Podcast Episodes

Is Alberta headed for a general strike?

Earlier this week Danielle Smith’s UCP government forced teachers back to work after a a three week strike using the notwithstanding clause. This prevents the Alberta Teachers' Association from chall…

Published on 13 hours ago

What did Reagan really believe about tariffs?

Why has U.S. President Donald Trump suspended trade talks with Canada? Why did the U.S. ambassador to Canada level an expletive-laced tirade at Ontario's trade representative, in front of more than 2…

Published on 1 day, 13 hours ago

In Asia, Canada hopes to fill a Trump-sized void

As Donald Trump ends trade talks with Canada, Prime Minister Mark Carney is in Asia this week, meeting with leaders, and pitching Canada as a reliable partner in a moment of geopolitical realignment.…

Published on 2 days, 13 hours ago

How Canadian charities fund illegal West Bank settlements

Since the 1960s, Israel has been building settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory of the West Bank — settlements deemed illegal under international law, and condemned by the Canadian govern…

Published on 3 days, 13 hours ago

Can Canada’s auto industry survive Trump?

After an anti-tariff ad commissioned by the Ontario government ran during the World Series, U.S. President Donald Trump pulled the plug on negotiations between his office and the federal government. …

Published on 4 days, 13 hours ago

Blue Jays bandwagon 101

In the years since their consecutive World Series wins in the early ‘90s, the Toronto Blue Jays have had their ups, downs and bat flips. And heading into this season, the team wasn’t exactly slated f…

Published on 1 week ago

Is the FBI’s secret war on American activists back?

Through the 1960s, the U.S. government waged a war on Black activism, and activism writ large. It was led by the FBI and its longtime director, J. Edgar Hoover.

It was called COINTELPRO and was the FB…

Published on 1 week, 1 day ago

Politics! Poilievre calls out RCMP, auto woes

Stephen Maher, a longtime federal politics reporter, is here to talk about Pierre Poilievre’s recent comments that the RCMP covered up for Justin Trudeau so he could avoid criminal charges and whethe…

Published on 1 week, 2 days ago

Trump's campaign of legal revenge

Former FBI James Comey. Former national security advisor John Bolton. New York attorney general Letitia James. What do they have in common? All are now facing legal action from the U.S. government.

Be…

Published on 1 week, 3 days ago

The precarity of Gaza’s ceasefire

Over the last 10 days Israel and Hamas have observed a ceasefire that saw the return of hostages and prisoners to Israel, Gaza and the West Bank as well as deliveries of much needed aid to famine-str…

Published on 1 week, 4 days ago