Playbook Canada
Episodes
Carney rode the wave Trump never saw coming | Melissa Lantsman talks Jays
18 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Carney went from the candidate nobody thought could win to majority prime minister in little more than a year. A new POLITICO Magazine feature co...
Poilievre called Canada broken. Now he’s selling hope | John Concannon
11 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Pierre Poilievre skips the governor general's installation and heads to Calgary with a new pitch: project hope, not project fear. Nick Taylor-Vaisey a...
Recession obsession | Plus, an insider’s guide to Ottawa
04 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The recession debate has taken over Parliament Hill, and Pierre Poilievre wants Mark Carney to wear it. Nick Taylor-Vaisey and Mickey Djuric dissect t...
Special edition: AI can boost Canada’s struggling economy | Google economist Fabien Curto Millet
03 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A special edition of Playbook Canada: Google chief economist Fabien Curto Millet was in Toronto for Tech Week, and he sat down for a conversation that...
Goodbye Steven Guilbeault, hello razor thin majority | A Politico Paris Pod
28 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Steven Guilbeault resigns from the Liberal caucus over the government's diluted climate plans — and he's not alone, with 14 Liberal MPs signing an a...
Little irritants, big deadline | Erin O'Toole
21 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Little irritants are piling up ahead of the July 1 USMCA deadline: a suspended defense board, revived potato tensions, mushrooms duties and renewed at...
A deal for Alberta | Cabinet shuffle whispers
14 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A grand bargain between Ottawa and Edmonton appears to be taking shape, and details leaking out of Alberta connect carbon, pipelines and national unit...
Inside the trade talk collapse | Susan Holt
07 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra pulls back the curtain on why Canada-U.S. trade talks fell apart in October: Danielle Smith keynotes the Canada Strong a...
Is Carney eyeing Rideau Hall for his official residence? | Soraya Martinez Ferrada
30 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A decision on 24 Sussex is coming, raising questions about where Mark Carney will end up living: The Spring Economic Update was called boring, but bur...
Special Edition: François-Philippe Champagne, beyond 200 seconds on uncertainty and the economy
29 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On this special edition, Nick Taylor-Vaisey and Mickey Djuric speak with Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne ahead of the release of his Spr...
Is YouTube the new question period? | David Herle
23 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Carney and Pierre Poilievre take their rivalry off the Hill and onto YouTube. Nick Taylor-Vaisey and Mickey Djuric explore what it means when the...
Canada’s Conservatives and the search for meaning | Danielle Martin
16 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Reaction to the Liberal majority ripples through the Conservative caucus as Nick Taylor-Vaisey and Calder McHugh dig into what the result means inside...
Carney’s big tent gets bigger | Philippe J. Fournier & Brian Gallant
09 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
POLITICO's Nick Taylor-Vaisey and Calder McHugh break down the latest Ottawa bombshell, as another Conservative MP crosses the floor to join Mark Car...
Champagne problem | Sarah Chown
02 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts Nick Taylor-Vaisey and Mickey Djuric examine the latest developments in Canada’s deepening trade relationship with China, with Finance M...
Sell baby, sell: Inside Canada’s energy pitch | Heather McPherson
26 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
POLITICO’s Deborah Kahn joins from CERAWeek in Houston to unpack Canada’s latest pitch to the global energy market with hosts Nick Taylor-Vaisey a...
Is Trump making China great again?
19 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts Mickey Djuric and Nick Taylor-Vaisey invite “China watcher” Phelim Kine to the show to discuss a stunning new POLITICO poll. The surve...
How close is Carney to a majority?
12 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Co-hosts Nick Taylor-Vaisey and Mickey Djuric talk through the latest floor crosser, Lori Idlout, who abandoned Canada's progressive party this week t...
Carney walks the Iran tightrope | Richard Madan
05 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Co-hosts Nick Taylor-Vaisey and Mickey Djuric dig into the prime minister's latest thoughts on the strikes in the Middle East. Pierre Poilievre ta...
Carney’s big trip, Gould’s tight ship | Karina Gould
26 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Co-hosts Nick Taylor-Vaisey and Mickey Djuric break down Prime Minister Mark Carney’s latest global tour, starting with a politically delicate reset...
Cold borders, hot politics | Scott Aitchison
19 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A new POLITICO/Public First poll finds what one pollster calls “a sort of unrequited hatred” shaping the Canada-U.S. relationship, with Canadians ...
Games abroad, grief at home | Adam van Koeverden
12 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Secretary of State for Sport Adam van Koeverden joins Playbook Canada from the Winter Olympics in Milano Cortina, where he’s watching Team Canada ...
Liberals flex, Conservatives reflect | Rachel Curran
05 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been referred to as “Harperpalooza” in Ottawa this week: a prolonged celebration of the 20th anniversary of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’...
Election vibe check | Steven MacKinnon
29 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Election vibes are back on Parliament Hill as Prime Minister Mark Carney rides a post-Davos bump and Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poiliev...
The Carney Doctrine | Philippe J. Fournier
22 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
At Davos, Mark Carney laid out Canada’s place in a volatile world. Playbook Canada examines the political moment at home and what comes next as MPs ...
Carney looks east, Trump looks north | Paul Wells
15 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
As Mark Carney heads to China and Donald Trump talks tough about Greenland, Canada’s place in a shifting world order feels constantly fragile. Ve...
Pipelines 'north, south, east and west' | Danielle Smith
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Another floor-crosser brings Mark Carney within one vote of a majority, leaving Pierre Poilievre scrambling for a defense as questions mount about his...
Trump’s man in Ottawa takes questions | Pete Hoekstra
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Parliament may be heading into winter break, but a wave of ambassadorial openings in Washington, London and Brussels could upend the fragile political...
A shakeup in Ottawa, backlash in B.C. | R.J. Simpson
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Carney battles pipeline fallout and adds a new face to his Cabinet, while Parliament gears up for a sprint to the end of the year. Then, N...
‘Who cares’ about a pipeline? | Ryan Jespersen
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith have come up with an energy deal that could reshape the relationship between Alberta a...
Carney abroad, Trump on the back foot | Jamil Jivani
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As Mark Carney takes his tenth trip to enlist “reliable partners” in the trade war and to ease Canada’s reliance on the United States, Donald Tr...
Carney’s hinge moment | Elizabeth May
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Prime Minister Mark Carney enters a make-or-break confidence vote on Monday still short of support, all while projecting confidence and bypassing the ...
Budget, betrayal and bird flu | François-Philippe Champagne
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ottawa is abuzz after Conservative MP Chris d'Entremont crossed the floor Tuesday — and suddenly an outright majority for Prime Minister Mark...
Playing chicken on Parliament Hill + Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On the world premiere Playbook Canada podcast, hosts Nick Taylor-Vaisey and Mickey Djuric take you inside the budget brinkmanship, leadership jitters ...
Introducing Playbook Canada
26 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
POLITICO’s Nick Taylor-Vaisey and Mickey Djuric bring to life the stories that are driving the news in Ottawa and beyond — drawing on their dee...