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566 episodes transcribedFriday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The sh...
Within hours of Joe Biden’s announcement that he was bowing out of the presidential race Kamala Harris became the presumptive Democratic nominee. With...
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The sh...
“We will continue to support Ukraine on its irreversible path to NATO membership”. It was this statement by NATO members at a recent summit in Washing...
Joe Biden’s decision to drop out of the presidential race sent shockwaves across the US - and indeed much of the world - as the Democrats are scrambli...
We have never been more polarized. Echo chambers promote information that confirms people’s preconceived notions, regardless of whether the facts pres...
**Munk Debate members can vote on who they think won the debate at www.munkdebates.com** Joe Biden’s disastrous performance in his debate against Do...
On this Munk Dialogue we are speaking with one of the most successful and well known entrepreneurs of the past 50 years. John Mackey was a 24 year old...
On this special edition of the Munk Debates podcast we are sharing the opening statements from the Munk Debate on anti-Zionism, which took place on Ju...
One could be forgiven for thinking reality, these days, is stranger than fiction. Fears of civil war in the United States if Donald Trump doesn’t get...
On June 17th four debaters will take to the stage at Toronto’s Roy Thomson Hall for a sold out debate on Anti-Zionism. The motion up for debate: Be it...
About thirty years ago, the world seemed to be entering what President George H.W. Bush called “a new world order” – a world where capitalism was vict...
The world “genocide” was first coined in the 1940s to describe the Nazi slaughter of millions of Jews. So it is in a sense surreal that the country c...
Long-held notions of the role of government, trade and economic policy, foreign policy and immigration are being challenged by populist thinkers and m...
For the protesters and their supporters, the pro-Palestinian campus demonstrations across the globe are part of a proud tradition of student activism...
University students across North America have set up encampments to protest Israel's war in Gaza. These demonstrations are well organized and supplied...
Iran’s missile and drone barrage at Israel earlier this month was the most brazen attack the Islamic Republic has ever conducted against the Jewish st...
One of the most volatile regions in the world seems to be sitting on a tinder box. How can the international community avoid tensions between Israel a...
The Middle East, a region already mired in conflict due to the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas, just got a lot more dangerous. In response to a r...
We are in the midst of one of the most dangerous and unstable geopolitical moments in recent history. Wars are intensifying in Ukraine and the Middle...
