Cory Morgan Show closes out 2025 with a hard, unfiltered look at the year that reshaped Canada—federal election fallout, Alberta independence momentum, free speech battles, crime, and global conflict. A candid newsroom round-table on what broke, what changed, and what lies ahead in 2026.

Toronto and Sydney are strikingly similar cities: liberal, multicultural metropolises with long-established Jewish communities and deep ties to Western democratic values. Yet people of Jewish faith feel safe in neither.

Derek Fildebrandt, Nigel Hannaford, and Cory Morgan break down the chaos inside B.C. conservative politics, the fallout from mass migration and rising antisemitic violence abroad, Danielle Smith’s push for tougher provincial immigration controls, and the growing backlash against men competing in women’s sports.

Cory talks about how race-based policies regarding indigenous people cause catastrophic social and economic havoc.

In a wide-ranging and at times combative interview on The Hannaford Show, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith vigorously defends her government’s health-care restructuring and declares victory on federal energy files.

Cory Morgan, Dave Naylor, and Nigel Hannaford break down the Liberals’ pipeline flip-flop, the surge of Alberta independence anger aimed at Premier Danielle Smith, and the growing backlash to Bill C-9’s limits on religious expression. They also cover the PBO’s sudden budget retreat and Peter Guthrie’s takeover of the Alberta Party.

Cory talks about how Thomas Lukaszuk’s efforts to spread inflammatory misinformation about the Alberta independence movement is dangerous.

Is technology is turning our kids into addicts?

Short answer, in some cases, ‘yes.’ More than 12 per cent of Canadian

Is technology is turning our kids into addicts?

Short answer, in some cases, ‘yes.’ More than 12 per cent of Canadian teenage girls – almost one in eight – now show addiction-like symptoms in their relationship to their phones and social media. That looks like withdrawal, loss of control, emotional dependency – terms once associated more with substance abuse – but now increasingly used to describe the daily digital reality of young Canadians. Boys too, although they’re likely into more violent fare.

This, according to Robin Sherk, an Ontario-based parent volunteer with Unplugged Canada and tonight’s guest on Hannaford.

Derek Fildebrandt, Nigel Hannaford, Cory Morgan, and Jarryd Jaeger break down the collapse of BC Conservative leader John Rustad, the uproar inside the UCP over Danielle Smith’s pipeline deal with Mark Carney, and the federal push behind Bill C-9 that could limit religious expression.

Cory talks about how no major projects will ever be competed if we pretend that indigenous consent is required.