Podcast Episodes
Back to Search
Friday Focus: Trump gives Hamas an ultimatum and how "AI slop" is working against productivity
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding dire…
Published on 1 month ago
Trump's military speech ramblings should concern every Canadian
Rudyard and Andrew unpack the speeches made this week by U.S. Secretary of Defense Hegseth and President Trump to over 800 military generals. Trump indicated he wants to use American cities as traini…
Published on 1 month ago
Friday Focus: Trump's warning to European countries, and what Canada should learn from their mistakes
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding dire…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
Carney's Palestinian statehood recognition comes without conditions and the powerful companies benefiting from Trump's authoritarianism
What should we make of Canada's formal recognition of Palestinian statehood at the UN? What happened to the conditions the government had originally tied to this recognition? Andrew believes the Carn…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Friday Focus: ABC capitulates to Trump and what to expect in Canada's upcoming federal budget
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding dire…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Friday Focus: Charlie Kirk's assassination points to a democracy in trouble and a debate about Israel's strike in Qatar
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding dire…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Trump is stuck in a dangerous spiral feedback loop and Rudyard and Andrew debate Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker program
Donald Trump's AI image to threaten "war" on the city of Chicago is further evidence that he is stuck in a spiral feedback loop with his followers, in which he has to get more outrageous to keep gene…
Published on 1 month, 4 weeks ago
Friday Focus: China's great power performance and Mark Carney's bad budget messaging
This week's SCO summit in China projected a series of powerful images about the rise of China and the cleaving of the world into two power blocs. Putin, Xi, and Kim Jong Un watching the military para…
Published on 2 months ago
A public display of friendship between China, Russia, and India is a searing indictment of Trump's foreign policy
Rudyard and Andrew start the show talking about this week's China summit with 20 leaders of non-Western countries, including India, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. Narendra Modi's public display of fr…
Published on 2 months ago
Friday Focus: Trump takes aim at the CDC and Putin is undeterred
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding dire…
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago