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The Paikin Podcast

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Frequency: 1 episode/4d. Total Eps: 59

Facts are facts but every issue has multiple sides, and Steve Paikin wants to hear them all. From Canadian politics to seismic global changes to signature one-on-one interviews and redline debates on the most hot-button issues, The Paikin Podcast helps you understand the world today, with balance and context.

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Why Avi Lewis Thinks He Can Save the NDP

Season 1 · Episode 25

Thursday, November 6, 2025 • Duration 01:00:19

Avi Lewis joins Steve to discuss his NDP leadership bid, why he wants to be the leader of a party that 94% of Canadian voters rejected in the last election, the decline of the NDP since Jack Layton, how Trudeau passed the NDP on the left, if Jagmeet Singh was a good leader, and why the NDP needs to return to its roots as a “working-class” party.

They also get into if the party focussed too much on identity politics, why the populist right has captured all those voters who also believe the game is rigged and unfair, the prospect of a wealth tax, why we’ve lost the ability to build big things in Canada, if we care about climate change anymore, the failure of the carbon tax, Alberta separatism, and his family’s long history in NDP politics. (Yes, they cover a LOT of ground.)

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John Ibbitson & Darrell Bricker: Is Canada at a Breaking Point?

Season 1 · Episode 24

Monday, November 3, 2025 • Duration 54:52

Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson join Steve to discuss their new book, Breaking Point: The New Big Shifts Putting Canada at Risk, how the country is in the middle of the greatest political crisis it has ever faced, the rising anger young people feel about housing prices and gig jobs, Trudeau’s failures as a prime minister, and how he destroyed the Canadian consensus on immigration. They also discuss the growing regional tensions in Quebec and the Prairies, the looming threat of Trump and tariffs, whether Carney (or Poilievre) can meet this turbulent and uncertain moment, and how exactly to bring this country back from this “breaking point.”

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Everything Political: Free Speech, Chrystia Quits, and Mr. Carney Goes to Mexico

Season 1 · Episode 14

Thursday, September 25, 2025 • Duration 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.

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10 Wars, 1 Man: Brian Stewart on Four Decades Covering the World’s Crises

Season 1 · Episode 13

Tuesday, September 23, 2025 • Duration 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.

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World on Edge: Will the Assassination of Charlie Kirk Lead to Civil War?

Season 1 · Episode 12

Thursday, September 18, 2025 • Duration 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.

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Director Barry Avrich on his Oct. 7th Film and the TIFF Censorship Controversy

Season 1 · Episode 12

Tuesday, September 16, 2025 • Duration 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.

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JDM Stewart: The History Wars, Statues, and Teaching Kids About the Prime Ministers

Season 1 · Episode 11

Friday, September 12, 2025 • Duration 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.

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Everything Political: Remembering Ken Dryden, Carney’s “Retreat,” and the End of School Trustees

Season 1 · Episode 10

Wednesday, September 10, 2025 • Duration 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.

Special guest Jill Promoli, a trustee with the Peel District School Board, joins to make the case for elected school trustees.

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World on Edge: Is Trump Turning America into a Mafia State?

Season 1 · Episode 9

Thursday, September 4, 2025 • Duration 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.

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 Viktor Orban and Benjamin Netanyahu are following in Putin’s footsteps, and why when modern states collapse it can lead to arbitrary rule by authoritarian "fathers" and their extended households.

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Everything Political: Does Canada Need the NDP Anymore?

Season 1 · Episode 8

Thursday, August 28, 2025 • Duration 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.

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