Podcast Episodes

Barry Avrich’s October 7th documentary, The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue, was disinvited from TIFF, then reinstated – and just won the festival’s People’s Choice Documentary Award. Avrich joins Steve to discuss what exactly happened, why it was pulled, how he doesn’t think he made a political film about the war in Gaza, the…

Author JDM Stewart joins Steve to discuss his book “The Prime Ministers,” how to teach kids history, reconciling the past with the present, and if the pendulum is swinging the other way on the “history wars.” And from Macdonald to Laurier to Carney we get into the prime ministers who were transformational, merely “transactional,” and…

On this episode of “Everything Political,” Steve Paikin and former MPs Martha Hall Findlay and Tony Clement remember Ken Dryden’s political career and how he wasn’t in Parliament “to play politics.” Then, a look at Carney’s cabinet retreat and the Ontario government’s plan to get rid of school trustees. Special guest Jill Promoli, a trustee…

Is it authoritarianism yet? Jeffrey Kopstein thinks we should be asking another question about America. He joins Steve and Janice Stein to discuss his book “The Assault on the State,” if Trump is turning America into a “family business,” the global shift from the rule of law to the rule of men, how Trump and…

Interim leader of the NDP Don Davies joins the Everything Political panel to discuss the NDP’s worst election in its entire history, if they should dismantle the party, if they leaned too heavily into identity politics, how the NDP needs to “reclaim their roots,” and where they go from here. Davies is joined by Everything…

After Trump’s meetings with Putin and Zelensky, is the Ukraine war any closer to peace? Is Putin serious about ending the war – and accepting security guarantees for Ukraine? Or is he playing a longer game? Steve is joined by Janice Stein and a special guest to discuss the state of the Ukraine war, land…

On this episode of “Everything Political,” former MPs Martha Hall Findlay and Tony Clement break down Poilievre’s upcoming byelection in Alberta, if he can bounce back from a historic election loss, his campaign manager Jenni Byrne’s decision to step down, and if PM Carney’s push to build big things in Canada again is stumbling out…