thePodcast: Cup costs, controversy and Cascadia connections

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May 31 2026 | 00:33:16

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Show Notes

For the week of May 31, 2026: The day after the B.C. NDP government ended the spring Legislature session by weakening the freedom of information law, two of Premier David Eby’s ministers revealed the cost of co-hosting FIFA World Cup in Vancouver could be as much as $729 million. On this edition of thePodcast, highlights of the news conference held by Anne Kang, Minister of Tourism, Arts, Culture and Sports, and Ravi Kahlon, Minister of Jobs and Economic Generation (starting at 00:50). Plus reaction from Carson Binda, the B.C. director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation who remembers when the cost […]

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