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#80 2023 Was the Year of Political Nonsense
This year has been one hell of a political rollercoaster.
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#943 Newspocalypse Now
CBC makes huge cuts - with plans to eliminate 600 positions. Is it time for a good hard look in the mirror to figure out what its future could look like?
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#935 A Liberal Plot Against Trudeau?
The new refrain in the press gallery is that Trudeau has got to go. How seriously should we take this?
The Backbench
#76 Israel, Palestine and Canadian Foreign Policy
Why did Canada abstain on an emergency resolution at the UN General Assembly calling for an “immediate, durable and sustained humanitarian truce leading to a cessation of hostilities” in Gaza?
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#931 An Apple a Day Gets Pierre Airplay
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre goes international by chomping on an apple.
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#919 Cirque du Pierre Poilievre
Oh what a circus, oh what a show, as a newly reenergized Conservative Party of Canada holds its first convention with Pierre Poilievre as leader.
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#911 Pierre Don’t Care
Does Pierre Poilievre touting conspiracy theories count as news?
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#835 Poilievre’s Toxic Lie About Safe Supply
Poilievre's toxic lie about safe supply. And the confusing and contradictory CSIS intelligence on China and the Freedom Convoy. Garth Mullins co hosts.
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#817 Bots Have Feelings Too
A recent encounter between Pierre Poilievre and David Akin of Global News demonstrates the tactics politicians have been using to avoid accountability. And how the popular #TrudeauMustGo campaign is being dismissed as bots and treated as if it doesn't exist. Nora Loreto co-hosts.
The Backbench
#47 Picking Apart Pierre’s Populism
Our new host, Mattea Roach, ponders Poilievre’s political playbook with Riley Yesno, David Moscrop and Catherine Griwkowsky on this week’s panel episode. And you know the saying, leaders come and go. As Pierre Poilievre makes his way into the Conservative leadership, Queen Elizabeth II has left us. Is it time to crack open our constitution and jettison the monarchy once and for all?