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Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Webster interviews three anonymous compulsive gamblers about the impact of their addiction on their lives. Harry Atkinson, Director of Debtor Assistance Branch, discusses what people can do to get out of debt and their rights and obligations.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Bob Skelly, leader of the BC New Democratic Party (NDP) talks about Premier Bill Bennett's throne speech and what the NDP would do to fix the province’s problems. In a taped video segment Webster goes to the Great Canadian Casino where the casino is letting a college hold a casino night with the gambling proceeds shared between the college and the casino. Dr. Mary Keyes, Director of the McMaster School of Physical Education, discusses fitness and the Canadian Summit on Fitness. John T. Stewart, Director of the North Shore Counselling Centre, talks about the services the centre provides and the need for funding. Hunky Bill Konyk, who sells perogies from a booth at the PNE, appears on the show to feed Jack and to promote an upcoming party for people from Manitoba, his prior home.

SUMMARY: "Heritage Theatre" was a series of short historical plays set in the Vancouver environs. These vignettes illustrate some of the significant events and interesting episodes from Vancouver's earliest ti;mes. First broadcast in 1977, the plays were made in co-operation with the Social Planning Department of the City of Vancouver. This series was broadcast during the summer of 1981. This episode, "The ;Floating Crap Game" by John Wiesenfeld, takes a look at gambling on BC ferries.;

The series consists of Attorney General correspondence regarding C95 (criminal prosecutions). Some files date from as early as 1938 but the bulk of the series is from 1966-1970. Note: Some information has been severed from this finding aid in accordance with the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. Where information has been removed, this is indicated by the following annotation [severed]. APPENDIX 'A' CRIMINAL PROSECUTIONS C 95 Case Charge/Court site 3 general 4 drunk driving 5 hanging 6 offensive weapons 7 stenographer accounts 8 gambling 9 suggested prosecutions 10 statistics 11 salacious literature 12 Court of Appeal 13 Assizes 15 Cranbrook Assize 16 Kamloops Assize 17 Nanaimo Assize 18 Nelson Assize 19 New Westminster Assize 20 Pouce Coupe Assize 21 Prince George Assize 22 Prince Rupert Assize 23 Quesnel 25 Vancouver Assize 26 Vernon Assize 27 Victoria Assize 28 Williams Lake Assize, formerly C98-24 29 Transfer from other provinces 30 Order-in-Council Patient Review Board

The series consists of the commission appointing Hugh Archibald Maclean to investigate the Eureka, Chess, Elks, Union, Playgoers and Railway Porters Clubs (1905). Records include the Commissioner's report (1905), transcript of evidence (1905) and exhibits presented. Exhibits include six minute or record books of the Eureka, Chess and Elks clubs dated 1901-1905.