The Best of The Simi Sara Show - Thurs Jul 11th 2019

Chapter 1

🔥🔥 Hot question of the day 🔥🔥

Vote in @moneytalkstweet's 🔥 question of the day: do you think you’ll be able to hail a ride using Uber or Lyft by the end of this year?

Yes, at long last!

No, too restrictive

 

Chapter 2

Trevena: 'genuine excitement' about ridehailing coming to BC

In the last hour, Jon McComb spoke to Transport Minister, Claire Trevena, about the regulations her government has presented in relation to ridehailing. She hailed the safety elements in the regulations - but as McComb suggests, people are perhaps most interested in just having a service that works.

Mike speaks with the President and CEO of the BC Restaurant and Food Services Association.

Guest: Ian Tostenson

President and CEO of the BC Restaurant and Food Services Association

 

Chapter 3

What's the outlook for canada's economy is an economic recession likely?

There have been plenty of rumblings in the past week, with a poor outlook in the UK, and an inversion of the interest rates between 10-year and 3-month US Treasury bonds. What's the outlook for us here in Canada, and what does it mean for your pocket, your job, and your savings?

Guest: John Johnston

Executive Vice President & Chief Strategist for Davis Rea

 

Chapter 4

Jason Kenney promises to boost trade in Canada by scrapping a host of regulatory barriers

Trade and economic competitiveness was the main focus of the first day of the annual Council of the Federation, taking place in Saskatoon Wednesday and Thursday. This is the annual meeting of Canada’s provincial and territorial premiers. Jason Kenney promised to scrap a host of regulatory barriers in an effort to boost trade within Canada, and encouraged all other provinces to do the same.

Guest: Trevor Tombe 

Associate Professor of Economics, University of Calgary

 

Chapter 5

Some indigenous groups looking to use km ownership as an opportunity to alleviate poverty

Many idigenous groups that will be impacted by both the Kinder Morgan and Coastal Gaslink pipelines support the two pipelines as a way of alleviating poverty on their reserves. A bid by indigenous group Project Reconciliation to buy 51% of the Kinder Morgan Pipeline, outlines planes to direct 20 per cent of Trans Mountain’s estimated $180 million in future annual cash flow to shareholder communities while the rest would be used to create a sovereign wealth fund.

Guest: Shane Gottfriedson

B.C. Director of Project Reconciliation, and former Tk'emlups chief.

 

Chapter 6

Trevena: 'genuine excitement' about ridehailing coming to BC

Transport Minister, Claire Trevena, speaking to Jon McComb this morning about the excitement surrounding ride hailing and the regulations her government has presented.

Are Lyft excited? Let’s find out…

Guest: Aaron Zifkin

Managing Director for Lyft in Canada

 

Chapter 7

‘Cautious optimism’ as drug overdose deaths falls by 30pc, but 462 still dead in first five months of year

The BC Coroners Service says there is reason for cautious optimism. Drug overdose deaths are down.

The coroner says overall, we've had 462 deadly drug overdoses for the first five months of the year, down a full 30 percent from the same time last year. 

No deaths have been reported at supervised consumption or drug overdose prevention sites. Most of them happen at home.

So as the numbers of people dying falls, what strategies are being engaged to help reduce that number even further?

Guest: Dr. Jane Buxton

Harm reduction lead for the BC Centre for Disease Control

 

Chapter 8

Sources say RCMP opened file on Liberal MP whose firm facilitated real estate deals in B.C.

Global News has learned the RCMP opened a file on B.C. Liberal MP Joe Peschisolido after confidential police informants alleged the veteran politician had been knowingly associating with Chinese organized crime figures through his former real estate law practice in Richmond, B.C.

Global News learned of these allegations while investigating whether Peschisolido’s law firm was involved in secretive B.C. real estate development deals that involved an alleged Chinese “drug boss” in one case, and also a construction tycoon from China alleged to have been involved in a “transnational money laundering” probe in B.C. Lottery Corp. casinos.

These transactions at Peschisolido’s law firm involved so-called “bare trusts” — a controversial service that is legal, but has harmed B.C.’s housing market because the trusts can allow money launderers to anonymously invest in real estate assets, according to critics including B.C.’s Attorney General David Eby.

Peschisolido has acknowledged that lawyers at his former law firm — which was taken over to be wound down by the B.C. Law Society this year — did complete bare trust deals. However Peschisolido has insisted these lawyers were independent contractors and that he never oversaw or personally completed any bare trust real estate deals.

Guest: Sam Cooper

Global News Investigative Reporter

Chapter 1

🔥🔥 Hot question of the day 🔥🔥

Vote in @moneytalkstweet's 🔥 question of the day: do you think you’ll be able to hail a ride using Uber or Lyft by the end of this year?

Yes, at long last!
No, too restrictive

 

Chapter 2

Trevena: 'genuine excitement' about ridehailing coming to BC

In the last hour, Jon McComb spoke to Transport Minister, Claire Trevena, about the regulations her government has presented in relation to ridehailing. She hailed the safety elements in the regulations - but as McComb suggests, people are perhaps most interested in just having a service that works.

Mike speaks with the President and CEO of the BC Restaurant and Food Services Association.

Guest: Ian Tostenson

President and CEO of the BC Restaurant and Food Services Association

 

Chapter 3

What's the outlook for canada's economy is an economic recession likely?

There have been plenty of rumblings in the past week, with a poor outlook in the UK, and an inversion of the interest rates between 10-year and 3-month US Treasury bonds. What's the outlook for us here in Canada, and what does it mean for your pocket, your job, and your savings?

Guest: John Johnston

Executive Vice President & Chief Strategist for Davis Rea

 

Chapter 4

Jason Kenney promises to boost trade in Canada by scrapping a host of regulatory barriers

Trade and economic competitiveness was the main focus of the first day of the annual Council of the Federation, taking place in Saskatoon Wednesday and Thursday. This is the annual meeting of Canada’s provincial and territorial premiers. Jason Kenney promised to scrap a host of regulatory barriers in an effort to boost trade within Canada, and encouraged all other provinces to do the same.

Guest: Trevor Tombe 

Associate Professor of Economics, University of Calgary

 

Chapter 5

Some indigenous groups looking to use km ownership as an opportunity to alleviate poverty

Many idigenous groups that will be impacted by both the Kinder Morgan and Coastal Gaslink pipelines support the two pipelines as a way of alleviating poverty on their reserves. A bid by indigenous group Project Reconciliation to buy 51% of the Kinder Morgan Pipeline, outlines planes to direct 20 per cent of Trans Mountain’s estimated $180 million in future annual cash flow to shareholder communities while the rest would be used to create a sovereign wealth fund.

Guest: Shane Gottfriedson

B.C. Director of Project Reconciliation, and former Tk'emlups chief.

 

Chapter 6

Trevena: 'genuine excitement' about ridehailing coming to BC

Transport Minister, Claire Trevena, speaking to Jon McComb this morning about the excitement surrounding ride hailing and the regulations her government has presented.

Are Lyft excited? Let’s find out…

Guest: Aaron Zifkin

Managing Director for Lyft in Canada

 

Chapter 7

‘Cautious optimism’ as drug overdose deaths falls by 30pc, but 462 still dead in first five months of year

The BC Coroners Service says there is reason for cautious optimism. Drug overdose deaths are down.

The coroner says overall, we've had 462 deadly drug overdoses for the first five months of the year, down a full 30 percent from the same time last year. 

No deaths have been reported at supervised consumption or drug overdose prevention sites. Most of them happen at home.

So as the numbers of people dying falls, what strategies are being engaged to help reduce that number even further?

Guest: Dr. Jane Buxton

Harm reduction lead for the BC Centre for Disease Control

 

Chapter 8

Sources say RCMP opened file on Liberal MP whose firm facilitated real estate deals in B.C.

Global News has learned the RCMP opened a file on B.C. Liberal MP Joe Peschisolido after confidential police informants alleged the veteran politician had been knowingly associating with Chinese organized crime figures through his former real estate law practice in Richmond, B.C.

Global News learned of these allegations while investigating whether Peschisolido’s law firm was involved in secretive B.C. real estate development deals that involved an alleged Chinese “drug boss” in one case, and also a construction tycoon from China alleged to have been involved in a “transnational money laundering” probe in B.C. Lottery Corp. casinos.

These transactions at Peschisolido’s law firm involved so-called “bare trusts” — a controversial service that is legal, but has harmed B.C.’s housing market because the trusts can allow money launderers to anonymously invest in real estate assets, according to critics including B.C.’s Attorney General David Eby.

Peschisolido has acknowledged that lawyers at his former law firm — which was taken over to be wound down by the B.C. Law Society this year — did complete bare trust deals. However Peschisolido has insisted these lawyers were independent contractors and that he never oversaw or personally completed any bare trust real estate deals.

Guest: Sam Cooper

Global News Investigative Reporter