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Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe is a big believer in Confederation, he tells host Brian Lilley . But he thinks it only works when the provinces are strong and Ottawa respects the rules of the game — something he says the Trudeau government isn’t doing. Moe joins Brian to discuss how his province’s Saskatchewan First Act can prevent Trudeau from using environmental excuses to stomp all over Saskatchewan’s constitutional rights to develop its resources. And why he’s determined to frustrate Ottawa’s plans to pit province against province, and make Canada a place where we celebrate our successes from east to west. (Recorded February 23, 2023) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Trudeau government convinced inquiry commissioner Paul Rouleau that it was justified in invoking the Emergencies Act during the Freedom Convoy. But vindicating the Liberals’ claims the act can be used to limit damage to the economy sets a worrisome precedent for a tool with such sweeping powers to suspend people’s rights, as Cara Zwibel from the Canadian Civil Liberties Association discusses with host Brian Lilley. And Rouleau’s suggestion that the definition of “emergency” should be redefined could just make it easier for Ottawa to do again. (Recorded February 23, 2023) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A mysterious syndicate of private soldiers, many brutal Russian convicts, is doing the dirtiest work for Putin in Ukraine, Syria and Africa. Yevgeny Prigozhin, an enigmatic ex-con who built a business empire from a hot dog stand, rents his Wagner Group mercenary army to Putin in exchange for lucrative mining and oil assets. Prigozhin has a history of hiring U.S. and U.K. lawyers to legally demolish journalists who get too close to his business. Some journalists have ended up dead. That hasn’t stopped investigative reporter Miles Johnson from digging into Prigozhin’s convoluted operation. Johnson joins host Brian Lilley to explain what the Wagner Group is all about, and the truth about Prigozhin that is now finally being exposed. (Recorded February 10, 2023) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The shocking revelation that China has been sailing spy balloons over North America, and who knows where else, has abruptly created a massive foreign policy crisis for the U.S., Canada… and China. The discovery has popped the communist regime’s polite pretenses, says Bill Bishop, China analyst and author of the influential Sinocism newsletter. Bishop joins Full Comment host Brian Lilley this week to discuss how the exposure of an apparently vast global surveillance operation by the People’s Liberation Army has torpedoed Beijing’s hopes of finding better footing with the Biden administration, and how relations between the two powerhouse nations now face the dangerous potential of “free fall.” (Recorded February 10, 2023) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Canadians are the only people in the developed world forced to wait for government to provide them necessary medical care — except the wait lists are long, their chances of dying are higher, and the quality of care rates poorly by international standards. Dr. Brian Day has been on a decades-long crusade to free patients from the life-threatening medicare monopoly. He discusses with guest host Brian Lilley how Canadian medicare went so wrong. And he explains why he’s fighting all the way to the Supreme Court to free Canadians from broken government health-care promises, and for the right to choose allowed by every other universal health-care system on earth. (Recorded January 27, 2023) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In October 2020, three prominent medical professors from Stanford, Harvard and Oxford universities, issued an open letter warning the world that COVID lockdowns caused more harm than good and should stop. They were dismissed, attacked and vilified, despite thousands more scientists signing onto their Great Barrington Declaration. Now, three years after the pandemic began, the human wreckage caused by unnecessary lockdowns is undeniable, vindicating the declaration. But, as Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, one of its main authors, tells guest host Brian Lilley, authorities refuse to admit their mistakes. Bhattacharya explains why he fears the rise of authoritarian public health means lockdowns, and the “noble lies” used to manipulate us during the pandemic, will be deployed too easily again. (Recorded January 27, 2023) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The shadow of the iron curtain looms over Eastern Europe again. Vladimir Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine is the latest move to put back together the Russian empire lost at the dissolution of the U.S.S.R. Canadian journalist Paule Robitaille lived in the former Soviet Union and witnessed its collapse; recently, she returned to Ukraine, Latvia and Georgia to talk to soldiers, leaders and everyday citizens fighting to stop Moscow’s iron fist from snatching up their countries once again. Robitaille joins guest host Brian Lilley to discuss what she found. You can read more of her reporting in the National Post series Back to the U.S.S.R.  (Recorded January 12, 2022) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The hatchet job Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been doing on the Royal family never seems to end. The exiled Royal couple have been dishing out interviews, documentaries, and now Harry’s “tell-all” book, all banging on about how badly they think they were treated. Even Americans, with their soft spot for celebrity victimhood, are tiring of the shtick, says Kinsey Schofield, long-time Royal watcher and creator and host of the royal-news website ToDiForDaily.com. She joins this week with guest host Brian Lilley to discuss what the self-exiled couple’s end game is. As Schofield explains, the all-American “trash for cash” reality-TV lifestyle may be the best option they have. (Recorded January 12, 2023) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Melissa Lantsman doesn’t fit the Conservative stereotype, which may be why the Liberals seem to fear her relentless question period attacks. The daughter of Jewish immigrants and a proud lesbian in an urban Toronto riding, Lantsman has been a rising star in Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative party. Lantsman talks with guest host Brian Lilley about how she came to be Conservative. And why she thinks the Trudeau Liberals have emboldened intolerance, and made living in Canada more difficult and less appealing — not just for immigrants like her parents, but for large numbers of Canadians, and young people in particular. (Recorded December 12, 2022) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Over the holidays, we’re looking back at some of the best episodes of 2022. With disturbing recent developments in the federal Liberals’ medical assistance in dying (MAID) regime, including government workers pushing it on injured veterans, and doctors pondering euthanizing babies, we’re revisiting our interview with Dr. Sonu Gaind. He’s supporter of MAID for those suffering terminal illnesses. He’s even the physician chair of the MAID team at Toronto’s Humber River Hospital, where he’s chief of psychiatry. But he’s grown alarmed since Canada stopped requiring a reasonably foreseeable death for euthanasia, as he tells host Anthony Furey. People who are poor, lonely or battling mental illnesses, whose lives might get better with help, are being offered a lethal injection instead. And children could be next. (Recorded May 12, 2022) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices