Quality Content Episode 23: A Lifetime of Artistic Achievement, with Rick Mercer

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“One of the great luxuries of doing a rant or doing a commentary when you have a large audience, is you know that there are people from a broad spectrum of opinions and different ideologies listening to you.”

Host Alex Paterson kicks off a series of interviews with the 2019 recipients of the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards with a conversation with one of Canada’s most treasured political and social commentators, Rick Mercer. Rick will receive the Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award on April 27. The two talk about his celebrated career as a broadcaster, his current endeavours, and the state of Canadian comedy.

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/Thread Episode 25: Tax competitiveness, media bailouts, and where hypermasculinity meets abuse

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“It’s really important to remember, we’re 11 months out from the federal election and [the government] is trying to check a number of boxes and save some of those other items for the larger federal budget.”

Host Sarah Turnbull sits down to chat about the week that was with Mary Anne Carter of Earnscliffe Strategy Group and Marco Vigliotti of iPolitics. The group dives into the fall fiscal update, delivered by Finance Minister Bill Morneau on Wednesday, including tax breaks for corporate Canada and government media bailouts. Also discussed: abuse allegations at St. Michael’s College School where six teens have been charged with sexual assault.

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