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February 03, 2019 00:24:48
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theBreaker.news Podcast: By-elections a go-go

The Nanaimo provincial by-election did not live up to the hype. Will the Burnaby South federal by-election? By-elections, says theBreaker.news Podcast guest Mario Canseco...

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January 27, 2019 00:21:40
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theBreaker.news Podcast: Rockpile roiled, as speaker reveals Victoria's spending secrets

Luxury overseas travel. Expensive custom-tailored suits, shiny watches and major league baseball tickets. A log-splitter. Schemes to collect insurance benefits, retirement allowances and pay-in-lieu...

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January 20, 2019 00:30:25
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theBreaker.news Podcast: Canada's resistance has taken China by surprise, says ex-political prisoner

Swedish human rights activist Peter Dahlin spent more than three weeks in jail in China in early 2016 after he was arrested at Beijing's...

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January 13, 2019 00:26:58
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theBreaker.news Podcast: Remembering Jim Taylor

On Jan. 7, it was “30” for Jim Taylor: the end of the life story of a great author, newspaper columnist and broadcaster.  Taylor...

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January 06, 2019 00:26:49
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theBreaker.news Podcast: Pollster ponders the panoply of politics in 2019

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in the last year of his mandate. The countdown is on to the Oct. 21 federal election. Can Conservative...

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December 30, 2018 00:20:53
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theBreaker.news Podcast: China is B.C.'s newsmaker of 2018

Another summer of wildfires across British Columbia, another province-wide state of emergency. We all became owners of the Trans Mountain pipeline project, thanks to...

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