It's Getting Pretty Late with Jake Landau

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Initially, this was supposed to be the first of five interviews with the candidates for the Ontario Liberal Leadership race, which after a laborious amount of time will finally conclude in November. Alas, Eric Lombardi, the first candidate scheduled, recently announced he was withdrawing from the race and endorsing Lee Fairclough for the first position on your ballot.

Nonetheless, he kept his word, and came on the podcast today to talk about his run, his vision for politics and economics, and why he’s made the choice to endorse Ms. Fairclough. As such, tune in for a special episode of It’s Getting Pretty Late, featuring former Ontario Liberal Leadership candidate and More Neighbours Toronto & Build Canada alumnus, Eric Lombardi! And stay tuned for interviews with other candidates in the lead up to the voting period!

This episode, B.C. Political Commentator Matt Kercher comes back to the show to discuss the recent wave of MLAs defecting away from Kerry-Lynne Findlay’s B.C. Conservative Party to sit as independents. Join us as we walk through the winding path, which has seen B.C.’s Tories lose a quarter of the seats they won in the 2024 general election!

It’s Getting Pretty Late has returned, on a new irregular schedule! Subscribe to make sure you get new episodes whichever day they drop!

This week, Norm Di Pasquale, Program Manager for NoJetsTO, returns to the program to discuss the City of Toronto’s recent victory against Premier Ford’s plan to pave Lake Ontario and add jet planes to the Toronto Islands. Tune in!

This week, B.C. political commentator and columnist Matt Kercher comes back to the show to discuss the new leader of the B.C. Conservative Party, Kerry-Lynne Findlay, including her background and how she defeated her four opponents in her party’s leadership contest.

But before that, Matt shares some personal details about his family life which are truly astounding. Let us assure you, however, this story is quite real. Tune in!

This week’s guest is President of the Oxford Provincial Liberal Association and LGBTQ+ Engagement Coordinator for the Ontario Liberal Party, Jordan Kent! Tonight, we discuss Jordan’s role inside the Ontario Liberals as a riding president, and his various takes on the plethora of drama spinning out of the Scarborough Southwest by-election. Tune in!

Returning to the program this week for a jumbo-size episode is Jeremy Appel from The Orchard, discussing his recent scoop about how David Parker’s separatist Centurion Project managed to dox the information of every single citizen in Alberta. Listen as we go over David Parker’s history of political organizing, his current activity, and the fallout for the millions of Albertans whose addresses have now been leaked onto the web. Tune in!

This week’s guest is freelance columnist Richie Assaly, discussing his recent piece for The Grind surrounding a broad pattern of surveillance of pro-Palestine events and organizers by Toronto Police. Here, we discuss how activists are taking action to protect themselves from police intimidation, and what it means for Palestinian-Canadian culture to live under a surveillance dragnet. Tune in!

This week, defence analyst Noah Gairn from the True North Strategic Review returns to the program to discuss how the 2026 Iran War has shifted military planning, both for the United States and for those planning countermeasures against them.

Are the stealth capabilities of the F-35 overrated? Will cheap unmanned drones from decentralized launch platforms make fighter jets obsolete? Tune in!

It’s the 50th Episode! To celebrate, we’re doing nothing special!

This week’s guest is Matt Kercher, political commentator and Green Party member, to discuss the infighting in the NDP caused by Naheed Nenshi and Carla Beck after Avi Lewis’ victory in the leadership. Then, shifting to the BCNDP, we discuss their abandonment of reconciliation as they push to claw back the hard-fought rights of indigenous people.

Tune in!