The Paikin Podcast
Facts are facts but every issue has multiple sides, and Steve Paikin wants to hear them all. From Canadian politics to seismic global changes to signature one-on-one interviews and redline debates on the most hot-button issues, The Paikin Podcast helps you understand the world today, with balance and context.
Podcasting since 2025 • 14 episodes
The Paikin Podcast
Latest Episodes
World on Edge: Will the Assassination of Charlie Kirk Lead to Civil War?
Michael Ignatieff joins Janice Stein to discuss the murder of Charlie Kirk, if it could lead to increased political violence and even civil war, the rise of authoritarianism worldwide, the state of democracy in Canada, and if we are prepared fo...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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47:08
Director Barry Avrich on his Oct. 7th Film and the TIFF Censorship Controversy
Barry Avrich’s October 7th documentary, The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue, was disinvited from TIFF, then reinstated – and just won the festival’s People’s Choice Documentary Award. Avrich joins Steve to discuss what exactly happened, wh...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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44:08
JDM Stewart: The History Wars, Statues, and Teaching Kids About the Prime Ministers
Author JDM Stewart joins Steve to discuss his book "The Prime Ministers," how to teach kids history, reconciling the past with the present, and if the pendulum is swinging the other way on the "history wars." And from Macdonald to Laurier to Ca...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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53:27
Everything Political: Remembering Ken Dryden, Carney’s “Retreat,” and the End of School Trustees
On this episode of “Everything Political,” Steve Paikin and former MPs Martha Hall Findlay and Tony Clement remember Ken Dryden, his political career, and how he wasn’t in Parliament “to play politics.” Then, a look at Carney’s cabinet retreat ...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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52:25
World on Edge: Is Trump Turning America into a Mafia State?
Is it authoritarianism yet? Many may be asking this question about America, but Jeffrey Kopstein thinks we should be asking a different one. He joins Steve and Janice Stein to discuss his book "The Assault on the State,” if Trump i...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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31:41
