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Speech from the Throne
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Jacob Kenney and Liam McPherson met on the 2015 Federal Liberal campaign, and they've been striving for "Real Change" ever since. Join them as they defend their steaming hot takes on Canadian political news with a signature no-holds-barred style peppered with the sort of backroom gossip and spicy rumours only to grace the ears of the ever-neglected low-level staffer. They can't bring you the view from the newsroom ivory tower, so they're doing their best from the political factory floor.
Episodes
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Speech from the Throne - A Sovereign Podcast Within a United Spotify - December 4, 2022
Topping off a disastrous first few months in office, even a healthy does of Dani Dollars couldn't wash down the stink that was the Alberta UCP's Bill 1: the Sovereignty Act. But as the feds remain "prudently" silent, who is going to step up to the defend a now seriously threatened federation? Now...
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Speech from the Throne - Between Two Bullies - November 28, 2022
By now, Canada has become so used to being pushed around by Big Brother America it almost seems second nature, but since the sowing of the legacy of Norman Bethune and Trudeau senior being amongst the first of Western leaders to recognize the PRC, we've been less accustomed to the bullying antics...
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Speech from the Throne - The Problem with Progressives - November 6, 2022
Where are the progressives? With inflation running rampant and workers' rights actively trampled on by provincial powers, how is it that the leftist forces seemingly best able to quarterback a floundering national team are choosing instead to flee the field? Driveling neolibs, having long-since...
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Speech from the Throne - Enjoy Your Slop, Peasants! - October 23, 2022
This week, Loblaws announced it was freezing food prices for three months, cleverly managing to ignore the previous two years of skyrocketing produce costs (and record profits). Following a distressing pattern of similar behaviour, however, ranging from the fixing of bread prices to a temporary...
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Speech from the Throne - Are YOU Safe in the CPC? - October 3, 2022
Last week, RCMP announced it was investigating rape threats made against Ana Poilievre, the high-profile wife of the newly elected Conservative leader by Jeremy Mackenzie (of extremist right, Dialogon fame). Unfortunately for the unhappy couple, photos have also emerged of Mr. Poilievre shaking...
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Speech from the Throne - Not My King - September 18, 2022
The episode title speaks for itself. Three hundred and thirty years since the Glorious Revolution and the establishment of constitutional monarchy in Britain, now is the best and most obvious time to end this antiquated and costly institution. When the best argument to keep something is merely…
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Speech from the Throne - The Other Coronation - September 11, 2022
While the world focusses its attention on the crowning of King Charles III, the CPC held another coronation this Saturday for who is now its unquestionable supreme leader: Pierre Poilievre. Liam and Jacob watched the results announcement live and experimented with a streaming broadcast of their...
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Speech from the Throne - It's Moose Season in 'Berta - Sept. 4, 2022
While the verbal assault against Chrystia Freeland by a large, angered Albertan known to his friends as "Moose" this week dominated political headlines and was called out by the Minister of Public Safety as a "threat to democracy", Danielle Smith's plans for the Sovereignty Act, a constitutional...
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Speech from the Throne - Schooled on Schools - August 28, 2022
Ever since our episode on religious schooling, listeners have been hankering for a round 2, and now Speech from the Throne is finally obliging! Longtime friend and fan of the show, a mystery man known online only as "Gabe", has been brought to the show to debate Jacob once again on the issue of...
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Speech from the Throne - Guerilla Journalism - August 14, 2022
Journalism has always had its risks, and after Rachel Gilmore this week unveiled a coordinated harassment and terror campaign directed towards herself and other female (as well as BIPOC) journalists only to receive crickets from police in response, it seems the field is not getting any safer. But...
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Speech from the Throne - Teaching to the Choir - August 7, 2022
State-funded church schools have been controversial in Canada since before the country was even founded, yet three provinces still maintain Catholic school-boards to this day. While most reformers seek to exorcise church control over education entirely, some (like the roundly mocked) John Tory…
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Speech from the Throne - Papal Potpourri - July 31, 2022
Pope Francis has issued an apology (of sorts) for the genocidal actions of his church in their managing of Indian Residential Schools, but repairing the damage of forced conversion has been halting at best. One potential source of remediation still stares politicians in the face: taxing large...
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Speech from the Throne - Hockey Nightmare in Canada - July 24, 2022
Just as Liam and Jacob were recording this episode detailing a 2018 gangrape allegedly perpetrated by members of the Canadian World Junior's team, another case of alleged sexual assault featuring the 2003 Canadian World Junior's team surfaced in the news. Between these and several instances of...
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Speech from the Throne - Polishing the Guillotine - July 17, 2017
Current estimates for the number of civilians the United States has killed via drones during its War on Terror range between 900-2,200 (they've killed 10,000s of armed combatants in the same time). They were all killed without trial, even the (at least) four who were US citizens, all because they...
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Speech from the Throne - Raising Consciousness (in conversation with Blake Lemoine) - July 10, 2022
In this special edition of Speech from the Throne, Liam and Jacob sit down virtually with tech-sensation Blake Lemoine to discuss the Google-owned chat-bot he believes has become sentient: LaMDA. Both Blake and (according to Mr. Lemoine) LaMDA itself are primarily concerned with how humans might…
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Speech from the Throne - !!! BONUS EPISODE !!! - Brown Falls Down and a No-Go for Bojo - July 8, 2022
With Patrick Brown's disqualification, Boris Johnson's resignation and Abe Shinzo's assassination taking place all in the same week, Liam and Jacob could hold their tongues no longer, which is why they're coming out of vacation with a special emergency episode that at least talks about two of the...
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Speech from the Throne - Finding the "Just" in Justinflation - June 26, 2022
Unprecedented, financially devastating inflation has rocketed its way onto the political stage in recent months and now, after months of denials or false prognostications of "temporary, transitory supply shocks", its presence and its effects are no longer up for debate. Who should be harmed most…
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Speech from the Throne - Foxed In (The Curse of the American News Cycle) - June 19, 2022
After generations of Canadians quietly careening our heads in shame, hoping against hope that one day our oblivious cousins to the south might acknowledge our pathetic, puny existence, it seems a polarized American media is finally turning its sights upon us, teaching too late that the only thing...
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Speech from the Throne - The Trouble Without Trudeau - June 12, 2022
After a Liberal trouncing in Ontario, a potential red wipe-out in Quebec this fall, and thirty years of no provincially competitive Liberal party in Western Canada, the vultures are circling over the federal Liberals soon to enter the post-Trudeau era. Were the Liberals in 2011 on an inevitable...
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Speech from the Throne - Daddy Doug - June 5, 2022
In the end, it wasn't even close. Doug Ford won an even larger majority than in 2018 on the backs of a perfect split in the popular vote between the Liberals and NDP. Clearly, a divided left can only bolster the PCs, so where should progressives flock? With the Liberals only growing their…
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Speech from the Throne - Why We're Joining the Conservative Party - May 29, 2022
You read that title right! It's not click-bait (not e n t i r e l y clickbait, that is). With Poilievre promising to fire the Governor of the central bank, use the notwithstanding clause to violate the constitutional rights of prisoners all while supporting illegal blockades and attempts to...
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Speech from the Throne - A Week Late and Many Dollars Short (on the Ontario Election) - May 24, 2022
After a sleeper of an election start, the leaders of Ontario's four major political parties gathered for yet another sleeper of an election debate. Fighting off their urge to slumber, Jacob and Liam dissect the message discipline (or lack thereof) for each of the four candidates, grasping at any...
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Speech from the Throne - !!! BONUS EPISODE !!! - The Great Resignation - May 20, 2022
The final tally was a nail-biter: 51% to 49%, but the dead-even split was just enough to tip Kenney off the ledge. Now, the only question remaining is whether the UPC will follow its now former leader to another self-engineered disaster? Is the right in shambles with no one left to pick it up?…
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Speech from the Throne - Dialing it Back - May 15, 2022
Utterly captivated and transfixed by SFTT’s previous Conservative Leadership Debate takedown, the podcast listeners of Canada anxiously await a sequel, a sequel Liam and Jacob are only too eager to deliver! After a demoralizing, catastrophic first unofficial debate, the Tories a theme all their…
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Speech from the Throne - Off to the Fringes! (on the First CPC Leadership Debate)
Meeting (minus a certain Patrick Brown) for their first, unofficial debate of the Conservative Leadership Race, CPC hopefuls accused one another of either not loving the Freedom Convoy enough or believing mainstream media too much. The one guy trying to pull the race towards some semblance of...
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Speech from the Throne - Ford More Years - May 1, 2022
With 33 days until the June 2nd Ontario election, the clock is ticking for Liberal Leader Steven Del Duca and NDP stalwart Andrea Horwath to capture the public's imagination. With another PC mandate seemingly unavoidable, Jacob and Liam uncover what exactly went wrong for Ford's opposition as…
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Speech from the Throne - Duplessis to Duhaime (Talking Quebec with Chris Curtis and Anaïs Elboujdaïni) - April 24, 2022
What the hell is going in Quebec? For generations before the Quiet Revolution, Quebec found itself the backwater of Canada, a lonely fortress of poverty and ignorance. Since the 1960's, however, la belle province has opened up significantly to the outside world, with Quebecois culture making...
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Speech from the Throne - Old Problems in New Scotland (on the 2nd Anniversary of the Portapique Massacre) - April 18, 2022
Between April 18 and 19, 2020, twenty-two people were killed and three injured in Canada's largest mass shooting. RCMP knew from almost the very beginning that the killer was driving a replica police cruiser in a deadly rampage across rural Nova Scotia, but they never sent out an emergency...
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Speech from the Throne - Lunatics Running the Asylum - April 10, 2022
April 9th was the day Alberta was to be saved from the long, terrible reign of the tyrant Kenney. Now, it seems it could only be the beginning of a whole new nightmare. Is the premier correct when he hints of "lunatics trying to run the asylum"? Who are these lunatics exactly, and how can they be...
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Speech from the Throne - Turning Orange (in conversation with Bethany Drader) - April 4, 2022
Former Co-Chair of the federal NDP Women's Commission Bethany Drader joins Liam and Jacob on the pod to discuss the new Supply and Confidence agreement between the Liberals and New Democrats while examining the ongoing struggle for women and minority representation in politics.
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Speech from the Throne - Singhing in the Reign - April 2, 2022
Tories are up in arms over the NDP-Liberal Confidence and Supply arrangement, calling any policy deal worked out behind closed doors as inherently undemocratic and illegitimate. But is this true? Are policy compromises only acceptable when MPs debate them openly on the parliament floor, or is…
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Speech from the Throne - Going Nuclear - March 16, 2022
Going Nuclear Three weeks after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Canadian media is caught up in a war frenzy. Is all the talk of military expansion helpful? Can Canada chart a different path? Should we all be running out to our nearest bunkers? Your favourite wonks discuss.
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Speech from the Throne - Up, Up and Charest - March 10, 2022
Up, Up and Charest! Jean Charest has officially entered the race for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada with Patrick Brown soon to follow. Can this diabolical team be enough to upset a front-running Poilievre? Liam and Jacob dissect.
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Jacob Kenney and Liam McPherson met on the 2015 Federal Liberal campaign, and they've been striving for "Real Change" ever since. Join them as they defend their steaming hot takes on Canadian political news with a signature no-holds-barred style peppered with the sort of backroom gossip and spicy rumours only to grace the ears of the ever-neglected low-level staffer. They can't bring you the view from the newsroom ivory tower, so they're doing their best from the political factory floor.
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