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The official account of The Paikin Podcast.
Links: https://linktr.ee/thepaikinpodcast
Email us at: [email protected]
🚨🌐NEW: Andrew Cohen joins Janice Stein on World on Edge for a deep dive into Carney’s foreign policy.
➡️ Canada’s foreign policy was asleep. Is it awake now?
➡️ Is Carney’s middle powers coalition working?
➡️ Does soft power matter anymore?
VIDEO: youtu.be/u20QZe5i9lI
AUDIO: linktr.ee/thepaikinpod...
📣☎️CALLING all #cdnpoli people: we're doing a mailbag episode this week with @spaikin.bsky.social and the Everything Political crew, Martha Hall Findlay and Tony Clement. Please ask us anything (and everything) political. You can reply below and we'll get to as many as we can. Thanks!
🚨🎙️NEW: Bob Rae and former Supreme Court Justice Rosalie Abella.
➡️ The great “rupture” in Canada-U.S. relations
➡️ The “arsonist” in the White House
➡️ Canada-U.S. Relationship broken for good?
➡️ The “ideological” US Supreme Court
VIDEO: youtu.be/NSNwdV9MOM8
AUDIO: linktr.ee/thepaikinpod...
NEW episode, NEW study: How much would separation cost Alberta?
Martha Hall Findlay breaks down the study she co-authored on the economics of Alberta’s separation and estimates of it costing up to $170 billion in the first five years.
VIDEO: youtu.be/_cS3mDntUak
AUDIO: linktr.ee/thepaikinpod...
🌐🎙️NEW episode of World on Edge with Janice Stein.
👉 Geopolitics of AI
👉 AI arms race with China?
👉 AI panic Overblown?
👉 Iran War
👉 Canada’s separatisms
👉 Too much focus on Alberta, not enough on Quebec?
VIDEO: youtu.be/gGKvYhI4DEg
AUDIO: linktr.ee/thepaikinpod...
Estonian Education Minister Kristina Kallas joins Steve for a live taping of the podcast to discuss the role of education in national security, Putin's aspirations in the Baltics, and teaching kids in an era where AI knows everything.
VIDEO: youtu.be/VF4wB9pvPxg
AUDIO: linktr.ee/thepaikinpod...
NEW: The Everything Political crew discuss Canada joining the EU, what exactly an “associate” membership entails, the growing concerns over AI, whether Canada is prepared, Carney’s investment summit, and selling Canada’s major airports.
VIDEO: youtu.be/U2CVuLbO82A
AUDIO: linktr.ee/thepaikinpod...
🚨🇨🇦Carol Off joins to discuss her book, “True Patriot Love."
➡️ Moving beyond America’s shadow
➡️ Holding the line for liberal democracy?
➡️ A new Canada emerging in the era of Trump?
➡️ Did we hafta NAFTA?
➡️ CBC and Canadian identity
Charles MacDonald was involved in a car accident that saw him sustain burns to most of his body. He joins Steve to discuss his bewildering experience navigating Canada’s healthcare system and why he has to go to the United States to get the care he needs.
YouTube: youtu.be/Un18W7QLXiw
🚨🌐NEW episode of World on Edge.
Canada’s foreign minister during 9/11, John Manley, joins Janice Stein to remember 9/11, whether it was the most significant event of the 21st century, and how it reshaped the global order.
VIDEO: youtu.be/4OKopsNh57s
AUDIO: linktr.ee/thepaikinpod...
🚨🌐In our first episode of season two of World on Edge, Kamran Bokhari joins Janice Stein to take a tour through the world’s most troublesome hotspots.
➡️ Strategy or chaos?
➡️ Is China America’s Enemy?
➡️ Ukraine/Russia
➡️ Iran
➡️ Canada-U.S.
VIDEO: youtu.be/9EipxGr1m3Q
AUDIO: linktr.ee/thepaikinpod...
Elbows Up is good politics but is it bad economics?
“The issue for statesmen, rather than grubby politicians who will sell their grandma for an extra vote … is to do something statesmenlike and get a deal.”
Full episode: youtu.be/-2QjvllVdfE
Audio: linktr.ee/thepaikinpod...
“I don’t like my generation. I think they’re a bunch of greedy assholes.”
Tony Clement on whether baby boomers are willing to make sacrifices if this trade war continues.
Full episode: youtu.be/-2QjvllVdfE
Audio: linktr.ee/thepaikinpod...
🚨🇨🇦NEW: first episode of The Paikin Podcast’s second season w/ the Everything Political crew.
➡️ New era of economic war?
➡️ Should Carney have gone home?
➡️ Retaliatory tariffs
➡️“ Good politics, bad economics” of being elbows up?
Video: youtu.be/-2QjvllVdfE
Audio: linktr.ee/thepaikinpod...
🚨🎙️Christine Elliott joins the Everything Political crew.
➡️Trump’s wildfire tariffs
➡️Gordie Howe Bridge
➡️Finding decency
➡️Making politics more decent
YouTube: youtu.be/Bb4SZekC-Kk
Linktree: linktr.ee/thepaikinpod...
🚨NEW EP: @stephenmarche.bsky.social joins to discuss season two of Gloves Off.
➡️ Canadian optimism in an era of American chaos?
➡️ America’s doomsday clock
➡️ The 📉 of 🇺🇸power
➡️ Old Canada vs. New Canada
➡️ The path for middle powers
YouTube: youtu.be/HXn-q7wMsNQ
Podcast: linktr.ee/thepaikinpod...
🚨🌐NEW World on Edge with Janice Stein.
👉 Did the Iran War achieve … anything?
👉 Did America lose?
👉 Does Iran need a nuke now that they can weaponize the Strait of Hormuz?
👉 Sign of American decline?
YouTube: youtu.be/b08ruMq9Pfw
Apple: apple.co/3SsR6PG
“He’s now one of the most unpopular presidents in American history. … He’s not going to say I have to make a deal because I’m losing … but that’s exactly what’s happening.”
- Bob Rae on Trump and the deal with Iran.
FULL episode: youtu.be/rFn7nqrgCQQ
In our 2nd edition of our new monthly segment, Bob Rae joins the pod.
➡️ Will Trump kill USMCA?
➡️ Trump’s playbook: attack, deny, never apologize
➡️ How Canada should “play its own game”
➡️ The curious case of the Iran “deal”
➡️ Billy Bishop
YouTube: youtu.be/rFn7nqrgCQQ
Apple: apple.co/4xyx1aC
🚨NEW episode: our first collaboration with @charlieangus104.bsky.social and @meidastouch.com Canada.
➡️ A “new age of monsters”?
➡️ Gangster fascism
➡️ Canadian unity and rising separatisms
➡️ @avilewis.ca and the future of the @ndp.ca
YouTube: youtu.be/rF-NpBJPoTM
Apple: apple.co/4xoAxUW