The Backbench

More and more election season tropes have revealed themselves recently, particularly in Quebec, Alberta and Tiktok. And the mutiny against the Green Party leader Annamie Paul reaches its final stage next week - How did we get here?

This week's contributors: Murad Hemmadi, Jason Markusoff, Emilie Nicolas

A special thank you to the Toronto Star's Alex Ballingall, whose reporting on the Green Party informed this episode.

You can also listen to The Sprawl's conversation with Prime Minister Trudeau here.

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The spectre of a fall federal election looms large with a flurry of activity in the House, Trudeau calling Parliament toxic, and a high-profile Minister announcing she won’t run again. And further fallout after more unmarked graves were found at a residential school.

This week's contributors: Drew Brown, Celina Caesar-Chavannes, Jason Markusoff

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Federal politics scrambles to respond to the country finding more and more Indigenous children's remains near residential schools. And Prime Minister Trudeau is the "dean" of the G7 now, allegedly.

This week's panelists: Leena Minifie, Jaskaran Sandhu feat. Romeo Saganash
Further reading:

• More on how the federal government still took Indigenous children to court on the day we recorded (Monday)
• The Truth and Reconciliation Commission's 94 Calls To Action. (CBC published on it here too)
• Romeo Saganash wrote more about Bill C-15 here (Follow the Bill's passage here)
• More on the ICC being called to investigate Kamloops here
• More on the NDP's failure to push to declare residential schools a genocide here

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A new CRTC decision - that critics say guarantees higher wireless prices - suggests that telecom giants are in control. What does Quebec trying to change the Constitution via Bill 96 mean? And host Fatima Syed breaks protocol with her own point of order.

This week's panelists: Murad Hemmadi, Emilie Nicolas, & Stuart Thomson, 

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The conflict of interest and ethics commissioner weighs in on the meaning of friendship; is Prime Minister Trudeau home free from WE? And the government steps into a legal battle over the Line 5 pipeline.

This week's panelists: Stuart Thomson, Leena Minifie, and Jaskaran Sandhu
Further reading:

• Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner's reports on Trudeau and Morneau
• The Government of Canada's amicus brief re: Line 5

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The third wave has shattered any remaining notion that we're all in this pandemic together. And the government commissions a new review into sexual misconduct in the military, just six years after the last one. What will it take for actual change?

This week's panelists: Celina Caesar-Chavannes, Emilie Nicolas, and Drew Brown

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Dig into Canadian politics from the best seats in the House.

Host Fatima Syed welcomes our rotating roster of panelists from across the country: Celina Caesar-Chavannes, Jason Markusoff, Drew Brown, Emilie Nicolas, Jaskaran Sandhu, Murad Hemmadi, Leena Minifie, and Stuart Thomson. Stay on top of things through sharp commentary and incisive analysis.

Drops every other Tuesday, starting May 4th.

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Meng Wenzhou was arrested two years ago today in Vancouver and now unlikely MPs are calling for her release. Meanwhile, anti-CCP camps are at odds with each other in Surrey. South China Morning Post's Vancouver correspondent Ian Young unpacks how international politics play out on Canadian soil.

Further reading: 

• Government petition calling for Meng Wanzhou's release, sponsored by Manitoba NDP MP Niki Ashton
• Ashton's one public comment on the Winnipeg Free Press

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U.S. President-elect Joe Biden's climate plan may seem at odds with Canada's energy sector — but there's more to consider than just pipeline politics. Senior Researcher at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood unpacks Biden's climate plan and what it means for Canada.

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It's Election Day in the U.S. As Joe Biden heads to the polls having run his presidential campaign on one of the Democratic Party's most progressive platforms yet, OPPO hosts wonder: Is having a party for “the progressive left” like the NDP the best way for such ideas to gain real traction? 

NDP MP for Hamilton Centre Matthew Green joins and mounts a vigorous defence of the party.

More Reading: 

VICE: Canadian Senator Lynn Beyak Illegally Donated to Trump Reelection Using a Fake U.S. Address by Justin Ling

The Ottawa Citizen: Canadian military wants to establish new organization to use propaganda, other techniques to influence Canadians by David Pugliese

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