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Your source for news, opinion and analysis about British Columbia issues, institutions and influencers.

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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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December 23, 2018 00:17:50
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Merry Christmas from theBreaker.news Podcast

Season's Greetings from theBreaker.news Podcast. On this yuletide edition, cuddle up by the fire with some egg nog and enjoy  a special made-in-British Columbia...

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December 16, 2018 00:24:35
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theBreaker.news Podcast: After Huawei exec's Vancouver bail, Shanghai jail survivor speaks out

From his home near London, England, former Reuters foreign correspondent and fraud investigator Peter Humphrey has watched the Meng Wanzhou saga develop with great...

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December 09, 2018 00:22:27
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theBreaker.news Podcast: Speaker shifts scandal spotlight back onto suspended officials

Drama in British Columbia, on two fronts.  The Dec. 1 Vancouver International Airport arrest of Meng Wanzhou, dubbed the "Huawei Princess" on Chinese social...

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