Podcast Episodes

Friday Focus: Iran on the brink and the politicization of the Nobel Peace Prize

Rudyard and Janice begin today’s show with Trump’s mixed messaging on Iran. While Trump has suggested that military action may be delayed until after…

9 hours ago

Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: Canada’s separatist moment

Rudyard and Andrew focus today’s show on the separatist movements gaining traction across Canada. Quebec voters appear poised to elect a separatist g…

4 days, 1 hour ago

Friday Focus: Trump's pre-midterm warning to Tehran and Israel's high-stakes election

Rudyard and Janice begin today’s show with news that the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier is being deployed to the Middle East and the signal …

1 week ago

Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: Is Mark Carney governing like a Conservative?

What can we expect from a make-or-break federal budget delivered in the middle of a trade war? Rudyard and Andrew look at the growing appetite in the…

1 week, 4 days ago

Friday Focus: the danger of Canada’s “war” rhetoric

Prime Minister Mark Carney says he studied the possibility of U.S.-led military action against Canada in an hour-long interview with The New York Tim…

2 weeks ago

Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: Is Carney’s momentum pointing to a spring election?

Parliament opened yesterday with the PM determined to keep his momentum going: a labour reform bill and a major liberalization of project permitting,…

2 weeks, 3 days ago

Friday Focus: Trump's latest threats carry no weight and AI leaders sound the alarm

Trump says he is weighing whether to "annihilate" Iran next week. Is this another empty threat? We have reached a point where it is increasingly diff…

3 weeks ago

Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: Carney opens Canada for business and courts a new European alliance

Andrew and Rudyard begin with several important announcements from Carney’s investment summit, including a cut to the marginal effective tax rate on …

3 weeks, 2 days ago

Friday Focus: Canada's trade war heats up and the Iranians escalate to de-escalate

Friday Focus returns from its summer hiatus to unpack two major geopolitical flashpoints.

First, the trade war with the United States—and its conseque…

4 weeks ago

Be it resolved, religion is a force for good in the world

On this special edition of the Munk Debates podcast, we’re revisiting one of the classic debates from the series’ 18-year history: the Munk Debate on…

1 month, 1 week ago