Full Comment is Canada’s podcast for compelling interviews, controversial opinions and fascinating discussions. Hosted by Brian Lilley. Published by Postmedia, new episodes are released each Monday.
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10/3 brings you the biggest stories in Canada told by Postmedia's national network of award-winning journalists. Hosted by Dave Breakenridge, 10/3 updates twice a week.
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Plugged In connects you to the ever-expanding Canadian electric vehicle network, featuring in-depth interviews with experts, engineers and everyday EV owners from across the country and from around the world. Hosted by Postmedia Driving senior editor Andrew McCredie, Plugged In updates once a week.
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Welcome to Down to Business, the Financial Post podcast that brings you deep-dives on Canada's economy, and explains the biggest business stories of the day through interviews with newsmakers. Hosted by Gabe Friedman.
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In this six-part series, Postmedia journalists from across the country will dive deep into why conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxxers have flourished during the pandemic, how their false claims hurt us, and what we can do about it. Hosted by Monique Beaudin.
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Political columnists Michael Smyth and Rob Shaw report from the heart of British Columbia's politics.
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She’s Gone is an award-winning podcast hosted by Saskatoon StarPhoenix criminal justice reporter Bre McAdam. From crime to court case, this podcast tells the stories of four Saskatchewan women whose lives were cut short, aiming to humanize the high rate of female homicide victims in this province.
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Ed Willes, Ben Kuzma, Patrick Johnston, Harrison Mooney and all our writers bring you a Canucks podcast that talks about the news, rumours, theories and themes surrounding the team every week.
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True crime podcasts have been having a moment — and, more often than not, behind those podcasts are doggedly determined reporters: People who hit the street, knock on doors and ask hard questions. Because of their work, we often know every little detail about the crimes they cover, but what we don't hear enough is what it was actually like to report on those stories, to sit in courtrooms, chase down leads, get to know family members and talk to witnesses. True Crime Byline — a podcast by Pos ...
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Smart hockey talk for the informed fan, Off The Post is produced by Postmedia and hosted by Paul Chapman.
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Defence Watch is a limited series hosted by the Ottawa Citizen’s David Pugliese, who’s covered the Canadian military for more than 30 years. Through a number of wide-ranging interviews with insiders, experts and military personnel, Pugliese takes an in-depth look at a variety of subjects involving the Canadian Forces.
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Join legislature reporter Emma Graney, columnist Keith Gerein, as well as others in The Press Gallery, Edmonton Journal's Alberta politics podcast.
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Each season of The Dark North will tell a true crime story in a different Canadian city. Season 1 examines the struggle for control of Montreal's underworld, produced by the Montreal Gazette and hosted by Paul Cherry.
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Here in Washington, the Trump vs. Canada reality isn’t what we think
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46:35The premiers blitzing the U.S. capital wasn’t the pointless fiasco reports made it out to be, and President Trump’s plan for Canada may not really about tariffs or fentanyl. In this special episode, Brian reports from the ground in Washington, D.C. where he interviews Canadian provincial and business leaders who were there and hears about their act…
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Will Canada's approach to tariff threats sway Trump?
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24:11Canadian politicians, aiming to avoid a trade war amid U.S. tariff threats, have met with White House officials and appointed a 'fentanyl czar.' National Post's Catherine Levesque joins Dave Breakenridge to discuss these efforts and their potential impact on President Trump. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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How Trump is pouring gas on the fire of de-globalization
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29:50Meredith Lilly, a trade adviser under former prime minister Stephen Harper, says the world is on the cusp of a new trade order Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Postmedia
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For two decades, Afghan women had freedom. Then everything changed in an instant with the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban in 2021 amid the withdrawal of Western troops. Ehsanullah Amiri, the 2024 recipient of Postmedia’s Michelle Lang Fellowship, joins Dave Breakenridge to discuss the conditions under which women now live in Afghanistan, what th…
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S09EP05 – View from the C-Suite: Volvo Canada’s Matt Girgis
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29:07Way back in 2019, Volvo committed to building nothing but ‘electrified’ vehicles by 2022, and hit that mark with a mix of mild-hybrids, hybrids, plug-in hybrids and full electric vehicles. The global brand also laid out plans to build nothing but vehicles with a plug by 2023, but last year adjusted that to 90 per cent with the remaining 10 per cent…
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S09EP10 – View from the C-Suite: Kia Canada’s Elias El-Achhab
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30:21If you haven’t been paying attention, here’s a newsflash: Kia is making some of the most stylish and most technologically advanced all-electric vehicles available in Canada. And the great news is, as you’ll hear from Kia Canada vice-president and COO Elias El-Achhab on this episode of our special View from the C-Suite podcast series, there are two …
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S09EP08 – View from the C-Suite: Audi/VW’s Vito Paladino
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32:59On this episode of our special View from the C-Suite podcast series, Audi Canada President and VW Groups Canada and CEO Vito Paladino joins the podcast to talk about why headwinds will not slow these automaker’s all-electric vehicle plans. He also explains why he welcomes the challenge of Chinese-built EVs, and how he’s not too concerned about the …
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S09EP07 – View from the C-Suite: Ford of Canada’s Paul Roy
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31:15Ford of Canada sells three all-electric vehicles, the F-150 Lightning pickup truck, the E-Transit cargo van and the Mustang March-E, the latter of which outsold it’s gasoline powered stablemates three-to- one in 2024. That all contributed to a fantastic sales year last year for Ford’s EV segment, posting an amazing 66.1 per cent increase. On this e…
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S09EP06 – View from the C-Suite: Hyundai Canada’s Steve Flamand
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31:30Steve Flamand of Hyundai Canada sits down with Andrew McCredie to talk about his company’s strong presence in the EV sector in Canada and what the future looks like in that segment. His company is firing on all kilowatts with 2024 being a very strong sales year for Hyundai in Canada. Hyundai sales improved 13.9 per cent over 2023. And on the electr…
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S09EP09 – View from the C-Suite: Toyota Canada’s Cyril Dimitris
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28:30One couldn’t fault Toyota for feeling a little smug these days, as they are reaping the benefits — or at least not suffering as other automakers — of not pushing all their chips into the all-electric vehicle pot. They certainly took a lot of heat these past few years for not pivoting quicker to build and sell EVs, but now that wait-and-see attitude…
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Why Trump isn’t just joking about taking over Canada anymore
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31:43It might seem unbelievable, but some Americans, including President Donald Trump, really think it’s possible that Canada, or parts of it, might join the U.S.A. Joel Pollak, California-based editor for Breitbart News and author of The Agenda: What Trump Should Do in His First 100 Days, tells Brian that the president’s unexpected, confrontational tar…
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What could a trade war mean for Alberta's energy and economy?
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16:48Canada's response to Trump’s trade war threats and the carve-out for Canadian energy has put Alberta’s oilpatch in the spotlight. While Alberta’s oil faced less impact from tariffs, the threat remains a major concern. Calgary Herald columnist Chris Varcoe joins Dave Breakenridge to discuss the potential impact on Alberta’s economy and key industrie…
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U.S. tariffs on hold 30 days after Canada commits to beefing up border security
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21:03Canada received a temporary reprieve from U.S. tariffs after committing to border security and drug policy changes. National Post reporter Stephanie Taylor joins the show to discuss the agreements and Canada’s new drug strategy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Postmedia
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Trump has already changed everything in the Middle East
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57:22It’s the deal no one thought they wanted and one the Biden administration couldn’t get done. Then Donald Trump showed up, sending his envoy Steve Witkoff to force it through. Soon, the hostages starting coming home, in their tortured bodies, telling their unspeakable stories. As Vivian Bercovici tells Brian from Israel, where she was formerly Canad…
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No 'traitors' in Parliament, foreign interference inquiry finds
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26:28Marie-Josée Hogue, head of the foreign interference inquiry, has delivered her final report, making sweeping recommendations for the federal government, while asserting that, despite allegations of some MPs possibly being foreign agents, there is no evidence of traitors in Ottawa, as discussed by National Post politics reporter Chris Nardi with Dav…
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Premier Doug Ford is calling a snap election in Ontario
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19:17The question in Ontario politics is whether a trade war over Trump’s tariffs will boost Doug Ford and the Progressive Conservatives’ majority, as he calls a snap election, with Bryan Passifiume and Dave Breakenridge discussing Ford’s strategy and opposition reactions. Background reading:Premier Doug Ford confirms he’s calling snap Ontario election …
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The reason Trump plans to crush Canada that our politicians just don’t get
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53:56It’s not just about tariffs. If you examine what the America First advisers around Trump really think, you’ll understand their determination to undertake a sweeping overhaul of the global economic system — and why they’re starting with Canada. Brian’s guests this week, trade researcher Carlo Dade, from the Canada West Foundation, and Ian Lee, publi…
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The dirty fight shaping up between Carney and Freeland
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54:30Was a photo of Mark Carney with Jeffrey Epstein’s girlfriend leaked by Chrystia Freeland’s team? Who sent the Rolls Royce to Carney’s campaign launch event? Is Karina Gould’s candidacy just a strategy to undermine Freeland? Brian talks with Liberal strategists Sharan Kaur, who worked inside the Trudeau government, and Kieran McMurchy, consultant at…
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Is Donald Trump set to try to annex Canada?
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25:14Is Donald Trump set to try to annex Canada? Or is he trolling us in the worst possible way. Truly only he knows at this point, but it has raised somewhat of a sovereignty crisis in this country. Carson Jerema, National Post’s comment editor, joins the show to discuss what Trump could be angling for, how our leaders have responded, and what the poli…
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Paul Godfrey wants to make Toronto pretty good again
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49:21By sheer force of will, Paul Godfrey built a Major League Baseball team in what was then Canada’s sleepy second city, when everyone doubted it could be done. (He ended up in the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and the Blue Jays would go on to win two World Series.) He helped shake up a staid and boring local newspaper scene with the scrappy Toronto …
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stepping down good news for western Canada
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31:10After much speculation about his political future, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced he would be stepping down... eventually. David Staples and Lorne Gunter join the show to discuss the factors that led to Trudeau's departure, how his legacy will be viewed in western Canada, and whether there is a potential successor who could turn Liberal fo…
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BEST OF 2024: The COVID lies they told us continue to warp our lives
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37:46Over the holidays, we’re looking back at some of the best episodes of 2024, which in December marked the fifth anniversary of the COVID virus escaping China and wreaking global havoc. We’re still learning how institutions and officials politicized science during the pandemic to justify economic lockdowns, border closures, school shutdowns and other…
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BEST OF 2024: Jordan Peterson on why everyone should be afraid of what happened to him
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42:59Over the holidays, we’re looking back at some of the best episodes of 2024, a year that may have marked the beginning of the end for left-wing political censorship, especially by professional bodies. Last January, the courts shut the door on overturning a decision by the College of Psychologists of Ontario that ordered Jordan Peterson into a mandat…
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His finance minister has quit in disgust. He seems only able to come up with increasingly bad ideas. His government is in disarray, with crises in immigration, housing, the cost-of-living, deficits, debt and more. And the U.S. is about to hit Canada with economy-killing tariffs. Yet, as Brian discusses with Postmedia’s Lorne Gunter and Chris Selley…
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Federal politics roller-coaster ride saved best for last in 2024
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31:50Federal politics saved perhaps its biggest surprise for one of the last weeks of the year with the surprise cabinet resignation of Chrystia Freeland. But it has been a very eventful year in Canadian politics. National Post Parliamentary Bureau Chief Stuart Thomson and parliamentary reporter Antoine Trepanier join Dave Breakenridge to break down the…
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You won’t believe how badly your bank is fleecing you
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39:36Canadians have been deceived into believing that having strong, stable banks means sacrificing competition, as Andrew Spence, author of Fleeced: Canadians Versus Their Banks, tells Brian. So, we have no real competition, which means we pay more — loads more — for ATMs, Interac, mortgages, NSF fees, exchange rates and more, than people do in compara…
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The Delivery Economy explodes: Reverberations throughout the economy & ceilings to online - Part 3
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13:18In the final episode of The Delivery Economy, Clarence Woudsma, a professor at the University of Waterloo’s School of Planning, joins Gabe to explain how e-commerce is evolving and the trends that may lie ahead, from growth markets such as grocery to the shifting labour landscape. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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The Delivery Economy explodes: Looking for a relief valve in the delivery economy as traffic grows - Part 2
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21:24In episode two of The Delivery Economy, Gabe speaks with Ivan Waissbluth. Fed up with traffic in Toronto, Waissbluth co-founded NRBI, which has been building a rapidly growing fleet of electric cargo bikes to deliver goods around the city's dense core. Then a bike courier with decades of experiences tells Gabe what it’s like to ride a bike around T…
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The Delivery Economy explodes: A Down to Business deep dive - Part 1
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43:29In the first episode of The Delivery Economy, Down to Business host Gabe Friedman explores the astonishing economics of e-commerce with the CEOs of two Canadian companies.Sylvia Ng discusses her decision to leave Shopify Inc and found ReturnBear in 2021 as she watched a growing number of companies struggle with the high level of returns from online…
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John A. helped Indigenous people, Riel didn’t, and other unpopular realities
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52:02Imagine Indigenous people getting to vote for the first time — and voting for John A. Macdonald. Many did. And it was Canada’s first prime minister who gave them the vote. The Conservative leader also kept Aboriginal communities fed (against fierce Liberal opposition) when the buffalo disappeared and protected them from disease, as Patrice Dutil, a…
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You’ve heard about the electric vehicle revolution, but what about the electric landscaping revolution? Since 2000 a New Westminster, BC company called The Silent Gardener has committed to reducing its carbon footprint in a business that traditionally has relied heavily on fossil fuels to get the job done. Today, its entire fleet of work vehicles i…
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An update on Down to Business - A message from Gabe Friedman
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1:57Down to Business has been on hiatus for a while. But our host Gabe Friedman has some exciting news to share about the future of the show! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Postmedia
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Trudeau did ‘almost everything wrong’ on immigration. It’s about to get worse
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48:42What was once the best immigration system in the world has been turned on its head, former immigration minister and premier Jason Kenney tells Brian this week — all because Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has preferred pandering platitudes over practical policy. After eight years of mass migration, Canadians everywhere — including immigrants — are su…
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Sadistic killer Paul Bernardo denied parole or any form of release
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26:19Notorious killer Paul Bernardo faced the Parole Board of Canada for the third time this week. The man convicted of murdering three girls 30 years ago was again denied parole. National Post reporter Adrian Humphreys joins Dave Breakenridge to discuss Bernardo's parole hearing, the board's decision, and the victims' families' reactions. Learn more ab…
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Randy Boissonnault has resigned from cabinet after weeks of mounting controversies
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25:55Randy Boissonnault resigned from Justin Trudeau's cabinet amid controversy over his business dealings and Indigenous identity claims. National Post’s Chris Nardi joins Dave Breakenridge to discuss his departure and what’s next for the Edmonton MP. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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