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This week on Soapbox Social, the panel discusses Vancouver’s role as a FIFA host city and the recent rollout of Axon Assistant, a body-worn camera tool that can translate more than 50 languages in real time so officers can respond to people in their own language.

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Kyla Lee on CBC’s On The Coast with Gloria Macarenko: Soapbox Social: FIFA is in townRead More »

Progressive Parties in Vancouver reach an agreement to avoid vote splitting. The B-C government presses pause on DRIPA amendments. Our Soapbox Social panel will weigh in on this, and more.

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Kyla Lee on CBC’s On The Coast with Gloria Macarenko: Soapbox Social: Vancouver progressive parties come to a dealRead More »

After losing another of his MPs to the Liberals, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he personally supports recall petitions — a way for constituents to remove a representative if they garner enough local support. Also, Poilievre is calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal government to defend private property rights in the face of what he claims is a threat posed by a landmark B.C. Supreme Court decision establishing Aboriginal title on private property.

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Kyla Lee on CBC’s On The Coast with Gloria Macarenko: Soapbox Social: Pierre Poilievre talks about floor crossings, Cowichan lands decision in RichmondRead More »

B.C. Premier David Eby says OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has agreed to apologize to the people of Tumbler Ridge, B.C., after it emerged the AI giant didn’t report a mass shooter’s account to authorities. Also, B.C. is permanently adopting daylight time, making its “spring forward” on March 8 the last time change.

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Kyla Lee on CBC’s On The Coast with Gloria Macarenko: Soapbox Social: Eby and Open AI, Daylight Saving time and more from City HallRead More »

The B.C. government’s 2026 budget announced a series of tax increases, capital project delays, and a reduction of 15,000 public sector jobs over three years.

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Kyla Lee on CBC’s On The Coast with Gloria Macarenko: Soapbox Social: Latest B.C. budget and Vancouver politicsRead More »

Pete Fry is hoping that for the first time since 2005, Vancouverites might elect a city councillor as its next mayor….

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Kyla Lee on CBC’s On The Coast with Gloria Macarenko: Soapbox Social: The crowded race to be Vancouver’s next mayorRead More »

The head of B.C.’s extortion task force is walking back comments he made Tuesday that the region is not in an extortion crime-related crisis after Premier David Eby demanded he step up his urgency or step down from his role…

“…There are situations where something becomes a crisis and that allows government to make emergency orders, which can then allow the government to do more than they would otherwise be legally permitted to do. So, labelling it a ‘crisis’ I think in the legal context, is getting into that dangerous territory…”

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The B.C. government has confirmed that its ill-fated pilot program to decriminalize drugs will end on January 31st.

“I find it really hypocritical the way the government is talking about how ‘we don’t want to involve people in the criminal justice system, we want to get them into healthcare’ but they have never made the proper investment into the healthcare, into the treatment… We already have a healthcare crisis in this province with E.R.s shutting down all over because of understaffing…”

“Arresting people and putting them in jail has never gotten people to stop using drugs. It’s never stopped the flow of toxic drugs. Nothing is going to change and I think the number of deaths is going to increase.”

Listen to the full segment here.