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1198 episodes transcribedThis week's question was struck a chord: name the one thing you like best about winter. It's a pretty soft question but you delivered again, lots of...
Encore Presentation. A young Canadian medic fighting with the Ukrainians takes us inside the story with his first-hand account of what it's like at th...
For the most part the old saying that foreign policy isn't what Canadians vote on, but does that mean Canadian governments and political parties take...
Benjamin Netanyahu's hold on power has been tenuous at best for the past year, but even more so after the past few days. There's a sense that the pri...
John Kennedy used to say, aside from indigenous people, we are all either immigrants or descended from immigrants. That was true in the US and it's tr...
This week's question was this: If you could name one thing to make us better communicate with each other, what would that change be? Do you have the a...
Today an encore presentation of an episode that originally aired on May 15th. Our two political heavyweights, Conservative James Moore and Liberal Ger...
Donald Trump wins the opening round in the race for the Republican nomination for the US presidency. But does that mean it's all over already? One of...
It's our regular Monday discussion with foreign affairs expert Dr Janice Stein. On topic. today: Taiwan, the Houthis, and a two-state solution for the...
Ed Broadbent and Jean Chretien. Two giants on the country's political landscape, but are they symbols of an era long past? Bruce and Chantal have the...
This week's question was a popular one: "What one change would you make to Canada's news media?". People from coast to coast to coast wrote in with th...
The former senior Conservative cabinet minister takes aim at some of her former colleagues, both Liberal AND Conservative for wasting time on non-issu...
The United States Secretary of State is on a week-long dash through seven mid-east countries desperately trying to prevent a wider war than the one al...
Both the Liberals and the Conservatives appear to have stumbled in the holiday season and the question now, is will they pay for the slip-ups? Trudeau...
The question to you was "Name the one change you would make to Canada's political system". And you had answers, lots of them and today we scan the mai...
After more than a dozen year end interviews by some of Canada's political leaders, who benefited most? The leaders? The media? The public? That and...
In our first episode of a new year, we ask the provocative question about whether the world is moving towards expanded conflict. Not just Israel-Hamas...
Today an encore presentation of an episode that originally aired on December 5th. Some of my favourite stories are about the history of Canada's Arcti...
Today an encore presentation of an episode that originally aired on December 22nd. It's that time of year when the Good Talk panel convenes to talk ab...
Today an encore presentation of an episode that originally aired on December 21st. Your letters this week are very moving, your memories of holidays p...
