Moore-Butts Conversation Encore Episode -- Is Affordability An Issue That Governments Can Even Solve?
Encore Episode. There are hardly any governments in the world right now who aren't faced with an "affordability" crisis. Voters want action but what action is even possible? That was the question on o...
19 Aug 49min
Moore Butts Conversation Encore - Is Ottawa Ready For A Possible Two Front Referendum Battle?
Encore Episode. James Moore and Gerald Butts are back with another one of their highly anticipated "Conversations." This time it centres around the possibility that the near future could see two refer...
12 Aug 46min
Encore Episdoe: Moore Butts Conversation #28 - Why Are Pipelines So Hard To Build?
This week seems to be all pipelines all the time. Alberta and Canada seem close to a deal on a memorandum of understanding about a new pipeline to the west coast. But now how do you make that MOU beco...
5 Aug 46min
Smoke, Mirror and The Truth -- A Summer of '26 Special
SMT is one of the first shows we used to do when the podcast started all those years ago; Bruce Anderson would join me and we'd lay an SMT verdict on various issues and quotes. So as we lounge throug...
29 Jul 52min
Encore Episode: Moore Butts #26 -- The Trump, Carney, Ford Mess
How do two former Ottawa pros see the Trump, Carney, Ford story -- does it really matter? will it make a real difference? Former Harper cabinet minister James Moore and former Trudeau advisor Gerald B...
22 Jul 50min
Good Talk -- A New Orange Cloud Descends on the Canada/US Relationship
It's our first Summer of '26 special Good Talk and there's lots to talk about. This week it's wildfires and the smoke they cause, upsetting the Canada/U.S. relationship. Chantal Hebert and Bruce Ander...
17 Jul 52min
Moore Butts Encore - Is This Any Way To Run A Country?
The country was founded on the principle that it's a confederation where both federal and provincial levels of government have powers and responsibilities. It's worked for 158 years, but does it still...
15 Jul 45min
Moore-Butts Encore Episode - Making Tough Choices
Encore Episode. For the last fifteen years different governments in Ottawa have known tough choices were going to have to be made about the Post Office. Now it's tough-choice time again. Is there a be...
8 Jul 41min
