National Talky League

A long weekend edition of the National Talky League. Dave and Roger discuss the recent news surrounding The Trans Mountain pipeline, the fallout from the court decisions, who won and who lost.

Strong Opinions, Loosely Held. This is the National Talky League.

This week on the National Talky League, Maxime Bernier dares to say something that offends the easily offended. Roger and Dave talk about diversity, what it means and how it plays out in 2018. We talk about the twitter reaction to straight forward comments, and what's really wrong with the Federal PC party.

[caption id="attachment_699" align="alignnone" width="300"] Conservative MP Maxime Bernier talks with media in Ottawa on Wednesday, June 13, 2018. iPolitics/Matthew Usherwood[/caption]

Strong Opinions, Loosely Held. This is the National Talky League.

Canada and Saudi Arabia are in a bit of a row.

Canada official took the moral high ground and called on Saudi Arabia to release two political activists.

Saudi Arabia took the international diplomacy version of "their business elsewhere."

In this episode of the National Talky League, Dave and Roger discuss what this means for our country and our government. Is this a warning that Canada should stay in its lane and know its place?

You decide.

(Also... Roger points out a small nuisance.)

A group of about 400 artists in Calgary signed an open letter to have Jordan Peterson's recent talk canceled because of his "toxic, and often violent, rhetoric" and because his "quasi-academic ideas are misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic, and racist."

In this episode, Roger challenges this notion with a simple question; "So what?" Does free speech include hate speech, regardless of who deems the speech hateful?

Dave points out that some people who oppose Jordan Peterson are less likely to have actually heard Peterson himself and more likely to have heard somebody recount what Peterson said and why it should offend them.

Please share your thoughts on this episode in the comments on the National Talky League page and in the Beleaguered Talkies Facebook Group.

Episode 73 of the National Talky League finds Roger and Dave discussing Derek Fildebrandt's decision to form a new party in Alberta, and the current state of the electoral map in Alberta.

Hard hitting! Explosive! Pretty Decent! All this and byelections too!

If you're looking for Strong Opinions Loosely Held, you've come to the right place, This is the National Talky League.

The "Kokanee Grope" story isn't going away. Trudeau has effectively created a scenario where he is allowed to be held to a different standard than other Members of Parliament.

This episode explores hypocrisy and whether we should be more willing to accept past transgressions in leaders. (Maybe there should be something about showing contrition or remorse tossed in there.)

Here's something else to think about... should we treat political heroes as more "disposable" than we do? We seem to put a lot of stock in one and when they inevitably fail, we're without a backup plan.

This week on the National Talky League, we look again at Equalization payments, and their effect/use in politics today. We look at the history of the payments, and talk about other options the Federal Govt might choose instead.

Welcome to the National Talky League! Today's episode focuses on the excuses we tell ourselves when our side doesn't win. Roger and Dave dive deep in to the coping strategy that seems to be growing in popularity online, and why it's akin to blaming the teacher for a bad grade.

We discuss the reasoning behind voting and why it's crazy to think that you know why people vote the way they do.

Roger and Dave riff on the notion that Trump's election wasn't a one-off. It's a trend of disaffected people finding their voice and having their day at the ballot box. But are they finding their voice? Or are they happily and eagerly being told to what to think?

The left tells us that feelings are what matters and feelings should be a priority in society.

The right showing that the same might be true in elections and government.

Dearly Beleaguered,

This may not be the podcast you wanted us to produce this week.

The NTL is at a crossroads. We've been talking off-mic about the direction of the podcast for a few weeks now; what it was, what it has become, and what it should be.

We lay it all out in this mini-sode and we want your feedback.

So give it a listen and give us your thoughts, please and thank you.