Justin McElroy

I don't know if...

They've done this before, if I just forgot, but they had kind of the panel live streams with reporters at various election parties across the province going to Justin McElroy regularly for the nerdy, wonky analysis.

He mentioned that he's going to have to update his municipality song with the incorporation of Okanagan Falls and its first election ever.

This cycle, they had a panel with former mayor of Coquitlam, Richard Stewart, Haselem, and a former Surrey city councilor whose name escapes me at the moment.

And so I look forward to seeing whatever happens there.

I'm sure it will be great.

I think Justin McElroy's take on it was the incumbent counselors were the problem.

And I think Talon had taken over after one of the previous mayors had been like... too dysfunctional to continue and he'd actually stepped aside and there were by-elections.

It's

not clear how anybody could, you know, we'll leave it to the Justin McElroy's of the world to break it down and see how much they think it's real.

But there's room in there to make further announcements, of course, because we've got days to go.

And Some of these announcements, I don't know, I haven't looked at that document closely, but, you know, they make assumptions that would be hard to work out at cost.

I think it's fair to say overtly hostile to Sim.

It was a rough interview and no softballs whatsoever.

But one of the questions that came up was Justin McElroy checking on Sim's facts around money and financing and taxes.

Very hard to say how it's going and also hard to say whether Pete Fry has been able to add the cope mayoralty vote and the one city mayoralty vote to his own tally, because although he's been tied or slightly in the lead, he hasn't been growing and taking off.

And so what does that tell us about ABC's strategy in the final week of the civic election campaign, and how effective might that strategy be? I'm Stephen Quinn.

And I'm Justin McElroy.

And you're listening to This Is Vancouver.

[upbeat music] Well, the final stretch of an election campaign can bring all sorts of surprises.

So that is the full advertisement from ABC Vancouver, and it draws on one of the biggest political controversies at Vancouver City Hall over the past 18 months.

Its release comes at a crucial point in the campaign as the parties are making their final push to win over voters.

And so why is ABC revisiting this controversy now? And why try to link Pete Fry to Sean Orr? Well, for those questions and more, we are joined by the CBC's Justin McElroy.

Hello.

I'm just looking here.

I believe it was Justin McElroy with CBC that asked the premier about this on the weekend.

This is on Saturday.

Let's take a listen.

to do you one better.

I'm going to get, I'm going to get with the Bozart bill guy, Justin McElroy, and I'm going to get a custom colored New York Mets Bozart build hat and send that to you.

I feel like that could be some kind of like copyright infringement.

It's just the colors.

And so where do they stand on the issues facing the city and who will come out on top? I'm Stephen Quinn.

And I'm Justin McElroy.

And you're listening to This Is Vancouver.

Well, it is the end of an era in Richmond, B.C. Mayor Malcolm Brodie is not running for re-election.

Cash, good morning to you.

Good morning.

Now joining us to help moderate this debate is our municipal affairs reporter, Justin McElroy.

Justin, how are you holding up?