The Munk Debates Podcast
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The Munk Debates Podcast
The Munk Debates podcast is an extension of the main stage events - in subject, speaker selection, tone and format. It will introduce the iconic brand - and its engaging debates about significant issues of our time. Audiences will hear strong and passionate arguments from both sides of an issue so t...
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Friday Focus: Trump's Gaza deal, the details that could derail it, and the Middle East's new power players
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The sh...
Trump sends in the National Guard (again) and Mark Carney goes to Washington
Rudyard and Andrew react to the deployment of U.S. National Guard troops to American cities, specifically guards from red states being sent into blue...
Friday Focus: Trump gives Hamas an ultimatum and how "AI slop" is working against productivity
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The sh...
Trump's military speech ramblings should concern every Canadian
Rudyard and Andrew unpack the speeches made this week by U.S. Secretary of Defense Hegseth and President Trump to over 800 military generals. Trump in...
Friday Focus: Trump's warning to European countries, and what Canada should learn from their mistakes
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The sh...
Carney's Palestinian statehood recognition comes without conditions and the powerful companies benefiting from Trump's authoritarianism
What should we make of Canada's formal recognition of Palestinian statehood at the UN? What happened to the conditions the government had originally t...
Friday Focus: ABC capitulates to Trump and what to expect in Canada's upcoming federal budget
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The sh...
Friday Focus: Charlie Kirk's assassination points to a democracy in trouble and a debate about Israel's strike in Qatar
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The sh...
Trump is stuck in a dangerous spiral feedback loop and Rudyard and Andrew debate Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker program
Donald Trump's AI image to threaten "war" on the city of Chicago is further evidence that he is stuck in a spiral feedback loop with his followers, in...
Friday Focus: China's great power performance and Mark Carney's bad budget messaging
This week's SCO summit in China projected a series of powerful images about the rise of China and the cleaving of the world into two power blocs. Puti...
A public display of friendship between China, Russia, and India is a searing indictment of Trump's foreign policy
Rudyard and Andrew start the show talking about this week's China summit with 20 leaders of non-Western countries, including India, Russia, Iran, and...
Friday Focus: Trump takes aim at the CDC and Putin is undeterred
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The sh...
Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: the US slides towards dictatorship and Carney clings to Canada's peacemaking past
In the past week alone there has been an FBI raid on John Bolton's home and a threat to investigate former New Jersey governor Chris Christie due to h...
Friday Focus: Trump is a foreign policy wrecking ball, and Carney goes from elbows up to elbows down
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The sh...
Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: a phony peace deal for Ukraine could put all of Europe at risk
Rudyard and Andrew unpack the latest meeting between Trump, Zelensky and European leaders that seems to have yielded no real progress in resolving the...
Friday Focus: China's tax on Canadian canola and TIFF abandons the principles of free speech
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The sh...
Friday Focus: Bibi's Gaza plan prioritizes his political survival over his country's interests and Putin dreams of a new Russian Empire
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The sh...
Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: America's checks and balances are failing to restrain Donald Trump
Rudyard and Andrew start the show trying to understand why Trump's radical steps on immigration, education, and foreign policy have been met with so l...
Friday Focus: A late night tariff announcement and Canada's plan to recognize a Palestinian state
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The sh...
Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: The EU-US trade deal should serve as a warning to Canada and why supply management hurts the poorest Canadians
Rudyard and Andrew start the show assessing Trump's new trade deal with the EU: no relief on tariffs, carve outs that favour the US, and uncertainty f...
Friday Focus: Israel is weaponizing food, and Hamas is weaponizing its own people
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The sh...
Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: we are living through the golden age of conspiracy theories
Rudyard and Andrew talk about the conspiracy moment we are living through. Why is the political right so drawn to conspiracy theories? Andrew suggests...
Friday Focus: Trump can't shake Epstein and Carney faces another trade test
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The sh...
Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: Canada seeks to diversify its trade partnerships beyond the U.S
What should we make of Trump's latest 35% tariff threat on Canada? Rudyard and Andrew agree that while this is not surprising given who we are dealing...
Friday Focus: Google's AI Overview will devastate small and medium-sized businesses
The full version of today's special Friday Focus is available to all paying and non-paying subscribers.
Rudyard and Janice devote today's entire...
Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: irresponsible tax cuts on both sides of the border
Another week brings another tariff threat from the Trump administration, without clarity on who is being targeted and for what reason. Andrew argues t...
Friday Focus: The US turns its back on Ukraine and a sombre American Independence Day
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The sh...
Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: how do you negotiate with Donald Trump?
Mark Carney is learning quickly - as the digital services tax debacle proved - that attempting good faith negotiations with the US President does guar...
Friday Focus: Diplomacy with Iran and a Democratic socialist stuns New York City
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The sh...
Friday Focus special Tuesday edition: a fragile ceasefire takes hold
The full version of today's Friday Focus is available to all members.
Rudyard and Janice begin today's special Friday Focus episode with the Tr...
Friday Focus Emergency Episode: a game changing moment in the Middle East
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In this emergency Friday Focus episode, Rudyard and Janice assess what th...
Friday Focus: A crisis over nuclear weapons with the most incompetent set of leaders
The full version of today's Friday Focus is available to all members.
Rudyard and Janice start today's show talking about the long term prospec...
Munk Dialogue with Yossi Klein Halevi: why the West must support Israel's war against Iran
Rudyard is joined by celebrated American-Israeli author and journalist Yossi Klein Halevi to talk about the ongoing war between Iran and Israel. Yossi...
Friday Focus: Israel's spectacular strike on Iran
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The sh...
Be it Resolved, this is America's golden age
On this special podcast episode we are sharing the opening statements from the Munk Debate on Trump’s America, which took place on May 29th in front o...
Friday Focus: The Trump-Elon bromance blows up and Ukraine's stunning military attack
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The sh...
Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: Mark Carney's economic plan to get Canada back on track
Rudyard welcomes back Globe and Mail columnist Andrew Coyne to talk about Mark Carney's early economic plan for Canada. Andrew suggests that the PM's...
Friday Focus: Recap of the Munk Debate on Trump's America and Israel moves closer to striking Iran
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The sh...
Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: Carney's bumpy start and Canada's weaknesses exposed
Rudyard is joined once again by The Globe and Mail columnist Andrew Coyne to reflect on Mark Carney's bumpy first few weeks in office: delaying the sp...
Friday Focus: Donald Trump's Oval Office tirade and Mark Carney's threat to Israel
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The sh...