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Hosted by Geof Wheelwright · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 17 episodes
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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 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.
Geof Wheelwright hosts Freshet Friday, a news show with 17 episodes published.
In our July 17th, 2026 Freshet Friday podcast, we start with news of an apartment fire in New Westminster, then discuss a proposal to open up more of Belcarra Regional Park, and explore why a heritage conservation reset
This week's episode includes election updates from the Tri Cities in New Westminster, where new candidate declarations are becoming as common as bear sightings, details on what New Westminster City Council spent in 2025,
This week the team starts off talking a bit of hometown Hollywood, with news about how the Michael J. Fox Theater in Burnaby is now looking at a more hopeful future, and then explores how New Westminster residents may be
This week we'll talk about how local elections are heating up alongside the temperature outside, why New Westminster is taking a second look at how its flagship aquatic and community centre might need to change - and lot
In this week's Freshet Friday podcast, the team talks about a frightening accident that left 10 students from a Port Coquitlam middle school recovering from apparent burns on a field trip near Chilliwack on Monday, discu
A lot happened this week and host Geof Wheelwright and the rest of the Freshet Friday podcast team are here to talk about it. Highlights include Burnaby Mayor Mike Hurley's State of the City message, a water leak at a re
In this week's episode, host Geof Wheelwright and the Freshet News team explore why some people are howling about a proposed plan in Burnaby that would more than triple the rent of a local charity that trains assistance
Welcome back to Freshet Friday. Summer is very much on its way - and we have news about lots of fun events to come, a few that have just happened - and why pressure to build Phase 2 of the Burnaby hospital redevelopment
In this special seven-month birthday episode, you'll hear about how local governments are winning and losing funding for some important projects, how community heroes are being celebrated - and why anvils are flying thro
In this week's Freshet Friday podcast, host Geof Wheelwright and the team look back on the storied career and sudden passing of local hockey legend Ernie "Punch" McLean, discuss the impact of Burnaby Hospital redevelopme
This week, host Geof Wheelwright and the Freshet News team talk about a proposed honour for 93-year-old hockey legend Ernie "Punch" MacLean, the potential expansion of the New Westminster apartment cooling initiative, th
On the Freshet Friday podcast this week, we cover a range of topics including the Burnaby Hospital redevelopment, news on parks and recreation in our communities, sports updates, public art, facility upgrades, and a prom
On the Freshet Friday podcast this week, we cover a range of topics including the Burnaby Hospital redevelopment, news on parks and recreation in our communities, sports updates, public art, facility upgrades, and a prom
Spring is blooming in this week's Freshet Friday podcast! Host Geof Wheelwright, along with Freshet News reporters and founders, Mario Bartell, Janice Cleugh, Theresa McManus, and Cornelia Naylor, discuss how Coquitlam i
In this special six-month anniversary episode, you'll hear about what's in a Burnaby pedestrian scramble, why underwater plumbers were in the news, what the opening of a new pedestrian cycle bridge will mean for local cy
This week's Freshet Friday podcast includes stories about controversial developments in Anmore and New Westminster, a follow-up to a story we previously featured on the podcast about delays on the Burnaby Hospital redeve
Welcome back to Freshet Friday. For this Good Friday, we have news about mayoral and school board candidate announcements, a happy budget surprise in Burnaby, a local mystery, a couple of fun, local baseball stories and
Elections, tiny homes, a driver asleep at the wheel of a Tesla, learning how to helm a dragon boat - and bear safety! The Freshet Friday podcast for Friday, March 27th has it all. Join host Geof Wheelwright and the Fresh
In this first episode of the Freshet Friday podcast, two members of the Freshet News team (Janis Cleugh and Mario Bartel) report on their appearance before the Canadian Heritage inquiry on the state of journalism in Cana
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Freshet Friday is hosted by Geof Wheelwright. The show is categorised under news (government) and has published 17 episodes.
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