The Paikin Podcast

Rob Ashton joins Steve to discuss his NDP leadership bid, why he thinks the NDP needs to return to its working-class roots, if the Conservative Party outflanked them, and what he offers as an NDP leader that the other candidates do not. 
They then discuss housing, the level of unionization in Canada, Carney’s speech in Davos, Canada’s foreign policy approach in Ukraine and the Middle East, and Ashton’s favourite PM in Canadian history. 

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Canadaland’s Jesse Brown joins Steve to discuss his investigative podcast series, “What is Happening Here,” how October 7th made his world “fall apart,” the rise in antisemitism in Canada, the “double standard” in how it’s covered, and the pushback and attacks his reporting on antisemitism has received. 
They also discuss the left’s antisemitism problem, how Jewish people are seen as white privileged “oppressors,” if anti-Zionism is racist, and if he’s lost friends or advertisers doing this series. 
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The Everything Political panel with former MPs Martha Hall Findlay and Tony Clement discuss Pierre Poilievre’s leadership review, what 87.4% support means, the level of unity in the Conservative Party, and how Poilievre gave the “best speech of his life.”

They then discuss if Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative Party can win a general election, if he’s the right man for this geopolitical moment of uncertainty, Carney’s international background and experience, and why the next election will be Poilievre’s “last chance.” 

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Heather McPherson, NDP MP from Edmonton Strathcona, joins Steve to discuss her NDP leadership bid, why we still need the NDP even though 94% of Canadian voters rejected them in the last election, and how the party, in her view, has lost its way. 

They then discuss climate change, whether the NDP is a pro-pipeline or anti-pipeline party, Canada’s decision to recognize Palestine, Canada’s foreign policy in a new world order, her favorite prime minister, and her battle with cancer. 
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Christian Leuprecht joins Janice Stein to discuss Carney’s speech in Davos, how it was the “most consequential” international speech ever delivered by a Canadian prime minister, why we must move on from the rules-based international order, and why nostalgia is not a strategy. 
They also discuss middle power alliances, Canada’s foreign policy, “taking the world as it is,” and whether Canada can be both principled and pragmatic in its approach to the world.
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