{"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 May 20, 2026","slug":"vancouver-rundown-wednesday-may-20-2026","published_at":"2026-05-20T08:28:39+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/vancouver-rundown-6794669/vancouver-rundown-wednesday-may-20-2026","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/vancouver-rundown-6794669","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/vancouverrundown/2842787","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/252446/2842787/vancouverrundown/2026_05_20_08_28_34_73602fac-74ab-4221-962d-7ce2de301abb.mp3","summary":"The B.C. government is trying to downplay a slide in hotel bookings for June over the same time last year, erasing any confidence in a bump due to the FIFA World Cup. Economic Growth Minister Ravi Kahlon says he knows people will come and skeptics have been wrong in the past. Destination Vancouver says there’s been a 20 per cent drop in bookings over the first few weeks of the event. Some experts think taxpayers will only learn of the true cost to put on the World Cup after it’s over.","meta_description":"The B.C. government is trying to downplay a slide in hotel bookings for June over the same time last year, erasing any confidence in a bump due to the FIF…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":126,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/vancouver-rundown-6794669/episodes/vancouver-rundown-wednesday-may-20-2026/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-may-20-2026.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}