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#59 Things You Should Know About Canada’s Historic Debt Level from 2020-12-05T02:20:15
The Liberal government revealed a mini-budget chock full of new spending — but it’s the pitch to keep the spending taps open, to inject up to $100 billion into the economy after the pandemic, that ...
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#58 Erin O’Toole’s First 100 Days from 2020-11-21T06:54:48
The path to electoral victory for the Conservative party involves building a bigger tent and floating a few trial balloons — during a pandemic. We ask insiders for their first impressions of Erin O...
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#57 Who Speaks For Quebec? from 2020-11-07T07:31:10
While it seems debates over free speech have been on a rolling boil south of the border, the topic has also dominated francophone TV and radio in recent weeks, giving new breath to old debates abou...
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#56 The Elephant And The Mouse: What The U.S. Election Result Means For Canada from 2020-10-24T06:08:32
The U.S. election cycle feels like it has its own gravitational pull and two candidates signal different opportunities — and potential challenges — for Canada.
In this episode: Eurasia G...
#55 Goodbye Elizabeth May, Hello Annamie Paul from 2020-10-10T21:47:20
Annamie Paul is the first new leader of the federal Green party in 14 years. As she tries to move the party beyond Elizabeth May’s shadow — spectres have been raised by former leadership contenders...
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#54 Jagmeet Singh’s Complicated Relationship With Liberals from 2020-09-26T06:16:44
The throne speech has been read. The Conservatives and Bloc have signaled their displeasure, and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh finds himself kingmaker, again.
In this episode: NDP Leader Jagmee...
#53 ‘Never Let A Good Crisis Go To Waste’ from 2020-06-27T05:43:07
Months into a pandemic, the initial political unity in Ottawa has disintegrated. Historic economic packages have been approved at breakneck speed, but some Canadians are still being left behind.
#52 Parliament’s Top Rebel Explains Why It’s Healthy To Dissent from 2020-03-06T18:07:48
As the government whips through 2020 with minority numbers, the Liberal’s No. 1 dissenting MP sits down for a candid talk about how he's found a balance between his own “principled independence” an...
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#51 Teck Frontier Fears And Political Loathing On The Hill from 2020-02-22T03:10:49
With a cabinet decision due over the fate of Teck Frontier, a massive new oilsands mine project, the Liberals face another test on how serious they are about reducing carbon emissions.
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#50 Parties For Sale Or Rent In A Minority Government from 2020-02-01T08:25:14
The Liberals have returned to Ottawa in need of dance partners to get things done. We speak to current and former House leaders on the moves they’ve learned — and the missteps they’ve witnessed in ...
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#49 Justin Trudeau Now Playing In The Minority League from 2019-10-23T06:14:28
We’ve made it to the end of the rainbow. The Liberals have been re-elected with a strong minority, with equally strong divisions across Canada. We look at how election night unfolded at the differe...
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#48 Serenity Now! Election Insanity Later from 2019-06-22T10:31:47
Parliament has adjourned and, we’re told, a nasty campaign lies ahead. Our pundit panel reviews how the Liberals have done after nearly four years and if Andrew Scheer’s “blandness” actually gives ...
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#47 Real Talk About ‘Fake News’ from 2019-06-07T00:45:22
Social media has given politicians more platforms than ever to engage with the public. But the temptation to package sound bites into spicy content has seemingly encouraged a more casual relationsh...
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#46 Suddenly, It’s Easier Being Green These Days from 2019-05-18T02:17:06
Two motions put climate change at the top of the agenda in Ottawa this week. Elizabeth May doesn’t think it’s a coincidence. But as the debate unfurls in the last weeks of Parliament, frustration m...
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#45 One-On-One With Gerald Butts from 2019-05-04T09:20
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's former principal secretary has kept a low-profile since testifying about the SNC-Lavalin affair. Now, he speaks candidly about that, his new relationship with the PM...
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#44 The Liberal Party's Battle Royal from 2019-04-06T04:41:32
Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott’s ejection from the Liberal caucus has opened yet another chapter in the SNC-Lavalin affair — and a robust debate from their political colleagues.
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#43 How The Federal Budget Sausage Gets Made from 2019-03-23T08:52:48
It’s make or break for the Liberals as they begin to pitch their election-year budget. But are its goodies strong enough to change the channel on SNC-Lavalin? We go behind-the-scenes with insiders ...
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#42 Jody Wilson-Raybould Rocks The Casbah from 2019-03-02T04:19:15
Jody Wilson-Raybould unleashed scorching testimony that burned her party. As her fate in the Liberal party remains unclear, veteran NDP MP Nathan Cullen sits down to talk about his own exit.
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#41 Senators Find Some Cruel Intentions In Pipeline Review Bill from 2019-02-19T21:52:04
The Liberal government is eager to have its pipeline review bill pass through the Senate before the election. These senators say, not so fast.
In this episode: Independent Senators Doug Bl...
#40 Well, That SNC-Lavalin Controversy Escalated Quickly from 2019-02-16T04:20:20
Jody Wilson-Raybould’s cabinet resignation seemingly blindsided the prime minister. Her high-profile departure tests the government’s resiliency in an election year.
In this episode: House...
#39 Does This Election Campaign Spark Joy For Anyone Yet? from 2019-02-02T03:38:53
The House has returned to new digs — both physically and in terms of election-year partisan burns. Our politics panel weighs in on the early strengths and vulnerabilities of the leaders and parties...
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#38 Goodbye, Centre Block from 2018-12-28T15:47:30
Who knew you could experience separation anxiety with a building? We tour Centre Block one last time before it closes for at least a decade for renovations and learn some of its wild stories.
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#37 They Paved Paradise And Promised A New Road For Reconciliation from 2018-12-21T18:37:58
A Quebec First Nation’s land claim to Parliament Hill tests the Liberals’ promise to build a nation-to-nation relationship.
In this episode: Algonquin Elder Albert Dumont, Crown-Indigenou...
#36 Maxime Bernier Likes Talking About Immigration (Part 2) from 2018-12-08T01:34:23
The former Tory veteran and now leader of the People's Party of Canada says he’s not opposed to immigrants or legitimate asylum seekers when he advocates admitting fewer newcomers. Maxime Bernier e...
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#35 Maxime Bernier: The Populist And His Policies (Part 1) from 2018-12-08T01:29:49
Whether you agree or disagree with him, Maxime Bernier is a newsmaker. We sit down with the People’s Party of Canada leader to talk about his turning point with Andrew Scheer and his brand of "smar...
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#34 Liberals Deepen The Deficit While Tories, NDP Swim Into Some Trouble from 2018-11-24T00:55:39
As the NDP and Tories piled on the Liberal government for deepening Canada's deficit, they face some deep troubles of their own.
In this episode: Liberal MP Scott Simms, Conservative stra...
#33 Are Liberals The Middle-Class Heroes They Thought They’d Be? from 2018-11-03T04:28:02
Three years into their mandate, how are the Liberals doing with their ambitious agenda to grow Canada's middle class? Have partisan politics and economic realities dimmed the government's hope of b...
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#32 Fear And Groaning Over UN's Alarming Climate Change Report from 2018-10-20T16:04:44
A new UN report gives humanity 12 years to get its act together to curb rising temperatures and avoid unprecedented environmental disaster. The House of Commons even held a special debate, but most...
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#31 Canada Aches For Redemption At The United Nations from 2018-10-01T12:52:47
Canadian schmoozing is back at the United Nations as the Justin Trudeau government ramps efforts to secure a seat at the Security Council table. Former diplomats talk about RLBs (Rotten Lying Basta...
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#30 The Long And Winding Learning Curve For Jagmeet Singh from 2018-09-15T04:30:25
Jagmeet Singh was supposed to be a fundraising magnet, but his first rocky year as NDP leader has been a bust. The party calls a regroup in B.C. Also: Two outgoing veteran NDP MPs get real about th...
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#29 Irreconcilable Differences: Conservatives Carry On Without Maxime Bernier from 2018-08-27T06:08:01
While Maxime Bernier tried to steal headlines from the start of the Conservative party policy convention in Halifax, 3,000 delegates focused on positioning their party for the 2019 election.
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#28 Parliament Wraps With Legal Bud And A Conservative Twist from 2018-06-22T02:20:39
This session of Parliament comes to an end with the legalization of recreational marijuana — a day after the Liberals were smoked in a rare byelection loss. Is this a taste of what’s to come?
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#27 Where Will Trump’s Anti-Canada Spasm Leave Us? from 2018-06-17T00:03:57
Donald Trump’s first official trip to Canada ended with the president and his subordinates hurling insults at the prime minister and making new-again threats to Canadian workers. What’s behind Trum...
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#26 The Liberals Are Now Livin’ On A Pipeline Prayer from 2018-06-01T21:21:56
Who knew “sunny ways” included buying a controversial pipeline that Kinder Morgan wanted to dump. With 2019 around the corner, will this political gambit ruin the Liberals’ shot at re-election?
#25 Liberal MP Scott Simms Rages Against The Party Machine from 2018-05-11T20:36:24
Scott Simms was stripped as a standing committee chair after he refused to toe the party line on the government’s controversial Canada Summer Jobs attestation. The Liberal MP speaks out about his c...
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#24 It’s Crunch Time To Change Canada’s Election Laws from 2018-05-05T17:30:55
The government is taking another crack at repealing some of the Tories’ controversial changes to Canada’s election laws. But there are some real concerns about timing.
In this episode: Gre...
#23 Sea Trial In Halifax For Liberals’ 2019 Campaign from 2018-04-23T13:16:10
The NDP are pissed. The Tories are bewildered. And the Liberals are pretty pleased with their new debate-lite convention process that supported resolutions bending the party to the left.
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#22 Kinder Morgan Surprises Ottawa And Daniel Jean Underwhelms Tories from 2018-04-20T03:25:03
Kinder Morgan’s pipeline ultimatum added fuel to a simmering Canadian political family feud. And after weeks of Tories asking for Daniel Jean to appear at committee, he does. And it was a bit antic...
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#21 Ottawa Is Obsessed With A Guy Named Daniel Jean from 2018-03-30T14:34
Move over Morneau. Tories have changed focus and are hell-bent on selling a story of Liberal intrigue starring the prime minister’s national security adviser Daniel Jean. One 21-hour voting maratho...
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Bonus: It’s Still A Boys' Club On Parliament Hill from 2018-03-26T21:40:14
Employment And Workforce Minister Patty Hajdu, labour pioneer and former NDP MP Peggy Nash join host Althia Raj for a live conversation about working as a woman in the male-dominated field of polit...
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#20 Bill Morneau Doesn’t Want To Talk About Last Year’s ‘Bulls**t’ (But We Do!) from 2018-03-05T00:11:03
From the scrutiny over Bill Morneau’s personal millions to the country’s budgeted billions, we talk about pharmacare and the Liberals’ sunny, spendy ways with the finance minister himself. Warning:...
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#19 NDP Signals A Hard Left Turn from 2018-02-19T19:10:33
The NDP took a hard turn to the left at its convention in Ottawa as Jagmeet Singh gave Canadians a sneak peek at the party’s much-anticipated platform. How left can the NDP go?
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#18 Inside This Year’s ‘Woodstock For Canadian Conservatives' from 2018-02-12T15:02:16
The Trudeau government’s contentious Canada Summer Jobs program changes sucked up a lot of oxygen at the 2018 Manning Centre conference. Was it a Liberal trap to get Conservatives talking more abou...
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#17 Parliament Returns, So Where’s The Party? from 2018-01-29T04:45:39
Parliament resumes this week as the death knell for NAFTA gets louder. Our panel joins Althia to talk about what’s on tap for this upcoming session: from jabs over trade, a shrinking “bozo eruption...
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#16 The Swift Fall Of Patrick Brown (And Others) from 2018-01-26T09:27:05
Within 24 hours, sexual harassment allegations ousted a federal minister from cabinet and two provincial PC leaders from their top spots. Our panel joins Althia to talk about how the #MeToo momentu...
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Happy Holidays! Sorry We’ve Been Quiet (We Have 2018 News) from 2017-12-21T03:14:49
An end-of-year note to listeners from host Althia Raj.
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#15 Two Years In: Wading Through The Liberals' Field Of Dreams from 2017-11-03T17:12:07
Justin Trudeau’s Liberals swept to power promising real change. As the Grits celebrate two years in government, we mark the anniversary by looking back at what’s been done, or not done, with their ...
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#14 How It Happened: NDP Elects ‘Game-Changer’ Leader from 2017-10-02T18:48:42
In this episode: Guy Caron’s spokesman Farouk Karim, Charlie Angus’ campaign manager Jesse Brady, Jagmeet Singh’s campaign manager Michal Hay and field director Nuvi Sidhu, HuffPost Canada senior p...
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#13 The Evolution Of Jagmeet Singh from 2017-09-30T03:41:05
In this episode: The last in our series on NDP leadership hopefuls: Jagmeet Singh. Hosted by Althia Raj.
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Bonus: NDP Leadership Debate from 2017-09-28T21:20:32
Charlie Angus, Jagmeet Singh, Guy Caron and Niki Ashton take part in a final debate hosted by HuffPost Canada before NDP members choose their new party leader. Moderated by Althia Raj.
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#12 The Rebel Yell Of Charlie Angus from 2017-09-14T17:17:25
In this episode: NDP leadership hopeful, veteran MP, and former rocker Charlie Angus expands on his vision of the party and reveals he’s afraid of heights. Hosted by Althia Raj.
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#11 Guy Caron's Unlikely NDP Journey from 2017-09-06T17:12:02
In this episode: With the NDP leadership race in full swing, meet Quebec NDP MP Guy Caron in the first our sit-down interviews with the candidates. Hosted by Althia Raj.
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#10 What A Difference A Year Makes (Or Not) from 2017-06-25T19:21:06
Year in review: Have the Liberals lived up to expectations?
In this episode: Government House Leader Bardish Chagger, political strategists Rachel Curran, Karl Bélanger and Greg MacEachern...
#9 Canada Moves On In The Face Of Trump from 2017-06-10T18:48:59
We’re jumping into the Liberal government’s new foreign policy agenda, and the billions of dollars in military spending they’re pledging to back it up.
In this episode: Roland Paris, forme...
#8 Coffee With Andrew Scheer from 2017-05-28T19:26:43
Digging into the new Tory leader’s policies: Andrew Scheer talks Stephen Harper's legacy, the environment and how he uses the "mother-in-law" test to guide his messaging.
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#7 Scheer Insanity from 2017-05-28T08:25:09
What former House speaker Andrew Scheer’s leadership victory means for the future of the Conservative party.
In this episode: Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s deputy chief of staff and cam...
#6 Tea With Mad Max from 2017-05-15T04:15:50
Get intimate with Maxime Bernier as the Conservative leadership front-runner meets host Althia Raj for tea and a very interesting conversation.
In this episode: Tory leadership candidate ...
#5 Behind Closed Doors from 2017-05-02T17:18:22
Former aides accuse Sen. Don Meredith of bullying and sexual harassment. A HuffPost Canada investigation uncovers claims of alarming workplace behaviour allegedly committed by the senator. We also ...
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#4 What Happened To 'Canada Is Back'? from 2017-04-17T13:20:21
Canada's shifting foreign policies are in the spotlight after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered a military airstrike against Syria.
In this episode: Parliamentary secretary for foreign a...
#3 The Showdown Over Standing Orders from 2017-04-01T03:42:26
Filibusters that drag on and on can lead to some colourful exchanges that may slip under the public's radar. We unpack what happened after the Liberals released a discussion paper proposing ways to...
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Bonus: Finance Minister Town Hall from 2017-03-25T14:30:02
This week, the Liberal government released its second federal budget. Finance Minister Bill Morneau joined us for a live digital town hall, two days later. Here is a replay of the event, hosted by ...
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#2 The NDP Searches For A Leader And A Little Direction from 2017-03-18T16:59:55
This week, we look at the NDP’s leadership race and the growing calls from party members — and some candidates — to shift the party to the left.
In this episode: NDP leadership contender ...
#1 What’s Going On With The Conservative Party? from 2017-03-04T17:38:43
Whether it’s leadership contender Kellie Leitch’s call to screen all newcomers for so-called Canadian values. Or a majority of Tory MPs deciding they can’t support a motion denouncing Islamophobia ...
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Coming Soon from 2017-02-24T15:00:03
Thoughtful, frank conversations with Canada’s top political insiders. Hosted by Althia Raj, a podcast from HuffPost Canada Politics.
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