Full Comment is Canada’s podcast for compelling interviews, controversial opinions and fascinating discussions. Hosted by Brian Lilley. Published by Postmedia, new episodes are released each Monday.
Our ‘remarkable period of peace’ could be comin...
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The Emergencies Act is far more dangerous than ...
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Pierre Poilievre says his freedom fight include...
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Truckers rip the mask off the COVID consensus
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Olympians competing in the shadow of lockdowns,...
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The ethical failures in Canada’s pandemic response
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The ’60s left-wing activist turned Canadian hou...
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Time to end our ‘warped risk perception’ of COVID
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The professor fighting to stop woke warriors fr...
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Why Omicron means ‘we have to stop counting cases’
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A vaccine-passport surveillance state isn’t jus...
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A trans person, a Christian and a feminist walk...
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Let’s definitely not copy what they’re doing in...
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Bob Woodward on ‘Question Man’ Biden and Trump ...
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Why this nurse chose firing over a vaccine
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The coming death of ‘citizenship’ and how to st...
The concept of the “citizen” is found rarely throughout human history, and those lucky enough to have it must guard it jealously. It is one of the most cherished ideals of our liberal, democratic societies. But the forces of globalization and...
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Preparing for war with China over Taiwan
Beijing’s threats to invade Taiwan are getting serious. Military tensions are ramping up. And a war — perhaps even a Third World War — is not out of the question. It could even be inevitable. Scott Simon, co-chair of Taiwan studies at the...
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Chef Michael Hunter fights for the ‘right to ea...
He became famous for refusing to back down to animal-rights protestors picketing his meat-focused Toronto restaurant, defiantly butchering and eating a leg of deer in front of them in 2018. But the climate for Michael Hunter's Antler restaurant, and...
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How to rescue Erin O’Toole’s Conservatives from...
After their latest election loss, Canada’s Conservatives are discovering that they simply don’t have what Stephen Harper and Brian Mulroney once relied on to win federal elections. And Erin O’Toole’s shape-shifting, from a hard-right...
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The end of affordability in Canada—and what to ...
Housing prices keep soaring. Inflation is hot again. Even the upper middle class is struggling to keep up. Today, life in Canada is becoming harder than living elsewhere. Meanwhile, governments keep making matters worse by pumping out money, raising...
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Maxime Bernier’s anti-lockdown People’s Party i...
The People’s Party of Canada didn’t elect any MPs in Canada’s recent federal vote, but its platform opposing vaccine passports and promoting free markets and reduced immigration got nearly a million votes, roughly tripling the PPC’s support...
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Global terrorism gets a new lease on life in Af...
Peter Bergen was the first journalist to produce a TV interview with Osama bin Laden in 1997, where the terrorist leader first declared war on America. In his reporting from Afghanistan since the ’90s, Bergen witnessed how the Taliban-controlled...
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Trudeau resorts to ‘Project Fear’ for his rescue
With his journey to a majority government hitting the rocks, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is ditching his sunny ways and doing all he can to spook swing voters away from the Conservatives and frighten NDP voters into saving his Liberals from a split...
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Why vaccine passports make things worse
The majority of Canadians have been clamouring for vaccine passports as a way to make them feel safer about COVID-19. But while feeling safe isn’t the same as actually being safe, politicians are rushing ahead with these polarizing policies anyway....
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What Mark Norman thinks now
In 2017, Mark Norman was in line to be Canada’s next chief of defence staff — until he was accused of and criminally charged with leaking government secrets. It was an accusation that was widely seen as a political witch-hunt by the Liberal...