Your Choice Our Fight – Details, episodes & analysis

Starting on August 13, this podcast will be called Your Choice Our Fight Canada, hosted by Sabine Benoit and Jay Goldberg. Listen to this short intro and we'll see you soon! 

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Fun Police is an original podcast series produced by the Consumer Choice Center. We take a look at the perpetrators of neo-prohibitionism, the movement that attempts to ban "vices" such as vaping, smoking, drinking, gambling, and others. We host high-level guests to discuss the history and current expression of prohibitionism.

Written and produced by Bill Wirtz & Yaël Ossowski.

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You didn't ask for it, but we've got the consumer choice breakdown on the first Republican presidential debate, the topics we wished were covered, and how inflation is hitting hard in Canada.

Broadcast on Consumer Choice Radio on August 25, 2023.

Syndicated on Sauga 960AM and Coastal Carolina Network.

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This week we're putting together a simultaneous (joint) release with our colleague Bill Wirtz on his podcast ConsEUmer.

First, Yaël and David discuss the free speech case of Canadian comedian Mike Ward and his victory in the Supreme Court. Then we evaluate the election results across Virginia and New Jersey, pointing to a real downvote on the Biden admin and the progressive class.

Then, bringing on Bill, we discuss the Climate Change Conference (CCC — see what I did there?) in Glasgow, known as COP26. Will they embrace nuclear? What about the role of technological progress and innovation? Or does it all come down to cash?

Broadcast on Consumer Choice Radio on November 6, 2021.

Syndicated on Sauga 960AM and Big Talker 106.7FM.

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Yael and David reunited! And it feels so...

First up, we catch up on the crazy reconciliation and infrastructure bills in the US Senate and the wonkery you didn't know you needed.

After the interview (below) wraps up, we talk about Donald Trump's new social media network, Mastadon, the Facebook conundrum, and what is happening to cable news.

INTERVIEW: Canadian MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith

David interviews Beaches East York MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith. They chat about finding common ground with the opposition, polarized politics, and what’s next on the agenda for harm reduction in Canada.

David and Nathaniel then both agree that there shouldn’t be an excise tax on non-alcoholic beer, and that the cannabis act needs to be reformed to be more patient and consumer-friendly.

Broadcast on Consumer Choice Radio on October 30, 2021.

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Interviews with former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford and adjunct professor David Zaruk.

Mark Sanford is a statesman who served as the governor of the state of South Carolina and served as the U.S. representative for South Carolina's 1st congressional district from 1995 to 2001.

David Zaruk is an adjunct professor at Vesalius College and Facultés Universitaires St-Louis and has been an EU risk and science communications specialist since 2001, active in EU policy events from REACH and SCALE to the Pesticides Directive, from Science in Society questions to the use of the Precautionary Principle.

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2021/10/15/risk-hazard-and-precautionary-principle-why-europe-gets-crop-biotechnology-and-chemical-regulation-so-wrong/

Broadcast on Consumer Choice Radio on October 23, 2021.

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For our first segment, David goes head-to-head with our colleague Bill Wirtz on everything cannabis and NIMY-ism in Europe.

Next we have, Carlo Stagnaro, Director of the Observatory on the Digital Economy at Istituto Bruno Leoni (IBL), Italy's leading free market think tank. Prior to that he was Chief of the Minister's Technical Staff at Italy's Ministry of Economic Development.

— What is happening in Italian politics?

— Net neutrality in Europe

— Positive examples of liberalization in rail and electricity

Broadcast on Consumer Choice Radio on October 14, 2021.

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For our first segment, David is off prancing in Washington, D.C., so Yaël gives a reaction to the Facebook "whistleblower" and the politicians chomping at the bits to get in on social media regulation.

INTERVIEW: Nargis Nehan was formerly the Afghan Minister of Mines and Petroleum,  and worked in various positions at the Ministry of Finance the Ministry of Education, the Afghan Central Bank, and served as an advisor to the President of Afghanistan for two years.

She eventually left the government and founded EQUALITY for Peace and Democracy (EPD) a civil society organization for empowering women and youth across 16 provinces of Afghanistan.

https://twitter.com/NehanNargis

— Having to flee Afghanistan a second time
— History repeating itself
— What will happen to those who must stay in Afghanistan?
— Female activists still in hiding
— The persistent issues that still plagued post-Taliban Afghanistan
— Helping modernize the financial and resource systems 
— Working within the Afghan treasury
— Equality for Peace and Democracy, and promoting good governance
— Developing the mining sector and fighting other ministers reluctant to deal with female officials
— Harassment within Afghan institutions and resigning from the government
— The cause of reform and governance was lost to elections
— What can people in other countries do to help Afghans and support freedom?
— The barbarity of the Taliban, the dark age-mentality, and how to restore rights and freedom in Afghanistan.

Broadcast on Consumer Choice Radio on October 7, 2021.

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—The FDA's failure in getting us tests

—YouTube's censorship of anti-vaccine posts

—Tips and tricks on buying and owning a car

—Taxes, tariffs, and government rules on car ownership

—The IRS wants to snoop on your bank accounts

—What happened to banking secrecy and banking privacy? #FATCA

Broadcast on Consumer Choice Radio on September 30, 2021.

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—David is invited on our buddy Andrew Donaldson's podcast "Heard Tell" to discuss the Canadian federal election. Give 'er a listen! 

https://ordinary-times.com/2021/09/21/ot-contributor-podcast-heard-tell-w-guest-david-clement-on-the-canadian-elections/

—An election in which no one won

—Where did all the money go?

—Should Conservatives move to the center?

—The outrage vote will only grow

—Vaccine passport technical glitches

—Excise tax on cannabis set to be raised!

INTERVIEW: Alan Konevsky is the interim CEO & Chief Legal Officer of tZERO, an innovative liquidity platform for private companies and assets. They offer institutional-grade solutions for issuers looking to digitize their capital table through blockchain technology, and trade on a regulated alternative trading system.

https://www.tzero.com/

—Coinbase, the SEC, and smart crypto regulation

—How will Bitcoin, Etherum, and cryptocurrencies fare under SEC or Congressional regulation?

—DeFi banking is innovating, but our rules our outdated

—How tZERO digitizes assets

—What is the use case?

—Should central banks have digital currencies? A debate.

—What do his former colleagues at Mastercard and Goldman Sachs think of crypto companies?

Broadcast on Consumer Choice Radio on September 23, 2021.

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