The Freshet Friday podcast is an entertaining and informative discussion of the latest news of the week from the Burnaby, New Westminster, and the Tri-Cities communities of British Columbia, Canada. Freshet Friday is hosted by veteran journalist and podcaster Geof Wheelwright and features insights from the Freshet News team, which founded and publishes the Freshet News website at freshetnews.ca (http://freshetnews.ca) and the Freshet News newspaper. Listeners to the Freshet Friday podcast will hear about local politics, arts, sports - as well as those fun, quirky and sometimes inspiring stories about people who are making a difference in their communities.
This week, you'll hear news about a fire in New Westminster that left dozens of residents displaced after damage to their three-storey apartment complex early Sunday morning, more election race updates in both the provincial and local elections, and a great investigative story by Cornelia about why Government advisors billed Burnaby Hospital Phase 2 project for 108 helicopter trips - and much more!
9 Oct 2026
Freshet Friday - October 9, 2026
Welcome to the 30th episode of Freshet Friday! This week we covered the second last week of the local election race and the first full week of the provincial election campaign underway in the 11 constituencies covered by our readership area. We also explored why Port Moody won't be going ahead with building a neighbourhood energy utility to heat new developments in its downtown area (despite having spent more than half a million dollars studying its feasibility), how former Coquitlam Express goaltender Clay Stevenson is making a name for himself with the Winnipeg Jets, and how a new documentary is honouring the legacy of local legend and national hero Terry Fox. Enjoy the episode!
2 Oct 2026
Freshet Friday - October 2, 2026
This is our podcast for October 2nd, 2026, and we are all about elections this week. Two of them, as a matter of fact. The first is the October 17th Civic Elections happening across all our communities. We hope all of you picked up our special election print editions yesterday and have been pouring through the candidate profiles we provided. And the second, of course, is the upcoming provincial snap election being held on October 24th. today we're doing something really special. We'll talk about why doing the work of covering elections is important, the role local news plays in creating an informed electorate, and our observations on what it takes to cover elections.
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