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The ‘Online Harms’ Act could censor Twitter, Netflix, and us
Full Comment - March 11, 2024 13:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsBeware of governments making laws to “protect the children,” warns Ian Runkle, this week’s guest. The Liberals’ Bill C-63 rules to stop online child exploitation and revenge porn seem well-intentioned. But the Online Harms Act is so broad it could end up censoring popular streaming entertainment,...
We're getting zapped by Guilbeault's radical, no-fuel, electrified future
Full Comment - March 04, 2024 14:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWe won’t need roads where we’re going. At least that’s how Liberal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault wants it. He wants to end funding for new roads in Canada and ban cars that use gas or diesel, while forcing our heating and energy to become all-electric. Meanwhile, as energy researcher and...
New Liberal 'online harms' bill to make online hate punishable by law
10/3: Canada Covered - February 28, 2024 17:47 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsThe "Online Harms Act," a new federal legislation aimed at curbing harmful online content, introduces harsh penalties for severe offenders and raises concerns about its impact on freedom of expression, as discussed by National Post political reporter Catherine Lévesque with host Dave Breakenridge...
Danielle Smith challenges Trudeau to call an election
Full Comment - February 26, 2024 14:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThe tension between Ottawa and Alberta is rising. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has most recently attacked Premier Danielle Smith’s plans to restrict children from medically transitioning genders. This, after his environment minister demanded the province curb its oil industry and overhaul its ga...
Are Canada's homeless encampments here to stay?
10/3: Canada Covered - February 23, 2024 15:15 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsHomelessness and homeless encampments are a major issue in many Canadian centres. Ottawa Citizen reporter Andrew Duffy and 10/3 host Dave Breakenridge, explore the diverse causes, municipal responses, government efforts, and the potential benefits of examining international solutions. Learn more ...
The secret snitch who brought down the narcos
10/3: Canada Covered - February 22, 2024 18:14 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsCourt documents reveal that five Canadians were charged in a massive FBI drug operation, which took down over a dozen alleged traffickers based on the work of an informant who infiltrated the senior ranks. National Post reporter Adrian Humphreys joins Dave Breakenridge to discuss his investigati...
Israel is invading Rafah regardless of what Trudeau says
Full Comment - February 19, 2024 14:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsEylon Levy spends his day debunking all the patently ridiculous propaganda against Israel. The latest uproar the government’s official spokesman is facing is the fevered campaign to try keeping Israel from invading Rafah. As Levy tells host Brian Lilley, this plays right into Hamas’s hands. Levy ...
AI photos becoming a growing problem in Canada
10/3: Canada Covered - February 18, 2024 19:55 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsExplicit, AI-generated images of Taylor Swift have reignited the discussion around the nefarious uses of this emerging technology. It has raised questions about how prevalent the problem is, and whether legislation is strong enough to address it. National Post reporter Chris Knight joins the show...
Manitoba man charged with murder in deaths of common-law partner, children and teen
10/3: Canada Covered - February 15, 2024 17:49 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsTragedy has struck a small Manitoba community with the deaths of five people. A woman, a teen girl and three small children were all killed over the weekend, and the partner of the woman and father of the three kids has been charged in their deaths. Winnipeg Sun reporter Glen Dawkins joins the sh...
Not all transgender people think Danielle Smith’s gender policies are unhinged
Full Comment - February 12, 2024 14:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIt’s been a frenzy since Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced sweeping new policies limiting gender transitioning for children. She’s been accused of endangering lives and was blasted by the prime minister. What isn’t happening, as guest Julia Malott tells Brian this week, is a respectful dis...
London police speak on Hockey Canada sexual assault case
10/3: Canada Covered - February 07, 2024 17:27 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsAfter weeks of speculation about developments in the case, London police have spoken publicly about its investigation into sexual assault allegations against members of Canada’s 2018 World Juniors team. Five players from that squad have been charged, two years after revelations of a stalled inves...
Jean Chrétien looks better now compared to the alternative
Full Comment - February 05, 2024 14:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsLiberals were praising Jean Chrétien on his 90th birthday recently. Then, almost immediately afterward, they were distancing themselves from Canada’s 20th prime minister after news he had once tried watering down an Indigenous rights declaration. That’s the peculiar, contradictory legacy of “the ...
B.C. gangsters at the centre of a global drug trade
10/3: Canada Covered - January 31, 2024 15:31 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsCanada is a big importer of illicit drugs, but many Canadians might not know that we’re also sending shipments of drugs like methamphetamines overseas, to Australia and elsewhere in the south Pacific. This is being driven by gangs in Canada, but also Canadians overseas who are highly ranked in dr...
‘Islamofascism-phobia’ and the Iranians standing with Israel
Full Comment - January 29, 2024 14:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsAfter Hamas’s Oct. 7 mass slaughter of Jews in Israel, a surprising thing happened: Iranians inside the Islamic Republic and Persians around the world declared their support for … Israel. Ontario MPP Goldie Ghamari was one of them. She joins Brian this week to explain how Islamofascism promoted b...
Court rules Liberals' use of Emergencies Act was unjustified, unreasonable
10/3: Canada Covered - January 26, 2024 17:56 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsCritics of the Liberals’ handling of the Freedom Convoy and its occupation of downtown Ottawa in 2022 were handed some vindication this week. The Federal Court of Canada has ruled that the Trudeau government’s use of the Emergencies Act was unconstitutional. National Post political reporter Chris...
Jordan Peterson willing to risk licence over social media training
10/3: Canada Covered - January 24, 2024 17:02 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsOutspoken author and academic Jordan Peterson’s legal fight against his profession’s governing body hit a snag in the Ontario Court of Appeal. Peterson was fighting a sanction from the College of Psychologists of Ontario ordering him to undergo remedial social media training. Ontario's highest co...
Jordan Peterson on why everyone should be afraid of what happened to him
Full Comment - January 23, 2024 01:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThe verdict is final. The courts have now decisively refused to overturn a decision by the College of Psychologists of Ontario that ordered Jordan Peterson into a mandatory rehabilitation program for his politically incorrect tweets, which had nothing to do with his practice and involved no actua...
Rachel Notley announces she’s leaving Alberta NDP leadership
10/3: Canada Covered - January 20, 2024 03:39 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsFormer Alberta premier Rachel Notley announced she is stepping down as the head of Alberta’s NDP. The move, expected after last spring’s election defeat to Danielle Smith’s UCP, sparks a leadership contest that could ultimately shape the progressive movement, not just in Alberta, but in Canada. C...
Is it time to say goodbye to the RCMP as we know them?
10/3: Canada Covered - January 16, 2024 17:44 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsThe RCMP has been under scrutiny for years, regarding how it performs as community law enforcement, how it manages national policing, and even whether it’s an organization capable of change. Some even wonder whether it’s time to say goodbye to the Mounties as they exist now. National Post politic...
The Liberal MP who thinks his party is getting things wrong
Full Comment - January 15, 2024 14:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsHe’s publicly objected to his own Liberal government and the prime minister turning against Israel’s war on Hamas. He fought for his party to stand firm for Quebec anglophones against the province’s attacks — and lost. Anthony Housefather has been breaking publicly a lot lately with his own Liber...
Is alcohol consumption in Canada something to be worried about?
10/3: Canada Covered - January 11, 2024 17:41 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsFor many Canadians, January marks a time when they reconsider their relationship with alcohol. But looking beyond Dry January, is alcohol consumption in Canada something to be worried about? National Post health reporter Sharon Kirkey joins the show to discuss why Canadians may be re-evaluating t...
Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives' new approach to get their message across to Canadians
10/3: Canada Covered - January 09, 2024 17:18 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsWhile Justin Trudeau’s popularity has been waning, and things have been looking up for the Conservatives for quite some time, Pierre Poilievre and the Tories still have to convince Canadians they’re a government in waiting. One new way the Tories have tried to do this has been with a series of vi...
We shouldn’t be making things this hard for Canadian winemakers
Full Comment - January 08, 2024 14:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSomehow Donald Ziraldo beat the odds: He and his business partner made an international success out of their Inniskillin Winery in Ontario. Starting back in the days when Canadian wine was dismissed as inferior plonk, they went on to produce and sell highly regarded, award-winning vintages all ov...
Best of 2023: Canada’s great addictive hard-drug giveaway experiment somehow goes awry
Full Comment - January 01, 2024 14:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsOver the holidays, we’re looking back at some of the best episodes of 2023, a year where serious questions were raised about whether Canada’s “safe supply” approach to drug addiction was making things worse. A long-time proponent of harm reduction, Dr. Sharon Koivu, an urban doctor in London, Ont...
Best of 2023: England’s ‘strictest headmistress’ on how old-school education saves kids
Full Comment - December 25, 2023 14:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsOver the holidays, we’re looking back at some of the best episodes of 2023, a year that saw massive controversy over the state of Canada’s schools. At Katharine Birbalsingh’s inner-city free school in London, students are not to speak in the hallways. Discipline is strict. The kids, heavily drawn...
Alleged suicide 'Chef of Death' charged with 14 counts of murder
10/3: Canada Covered - December 20, 2023 17:02 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsSeveral months after being charged with counseling people to commit suicide, an Ontario man has been hit with fourteen murder counts. Kenneth Law, who police allege sold sodium nitrite, which can be fatal, via an online store, was charged in the deaths of people ranging in age from 16 to 36. Toro...
Special: Rex Murphy’s year-end interview with Pierre Poilievre
Full Comment - December 18, 2023 14:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsAn extended video version of this interview will be available starting Tuesday, December 19, 2023, online at National Post (nationalpost.com). Special guest host Rex Murphy sits down in person with federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre for a year-end interview. They discuss what’s behind t...
Ontario will soon have more options on where they can purchase alcohol
10/3: Canada Covered - December 15, 2023 16:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsBeer and wine drinkers in Ontario will see more buying options in the coming years, as the province moves to allow sales in corner stores and all grocery stores. Premier Doug Ford, following through on a campaign promise from 2018, made the announcement this week, suggesting it will give consumer...
Trudeau botched 2023. The Liberals won’t allow a repeat in 2024
Full Comment - December 11, 2023 14:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsPrime Minister Justin Trudeau started the year in fine form. Twelve months later his party is melting down in the polls and Pierre Poilievre is heading what looks like an election-winning juggernaut. But the Conservative leader shouldn’t get too comfortable, as the Full Comment year-end politics ...
U.S. investigation into alleged plot to kill Sikh activist in New York points to ties to slaying of Nijjar in B.C.
10/3: Canada Covered - December 08, 2023 17:02 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsNew information has come to light about the killing of a Canadian Sikh activist in B.C. in June. An indictment filed in New York in the foiled assassination of a Sikh separatist alleges the violence was directed by an Indian government employee, and part of a larger plot that also targeted other ...
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