Friday Focus: developed democracies are in crisis and the dangerous power of Elon Musk
Rudyard and Janice survey a world in turmoil, from protests across Europe and rising oil prices to Starshield disruptions in Ukraine and sig...
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Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: France’s unrest and the West’s growth problem
Rudyard and Andrew examine the social unrest sweeping across France. Andrew argues that while protest is deeply embedded in French political...
Friday Focus: Trump tilts the war in Putin's favour and the growing threat of rogue AI
Rudyard and Janice begin today’s show with Russia and Ukraine exchanging strikes following a brief, Trump-brokered energy ceasefire that las...
Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: Trump's gift to Putin and Alberta's grievance referendum
Andrew and Rudyard begin today’s show with Trump’s decision to waive sanctions on Russian diesel in an effort to bring down fuel prices ahea...
Friday Focus: Iran on the brink and the politicization of the Nobel Peace Prize
Rudyard and Janice begin today’s show with Trump’s mixed messaging on Iran. While Trump has suggested that military action may be delayed un...
Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: Canada’s separatist moment
Rudyard and Andrew focus today’s show on the separatist movements gaining traction across Canada. Quebec voters appear poised to elect a sep...
Friday Focus: Trump's pre-midterm warning to Tehran and Israel's high-stakes election
Rudyard and Janice begin today’s show with news that the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier is being deployed to the Middle East and th...
Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: Is Mark Carney governing like a Conservative?
What can we expect from a make-or-break federal budget delivered in the middle of a trade war? Rudyard and Andrew look at the growing appeti...
Friday Focus: the danger of Canada’s “war” rhetoric
Prime Minister Mark Carney says he studied the possibility of U.S.-led military action against Canada in an hour-long interview with The New...
Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: Is Carney’s momentum pointing to a spring election?
Parliament opened yesterday with the PM determined to keep his momentum going: a labour reform bill and a major liberalization of project pe...
Friday Focus: Trump's latest threats carry no weight and AI leaders sound the alarm
Trump says he is weighing whether to "annihilate" Iran next week. Is this another empty threat? We have reached a point where it is increasi...
Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: Carney opens Canada for business and courts a new European alliance
Andrew and Rudyard begin with several important announcements from Carney’s investment summit, including a cut to the marginal effective tax...
Friday Focus: Canada's trade war heats up and the Iranians escalate to de-escalate
Friday Focus returns from its summer hiatus to unpack two major geopolitical flashpoints. First, the trade war with the United States—and it...
Be it resolved, religion is a force for good in the world
On this special edition of the Munk Debates podcast, we’re revisiting one of the classic debates from the series’ 18-year history: the Munk...
Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: Is Canada prepared for the long fight?
Rudyard and Andrew unpack a consequential week in the Canada-U.S. trade war, from Trump’s increasingly erratic and provocative behaviour—inc...
Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: Carney walks away from Trump and turns his Davos speech into action
Rudyard and Andrew react to the intensifying Canada-U.S. trade war. Trump is threatening additional tariffs starting January 1, and it’s inc...
Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: how far is Carney willing to bend for Trump?
Rudyard and Andrew unpack leaks from ongoing U.S.-Canada trade talks, which are focused only on the immediate threat of 50% tariffs on Canad...
Be it resolved, anti-Zionism is antisemitism
On this special edition of the Munk Debates podcast we are sharing the full Munk Debate on anti-Zionism, which took place in June 2024 in fr...
Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: the Canada-US trade deadline looms and Iran calls Trump's bluff
August 19 is fast approaching, and despite efforts to reach a deal, there is a real possibility that negotiations could collapse altogether....
Be it Resolved, let’s engineer better human beings
This special episode features the Munk Debate on the Gene Editing, held before a live audience of 800 students and faculty at Deerfield Acad...