Fast enough to make your head spin, Canada’s “harm reduction” approach to helping drug addicts went from a few safe injection sites to giving away powerful opioid drugs to addicts. As Adam Zivo, journalist and director of the Canadian Centre for Responsible Drug Policy discusses with Brian, ideologically radical public health officials now even insist that any addiction treatment other than giving addicts more free drugs is racist and colonialist. And despite overdose deaths rising and more addicts being created by the diversion of so-called safe supply, Zivo says these drug-policy extremists won’t stop until they make all dangerous street narcotics legal — and as easy as possible for anyone to get. (Recorded July 25, 2024) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’re still learning how institutions and officials politicized science during the pandemic to justify economic lockdowns, border closures, school shutdowns and other measures that lacked supportive evidence but carried grave consequences. Vanessa Dylyn is the award-winning director of the new documentary Covid Collateral, which shows how real scientific methods and debate were sidelined, even banished, as governments faked expertise during COVID-19 with the help of compliant doctors and journalists. She joins Brian this week to talk about the shocking things she discovered while investigating the official responses to COVID; the damaging public health policies that continue to affect individuals and our society; and how we can hopefully prevent this all from happening again when the next pandemic comes. (Recorded June 27, 2024) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tristin Hopper, a journalist with insights into Canadian social policies, delves into Canada's drastic shift in reputation from a model nation to a cautionary tale. He discusses the alarming rise in overdose deaths linked to ineffective drug decriminalization and critiques the controversial assisted suicide policies that leave vulnerable populations at risk. Hopper emphasizes the dangers of public apathy toward creeping extreme policies and advocates for a moderate revolution to reclaim Canada's balanced approach. Engaging and thought-provoking!

The statistics are undeniable: married people tend to be happier, amass more wealth and live longer, healthier lives than unmarried people, as sociologist Brad Wilcox tells Brian this week. Marriage also reduces child poverty and makes communities safer. So why are so many so-called progressives in politics, the media and other influential spheres so invested in destroying the traditions of marriage and familyhood? There’s something bizarre afoot, notes Wilcox — author of the new book Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization — when society’s elites are predominantly married with children, gaining all the benefits that come with that, even as they discredit traditional families … for everyone else. (Recorded June 27, 2024) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chrystia Freeland talks like a patronizing schoolmarm. Mark Carney comes off like a visiting aristocrat. Yet, the federal Liberals face a reckoning sooner or later, and they’ll eventually need someone to replace Justin Trudeau. Having turned his party into a suppressive cult of personality, however, Trudeau has thwarted the rise of any real heirs or heiresses apparent. This week, Brian and former Liberal strategist Warren Kinsella feverishly scour our list of rumoured contenders for a would-be leader to rebuild from the wreckage when Trudeau’s reckoning finally comes. The pickings are worse than slim, but there may be one of two with just enough brains, charm and non-radioactivity to offer the Liberals a new ruler with some real royal jelly. (Recorded July 30, 2024) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kamala Harris, the unelected Democratic frontrunner under scrutiny, faces criticism for her troubling political record. J.D. Vance, the mediocre senator backed by Trump, is discussed as an ineffective candidate for vice president. U.S. political columnist J.D. Tuccille highlights the challenges both candidates face, including Harris’s need for a strong running mate amidst internal party strife and Vance's struggle to appeal to younger voters. The podcast delves into the evolving political landscape, exploring the impact of campaigns and dynamic voter concerns.

Tom Flanagan, co-author of 'Grave Error: How the Media Misled Us,' discusses the 'moral panic' around suspected graves at residential schools and how false narratives continue to be pushed despite the facts. The conversation touches on challenges in verifying claims of missing children, criminalizing residential school denialism, online content regulation, and the controversy surrounding the mayor of Quesnel, B.C. Reflections on the 2008 apology for residential school experiences and diverse perspectives from the Kamloops Indian Reservation are also explored.

The province causing pain in Ottawa’s side these days isn’t Quebec or Alberta — it’s Saskatchewan, where Premier Scott Moe this year unilaterally declared his province would not be forced to pay carbon taxes on natural gas. So far, the courts are backing him up. John Gormley, former dean of the province’s talk radio (and former MP), joins Brian this week to explain how the onetime NDP heartland has turned rebel against the left’s centralized-control agenda, as it fights against Justin Trudeau’s carbon taxes and censorship policies. He also discusses how brewing problems in the ageing Saskatchewan Party government (including a bizarre texting scandal) risk undermining all of it. (Recorded July 11, 2024) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

While the world fixates on the war in Gaza, Israelis in the north are under daily attack from Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based Islamist group that’s a key part of Iran’s multi-front war against the Jewish state — and the entire western-led world order. Sarit Zehavi speaks to Brian from her home in the Galilee, as missiles explode in the background, and lush forests around her burn from Hezbollah’s indiscriminate bombing. Zehavi is head of the Alma Research and Education Centre, specializing in Israel’s security challenges on its northern border. She discusses the dangers facing the country, and the world, as the looming threat of a wider war grows with Tehran’s mounting aggression (Recorded July 4, 2024) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A collapse of their Toronto—St. Paul fortress is just the beginning. All that remains to be seen is how extensive the Liberals’ inevitable ruin will be once Justin Trudeau’s strange, destructive experiment is over. As Liberal activist and strategist Andrew Perez tells Brian, the prime minister has made the once-mighty, centrist “natural governing” party into something unrecognizable — and likely unelectable — by driving out moderates and effectively merging with the NDP. While pundits and politicos gossip about when or whether Trudeau will quit, Perez says Liberals face a more existential crisis, years in the making. The party is lost. And it’s not clear how, or under whom, it can find its way again. (Recorded June 28, 2024) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices