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.

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Craig, William
Donaldson, Wally
Edwards, Fred
Larson, Dick
Rankin, Harry

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Jack starts with a chat live from Robson Square Media Centre with Vancouver Mayor Mike Harcourt about Mr. Harcourt’s opposition to Henry Kissinger making an appearance in Vancouver. Jack addresses the lockout of 14,000 CPU and PPWC members. He welcomes Art Gruntman, Regional Vice President of the Canadian Pulp Union (CPU) and James Sloan, President of the Pulp Paper and Woodworkers of Canada (PPWC). They discuss the lockout, the negotiations and the stalemate. Jack contacts Don Saunders, President of FIR and the Pulp and Paper Industrial Relations Bureau, who had refused to appear on the show today with his opponents in the negotiations, Mr. Gruntman and Mr. Sloan. Jack then speaks with Dr. Irving Abella, author of “None is Too Many”, a book about the anti-Semitism of Mackenzie King’s government from 1939 to 1945. To end the show, Jack speaks with Arthur Jennings, MP for Fiji, who speaks about the United Nations owing $10 million to his country for policing in Lebanon and the Sinai.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Steve Wyatt reports from a helicopter over Pemberton, looking at the flood damage from the Pemberton River. Jack shows a film clip of Bill Vander Zalm from the previous week, wherein Bill accuses members of the Vancouver city council of being Communists. Jack then speaks with Alderman Harry Rankin (COPE), and Alderman Bruce Eriksen about Vander Zalm’s “red-baiting” and various peace initiatives undertaken by the council. Mr. Rankin calls Vander Zalm’s views “Christian fascism”. Jack speaks with Joe Mathias, Chief of the Squamish Band, and David Jacobs, Chairman, Squamish Band Council, about the band’s refusal to allow non-Indigenous fishing on a portion of the Capilano River. They also discuss the use of Ambleside Park, and land in Stanley Park.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Jack starts the show with a story about the Vancouver mayoral race. In the studio, Jack meets with the candidates, incumbent Mike Harcourt and Bill Vander Zalm. Jack introduces candidates Kentish Steele, Mel Rykman, and Elmer Bell, who was unable to join the broadcast. The topics raised: Light Rail Transit and how it’s going to be financed, city council, taxes, Expo, and cost cutting at Vancouver city hall. Kentish Steele and Mel Rykman discuss their own ideas about how best to run Vancouver.

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Owen, Phillip
Smith, Robert
Swanson, Jean
Vickers, David
Yee, Bill

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Jack speaks with media critic and journalist Barry Zwicker regarding managed news and the end of the media’s honeymoon with the new Prime Minister, the possible conflict of interest in personal relationships between politicians and members of the media, Brian Mulroney's policies, and the media’s reaction to him. They discuss the Soviet Union, Canadian newspapers, Canadian television, and the Centre for Investigative Journalism. Richard Dunhill, Chairman of Dunhill, London, discusses pipes and accoutrements, and Jack admires several pieces Mr. Dunhill brought with him. Jack speaks with three Vancouver aldermanic candidates, Gordon Campbell, NPA, May Brown, TEAM, Bruce Yorke, COPE, and they discuss their various parties’ platforms.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Note: Segment 7 interrupted by tape change. Jack talks to Svend Robinson, NDP Justice critic, about the CIA targeting Canada in the 1970's for key economic information. Jack talks to Douglas Roche, the newly-appointed Disarmament Ambassador, and to Pauline Jewett, NDP External Affairs critic, about voting against the nuclear freeze. Jack talks to COPE’s Bruce Yorke and NDP Philip Owen about the municipal by-election in Vancouver.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Jack speaks to the newly re-elected Vancouver Mayor, Mike Harcourt. Jack questions Mr. Harcourt about the by-election between Phillip Owen of the NPA and Bruce Yorke of the Harcourt/COPE coalition. Jack speaks with Bob Wenman, Parliamentary Secretary of Defence and Fraser Valley West MP, about military contracts with the Department of National Defence in the United States. Jack speaks with Harry Rankin, former treasurer and Bencher of the Law Society of BC, about his thoughts on the Clifford Olsen trust fund; $100,000 for bodies and evidence, put into the trust fund for Clifford Olsen’s wife, Joan. Mrs. Olsen and two lawyers, McNeney and Shantz, are now being held liable due to a debate about where the funds should have gone, and if they should have been offered in the first place. To end the show, Jack speaks with the manager of the BC Archives’ Emily Carr Gallery in Victoria, Kerry Mason Dodd, who has written a book about Carr called “Sunlight in the Shadows: The Landscape of Emily Carr”.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: On today’s show, Jack speaks with Graham Bruce, Mayor of North Cowichan, and Don McMullen, Chairman of the Silviculture Advisory Committee, about the future of forestry on Vancouver Island. They have a business investment proposal to cultivate BC’s forests, protecting the forest and providing employment and investment opportunities. Newly-elected Alderman Gordon Campbell discusses Vancouver Mayor Mike Harcourt and Vancouver City Council. They discuss Mr. Campbell’s political aspirations; disagreements with Mr. Harcourt regarding the Vancouver Economic Advisory Committee; the change in the business tax; Vancouver City Council.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Jack starts the show with Alderman Harry Rankin to discuss a recent kidnap and murder of the Ming family in Vancouver’s Chinatown, the investigation, and the prevention of other crimes in the future. They also discuss refugees, immigration and screening. Jack and Professor Bill McKillop, forest economist of the University of California at Berkley, discuss threats to the BC forest industry by the United States; countervailing duties; tariffs; whole-log exports; reforestation and silviculture. Then a story about Cyprus, with Christopher Hitchens and Professor Pierre Oberling, of Hunter College, New York. They discuss the current political climate, and the “two faces” of Cyprus; the Greeks and the Turks.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Today’s show is about refugees and crime, in particular, the murder of the Ming family in Vancouver’s Chinatown. Reporter Mark Schneider has a short piece on the “underground railroad” of Vietnamese refugees coming into Canada. Jack starts the show with Vancouver Mayor Mike Harcourt and his view that the murders were committed by Vietnamese gangsters. Jack speaks with Bruce Ngoc Tran, of the Association of Vietnamese Refugees. Mr. Tran states that Mr. Harcourt has no reason to suspect members of the Vietnamese community, and Mr. Harcourt is committing slander. Jack speaks with the Reverend Donovan Cook, of Seattle’s University Baptist Church, and Charles Groos, of the Inland Refugee Society; they discuss refugee Salvadorans and Guatemalans seeking sanctuary.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Opens with Mike Harcourt, Vancouver's mayor, discussing the issues of juvenile prostitution in Vancouver, Bill C-49, and municipal affairs. Jack interviews Paul Grescoe and David Cruise, authors of “The Money Rustlers”, about self-made millionaires.

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McMillan, Tom
Rankin, Harry
Wiley, Charles

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Jack speaks to Vancouver Mayor Mike Harcourt about Mr. Harcourt’s plans for the future; possible tax increases; the COPE sweep of the local elections; immigration; Expo ’86; the Super Host Program; Vancouver transit. Dr. Hilary Wass, AIDS Care Team, St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, discusses: AIDS in Vancouver; the delineation of various forms of the virus; transmission of the virus; treatment. To close the show, Mark Schneider’s report on “Accommodation Only”; a company encouraging people using their own homes for bed and breakfasts for Expo and the lack of insurance coverage available.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Jack speaks with aldermen Harry Rankin, George Puil, Gordon Campbell; they are all expected to run for mayor of Vancouver and discuss their possible platforms. Jack speaks with Dr. Roger Tonkin, Director of the Youth Clinic at Children’s Hospital. They talk about troubled youth and how BC young people compare against the rest of the country; the use of alcohol, tobacco and marijuana; violence.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Jack starts with Jim Fulton, NDP MP for Skeena, who was thrown out of the House of Commons for calling Erik Nielsen a liar. They discuss logging Lyell Island; tree farm licences; mismanagement of the forests; full park status for South Moresby; first nations land claims; reforestation. Then, a report on the lack of public or social housing in Vancouver. Jack speaks with Vancouver Alderman Libby Davies and Jim O’Dea, a consultant for the Downtown Eastside Residents Association (DERA) and former member of the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC). At the end of the segment, Jack Kempf, Minister of Housing, joins the conversation. To close, journalist Ian Gill discusses the Centre for Investigative Journalism and the threat of rescinding invitations to South African journalists.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Note: Program starts in progress. Jack speaks with Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. They discuss west coast shipyards; unemployment; countervailing duties; Mr. Mulroney’s popularity; John Bosley, the Speaker of the House; Dalton Camp’s appointment; Sinclair Stevens and conflicts of interest; Margaret Thatcher and apartheid; Tamil refugees. Jack speaks with NPA aldermanic candidate Gim Huey, and his success on the ballot.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Carole Taylor, Non-Partisan Association (NPA), City of Vancouver Independent candidate for Vancouver alderman; Robin Lecky; Art Phillips; property endowment fund; Harry Rankin; prostitution barricades; Capital Plan for Vancouver; Vancouver Zoo; food bank; Sylvia Russell; Expo 86 pilings in False Creek. Newsmakers Match. Karen Owens, nutritional biochemist from California; smoking; smoking in the workplace; second-hand smoke and lung cancer; free-radicals; tryptophan for insomnia; racket ball; ventilation; UCLA; UC Davis; vitamin E; pollution; Pritikin Diet. Aboriginal land claims; Kootenay West Indian Bands; Sophie Pierre, chief of St. Mary's Band Cranbrook, Kootenay Nation; Kootenay area land claim; economic conditions; unemployment; quality of life; Charter of Rights and the Indian Act; lack of freedom; cultural survival; language; recognition; reserve lands; five bands; housing; Kootenay Indian area council; forestry dispute language. Jack Munro, President, International Woodworkers Association-Canada; Justice Hutcheon Report; Crown forest; contracting out; strike; election.