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Adam discusses current events and issues involving how our health care system and rare diseases. Brennan Day, opposition critic for rural health and seniors, joins the show. Plus, Adam has a conversation with John Adams, a senior fellow with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and member of the advisory group for the National Strategy for Drugs for Rare Diseases.

Adam discusses community issues as listeners weigh in on current events and issues via open lines and text.

Adam discusses the latest crime statistics, and explores issues involving the data. He discusses information shared by VicPD communications coordinator Griffen Hohl on CFAX 1070. Plus, Save Our Streets co-founder Jess Ketchum joins the show to share his concerns about unreported crime.

Adam discusses current events, including exploring questions he has after the former chair of a provincial expensive drugs for rare disease subcommittee went public about her decision to resign from the group. Plus, Mike Kozakowski from Citified joins the show for his Friday chat with Adam to discuss more local issues of the week.

Adam discusses local and provincial issues, including safety concerns in supportive housing. Listeners weigh in on current events via open lines and text.

Adam talks with listeners who share their thoughts via open lines and text. Plus, more discussion on community issues including trust in municipal governments in the region.

Adam’s discussion of housing issues and politics in the region and province continues as he responds to listeners who text in. Plus, Michael Mulligan discusses timely legal issues and cases during this week’s edition of Legally Speaking.

Adam discusses development and housing supply issues in the capital region, including notable comments at Central Saanich council involving a planned rental building on Hovey Road.

Adam reviews Premier David Eby speaking to the press with U.S. Senator Patty Murray today and discusses economic issues.

Adam discusses local and provincial issues as listeners share their thoughts via open lines and text, including more people adding their thoughts on use of municipal garbage can discourse. Plus, Adam discusses notable moments from Premier David Eby speaking to the press today following the premiers’ meeting this week.

Adam engages with listeners sharing their perspectives on Langford community and municipal issues via open lines and text. Former Langford councillor Lanny Seaton calls in during open lines.

Adam discusses municipal issues including the latest comments involving waste disposal at Langford City Hall.

Adam discusses community issues and current events with listeners who weigh in via open lines and text.

Adam discusses local and community issues, including concerns involving safety and development in the region. Plus, more on discourse involving ideas for amalgamation.

Adam’s analysis of recent notable moments at Victoria city hall involving amalgamation discourse continues. Plus, more on other community and transportation issues as Adam engages with listener text-ins.

Adam discusses current events, including Premier David Eby’s comments to the press at the premiers summit in Ontario this week. Plus, more on the discourse on amalgamation in Victoria and Adam reacts to listeners sharing their thoughts on more community issues via text.

Adam discusses community issues and current events including discourse on amalgamation.

Adam discusses issues of the day, including labour issues involving B.C.’s public services worker and exploring questions surrounding work-from-home and collective bargaining. Listeners weigh in via open lines and text.

Adam discusses community issues including health and safety at some supportive housing sites. Adam discusses B.C.’s recent cabinet shuffle and reacts to UBC political scientist Stewart Prest sharing his thoughts on CFAX 1070. Plus, Adam discusses labour issues for public service workers and reacts to BCGEU President Paul Finch sharing the latest on CFAX 1070.

Adam discusses current events including issues involving airborne fentanyl in supportive housing sites in the province and latest on assessments of exposure for workers in some buildings.  

Adam’s discussion of local issues in the region continues as he reviews more notable moments at Victoria city hall.

Jori Fales joins Adam. 

Adam discusses some of the political issues surrounding the case of the province withdrawing and reinstating expensive drug coverage for a local child with Batten disease, as he analyzes notable comments from B.C.’s health minister speaking to the press. Plus, Adam discusses amalgamation issues as he discusses notable moments from Victoria Council this week.

Listeners weigh in via open lines and text following the news B.C. reinstated expensive drug coverage for the 10-year-old Langford child with Batten disease. Colwood Councillor Kim Jordison calls in via open lines.

Jori Fales joins the show after B.C. reinstated expensive drug coverage her 10-year-old daughter with Batten disease. Adam discusses how this story played out, and the community pressure and advocacy which left him in awe. Plus, Mike Kozakowski from Citified joins the show to talk this and more local issues of the week.

Adam discusses current events and community issues as he analyzes notable moments at Nanaimo city hall involving the proposal for putting up fencing at the building this week.

Hear Adam discuss provincial political issues and local current events, including what happened with the unsuccessful proposal for new fencing at Nanaimo city hall. Plus, more on the cabinet shuffle presser.  

Adam discusses timely issues involving technology, the economy, and Canada’s relationship with the U.S. as he continues analyzing notable moments of B.C.’s newly reshuffled cabinet speaking to the press today. Also, Michael Mulligan brings cases of the week for Legally Speaking.

Adam discusses B.C. premier David Eby’s cabinet shuffle today, along with notable moments of Eby speaking with the press on provincial issues including a recent letter pertaining to the case of the local child with Batten disease who lost provincial funding for a medication.

Adam discusses more notable moments from the province’s minister of health’s press conference today. Plus, listeners weigh in via open lines and text.

Save Our Streets Coalition co-founder Clint Mahlman joins the show to discuss a recent meeting in Kelowna with the federal Liberal caucus.

Save Our Streets Coalition co-founder Clint Mahlman joins the show to discuss a recent meeting in Kelowna with the federal Liberal caucus. Plus, Adam discusses the latest in Nanaimo as a proposal for fencing around city hall is being considered today. Plus, Adam discusses how B.C.’s health minister responded to questions from the press about safety of health care workers in the province today.

Adam discusses how several provincial political issues are playing out in local contexts across the region. He discusses notable moments in a press conference with B.C. health minister Josie Osborne today.

Adam discusses local issues including the community impact of the Charleigh Pollock story, along with some notable questions that remain. Plus, Adam discusses notable moments at Sooke council this week, along with Herb Haldane being the District’s next councillor-to-be.

Angus Reid Institute research associate Jon Roe joins the show for the latest polling on how Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal government is handling trade troubles with the U.S.

Adam discusses local and municipal issues in the region and engages with listener texts.

Adam discusses local issues including community discourse in Saanich involving the development of the future of the Quadra-McKenzie area. Plus, Angus Reid Institute research associate Jon Roe joins the show for the latest polling on how Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal government is handling trade troubles with the U.S.

Adam discusses civic issues, including public access to information about how municipal councils make spending decisions. Grumpy Taxpayer$ of Greater Victoria chair John Treleaven calls in during open lines.

Adam discusses local current events, including on the local child with Batten disease’s family saying they have purchased the first Brineura infusion with private funds from the community. Plus, Adam discusses the evolution of community safety issues in Victoria.

Adam discusses economic and community issues with listeners who weigh in via open lines and text.

Saanich Mayor Dean Murdock joins the show to discuss community issues involving the Quadra-McKenzie plan.

Adam discusses local current events involving housing, development and municipal issues with listeners who weigh in with open lines and text. 

Saanich Mayor Dean Murdock joins the show to discuss community issues involving the Quadra-McKenzie plan. Plus, listeners share their thoughts via open lines and text.

Adam discusses local issues including civic discourse in Saanich involving the future of the Quadra-McKenzie area. Plus, Adam shares his thoughts on the latest we are learning about the story of the local child with Batten disease who lost provincial funding for an expensive medication she was taking. He discusses B.C. Health Minister Josie Osborne’s comments on the situation this morning.

Adam’s discussion of local current events continues, with listeners weighing in via open lines and text. Ken Johnson, who was awarded Officer in Charge Certificate of Appreciation by West Shore RCMP, joins the show.

Ken Johnson, who was awarded Officer in Charge Certificate of Appreciation by West Shore RCMP, joins the show.

Adam discusses local current events, including notable moments at Victoria City Council this week.

Jori Fales joins the show. 

Our open lines are full of listeners who want to share their thoughts on the latest developments in the story of the local child with Batten disease who lost provincial funding for an expensive medication she was taking.

Adam discusses the latest on the story of the local child with Batten disease who lost provincial funding for an expensive medication she was taking, including notable comments from B.C. health minister Josie Osborne today. Charleigh Pollock’s mother, Jori Fales, joins the show with reaction to the updates. Plus, Mike Kozakowski from Citified joins the show for his conversation about local issues of the week with Adam.