Explore every episode of the podcast The Paikin Podcast
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| Welcome to The Paikin Podcast | 13 Jul 2025 | 00:00:48 | |
You don’t have to have an opinion on everything. In fact, Steve Paikin hasn’t had an opinion since 1976. It was about Frank Sinatra. On The Paikin Podcast, he explores provincial and federal politics, seismic global changes, hot-button cultural issues and the arts, all with his usual balance and context and all in search of maybe, one day, having an opinion again. | |||
| Premier Danielle Smith: Is It Time for Alberta to Leave Canada? | 18 Jul 2025 | 00:46:05 | |
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| Everything Political: Separatism, Premiers and Pancakes | 21 Jul 2025 | 00:42:20 | |
In the debut episode of Everything Political, Tony Clement, Martha Hall Findlay, and Steve Paikin discuss Danielle Smith and Alberta’s “Brexit Moment,” the premiers meeting in Huntsville and their continuing response to Trump’s tariff threats and Prime Minister Mark Carney’s performance nearly three months since the federal election.
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| World on Edge: The Most Dangerous Era Since WWII? | 28 Jul 2025 | 00:39:54 | |
In the debut episode of “World on Edge,” Steve talks with Janice Stein about why she thinks the world is a more dangerous place than during the Cold War and even the Cuban Missile Crisis, if Israel has become a pariah state, if China will invade Taiwan, the on-going war in Ukraine, and the rising risk to Canada in a world on edge. | |||
| Everything Political: Palestine, Trump Talks and What’s Next for Trudeau | 04 Aug 2025 | 00:41:17 | |
On episode two of “Everything Political,” Steve and former MPs Martha Hall Findlay and Tony Clement discuss PM Carney’s decision to recognize Palestine as a state at the U.N. General Assembly in September, the politics behind this historic decision, Canada-U.S. trade tensions, if a deal with Trump is shaping up, and what’s next for Justin Trudeau. | |||
| World on Edge: How Canada Survives the End of the American Empire | 07 Aug 2025 | 00:45:18 | |
Stephen Marche joins this episode of World on Edge with Janice Stein to discuss the threat America poses to Canadian sovereignty, if we are prepared for Trump’s new world order, how we can learn from Ukraine and Finland, and how we can defend ourselves both economically and militarily. | |||
| Everything Political: Does Poilievre’s Comeback Begin Now? | 14 Aug 2025 | 00:42:39 | |
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 of the gate. | |||
| World on Edge: The Alaska Summit, Putin’s Games, and How to End the Ukraine War | 21 Aug 2025 | 00:38:17 | |
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? Follow The Paikin Podcast: | |||
| Everything Political: Does Canada Need the NDP Anymore? | 28 Aug 2025 | 00:51:52 | |
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 Political panelists: former Conservative Party MP Tony Clement and former Liberal MP Martha Hall Findlay. | |||
| World on Edge: Is Trump Turning America into a Mafia State? | 04 Sep 2025 | 00:31:41 | |
Is it authoritarianism yet? Many may be asking this question about America, but Jeffrey Kopstein thinks we should be asking a different one. | |||
| Everything Political: Remembering Ken Dryden, Carney’s “Retreat,” and the End of School Trustees | 10 Sep 2025 | 00:52:25 | |
On this episode of “Everything Political,” Steve Paikin and former MPs Martha Hall Findlay and Tony Clement remember Ken Dryden, his 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. | |||
| JDM Stewart: The History Wars, Statues, and Teaching Kids About the Prime Ministers | 12 Sep 2025 | 00:53:27 | |
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 irrelevant in Canada's history. Follow The Paikin Podcast: | |||
| Director Barry Avrich on his Oct. 7th Film and the TIFF Censorship Controversy | 16 Sep 2025 | 00:44:08 | |
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 dangers of censorship and protesting art, and how a film about a family rescuing their children and grandchildren became the centre of so much controversy. Follow The Paikin Podcast: | |||
| Everything Political: Free Speech, Chrystia Quits, and Mr. Carney Goes to Mexico | 25 Sep 2025 | 00:45:11 | |
On this episode of “Everything Political,” Steve Paikin and former MPs Martha Hall Findlay and Tony Clement discuss the fallout from the Charlie Kirk assassination, the rise of political violence, free speech in America, Jimmy Kimmel, Chrystia Freeland’s exit from cabinet, and Carney’s trip to Mexico. | |||
| 10 Wars, 1 Man: Brian Stewart on Four Decades Covering the World’s Crises | 23 Sep 2025 | 00:55:22 | |
For decades Brian Stewart was Canada’s eyes on the world – from Nicaragua and the Gulf War to his reporting on the Ethiopian famine which led to international action and the creation of the Live Aid concerts. He joins Steve to discuss his four decades of reporting in warzones, why he “thrived on working in an endless vortex of crises,” the personal costs of bearing witness to history, and the state of the world today. | |||
| World on Edge: Will the Assassination of Charlie Kirk Lead to Civil War? | 18 Sep 2025 | 00:47:08 | |
Michael Ignatieff joins Janice Stein to discuss the murder of Charlie Kirk, if it could lead to increased political violence and even civil war, the rise of authoritarianism worldwide, the state of democracy in Canada, and if we are prepared for an unstable and chaotic America. | |||
| World on Edge: Canada Recognizes Palestine, What’s Next, & the End of the UN | 02 Oct 2025 | 00:52:43 | |
Conservative Party MP Shuv Majumdar joins Janice Stein to debate Canada’s decision to recognize the state of Palestine, what exactly this entails, and what happens next. Then, a look at Trump's and Netanyahu's remarks at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. And, as the UN turns 80 years old, is it still relevant in the world today? Or are we witnessing the end of the United Nations as we know it? | |||
| Justin Ling: The 51st State Votes and Canada’s Existential Election | 29 Sep 2025 | 00:54:16 | |
Journalist Justin Ling joins Steve to discuss his book “The 51st State Votes,” how Trump turned Canada’s 45th general election on its head, Pierre Poilievre’s “campaign malpractice,” whether Canada can survive as Trump's economic punching bag, and how Mark Carney’s “elbows up” approach is going today. Then they consider Chrystia Freeland’s exit from cabinet and what an increasingly unstable and chaotic America means for Canada. | |||
| Governor Gretchen Whitmer: Can Canada Trust America? | 06 Oct 2025 | 00:26:15 | |
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer joins the pod for a live recording to discuss Canadian-American relations, ending the “tariff madness,” the rise of political violence, Trump’s claim “the radicals on the left are the problem,’ where the Democrats go from here, Ezra Klein’s concerns about “left wing pessimism,” and the possibility of the Detroit Tigers meeting the Toronto Blue Jays in the ALCS. | |||
| Everything Political: Why Canadian Voters Are Split Between a Disruptor or a “Daddy” | 09 Oct 2025 | 00:46:59 | |
David Coletto, CEO of Abacus Data, joins the Everything Political panel with former MPs Martha Hall Findlay and Tony Clement to discuss how Canadian voters are split between wanting a disruptor that will change things versus a reassuring and calming father figure and how that split played out in the last election. Then, a look at the looming federal budget, if Carney has properly prepared Canadians for what is to come, and Pierre Poilievre at the Blue Jays game. | |||
| World on Edge: Will Canada Defend Itself? | 16 Oct 2025 | 00:48:04 | |
Canadians are just a few weeks away from learning what Prime Minister Mark Carney has in mind when it comes to defence spending. Will Canada ramp up its investments? Will we meet our NATO commitments? And what should we invest in? New American-made F-35 fighter planes? New ice breakers for the Arctic? Joining the Golden Dome defense system? | |||
| World on Edge: Will Trump’s Israel-Hamas Peace Deal Work? | 30 Oct 2025 | 00:46:36 | |
Trump’s 20-point peace plan includes disarming Hamas, an international stabilization force, and an apolitical Palestinian transitional government. Could it work? Hussein Ibish, contributor to The Atlantic, joins Janice Stein to discuss the state of the deal, why Hamas accepted it, how Netanyahu was forced into it, why Hamas never actually wanted to govern Gaza, if the plan offers a viable long term plan for Gaza’s future, and if one of the legacies of this war is to turn Israel into a permanent pariah state. Follow The Paikin Podcast: YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@ThePaikinPodcast Email us at: thepaikinpodcast@gmail.com | |||
| Martin Short: Being Canadian in Trump's America | 27 Oct 2025 | 00:46:45 | |
Some guests need no introduction. Ladies and gentlemen, Martin Short. | |||
| Everything Political: Are the Knives Out for Pierre Poilievre? | 23 Oct 2025 | 00:44:19 | |
“Pierre Poilievre is dismantling the principled, serious and credible Conservative Party,” wrote Dimitri Soudas, former director of communications and senior advisor under Stephen Harper. Are the knives out? The Everything Political panel with former MPs Martha Hall Findlay and Tony Clement discuss Soudas’s piece, the growing rift in the Conservative Party, if Harper greenlit the piece, Poilievre’s accusation of an RCMP cover-up for Trudeau, and the upcoming Conservative Party leadership review. Then a look at PM Carney’s attempts to secure a trade deal with America. Follow The Paikin Podcast: YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@ThePaikinPodcast | |||