Mark Carney’s Saudi Arabia reboot
Mark Carney met with Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman in Saudi Arabia this week, aiming to strengthen ties and build up our economic relationship in areas like AI and critical minerals.It’s been 26 ye...
10 Jul 30min
U.S. politics! Platner implosion, where’s McConnell?
The U.S. midterms are coming up this fall. They could flip control of the House and possibly the Senate. But both parties are dealing with difficult messes. Progressive Democratic candidate Graham Pla...
9 Jul 32min
What does it take to defend Canada’s Arctic?
This week, Prime Minister Carney is in Turkey to attend the NATO summit. Ahead of leaving for Ankara, he announced the procurement of 12 submarines from the German company TKMS, in what’s expected to ...
8 Jul 29min
How to read a manifesto
In the aftermath of an act of public violence, attention often turns to a document. Sometimes it’s a letter, a blog post, or a video, that gets referred to as a manifesto.Very quickly the public coale...
7 Jul 32min
Politics! Pipeline power move, renovating 24 Sussex
Aaron Wherry, senior writer at CBC's parliamentary bureau and good friend of the show, is here to parse through last week’s big pipeline announcement with Alberta and the deal that Prime Minister Carn...
6 Jul 29min
Canada’s massive military buildup: Part 2
The Canadian defence industry can’t grow the way Prime Minister Mark Carney is proposing by just selling domestically. That’s why another aim of the Defence Industrial Strategy is to grow Canadian def...
3 Jul 25min
Canada’s massive military buildup: Part 1
Mark Carney ran for office promising to spend a whole lot more on the Canadian military. Since being elected, he’s poured billions of dollars into defence, and plans to roughly triple Canada’s defence...
2 Jul 23min
How extreme heat is changing Europe
This week, temperatures across much of Europe reached above 40 C. In parts of Spain and Portugal, it was hotter than the Sahara Desert.Governments are telling citizens to stay indoors. Schools have cl...
1 Jul 30min
