BC Today

New year, new hobby? We ask you to tell us about your new hobby for January 2026. Joining the show is artist Beata Kacy, founder of Soigne art studio, and runner Chris Cole, the co-founder of Metro Vancouver running store Run-Inn. We take calls from audience members to share their new hobbies.

Canada has dropped the tariff rate on Chinese electric vehicles from 100 per cent to 6.1 per cent, opening the door to allow 49,000 cars annually into its domestic market. What does this mean for Canadian vehicle shoppers and for the country as a whole? Clean Energy Canada's executive director Rachel Doran joins the show to take your questions.

B.C. Health Minister Josie Osborne has announced the province won't extend its drug decriminalization pilot, which ends on January 31. The pilot allowed people to possess small amounts of illicit drugs for personal consumption. But after three years, the province says the project hasn't met its goals.
We ask listeners how they feel about the end of decriminalization in B.C and how the province should help people struggling with addiction. Former B.C. chief coroner Lisa Lapointe, SFU health researcher Julian Somers and Victoria Police Chief Fiona Wilson join the program to look at what's next to help people struggling with addictions.

Police are investigating a new homicide in Surrey — the third suspicious death south of the Fraser in the last five days, all of which investigators suspect are gang-related. We ask listeners how concerned they are with the violence and what they think is drawing people into gangs. UFV criminologist Wade Deisman, and anti-gang educator Kal Dosanjh from KidsPlay Youth Foundation joins the show.

The B.C. government says 100,000 skilled trades jobs are coming to the province over the next decade. But who's going to fill them? As artificial intelligence and tariffs cause economic uncertainty in the province, the Construction Foundation of B.C. says "skilled tradespeople will be the last ones voted off the island." We ask listeners if they think 2026 is the year to learn a skilled trade and whether they would consider one as a career. BCIT electrical instructor Anna Lary joins the show.