• 'Ally is a verb': How to do your part for reconciliation, with Rose LeMay
    May 9 2025

    Author, columnist and CEO Rose LeMay joins The Hot Room to discuss her new book, Ally is a Verb: A Guide to Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples.

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    20 mins
  • 'This really is an intergovernmental struggle': The view from Alberta, with Jared Wesley
    May 1 2025

    Peter Mazereeuw speaks with Jared Wesley, a political scientist at the University of Alberta, about how Albertans are taking the election of another Liberal government, Danielle Smith vs. Mark Carney, and the tensions between East and West.

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    19 mins
  • What you need to know about the party platforms, with Kevin Page
    Apr 25 2025

    "There's executive risk all over these platforms," says former parliamentary budget officer Kevin Page, now with the University of Ottawa's Institute of Fiscal Studies and Democracy.

    Page takes a high-level look at the Liberal and Conservative party election platforms with Peter Mazereeuw.

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    29 mins
  • Why you should believe the polls, with Frank Graves
    Apr 11 2025

    Ekos Research pollster Frank Graves joins The Hot Room to discuss the historic Liberal collapse and resurgence in opinion polls over the past year, why men and women are so far apart in their party preference, and the conservative activists rejecting opinion polls that show their party trailing.

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    27 mins
  • Hot Room explainer: The 'third party' advertisers filling up your screens
    Apr 4 2025

    Canada Proud? Protecting Canada? Hill Times reporter Stuart Benson joins the podcast to talk about the so-called "third party" groups behind political ads posted on trucks and spamming your screens.

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    15 mins
  • 'No magic math'—Why cutting waste won't fund election promises
    Mar 21 2025

    Peter Mazereeuw speaks with Sahir Khan, an expert in government finances at IFSD, about election promises from Mark Carney and Pierre Poilievre to cut wasteful spending in government—and what the next prime minister should really do to get taxpayers the best bang for their buck.

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    27 mins
  • Carney’s cabinet, Trump in trouble: Peter Mazereeuw gets you up to speed
    Mar 14 2025

    Hot Room host Peter Mazereeuw reviews the building pressure on U.S. President Donald Trump over his trade war, and walks you through the highlights of Mark Carney's cabinet choices.

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    13 mins
  • How to win the trade war, with Flavio Volpe
    Mar 7 2025

    Peter Mazereeuw speaks with Flavio Volpe, the president of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers' Association of Canada, about Donald Trump's chaotic approach to imposing and removing tariffs on Canada. Volpe weighs in on how Canada's political leaders how fared so far, and how Canada can win the fight.

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    23 mins