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Probing and insightful conversations with Canada's top political insiders, hosted by Althia Raj. A bi-monthly political podcast from the Toronto Star.
In this episode of "It's Political," the Toronto Star's Ottawa bureau reporter Ryan Tumilty and deputy bureau chief Alex Ballingall join hos...
The federal government signed a memorandum of understanding with Alberta yesterday, pledging support to build a new pipeline and make change...
Nova Scotia MP Chris d'Entremont's decision to cross the floor to the Grits handed them a crucial vote to pass their budget and triggered a...
U.S. President Donald Trump is clear and consistent: he wants Canadian auto sector jobs on his side of the border. He's refused to craft a s...
Pierre Poilievre's Conservative Party says Canada's justice system is broken, and that overly lax bail laws are leading to preventable viole...
Things might look dire for the NDP, with the loss of official party status and its seven members not always seeing eye to eye. But at least...
Newly minted Liberal Leader Mark Carney ran on an ambitious platform. He promised quick and bold action. But six months into his tenure as p...
Join Althia Raj and the Toronto Star's Ottawa bureau as they get ready to cover a busy and unpredictable fall in Canadian politics.
Canada's Minister of National Defence David McGuinty joins Althia to discuss increases to the country's defense budget and what the relation...
MPs returned to the House of Commons this week with three leaders missing from the chamber: Justin Trudeau, Pierre Poilievre and Jagmeet Sin...
What are Conservative MPs and candidates thinking as the party regroups after their election loss and charts a path forward? On this week's...
The federal election results are in. The Liberals have won a fourth term with Mark Carney at the helm, besting Pierre Poilievre's Conservati...
In this episode: Toronto Star Ottawa deputy bureau chief Alex Ballingall and Ottawa bureau reporters Ryan Tumilty, Raisa Patel and Mark Ramz...
The federal election campaign is in the final stretch with just a few days to go. The party leaders are crisscrossing the country, trying to...
Canada's political parties have now released their election platforms and put a price tag on their plans. Some of their costing is a little...
With less than two weeks left until election day, the leaders' debates were a crucial time for the parties to make a pitch to voters and tak...
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre confirmed this week that if elected prime minister, his government would invoke the notwithstanding cla...
Pierre Poilievre held massive rallies in Alberta this week and received an endorsement from former Prime Minister Stephen Harper. But why is...
Halfway through this five-week federal election campaign, no major party has yet released its platform and there have been no big climate ch...
Canada was spared Wednesday when the U.S. President Donald Trump announced new punishing tariffs on the rest of the world. But many Canadian...
Conservative party infighting! Candidate removals! U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs! There's been a lot of issues flying around this el...
U.S. President Donald Trump injected himself into the Canadian election campaign this week but he was already a central figure. This week on...
The election has kicked off, leaders have hit the trail, rallies were had, press conferences were held and photo ops were taken. It's been a...
Liberal Leader Mark Carney spent his 10th day as prime minister asking Governor General Mary Simon to dissolve Parliament, and then asking C...
The federal parties are putting the final touches on their election campaigns. What just recently seemed like an easy victory for the Conser...
Mark Carney was sworn in as Canada's new Prime Minister Friday morning, after winning the Liberal leadership race in a landslide. He unveile...
Mark Carney, the former Bank of Canada governor, trounced the competition Sunday winning the Liberal leadership with nearly 86 per cent supp...
U.S. President Donald Trump announced he was slapping tariffs on Canada this week, and the federal government — along provincial premiers —...
Liberal leadership contenders faced off in two debates this week, and the stakes were high, with the winning candidate set to replace Justin...
For the past two years, the Conservatives drove home the message that things were "broken" in Canada and that the governing Liberals, specif...
Two years ago bombshell allegations emerged suggesting foreign actors were succeeding in influencing Canadian electoral contests and Canadia...
The 2025 political landscape is looking very different than it did just a few weeks ago. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's pending resignation...
It's been an eventful year in Canadian politics — from Chrystia Freeland's bombshell resignation, to allegations of foreign interference inv...
United States President-elect Donald Trump's return to the White House is renewing pressure on Canada to focus more on defense spending and...
The House of Commons is in gridlock. Government bills and private members' legislation have stalled. The Senate is running out of government...
Donald Trump will be president of the United States for a second time. Trump's decisive victory Tuesday plunges the U.S., the world and Cana...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faced down more than two dozen MPs this week who suggested he should take time to contemplate his leadership a...
Immigration has become a hot political issue with politicians — federally and provincially — and Canadians are telling pollsters what they'r...
The Liberal government survived its first confidence vote Wednesday, when the Bloc Québécois and the NDP decided to offer Prime Minister Jus...
Parliament is back with a bang! In a slick social media video, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh announced he couldn't stomach working with the minor...
The spring sitting on Parliament Hill is coming to a close. There's been a lot to keep track of — the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, the introduc...
If 22 people were being shot each day on Canadian streets, you might expect a federal state of emergency to be called, a co-ordinated federa...
Hours after Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre was expelled from the House of Commons for calling Prime Minister Justin Trudeau "a wacko"...
We started " It's Political " two years ago with an episode on the NDP's supply and confidence agreement. Back then, we wondered, would the...
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland tabled her latest budget Tuesday, with big spending plans to increase the housing supply, deliver on comm...
The federal government's latest effort to regulate speech on the internet was met with relief from parents who've long advocated for a safer...
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre attempted to topple the Liberal government this week by introducing a motion calling for a non-confiden...
On Feb. 29, Canada's Health Minister Mark Holland introduced a pharmacare bill in Parliament, seemingly laying down the foundation for a new...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau managed one chaotic term under U.S. President Donald Trump, and he's made it clear he'd prefer to continue wor...
For decades, there was solid political and social consensus on immigration in Canada. But recently, cracks in that consensus have emerged. I...