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Inside Policy Talks — 139 episodes

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Eric Kaufmann: How diversity requirements reduced productivity for Canada's research chairs

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Sylvain Charlebois: Canada's dairy industry in decline

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Lt.-Col. Joel Maley: Deterrence is cheaper than defence

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Rainer Knopff and Ted Morton: Canadian judges ran amok with the Charter

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Carl Trueman: Euthanasia, transgenderism, and transgression

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Garry Clement: Foreign actors see Canada as the lane of least resistance

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Rob Henderson: Stigma and expectations will make your life better

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Christine Van Geyn and Ryan Alford: Canadian courts imagine wild scenarios to avoid punishing criminals

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Joel Blit: The 3 stages of the AI revolution

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Michael Bonner: Liberalism is in crisis

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Christopher Dummitt: Canada must teach its national story

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BONUS EPISODE: Rob Henderson in live conversation with Brian Lee Crowley

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Lorenzo Vidino: How the Muslim Brotherhood quietly threatens the West

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Andrea Lawlor: Canada’s courts are fair game for criticism

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Erica Komisar: Healthy family life requires tradeoffs

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Keldon Bester: How to address the demand for online gambling

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Melanie Phillips: The West can’t wrap its head around Islam

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Yuan Yi Zhu, Xavier Foccroulle Ménard and François Côté: The Supreme Court's judicial activism is a threat to Parliamentary sovereignty

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Brendan Case: We need better metrics for human flourishing

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David Wand: Race should not trump merit at Canada’s universities

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Nadav Eyal: For the Islamic regime, survival is victory

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Rob Huebert: Unpacking Canada’s position on the war in Iran

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Sarah Teich & Michael Lima: Canada's Cuba policy is a moral and strategic failure

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This Supreme Court ruling needs a renovation: Gerard Kennedy & Geoffrey Sigalet

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Tony Abbott: The challenge to Western values has never been more severe

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André Côté: Rapidly advancing tech in the face of geopolitics and economic stress

27

Dennis Molinaro: Canada under assault from Chinese state interference

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Using lived experience to fight human trafficking and abuse: Michelle Abel, Armando de Miranda, and Peter Copeland for Inside Policy Talks

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Daniel Hess: We need a pro-natal culture

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Garett Jones: Yes, immigration DOES change host countries

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Daly & Mancini: Fixing Canada’s internal trade woes is a national economic imperative

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Paul Warchuk: Property rights are 'precarious' in Canada

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John Gilmour: Commercial encryption is a challenge for signals intelligence

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Hillel Neuer: The UN matters whether we like it or not

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Nathan Pinkoski: What’s behind faltering liberalism?

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Yves Giroux: Soaring spending demands effective parliamentary oversight

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John Adams: Rare diseases reveal hard truths about Canada’s healthcare gaps

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Andrew Fox: 'Palestinianism' remains a threat to Middle East peace

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Stephen Nagy: Canadians should be wary of Chinese influence operations in the West

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Geoffrey Sigalet: What’s at stake in the fight over the notwithstanding clause

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Brenda Shaffer: Global institutions are choosing energy poverty over fossil fuels

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Mary Harrington: I needed to make a feminist case against progressivism

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Louise Perry: It’s time to complicate the West’s account of progressivism

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Geoff Russ and Michael Bonner: Multiculturalism has divided us

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Peter Menzies: It’s time to rethink Canada’s cultural policy

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Patrick T. Brown: The roots of family decline in the West

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Alex Dalziel: Canada must mind Russia’s Arctic ambitions

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Toby Young: Defending free speech in Canada and the UK

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John Ioannidis: What's shaken public confidence in science?

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Helen Joyce: how gender ideology gripped the West

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Leonard Sax: Our culture has broken the bonds across generations

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Oren Cass: Free markets and liberty are not ends unto themselves

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Sam Cooper: How organized crime operates in Canada

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How mortgage fraud costs Canadians and fuels organized crime

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Reconciliation at risk? Data shows spike in church arsons after unmarked grave reports in Canada

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Indigenous students thrive earning degrees in their communities: Ken Coates & Sheila North

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How provincial trade barriers rip off Canadians: Peter Copeland & Ryan Manucha

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Can Europe guarantee its own security? Balkan Devlen and Peter Hefele

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Can the CBC survive without government subsidies? Peter Copeland and Peter Menzies

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Tackling Canada's housing crunch: Peter Copeland and Ross McKitrick

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How are First Nations' fish farms transforming the West Coast?: Ken Coates and Dallas Smith

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More regulations, fewer families—explaining North America's housing crisis: Peter Copeland and Tim Carney

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Does salmon farming have a future in Canada?: Ken Coates and Linda Sams

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Happily ever after? The case for marriage in Canada: Peter Copeland, Andrea Mrozek & Peter Jon Mitchell

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British Columbia's salmon farmers caught in the net: Ken Coates and Brian Kingzett

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The great tug-of-war over Greenland: Alex Dalziel, Jon Rahbek-Clemmensen, Christian Keldsen, Marisol Maddox, and Jessica Shadian

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Identity politics and the capture of canadian research funding: Peter Copeland and Dave Snow

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US-Canada defense and security cooperation in the Trump era: Balkan Devlen, Jamie Tronnes, Richard Shimooka, and Alexander Lanoszka

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Breaking the cycle: Peter Copeland and Marcell Wilson

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Navigating 2025, foreign policy in the year ahead: Double Trouble with Balkan Devlen and Jonathan Berkshire Miller

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Empowering First Nations' economic growth in Canada: Ken Coates and Kody Penner

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Tariffs, Trump, and the Canadian oil and gas sector: Heather Exner-Pirot and Lisa Baiton

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Reclaiming Sir John A. Macdonald for the next generation: Patrice Dutil and Lindsay Shepherd

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Russia after the fall of Assad: Balkan Devlen, Alexander Lanoszka, and Richard Shimooka

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Can Canada still build affordable homes?: Tim Sargent and Aled Ab Iorweth

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The promise and peril of the AI Revolution: Peter Copeland and Ryan Khurana

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Does Canada's lack of an "Intelligence Culture" put us at risk?: Alexander Dalziel and Michelle Tessier

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SPECIAL FEATURE - Intellectual discourse in Canadian's public and educational landscapes: Peter Copeland with Christopher Dummitt & Lindsay Shepherd

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Double Trouble: The challenge of China and Russia (Live in Calgary)

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Indigenous entrepreneurs are going global – and succeeding: Ken Coates w/ Karen Ogen-Toews & Matt Vickers

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Confiscating Russia's frozen assets for Ukraine's reconstruction: Double Trouble with Balkan Devlen and Aaron Gasch Burnett

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A Hereditary Chief's transformative vision: Ken Coates and Tyee Hasheukumiss (Richard George)

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The evolving battlegrounds of free speech: Peter Copeland and Kristopher Kinsinger

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Trouble at the Canada-US border? Alex Dalziel and Jamie Tronnes

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Canada’s struggle against transnational crime & money laundering: Alex Dalziel and Jamie Ferrill

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The disturbing truth of Canada’s euthanasia program: Peter Copeland and Ramona Coelho

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Using the Notwithstanding clause to fix our justice system: Peter Copeland and Ryan Alford

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Double Trouble: Our fear of escalation makes the West look weak / Balkan Devlen with Edward Hunter Christie

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Is Canada winning the fight against crime?: Peter Copeland and Dave Snow

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The real story behind Canada's housing crisis: Peter Copeland and Matthew Spoke

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Double Trouble: Looking at China from the Baltics, from economic opportunity to authoritarian challenge

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We must preserve safety and fairness in women's sport: Peter Copeland and Emma Hilton

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Canada-US border security - A North American perspective: Alex Dalziel and Alan Bersin

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The new censorship, professional regulators erode free speech: Peter Copeland and Christine Van Geyn

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Double Trouble: Reflections from GLOBESEC

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The hidden world of organized crime in Canada: Todd Hataley and Alexander Dalziel

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Bridging Canada and Latvia: Balkan Devlen and Artis Pabriks

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Double Trouble: Neo-Idealism, a new approach to geopolitics / Balkan Devlen and Benjamin Tallis

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Canada in the global energy transition: Alexander Dalziel and Heather Exner-Pirot

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$100 Billion a year?!? Financial Crime in Canada: Christian Leuprecht and Alexander Dalziel

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Unpacking Canada's announcements at the NATO Summit / Double Trouble

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Canada hangs its head in shame, NATO Summit Wrap-up: Brian Lee Crowley, Jamie Tronnes, Balkan Devlen

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Canada's troops in Latvia / Balkan Devlen, Alexander Lanoszka, and Toms Rostoks

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Double Trouble / NATO and the Indo-Pacific

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Foreign Interference in Canada - what we learned from NSICOP

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Russia and China, partners in the Arctic? / Double Trouble: Balkan Devlen with Alex Dalziel

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A small ally fights back against China and Russia’s threat to energy security / Jüri Seilenthal and Alex Dalziel

108

The future of US-Canada relations / Double Trouble: CNAPS at AEI

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Special Episode: "Can the U.N. get much worse?" Hillel Neuer and Casey Babb

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Antisemitism on campus / Aaron Wudrick and Sydney Greenspoon

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Double Trouble: Cold War 2.0 / Balkan Devlen with George Takach

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Southeast Asia and the Indo-Pacific Construct / Stephen Nagy and Jonathan Berkshire Miller

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Double Trouble: Goodbye globalization? Balkan Devlen with Elisabeth Braw

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How a trans activist group undermined medical science / Aaron Wudrick and Mia Hughes

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Facing the Sino-Russian axis / Double Trouble: Balkan Devlen and Jonathan Berkshire Miller

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Human Rights Tribunal has no business policing 'hate speech': Aaron Wudrick with David Thomas

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Out of control immigration is breaking the Canadian social contract: Aaron Wudrick with Siavash Safavi

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Canada could do more in the 'cyber domain': Aaron Wudrick and Christian Leuprecht

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The harms of Covid policy: Aaron Wudrick and Kevin Bardosh

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In defence of civilization: Aaron Wudrick and Michael Bonner

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It is time to permanently defund UNRWA: Jonathan Berkshire Miller and Casey Babb

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The decline in the rule of law in Canada and the Israel-Gaza protests: Aaron Wudrick and Ryan Alford

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Understanding the threat from AI: Balkan Devlen and Darren McKee

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Attitudes to immigration are reshaping political alignment: Aaron Wudrick with Eric Kaufmann

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Antisemitism, Iran, Ukraine, and Trump 2024: Marcus Kolga and David Frum

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Is 'from the river to the sea' hate speech?: Aaron Wudrick and Kaveh Shahrooz

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Special Episode: Brian Lee Crowley's CNAPS launch speech

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A principled path forward for free speech in Canada: Aaron Wudrick and Ryan Alford

129

Hybrid warfare and critical undersea infrastructure: Balkan Devlen, Alexander Dalziel and Henri Vanhanen

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Dirty Money, Financial Crime in Canada: Christian Leuprecht in conversation with Aaron Wudrick / MLI

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Antisemitism and terrorism from Tehran to Hamas - Jonathan Berkshire Miller and Kaveh Shahrooz

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The 'new Ottawa consensus' and our broken economy - Aaron Wudrick and Jon Hartley

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Romanian Energy Minister, Sebastian Burduja, talks energy security with Jonathan Berkshire Miller

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Does the foreign-interference inquiry have the right tools?

135

Canada's Prime Ministers and the making of foreign policy - Aaron Wudrick and Patrice Dutil

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Can Canada really send more troops to Latvia? - Balkan Devlen and Richard Shimooka

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Canada at NATO's Vilnius Summit - Jonathan Berkshire Miller and Balkan Devlen

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The economic vision of the constitution - Aaron Wudrick and Malcolm Lavoie

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Canada at NATO's upcoming Vilnius Summit - Balkan Devlen and Alexander Lanoszka