Podcasts about Vancouver, British Columbia

Robert Hogue of RBC telling Vancouver Real Estate Podcast that new condo starts are close to zero because investors have left, and Canucks Conversation asking whether the next front office will stay aligned with a rebuild that will take years: those are the conversations that carry the Vancouver listening on this page. Housing and the Canucks between them take up more of the feed than anything else, and both get argued the same way, by people close to the thing who doubt the people running it have a plan. Around them sit a consumer-affairs desk, a metal show on community radio, local band interviews, a tech interview series dated 2017 to 2020, and two pieces of fiction set in the city.

What Vancouver is

Vancouver is the largest city in British Columbia, on Canada's Pacific coast, set between Burrard Inlet and the Fraser River with the North Shore mountains across the water. It is Canada's busiest port, one of the country's most expensive housing markets, and the centre of the Lower Mainland, the metropolitan region around it. The Canucks are its NHL team.

Housing, rates and the province's books

The largest group of shows here is filed under Business & Finance / Real Estate, and Vancouver Real Estate Podcast treats the market as politics as much as price. Adam and Matt sound, in the show's own audio, like real estate operators talking shop in public, loose and fast, sliding from a trivia bit into debt-service ratios. In the clip with Trevor Hargreaves, the guest argues the province is broke, the public service has ballooned under the NDP, and new taxes on building homes fix nothing while deficits stay in the multi-billions; a host asks whether that is a lack of imagination or ideology. A reposted conversation with Squamish Nation councillor Khelsilem Tl'aḵwasik̓a̱n covers how an 11-tower, 6,000-unit project near Burrard Bridge sits outside city zoning entirely, and the run of titles keeps returning to where the cycle is, "VREP #517 | Why Vancouver Real Estate Feels More like 1998 than 2008 with Wendy Waters" among them.

Mortgagenomics Canada is the broker's desk beside it. Marko Gelo is a mortgage broker licensed in British Columbia and Alberta, and one clip sets an $800,000 Calgary detached house against $2 million in Vancouver or Toronto; the others are procedural, what a land-title change involves, from lender consent to a four-to-eight-week wait, and why a pre-approval without a credit check and income documents may be worth nothing. Vancouver Real Estate Show, from realtor Gary Wong, adds Jordan Thomson in a December 2020 episode on a proposed forty- or fifty-year amortization.

The Canucks, argued at two temperatures

The hockey shows here are about the same team in the same bad stretch. The Canucks Conversation clips have a season finishing 32nd with a sixteen-point gap to 31st, and Quinn Hughes saying the JT Miller trade removed a top-five player and fractured the core. What separates the shows is temperature.

Canucks Conversation is the analytical one, informed hockey friends talking fast because there is always another angle, everyday phrasing beside matchups, goaltending and front-office structure, then a blunt aside to snap it back. The clip on Braden Cootes, five points in two playoff games in Prince Albert, turns into an argument that whoever the franchise hires next must be aligned top to bottom with the rebuild, because the speakers can imagine Rutherford stepping away a year or two in and a new hire who does not rate the drafted prospects. Recent titles bring in named guests, Patrick Johnston, Kevin Woodley on goaltending, Don Taylor, and follow the summer's business, from the Carlsson offer sheet to "Jul. 8: Sportsnet 650 will be missed ft. Irfaan Gaffar (ep. 1050)".

Locked On Canucks, from Trevor Beggs and Kyle Bhawan, is the wounded one: a fan argument at full speed, one voice pushing into funny, grievance-heavy monologue while the other grounds it with reporting. In the episode with Canuck Clay, Clay says fans should see a real plan even if it means using all ten draft picks and waiting years, and Trevor says the team looked more disconnected than any he has watched in his lifetime. The most pointed clip recounts Trevor being removed from Rogers Arena mid-game after writing about the Aquilini family's court case, a day after Canucks PR had approved his mother's first visit to the rink. The September titles are training camp and the captaincy, "OFFICIAL: The Canucks have a new leader" among them.

The consumer desk and a tech snapshot

Vancouver Consumer is filed with the real estate shows, and its recent titles rotate through the same names, John Carlson, Angela Calla, Blair Mantin, Dr. Ron Zokol of BC Perio, but the clips are wider than that. It sounds like commercial AM radio, plain-spoken, moving from a brisk roundup of headlines into a sponsored expert conversation. Amy O'Leary of the Peace Arch Hospital Foundation talks hospital food, a patient who asked for a banana the kitchen could not provide, an on-site chef in the eighties and nineties whose cinnamon buns were semi-famous at Peace Arch. The Zokol clip links regular dental visits to a 28 per cent lower risk of Alzheimer's; the Mantin clip is local history, a kidnapping tied to the Point Grey Police Department and Marpole mayor J.A. Patton.

Vancouver Tech Podcast is older, its episodes here dated 2017 to 2020 and its clips from 2017: Ahmad Nassri of Telus Digital on digitizing the telco enterprise and learning from companies like Google and Airbnb, and Adam Dymitruk of Adaptech Solutions on building a client's core transactional system in two days after a half-day event-storming session.

Local bands and metal radio

Pacific Sound Radio bills itself as BC's longest-running active music interview podcast, James Olson talking to bands from Vancouver and beyond. Chris Smith and James Turner of Meltt say much of their album was built during a month at a remote cabin during COVID, and that the pandemic's warped sense of time became lyrics about fire, water and loved ones. Dave and Valentina of Caveman & The Banshee describe their band as psychedelic electronic punk led by a drum machine named Amber Sand.

CiTR -- Powerchord is radio first: the station ID heard in one clip claims over thirty years of metal on CITR and a Saturday one-to-three slot. The clips are a space-metal theme built around a 2025 Celestial Magic track, two voices introduced as trash bags running a new Spell 7-inch from classic toward death metal, and news that Neurosis has a new album with Aaron Turner singing in place of Scott Kelly after family abuse allegations.

Vancouver as a setting

The fiction here uses the city rather than discussing it. Protector, The by Harold Bindloss (1866 - 1945) is a novel read in numbered chapters, set in and around Vancouver and Victoria among the mining and timber trades. The clips are scenes from it: Evelyn rejecting Vane because admiration and respect cannot replace the stronger love marriage requires; Vane finding Celia Hartley sewing in a swampy shack with the rent overdue; and Evelyn telling an injured, financially defeated Vane she would not fear facing the future with him, in a passage that mentions a letter written at Nanaimo and a search for spruce.

Sticks Shift Inc.: A Canadian Mythic Audio Drama is a corporate thriller in which the company starts bending the laws of nature. One clip watches Hades' office, Zeus pacing over a map, figures read off it, five in Brussels, forty-nine in New York, thirty-two in Vancouver; in another, William Caston says he was supposed to die before Skylar Henderson reaches him on a rain-soaked 9th Street Bridge.

Where to start

• For the housing argument, Vancouver Real Estate Podcast, starting with the Trevor Hargreaves clip on the provincial budget; Mortgagenomics Canada for the mechanics rather than the politics.
• For the Canucks, Canucks Conversation if you want the rebuild reasoned through, Locked On Canucks if you want to hear how it feels.
• For the city's music, Pacific Sound Radio for the interviews and CiTR -- Powerchord for the records.
• For something that is not talk, Protector, The by Harold Bindloss (1866 - 1945), read chapter by chapter.

The Vancouver feed on this page plays clips from these shows.