{"podcast":{"title":"Vancouver Rundown","slug":"vancouver-rundown-6794669","podcast_index_feed_id":6794669,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/vancouverrundown/feed.xml","website_url":"https://vancouverrundown.substack.com/","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/vancouverrundown/podcast_cover_20260702_080718_8d21c4da2ba78d1bbef0d2573918f86e.png","author":"Bruce Claggett","episode_count":603,"summary":"Welcome to the Vancouver Rundown on-demand audio newscast. This is the audio version of the daily Vancouver Rundown found at vancouverrundown.substack.com . Please consider a paid daily email subscription or podcast (on-demand audio newscast) donation to help support the effort to bring the latest news from Vancouver journalists, complete with links to their stories, and an overall summary of what's happening in the Vancouver area.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-28T12:18:43.958053+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/vancouver-rundown-6794669"},"episode":{"title":"Vancouver Rundown Wednesday April 29, 2026","slug":"vancouver-rundown-wednesday-april-29-2026","published_at":"2026-04-29T05:17:55+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/vancouver-rundown-6794669/vancouver-rundown-wednesday-april-29-2026","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/vancouver-rundown-6794669","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/vancouverrundown/2777142","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/252446/2777142/vancouverrundown/2026_04_29_05_17_47_2c8e5efd-4a31-4003-b839-b2af8a789ada.mp3","summary":"The federal government will kick in $146M toward the overall security cost for the FIFA World Cup games in Vancouver and Toronto. That word comes as the B.C. government continues to stall on saying how much it will spend on security costs. The provincial government also hasn’t provided any updated cost of putting on the event in Vancouver. Old projections from the summer pegged that cost at $624M. The tournament is only 43 days away.","meta_description":"The federal government will kick in $146M toward the overall security cost for the FIFA World Cup games in Vancouver and Toronto. That word comes as the B…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":137,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/vancouver-rundown-6794669/episodes/vancouver-rundown-wednesday-april-29-2026/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/vancouver-rundown-6794669/vancouver-rundown-wednesday-april-29-2026.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}