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Friday Focus: Iran on the brink and the politicization of the Nobel Peace Prize

October 9, 2026 · 28 min

Rudyard and Janice begin today’s show with Trump’s mixed messaging on Iran. While Trump has suggested that military action may be delayed until after the midterms, reports indicate that the U.S. military is preparing for potential strikes…
Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: Canada’s separatist moment

October 6, 2026 · 18 min

Rudyard and Andrew focus today’s show on the separatist movements gaining traction across Canada. Quebec voters appear poised to elect a separatist government, potentially setting the stage for another referendum in the coming years. What…
Friday Focus: Trump's pre-midterm warning to Tehran and Israel's high-stakes election

October 2, 2026 · 19 min

Rudyard and Janice begin today’s show with news that the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier is being deployed to the Middle East and the signal this is sending to Iran and the region. With Tehran facing a blockade and struggling to…
Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: Is Mark Carney governing like a Conservative?

September 28, 2026 · 17 min

What can we expect from a make-or-break federal budget delivered in the middle of a trade war? Rudyard and Andrew look at the growing appetite in the business community for broad tax reform—and ask whether now is the moment for Canada to…
Friday Focus: the danger of Canada’s “war” rhetoric

September 25, 2026 · 29 min

Prime Minister Mark Carney says he studied the possibility of U.S.-led military action against Canada in an hour-long interview with The New York Times. Meanwhile, politicians across Canada—from Doug Ford to Carney and David Eby—are…

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Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: Is Carney’s momentum pointing to a spring election?

September 22, 2026 · 32 min

Parliament opened yesterday with the PM determined to keep his momentum going: a labour reform bill and a major liberalization of project permitting, including for pipelines. What happened to the Trudeau-era Liberals now getting behind…
Friday Focus: Trump's latest threats carry no weight and AI leaders sound the alarm

September 18, 2026 · 24 min

Trump says he is weighing whether to "annihilate" Iran next week. Is this another empty threat? We have reached a point where it is increasingly difficult to know how much weight to put behind his threats. The bond markets are beginning to…
Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: Carney opens Canada for business and courts a new European alliance

September 16, 2026 · 14 min

Andrew and Rudyard begin with several important announcements from Carney’s investment summit, including a cut to the marginal effective tax rate on new investment and the opening of Canada’s airports to private investment. The government…
Friday Focus: Canada's trade war heats up and the Iranians escalate to de-escalate

September 11, 2026 · 23 min

Friday Focus returns from its summer hiatus to unpack two major geopolitical flashpoints. First, the trade war with the United States—and its consequences. There has been a narrowing of the debate around Carney's approach. People are being…
Be it resolved, religion is a force for good in the world

August 31, 2026 · 1 hr 40 min

On this special edition of the Munk Debates podcast, we’re revisiting one of the classic debates from the series’ 18-year history: the Munk Debate on Religion, held in 2010 before a sold-out crowd of 3,000 at Toronto’s Roy Thomson…
Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: Is Canada prepared for the long fight?

August 28, 2026 · 18 min

Rudyard and Andrew unpack a consequential week in the Canada-U.S. trade war, from Trump’s increasingly erratic and provocative behaviour—including the absurd renaming of Lake Ontario—to his apparent preference for perpetual conflict over a…
Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: Carney walks away from Trump and turns his Davos speech into action

August 24, 2026 · 33 min

Rudyard and Andrew react to the intensifying Canada-U.S. trade war. Trump is threatening additional tariffs starting January 1, and it’s increasingly clear he was intent on escalating regardless of whether or not Carney walked away from…

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The Munk Debate podcasts is home to two of the most popular Canadian current affairs podcasts: Friday Focus with Janice Gross Stein and Munk Dialogues with Andrew Coyne Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.