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Public affairs. Jack Webster’s popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Update on Judge John Farris, former Chief Justice of BC now living in England after his departure, has applied for re-admission to the bar. A clip from Premier Bill Bennett’s press conference announcing BC Resources Investment Corporation (BCRIC) and the gifting of five shares to eligible British Columbians. Webster has a one-on-one interview after the press conference with Bennett and then goes through the proposal on his show. Interview with Dr. Nathan Divinsky, Chairman of the Vancouver School Board on the new budget and attrition; removal of sabbaticals; pay for summer school; ratio of students to teachers; Vice Principals teaching; supervisor aid program; English language curriculum; renting IBM computers; reduction of field trips; historic ESL courses; and enrichment programs for the gifted. Woman calls in and calls Webster a "pea-brain". Update on SFU strike, new offer of 6% over two years not accepted.

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.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are listed in the subject area, below.

Guests:
Davies, Brian
Holmes, Tom

Topics:
Schools--British Columbia--Surrey

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Jack goes to Centennial High School in Coquitlam and speaks to the students there. He speaks briefly about his own adolescence and wants to know what these young people think about the world today. They discuss politics, the media, patriotism, education, choice of careers, labour and unions, the changing structure of the family, drugs, sexual equality, thermonuclear war, running for political positions. Steve Wyatt reports on French immersion education. He speaks to Andy Talmanis, Principal of L’Ecole Bilingue and Judy Gibson, BC President, Parents for French.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: John Crosbie, Minister of Transport, talks about a new icebreaker that likely will be built in Vancouver by Versatile Pacific Shipyards, Inc. (VPSI). Tony Brummet, Minister of Education, and Bonnie Spence-Vinge, special education coordinator for the prevention of sexual abuse in the BC schools, talk about sexual abuse in schools.