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This is Vancouver’s bona fide culture and politics podcast. Hosted by Mo Amir, parse through the relevant issues with the city’s most colourful personalities. With its heart on its sleeve and caution thrown to the wind, this is a podcast that is provocative, informative, and sometimes emotional. This is VANCOLOUR
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Jun 18, 2021 • 2min
Annamie Paul is right about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, but not for the reason she gives
Annamie Paul blasted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau this week on his feminist credentials. She’s right, but not exactly for the reasons she provided.
Jun 14, 2021 • 1h 13min
#127 - Sam Cooper ("Wilful Blindness")
Sam Cooper is an award-winning national investigative journalist for Global News. His book, “Wilful Blindness: How a Network of Narcos, Tycoons, and CCP Agents Infiltrated the West”, is now available from Optimum Publishing International.
Jun 11, 2021 • 2min
Here's why Quebec's Bill 21 is discriminatory and what it says about Canada
Quebec’s Bill 21 legitimizes anti-Muslim, anti-Semitic, and anti-Sikh prejudice into law. Yet, no federal party leader in Canada has committed to fighting it. Weird.
Jun 7, 2021 • 1h 3min
#126 - Jordan Armstrong (Global News BC)
Jordan Armstrong is a reporter and anchor for Global BC. He is the anchor of the Saturday and Sunday editions of Global News at 11 and he reports for the Global News Hour at 6 during the week.
Jun 4, 2021 • 3min
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney's op-ed in The National Post is hot garbage
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney took time away from his important job to write an op-ed in The National Post to defend statues or something stupid. It was hot garbage and not worth reading. Listen to this instead.
May 31, 2021 • 53min
#125 - Hillary McBride (Other People's Problems)
Dr. Hillary McBride is a registered clinical counsellor in private practice based in Vancouver. Her areas of clinical practice and research focus on the intersection of spirituality and mental health, trauma therapies, eating disorders, body image, and sex. She is the author of “Mothers, Daughters, and Body Image: Learning to Love Ourselves As We Are.” She is also the host of the popular CBC podcast, “Other People’s Problems”, which features her therapy sessions with different clients. Hillary first appeared on This is VANCOLOUR in Episode #79.
May 25, 2021 • 2min
Kevin Falcon is not disingenuous, like some people
Kevin Falcon is a BC Liberal politician in the middle of an election campaign……and BC Liberal politicians in the middle of election campaigns are disingenuous, according to Kevin Falcon. Figure that one out. CLIPS USED:-Jane Thornthwaite on MLA Ralph Sultan’s Virtual Retirement Roast, September 17 2020 -Kevin Falcon on The Mike Smyth Show, May 18 2021 -Kevin Falcon on NL Noon Report with Brett Mineer, May 19 2021 -Kevin Falcon on BC Liberal Leadership Announcement, May 17 2021
May 17, 2021 • 1h
#124 - Sarah Berman (NXIVM: "Don't Call it a Cult")
Sarah Berman is an investigative journalist based in Vancouver, covering crime, drugs, cults, politics, and culture. She is a former senior editor at VICE, a former associate editor at The Tyee, and a past contributor to Adbusters, Maclean’s, The Globe and Mail, The Vancouver Sun, and more. Her debut book “DON’T CALL IT A CULT” is a national best-seller, exploring the infamous American sex cult, NXIVM.
May 10, 2021 • 1h 10min
#123 - Sonia Furstenau (BC Green Party)
Sonia Furstenau is the leader of the BC Green Party and the B.C. Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Cowichan Valley. Sonia was first featured on This is VANCOLOUR in Episode #95.
May 3, 2021 • 21min
GYST with Megan Edwards (The Penultamour)
“Get Your Sh!t Together” with Megan Edwards and Mo Amir Each episode, we offer you lessons that we learned the hard way, sometimes with a special guest. Megan and Mo discuss being “The Penultamour” aka the “Good Luck Chuck” aka the last person you love before you meet the person you marry — it’s not necessarily a bad thing!
