The Munk Debates Podcast
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300 episodes
The Munk Debate podcasts is home to two of the most popular Canadian current affairs podcasts: Friday Focus with Janice Gross Stein and Munk Dialogues with Andrew Coyne
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Trump sends in the National Guard (again) and Mark Carney goes to Washington
Rudyard and Andrew react to the deployment of U.S. National Guard troops to American cities, specifically guards from red states being sent into blue states. This is a watershed moment, speeding up America's worrying…
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Friday Focus: Trump gives Hamas an ultimatum and how "AI slop" is working against productivity
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of the Munk…
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Trump's military speech ramblings should concern every Canadian
Rudyard and Andrew unpack the speeches made this week by U.S. Secretary of Defense Hegseth and President Trump to over 800 military generals. Trump indicated he wants to use American cities as training grounds to fight…
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Friday Focus: Trump's warning to European countries, and what Canada should learn from their mistakes
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of the Munk…
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Carney's Palestinian statehood recognition comes without conditions and the powerful companies benefiting from Trump's authoritarianism
What should we make of Canada's formal recognition of Palestinian statehood at the UN? What happened to the conditions the government had originally tied to this recognition? Andrew believes the Carney administration…
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Friday Focus: ABC capitulates to Trump and what to expect in Canada's upcoming federal budget
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of the Munk…
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Friday Focus: Charlie Kirk's assassination points to a democracy in trouble and a debate about Israel's strike in Qatar
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of the Munk…
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Trump is stuck in a dangerous spiral feedback loop and Rudyard and Andrew debate Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker program
Donald Trump's AI image to threaten "war" on the city of Chicago is further evidence that he is stuck in a spiral feedback loop with his followers, in which he has to get more outrageous to keep generating shock and…
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Friday Focus: China's great power performance and Mark Carney's bad budget messaging
This week's SCO summit in China projected a series of powerful images about the rise of China and the cleaving of the world into two power blocs. Putin, Xi, and Kim Jong Un watching the military parade at Tiananmen…
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A public display of friendship between China, Russia, and India is a searing indictment of Trump's foreign policy
Rudyard and Andrew start the show talking about this week's China summit with 20 leaders of non-Western countries, including India, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. Narendra Modi's public display of friendship with Xi…
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Friday Focus: Trump takes aim at the CDC and Putin is undeterred
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of the Munk…
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Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: the US slides towards dictatorship and Carney clings to Canada's peacemaking past
In the past week alone there has been an FBI raid on John Bolton's home and a threat to investigate former New Jersey governor Chris Christie due to his criticism of Trump. Every day there are new indicators to suggest…
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Friday Focus: Trump is a foreign policy wrecking ball, and Carney goes from elbows up to elbows down
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of the Munk…
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Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: a phony peace deal for Ukraine could put all of Europe at risk
Rudyard and Andrew unpack the latest meeting between Trump, Zelensky and European leaders that seems to have yielded no real progress in resolving the war in Ukraine. Trump indicated a willingness to offer security…
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Friday Focus: China's tax on Canadian canola and TIFF abandons the principles of free speech
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of the Munk…
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Friday Focus: Bibi's Gaza plan prioritizes his political survival over his country's interests and Putin dreams of a new Russian Empire
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of the Munk…
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Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: America's checks and balances are failing to restrain Donald Trump
Rudyard and Andrew start the show trying to understand why Trump's radical steps on immigration, education, and foreign policy have been met with so little resistance. Where are the checks and balances? Trump doesn't…
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Friday Focus: A late night tariff announcement and Canada's plan to recognize a Palestinian state
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of the Munk…
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Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: The EU-US trade deal should serve as a warning to Canada and why supply management hurts the poorest Canadians
Rudyard and Andrew start the show assessing Trump's new trade deal with the EU: no relief on tariffs, carve outs that favour the US, and uncertainty for Europe down the road. Why did European Commission President…
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Friday Focus: Israel is weaponizing food, and Hamas is weaponizing its own people
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of the Munk…
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Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: we are living through the golden age of conspiracy theories
Rudyard and Andrew talk about the conspiracy moment we are living through. Why is the political right so drawn to conspiracy theories? Andrew suggests that to be conservative is to be skeptical and contrarian, which…
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Friday Focus: Trump can't shake Epstein and Carney faces another trade test
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of the Munk…
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Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: Canada seeks to diversify its trade partnerships beyond the U.S
What should we make of Trump's latest 35% tariff threat on Canada? Rudyard and Andrew agree that while this is not surprising given who we are dealing with, it's also not unique to Canada, with Europe and Mexico…
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Friday Focus: Google's AI Overview will devastate small and medium-sized businesses
The full version of today's special Friday Focus is available to all paying and non-paying subscribers. Rudyard and Janice devote today's entire show to one of the biggest news stories of the year that is not being…
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Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: irresponsible tax cuts on both sides of the border
Another week brings another tariff threat from the Trump administration, without clarity on who is being targeted and for what reason. Andrew argues that the media must resist applying normal rules of rational…
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Friday Focus: The US turns its back on Ukraine and a sombre American Independence Day
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of the Munk…
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Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: how do you negotiate with Donald Trump?
Mark Carney is learning quickly - as the digital services tax debacle proved - that attempting good faith negotiations with the US President does guarantee a positive or lasting agreement. What is the point of making…
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Friday Focus: Diplomacy with Iran and a Democratic socialist stuns New York City
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of the Munk…
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Friday Focus special Tuesday edition: a fragile ceasefire takes hold
The full version of today's Friday Focus is available to all members. Rudyard and Janice begin today's special Friday Focus episode with the Trump initiated ceasefire that allows both Israel and Iran to claim some…
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Friday Focus Emergency Episode: a game changing moment in the Middle East
The full version of today's Friday Focus is available to all members. In this emergency Friday Focus episode, Rudyard and Janice assess what the US strike on Iran's nuclear facilities mean for the future of the Middle…
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Friday Focus: A crisis over nuclear weapons with the most incompetent set of leaders
The full version of today's Friday Focus is available to all members. Rudyard and Janice start today's show talking about the long term prospects of this war: while Israel has had amazing military successes in the…
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Munk Dialogue with Yossi Klein Halevi: why the West must support Israel's war against Iran
Rudyard is joined by celebrated American-Israeli author and journalist Yossi Klein Halevi to talk about the ongoing war between Iran and Israel. Yossi explains why this attack has almost unanimous support within Israel…
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Friday Focus: Israel's spectacular strike on Iran
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of the Munk…
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Be it Resolved, this is America's golden age
On this special podcast episode we are sharing the opening statements from the Munk Debate on Trump's America, which took place on May 29th in front of a sold out crowd of 3,000 people at Toronto's Roy Thomson Hall.…
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Friday Focus: The Trump-Elon bromance blows up and Ukraine's stunning military attack
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of the Munk…
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Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: Mark Carney's economic plan to get Canada back on track
Rudyard welcomes back Globe and Mail columnist Andrew Coyne to talk about Mark Carney's early economic plan for Canada. Andrew suggests that the PM's vision is a mixture of centre right and centre left politics and…
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Friday Focus: Recap of the Munk Debate on Trump's America and Israel moves closer to striking Iran
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of the Munk…
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Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: Carney's bumpy start and Canada's weaknesses exposed
Rudyard is joined once again by The Globe and Mail columnist Andrew Coyne to reflect on Mark Carney's bumpy first few weeks in office: delaying the spring budget, a chief of staff search coming up empty, and cabinet…
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Friday Focus: Donald Trump's Oval Office tirade and Mark Carney's threat to Israel
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of the Munk…
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Friday Focus: Trump's graft in the Gulf States and Bibi's war drags on
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of the Munk…
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Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: The Crisis of Canadian Democracy
We are a long way from a fully functioning democracy, according to Globe and Mail columnist Andrew Coyne. That's the main argument in his new book, The Crisis of Canadian Democracy, in which Andrew points to the many…
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Friday Focus: Two nuclear powers face off and Carney meets with Trump
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of the Munk…
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Friday Focus: Mark Carney gets a Boomer boost and Trump wants a nuclear deal
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of the Munk…
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Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: key takeaways from Canada's election results
Andrew Coyne is a Globe and Mail Columnist and one of Canada's most trusted commentators. On this Munk Dialogue Andrew and host Rudyard Griffiths unpack Canada's election results and where the parties and provinces go…
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Friday Focus: Trump's generous offer to Russia and Canadian leaders fail to address domestic concerns
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of the Munk…
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Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: The Conservative Party's failure to provide a roadmap for change
Andrew Coyne is a Globe and Mail Columnist and one of Canada's most trusted commentators. He joins host Rudyard Griffiths to discuss how the Conservative Party's anti-Trudeau messaging undermined their ability to…
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Friday Focus: Pierre Poilievre's prime ministerial debate performance and Donald Trump's unconstrained chaos
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of the Munk…
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Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: how the Liberals are benefitting from the Canada-US trade war
Andrew Coyne is a Globe and Mail Columnist and one of Canada's most trusted commentators. He joins us for a far reaching conversation about how the Liberal Party went from having no hope in this election to being the…
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Friday Focus: America and China's trade war is destabilizing the global economy
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of the Munk…
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Friday Focus: China's reciprocal tariffs and Canada gets a Liberation Day exemption
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of the Munk…
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