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UnSpun with Jody Vance and George Affleck

Jody Vance and George Affleck

Welcome to UnSpun - your current events podcast and YouTube show. Every week, Jody Vance and George Affleck unspin the latest news in local, provincial, federal politics, and much more.

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35:33

UnSpun with Jody Vance and George Affleck — Episode 190

UnSpun with Jody Vance and George Affleck ·

2022/10/07

Welcome to UnSpun - your current events podcast and YouTube show. Every week, Jody Vance and George Affleck unspin the latest news in local, provincial, federal politics, and much more.This week, Jody and George are on fire. It is only one week to go to municipal elections, and anything could happen in Vancouver, Surrey and some other tight communities (White Rock, we are watching you). How did we get here, and what are some of the key things influencing the decision of who to vote for on Election

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31:56

UnSpun with Jody Vance and George Affleck — Episode 189

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2022/09/30

Welcome to UnSpun - your current events podcast and YouTube show. Every week, Jody Vance and George Affleck unspin the latest news in local, provincial, federal politics, and much more.This week, early voting starts Saturday, October 1, for BC’s municipal elections, and Jody and George have some tips to consider before heading to the voting booth. They also get into the details of each Vancouver party’s platform. Over at the provincial level, NDP leadership hopeful David Eby presents his aggressive

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30:34

UnSpun with Jody Vance and George Affleck — Episode 188

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2022/09/23

Welcome to UnSpun - your current events podcast and YouTube show. Every week, Jody Vance and George Affleck unspin the latest news in local, provincial, federal politics, and much more.This week, Trudeau-mania part 2 — or Queen-Gate — but seriously, what’s wrong with celebrating a life — even if it’s the Queen of Canada? Meanwhile, over in the colonies — random testing and ArriveCan are ending, and many people are happy while others continue with their conspiracies. But stop with your online hate at

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33:03

UnSpun with Jody Vance and George Affleck — Episode 187

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2022/09/16

Welcome to UnSpun - your current events podcast and YouTube show. Every week, Jody Vance and George Affleck unspin the latest news in local, provincial, federal politics, and much more.This week, it’s go time with less than one month to go for municipal elections, and Jody and George get into the juicy backroom shenanigans of Vancouver and Surrey politics as well as some disturbing news from Brad West, the acclaimed mayor of PoCo. Meanwhile, the anointment, pretty much, of a new federal Conservative

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32:41

UnSpun with Jody Vance and George Affleck — Episode 186

UnSpun with Jody Vance and George Affleck ·

2022/09/09

Welcome to UnSpun - your current events podcast and YouTube show. Every week, Jody Vance and George Affleck unspin the latest news in local, provincial, federal politics, and much more.This week, Jody and George start with the passing of the Queen. But what does this all mean for the future? How will King Charles III manage his communications, and will there be spin? Then it’s back home, where local polls show that Vancouver’s Mayor Kennedy Stewart remains the front runner to be re-elected, and his

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31:19

UnSpun with Jody Vance and George Affleck — Episode 185

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2022/09/01

Welcome to UnSpun - your current events podcast and YouTube show. Every week, Jody Vance and George Affleck unspin the latest news in local, provincial, federal politics, and much more.This week, Jody and George talk about the madness that is Vancouver politics. Party jumping, issue flipping, and general negative vibes all around. But who doesn’t love it. And it’s time to dig in with Election Day looming. Beyond the borders of the city, politicians feel threatened, and ARE threatened, just ask

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31:55

UnSpun with Jody Vance and George Affleck — Episode 184

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2022/08/26

Welcome to UnSpun - your current events podcast and YouTube show. Every week, Jody Vance and George Affleck unspin the latest news in local, provincial, federal politics, and much more.This week, Jody and George go big or go home with the announcement by Surrey Mayor Doug McCallum that if he is re-elected in October he will build a 60,000 seat stadium. Spin, bravado, whatever you call it, it has people talking; then it’s a tour of some other municipalities like Delta and Burnaby and how they find

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28:32

UnSpun with Jody Vance and George Affleck — Episode 183

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2022/08/18

Welcome to UnSpun - your current events podcast and YouTube show. Every week, Jody Vance and George Affleck unspin the latest news in local, provincial, federal politics, and much more.This week, Jody and George get explicit with their words. But that seems to be going around in politics these days. Then it’s on to rumours of Vancouver’s oldest political party announcing a new leader to replace the recently departed John Coupar. That is really going to mess up the plans of some of the mayoral

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18:24

UnSpun with Jody Vance and George Affleck — Episode 182

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2022/08/11

Welcome to UnSpun - your current events podcast and YouTube show. Every week, Jody Vance and George Affleck unspin the latest news in local, provincial, federal politics, and much more.This week, Jody and George do a summer speed version of UnSpun and look specifically at the news in Vancouver, where politics is never boring. The departure of a high-profile mayoral candidate, the end of an era for the city’s longest-standing political party, how all this might impact the outcome in October and what

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34:16

UnSpun with Jody Vance and George Affleck — Episode 181

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2022/08/04

Welcome to UnSpun - your current events podcast and YouTube show. Every week, Jody Vance and George Affleck unspin the latest news in local, provincial, federal politics, and much more.This week, Jody and George take a look at the latest poll in Vancouver that has pretty much every candidate in a dead heat for mayor. So good news Vancouver — chaos continues. That said — this could end up with a very interesting mix where the next mayor of Vancouver has absolutely no power — even better news. Right

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31:39

UnSpun with Jody Vance and George Affleck — Episode 180

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2022/07/28

Welcome to UnSpun - your current events podcast and YouTube show. Every week, Jody Vance and George Affleck unspin the latest news in local, provincial, federal politics, and much more.This week, Jody and George talk flip-flopping leadership in Vancouver, what does a leader need to do to inspire and why are NIMBYs sooooo NIMBY? Meanwhile, crime is on the rise, grass is not getting cut and housing continues to be the hot button political issue. All that and whole bunch more on the latest

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32:36

UnSpun with Jody Vance and George Affleck — Episode 179

UnSpun with Jody Vance and George Affleck ·

2022/07/21

Welcome to UnSpun - your current events podcast and YouTube show. Every week, Jody Vance and George Affleck unspin the latest news in local, provincial, federal politics, and much more.This week, Jody and George can handle the truth and some criticism but can Vancouver’s Park Board — seems not; the power of oil and anti-oil in a civic election — the room is divided but should it be; BC is getting a new Premier but should it be more of a challenge than David Eby is having — probably; and what are you

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33:37

UnSpun with Jody Vance and George Affleck — Episode 178

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2022/07/15

Welcome to UnSpun - your current events podcast and YouTube show. Every week, Jody Vance and George Affleck unspin the latest news in local, provincial, federal politics, and much more.This week, Jody and George get their super soakers firing at the Vancouver Park Board for their consistent ability to always make the wrong decision for the people (and kids) of Vancouver; meanwhile, campaigning for the next civic election is heating up across BC so who will be the next mayors and councillors in your

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31:02

UnSpun with Jody Vance and George Affleck — Episode 177

UnSpun with Jody Vance and George Affleck ·

2022/06/23

Welcome to UnSpun - your current events podcast and YouTube show. Every week, Jody Vance and George Affleck unspin the latest news in local, provincial, federal politics, and much more.This week, Jody and George look at the impact of cancelling the highly controversial, very unpopular rebuild of the Royal BC Museum and how the flip-flopping BC Premier might fair in the future of politics; then so much to talk about in Vancouver. A breakdown of the real impact of those who voted in support and those

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31:32

UnSpun with Jody Vance and George Affleck — Episode 176

UnSpun with Jody Vance and George Affleck ·

2022/06/16

Welcome to UnSpun - your current events podcast and YouTube show. Every week, Jody Vance and George Affleck unspin the latest news in local, provincial, federal politics, and much more.This week, Jody and George talk about Covid literally hitting close to home and what travel might be like in the coming weeks. Meanwhile, the Cullen Commission on money laundering was released and the spin on this is — well — the whole g’danged system failed us all; and finally — Vancouver is a mess, literally, but

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31:35

UnSpun with Jody Vance and George Affleck — Episode 175

UnSpun with Jody Vance and George Affleck ·

2022/06/10

Welcome to UnSpun - your current events podcast and YouTube show. Every week, Jody Vance and George Affleck unspin the latest news in local, provincial, federal politics, and much more.This week, Jody and George weather the storm whether they like it or not. In Vancouver, the Mayor rehashes some old policies like they are new policies, which is the the ultimate cynical election spin; then — that’s not a knife, this is a knife — the silliest twitter troll wars erupt so it must be an election year but

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30:53

UnSpun with Jody Vance and George Affleck — Episode 174

UnSpun with Jody Vance and George Affleck ·

2022/06/02

Welcome to UnSpun - your current events podcast and YouTube show. Every week, Jody Vance and George Affleck unspin the latest news in local, provincial, federal politics, and much more.This week, Jody and George debunk the decriminalization of drugs in BC and ponder whether gun control announcements were more about PR than actual policy-making; then it’s a look into how Vancouver and Surrey remain the hotspots for local politics with the fall election just around the corner; and in Vancouver,

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33:45

UnSpun with Jody Vance and George Affleck — Episode 173

UnSpun with Jody Vance and George Affleck ·

2022/05/26

Welcome to UnSpun - your current events podcast and YouTube show. Every week, Jody Vance and George Affleck unspin the latest news in local, provincial, federal politics, and much more.This week, Jody and George get all hissy-torical when they dig into the decision by the BC NDP to spend $700 million plus on a new Royal BC Museum that nobody was asking for, saw coming or, apparently, even support. With zero transparency, the NDP find themselves digging a hole that could fit a few woolly

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32:32

UnSpun with Jody Vance and George Affleck — Episode 172

UnSpun with Jody Vance and George Affleck ·

2022/05/19

Welcome to UnSpun - your current events podcast and YouTube show. Every week, Jody Vance and George Affleck unspin the latest news in local, provincial, federal politics, and much more. This week, Jody and George are dumbfounded … that’s right … by the shear political nightmare, the BC NDP have created for themselves with the rebuild of Victoria’s Royal BC Museum. $700 million-plus — come on. Of course, this gold-plated decision is political gold for Kevin Falcon, leader of the opposition. Craig

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33:30

UnSpun with Jody Vance and George Affleck — Episode 171

UnSpun with Jody Vance and George Affleck ·

2022/05/12

Welcome to UnSpun - your current events podcast and YouTube show. Every week, Jody Vance and George Affleck unspin the latest news in local, provincial, federal politics, and much more. This week, Jody and George welcome you to our new home at unspunpodcast.com and it’s right into the hot topics of the week where we have the latest spin/no spin on the fourth dose to prevent covid19 and why science still matters; then we go local — civic election finances and the doomed Broadway Plan in Vancouver

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