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Webster! : 1978-11-27

Public affairs. Jack Webster’s popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Webster comments on the November 9th announcement of Chief Justice John Farris’s impending resignation and Webster's exclusive interview with alleged prostitute Wendy King and her lawyer Robert Gardner about the scandal. Interviews Pat McGeer, Minister of Education; ICBC and higher rates for bad drivers; rate removal of penalties for men under 25 years old; bonuses for women drivers; strike notice from ICBC employees. Associate producer Linda Dutka talks about next day’s guests.

Webster! : 1978-11-28

Public affairs. Jack Webster’s popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Brian Coxford visits William Head Medium Security Prison on Vancouver Island, or the William Head Country Club, as inmates refer to it. Interview with Arlie Bender, Director of William Head Prison. Inmate Bob Chamberland plays guitar and sings. Interview with the Birdman of William Head, inmate Frank Schlosse, as well as inmate Ted Walker. Camosun College programmes; training and education at the prison. Pierre Berton, discusses his 25th book “The Wild Frontier”. Other topics include; importance of archives; research on BC history; Cariboo Cameron from Barkerville; the Nootka and Captain Cook’s 200th anniversary. Webster takes calls about the previous day's show regarding the West Kootenay school dispute and interview with Pat McGeer, Minister of Education. Associate producer Linda Dutka talks about next day’s guests.

Webster! : 1978-11-30

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Webster talks on the phone with Education Minister Dr. Pat McGeer about a five-week school strike in West Kootenay and then questions Fred Pike, Chief Negotiator for Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), Phil Brooks, Citizen Association for Educational Rights, and Laura Lehman, a student and member of a Student Action Committee on the strike. NDP MP for New Westminster, Stu Leggatt, gives his opinion on the allegations of misconduct facing Chief Justice John Farris.

Webster! : 1978-12-01

Public affairs. Jack Webster’s popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Note: Start and end of programme missing. Brian Coxford with a live report from Nelson regarding a strike and lockout action at West Kootenay schools. Brian speaks with Tara Melnechuk, President, Students' Council, L.V. Rogers Secondary School, Nelson, and Gwyneth De Vries, President, Students' Council, Trafalgar Junior Secondary School, Nelson. Footage of a news conference held November 30, 1978 by Marc Lalonde, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, regarding Judge John Lauchlan Farris and allegations after a police investigation, including wire taps and photographs, indicated he consorted with prostitutes. Vic Stephens, lawyer and BC Tory leader discusses the Judge Farris and the Judge Benrod cases.

Webster! : 1979-01-17

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Jack interviews Dave O'Connor, president of the Truck Loggers Association, and Jack Munro, president of IWA for Western Canada, about logging companies doing a large-scale undercut of their lumber quota over the last six years without being penalized. Other issues are loss of jobs and revenue, mills being underused, allocating unused cuts to smaller timber companies, and the new Forest Act. Al Crawford, president of the Vancouver Elementary School Association and Tom Hanson, president of the Vancouver Secondary School Association, talk about the effects of cuts in the education system imposed by the Social Credit government. Issues covered are teacher/student ratios, teacher sabbaticals, school boards, and student needs. Show concludes with a tour of Mountain Prison and in-studio interview with reporter.

Webster! : 1986-10-13

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Issues facing BC in the upcoming election are discussed by Jack Davis, Social Credit incumbent in North Vancouver-Seymour, and then David Schreck, New Democratic Party candidate. Panel of four education experts including Elsie McMurphy, president of British Columbia Teachers’ Federation; John Waters, president of College Institute Educators’ Association; Marg Fartaczek, chairman of Canadian Federation of Students (Pacific Region); and Sidney Mindess, president of the Confederation of University Faculty Associations.

Webster! : 1986-12-08

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Jack talks with David Strangway, President of UBC, and Dr. William Saywell, President of Simon Fraser University. They discuss funding cuts; student aid; falling enrollment from students outside Victoria and Vancouver; changes in curriculum. Jack speaks with Jim Mercier, a local small employer, about a Human Rights challenge made by a woman who was not hired because she was pregnant. Jack speaks with Michael Hunter, President of the Fisheries Council of BC, about a boycott of Canadian fish in retaliation for the seal kill. Reporter Brian Rutledge on the disposition of the giant Expo ’86 hockey stick.