This is Vancouver Island

B.C. worries about health funding shortfall

May 2, 2026·20 min
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Our political panel weighs in on the current state of the health care file given concerns over a drop in federal funding, and a possibly looming nurse's strike. Plus, they discuss tension over overlapping treaty claims and whether the province should try to keep the Vancouver Whitecaps in B.C. The panel is: Elizabeth Cull (former NDP cabinet minister), Andrew Reeve (former press secretary and deputy director of communications with the BC Liberal and BC United parties), and Adam Olsen (former Green Party MLA and member of the Tsartlip Nation), in conversation with CBC host Gregor Craigie. 

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