Good Talk -- Is This Desperation?
A GST holiday, 250 dollar cheques, what's next as the Liberals try to win back Canadians in the months before...
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Good Talk -- Call The Election Soon?
Donald Trump's win has changed everything so why not change the Canadian election timetable? Thart's Chantal's suggestion this week and...
Good Talk -- What Happened, What Now, And Is Canada Ready?
A lot of people were surprised on Tuesday night but now with days to ponder the Trump victory the real...
Trump Wins - Again
No encore edition this Wednesday, instead this is the real deal. Donald Trump is heading back to the White House...
Trump Wins - Again
No encore edition this Wednesday, instead this is the real deal. Donald Trump is heading back to the White House...
Good Talk -- Has The Media Blown The US Election? Plus the ongoing drama that continues to unfold in Ottawa
The US election is Tuesday, and already, the finger-pointing has started about the way the campaign has been run and...
Good Talk -- Is The Revolt Over or Just On Pause?
So, did he dodge the coup? Does Justin Trudeau now have a clear path to the next election? After weeks...
Good Talk - Are These The Final Days
The clock is ticking on Justin Trudeau as one issue after another is somehow connected to his leadership problems. There...
Good Talk - Could This Be What Justin Trudeau is Planning?
In a week when many Canadians were bored silly by the constant barrage of process stories coming out of Parliament...
Good Talk -- How Do You Fact Check In The Era of Lies?
We could be only months away from an election in Canada, so is there anything we need to learn from...
Good Talk - Four Options for Justin Trudeau
A fascinating discussion about Justin Trudeau's options makes up the last fifteen minutes of today's Good Talk. But first, it's...
Good Talk -- "I'm Right Here 'Bro".
A wild week for Jagmeet Singh from a byelection victory to an apparent challenge to Pierre Poilievre to put up...
Good Talk — Everything Points to Monday.
Monday is a huge day for all political parties in Canada. Parliament returns but two key byelections, one in Manitoba...
Good Talk - Jagmeet Singh, Sellout or Mastermind?
A quiet political summer in Ottawa turned very different with Jagmeet Singh's decision to "tear up" the deal between the...
Good Talk -- Has The Summer Changed Anything in Canadian Politics?
Bruce and Chantal join me for a wide open discussion about the politics of the summer of 2024. Everything it...
Summer Good Talk -- Could Trudeau Do A Biden?
Bruce and Chantal join me for a Summer Good Talk and what a summer it's been so far. Could the...
Good Talk - The Byelection Stakes Couldn't Be Higher
Monday night, June 24th, is byelection night in the Toronto riding of Toronto-St Paul's. Will the voters there determine the...
Good Talk - Treason, Traitors or Not?
Who to believe? Who would you believe if you had a choice between believing Jagmeet Singh or Elizabeth May? That...
Good Talk - Is it Treason or McCarthyism?
There are big issues for Bruce and Chantal to handle this week. There are good conversations on these three issues...
Good Talk - Will The Trump Verdict Leave the US Even More Divided?
Thirty-four out of thirty-four. All counts against Donald Trump result in guilty verdicts. What now for the former president and...
Good Talk - What's Tom Mulcair Up To?
The former national leader of the NDP has been saying some nice things about Mark Carney lately. Is it nothing...
Good Talk — Are The Liberals In Full Panic Mode?
New data from Nanos and the Globe and Mail suggests Canadians find neither Justin Trudeau or Pierre Poilievre credible --...
No one could outsmart or outword Rex Murphy — I miss you, my friend
It’s with some hesitation that I try to put into words what Rex Murphy meant to Canada, to Canadians, and...
Good Talk - Is Three Days A Week At The Office Too Much?
Lots up for discussion on Good Talk this week -- public service unions are fighting Ottawa over remote work, Mark...
Good Talk -- "Toxicity, Lies and Misinformation"
A Liberal MP says she's had enough. After nine years as an MP Pam Damoff says she won't run again...
Good Talk - What Was Poilievre Thinking?
Pierre Poilievre ends up with a group of F-Trudeau flag wavers in the Maritimes. Really? What was he thinking? Chantal...
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 budget. With some...
Good Talk - A First Minister's Conference -- Why Not?
What's the downside for Justin Trudeau in calling a first minister's conference? What's he got to lose? On the day...
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 to pay for massive...
Good Talk: Live – Media, politics, and the future.
Good Talk is live on stage at this historic Fairmont Château Laurier in downtown Ottawa. Chantal, Bruce and I tackle...
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 positioning did anything really change...
Good Talk - Carbon Taxes, Carbon Rebates, Arrive Can, and the Auditor General
Carbon Taxes, Carbon Rebates, Arrive Can, the Auditor General ....another week when the questions of who's protecting your money, how...
Good Talk - Did Joe Biden Just Save Himself?
Is he just too old, stumbling and incoherent? Not last night it seems. Joe Biden's energetic State of the Union...
Good Talk - Brian Mulroney, The Passing of A Giant
The 18th prime minister of Canada was a force, a huge force. He changed the country in many ways, some...
Good Talk - Have The Liberals Given Up?
Little things can make a difference is the old saying. And this week a little thing seemed to have some...
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. A scandal that could last...
Good Talk -- Dominc LeBlanc Moves To The Front
Auto theft was the issue for the national political leaders this week and it's worth asking why. So we do...
Good Talk -- Are We The World's Patsy on Spying?
Some new intelligence on Canada's vulnerability to foreign interference is worrying to say the least. It suggests that interference by...
Good Talk - Is Trudeau wounded or emboldened?
Strange week for Justin Trudeau --one day a member calls for a leadership review, and the next his caucus almost...
Good Talk -- Immigration Becomes The Issue
John Kennedy used to say, aside from indigenous people, we are all either immigrants or descended from immigrants. That was...
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, but are they symbols of an era long...
Good Talk - How Costly Are Holiday Slip-ups?
Both the Liberals and the Conservatives appear to have stumbled in the holiday season and the question now, is will...
Good Talk: The 2023 Year Ender
It's that time of year when the Good Talk panel convenes to talk about the year-end position on the political...
SMT - Justin Trudeau and The American Right
It's the final regular episode of Smoke, Mirrors and The Truth and we focus on some comments Justin Trudeau made...
Good Talk: It's Not Over Till It's Over
As the year closes some Liberals seem to have their bounce back, while some Conservatives are a bit anxious. The...
Good Talk - It's Not Over Till It's Over
As the year closes some Liberals seem to have their bounce back, while some Conservatives are a bit anxious. The...
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 latest announcement for a...
The Latest on Trudeau, Is He Going or Staying?
Bruce and Chantal discuss what Justin Trudeau told the editorial board of one of the country's most influential newspapers. The...
SMT -- The CBC in a Crisis of Cuts
The CBC has decided to make up its budget shortfall of 125 million dollars with a series of cuts in...
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. What's the real reason behind...
Should MP's Accept Free Trips To The War Zone?
About sixty members of Parliament accepted free trips to the Middle East last week to hear about the Israel-Hamas war.