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Governor Gretchen Whitmer: Can Canada Trust America?

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The Paikin Podcast @thepaikinpodcast.bsky.social · 4d

🚨NEW episode: Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer
joins the pod for a live taping.

➡️ Ending the “Tariff Madness”
➡️ Rise of American Violence
➡️ Future of the Left
➡️ Jays & Tigers

YouTube: youtu.be/qMXY3d0spzs
Apple: apple.co/3WpBkDD
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1fqQ...

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The Paikin Podcast @thepaikinpodcast.bsky.social · 8d

🚨🌎On the latest episode of World on Edge with Conservative MP Shuv Majumdar and Janice Stein:

➡️ Should Canada have recognized Palestine?
➡️ What does it accomplish?
➡️ Trump and Netanyahu at the UN
➡️ The end of the UN at 80?

Watch:https://youtu.be/rAAlKZQSrAk
Listen: apple.co/4pRCx45

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The Paikin Podcast @thepaikinpodcast.bsky.social · 8d

Steve asks Governor Gretchen Whitmer if she will be seeking the Democratic nomination for president in 2028. Her answer doesn't exactly slam the door shut on that possibility.

Full interview coming soon.

#Democrats

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The Paikin Podcast @thepaikinpodcast.bsky.social · 11d

“There will be a point where Donald Trump and Mark Carney are going to come to conflict," says Justin Ling. But, for now, Trump seems to like Carney personally.

Full episode: youtu.be/TmrReXrrBec
Apple: apple.co/48LNb6i
Link Tree: linktr.ee/thepaikinpod...

#cdnpoli

Does Anyone Really Care About Free Speech Anymore? | Everything Political

The Paikin Podcast @thepaikinpodcast.bsky.social · 11d

Steve and @justinling.ca discuss his book, “The 51st State Votes,” Canada’s existential election, Poilievre’s “campaign malpractice,” & how exactly Mark Carney’s “elbows up” approach is going today.

YouTube: youtu.be/TmrReXrrBec
Apple: apple.co/48LNb6i
Link Tree: linktr.ee/thepaikinpod...

#cdnpoli

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The Paikin Podcast @thepaikinpodcast.bsky.social · 15d

🚨NEW episode of “Everything Political.”

➡️ The fallout from the Charlie Kirk assassination
➡️ Free speech in America
➡️ Chrystia Freeland's exit from cabinet
➡️ Carney's trip to Mexico

YouTube: youtu.be/tANUfdv8Vyk
Apple: apple.co/42a72s3
All the others: linktr.ee/thepaikinpod...

#cdnpoli #Kimmel

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

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The Paikin Podcast @thepaikinpodcast.bsky.social · 17d

🎙️🚨For decades Brian Stewart was Canada’s eyes on the world. He joins the pod to discuss his four decades reporting on the world’s crises, famines, wars, the toll it took on him, and the state of the world today.

YouTube: youtu.be/Kc7VVSNEo3Y

Apple: apple.co/3Vw1BzS

Will the Assassination of Charlie Kirk Lead to Civil War?

The Paikin Podcast @thepaikinpodcast.bsky.social · 22d

🚨🎙️Michael Ignatieff joins to discuss the murder of Charlie Kirk, if it could lead to increased political violence and even civil war, the rise of authoritarianism worldwide & if Canada is prepared for an unstable and chaotic America.

YouTube: youtu.be/B_Amwscwaj0

Apple: apple.co/4nDZ8PY

Why Did TIFF Cancel (and Uncancel) His Oct. 7th Film? | Barry Avrich 1x1

The Paikin Podcast @thepaikinpodcast.bsky.social · 24d

🚨🎙️NEW episode. A very candid chat with Director Barry Avrich on his doc, The Road Between Us.

➡️His story of why it was pulled from #TIFF50
➡️Why he thinks it is "not a political" film
➡️The protests and response to a film "about a family"

YouTube: youtu.be/ZU9gqqkWk00

Apple: apple.co/46lXwmL

Are the “Woke” History Wars Coming to an End?

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The Paikin Podcast @thepaikinpodcast.bsky.social · 28d

This was a great and in-depth chat with JDM Stewart on his book “The Prime Ministers.”

A deep dive into Canada’s PMs, why kids aren’t learning about these leaders anymore, & if the pendulum is swinging the other way on the “history wars.”

YouTube: youtu.be/AFaJLtVmxpQ

Apple: apple.co/41RBw1M

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

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The Paikin Podcast @thepaikinpodcast.bsky.social · Sep 10

“God rest your soul, Ken Dryden.”

Steve reflects on the last time he interviewed his friend.

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The Paikin Podcast @thepaikinpodcast.bsky.social · Sep 10

“The passion he had for this country. I mean, talk about Mr. Canada.”

Steve and Martha Hall Findlay remember Ken Dryden.

Youtube: youtu.be/gbyNo17ha_U?...

Apple: apple.co/4peY2vo

Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3WSw...

#kendryden

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The Paikin Podcast @thepaikinpodcast.bsky.social · Sep 10

We dropped this episode early this week. The Everything Political panel remembers Ken Dryden, his time in Parliament and what he meant to Canada.

(Then a look at Carney’s cabinet retreat and the end of school trustees.)

Youtube: youtu.be/gbyNo17ha_U?...

Apple: apple.co/4peY2vo

#cdnpoli

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Steve Paikin @spaikin.bsky.social · Sep 8

Is Donald Trump presiding over a Mafia-style government? We just debated that on @thepaikinpodcast.bsky.social with Janice Stein and Jeffrey Kopstein. Have a listen: apple.co/3HJIz5V (or on other platforms: linktr.ee/thepaikinpod...). #Trump @uofcalifornia.bsky.social

Podcast Episode · The Paikin Podcast · 09/04/2025 · 32m

apple.co

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The Paikin Podcast @thepaikinpodcast.bsky.social · Sep 5

✅How Trump is following in Putin's footsteps
✅The rise of the state as a "family business"
✅The historical threat this poses to the economy

➡️ apple.co/3HJIz5V

The Paikin Podcast @thepaikinpodcast.bsky.social · Sep 4

In our latest episode, Steve rolls through a number of things we have seen transpire in America over the last month or so – which raises the question: Is it authoritarianism yet?

@munkschool’s Janice Stein unambiguously says yes.

FULL episode links here: linktr.ee/thepaikinpod...

#Democracy

The Paikin Podcast @thepaikinpodcast.bsky.social · Sep 4

🚨NEW episode of World on Edge

➡️ Is Trump turning America into a Mafia-style state?
➡️ The global shift from the rule of law to the rule of men
➡️ And why we need to go “beyond the democracy debate”

YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfWv...

Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

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The Paikin Podcast @thepaikinpodcast.bsky.social · Aug 28

“Things veered off a ledge when the NDP seem to focus on identity politics, not class politics.”

Tony Clement on our latest episode of Everything Political with interim NDP leader @DonDavies.

#cdnpoli

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The Paikin Podcast @thepaikinpodcast.bsky.social · Aug 28

Interim NDP leader Don Davies has been doing a thought exercise: imagining if the NDP didn’t exist in Canada.

From our latest episode of Everything Political.

YouTube: youtu.be/v3gGW0votEA?...

Link Tree: linktr.ee/thepaikinpod...

#cdnpoli