The Bridge: Donald Trump and His Dictator Friends
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Are Quebec and Alberta moving closer to separation referendums?
And hello there, Peter Mansbridge here, you're just moments away from the latest episode of The Bridge, Trump and his dictator friends. That's the focus this week with Dr. Janice Stein, coming right up. And hello there, welcome to another week, welcome to Monday, right here on The Bridge, I'm Peter Mansbridge, Mondays of course. Dr. Janice Stein from the Munk School at the University of Toronto. She'll be with us in a couple of minutes' time. With some of her thoughts on the last few days, there's some crazy stuff happening. We're going to try and figure out why. As we always do on Monday, we want to give you a sense of the week ahead, but also a sense of our question of the week for Thursday. And Thursday is your turn, and the random renter, of course.
For the your turn question this week, a little bit of background. There's a couple of important elections coming up in the next little while in Canada. Next Monday, October 5th, a week from today, is Quebec Election Day. The Parti Québécois is ahead in the polls. And if they win, they say they've promised. a referendum on separation before they leave office. Now, two weeks after Quebec's election, on October 19th, we have the referendum in Alberta on whether to have a referendum on separation. That's right. You're going to have a referendum on whether to have a referendum. A couple of weeks after that will be the B.C. election. That's not involved in the question, though. The question for this week is on those two elections.
Quebec and Alberta. And you don't have to live in one of those provinces to answer this question. Here's the question. Are you worried about the Quebec or the Alberta elections in terms of the potential for separation? If you are concerned... Does one or the other worry you more? Or maybe you're happy about the prospect of one or the other or both leaving Canada. There are some people who think that way. Or maybe you have another thought on Quebec and or Alberta tiptoeing up to a referendum on separating from Canada. So that is... Obviously, that's not a pointed single question. There's a whole bunch in there. But you can pick whatever angle you want in terms of the upcoming two elections, the one in Quebec and the one in Alberta, referendum in Alberta.
So how do you do that? Well, you come up with an answer that is no longer than 75 words. The old 75 word. You send it to your answer to themansbridgepodcast at gmail.com. You have until 3 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday to send that answer in. Include your name and the location you are writing from. Okay? So those are the conditions. That's the question. We look forward to seeing your answer. The Mansbridge podcast at gmail.com. Coming up on the week tomorrow is a more butts conversation. And it's going to be on a couple of things on the BC election. James Moore lives in BC, of course, but the two of them have some interesting comments about why you call them election. that and we're also going to talk about the media and once again this is good stuff in here in the more butts conversation how do I know because I have to do more butts conversations on the weekend because these two guys are really busy Jerry's all over the world with his job with the Eurasia group and James is a busy lawyer in Vancouver and
So we do it on the weekends. So I know how it went. We had some, like, issues, technical issues. Kept losing the Wi-Fi on James for some reason. So there's a bit of jockeying around that we have to do in that conversation. But I think you'll enjoy it as you do all the Moore-Butts conversations. Wednesday is a statutory holiday across the SiriusXM network. It's National Truth and Reconciliation Day. We'll be going back in the files and a conversation with, among others, the late Murray Sinclair, who headed up the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, a conversation I had with him in 2021. So that's Wednesday. Thursday, your turn, I've already explained it, and the random rant here on Friday, of course, good talk with Chantal and Bruce.
Okay, so that gives you a sense of where things are in terms of the week ahead.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Are Quebec and Alberta moving closer to separation referendums?
0:00–6:29
2
Why did Trump give Xi Jinping such a lavish welcome?
6:29–14:04
3
What did Trump gain from the China trade and critical minerals deal?
14:04–18:05
4
Why is Trump inviting Vladimir Putin to the G20?
18:05–23:58
5
How could Putin's G20 appearance affect Ukraine and European leaders?
23:58–29:13
6
Could Trump challenge the results of the 2026 US midterm elections?
29:13–32:47
7
Was Netanyahu warned that Hamas was planning the October 7 attack?
32:47–42:52
8
Could evidence of ignored warnings change Israel's upcoming election?
42:52–45:35
Speakers
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