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  • Whose Money Is It Anyway?

    They don’t see themselves in Justin Trudeau and Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, and that’s, I suppose, fine — that’s their prerogative. But I think a lot of this is just really contrived.

    -Colin MacDonald

    Lately the government has been getting some heat for how it is spending taxpayer money — specifically with the size of the delegation Justin Trudeau took to the state dinner in Washington. Is the Liberal government spending money inappropriately?

    This week, Allie talks with regular Colin MacDonald about this issue and about our Canadian ‘First Lady.’ Sophie Gr’goire-Trudeau requested extra assistance to help with her engagements as the Prime Minister’s spouse, which has resulted in some outrage, and Allie and Colin talk about why that is.

    27 min
  • Whose Money Is It Anyway?
    They don’t see themselves in Justin Trudeau and Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, and that’s, I suppose, fine — that’s their prerogative. But I think a lot of this is just really contrived.

    -Colin MacDonald
    Lately the government has been getting some heat for how it is spending taxpayer money — specifically with the size of the delegation Justin Trudeau took to the state dinner in Washington. Is the Liberal government spending money inappropriately?

    This week, Allie talks with regular Colin MacDonald about this issue and about our Canadian ‘First Lady.’ Sophie Gr’goire-Trudeau requested extra assistance to help with her engagements as the Prime Minister’s spouse, which has resulted in some outrage, and Allie and Colin talk about why that is.
    27 min
  • Fort McMurray Crisis Response

     

    It’s easy to have sympathy and be captured by the moment, but really the challenges are in the long-term, and in many ways the worst is yet to come, outside the actual danger.

    This week, our thoughts are with all those affected by the wildfires in Fort McMurray. For the most part, Ottawa and Canada were talking about different things this week, but both conversations were dominated by discussions of the emergency situation in Alberta. Allie talks with Jason Hatcher about the government’s response to the crisis in Fort McMurray and how Canadians are reacting. Jason is a Managing Principal at Navigator and leads our Western Canadian operations in Calgary. He has also led a number of projects, including Alberta First Responders’ Communications System

    25 min
  • Fort McMurray Crisis Response
    This week, our thoughts are with all those affected by the wildfires in Fort McMurray. Allie talks with Jason Hatcher, lead on Navigator’s Western Canadian operations in Calgary, on crisis response in Fort McMurray.
    25 min
  • Celebrity JT

    I don’t know that we can go backwards anymore, for any politician in any country. This is the world now. It is social media. Even Hillary Clinton is trying.

    He’s just not ready. He’s got great hair. He’s the Internet’s boyfriend. This week we have a very special episode. We’re talking about the celebrity status of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau with some very special guests.

    To get some perspective on the intersection of celebrity and political culture, Allie talks with CTV’s THE SOCIAL Co-host and ETALK Senior Correspondent Lainey Lui, and Ryerson University’s Greg Elmer. Greg is a professor of Communications and Culture and Radio and Television Arts at Ryerson, and during the 2008 Canadian federal election he worked with CBC News to cover online campaigning. His research focuses on media and the role of new media in politics.
    Image credited to Renegade98

    39 min
  • Celebrity JT
    To get some perspective on the intersection of celebrity and political culture, Allie talks with CTV’s THE SOCIAL Co-host and ETALK Senior Correspondent Lainey Lui and Ryerson University’s Greg Elmer. Greg is a professor of Communications and Culture and Radio and Television Arts at Ryerson, and during the 2008 Canadian federal election he worked with CBC News to cover online campaigning. His research focuses on media and the role of new media in politics.
    39 min
  • The Exciting Topic Of Senate Reform

    He might have just become the most popular man in the senate they should take 10% of what they were going to spend on legal bills and buy Senator Duffy a car or something.

    We’re not big on scandals in Canadian politics. Compared to our neighbours south of the border, ours are few and far between. The biggest in recent memory, is Senator Mike Duffy. In 2014, he was charged with 31 criminal offenses, including fraud, breach of trust and bribery. And this week, he was acquitted of all 31 charges. This scandal, and the subsequent acquittal, have once again spurred conversations on Senate reform.

    27 min
  • The Exciting Topic of Senate Reform

    He might have just become the most popular man in the senate [...] they should take 10% of what they were going to spend on legal bills and buy Senator Duffy a car or something.
    We’re not big on scandals in Canadian politics. Compared to our neighbours south of the border, ours are few and far between. The biggest in recent memory, is Senator Mike Duffy. In 2014, he was charged with 31 criminal offenses, including fraud, breach of trust and bribery. And this week, he was acquitted of all 31 charges. This scandal, and the subsequent acquittal, have once again spurred conversations on Senate reform.
    Allie goes over the top issues in Ottawa with David - Mike Duffy’s acquittal among them - and then talks with Colin MacDonald. Colin is a senior consultant at Navigator and a regular on the show. Allie and Colin talk about Mike Duffy’s image and go over what could happen with Canada’s “sober second thought”.
    27 min
  • Leadership Races

    Really what the leadership vote demonstrates is an unwillingness to move back to third-party status.

    Ottawa is still abuzz with the results of the NDP Convention and the NDP is now looking for a new leader, and so, this week it a number of our issues blended together. As sometimes happens with politic, and any major issues really, it can be difficult to distinguish where one ends and another begins. So our top issue for the week is really an amalgamation of a few topics: the NDP convention, Rachel Notley’s response to the Leap Manifesto, and pipelines.

    28 min
  • Leadership Races

    The thing about politics in Canada, it’s a very small place. If you’re a member of a party growing up, the chances are you’ve known this person a long time, that you’re now running against.
    It’s a race, a race!

    Ottawa is still abuzz with the results of the NDP Convention and the NDP is now looking for a new leader, and so, this week it a number of our issues blended together. As sometimes happens with politic, and any major issues really, it can be difficult to distinguish where one ends and another begins. So our top issue for the week is really an amalgamation of a few topics: the NDP convention, Rachel Notley’s response to the Leap Manifesto, and pipelines.

    Allie talks with David to break down our top issue and our other two topics coming out of Ottawa. Then, we hear from Will Stewart.

    Will is a regular on Political Traction. He is a Managing Principal at Navigator and founding Principal at Ensight. With the NDP and the Conservatives both looking for new leaders, Allie gets the breakdown on leadership races from Will – how they function, what makes them different from general elections, and who he’s excited to watch from both parties.

     

    28 min

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