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🚨🎙️NEW episode: The Everything Political gang, including guest @davidmoscrop.com, breaks down the budget-voting drama from this week.

YouTube:https://youtu.be/Y2PH9I6BCdg
Apple: apple.co/3K44E03
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#cdnpoli #budget2025
November 20, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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From a post-WWII displaced persons camp to the Supreme Court of Canada. Steve interviews Justice Rosalie Abella and, in the process, goes back to school – in this case, a Canadian Studies class at Harvard.

Apple: apple.co/47Mg9m0
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November 15, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Canada's Minister of Finance François-Philippe Champagne joined the pod to discuss, yes, the budget, but also his mentor Jean Chrétien and why he got into politics.

Episode drops this Monday. And, no, they did not end the conversation with a Shawinigan handshake. Just a regular one. #cdnpoli
November 14, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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🚨🇨🇦On our NEW episode of World on Edge, Erin O'Toole joins the pod to discuss:

➡️The large bump in military spending in the budget
➡️What we should buy (submarines? F-35s? drones?)
➡️Russia and China
➡️Arctic sovereignty
➡️The end of globalization

YouTube: youtu.be/OVgtfpwNdv4
Apple: apple.co/49j7dpd
Is Canada’s Military Ready for the New Chaotic Global Order? | World on Edge
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November 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Steve is joined by @avilewis.ca to discuss his @ndp.ca leadership bid and a whole lot more.

➡️Where they go from here
➡️Justin Trudeau passing them on the left
➡️Returning to the NDP's “working-class” roots
➡️Wealth Tax & Climate

YouTube: youtu.be/P1SQJtz56Hg
Apple:https://apple.co/4oZXgSk

#cdnpoli
Why Avi Lewis Thinks He Can Save the NDP
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November 6, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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🚨🎙️NEW episode: Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson on their new book, Breaking Point: The New Big Shifts Putting Canada at Risk.

➡️Trudeau’s failures
➡️Immigration
➡️Angry young people
➡️Tensions in Quebec and the Prairies
➡️How to fix it

YouTube: youtu.be/7WJ0y7s_BZ8
Apple: apple.co/4nzNt4c

#cdnpoli
Is Canada at a Breaking Point?
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November 3, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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🚨🎙️Our latest episode of World Edge

➡️Could Trump’s Israel-Hamas peace deal work?
➡️Disarming Hamas?
➡️An international stabilization force?
➡️What happens next?

YouTube: youtu.be/8-XigMDVY3c
Apple: apple.co/49uU9wV
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4y2u...

#Gaza #israelhamaswar #GazaCeasefire
Does Trump Deserve Credit for the Israel-Hamas Peace Deal? | World on Edge
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October 30, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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“I always knew that this would backfire.” Martin Short on
Jimmy Kimmel being pulled from air and why he and Steve Martin “deliberately” do not do a political show.

Full episode: youtu.be/Qss4ywRBtAc
Apple: apple.co/3L1zV3Y
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5kOK...
October 27, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Why does Martin Short wear his Order of Canada pin every time he is on American television?

Full episode: youtu.be/Qss4ywRBtAc
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October 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Everyone was in love with her. Martin Short shares a hilarious story about his friend Diane Keaton while on set during the O.J. trial.

Full episode: youtu.be/Qss4ywRBtAc
Apple: apple.co/3L1zV3Y
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5kOK...

#DianeKeaton
October 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Some guests need no introduction. Ladies and gentlemen, Martin Short.

➡️ Being Canadian in Trump’s America
➡️ Jimmy Kimmel
➡️ Carson & Letterman & making fun of Conan
➡️ Greatest talk show guest?

YouTube: youtu.be/Qss4ywRBtAc
Apple: apple.co/3L1zV3Y
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5kOK...
Martin Short: Being a Proud Canadian in Trump's America
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October 27, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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“Pierre Poilievre is dismantling the principled, serious and credible Conservative Party,” wrote Dimitri Soudas, former senior advisor to Stephen Harper. Are the knives out for Pierre Poilievre?

Our latest episode of Everything Political: youtu.be/fgoCG-mDHfc
Listen: apple.co/4m81G7K

#cdnpoli
Is Pierre Poilievre Destroying the Conservative Party? | Everything Political
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October 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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PM Carney wants to ramp up investments in defence significantly, but what does that mean?

🔴New F-35 fighters from the US?
🔴Ice breakers for the Arctic?
🔴Joining Trump’s Golden Dome?

🎙️NEW episode: Canadian defence in a changing world order.

YouTube: youtu.be/Z00JoIYq5vU
Apple: apple.co/4nVNNeA
Will Canada Defend Itself? | World on Edge
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October 16, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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We’re not comfortable with this word either, but it was used on the podcast. David Coletto joins Everything Political to discuss how Canadians are split between wanting a disruptor that will change things and a calm reassuring figure – i.e. a “daddy.”

YouTube: youtu.be/dNZaTzDNjD8

#cdnpoli
Why Canadian Voters Are Split Between a Disruptor or a “Daddy” | Everything Political
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October 9, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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🚨NEW episode: Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer
joins the pod for a live taping.

➡️ Ending the “Tariff Madness”
➡️ Rise of American Violence
➡️ Future of the Left
➡️ Jays & Tigers

YouTube: youtu.be/qMXY3d0spzs
Apple: apple.co/3WpBkDD
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1fqQ...
Governor Gretchen Whitmer: Can Canada Trust America?
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October 6, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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🚨🌎On the latest episode of World on Edge with Conservative MP Shuv Majumdar and Janice Stein:

➡️ Should Canada have recognized Palestine?
➡️ What does it accomplish?
➡️ Trump and Netanyahu at the UN
➡️ The end of the UN at 80?

Watch:https://youtu.be/rAAlKZQSrAk
Listen: apple.co/4pRCx45
October 2, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Steve asks Governor Gretchen Whitmer if she will be seeking the Democratic nomination for president in 2028. Her answer doesn't exactly slam the door shut on that possibility.

Full interview coming soon.

#Democrats
October 2, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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“There will be a point where Donald Trump and Mark Carney are going to come to conflict," says Justin Ling. But, for now, Trump seems to like Carney personally.

Full episode: youtu.be/TmrReXrrBec
Apple: apple.co/48LNb6i
Link Tree: linktr.ee/thepaikinpod...

#cdnpoli
September 29, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Steve and @justinling.ca discuss his book, “The 51st State Votes,” Canada’s existential election, Poilievre’s “campaign malpractice,” & how exactly Mark Carney’s “elbows up” approach is going today.

YouTube: youtu.be/TmrReXrrBec
Apple: apple.co/48LNb6i
Link Tree: linktr.ee/thepaikinpod...

#cdnpoli
September 29, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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🚨NEW episode of “Everything Political.”

➡️ The fallout from the Charlie Kirk assassination
➡️ Free speech in America
➡️ Chrystia Freeland's exit from cabinet
➡️ Carney's trip to Mexico

YouTube: youtu.be/tANUfdv8Vyk
Apple: apple.co/42a72s3
All the others: linktr.ee/thepaikinpod...

#cdnpoli #Kimmel
Does Anyone Really Care About Free Speech Anymore? | Everything Political
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September 25, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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🎙️🚨For decades Brian Stewart was Canada’s eyes on the world. He joins the pod to discuss his four decades reporting on the world’s crises, famines, wars, the toll it took on him, and the state of the world today.

YouTube: youtu.be/Kc7VVSNEo3Y

Apple: apple.co/3Vw1BzS
10 Wars, 1 Man: Brian Stewart on Four Decades Covering the World’s Crises
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September 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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🚨🎙️Michael Ignatieff joins to discuss the murder of Charlie Kirk, if it could lead to increased political violence and even civil war, the rise of authoritarianism worldwide & if Canada is prepared for an unstable and chaotic America.

YouTube: youtu.be/B_Amwscwaj0

Apple: apple.co/4nDZ8PY
Will the Assassination of Charlie Kirk Lead to Civil War?
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September 18, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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🚨🎙️NEW episode. A very candid chat with Director Barry Avrich on his doc, The Road Between Us.

➡️His story of why it was pulled from #TIFF50
➡️Why he thinks it is "not a political" film
➡️The protests and response to a film "about a family"

YouTube: youtu.be/ZU9gqqkWk00

Apple: apple.co/46lXwmL
Why Did TIFF Cancel (and Uncancel) His Oct. 7th Film? | Barry Avrich 1x1
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September 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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This was a great and in-depth chat with JDM Stewart on his book “The Prime Ministers.”

A deep dive into Canada’s PMs, why kids aren’t learning about these leaders anymore, & if the pendulum is swinging the other way on the “history wars.”

YouTube: youtu.be/AFaJLtVmxpQ

Apple: apple.co/41RBw1M
Are the “Woke” History Wars Coming to an End?
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September 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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“God rest your soul, Ken Dryden.”

Steve reflects on the last time he interviewed his friend.
September 10, 2025 at 8:38 PM