Toby Young: Defending free speech in Canada and the UK
Free speech was once considered a bedrock democratic value. Now it's become one of the most contested issues in our culture-shaping institutions. Over the past decade, debates about what can and can’t...
7 Elo 20251h
John Ioannidis: What's shaken public confidence in science?
Science is often seen as the gold standard in policymaking – objective, rigorous, and self-correcting. But what happens when the science itself is uncertain, contradictory, or unreproducible?Over the ...
24 Heinä 202557min
Helen Joyce: how gender ideology gripped the West
On this episode, we tackle one of the most contested—and consequential—issues in public life: the rise of gender ideology and the erasure of biological sex. Over the past decade, the idea that gender ...
10 Heinä 20251h 1min
Leonard Sax: Our culture has broken the bonds across generations
Across the Western world, we’re seeing a crisis in youth mental health, a collapse in family formation, and growing confusion about sex and gender. At the same time, more young people than ever report...
26 Kesä 202552min
Oren Cass: Free markets and liberty are not ends unto themselves
5 Kesä 202558min
Sam Cooper: How organized crime operates in Canada
29 Touko 202551min
How mortgage fraud costs Canadians and fuels organized crime
In this episode, Peter Copeland, deputy director of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute's Domestic Policy Program, speaks with Cameron Field, a Toronto Police veteran and financial crimes expert. Field ex...
22 Touko 202541min
Reconciliation at risk? Data shows spike in church arsons after unmarked grave reports in Canada
Ken Coates, director of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute's Indigenous Affairs Program, is joined by journalist and economist Edgardo Sepulveda, an expert data storyteller. Sepulveda's new study for MLI...
16 Touko 202532min
