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Documentary. A history of the New Democratic Party in British Columbia. Includes interviews with Grace MacInnis, May Campbell, Claire McAllister, Phil Fawcett, Margaret Hobbs, David Reimer, and Bill Hartley.

Interview. Interview with former NDP Minister of Public Works Bill Hartley.

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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: 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 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: 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 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: Vancouver Mayor Mike Harcourt joins Jack to discuss the Premiership; Expo ’86; Cambie Street Bridge realignment; BC Place; prostitution. Jack reports on tape about the renovation of the Hotel Europe, 43 Powell Street in Gastown. He speaks to Andy Rocco, grandson of Angelo Calori, a Nanaimo coal miner and builder of the Europe. In the studio, Jack speaks with Marc Faquy, Director-General, Industrial Cooperation Programme, Canadian International Development Agency. Jack ends the show with "That's a Fair Question".

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Note: V1988:25/1242 not added due to sound tracking and video issues. Clem Chapple, BCTV News Hour, reports live from the Victoria Legislature, regarding legislation the government is trying to push through, in particular Bill 3. An exhausted Dave Barrett is interviewed about the night sittings. Premier Bennett interviewed regarding debate. Vancouver Mayor Mike Harcourt discusses Operation Solidarity, the possibility of a general strike, civil disobedience, Bills 2, 3, 7, 9, the City of Vancouver’s AAA credit rating, the destruction of the Office of the Rentalsman, elimination of the Human Rights Commission, the vindictiveness of the bills currently before the Legislature.

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

Beichman, Arnold
Rankin, Harry

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Jack starts the show speaking with Vancouver Mayor Mike Harcourt. They discuss cuts to Legal Aid; Bill King’s bid for the leadership of the NDP; Mr. Harcourt’s possible bid for the leadership; Expo ’86; BC Place Stadium; housing near the Expo site in False Creek; the Human Rights Commission and the Lone Star Motel. Jack opens the phone lines. Jack speaks with Paul St. Pierre, author, "Smith and Other Events; Tales of the Chilcotin"; they discuss his book and his life in politics.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Jack opens the show with Iona Campagnolo, Liberal Party President, discussing the party debt, Pierre Trudeau, BC politics, Brian Mulroney, and Ronald Reagan. Vancouver Mayor Mike Harcourt discusses co-operative housing and allegations made against it. Bill Kennedy, Executive Director, Housing and Urban Development Association of Canada, Greater Vancouver, joins Mr. Harcourt and Jack to dispute the value of co-operative housing. Jack and Paul Martin, politician and author of "A Very Public Life; Volume I”, discuss Mr. Martin’s life in politics from the 1930s to the 1960s.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Jack starts the show by interviewing Chuck Cook, MP North Vancouver/Burnaby, about federal politics; an article in the Montreal Gazette about Bryce Mackasey and his financial difficulties; Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and the need for a federal election. Jack welcomes Fred Trotter, President of the Office and Technical Employees Union (OTEU), the union that certified ICBC, BC Hydro, and the MTOC. They discuss the strikes involving BC Hydro gas workers and electrical workers and the lack of public awareness of this labour dispute. Jack interrupts Mr. Trotter briefly to go to Vancouver Mayor Mike Harcourt, and potential NDP leadership candidate. Mr. Harcourt has decided to run in the mayoralty race, rather than in the race for the leadership of the NDP. Jack returns to Fred Trotter and the BC Hydro strike.