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Full Comment is Canada’s podcast for compelling interviews, controversial opinions and fascinating discussions. Hosted by Brian Lilley. Published by Postmedia, new episodes are released each Monday.

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05.13.2024
TikTok terror: How Hamas successfully hijacked your social media
Praising terrorist “martyrs,” open praise for Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis, and inciting violence toward Jews: social media platforms have been flooded since Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks on Israel, with alarming and disturbing content that American online platforms seem unable...
05.06.2024
Profiting from despair: How decriminalization advocates exploited B.C.’s opioid crisis
fIt wasn’t just that funding for the out-of-control opioid crisis flowed to those promoting radical, unproven policies. Advocates leading the charge to B.C.’s doomed drug decriminalization experiment were personally investing in businesses to supply opioids to addicts, profiting off the...
04.29.2024
How China played Canada for a sucker
Don’t expect the foreign interference inquiry to do much to impede Beijing’s stunningly successful capture of Canada’s critical institutions, says Jonathan Manthorpe, author of Claws of the Panda. China’s most insidious infiltration isn’t happening at the ballot box but in...
04.22.2024
Ottawa just guaranteed we’ll all be paying higher taxes soon
The recent budget’s tax hikes won’t be enough to get us out of the fiscal mess the Trudeau Liberals have made with unrestrained spending and endless deficits, as Robert Asselin tells Brian. Asselin once advised Liberal finance minister Bill Morneau...
04.15.2024
Gen. Rick Hillier says Canada faces ‘death by a thousand cuts’
The Canadian Victoria Cross has never been awarded in its 31 years of existence. Gen. Rick Hillier aims to change that, and he joins Brian to discuss the new “Heroes Among Us” project launching with Postmedia — and his worries...
04.08.2024
Canada has become a hub of Islamist terror financing
Islamist extremism is on the march, as Hamas, ISIS, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Houthis and al Shabab unleash attacks against the West. Highly organized support for radicalized violence parades openly on our city streets. What connects them all is...
04.01.2024
‘Target on my back’: Selina Robinson on the NDP’s surrender to antisemites
All she did was tell the truth. Before she knew it, Selina Robinson was being hounded out of B.C.’s cabinet for saying the UN had allotted Jews a “crappy piece of land” in 1948, with anti-Israel activists accusing her of...
03.25.2024
Trudeau’s big party tent is coming apart at the seams
New Democrats and even other Liberals are now fighting Justin Trudeau’s carbon-tax scheme. This, as the prime minister’s abandonment of Israel has lost him a significant segment of long-time supporters. Postmedia’s Lorne Gunter joins Brian Lilley this week to unpack...
03.18.2024
Liberals cry 'racism' to cover up another Chinese interference scandal
The Trudeau government didn’t just fight for years to hide the embarrassing truth about two scientists caught leaking secrets from Canada’s highest-risk pathology laboratory to China — including for bioweapons research. As former CSIS analyst Phil Gurski and Conservative MP...
03.11.2024
The ‘Online Harms’ Act could censor Twitter, Netflix, and us
Beware of governments making laws to “protect the children,” warns Ian Runkle, this week’s guest. The Liberals’ Bill C-63 rules to stop online child exploitation and revenge porn seem well-intentioned. But the Online Harms Act is so broad it could...
03.04.2024
We're getting zapped by Guilbeault's radical, no-fuel, electrified future
We won’t need roads where we’re going. At least that’s how Liberal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault wants it. He wants to end funding for new roads in Canada and ban cars that use gas or diesel, while forcing our heating...
02.26.2024
Danielle Smith challenges Trudeau to call an election
The tension between Ottawa and Alberta is rising. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has most recently attacked Premier Danielle Smith’s plans to restrict children from medically transitioning genders. This, after his environment minister demanded the province curb its oil industry and...
02.19.2024
Israel is invading Rafah regardless of what Trudeau says
Eylon Levy spends his day debunking all the patently ridiculous propaganda against Israel. The latest uproar the government’s official spokesman is facing is the fevered campaign to try keeping Israel from invading Rafah. As Levy tells host Brian Lilley, this...
02.12.2024
Not all transgender people think Danielle Smith’s gender policies are unhinged
It’s been a frenzy since Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced sweeping new policies limiting gender transitioning for children. She’s been accused of endangering lives and was blasted by the prime minister. What isn’t happening, as guest Julia Malott tells Brian...
02.05.2024
Jean Chrétien looks better now compared to the alternative
Liberals were praising Jean Chrétien on his 90th birthday recently. Then, almost immediately afterward, they were distancing themselves from Canada’s 20th prime minister after news he had once tried watering down an Indigenous rights declaration. That’s the peculiar, contradictory legacy of “the...
01.29.2024
‘Islamofascism-phobia’ and the Iranians standing with Israel
After Hamas’s Oct. 7 mass slaughter of Jews in Israel, a surprising thing happened: Iranians inside the Islamic Republic and Persians around the world declared their support for … Israel. Ontario MPP Goldie Ghamari was one of them. She joins...
01.23.2024
Jordan Peterson on why everyone should be afraid of what happened to him
The verdict is final. The courts have now decisively refused to overturn a decision by the College of Psychologists of Ontario that ordered Jordan Peterson into a mandatory rehabilitation program for his politically incorrect tweets, which had nothing to do...
01.15.2024
The Liberal MP who thinks his party is getting things wrong
He’s publicly objected to his own Liberal government and the prime minister turning against Israel’s war on Hamas. He fought for his party to stand firm for Quebec anglophones against the province’s attacks — and lost. Anthony Housefather has been...
01.08.2024
We shouldn’t be making things this hard for Canadian winemakers
Somehow Donald Ziraldo beat the odds: He and his business partner made an international success out of their Inniskillin Winery in Ontario. Starting back in the days when Canadian wine was dismissed as inferior plonk, they went on to produce...
01.01.2024
Best of 2023: Canada’s great addictive hard-drug giveaway experiment somehow goes awry
Over the holidays, we’re looking back at some of the best episodes of 2023, a year where serious questions were raised about whether Canada’s “safe supply” approach to drug addiction was making things worse. A long-time proponent of harm reduction, Dr....
12.25.2023
Best of 2023: England’s ‘strictest headmistress’ on how old-school education saves kids
Over the holidays, we’re looking back at some of the best episodes of 2023, a year that saw massive controversy over the state of Canada’s schools. At Katharine Birbalsingh’s inner-city free school in London, students are not to speak in the...
12.18.2023
Special: Rex Murphy’s year-end interview with Pierre Poilievre
An extended video version of this interview will be available starting Tuesday, December 19, 2023, online at National Post (nationalpost.com). Special guest host Rex Murphy sits down in person with federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre for a year-end interview. They discuss...
12.11.2023
Trudeau botched 2023. The Liberals won’t allow a repeat in 2024
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau started the year in fine form. Twelve months later his party is melting down in the polls and Pierre Poilievre is heading what looks like an election-winning juggernaut. But the Conservative leader shouldn’t get too comfortable,...
12.04.2023
Canada is a criminal hotbed and the Mounties can’t handle it
It’s no secret the RCMP is broken. But as Garry Clement discusses with Brian this week, the force’s inability to investigate serious national crimes — money laundering, narcotics, organized crime, Chinese interference, terrorism and more — is turning Canada into a...
11.27.2023
Canada’s worst fiscal crisis in generations is brewing
The financial trouble the Trudeau Liberals have put Canada in looks disturbingly unlike previous debt and deficit hangovers, as William Robson tells Brian Lilley this week. The losses Ottawa has pushed onto the Bank of Canada are choking off desperately...
11.20.2023
As CBC defunding looms, the network doesn’t know what to do
A lot of the criticisms against Canada’s public broadcaster are fair, acknowledges Richard Stursberg, who was the CBC's executive vice president from 2004 to 2010: The programming doesn’t always reflect the country outside of downtown Toronto; the CBC competes with...
11.13.2023
Hamas controls the narrative now
Journalists for major news organizations joining the terror attack against Israel. Newscasters that refuse to call Hamas terrorists. Campus lefties insisting the torturers, rapists and murderers are the real victims. All of this and more are how the story westerners...
11.06.2023
Driven into the ditch by Trudeau, Liberals have no clear way out
Almost exactly eight years after rebuilding the Liberals and winning government, Justin Trudeau looks like he could be done as party leader. His once powerful personal brand seems irreparably ruined, especially after his recent surrender on his signature carbon-tax policy. As...
10.30.2023
Ben Shapiro on why every Jew he knows is getting a gun
Host Brian Lilley is joined this week by American podcaster, journalist and author Ben Shapiro to discuss the antisemitic pro-Hamas marches in Canada and the U.S. after the terrorist attacks in Israel — and the sense of danger that has...
10.23.2023
The difficult history behind the Nazi soldier in Parliament
Historical ignorance is the generous explanation for the House of Commons applauding a veteran of the Nazis’ Waffen SS Galicia division during a visit by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. But the embarrassment and outrage that followed shed little light on...
10.16.2023
Obliterating Hamas in Gaza is Israel’s only option now
Gaza not long ago had one of the fastest-growing economies in the world — until Hamas took over, turned it into a terror base and began using Gazans as cannon fodder for anti-Israel public relations, just as its doing now. As...
10.09.2023
The housing crisis is a sign of worse things to come
The shocking political realities behind Canada’s badly broken housing market are sinking in — and the damage spreads much deeper and wider than the generations being unfairly priced out of starter homes. Ben Rabidoux, founder of Edge Realty Analytics, is...
10.02.2023
England’s ‘strictest headmistress’ on how old-school education saves kids
At Katharine Birbalsingh’s inner-city free school in London, students are not to speak in the hallways. Discipline is strict. Students wear uniforms, sit in rows and listen to instruction. It’s teacher-led learning, not child-centred. The kids, heavily drawn from minority...
09.25.2023
Trudeau isn’t being taken seriously about India
After the prime minister dropped his bombshell assassination accusation against India, the world has waited for him to back it up. But Ujjal Dosanjh says that when it comes to credibility on this file, Justin Trudeau — and Canada —...
09.18.2023
Welcome to the tolerance witch trials
Don’t call it cancel culture: that masks the grimness of the authoritarian era we’re living in, says author Brendan O’Neill. It’s an anti-enlightenment, he says, that is rapidly and fervently obliterating centuries of western civilizational progress. O’Neill, author of the...
09.11.2023
The working class inevitably becomes conservative
It’s not just that Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives are leading in national polls: it’s that the party is bringing in new groups, including “the people who get stuff done,” as guest Lord Daniel Hannan calls the working class. The prominent British...
09.04.2023
Pierre Poilievre is picking the right fights
As federal Conservative party members prepare to gather for their policy convention in Quebec City, they’ll be pushing for a platform that takes on the culture wars, head on. Meanwhile, polls currently show party leader Pierre Poilievre on his way...
08.28.2023
The amazing story of Terry Fox you haven’t heard
Bill Vigars was starting a new gig at the Canadian Cancer Society when he flew to the East Coast to check out an unknown kid with one leg planning to run a personal marathon a day across Canada for cancer...
08.21.2023
How COVID’s ‘pandexicon’ changed the way we speak—and think
Things were different in the “before times.” Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, we weren’t all experts in viral variants or polymerase chain reaction tests. We’d never heard of “vaccine apartheid” or “social distancing.” No one drank “quarantinis” after enduring a...
08.14.2023
Inside Canadian school boards, ‘if you disagree…you’re punished’
Mike Ramsay was friends with former Toronto principal Richard Bilkszto, whose suicide after allegedly enduring false bigotry accusations in an anti-racism session has shocked Canadians. And Ramsay says he’s experienced similar vilification. He’s been called a “white supremacist.” He’s been suspended...
08.07.2023
Crime reporting today is making things worse
Formerly one of Canada’s top crime reporters, Tamara Cherry witnessed gruesome violence and terrible trauma. What she says she didn’t realize was how the way she and others covered the crime beat was worsening pain for survivors, responders and reporters...
07.31.2023
The real reasons Taylor Swift isn't coming to Canada (for now)
The economics of the music business have been turned upside down in recent years. For artists and fans alike, concerts now are king. Legendary publicist, writer and music maven Eric Alper joins Brian this week to discuss why this summer’s...
07.24.2023
Canada could be an Arctic superpower, but Ottawa walked away
It’s where we should be building up capabilities against Russia’s hypersonic missiles and Chinese spy aircraft coming over the North Pole. But news the Liberal government is closing the Canadian International Arctic Centre is the latest indication Ottawa doesn’t get...
07.17.2023
Price-fixing at Canada’s grocery stores is bigger than just bread
Food inflation is showing no signs of letting up soon, as guest Sylvain Charlebois tells Brian Lilley this week. But grandstanding politicians yelling about “greedflation” by allegedly avaricious grocers are looking in the wrong place, says Charlebois, professor of food...
07.10.2023
Everyone’s wrong about what’s behind the forest fires
Climate crusaders are convinced this year’s fire season is global warming. Conspiracy theorists think it’s eco-terrorism from arsonists to scare us about climate change. The reality, as Kenneth Green tells Brian this week, is much more complicated, with everything from poor forest...
07.03.2023
Spies, sabotage, secret police and the time the Irish invaded Canada
It’s one of the most dramatic episodes in Canada’s early years, although it’s often neglected by our history lessons: Irish republicans attacked Canada from the south as part of a wild plan to win independence for Ireland. As we celebrate...
06.26.2023
Blaine Higgs on why he won’t relent on New Brunswick’s school-gender controversy
Cabinet ministers have quit. Some party leaders are calling for him to resign. But New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs tells Brian Lilley he’ll stake his political career to take a stand for parents in his province to be involved when...
06.19.2023
Identity politics puts its progressive spin on old-school anti-Semitism
Hatred toward Jews is the oldest and most pernicious form of prejudice. Although anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and the persecution of Jews have always been around, the rise of social media, populism and identity politics have made it seem increasingly pervasive....
06.12.2023
Canada’s great addictive hard-drug giveaway experiment somehow goes awry
Dr. Sharon Koivu says it’s like the reverse of the ethical “trolley problem”: in the effort to help an opioid user, Canada’s “safe supply” drug policy puts many more people in danger. A long-time proponent of harm reduction, Koivu, an...
06.05.2023
Danielle Smith could govern Alberta for a ‘very, very long time’
It was late in the game, and the United Conservative Party was set to lose the Alberta election, when it finally discovered a way to win over voters and eke out a victory. The secret? Being just moderate enough to...

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Full Comment episodes:

TikTok terror: How Hamas successfully hijacked your social media

Profiting from despair: How decriminalization advocates exploited B.C.’s opioid crisis

How China played Canada for a sucker

Ottawa just guaranteed we’ll all be paying higher taxes soon

Gen. Rick Hillier says Canada faces ‘death by a thousand cuts’

Canada has become a hub of Islamist terror financing

‘Target on my back’: Selina Robinson on the NDP’s surrender to antisemites

Trudeau’s big party tent is coming apart at the seams

Liberals cry 'racism' to cover up another Chinese interference scandal

The ‘Online Harms’ Act could censor Twitter, Netflix, and us

We're getting zapped by Guilbeault's radical, no-fuel, electrified future

Danielle Smith challenges Trudeau to call an election

Israel is invading Rafah regardless of what Trudeau says

Not all transgender people think Danielle Smith’s gender policies are unhinged

Jean Chrétien looks better now compared to the alternative

‘Islamofascism-phobia’ and the Iranians standing with Israel

Jordan Peterson on why everyone should be afraid of what happened to him

The Liberal MP who thinks his party is getting things wrong

We shouldn’t be making things this hard for Canadian winemakers

Best of 2023: Canada’s great addictive hard-drug giveaway experiment somehow goes awry

Best of 2023: England’s ‘strictest headmistress’ on how old-school education saves kids

Special: Rex Murphy’s year-end interview with Pierre Poilievre

Trudeau botched 2023. The Liberals won’t allow a repeat in 2024

Canada is a criminal hotbed and the Mounties can’t handle it

Canada’s worst fiscal crisis in generations is brewing

As CBC defunding looms, the network doesn’t know what to do

Hamas controls the narrative now

Driven into the ditch by Trudeau, Liberals have no clear way out

Ben Shapiro on why every Jew he knows is getting a gun

The difficult history behind the Nazi soldier in Parliament

Obliterating Hamas in Gaza is Israel’s only option now

The housing crisis is a sign of worse things to come

England’s ‘strictest headmistress’ on how old-school education saves kids

Trudeau isn’t being taken seriously about India

Welcome to the tolerance witch trials

The working class inevitably becomes conservative

Pierre Poilievre is picking the right fights

The amazing story of Terry Fox you haven’t heard

How COVID’s ‘pandexicon’ changed the way we speak—and think

Inside Canadian school boards, ‘if you disagree…you’re punished’

Crime reporting today is making things worse

The real reasons Taylor Swift isn't coming to Canada (for now)

Canada could be an Arctic superpower, but Ottawa walked away

Price-fixing at Canada’s grocery stores is bigger than just bread

Everyone’s wrong about what’s behind the forest fires

Spies, sabotage, secret police and the time the Irish invaded Canada

Blaine Higgs on why he won’t relent on New Brunswick’s school-gender controversy

Identity politics puts its progressive spin on old-school anti-Semitism

Canada’s great addictive hard-drug giveaway experiment somehow goes awry

Danielle Smith could govern Alberta for a ‘very, very long time’

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