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The Jas Johal Show is the Lower Mainland’s town square, helping you connect with the stories that matter. It’s about finding the solutions to the challenges facing our region, even when we disagree. Jas’s decades of experience as a local news reporter, a Global News bureau chief in China and India, as well as a BC MLA have strengthened his conviction that no one “side” has all the answers. The Global News Radio newsroom rounds out the team keeping you in the know on developing stories from the North Shore to the Fraser Valley. The Jas Johal Show provi...

Episodes(40 episodes)

The Price of Project Approval in BC

Family Reunification on Hold: What the Sponsorship Freeze Means for BC GUEST: Barj Dhahan, Co-founder and director of the Canada India Education Society The Great Reversal: BC's Population Declines for the First Time in Modern History GUEST: Ken Peacock, economist who writes about the B.C economy on Substack, formerly the chief economist and senior vice president of the Business Council of B.C Beyond Resources: Why Canada Can't Stop the New Megafires GUEST: Jesse Winter, climate disaster journalist and author of Wild...

Published: Jul 17, 2026Duration: 52m 19s

Why Canada Can't Stop the New Megafires

Beyond Resources: Why Canada Can't Stop the New Megafires GUEST: Jesse Winter, climate disaster journalist and author of Wild Fire: Dispatches from a Country Ablaze Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Published: Jul 17, 2026Duration: 13m 9s

Could the Whitecaps run B.C. Place?

No Helmet, Deadly Consequences: the VPD's Urgent Scooter Warning GUEST: Sgt. Adam Donaldson, Media Relations Officer with the Vancouver Police Department The bid is in: Could the Whitecaps run B.C Place? GUEST: Patrick Johnston, Sports columnist for the Vancouver Sun and The Province Next steps: how a car-free Granville Street could work post-World Cup GUEST: Brent Toderian, City planner; Urbanist at TODERIAN UrbanWORKS; formerly chief planner of the city of Vancouver </p...

Published: Jul 16, 2026Duration: 51m 5s

Next steps: how a car-free Granville Street could work post-World Cup

Next steps: how a car-free Granville Street could work post-World Cup GUEST: Brent Toderian, City planner; Urbanist at TODERIAN UrbanWORKS; formerly chief planner of the city of Vancouver Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Published: Jul 16, 2026Duration: 17m 31s

Mayor Ken Sim pivots on the Park Board!

Mayor Ken Sim is pivoting on the Park Board, blaming BC. A $13 billion Meta AI data centre is headed for Alberta. Is B.C missing something? If someone on an E-scooter in BC gets injured... who pays? Is Ottawa setting trade barriers on the new pipeline? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Published: Jul 15, 2026Duration: 56m 28s

Ottawa setting trade barriers on the new pipeline?

Ottawa setting trade barriers on the new pipeline? Guest: Jack Mintz, President’s Fellow at the University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Published: Jul 15, 2026Duration: 16m 29s

E-scooter injuries in B.C: who pays?

If someone on an e-scooter in BC gets injured, who pays? Guest: Greg Phillips, a personal injury lawyer with Johnston Franklin Bishop and Board Member for the Trial Lawyers Association of BC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Published: Jul 15, 2026Duration: 9m 36s

Mayor Ken Sim pivots on the Park Board

Mayor Ken Sim is pivoting on the Park Board. What happened here? Guest: Tom Digby, Vancouver Park Board Commissioner and Chair Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Published: Jul 15, 2026Duration: 15m 18s

Mayor Sim goes full 180 on Park Board

Ken Sim tried to kill the Park Board. Now he wants to win it?! Chilliwack transformer plant closes with 43 jobs gone. Can BC stop it? Nurses rejected their own union's deal. How does this end? The push to build the tallest tower in Vancouver. It's easier to order wine from France than Ontario. Can the premiers fix it? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Published: Jul 14, 2026Duration: 57m 29s

The land deals rocking Surrey City Hall

Does it all fit? Super tankers, a pipeline and a port collide at Roberts Bank GUEST: Ian Paton, B.C. Conservative MLA for Delta South Inside The House GUEST: Keith Baldrey, Global B.C. Legislative Bureau Chief Bailout or bargain? The land deals rocking Surrey City Hall GUEST: Linda Annis, Surrey First City councillor and mayoral candidate BCUC: AI and energy. Should B.C. sit out the AI gold rush? GUEST: Mark Jaccard - Chair and CEO of...

Published: Jul 11, 2026Duration: 58m 34s

The Jas Johal Political Happy Hour

This week: Keith Baldrey: Nurses on the Picket Line, Conservatives at War: Keith Baldrey on a Wild Week in Politics (1:13) Mike Farnworth: $8.5 Billion and Counting: How the Massey Tunnel Replacement Doubled in Cost (15:11) Marc Jaccard: Alberta Wins 13 Billion Facebook AI Data Center. Should BC Say No to the AI Gold Rush? (28:00) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Published: Jul 11, 2026Duration: 50m 37s

Should B.C. sit out the AI gold rush?

BCUC: AI and energy. Should B.C. sit out the AI gold rush? Mark Jaccard - Chair and CEO of the B.C. Utilities Commission; Professor - School of Resource and Environmental Management at Vancouver’s Simon Fraser University Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Published: Jul 11, 2026Duration: 20m 36s

Bailout or bargain? The land deals rocking Surrey City Hall

Linda Annis, Surrey First City councillor and mayoral candidate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Published: Jul 10, 2026Duration: 12m 0s

Super tankers, a pipeline and a port collide at Roberts Bank

Does it all fit? Super tankers, a pipeline and a port collide at Roberts Bank Ian Paton, B.C. Conservative MLA for Delta South Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Published: Jul 10, 2026Duration: 13m 51s

California restaurant fines parents for unruly kids

The California restaurant that charges parents who don’t discipline their kids You You “Alexander” Xie, owner of Chez Xue in Foster City, California Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Published: Jul 10, 2026Duration: 14m 44s

North Van reverses course on chlorine plant

North Van District u-turns on chlorine plant despite safety concerns Catherine Pope, District of North Vancouver City councillor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Published: Jul 10, 2026Duration: 15m 26s

North Van District u-turns on chlorine plant despite safety concerns

North Van District u-turns on chlorine plant despite safety concerns (0:54) Catherine Pope, District of North Vancouver City councillor Why Vancouver should rethink its Villages Plan (14:38) Sandy James, former City of Vancouver Planner Gas prices set to rise by 4 cents a litre after Trump/Iran fallout (25:23) Dan McTeague, President of Canadians for Affordable Energy The California restaurant that charges parents who don’t discipline their kids (34:44) You You “Alexander” Xie, owner of Chez Xue in Foster City, Califo...

Published: Jul 10, 2026Duration: 50m 58s

Burnaby pushes back on disruptive flight paths

"Freeways in the Sky": Burnaby pushes back on disruptive flight paths Mike Hurley, Mayor of Burnaby Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Published: Jul 9, 2026Duration: 9m 48s

Was the World Cup Worth $729 Million?

Was the World Cup Worth $729 Million? Mayor Ken Sim on Vancouver's Big Month (0:57) Ken Sim, Mayor of Vancouver Christy Clark on Pipeline Politics and the $8.5 Billion Massey Tunnel (16:17) Christy Clark, Former Premier of B.C. Poilievre Loses Another MP, Carney Talks NATO, and Pipeline politics (32:24) Mackenzie Gray, Global News Ottawa Correspondent Puppies in Crates, a Free Bunny in a Box: B.C.'s Pet Abandonment Problem (48:18) Rebeka Breder, Animal Rights Lawyer Learn more about your...

Published: Jul 9, 2026Duration: 1h 0m 28s

Christy Clark on Pipeline Politics and the $8.5 Billion Massey Tunnel

Christy Clark, Former Premier of B.C. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Published: Jul 9, 2026Duration: 17m 50s