Also: Site C and the BC NDP. Kids, commercialism and Kris Kringle. All this plus a look back at 2017, the garbage year that was.

Editing and production: André Goulet. Special holiday music on this episode includes the National Anthem of the USSR + the Internationale (w/ bells) plus a Christmas-themed recording of ‘Wide is My Motherland’.

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