Sep 27 2023 — Peter Mansbridge and Bruce Anderson — The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge — How much worse can things get for the Liberals? Does Justin Trudeau have a plan to recover from the “Nazi in the parliamentary gallery” story? If so, will it be enough to make people forget the national embarrassment caused by last Friday’s incident. Bruce Anderson on that, plus his thoughts on how two polls done […]
Sep 20 2023 — Peter Mansbridge and Bruce Anderson — The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge — Will we ever get the questions swirling around the allegations against India answered? And if so, who will answer them? Bruce is here to try and sort out the key elements of a story that could be with us for quite some time. That plus the early reviews on Parliament’s new fall session.
Sep 13 2023 — Peter Mansbridge and Bruce Anderson — The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge — With an increasingly vocal caucus demanding answers to the Liberal’s nosedive in the polls, Justin Trudeau faces his internal party critics. What does he have to say and do to calm their fears, or is that even possible? Bruce Anderson looks at the smoke, the mirrors and the truth.
Sep 6 2023 — Peter Mansbridge and Bruce Anderson — The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge — Bruce Anderson joins for an attempt to deconstruct two key political moments — one in Ontario and one in Manitoba. One happened here and what are the lessons for all of us who consider ourselves political junkies.
Jun 14 2023 — Peter Mansbridge and Bruce Anderson — The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge — It’s a serious indictment against a former US President, but like almost everything that involves Donald Trump it turns into a circus. Bruce has his thoughts on everything from the courtroom to the newsroom. Also today Erin O’Toole’s farewell speech to the House of Commons where there were lessons for everyone.
Jun 7 2023 — Peter Mansbridge and Bruce Anderson — The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge — As the smoke from Canadian wildfires descends on major parts of the United States the debate intensifies about the impacts of climate change. Bruce is by with his thoughts on that plus the David Johnston affairs, and is Donald Trump about to shed whatever is left of his Teflon image?
May 31 2023 — Peter Mansbridge and Bruce Anderson — The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge — It looked like the NDP leader was in a political jam criticizing the government while at the same time propping it up. But someone, maybe Jagmeet Singh himself, came up with a great line to get himself to safe ground. Bruce does his SMT analysis on that plus the Alberta election and artificial intelligence too. […]
May 24 2023 — Peter Mansbridge and Bruce Anderson — The classic example of the morning after the day before. It all boils down to one question, who do you trust? Yesterday had it all, a respected person with a controversial report, an opposition party not buying it, a government trying to defend it and the media caught in the middle. Bruce has his thoughts […]
May 17 2023 — Peter Mansbridge and Bruce Anderson — The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge — Artificial Intelligence was on the minds of Washington legislators yesterday and the discussion was not only important it was for the most part non-partisan. Some important points are being made and one wonders whether Ottawa will soon do the same. It was more than two months ago on this program that Conservative MP Michelle Rempel […]
May 3 2023 — Peter Mansbridge and Bruce Anderson — The New York Times has looked at how Presidents in the last thirty years have been doing fewer and fewer news conferences and one on one interviews. Is that becoming the new normal and is it spreading to Canada?
Apr 26 2023 — Peter Mansbridge and Bruce Anderson — The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge — Joe Biden announces his re-election bid and his most likely contender, at least at this point, is Donald Trump. Bruce looks at the opening volleys in the 2024 US election campaign and we wonder if this is the best they can do. An 80 something Democrat and a multi indicted Republican who could be perp […]
Apr 19 2023 — Peter Mansbridge and Bruce Anderson — The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge — Fox pays almost 800 million dollars to shut down a lawsuit against the news network for fabricating stories. No apologies, no firings. Was the prime minister right or wrong to take a holiday in Jamaica at a wealthy friends resort? And the latest on the CBC.
Apr 12 2023 — Peter Mansbridge and Bruce Anderson — The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge — Bruce does his deepest dive yet on Canadians’ attitudes towards Pierre Poilievre, and the numbers are good for Poilievre and not good for Justin Trudeau. This is not your ordinary party preference poll, its much different and is quite telling about where Canadians are today in how they feel about leadership in Canada.