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For the week of April 21, 2024:

For several hours on April 13, the world watched and wondered: what next for the Middle East and beyond?

While Israel’s war on the Iran-backed Hamas terrorists drags on in Gaza, Iran directly attacked Israel for the first time. The ally of China and Russia fired missiles and drones at the Jewish state, in retaliation for Israel’s April 1 bombing of Iran’s consulate in Syria, which killed seven Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps members. 

A politician from Vancouver Island happened to be there. Colwood city councillor Ian Ward was near the end of a trip to meet survivors and visit sites of the Oct. 7 massacre.

Ward is Bob Mackin’s guest on this edition of thePodcast.

Plus, this week’s Pacific Rim and Pacific Northwest headlines. 

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For the week of April 14, 2024:

The spring phase of public hearings in the Foreign Interference Inquiry is over. 

The climax came April 10 when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau testified about evidence the Chinese Communist Party meddled in the 2019 and 2021 elections. Commissioner Marie-Josee Hogue’s May 3 interim report deadline is rapidly approaching. The final report is due at the end of the year. 

Kenny Chiu, the Steveston-Richmond East Conservative MP from 2019 to 2021, testified April 3 about the disinformation campaign on Chinese-language social media that led to his defeat. 

Chiu is Bob Mackin’s guest on this edition of thePodcast.

“I’m glad at least, after the Rosenberg report, after David Johnston trying to sweep it under the carpet, we now have Judge Hogue, who seemed to understand the importance of this. She impressed me by changing her mind and granting access to witnesses, interrogation of witnesses, to parties that are are not full participants,” Chiu said.

“Her change of heart has told me that she is serious about getting to the bottom of this. But unfortunately, as you have also mentioned, that she is under an nearly impossible schedule.”

Hear the full interview on this edition. 

Plus, this week’s Pacific Rim and Pacific Northwest headlines. 

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For the week of April 7, 2024:

The MMA panel returns to thePodcast to wrap-up the first quarter of 2024 and look ahead to the next. 

Join host Bob Mackin with guests Mario Canseco, president of Research Co, and Andy Yan, director of the Simon Fraser University city program, as they discuss the Vancouver, B.C. and federal political leaders, parties and trends that shaped early 2024. 

Plus, the Sin Bin and this week’s Pacific Rim and Pacific Northwest headlines. 

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