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 • 29 episodes
The Paikin Podcast
Latest Episodes
Minister François-Philippe Champagne: Will His Budget “Transform” Canada?
Canada’s Minister of Finance François-Philippe Champagne joins Steve to discuss the budget, if it was truly “transformational,” if it was an “elbows up” budget, how to deal with Donald Trump, why they didn’t cut taxes on all new home purchases...
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Season 1
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Episode 28
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59:39
Justice Rosalie Abella: From a Displaced Persons Camp to the Supreme Court of Canada
Steve goes back to school. In this case to a Canadian Studies class at Harvard where he interviewed Justice Rosalie Abella about her early life, being born in a displaced persons camp in post-WWII Europe in 1946, how she knew at a very young ag...
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Season 1
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Episode 27
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49:17
World on Edge: Is Canada’s Military Ready for the New Chaotic Global Order?
Former MP and Conservative Party Leader Erin O’Toole joins Janice Stein to discuss the historically huge increase in military spending from last week’s budget, what we should focus spending it on, whether we should buy submarines or drones, why...
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Season 1
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Episode 26
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1:02:56
Why Avi Lewis Thinks He Can Save the NDP
Avi Lewis joins Steve to discuss his NDP leadership bid, why he wants to be the leader of a party that 94% of Canadian voters rejected in the last election, the decline of the NDP since Jack Layton, how Trudeau passed the NDP on the left, if Ja...
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Season 1
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Episode 25
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1:00:19
John Ibbitson & Darrell Bricker: Is Canada at a Breaking Point?
Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson join Steve to discuss their new book, Breaking Point: The New Big Shifts Putting Canada at Risk, how the country is in the middle of the greatest political crisis it has ever faced, the rising anger young peopl...
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Season 1
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Episode 24
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54:52
