Today’s podcast:

Justin Trudeau angers Donald Trump and Elon Musk, and is the PM now preparing to toss another lieutenant over the side? This time, Minister of Finance and Deputy PM Chrystia Freeland in favour of former Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney?

Guest: Celina Caesar Chavannes. Former Liberal MP and parliamentary secretary to PM Justin Trudeau.

The federal government is forcing a return to mail delivery as Minister for Labour Steven MacKinnon yesterday said he is pausing the work stoppage by Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers until May. MacKinnon added small businesses that lost revenues will not be compensated for their losses. - What are the issues according to CUPW?

Guest: Brahm Enslin. President, CUPW Saskatoon local 824

The GST/HST tax holiday begins today until February 15. A poorly timed and thought-out doomed-to-fail effort by Trudeau to score points with voters? - Or, something else?

Elon Musk's fortune reached $447 billion, with $62.5 billion added to Musk's bank accounts in one day last week.

A coming tariffs showdown between Donald Trump, Justin Trudeau and Mexico's president Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo?

Expected and unavoidable impact on Canadian, U.S. and Mexican consumers?

The Bank of Canada reduces the interest rate by 50 basis points. The positive or negative move by the Bank of Canada?

Guest: Dr. Eric Kam. Macroeconomist at Toronto Metropolitan University.

Doug Ford prepared to cut off electricity flow from Ontario to U.S. border states.

Emo,Ontario's mayor and council decide if they or Borderland Pride are in charge of what is and isn't recognized specifically in the tiny Canada/U.S. Border community. -  

Federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh's public dig at "older white men" which received virtually zero pushback.

Guest: Joe Warmington. Columnist. Toronto Sun.

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Doug Ford prepared to cut off electricity flow from Ontario to U.S. border states.

Emo, Ontario's mayor and council decide if they or Borderland Pride are in charge of what is and isn't recognized specifically in the tiny Canada/U.S. Border community. -  

Federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh's public dig at "older white men" which received virtually zero pushback.

Guest: Joe Warmington. Columnist. Toronto Sun.

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In national polling by Leger Marketing for the Association of Canadian Studies, nearly half of Canadians support mass deportations and 65% believe there are too many immigrants in Canada.

Guest: Jack Jedwab. Founder of the Association of Canadian Studies.

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The Luigi Mangione case. To be charged with 2nd-degree murder in the death of United Healthcare's CEO Brian Thompson in New York City. Mangione likely used a ghost gun produced by a 3D printer. Why would the charge be 2nd-degree murder when it appears to have been a planned execution?

Guest: Michael Bachner. Founder, Bachner and Associates PC. Former assistant district attorney in the Mahattan District Attorney's Office. 

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Guest: Dr. Eric Kam. Macroeconomist at Toronto Metropolitan University.

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The federal government is forcing a return to mail delivery as Minister for Labour Steven MacKinnon yesterday said he is pausing the work stoppage by Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers until May. MacKinnon added small businesses that lost revenues will not be compensated for their losses. - What are the issues according to CUPW?

Guest: Brahm Enslin. President, CUPW Saskatoon local 824

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Justin Trudeau angers Donald Trump and Elon Musk, and is the PM now preparing to toss another lieutenant over the side? This time, Minister of Finance and Deputy PM Chrystia Freeland in favour of former Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney?

Guest: Celina Caesar Chavannes. Former Liberal MP and parliamentary secretary to PM Justin Trudeau.

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Today’s podcast:

Jewish doctors consider fleeing Canada amid rising rates of antisemitism in their profession. National Post.

Canada's former Ambassador to Israel posts to X that it's not just Jewish doctors in Ontario.

The Assad regime is overthrown in Syria. Who are the rebels who managed this and has Iran lost its grip in the region is Israel's forces decimated Hamas and Hezbollah's leadership, leading to the downfall of the Assad family?

Incoming U.S. vice president JD Vance has joined his university friend and Conservative Party MP Jamil Jivani's campaign for the protection of Canada's Christians. Jivani is promoting a petition he intends to present in Ottawa in February. On X, Jivani said, "We must protect Christians in Canada from governments and corporations abusing their power in our country and from anti-Christian bigotry.

Guest: Vivian Bercovici, former Canadian Ambassador to Israel, from Israel.

There has been much talk in Canada about incoming U.S. president Donald Trump telling PM Justin Trudeau at Mar-a-Lago that Canada might consider becoming the 51st state if $100 billion in trade tariffs would sink the Canadian economy, as Trudeau reportedly claimed.

The migrant crisis in the U.S. which Donald Trump has referenced in future Canada/U.S. Relations. We found out from immigration lawyer Richard Kurland that CBSA documentation exists that illegal border crossings from Canada into the U.S. have been increasing since 2022.

In Syria, the Assad dictatorship falls. Possible outcomes?

Guest: Dr. Zuhdi Jasser. Medical internist in Phoenix, AZ. Former physician for members of the U.S. Congress and the Supreme Court of the United States.

The much trumpeted but rejected by Canadians according to national Leger polling, Trudeau GST holiday and possible cheques for $250 for Canadians earning less than $150k in 2023 will not do anything to reduce food costs for Canadians in the new year. As 6.8 million Canadians live in daily food insecurity, including 2.1 million Canadian children, Canada's 2025 Food Price Report predicts a family of four in Canada will spend an additional $800 during calendar 2025.

Guest: Professor Sylvain Charlebois. Director of the Agri Foods Lab at Dalhousie University. 

Roy's post to X last week:

"I've had it with the vapid override for 'Merry Christmas.' 

If you're too fearful of committing an imagined offense by speaking the traditional Christmas greeting, just say nothing. I'd rather that than hear the numbingly meaning-absent 'happy holidays' for the next 3 weeks."

He takes calls from across Canada on this issue

Guest: Roy Green and listeners across Canada

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Blacklock's Reporter and this past week in the nation's capital. What went on which you may or may not be aware of and what's the back story?

Guest: Tom Korski. Managing editor. Blacklock's Reporter (@mindingOttawa). 

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In New York City a jury deliberating whether a former U.S. Marine and architectural student, 25-year-old Daniel Penny, committed manslaughter when he placed a homeless man and street entertainer in a restraint hold after 30-year-old Jordan Neely entered a subway train proclaiming he was ready to die, go to jail, or kill, alarming passengers on the train. Neely died in what has been described as a chokehold applied by Penny. On Friday a NYC jury was unable to reach a verdict on manslaughter and now prosecutors are asking the judge to send the jury back to deliberate on a lesser charge of criminally negligent homicide. Penny's lawyers have objected. 

Guest: Joshua Naftalis. Partner at Pallas LLP, New York City. Former United States federal prosecutor. 

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