Latest Ottawacitizen Podcast Episodes
Calgary has been under severe water restrictions for weeks after main pipe breaks
10/3: Canada Covered - June 20, 2024 13:20 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsA break in the city's main water pipe has left Calgary under severe restrictions for over two weeks, raising concerns about water usage and the potential impact on the city's premier summer festival, the Stampede. Calgary Herald reporter Scott Strasser joins Dave Breakenridge to discuss the cause...
MPs 'wittingly' took part in foreign interference: national security committee
10/3: Canada Covered - June 18, 2024 15:12 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsOttawa has been rocked by the fallout from a parliamentary report that suggests MPs have been witting or semi-witting participants in foreign interference. The report, released June 3, also implies one instance of an MP providing privileged information to a foreign operative. National Post politi...
Canada’s biggest superfan says leave your ethnic hatreds at the door
Full Comment - June 17, 2024 13:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsNav Bhatia is instantly recognizable as the turbaned, fanatically exuberant Raptors superfan courtside at every home game. As he tells Brian, he immigrated to Toronto from an India riven by ethnic conflict, to find peace and undreamed-of prosperity here. Discussing his new memoir, The Heart of a ...
RCMP release review in response to mass killing on James Smith Cree Nation in Saskatchewan
10/3: Canada Covered - June 13, 2024 16:23 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsJulia Peterson, a reporter with the Saskatoon Star Phoenix, discusses the recently released RCMP review of the 2022 mass stabbings in Saskatchewan's James Smith Cree Nation, which examined the force's handling of the incidents and the arrest of the perpetrator, the recommendations made, and wheth...
Liberals have good reason to fear Pierre Poilievre
Full Comment - June 10, 2024 13:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIt may be that the leader of the Conservative party has been preparing for the job of prime minister his whole life. He once entered an essay contest about “If I were prime minister,” advocating for making Canada a bastion of freedom. As Andrew Lawton, author of the new biography, Pierre Poilievr...
Serial killer Robert Pickton is dead after prison assault
10/3: Canada Covered - June 07, 2024 02:47 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsFor many, the death of notorious killer Robert Pickton marks the end of a dark chapter in Canadian history, but for others, it leaves justice and closure out of reach, as Vancouver Sun reporter Lori Culbert discusses with Dave Breakenridge. Background reading: B.C. serial killer Robert Pickton vi...
Regular-people rules don’t apply to ‘Prince’ Trudeau
Full Comment - June 03, 2024 13:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsHe gets away with wearing blackface while calling other people racist. He spoils himself with opulent trips abroad and refuses to answer for it. As Stephen Maher, author of a new book, The Prince: The Turbulent Reign of Justin Trudeau, explains, the prime minister has always seen himself as havin...
Alberta’s drought shaping up to be ‘worse than we saw in the 1920s, 1930s’
10/3: Canada Covered - May 31, 2024 18:02 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsSeveral years of dry conditions have Alberta facing a potential drought not seen in a generation, with tinder-dry grasslands and forests threatening farms, the water supply, and raising fears about fires, prompting officials to take measures to mitigate water shortages, Tyler Dawson discusses why...
We’re under attack from Chinese electric cars
Full Comment - May 27, 2024 13:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThey sound like a bargain: Cheap Chinese EVs selling in Canada for around $15,000 each. They’re an even better deal for the Chinese, because our government promises to pay them more than that sale price for every EV they sell here, as Flavio Volpe tells Brian this week. The president of the Autom...
B.C. promising changes after preventable overdose death of University of Victoria student
10/3: Canada Covered - May 24, 2024 16:13 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsThe parents of a young University of Victoria student who died from a fatal overdose in a university residence are seeking answers and changes, citing concerns about the handling of the 911 call and the delay in administering Naloxone. Vancouver Sun reporter Lori Culbert discusses the events surr...
How Alberta Mounties solved four murders nearly 50 years later
10/3: Canada Covered - May 22, 2024 23:03 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsNearly 50 years after two teen girls and two women were killed in the Calgary area, RCMP in Alberta say they’ve identified the man responsible. Police say Gary Allen Srery entered Canada after a violent past in the U.S. and committed the killings. He died while serving a sentence for rape in Ida...
It’s too late now for Liberals to replace Trudeau
Full Comment - May 20, 2024 10:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsPolls suggest the Tories are just too far ahead for Liberals to avoid a decimation in next year’s election. The prime minister seems defiantly bound to leading his party into 2025, even as his attacks against Tory Leader Pierre Poilievre grow more incoherent, as Chris Selley discusses with Brian ...
TikTok terror: How Hamas successfully hijacked your social media
Full Comment - May 13, 2024 13:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsPraising terrorist “martyrs,” open praise for Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis, and inciting violence toward Jews: social media platforms have been flooded since Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks on Israel, with alarming and disturbing content that American online platforms seem unable to control. Tal-Or Co...
Why Canadian prime ministers always stay well past their expiration date
10/3: Canada Covered - May 08, 2024 17:32 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsIn the UK or Australia, political leaders often lose their positions during party crises. However, in Canada, it's typically the voters who decide a leader's fate. National Post columnist Tristin Hopper speaks with Dave Breakenridge about why Canadian parties tend to stick with struggling leaders...
Profiting from despair: How decriminalization advocates exploited B.C.’s opioid crisis
Full Comment - May 06, 2024 13:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsfIt wasn’t just that funding for the out-of-control opioid crisis flowed to those promoting radical, unproven policies. Advocates leading the charge to B.C.’s doomed drug decriminalization experiment were personally investing in businesses to supply opioids to addicts, profiting off the back of ...
Oil begins moving on $34 billion Trans Mountain pipeline expansion
10/3: Canada Covered - May 03, 2024 17:20 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsThe Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, a major Canadian infrastructure project, cleared a significant hurdle despite numerous delays and legal challenges. Now federally owned, the project aims to transport bitumen from Alberta to the west coast. Calgary Herald columnist Chris Varcoe discusses wit...
How China played Canada for a sucker
Full Comment - April 29, 2024 13:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsDon’t expect the foreign interference inquiry to do much to impede Beijing’s stunningly successful capture of Canada’s critical institutions, says Jonathan Manthorpe, author of Claws of the Panda. China’s most insidious infiltration isn’t happening at the ballot box but in our universities, corpo...
The RCMP said he was a sex-trafficking kingpin
10/3: Canada Covered - April 27, 2024 01:57 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsA Toronto man was jailed for over two years on human smuggling accusations before being released on bail and finding out at his trial that his charges had been dropped. Freelance reporter Luc Rinaldi joins the show to discuss the police's focus on him, the lengthy pre-trial detention, and the imp...
Police arrest multiple suspects in Canada's largest gold heist
10/3: Canada Covered - April 23, 2024 16:10 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsIn an update to the sensational gold heist at Toronto's Pearson airport, where over $20 million in gold was stolen from an Air Canada cargo facility, significant arrests have now been made across Canada and the U.S. National Post reporter Adrian Humphreys joins the show to discuss how police made...
Ottawa just guaranteed we’ll all be paying higher taxes soon
Full Comment - April 22, 2024 13:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThe recent budget’s tax hikes won’t be enough to get us out of the fiscal mess the Trudeau Liberals have made with unrestrained spending and endless deficits, as Robert Asselin tells Brian. Asselin once advised Liberal finance minister Bill Morneau and is now with the Business Council of Canada. ...
Federal budget aims to please Millennials and Gen Z
10/3: Canada Covered - April 19, 2024 18:45 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsThe Trudeau government introduced a new budget focused on affordability and appealing to younger Canadians, accompanied by increased spending and debt. Toronto Sun columnist Brian Lilley joined the show to discuss its outreach to Millennials and Gen Z, its shortcomings, and criticism from traditi...
What we learned from testimony at the Foreign Interference Inquiry
10/3: Canada Covered - April 16, 2024 15:31 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsLast week, a foreign interference inquiry concluded after two weeks of testimony from MPs, intelligence officers, and even the Prime Minister, investigating potential foreign interference in the 2019 and 2021 elections. Catherine Levesque from the National Post discussed the inquiry's findings on...
Gen. Rick Hillier says Canada faces ‘death by a thousand cuts’
Full Comment - April 15, 2024 13:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThe Canadian Victoria Cross has never been awarded in its 31 years of existence. Gen. Rick Hillier aims to change that, and he joins Brian to discuss the new “Heroes Among Us” project launching with Postmedia — and his worries about the general state of our military, and our nation, today. Hillie...
Liberal government defence policy boosts military spending
10/3: Canada Covered - April 11, 2024 18:29 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsThe federal government announced plans to significantly increase military spending, aiming to expand the Canadian Forces and invest in new equipment. David Pugliese of the Ottawa Citizen joined the show to discuss the budget details, the equipment to be purchased, and how this aligns with allies'...
Canada has become a hub of Islamist terror financing
Full Comment - April 08, 2024 13:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIslamist extremism is on the march, as Hamas, ISIS, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Houthis and al Shabab unleash attacks against the West. Highly organized support for radicalized violence parades openly on our city streets. What connects them all is money, as Haras Rafiq tells Brian t...
What to expect from the April 8 solar eclipse
10/3: Canada Covered - April 04, 2024 17:20 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsThis April 8th, a total solar eclipse will captivate parts of North America, particularly Ontario and Quebec, with other regions observing a partial eclipse. Montreal Gazette's Susan Schwartz joins the show to discuss the widespread excitement and influx of visitors eager to experience this rare ...
‘Target on my back’: Selina Robinson on the NDP’s surrender to antisemites
Full Comment - April 01, 2024 13:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsAll she did was tell the truth. Before she knew it, Selina Robinson was being hounded out of B.C.’s cabinet for saying the UN had allotted Jews a “crappy piece of land” in 1948, with anti-Israel activists accusing her of insulting Muslims. Robinson joins Brian this week to recount how she was fir...
Shocking lapses outlined in auditor general's report on B.C.'s safe supply trial
10/3: Canada Covered - March 28, 2024 17:45 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsTwo years post-launch, B.C.'s "safer supply" program, aimed to curb the overdose crisis, faces scrutiny from Auditor General Michael Pickup for issues with transparency, access, and potential drug diversion. Vancouver Sun's Vaughn Palmer joins Dave Breakenridge to discuss the AG's findings, recom...
Trudeau’s big party tent is coming apart at the seams
Full Comment - March 25, 2024 13:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsNew Democrats and even other Liberals are now fighting Justin Trudeau’s carbon-tax scheme. This, as the prime minister’s abandonment of Israel has lost him a significant segment of long-time supporters. Postmedia’s Lorne Gunter joins Brian Lilley this week to unpack the chaos that appears to be c...
Liberals cry 'racism' to cover up another Chinese interference scandal
Full Comment - March 18, 2024 13:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThe Trudeau government didn’t just fight for years to hide the embarrassing truth about two scientists caught leaking secrets from Canada’s highest-risk pathology laboratory to China — including for bioweapons research. As former CSIS analyst Phil Gurski and Conservative MP Michael Chong discuss ...
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