Friday Focus: protesters fail to disrupt the Munk Debate on the Two-State Solution and Putin once again evokes the threat of nuclear weapons
05 Dec 2025
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Friday Focus: Back to a Russia-Ukraine stalemate and Mark Carney gets a standing ovation in Alberta
28 Nov 2025
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Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: Ottawa and Alberta agree to energy deal and why two-tier care is not the solution to Canada's healthcare problems
25 Nov 2025
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Friday Focus: leaked peace plan for ending the war in Ukraine demands major concessions from Zelensky
21 Nov 2025
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The MAGA coalition is coming apart and Mark Carney's government underwhelms voters
19 Nov 2025
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Friday Focus: The Canadian military's shocking plan to train civil servants and will new Epstein revelations affect Trump's hold over the Republican Party?
14 Nov 2025
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Friday Focus: Important lessons from Mamdani's victory and a U.S. government shutdown holds the public hostage
07 Nov 2025
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An uninspiring budget and Carney's government inches closer to a majority
06 Nov 2025
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Friday Focus: Munk Debate on the Two-State Solution and China's chokehold on the U.S.
31 Oct 2025
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Trump's trade tantrum and will Mark Carney's first federal budget meet the moment?
28 Oct 2025
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Friday Focus: Trump cancels trade talks with Canada and targets Russia with sanctions
24 Oct 2025
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Putin's hold over Trump and Pierre Poilievre makes a stunning accusation
21 Oct 2025
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Friday Focus: Hamas's public executions and Zelensky presses Trump for Tomahawk missiles
17 Oct 2025
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Trump's Middle East diplomacy and why Canada should re-evaluate its auto sector subsidies
16 Oct 2025
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Friday Focus: Trump's Gaza deal, the details that could derail it, and the Middle East's new power players
10 Oct 2025
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Trump sends in the National Guard (again) and Mark Carney goes to Washington
07 Oct 2025
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Rudyard and Andrew react to the deployment of U.S. National Guard troops to American cities, specifi...
Friday Focus: Trump gives Hamas an ultimatum and how "AI slop" is working against productivity
03 Oct 2025
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Trump's military speech ramblings should concern every Canadian
02 Oct 2025
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Rudyard and Andrew unpack the speeches made this week by U.S. Secretary of Defense Hegseth and Presi...
Friday Focus: Trump's warning to European countries, and what Canada should learn from their mistakes
26 Sep 2025
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Carney's Palestinian statehood recognition comes without conditions and the powerful companies benefiting from Trump's authoritarianism
24 Sep 2025
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What should we make of Canada's formal recognition of Palestinian statehood at the UN? What happened...
Friday Focus: ABC capitulates to Trump and what to expect in Canada's upcoming federal budget
19 Sep 2025
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Friday Focus: Charlie Kirk's assassination points to a democracy in trouble and a debate about Israel's strike in Qatar
12 Sep 2025
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Trump is stuck in a dangerous spiral feedback loop and Rudyard and Andrew debate Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker program
10 Sep 2025
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Donald Trump's AI image to threaten "war" on the city of Chicago is further evidence that he is stuc...
Friday Focus: China's great power performance and Mark Carney's bad budget messaging
05 Sep 2025
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This week's SCO summit in China projected a series of powerful images about the rise of China and th...
A public display of friendship between China, Russia, and India is a searing indictment of Trump's foreign policy
03 Sep 2025
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Rudyard and Andrew start the show talking about this week's China summit with 20 leaders of non-West...
Friday Focus: Trump takes aim at the CDC and Putin is undeterred
29 Aug 2025
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Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: the US slides towards dictatorship and Carney clings to Canada's peacemaking past
26 Aug 2025
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In the past week alone there has been an FBI raid on John Bolton's home and a threat to investigate ...
Friday Focus: Trump is a foreign policy wrecking ball, and Carney goes from elbows up to elbows down
22 Aug 2025
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Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: a phony peace deal for Ukraine could put all of Europe at risk
19 Aug 2025
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Rudyard and Andrew unpack the latest meeting between Trump, Zelensky and European leaders that seems...
Friday Focus: China's tax on Canadian canola and TIFF abandons the principles of free speech
15 Aug 2025
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Friday Focus: Bibi's Gaza plan prioritizes his political survival over his country's interests and Putin dreams of a new Russian Empire
08 Aug 2025
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Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: America's checks and balances are failing to restrain Donald Trump
06 Aug 2025
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Rudyard and Andrew start the show trying to understand why Trump's radical steps on immigration, edu...
Friday Focus: A late night tariff announcement and Canada's plan to recognize a Palestinian state
01 Aug 2025
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Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: The EU-US trade deal should serve as a warning to Canada and why supply management hurts the poorest Canadians
29 Jul 2025
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Rudyard and Andrew start the show assessing Trump's new trade deal with the EU: no relief on tariffs...
Friday Focus: Israel is weaponizing food, and Hamas is weaponizing its own people
25 Jul 2025
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Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: we are living through the golden age of conspiracy theories
23 Jul 2025
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Rudyard and Andrew talk about the conspiracy moment we are living through. Why is the political righ...
Friday Focus: Trump can't shake Epstein and Carney faces another trade test
18 Jul 2025
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Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: Canada seeks to diversify its trade partnerships beyond the U.S
15 Jul 2025
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What should we make of Trump's latest 35% tariff threat on Canada? Rudyard and Andrew agree tha...
Friday Focus: Google's AI Overview will devastate small and medium-sized businesses
11 Jul 2025
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Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: irresponsible tax cuts on both sides of the border
10 Jul 2025
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Another week brings another tariff threat from the Trump administration, without clarity on who is b...
Friday Focus: The US turns its back on Ukraine and a sombre American Independence Day
04 Jul 2025
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Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: how do you negotiate with Donald Trump?
03 Jul 2025
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Mark Carney is learning quickly - as the digital services tax debacle proved - that attempting good ...
Friday Focus: Diplomacy with Iran and a Democratic socialist stuns New York City
27 Jun 2025
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Friday Focus special Tuesday edition: a fragile ceasefire takes hold
24 Jun 2025
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Friday Focus Emergency Episode: a game changing moment in the Middle East
22 Jun 2025
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Friday Focus: A crisis over nuclear weapons with the most incompetent set of leaders
20 Jun 2025
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Munk Dialogue with Yossi Klein Halevi: why the West must support Israel's war against Iran
16 Jun 2025
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Rudyard is joined by celebrated American-Israeli author and journalist Yossi Klein Halevi to talk ab...
Friday Focus: Israel's spectacular strike on Iran
13 Jun 2025
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Be it Resolved, this is America's golden age
09 Jun 2025
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Friday Focus: The Trump-Elon bromance blows up and Ukraine's stunning military attack
06 Jun 2025
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Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: Mark Carney's economic plan to get Canada back on track
03 Jun 2025
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Rudyard welcomes back Globe and Mail columnist Andrew Coyne to talk about Mark Carney's early econom...
Friday Focus: Recap of the Munk Debate on Trump's America and Israel moves closer to striking Iran
30 May 2025
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Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: Carney's bumpy start and Canada's weaknesses exposed
26 May 2025
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Rudyard is joined once again by The Globe and Mail columnist Andrew Coyne to reflect ...
Friday Focus: Donald Trump's Oval Office tirade and Mark Carney's threat to Israel
23 May 2025
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Friday Focus: Trump's graft in the Gulf States and Bibi's war drags on
16 May 2025
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Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: The Crisis of Canadian Democracy
13 May 2025
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We are a long way from a fully functioning democracy, according to Globe and Mail columnist Andrew C...
Friday Focus: Two nuclear powers face off and Carney meets with Trump
09 May 2025
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Friday Focus: Mark Carney gets a Boomer boost and Trump wants a nuclear deal
02 May 2025
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Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: key takeaways from Canada's election results
30 Apr 2025
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Andrew Coyne is a Globe and Mail Columnist and one of Canada’s most trusted commentators. On t...
Friday Focus: Trump's generous offer to Russia and Canadian leaders fail to address domestic concerns
25 Apr 2025
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Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: The Conservative Party's failure to provide a roadmap for change
22 Apr 2025
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Andrew Coyne is a Globe and Mail Columnist and one of Canada’s most trusted commentators. He j...
Friday Focus: Pierre Poilievre's prime ministerial debate performance and Donald Trump's unconstrained chaos
18 Apr 2025
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Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: how the Liberals are benefitting from the Canada-US trade war
15 Apr 2025
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Friday Focus: America and China's trade war is destabilizing the global economy
11 Apr 2025
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Friday Focus: China's reciprocal tariffs and Canada gets a Liberation Day exemption
04 Apr 2025
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Tension with Iran, Greenland's annexation rejection, and China provokes Taiwan (again)
03 Apr 2025
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On this episode we are joined by Stephen Wertheim, Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for Inter...
Friday Focus: Another tariff announcement and Bibi scores a political victory
28 Mar 2025
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Be it Resolved: Religion is a Force for Good in the World
27 Mar 2025
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Friday Focus: Canada's existential election and a very concerning Trump interview
21 Mar 2025
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The ICE detention of Mahmoud Khalil, Democrats in disarray, and can tariffs actually benefit the working class?
18 Mar 2025
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On this episode we're joined by Bernie Sanders's former presidential campaign manager Jeff Weaver an...
Friday Focus: Trump's on-off-on tariffs and a new Canadian Prime Minister
14 Mar 2025
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Munk Debates Podcast: Trump's trade wars with Jared Bernstein and Oren Cass
07 Mar 2025
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Can Trump's trade policies and US protectionism bring economic gains to the middle and working class...
Friday Focus: Trump's plan to weaken Canada so he can annex it
07 Mar 2025
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Friday Focus: Zelensky clashes with Trump and Canada faces tariff threats - again
28 Feb 2025
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Munk Debates Podcast: Stephen Walt and Evelyn Farkas on Trump's plan for Ukraine and the changing world order
28 Feb 2025
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Harvard Kennedy School's Stephen Walt and the McCain Institute's Executive Director Evelyn Fark...
Friday Focus: Trump attacks Zelensky and Xi Jinping sees an opportunity
21 Feb 2025
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Be it Resolved, don't trust mainstream media
20 Feb 2025
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On this special edition of the Munk Debates podcast, we are bringing you the best moments from the M...
Friday Focus: Plans to end the war in Ukraine and momentum for Mark Carney
14 Feb 2025
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Munk Debates Podcast: Gaza, tariffs, and a constitutional showdown
12 Feb 2025
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Washington Post columnist Megan McArdle and Vox senior correspondent Zack Beachamp unpack President ...
Friday Focus: Tariff reversal and Trump's shocking plan for Gaza
07 Feb 2025
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Be it resolved, liberalism gets the big questions right
05 Feb 2025
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Liberal democracy has long been credited with the West’s economic development, social toleranc...
Friday Focus Special Episode: Day One of The Canada-U.S. tariff war
02 Feb 2025
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Friday Focus: Canada needs a better response to Trump's tariffs
31 Jan 2025
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Munk Debate Podcast: Elon Musk embraces the far-right and Trump ends DEI
30 Jan 2025
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On the first episode of our new series on politics and culture, Washington Post columnist Megan McAr...
Friday Focus: Trump doubles down & Canada prepares for tariffs
24 Jan 2025
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Be it resolved, the gentle parenting ethos raises happier children
23 Jan 2025
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If you're a new parent, you've probably heard the term 'gentle parenting'. It's the latest trend tha...
Friday Focus: Gaza ceasefire - Trump prepares to take office
17 Jan 2025
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Friday Focus: Trump's territorial aspirations - Liberal leadership race
10 Jan 2025
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Munk Dialogue with Rudyard Griffiths and Ricki Gurwitz: the Munk Debates in 2025
09 Jan 2025
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On this special edition of the Munk Debates podcast, host Rudyard Griffiths and managing director Ri...
Friday Focus: Trudeau's January and lone wolf terrorist attacks
03 Jan 2025
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Friday Focus: A Year in Canadian Politics
27 Dec 2024
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Be it Resolved, history will be kind to Joe Biden
24 Dec 2024
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“Together, we shall write an American story of hope, not fear” Joe Biden proclaimed as h...
Friday Focus: A crisis in Ottawa - Canada as the 51st state?
20 Dec 2024
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Munk Dialogue with Stephen Moore: why Trump's tariff plans will benefit Americans
18 Dec 2024
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Donald Trump’s plan to impose high tariffs on all goods coming into the US, including a 25% ta...
Friday Focus: Trump's tariff plan and Canada's soaring debt
13 Dec 2024
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Munk Dialogue with Michael Weiss: how Assad's fall is reshaping the Middle East
10 Dec 2024
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Bashar al-Assad has fled to Russia. Rebel leaders have taken over Damascus. And hundreds of thousand...
Friday Focus: Democracies in trouble - a controversial political pardon
06 Dec 2024
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Munk Dialogue with Raja Mohan: the Canada-India relationship hits a new low
03 Dec 2024
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently announced that six Indian diplomats were being expelled from ...
Friday Focus: Trump Tariffs – Lebanon Ceasefire
29 Nov 2024
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Be it Resolved, DEI workplace programs do more harm than good
28 Nov 2024
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In the wake of George Floyd’s murder and the protests that followed in the summer of 2020, offices...