What was B.C.’s David Eby thinking by calling the maddest Canadian election ever?
If you’ve got a majority government with two years left and an unpopular record to defend, calling a snap election might not seem like a gre...
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Full Comment with Anthony Furey
Full Comment is Canada’s podcast for compelling interviews, controversial opinions and fascinating discussions. Hosted by Postmedia’s Anthony Furey, Full Comment updates with one episode per...
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20 of 284 episodesIt’s showy, it’s insubstantial, but Carney’s EU scheme is slick politics
There’s no such thing as “associate membership” in the European Union and nobody knows what it means, but Prime Minister Mark Carney’s propo...
How Conservatives can get their groove back
It’s a tough time to be a federal Tory. The polls are demoralizing. Some MPs are quitting and some are going rogue. And the worse things get...
If Carney and Trump are at war, why are they enjoying it?
Postmedia’s Political Hack team Tasha Kheiriddin and Stuart Thomson join Brian to assess the political spin contest over the collapse of U.S...
Diversity is not our strength
Things that divide us cannot possibly unite us. That much would seem obvious, but as Étienne-Alexandre Beauregard tells Brian, society has f...
Inside the mainstream media meltdown
Trust in legacy journalism is plummeting, and after years working inside the CBC, Tara Henley has a good idea why. The author of the new boo...
A Canadian history of drinking, fighting and puking in Parliament
Detractors like to say that House of Commons decorum has never been worse than it is today, but don’t be so sure. Charlie Feldman is author...
Canada’s ‘suicidal empathy’ hits its terminal stage
Civilizations die from suicide, not murder, as a famous historian once said. And Canada’s in the process of administering MAID on itself, sa...
Why U.K. conservatives need to imitate Canada
British politics has become a farce, with Andy Burnham now the United Kingdom’s seventh prime minister in a decade. And no one knows what he...
A veteran cop explains what’s really happening inside Canadian policing
As unit commander in the largest homicide squad in the country, Hank Idsinga has seen more than most people would ever want to. He discusses...
Hate has corrupted the world’s biggest charities
The Red Cross, Amnesty International, Doctors Without Borders, Human Rights Watch, UNICEF and more — they’re treated by governments and the...
Look what happens in Alberta when we let it do stuff
Two new pipeline plans and an enormous $13-billion Meta data centre have been announced for Alberta in just the last few days. Brett Wilson,...
Canada waited too long to rein in dangerous Big Tech platforms
Balancing protection for kids online while ensuring free speech and privacy for everyone else isn’t easy, which is why Ottawa has muffed it...
Is Mark Carney bringing ‘mean’ back?
As Liberal MPs moan anonymously that Prime Minister Mark Carney is a mean boss, his defenders say it’s just high performance expectations (u...
Here comes the big U.S.-Israel split
President Donald Trump’s deal with Iran is seen as a total capitulation to the Islamic Republic, and most of all in Israel, which fought alo...
Ottawa’s building a backdoor to slide into our personal online data
Tech firms and civil libertarians are sounding the alarm about “lawful access” legislation the Liberals seem hellbent on passing before summ...
Carney officially gives up on Canadian values for fear of losing the bigoted vote
A prime minister walks into a synagogue for an antisemitism speech and makes things worse. It’s not a joke, as our three guests all agree. B...
Face it, some migrants are totally abusing our immigration system
What happens when you invite the migrants of the world, as former prime minister Justin Trudeau did, to flood into Canada? You end up with a...
Investor interest in Alberta going ‘nuclear’ over Carney’s messaging
After a brutal decade under Justin Trudeau’s draconian anti-development policies, there’s real optimism in the western oilpatch again. Paul...
Canada’s too late now to save CUSMA from a Trump rewrite...or worse
The growing sense about Mark Carney in Washington is that maybe he doesn’t actually want trade peace, as Tracy Moran, National Post correspo...