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News items. Off-air recordings of news items, reports and special programs dealing with Expo '86 events from March 1983 to May 1986.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: On the very first episode of his popular weekday morning TV talk show, Jack Webster speaks with Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau in a taped interview. There are also pieces on the Vancouver Courthouse and a visit with Konditorei owner, Heinz Hebel. Associate Producer Linda Dutka talks about the next day's guests.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Note: Tape change issues. Bill Rathie, candidate for Vancouver mayor, announces his campaign promises including amalgamating Vancouver with neighbouring towns, reducing the number of public servants, and stopping the construction of major civic works. Jim Kinnaird, president of the BC and Yukon Building Trades Council, discusses the BC Labour Relations Board’s arbitration decision that compulsory retirement was in violation of the Human Rights Code.

Public affairs. Jack Webster’s popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Note: Final extra half hour not recorded. Jack speaks with Frank Walden, CUPW National Director, Western Region, and Lloyd Ingram, President CUPW Vancouver, about the current Canada Post labour dispute and possible strike action after eighteen months of negotiations. They discuss working conditions, a 50% turnover rate, automation, Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) clause. Vancouver Mayor Bill Rathie appears in a short film clip about the Vancouver City Council.

Public affairs. Jack Webster’s popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Interview with Simma Holt, Liberal MP, Vancouver Kingsway. Topics include Pierre Trudeau; the right to strike; postal strike; industry protection; CRTC; the Broadcasting Act; capital punishment; election. Jack Webster’s “Items”, include a look at Stanley Park signage with Bert Brakewell from Vancouver Parks Board, and local opinions from Sidney Hattenstone, Clarice Couman, and Tom Reed. Oakalla Women’s Prison; the Proudfoot Inquiry; reviewing Robson Square Courthouse and Art Gallery.

Public affairs. Jack Webster’s popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Webster comments on prostitution in Vancouver and interviews prostitutes. Topics; why and how started in the business; personal safety; the Vancouver Police; soliciting laws; taxes; pimps; abuse; drug and alcohol abuse. Webster comments on the new criminal code for solicitation and the Debra Hutt case and judgment; the definition of 'solicit'. American prostitutes; pimps; deportation; and working in Canada. Associate producer Linda Dutka talks about next day’s guests.

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.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Note: Last half hour not recorded. Jack looks at the recent spate of arson-related fires in Vancouver, and interviews insurance adjuster W. Blair Gillies. In a pre-recorded segment Webster interviews Shelagh Day, a government equal opportunity officer. Shelagh's job was abolished and she feels she was the victim of a wrongful dismissal.

Public affairs. On his popular weekday morning talk show, Jack Webster continues the discussion about the recent spate of arsons in Vancouver. He interviews Ron Kassell and Brent Atkinson, the president and vice-president of the Insurance Agents Association of B.C.

Public affairs. On his popular weekday morning talk show, Jack Webster introduces segments about the Nancy Varhaug traffic death case and about moonlighting firemen (with Teamsters representative Doug McLeod); and interviews Dr. Guy Richmond, author of "Shadows of a Violent Mind".

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Vancouver alderman Harry Rankin talks about the planned Vancouver light rapid transit system. Sir Edwin Leather, author of "The Mozart Score", talks about his background, his book and current affairs. In the Edwin Leather interview, the video starts breaking up and goes blank for about 5 seconds. It re-starts and the interview continues. Jean Douglas, Vice-President of Consumers' Association of Canada, talks about the association.

Public affairs. Jack Webster’s popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Vancouver Alderman Mike Harcourt, speaks with constituents on Georgia Street, and in the studio talks about his run for Mayor (NDP); non-profit housing development; social planning department; grants; public opinion; the federal election; rapid transit; stadium; PNE. Webster speaks with Clive Cocking about his book entitled "Following the Leaders: A Media Watcher's Dairy of Campaign '79" and journalist Alan Fotheringham; Joe Clark.

Public affairs. Jack Webster’s popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Jack interviews Svend Robinson, M.P. Burnaby, about Chilean refugee Galindo Madrid in a response to Doug Collins’s views and articles. Other topics include the legitimacy of refugee claim; arrest and torture in Chile; Immigration Appeal Board; the Chilean Government; Vietnamese ‘boat people’; sanctuary; deportation; articles in the Toronto Globe and Mail, and the Toronto Sun. Clips from Doug Collins about the Madrid case from September 11, 1979. Galindo Madrid answers questions through an interpreter and phone lines are opened. Webster speaks with Jack Munro, IWA President, topics include resolution on picket lines; PPWC picketing when not on strike; Canadian Council of Unions; natural resources. Associate Producer Linda Dutka talks about the next day's guests.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Jack broadcasts a recorded interview with environmentalist Paul Watson. Then he is in the studio with Dr. George Pedersen, President of Simon Fraser University, and Dr. Gordon Shrum, for a discussion on post-secondary institutions and the 15th birthday of SFU. Chief of Vancouver Police Don Winterton announces his impending retirement via phone call. Steve Wyatt reports on Vancouver’s organized crime and Chinese gangs.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Jack shows a clip of Sally Fotheringham. Jack speaks to Vancouver mayoralty candidate Alderman Mike Harcourt. Author Kenneth Macksey discusses his book “Invasion: The German Invasion of England July 1940”. Jack chats with Nana Mouskouri.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Jack opens with a breaking Vancouver story about a sniper in the West End. Reporter Steve Wyatt interviews Vancouver Police Department officer, Corporal Grant Driver, in hospital. A report from the area by reporter Anton Koschany follows. In the studio, Jack speaks with Committee of Progressive Electors’s Harry Rankin and Bruce Eriksen about Vancouver civic politics and upcoming civic election. Ruth Lotzkar and Betty Therriault of the Consumer Association of Canada discuss the removal of price tags on food items with the advent of scanning, pressing for the return of individual pricing on items.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Jack speaks to Jack Kempf, M.L.A., Omenica (S.C.) about whether Mr. Kempf will cross the floor. Dr. Nathan Divinsky, Chairman of the Vancouver School Board and Aldermanic candidate for N.P.A. talks about the erroneous hire of 50 extra teachers for the Vancouver School Board; his work with the school board, and his run for alderman. T.E.A.M. candidate for alderman and businessman Harry Hammer appears to discuss his platform. Jack does a small remote piece with Russ Fraser, Vancouver Parks Board Chairman. Anton Koschany does a piece about a North Vancouver fire hall wanting to expropriate a homeowners property.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: The Vancouver mayoral election. Jack speaks to incumbent Jack Volrich; Mike Harcourt, Independent candidate; Martin Zlotnick T.E.A.M. candidate; David Ingram, Independent candidate; Frank Helden, Independent candidate. Anton Koschany reports on the new scanning technology for bar codes at grocery stores. Jack interviews Georgina Bullen, Public Affairs Manager for Canada Safeway, and Terry Dawes, a Safeway manager about the introduction of the new system in their stores.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Jack speaks with Vancouver’s new mayor, Mike Harcourt, and gives a brief run down of the local election. Brian Smith, Minister of Education, discusses uses of school buildings and plans for education in the province. Stuart Keate, former Vancouver Sun publisher, talks about the lack of independent newspapers and speaks about his book, “Paper Boy”. Steve Wyatt reports on the restoration of North Vancouver Catholic church, St. Paul’s, built in 1884. Steve speaks to Councillor Simon Baker of the Squamish Band.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Jack discusses housing: shows a film clip from October 30, 1978, in which he speaks to Marie-Josee Drouin and Herman Kahn, two members of the Hudson Institute; a film clip from January 13, 1981, of an interview with Nelson Skalbania; reports from BCTV reporters Neale Adams and Clive Jackson, regarding house prices in the Lower Mainland; Christine Hearn reports from Ottawa on housing prices there. In the studio, Jack speaks with Michael Walker of the Fraser Institute, and Walter Block, Senior Economist for the Fraser Institute. Bill Vander Zalm, Minister of Municipal Affairs, talks about the A.L.R. announcement and whether or not he is in a conflict of interest over his own property being released from the A.L.R. Mr. Vander Zalm details his land holdings.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: BC Finance Minister Hugh Curtis and Jack discuss the pros and cons of Mr. Curtis’s “bad news budget”. Dave Stupich, NDP Finance Critic discusses his views on the new budget. Mike Harcourt telephones in about Crofton Manor in Kerrisdale.

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

Granville Mall (Vancouver, B.C.)
Vancouver City Hall

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Jack holds a town hall meeting with Mayor Mike Harcourt. The agenda includes to clean or not to clean City Hall and Granville Mall; equal pay for firefighters; breaking the GVRD – CUPE deadlock; whatever became of Pier B.C.; whatever became of Crofton Manor; ALRT – GVRD, VDZ – PDQ. Jack speaks to Josh Freed, author of “Moon Webs”, a book about the “Moonies” and the Reverend Sun Myung Moon.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Note: Sound recording is faint. Jack starts the show with Dave Brown, purchaser of Sir John Ford, the Royal High Commissioner’s, Rolls Royce; Jack revisits the story later in the programme. Jack speaks with Mike Harcourt, with a review of Mayor Harcourt’s first year in office: Pier BC and the Vancouver Convention Centre and BC Place Stadium. Steve Wyatt reports on a man who became a quadriplegic after a car accident in Cranbrook in the summer and his efforts to return to Ontario to be with his wife and family. As a result of an earlier story, he was returned home without cost. Steve also does an update on the Murchie Mobile. John Crispo appears to review the year in politics. An artist brings a clay sculpture of Jack as a Christmas gift for him. Jack does a year in review with film clips.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Note: V1988:25/0874 half hour tape was recorded first. Vancouver Mayor Mike Harcourt discusses road and bridge plans surrounding BC Place Stadium; the Ward system; Jack and the Mayor take calls. Steve Wyatt reports on a problem at and near CFB Comox with beaver dams causing flooding on the base and environs; Steve talks to the base manager, a local farmer and a local real estate salesman. Jack on tape with "The Electric Man".

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

Royer, Charles
Volrich, Jack

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Vancouver mayor Mike Harcourt talks about a potential short fall in city finances, and refutes Jonathon Baker’s allegations. Steve Wyatt files a short report about taxes paid by a Vancouver racquet ball club. Kelly Heed, Senior Vice President of Macaulay Nicolls Maitland and Company, speaks with Jack about BC real estate. Jack then speaks with author George MacDonald Fraser, about his series of books about “Flashman”.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Note: Segment missing. Jack hosts a Vancouver civic election special. He starts by speaking with Mayor Mike Harcourt and Jonathan Baker, the NPA candidate. Then Jack speaks with council candidates: Harry Rankin, COPE; Warnett Kennedy, NPA; Helen Boyce, Independent; George Puil, NPA; Bruce Eriksen, COPE; Marguerite Ford, TEAM; Bruce Yorke, COPE; May Brown, TEAM; Nathan Divinsky, TEAM; Libby Davies, COPE; Phillip Owen; Carole Walker, NDP; Don Bellamy, Independent.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: In light of the civic election, Jack interviews Vancouver Mayor Mike Harcourt and mayoral candidate Jonathan Baker. They discuss the four day work week at Vancouver City Hall, negotiations with the Vancouver Police union, Vancouver Symphony funding, BC Place, and the Cambie Street Bridge. Norm Stewart, a lawyer for General Motors and also chairman of “What is a Letter?” Committee, leading a revolt against Canada Post as a monopoly. Mark Schneider reports from an aerobics class.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Note: Glitch at about 50:00 mark, closing segment missing. Jack discusses religion with Gopal Krishna Goswami, Guru, Society for Krishna Consciousness. The following people all appear on the show to discuss the potential environmental damage from a coal mine near Campbell River: Jim O'Rourke, President, Quinsam Coal; Gary Young, Eileen Smith, Save Our Salmon Coalition; Ralph Neilson, FACTS Fish and Coal Together Society. Jack does a man on the street from the 600 block of Alexander Street, Vancouver, where brothels were once located. BCTV reporter Harvey Oberfeld reports on the recent NDP crisis regarding decriminalization of prostitution and repeal of the bawdy house laws.