The Rational National

SEGMENT 1: Writer Andray Domise joins me to discuss his latest piece for The Washington Post, on Canada's moral failing on the world stage.

SEGMENT 2 (17:55): NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh's byelection is just a week away.

SEGMENT 3 (29:14): New data proves millennials aren't lazy, they're just poor.

SEGMENT 4 (33:37): Amazon cancels NYC HQ plans after refusing to discuss workers rights.

SEGMENT 1: The Prime Minister's Office faces allegations that they attempted to influence the Justice Minister in a case against construction giant SNC-Lavalin.

SEGMENT 2 (11:18): Canadians support higher taxes on the wealthy. I take a listener call on that.

SEGMENT 3 (23:43): The Ford government overhauls the autism program, and parents aren't happy.

SEGMENT 4 (34:47): NDP leader Jagmeet Singh announces a pharmacare-for-all plan.

SEGMENT 1: NDP MPP Sara Singh joins me to discuss the Ford government's plan for increased privatization of health care.

SEGMENT 2 (11:34): Callers respond to Metrolinx banning some employees from off-duty cannabis use.

SEGMENT 3 (25:43): Should NDP leader Jagmeet Singh step-down if he doesn't win his byelection?

SEGMENT 4 (36:41): Why decriminalizing psychedelic mushrooms is a great idea.

SEGMENT 1: Chisto Aivalis joins me to discuss AOC, Bernie, and how the left should embrace class conflict.

SEGMENT 2 (20:08): How the mainstream press is misleading you on Venezuela.

SEGMENT 3 (30:17): Doug Ford makes detrimental changes to student tuition and loans.

SEGMENT 4 (35:18): Maxime Bernier hasn't connected the dots on climate change and asylum seekers.

SEGMENT 1: Nora Loreto joins me to share her left-wing perspective on politics in a media so void actual left-wing views;

SEGMENT 2 (20:26): I take calls on the new impaired driving laws that grant police even more power.

SEGMENT 3 (30:25): A fact-check on two big Doug Ford lies.

SEGMENT 4 (38:28): Canada grants a Saudi teen asylum, while still supplying the nation with armoured vehicles and encroaching on indigenous territory at home.

SEGMENT 1: The owner of Hotblack Coffee (Jimson Bienenstock) discusses why he raised wages despite the cancellation of Ontario's minimum wage increase.

SEGMENT 2 (11:30): Profanity and politics. Should politicians swear?

SEGMENT 3 (22:04): Christo Aivalis joins me to discusses the NDP's opportunity on tax reform.

SEGMENT 4 (39:16): My prediction for the 2019 Canadian election.

SEGMENT 1: Why Canada needs a Green New Deal with D.T. Cochrane.

SEGMENT 2 (24:53): What did the Doug Ford government cut funding to now?

SEGMENT 3 (32:05): Donald Trump gets triggered by SNL.

SEGMENT 4 (40:47): Corbyn goes off!

SEGMENT 1: Kevin Hart backs down from Oscars hosting gig after old homophobic remarks resurface.

SEGMENT 2 (17:11): Unemployment hits record low thanks in-part to cannabis.

SEGMENT 3 (25:48): Netflix tacks a jab at Ontario Premier Doug Ford.

SEGMENT 4 (32:48): Doug Ford appoints his buddy as top cop. Protests in France over failed neoliberal policy.

SEGMENT 1: Guest Christo Aivalis on Justin Trudeau, Canada Post, and organized labour.

SEGMENT 2 (21:20): How has politics affected your relationships? I take listener calls.

SEGMENT 3 (30:18): Doug Ford's dishonesty around why GM is laying off 2,800 workers in Oshawa, Ontario.

SEGMENT 4 (36:19): A crazy case of voter fraud in North Carolina.

SEGMENT 1: Justin Trudeau's phony war on inequality with guest Luke Savage, writer for Jacobin.

SEGMENT 2 (13:32): Doug Ford's 'for the elite' platform with guest Luke Savage; we also take a listener call.

SEGMENT 3 (29:09): Canadian Union of Postal Workers and their ongoing battle against Canada Post and the Liberal Party.

SEGMENT 4 (34:14): Hillary Clinton's destructive advice for Europe.