VANCOUVER – Christy Clark is ready to take on public opinion again, not as a politician this time, but on her own CKNW talk show.

CKNW 980 will launch the Christy Clark Show starting Aug. 27, airing Monday to Friday from 12:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. It will be a daily, caller-driven show that puts politicians in the hot seat but also includes lifestyle programming the radio station says.

Clark, a former B.C. education minister and deputy premier, insists she does not plan to use the job as a springboard to get back into politics.

She says she is ready to let people know what she thinks about everything from local community issues to politics, health and home.

“I said what I thought when I was in politics. I’ll say it on the radio too,” Clark said in an interview after announcing the deal on Bill Good’s show on Friday.
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VANCOUVER/CKNW980 – Politician turned pundit Christy Clark is joining the CKNW on-air team on a full time basis.

Clark will be the host of her own mid-day talk show after a couple of years of back-up hosting. Clark told CKNW’s Bill Good this morning she’s put politics behind her – for now.

“One day I was in doing your show and somebody from management came in and said gosh you know, the way you handled those calls you could be right back into politics and I turned to him and I said, I don’t want to get back into politics, I want to be a talk show host at CKNW, so that was where we sort of started the negotiations.”

“So is that for sure? Have you put your political life behind you?”

“I have yeah, I mean as much as you ever do I guess.”

“The Christy Clark Show” begins August 27th.  “Adler Online” will move to the evening position, replacing “Nightline BC.”

Laibar Singh’s case is a complicated one. Singh is the 48-year-old Indian father of four who is dodging his deportation order by seeking sanctuary in the Abbotsford Sikh temple.

He entered the country on a fake passport. Once he landed on Canadian soil, he quickly admitted the document was phony and initiated a refugee claim.

It took four years for his claim to wend its way through the system until it was finally rejected. In the meantime — and this is where it gets complicated — Singh suffered a debilitating aneurysm that left him paralyzed. He has spent most of the last year living 24/7 in hospital.
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The case of Ian Bush, who died while in police custody, should lead us all to one inescapable conclusion: The RCMP cannot be allowed to investigate themselves.

The inquest into Bush’s death has given us a glimpse into the unique process the RCMP uses to investigate one of its own. The fact that Mr. Bush was killed is tragic. The way the RCMP conducted their investigation into his death is cause for alarm.
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My jump onto the global warming bandwagon came in a roundabout way. A while ago, I interviewed a woman named Mae Burrows who told me about the frightening number of toxins in our environment.

She told me alarming things about flame retardants in mattresses and carpets that may cause cancer, impair memory and compromise immune systems.

I realized that, every night of my little son’s life, he’s laid down on one of those mattresses. And every day, as his body and brain develops at an incredible pace, he’s sitting on those carpets playing with his toys.

I was outraged that those chemicals are allowed in our household products in Canada — even though they’ve been banned in Europe.

Mae got me thinking hard about the environment and what state it’ll be in when my son grows up. Because it’s not just toxins that are a threat to his future, it’s thousands of other things as well. Pine beetles have chewed through billions of dollars worth of trees, while we wait for a cold snap that never comes. There’s less water in our reservoirs because snowpacks on the mountains above are shrinking. Our streams are warmer. If they warm just one or two degrees more, most of our returning salmon will die.

I spend enough time thinking about it that I’ve concluded it’s the single most important issue facing this country.
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