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers’ Association A costly cup of coffee-flation: Canadians still drinking coffee despite soaring prices (15:10) Guest: Mike von Massow, Professor of Food Economics at the University of Guelph Are the Whitecaps being priced out? Vancouver meets the new economics of pro sports (23:40) Guest: Arthur Griffiths, Former owner of the Vancouver Canucks, Vancouver Grizzlies, and General Motors Place. Also a member of the BC Sports Hall of Fame Heated Rivalry: A Global TV Hit — and a Mirror on How Canada Sells Itself to the World (39:49) Guest: Dr. JP Catungal, Assistant Professor of Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at UBC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest: Dr. JP Catungal, Assistant Professor of Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at UBC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest: Arthur Griffiths, Former owner of the Vancouver Canucks, Vancouver Grizzlies, and General Motors Place. Also a member of the B.C. Sports Hall of Fam Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest: Brian Kingston, President and CEO of the Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers’ Association Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Province offers net-zero deal to keep Whitecaps at B.C. Place (0:46) Guest: Squire Barnes, Global B.C. Sports Director and Anchor Is it time for B.C. to repeal DRIPA? Iain Black plans to do so (10:35) Guest: Iain Black, B.C. Conservative leadership candidate, and former B.C Minister of Labour YVR sees record boom in travellers in 2025 (26:41) Guest: Tamara Vrooman, President and CEO of the Vancouver International Airport Abbotsford seeks federal support on flood mitigation, after $3.3M funding from province (40:06) Guest: Ross Siemens, Mayor of Abbotsford Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest: Caroline Elliott, B.C. Conservative leadership candidate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest: Tamara Vrooman, President and CEO of the Vancouver International Airport Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest: Iain Black, B.C Conservative leadership candidate, and former B.C. Minister of Labour Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest: Squire Barnes, Global BC Sports Director and Anchor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is a 10-lane Massey Tunnel replacement bridge worth the cost? (0:37) Guest: Dylan Kruger, Delta City councillor Coquitlam considers adopting Zero Carbon Step Code (9:31) Guest: Bill Tieleman, director of the B.C Coalition for Affordable Dependable Energy (CADE) The Agenda - B.C. and Alberta: Unity, Energy, and the Politics of a Hardening West (24:31) Guests: Margareta Dovgal, political commentator and resource industry analyst Richard Zussman, Western Canada Vice President of Public Affairs at Burson Whitecaps at the brink: is Vancouver about to lose its MLS team? (41:23) Guest: Squire Barnes, Global B.C. Sports Director and Anchor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guests: Margareta Dovgal, political commentator and resource industry analyst Richard Zussman, Western Canada Vice President of Public Affairs at Burson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest: Dylan Kruger, Delta City councillor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest: Matt MacInnis, President of the Electrical Contractors Association of B.C. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This week: Conservatives at a crossroads: We look at Pierre Poilievre’s leadership review, and are the B.C. Conservatives choosing a premier-in-waiting or repeating the same internal fight? (1:19) B.C. caps power for AI as demand surges and a national grid plan looms. Energy Minister Adrian Dix drops by (17:20) As free trade talks with the U.S. restart, is Canada ready for a world without a referee? Former diplomat Colin Robertson joins us (34:11) Can the Metro Vancouver Board reform itself? (50:46) Could British Columbians see a federal and provincial election in 2026? The Agenda Panel with Richard Zussman and Margareta Dovgal weighs in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

B.C. caps power for AI as demand surges (0:46) Guest: Adrian Dix, B.C.’s Minister of Energy and Climate Solutions The life and legacy of Catherine O’Hara (17:36) Guest: Rick Forchuk, TV Week Magazine columnist and CKNW contributor Poilievre leadership review, and BC Conservative leadership race ramps up (26:53) Guest: Keith Baldrey, Global B.C. Legislative Bureau Chief Campers set to face fee hikes in B.C. Parks (42:47) Guest: Tamara Taggart, former CTV News at Six anchor, and host of the TELUS Talks with Tamara Taggart podcast Can Metro Vancouver Board reform itself? (53:12) Guest: Daniel Fontaine, New Westminster City councillor and Mayoral candidate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest: Daniel Fontaine, New Westminster City councillor and Mayoral candidate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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

Guest: Adrian Dix, B.C.’s Minister of Energy and Climate Solutions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices