The Jill Bennett Show

There are growing calls from Construction companies and building associations – they are joining the calls from several big-name developers - they want Metro Vancouver to reconsider the proposed development fee increases for building new homes. Why service dogs need to be left alone! Finally, we check in with Richard Zusmman as part of our ongoing provincial election coverage! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3 youths arrested in swarming attack of a Kelowna girl. Guest: Dr. Shimi Kang - Psychiatrist, CEO and Founder, FutureReady Minds and author Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BC Conservatives are making some big promises, plus more stories from the campaign trail! Guest: Richard Zussman - Global BC Legislative Reporter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Officials say that an Ontario child has died from rabies. This is reigniting conversations around what to do if you or your child gets exposed to the rabies virus. Guest: Jason Tetro - Microbiologist with expertise in emerging pathogens Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's BC election radio debate featured extensive conversations surrounding public safety in the province. Porter Airlines was selected as the world’s Best Economy Class by the USA Today Readers’ Choice Awards. Finally, we bring on Richard Zussman for his reaction to some of the key moments from today's debate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Richard Zussman reacts to today's big debate! Guest: Richard Zussman - Global BC Legislative Reporter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Getting more British Columbians on transit! Turkey prices are going up in BC ahead of Thanksgiving. Last but not least, we check in with Richard Zussman for the latest updates from the campaign trail! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We check in with Richard Zussman for the latest updates from the campaign Guest: Richard Zussman - Global BC Legislative Reporter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Turkey prices are up in B.C. ahead of Thanksgiving Guest: Sylvain Charlebois - director of the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Air raid sirens are sounding across Israel as a series of explosions have been heard in Tel Aviv and near Jerusalem. The latest has Iran saying it fired dozens of ballistic missiles into Israel as retaliation for killing of a Hezbollah leader and a Hamas official. Guest: Aurel Braun - Professor of International Relations and Political Science at the University of Toronto Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today, the Mayors of the City and District of North Vancouver will gather alongside local business owners and members of the community in support of the Save Transit campaign – urging provincial election candidates to commit to fixing TransLink’s broken funding model and encouraging the community to act by sending a letter to their local candidates. Guest: Linda Buchanan - Mayor, City of North Vancouver Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One of the most complex election issues is how to solve the drug crisis in BC. What are ghost kitchens and how do they operate? Economic reconciliation as an election cornerstone; that's what the conservatives are leveraging on this day of truth and reconciliation. But what does that mean exactly, when John Rustad also wants to repeal the BC Indigenous rights law? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why are people drawn towards residential school denialism and what can we do to combat it? Guest: Sean Carleton - Historian and Indigenous Studies scholar at the University of Manitoba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From John Rustad: “Economic reconciliation is not only the key to self-determination but also the foundation for the health and prosperity of Indigenous communities across our province. First Nations have the right to achieve real wealth and move beyond mere survival” Guest: Michelle Laviolette - Vancity’s Director of Indigenous Banking Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Single Stairway developments dead in Burnaby? We're officially a full week into our BC election coverage! What's the latest on the campaign trail? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Single-stairway developments dead in Burnaby? Guest: Bryn Davidson - Owner of Lanefab Design/Build Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're officially a full week into our BC election coverage! What's the latest on the campaign trail? Guest: Richard Zussman - Global BC Legislative Reporter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A new report suggests that cuts to public transit would cost every household in Metro Vancouver $1000 per year! BC election coverage with Richard Zussman. Your Samsung Galaxy phone will soon let you be able to track your stolen Hyundai or Kia car! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Richard Zussman checks in for our daily political update as part of our continuing coverage of the BC election campaign. Guest: Richard Zussman - Global BC Legislative Reporter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A new report finds that cuts to public transit would cost every household in Metro Vancouver $1000 per year. Guest: Dylan Kruger - Delta City Councillor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

David Eby has announced the expansion of 60/40 mortgage housing program Angela Calla - Mortgage Expert and Author also host of The Mortgage Show on CKNW Vancouver to boost Gastown policing, in bid ‘to bring back a sense of safety’ Walley Wargolet - Executive Director, Gastown Business Improvement Society NDP Housing announcement is a huge one Richard Zussman - Global BC Legislative Reporter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

NDP Housing announcement is a huge one Richard Zussman - Global BC Legislative Reporter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

More on Short-Term Rental Rules to Align with Provincial Legislation Michael Vogel - CEO and Founder, Encore Ventures Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vancouver Enhances Short-Term Rental Rules to Align with Provincial Legislation Lenny Zhao - Vancouver City Councillor with ABC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vancouver to boost Gastown policing, in bid ‘to bring back a sense of safety’ Walley Wargolet - Executive Director, Gastown Business Improvement Society Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

David Eby has announced the expansion of 60/40 mortgage housing program Angela Calla - Mortgage Expert and Author also host of The Mortgage Show on CKNW Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cineplex is getting slapped with a MASSIVE $38.9M fine over online booking fees. The latest updates from the BC campaign trail with Richard Zussman! Recent stats from RE/MAX shows that Canadian home renovation spending was up $300B over the pandemic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Check BC’s official ‘lost and found’ to see if you have money waiting for you! Guest: Sherry MacLennan - Executive Director, BC Unclaimed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The latest from the BC Campaign trail: The Greens are making commitments around harm reduction. The policies don’t align with what the front runners are promising, and the polling on the issue is not as bad as expected. Save Our Streets has new polling out surrounding the issue of public safety in the election. Will Rustad get vaccinated this year against flu and COVID? This is being asked in the wake of the unearthed video of Rustad saying he regrets getting the COVID shot. Guest: Richard Zussman - Global BC Legislative Reporter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cineplex is being hit with a MASSIVE $38.9M fine over their online booking fees. Guest: Tara Deschamps - Business Reporter with the Canadian Press Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The BC Real Estate Association is calling for a review of BC's short-term rental ban. A video shows a bus shelter in New Westminster being completely been taken over by homeless people who have turned it into their own temporary living space. Finally, the latest updates from the BC campaign trail! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A motion moved by Park Board Chair Brennan Bastyovansky aims to revitalize the Vancouver Park Board. Guest: Brennan Bastyovansky - Independent Park Board Chair Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Richard Zussman gives us some updates from the campaign trail: John Rustad and the BC Conservatives announce "The Rustad Rebate". A rebate that scales over time and in the end will mean $3,000 per month in housing costs can be exempted from BC income tax. What sort of impact will this have? What will this cost? David Eby and the BC NDP announced parts of the health care plan today. The plan calls for expanding the role of pharmacists, cutting out bureaucratic red tape for doctors including faxing in prescriptions and providing immediate provisional licenses for doctors, nurses and midwives. And the big story of the day: Rustad's unearthed anti-science video! What should voters make on his thoughts about mandates and vaccines?! Guest: Richard Zussman - Global BC Legislative Reporter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Video of a bus shelter in New Westminster that has completely been taken over by homeless who have turned it into their own temporary living space. Guest: Daniel Fontaine - New Westminster City Councillor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BC Children’s Hospital Foundation has announced that after a decade of collaborative research with infectious disease researchers, a first-in-the-world discovery has been made at BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute. The new evidence indicates that acute lymphoblastic leukemia, the most common type of childhood cancer, could be preventable through early-life infection of a common virus. Guest: Dr. Gregor Reid - Investigator at the Michael Cuccione Childhood Cancer Research Program at BC Children's Hospital Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The BC government and three First Nations have unveiled a plan to build thousands of housing units to be sold well below market price. The federal firearm buyback program has cost taxpayers a whopping $67M since 2020, and yet it still hasn't collected any guns! Finally, we check in with Richard Zussman ahead of tomorrow's writ drop! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Monthly Wine Segment: BC Wineries importing grapes for 2024 vintage Guest: Tania Tomaszewska - Strategic business advisor to the wine industry, and producer and host of her TT Wine Explorer Podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The BC government and three First Nations have unveiled a plan to build thousands of housing units to be sold well below market price. Guest: Tom Davidoff - Associate professor in the Real Estate and Strategy and Business Economics groups at the Sauder School of Business, UBC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The path to Surrey’s new police of jurisdiction. A partnership between MST Nations and the province will help thousands own their first home in Vancouver! Last but not least, Richard Zussman joins is in-studio to discuss Premier David Eby's recent speech at UBCM. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A no-dog policy at some Vancouver school grounds. Guest: Craig Ollenberger - Chairman of the Grandview Woodland Area Council Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A partnership between MST Nations and the province will help thousands of British Columbians own their first home in Vancouver. Guest: Ravi Kahlon - Minister of Housing Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A crash that killed 2 people at a BC wedding only resulted in a $2k fine. Has the legal system let us down? Plus we open the phone lines to hear from listeners about their own car accident horror stories! What can we expect from Eby's speech at UBCM tomorrow? Finally, Miley Cyrus is being sued over claims that she stole parts of her song "Flowers" from Bruno Mars' hit "When I Was Your Man". Is there actually a case here, or is this just a money-grab? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The woman who was behind the wheel in a West Vancouver crash that left two people dead will not be criminally charged. Plus, we open the phone lines to hear about your auto horror stories! Guest: Greg Phillips - Trial Lawyers Association Vice President Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's time for our weekly travel segment with Claire Newell of Travel Best bets. The big story this week is a recently announced ETA (Electronic Travel Authorization) requirement for all Canadians travelling to the UK! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Simcoe woman is in a 'state of shock' after being charged with assault using a squirt-gun! BC’s New Car Dealers (NCDA) are highlighting issues that demand the attention of political parties and candidates because of their impact on consumers, the economy, and over 400 dealerships in communities across this province that employ some 30,000 British Columbians. The latest in BC politics with Richard Zussman! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We learn more about an incredible photo of a seal ‘caught’ in a humpback whale’s mouth off the coast of BC! Guest: Tomis Filipovic - Naturalist/Deckhand/Educator/Photographer, Eagle Wing Whale and Wildlife Tours Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Simcoe woman is in a 'state of shock' after being charged with assault using a squirt-gun! Guest: Ari Goldkind - Criminal Defence Lawyer, legal analyst and political commentator Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

British Columbia will be opening secure facilities to provide involuntary care under the Mental Health Act. Richard Zussman joins the show to discuss the impact of independents, involuntary care and what could be at stake at the Union of BC Municipalities (UBCM) Convention happening this week! Lastly, B.C. mayors, officials issue ‘urgent call to action’ on bail reform, public safety. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What does Apple launching new AI features mean for your privacy? Guest: Ann Cavoukian, Executive Director, Global Privacy & Security by Design Centre, Toronto Metropolitan University Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Parents are fighting for change after a 13-year-old girl dies in a BC homeless camp. The BC government is implementing the recommendations of an external review of the Forensic Psychiatric Hospital after one of its patients is allegedly stabbed three people in Vancouver while on unescorted leave. The Carbon Tax is turning out to be a major election issue! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices