The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge - Your Turn: Habits and How To Break Them

Episode Date: October 15, 2026

The topic this week is about habits and how to break them. The most common habit that people have wanted to break over the last fifty years is almost certainly smoking and that was often mentioned this week. But there were more. Also this week, the Random Ranter with his latest rant about Donald Trump. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

And hello there, Peter Vanspichere. You're just moments away from the latest episode of The Bridge. It's Thursday. That means your turn and the random ranter. Your turn this week is all about habits and how to break them using your experience. We'll talk about that when we come back. And hello there. Welcome to Thursday of this week.

Thursdays, Your Turn, the Random Ranter. They're both coming right up. But a couple of announcements, really, one, main one. If you follow me at all on social media, if you ever check in on the website, the peter mansbridge.com, you'll notice something new went up yesterday. And it's the advisory of the upcoming book by

Mark Bulgich. and I've written a couple of books so far. Extraordinary Canadians is one. And how Canada works was the other one just a couple of years ago. Well, this year we've got a new one and it's kind of a passion, especially of Marks, but really of both of us. We both feel very strongly about teachers, very passionately about teachers,

and the contribution they make to our own. society and to every one of us. Now Mark and I are somewhat biased. Mark's got two daughters, both of whom are teachers, and of my two daughters, one of whom is a teacher. So we're pretty proud of our daughters, but we're even prouder of the profession. And the contribution teachers make to our to our country, to our cities, to our communities, and to each and every one of us. We all remember our teachers. And no matter how you might feel about how some of those classes went over the years,

when you think back, where would you be without those teachers? So our book is called A Noble Profession. It's released on November 2nd, so in just a couple of weeks, time. So you're going to see a few things about the book over the next little while. You'll have Mark here as a guest in a couple of weeks. The week before the release, that'll be the first interview because there's lots of interviews coming up on various different programs that we've been invited to be on, which is very kind of all those programs. and bookstores in Toronto, in Winnipeg, in Halifax, in Calgary.

Looking forward to visiting all of them. So the announcement yesterday on the website, peter mansbridge, or the peter mansbridge.com, is about the Canadian tour next month, November of 26. for a noble profession. I'll give you just a hint. We're doing a number of appearances together in different places, and then we're doing, you know,

I'll be traveling a fair amount across the country. I wish it was coast to coast to coast. It's close, but not quite. And, you know, there are obviously certain budget restrictions on how far we can go and where we can go. But let me give you a hint. These are the sum of the places we're going. We'll be in a number of places in Toronto

and appearing on a number of different television programs and television networks as a result. We'll be in London, Ontario. We'll be in Oakville, Ontario. I'll be in Winnipeg, thanks to the good people of McNally-Robinson. I'll be in Hudson, Quebec. Now, Hudson's just outside of Montreal. Beautiful little time.

town community. Halifax, going to Halifax. Again, I just was in Halifax two weeks ago. Back to Halifax. I'll be in Ottawa at the Writers' Festival. And I'll be at Wordfest in Calgary. All of that in the month of November. There are other appearances, quite a few of them. But those are the headlines. Those are the highlights. And that's what you'll see with the details. on my website. The Canadian Tour for a Noble profession. Opening day for a noble profession is November 2nd. You'll see throughout the fall books being launched,

usually on a Tuesday by different publishers at different times. And they're all trying to position themselves for, and guess what, the Christmas book market. So on our last one, how Canada works, we left it quite late, deep into November. It did extremely well. It was on the bestseller list. But we wanted to get this one out a little earlier, so that's why we're doing November 2nd. I'm in Canada for the next couple of days. I'll be back in Scotland next week and then back for November for the book tour and looking forward to that. So that gives you a hint as to what's upcoming from the bookwriting team of Bullgutche and Mansbridge.

And once again, Mark will be on the program. Two weeks from yesterday, Wednesday, the week before publishing. And as I said, we're booked on a lot of different programs over the next month or so. And look forward to doing that and look forward to, as I always do, look forward to traveling to different parts of the country. So once again, check the details at the peter mansbridge.com for the book tour. Also, you know, there's bits and pieces on the other books that Mark and I have written together and the one I wrote just by myself, which was kind of my story, off the record, which, I was still selling.

It's like I did an event. Where was it? Was it the one in Halifax? I think it was a couple of weeks ago. And they sold 300 books, 300 copies of off the record. Anyway, I'll be back in Halifax where they love good books

and hopefully they'll enjoy a noble profession. Teaching. It's stories about teachers. It's their stories. of how they've inspired students and have inspired other teachers. And there are also interwoven in there stories from some students about their teachers. You may remember that about, I guess it was about a year ago or a year and a half ago,

we did a program, we did a your turn on your favorite teacher. And why was that person your favorite? we actually used some of those ideas to add to this book. Initially it was just going to be about teachers, but then we thought, you know, it would be great to include some stories of former students and the impact their teacher or teachers had on their lives. And so that's in the book as well. All right.

Time for, time to get to your turn. The question this week was kind of a personal one. We had lots of political ones in the last little while for obvious reasons. But we decided this week we wanted a more personal one. And the question was, do you have a habit you wish you could break? Or if you've been successful in breaking a habit, what was it? And how'd you do it? So here are the answers we got, or at least some of them, who followed the rules, as you know.

Ralph Lay in Toronto, my most difficult achievement was breaking the habit, addiction of smoking. It took many attempts. A three-year process, patches, gum, and acupuncture got me three extended smoke-free periods. In February of 1995, I finally broke the habit, cold turkey, spending more on cigarettes than on food, was shameful. To this day, I take pride in this monumental achievement. Well, Ralph, if you quit in 95, you can only imagine how much you'd be spending today if you were still smoking. So look at all the money you've saved as well as your health. You know, we had quite a few people tell us their big, bad habit was smoking. I'm not surprised by that.

I was mine. I was a terrible smoker. But I quit roughly around the same time, I think, of 93. and there's a saying, I don't know how true it is, but if you can go 25 years, 25 years, not 25 days, not 25 weeks, not 25 months, but 25 years, without smoking, you have probably cleared up in your lungs the damage that you might have caused when you were smoking. Not might have caused, did cause.

So I felt pretty good at the 25, 5 years. Mark, and I still feel pretty good today. That's why I love walking, especially, you know, anywhere. I love walking by the ocean in Scotland, breathing in that North Sea air. Anyway, we had quite a few people tell us their big bad habit with smoking. We'll sprinkle their letters through the program since everyone seems to have conquered the addiction in a different way. Well, not everybody, but everybody wrote to us.

Stephen Feltmey in Edmonton. during the COVID pandemic, I started using cannabis to deal with anxiety. Unfortunately, it eventually became a weekly and daily habit. By the time I realized it was a problem, I found it very difficult to stop. It made me feel good physically and made life tolerable. I had to change environments and live where using it was not permitted. Now that my mind is clear again, I will never go back to it. Now, I know there are some people who take different strains of cannabis for various medical reasons.

And they swear by it. And so, in some cases, do they're physicians. Michael Artendale in Sudbury, Ontario. I used to bite my nails. The reasons were basically just letting them grow too long and not trimming them. The way I kicked it was to have several pairs of nail clippers and files around so that when I feel that need I can trim them. I hope you're not doing that like in just any room you happen to have some nail clippers. That's disgusting.

But hey, there's nothing like a good pair. Now, I'm talking a good pair. You've got to spend a few bucks. A good pair of nail clippers might cost you $10, $12, $15 to get a really good. set of nail clippers, but if you do, you'll be a happy person. Tim Stott in Minnesota, Manitoba. I started ice fishing about six years ago

and fell into the rabbit hole that has no wind. So yes, I would love to be able to kick it. Ice fishing. Just kidding, I'll never stop. However, I'm pretty sure my better half wishes I did. Just don't ice fish too late in a year there, Tim. Carol Ellis in Cochrane, Alberta. I've stopped repeatedly gaining, then losing the same 15 pounds.

Hey, haven't we all? Michael Pollen. Michael is a best-selling writer of books on people in the natural world, said this. Eat whole food, not too much, mostly plants. Since doing that, I've maintained a healthy weight for 10 years. I still eat occasional treats, and I still eat holiday food. foods and desserts on special occasions. Then I get back to limiting ultra-processed foods.

Although it worked for me, you do you. Each person has to find their own path to health. That's true. Wendy Cecil in Toronto. For 60 years, I yearn to drink coffee without cream and sugar. Could never do it. On an Arctic hiking trip, a friend told me she looks forward to that hit of bitter every morning.

I adjusted my attitude accordingly, and bravely took my espresso black. Soon I was enjoying a small but punchy victory over my lifelong sweet tooth. Maybe conquering the cream and sugar habit makes the coffee sweet enough. I used to drink so much coffee. And then, because I have atrial fibrillation

in my case, and everybody who has a-fib knows that there can be different things that care. it off. For me, it was coffee. Caffeine. So for the least the last 30 years, once again, I've only drank decaffeinated coffee. And it doesn't affect my AFib. I do have milk with it. Just milk, no sugar. Patrick Chung in Toronto. I started running about four years ago. I picked up a few good and bad habits. Good is I run six times a week, no matter if it's cold outside. If the weather is too crazy, then hit the dreadmill. The treadmill, right? Bad habit, spending money on new shoes. Recently, I picked up a good habit, yoga, for 30 minutes in the morning. I wish I had done it sooner.

It helps my lower back and improves my mobility. Probably helps your mind, too. P.S. What's your good or bad habit with your golf game? I guess that's directed to me. My golf game is just... I've had a couple of injuries in the last year or two. One to my leg, one to my shoulder, which I'm still dealing with right now. Which hasn't helped my golf game. I thought I'd solved my golf game.

Earlier this year, when Bruce An... Anderson, my good friend Bruce, took me to the driving range and worked on my swing. Now, he's not a great golfer, but he'd seen something somewhere, you know, online, he'd seen a tip of this, that, and the other thing. And he had me trying it. And it worked. Suddenly I was hitting it straight, not that long, but straight, which, you know, in golf, If you can hit it straight, you're halfway home.

Anyway, I guess my bad habit with golf is not playing enough. If you're going to ever be any good at golf or even just happy at golf, you have to play. You've got to play. You can't just go like once or twice a year or you're going to be all over the place. And I think you all know that. Okay, Eileen Jarrett. Surrey, BC.

26 years ago, I quit a heavy 28-year cigarette habit. I used everything science and nature could throw at my addiction, drugs, behavioral therapy, moon phase. It was the toughest thing I've ever done in my life. And I'm grateful every day for the help I had and my success at beating the awful addiction.

I don't know how many times I quit before I actually made it happen. But it's a great feeling when you do. And now occasionally, only occasionally, I'll say, oh, man. It's usually after a really good meal. I think, oh, man, I would, I think I'd like a cigarette right now.

Now, I don't succumb. But that thought does cross my mind. But that's the only time now, never any other time. John Minchell and Comax Valley, Comox Valley, BC. I've had a nervous habit of hesitating when talking to people in conversations when I'm not that confident.

This has been something I wish I could break but have not been able to figure out how. Well, if you've done your research, you should be confident in expressing your opinion and having a chat with people. I find it's usually when you haven't done your research that you're a little hesitant in what you're about to say. Scott Jansen and New Westminster, BC.

For years, my habit was staying flexible, no routines, just treating 18,000, day anew. In 2016, workplace bullying and health problems forced me to change. I broke my habit of avoiding habits and build a routine to support my mind and body. Now, friends and I meet by the ocean every Monday and Friday morning for breathe work and year-round cold water swims. Well, the benefits and camaraderie are priceless. You know, I didn't get my cold water swim this year in Scotland, and now it's too late, although there are people out there swimming every day in the North Sea.

I don't know how they do it, but they do it. But breathing, I mean, we all breathe, but there's breathing and there's breathing. Here she is, ladies and gentlemen, Marilynne Wallace and Fannie Bay, B.C. 50 years ago, I was a teenage server in a small town cafe.

I discovered the energy boost of TAB, Coca-Cola's first diet soft drink during my work shifts. Long hours of university study were fortified by Diet Coke, which morphed into a daily habit during my working years, even though I understood the health concerns and environmental impacts. The arrival of grandchildren to whom I wanted to set a better example. Finally broke the habit.

Lindsay Sellers in the Nimo, BC. The habit I broke was alcoholism. It wasn't a drinking I loved. It was everything I didn't have to feel, face or remember, when I drank. Learning to live life on life's terms, understanding the connection between my brain and nervous system, and reaching my body that safety doesn't require, excuse me, and teaching my body that safety doesn't require escape has been the greatest gift I've ever given myself. Life is for living, not surviving. Robert McGuire in Saskatoon, I started collecting fountain pens after graduation from

University in 1989. Grandma gifted me a Schaefer Targa fountain pen. A few more Targas as gifts. Then with promotions in the public service, I added some Montblanc fountain plans, including a Hemingway. Other brands like Visconti, Conway, Stewart, Pilot, Pelican, Piner, Parker, and many more. I'm now giving some away in thinning. The pen from

Grandma is in a safety deposit box. Good. Keep it there. Robert, I have a similar thing. I've been given so many pens for, you know, what speech is and special events and gifts over the years. I have a lot of pens. Still in their boxes unused. I told Willie, my son, I said, Willie, one day you're going to get all those pens. So every once in a while, he takes them out just to look at them. But I have the similar problem that Robert does. A lot of pens.

Gordon Nicholson and Nelson, B.C. I've been attempting to break my social media habit for a long time. As someone in my 30s, I feel like I was born into this. Technologically centered world, but I am quickly realizing what it might be taking away from me and my professional growth. Despite this, there are many uses in this day and age that make it extremely difficult to completely rid myself.

of technology. Paula Grattan and Miramachine to Brunswick. The habit I wish I could break is arguing with people online. I wish I could stop reacting to people whose opinions I'll never change. Some of them may not even be people, Paula. I wish I could stop getting all fired up when someone speaks against human rights of any kind. It just isn't in me. I'll be a loud, proud activist until I die.

But I do wish I could stop. It's exhausting, caring so much. Joy Robinson in Kingston, Ontario. In 2010, I quit my 43-year smoking habit when I applied for the Cross Canada Lung Health Study. Included were intake tests and three visits from Victoria to Vancouver each year over three years. I smoked my last cigarette one week after my intake spirometry test. It's a test that measures how much air you can breathe in and out and how fast you can blow air out of your lung. Some doctors, including mine, use it as a regular part of your annual physical.

Anyway, it's a test that showed my lung volume was 56%. Three years later, it was 78%. A gift I gave myself. I'm finding my giving up my love of junk food to be more difficult. Replacement suggestions always include fruit. Not a lover of fruit, I'm afraid. The war with myself rages on. Muriel Hopper in Perth, Ontario.

I stopped being extremely sensitive and falling apart at every odd comment. I now have thicker skin, which is wonderful. Ursula Cowison in Toronto. After starting in 1976, I quit smoking cold turkey in 1984 at the age of 26, when prices rose to $2 a pack and cancer links became clear. The link became clear, actually, Ursula Mughey. clear earlier than that. There were studies in the 50s and 60s and then in 1964 the US Surgeon General declared cigarette smoking a primary cause of lung

cancer and chronic bronchitis. Ursula says she's 68 now and I haven't smoked a cigarette since 1984 and have zero regrets. Given the high costs of cigarettes today I cannot imagine how people afraid to smoke, afford to smoke now. Cigarette prices vary from province to province because of taxes, but the national average for a pack of 20 cigarettes is about $16 to $20 a pack. Wow. As I said earlier, I was a terrible smoker. I used to smoke two and a half packs a day. Think what that would cost now.

Jill Vachon in Windsor, I overcame smoking, but here's something that works with. with any bad habit. I call it the replacement method. Get active, join a club, martial arts, cycling, paddling, yoga. You'll find lots of supportive people in these clubs. Making new friends is a bonus. I overcame a lot of demons. Got healthy, happier, met my wife, grew in confidence,

and am now successful in my career. Life is an adventure. Okay. to take our break. We'll do that. Come back with a random ranter, and we've got more of your letters. And a great little story on the first letter we have coming back after the random ranter.

But first, we'll take this break, and we'll be right back in just a moment. And welcome back. You're listening to The Bridge for this Thursday. That means your turn and the random ranter. The ranter will be by in a second. You're listening on, Serious Exam, Channel 160, Canada Talks, or on your favorite podcast platform.

Glad to have you with us. Okay, let's pick it up with the Random Ranter for this week. Here's what's on his mind. I know a lot of people are looking forward to the U.S. midterms with the hope that they may finally solve all the Trump insanity. But not me. Try as I might, I just don't see any good scenarios coming out of this. I mean, what happens if he declares an emergency and cancels the elections? What happens if he loses and refuses to recognize the result?

What happens if, God forbid, he wins? None of those scenarios play out well for American stability, and I look at that as a bigger threat to Canada than the PQ in Quebec and the separatists in Alberta combined. Now, maybe I'm being pessimistic. but to me nothing really seems off limits for Trump. Backed into a corner, who can say what it'll do? So at this point, having faith in the system to resolve things sounds like a pie in the sky reached to me.

I mean, Trump is clearly delusional these days, so I don't think it's safe to assume that anything involving the U.S. is going to be business as usual. I mean, if you want to get real about it, it's pretty easy to argue that Trump has been grooming America for a moment just like this, for over a decade now. He's been attacking the integrity of U.S. elections since the time of Hillary.

He never misses an opportunity to cast doubt on the process, and at this point, he's convinced over a third of Americans into believing him. Now, how anyone can believe anything he says is yet another giant American red flag to me, because understatement of the year, Trump lies. He gaslights. He cons, he grifts, and now he's even. making things up out of thin air. He's also openly and unbelievably corrupt. It's all so shocking, but when it happens day after day, it's hard not to become desensitized to it and start either

tuning it out or accepting it as just politics. Remember, this all started way back when with the disgusting Access Hollywood tape. Shoot them in the middle of Fifth Avenue and an affair with a porn star. It hasn't stopped since. It hasn't even slowed down. He's been impeached twice. The Capitol building was stormed. He's turned part of the White House into an Amazon Prime golden palace of Chatskies and he tore down the other half of it unannounced. He started wars. He's spiked prices. He's threatened allies and he's sucked up to tyrants. And I'm barely scratching the surface here because it's been a nonstop onslaught of constant crisis. We're like a Ponzi scheme of outrage, every day brings something new. But look, it's not just the desensitizing of it all that's the problem. It's the distraction from what's really going on behind the scenes, the gutting of all the institutions that are capable of checking Trump's power. Remember, job one of his second term was the purging slash doging of the civil service. And that's been followed up with the gutting,

politicizing, and weaponization of both the Department of Justice and the military. I know it seems like forever ago already, but it was just last year that Trump deployed the National Guard and the Marines to Democratic strongholds around the country. And on Monday, Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar became the latest of a long list of Trump's opponents to have their home rated in what is clearly a vindictive, politically motivated witch hunt. I mean, they're criminally investigating her immigration paperwork from 1995 when she was. was 12. It's ridiculous, yet it seems pretty on-brand for someone who's proposing to live stream a public execution, who uses the FCC to cow the free press, and who launched a government

propaganda channel called Trump TV. The checks on his power are clearly stretched thin and failing at this point. He has his own private army in ICE. He's completely emasculated the GOP, the House, and the Senate, and his inner circle is made up of the shockingly incompetent and the dangerously arrogant, with plenty of overlap between the two. He stacked the courts with lackeys, and when they do rule against him, he's proven that he's willing to test their limits with contempt. I just don't think there's a low too low for Trump. So even on this side of the border, we need to be prepared for anything. The last time he lost an election, the United States came within a hair's breadth of a coup.

What makes anyone think things will be different this time? The random ranter for this week. Man, he loves going after Trump. And you know what? I know the ranter. I've known him for a while. He doesn't back down from a good argument. I'd love to see him go up against Donald Trump in person.

I think it would be pretty good. It'd be a good one. Okay. Time to get back to our letters. This week the question was, Habits, how do you break them? And what have you broken? Starting this second section off with a funny story.

Yesterday I was flying back from Scotland. and that's a change plane that he's throw in London. They've ever been in London, one of the areas that separates the arrivals and the departures by a glass wall is a long, really long escalator. So there are people coming up, who are the arrivals,

and the people going down on the other side of the glass are departures. So I was heading down. in the departure area on Terminal 2, I guess, to catch my Air Canada flight back to Canada. So on the other side of the glass wall coming up is a woman who I guess had just got off the flight from Canada that I was about to get on for the return flight.

And she saw me, started waving and laughing, and I, you know, I waved back and laughed as well, and that was that. But a half an hour later, I'm sitting waiting for my flight, I get an email from Michelle Kaufman. I couldn't resist sending you a note as I wait for my bags at Heathrow. I can't tell you how much fun it was for me to see you going down the escalator as I was going up. Never got a chance to send in my habit that I wished to break. It was to stop listening to so many American.

political podcasts. Michelle is great to see you. I hope you guys have a wonderful holiday wherever you're going, if it is a holiday. So your habit is listening to so many American political podcasts. Listen, there's no harm in that. If they're useful and informative,

give you ideas. This is a time where we've got to understand them and not just say they don't understand us, which we conveniently do all the time, and usually for good reason. Anyway, so if they're good podcasts, there's no harm in listening to them, and there's some great ones, you know, Ezra Klein, probably the best. Ken Peloshock in Newstad, Ontario. After a lifetime of being glamorized by New York, Hollywood, and an inexpensive cream cheese, I quit being jealous of anything the United States.

has. Okay, I guess I'd still enjoy the cream cheese. Tony Spencer in Mono Township, Ontario, or is it Mono? No, it's Mono. It's got to be mono. That's north of Toronto, northwest of Toronto, about what, 100 clicks? Tony writes, I was a nicotine addict smoking a pack a day for 37 years, a lifer with no way to quit. That is until a powerful trip on magic mushrooms where, in a hallucin, a hallucin, A transogenic dream state, I experience my own rebirth. Ooh, Tony, this is heavy stuff. I realized no one is born a smoker.

I also realize the only time we ever have to act is right now. I quit that moment and never look back, now celebrating 30 years. Good for you, Tony. Where is that magic mushroom field exactly? Scott Hoyg in Central North River, Nova Scotia, just north of Truro. Growing up, I adopted several habits from people within my sphere of influence that have since passed away. Expressions, etiquette, traditions, or mannerisms. I have sometimes questioned whether retaining the habits as disingenuous or inauthentic.

But I have come to believe that in some small way, a part of those people lives on in me. So I carry on, never doubting that my affection for them and respect for their legacy are entirely genuine. That's nice. Lance Hall in Sloan Park, BC, that's in the West Cootney region of southern British Columbia. I had a habit of going to Facebook on my phone with my morning coffee. I'd get angry, stressed, and who needs that? So I just quit, cold turkey. But I find myself creeping back because I missed seeing what my friends were doing

and watching cooking videos. Well, cooking videos, that's got to be okay. Marion Francis in Cochrane, Alberta. I'm 72. And I quit smoking at 21. I accomplished that by my smoking housemates not letting me resume. I could have smoked behind their backs, but I was so touched that they cared.

I couldn't do it. Here's our last letter, and it barely made it, coming in the slot just before the 3 p.m. Eastern deadline yesterday. It's from Francois Dagenet in Gatineau, Quebec. Sorry for the late message. I'm known to procrastinate, and I'm working on breaking that habit. Now I know why he waited till the end, to send it.

Thank you, Francois. Okay, that's going to wrap it up. You know, Mark and I wondered, because Mark helps me do this section of the program every week of this Thursday. He often comes up with the questions. You know, we wondered, what's this going to be like? People are going to kind of react to this one? Because you're so used to being thrown, you know, questions about Trump,

questions about, you know, Palliev, Carney, what have you, political questions. Because that's so much of what we deal with on the bridge every week. So we wanted to try something different, and this is different. But it worked out. And it was a very short time span because there was no program on Monday, so we didn't give you much of a warning. Basically, we had 24 hours warning as to what the question of the week is. But that didn't stop you from sending in lots of answers.

And we appreciate that very much. Okay, a sense of where we're going from here tomorrow. It is good talk, of course. I'm going to be down in the Niagara region of Ontario. I've got an event I've got to deal with down there. But we'll do the program. We'll get hold of Chantelle and Bruce. And here are there thoughts on a couple of things.

Obviously, we're coming up on Monday's vote in Alberta. and while all the attention is placed on the kind of referendum question that deals with separation, or at least it deals with, do you want to have another referendum? This is a referendum to find out if you want another referendum on separation. So obviously there's focus on that. And you've seen the prime minister being in Alberta most of this week, arguing the case for Remain.

remain in Canada. So we'll talk about that. We'll talk about what we've learned on that and the direction things seem to be heading in. I'm sure knowing Bruce's feelings toward the U.S. ambassador to Canada with his latest outburst. Canada, you better back off.

You're interfering with us. Really? What a concept interfering in someone else's politics. My gosh. So we'll talk about the ambassador's latest comments. And there's a few other things that relate to the stories of the week, and we'll hear all about those tomorrow. That's tomorrow right here on the bridge.

Good talk, and it's available everywhere, including on YouTube, where it's a bona fide hit on YouTube. So are the more buts conversations, so are the reporter's notebook. Those are the three that we put on YouTube. All right then. That's it for this week's your turn. I'm Peter Mansbridge. Thanks so much for listening.

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