Good Talk - What Was Poilievre Thinking?
Pierre Poilievre ends up with a group of F‑Trudeau flag wavers in the Maritimes.…
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Good Talk - The Budget Fallout from Economics to Leadership
Lots to talk about this week and much of it connected to the fallout from the new…
Good Talk - A First Minister's Conference -- Why Not?
What’s the downside for Justin Trudeau in calling a first minister’s…
Good Talk - Is The NDP On The Verge of Collapse?
We start this week with a simple question — where is all the money coming from…
Good Talk: Live – Media, politics, and the future.
Good Talk is live on stage at this historic Fairmont Château Laurier in downtown…
Good Talk - After A Week of Votes and Motions in Parliament, Is Anything Different?
The topics were hot, from the Middle East to carbon pricing, but after all the…
Good Talk - Carbon Taxes, Carbon Rebates, Arrive Can, and the Auditor General
Carbon Taxes, Carbon Rebates, Arrive Can, the Auditor General .…another week when…
Good Talk - Did Joe Biden Just Save Himself?
Is he just too old, stumbling and incoherent? Not last night it seems. Joe Biden’s…
Good Talk - Brian Mulroney, The Passing of A Giant
The 18th prime minister of Canada was a force, a huge force. He changed the…
Good Talk - Have The Liberals Given Up?
Little things can make a difference is the old saying. And this week…
Good Talk -- Governments face bad weeks and really bad weeks. This could be really bad.
Two potholes for the Liberals in their path to try and find recovery. One serious.…
Good Talk -- Dominc LeBlanc Moves To The Front
Auto theft was the issue for the national political leaders this week and it’s worth…
Good Talk -- Are We The World's Patsy on Spying?
Some new intelligence on Canada’s vulnerability to foreign interference is…
Good Talk - Is Trudeau wounded or emboldened?
Strange week for Justin Trudeau –one day a member calls for a leadership…
Good Talk -- Immigration Becomes The Issue
John Kennedy used to say, aside from indigenous people, we are all either immigrants…
Good Talk - The Passing of a Titan - The 90th Birthday of Another
Ed Broadbent and Jean Chretien. Two giants on the country’s political landscape,…
Good Talk - How Costly Are Holiday Slip-ups?
Both the Liberals and the Conservatives appear to have stumbled in the holiday…
Good Talk: The 2023 Year Ender
It’s that time of year when the Good Talk panel convenes to talk about the year-end…
SMT - Justin Trudeau and The American Right
It’s the final regular episode of Smoke, Mirrors and The Truth and we focus on some…
Good Talk: It's Not Over Till It's Over
As the year closes some Liberals seem to have their bounce back, while some…
Good Talk - It's Not Over Till It's Over
As the year closes some Liberals seem to have their bounce back, while some…
SMT - Is This The Plan To Solve The Housing Crisis?
Going back to the future may be one way to look at Housing Minister Sean Fraser’s…
The Latest on Trudeau, Is He Going or Staying?
Bruce and Chantal discuss what Justin Trudeau told the editorial board of one of…
SMT -- The CBC in a Crisis of Cuts
The CBC has decided to make up its budget shortfall of 125 million dollars with…
Good Talk: Please answer my question in English not French
A committee exchange in Ottawa brings back a debate that we thought was long over.…
Should MP's Accept Free Trips To The War Zone?
About sixty members of Parliament accepted free trips to the Middle East last week…