This is VANCOLOUR

Sophie Buddle is an award-winning comedian and writer. She released her first comedy album “Lil Bit of Buddle” in May 2019 which is now available on Apple Music, Spotify, and various retailers. Her podcast “Obsessed with Sophie Buddle” is also available wherever you listen to podcasts.A two-time Vancouver Comedy Award winner for the “Best Dirty Joke” award, Sophie has also been featured on Kevin Hart’s LOL Network, CBC’s The Debaters, and the Just for Laughs comedy festival. She also writes for the long-running CBC sketch and satire show, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, for which she was nominated for a Canadian Comedy Award.

Megan Edwards is an announcer on Virgin Radio Vancouver 94.5FM and a panelist on CTV News. She’s one half of THE UND8ABLES whose best-selling book “Girl, It’s Not You - It's Definitely Him” just got picked up by Blind Dog Media to bring you the dating stories of your nightmares to the silver screen. THE UND8ABLES also just launched a nail-polish line this year, in partnership with Girly Bits Cosmetics. Megan is also one half of THE EXXES - a podcast about dating and relationships, which features This is VANCOLOUR host, Mo Amir, in episode three. She also featured on First Dates Canada (season two).As the very first guest on This is VANCOLOUR, Megan returns to the podcast to celebrate its one-year anniversary in a very personal episode.

Selina Robinson is British Columbia’s Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing. She represents the riding of Coquitlam-Maillardville, as a BC NDP Member of the Legislative Assembly, where she was first elected in 2013. Prior to that, she served the City of Coquitlam for two terms as a City Councillor between 2008 and 2013. She has a BA in Psychology and an MA in Counselling Psychology, both from Simon Fraser University. Prior to her political life, she had a home-based family therapy practice, was the Director of Development for SHARE Family and Community Services, and was a Counselling Instructor and Program Developer at the University of British Columbia’s Life and Learning Centre and Vancouver Community College.

Tamara Taggart is an award-winning Canadian broadcasting icon, community leader, and busy working mom. She has volunteered thousands of hours in the community, sits on the boards for several non-profit organizations, and advocates for the well-being of children and people with disabilities. She once co-hosted Live! With Regis and Kelly. She’s well-known as a popular news anchor at CTV.She is currently running for Member of Parliament in the riding of Vancouver-Kingsway under the Liberal Party of Canada banner.In 2015, she was awarded British Columbia’s highest honour, The Order of British Columbia.She is married to 54-40/Matthew Good Band guitarist, Dave Genn, with whom she has three beautiful children.

Julie Kim is a two-time Canadian Comedy Award-nominated stand-up comedian who has been featured at the Just for Laughs Northwest Festival, the Halifax Comedy Festival, the Winnipeg Comedy Festival, and the Seattle International Comedy Competition, amongst many others.In 2018, she released her debut comedy album, “Outside Voice”, which is available on iTunes, Spotify, Tidal, and Google Play.She’s regularly featured on CBC’s The Debaters and CBC’s Laugh Out Loud. She’s also been in the writer’s room for CBC’s Kim’s Convenience, which is also available on Netflix.

Jennifer Reddy is a Vancouver School Board Trustee representing OneCity Vancouver.She is an educator and advocate for some of the most vulnerable students in Vancouver’s school system. Her top three priorities have been to prevent school closures, fully staff schools, and increase childcare spaces.She holds a Masters in Social Policy and Development from the London School of Economics, a Bachelors in Development Studies from the University of Calgary, and a Certificate in Curriculum Development and Instructional Design from Mount Royal University. She has championed a Sanctuary Schools policy and is a founder of EdMeCo, an organization using mentorship programs to support students in their educational goals.

John Cullen is a Vancouver-based comedian (originally from Toronto). His comedy album, “Most Likely To Be a Comedian” topped iTunes charts and regularly plays on SiriusXM radio. He has appeared at the Just For Laughs comedy festival and the Halifax Comedy Festival. He is also a contributor to CBC’s The Debaters.His former podcast “Real Good Show” was nominated for a Canadian Comedy Award and amassed over 300,000 downloads. His current podcast, “Blocked Party” with Stefan Heck, features some of Vancouver’s funniest comics and regularly hits the iTunes podcast charts.In addition to comedy, John is a competitive curler who has won five medals at the BC Men’s Provincials. He has a drummer whose bands Shukov and Hayfa Makes Music have toured Western Canada with the likes of Hey Ocean!, k-os, and Tokyo Police Club. He is also a substitute teacher.

Svend Robinson is arguably the single most influential Member of Parliament in Canadian history to have never served in the Cabinet of Cabinet.For 25 years, he represented Burnaby for the New Democratic Party (NDP) in Canadian Parliament. He is notably the first MP to come out as gay. Throughout his career, he has been a trailblazer for social justice, including his stance on American foreign policy. He was a leader in the movement for the right to physician-assisted death. As a strong environmentalist he has engaged in civil disobedience to block the logging of old growth-forests in BC. He has also advocated for LGBTQ rights.After 13 years, he is retuning to politics and running as the NDP candidate (under Jagmeet Singh’s leadership) in the riding of Burnaby North-Seymour against Liberal MP Terry Beech.

Dr. Bruce Alexander is a world-renowned whose extensive, paradigm-shifting research on the psychology of addiction - particularly his “Rat Park” studies - at Simon Fraser University has influenced the likes of Johann Hari and Dr. Gabor Maté. His work has also received renewed interest in the wake of the current opioids crisis. In 2007, he received the Nora and Ted Sterling Prize in Support of Controversy from SFU.

Dina Del Bucchia is a Canadian poet, podcaster, and performer. She hosts “Can’t Lit”, a podcast on Canadian literature and culture. She is also the senior editor of Poetry Is Dead magazine and the artistic director of the Real Vancouver Writers’ Series.Her fourth collection of poetry, “It’s a Big Deal!”, interrogates the ways in which we interpret and process the big deals of our twenty-first century lives.