Year: 2018

2020 Live Episode 10: Q&A with Bob Woodward in Toronto

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“I think Trump spends so much time criticizing the media because he knows how important it is. I think it’s actually an acknowledgement of its importance when he says we’re ‘fake media,’ ‘enemies of the people.’ I don’t like it but I don’t think the response on our part should be defensive, I think the answer is just more reporting.”

On this special edition of 2020 Live, Canada 2020 welcomed two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author, and associate editor at the Washington Post Bob Woodward who spoke about the U.S. midterms and Donald Trump’s presidency with The Globe and Mail’s editor-in-chief David Walmsley.

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Explain Like I’m Five Episode 17: Midterm Elections, with Bill Owens

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“The theory of the framers of the constitution was that they wanted members of the House of Representatives to be elected every two years so that they were directly and closely responsible to the people.”

Bill Owens, former U.S. congressman and now senior advisor in the public policy and regulation practice at Dentons, joins host Aaron Reynolds to explain the United States’ midterm elections while providing a crash course on the structure of the American government.

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/Thread Episode 22: StatsCan data, Facebook hearings, and Google walkouts

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“If you’re concerned about Statistics Canada, I would multiply that by 100 and say you should be thinking about what Google knows about you, what your bank knows about you and then when we start thinking about privacy rules, apply that information to your opinions.”

Host Sarah Turnbull is joined by National Post reporter Stuart Thomson, senior consultant at Earnscliffe Strategy Group Mary Anne Carter, and producer Aaron Reynolds. The group unpacks Statistics Canada’s plan to obtain Canadians’ financial data from banking institutions, Mark Zuckerberg’s requested attendance from a joint parliamentary hearing, and Google employees’ global walkout.

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Explain Like I’m Five Episode 16: Carbon Pricing, with Mark Cameron

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“There can be a carrot and a stick. The stick is you put a price on carbon use particularly in the ways you can get at it pretty easily, like burning fossil fuels, but if you raise money using that process you can then use that money to create carrots.”

Mark Cameron, executive director of Canadians for Clean Prosperity, joins host Aaron Reynolds to demystify carbon pricing, including the origins of carbon tax and cap-and-trade, how C02 emissions are measured, how these mechanisms are enforced, and where the money ends up.

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Wonk with Mike Episode 23: Cities on the Move, with Mayor Jeff Lehman

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“Unfortunately most of our services – many of our services anyway – have been built to follow the same model, really a reactive model but they’re full of people who care a huge amount about their community.”

Host Mike Moffatt is joined by the Mayor of Barrie, Ontario, Jeff Lehman to chat about sparking innovation at the municipal level despite regulatory boundaries and how data can be used to act proactively in the community.

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/Thread Episode 21: Polarization, Pipe Bombs, and Apologies

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“Most of us live in a world that we know is complicated and we know things can’t be as simple as people are saying but it’s far too easy to turn the world into friends and enemies, all bad all good.”

Host Sarah Turnbull is joined by Toronto Star columnist and Ottawa bureau chief, Susan Delacourt and Principal at Earnscliffe Strategy Group, Sarah Goldfeder. Topics addressed: whether “sunny ways” will survive the next election, how polarization in the U.S. took a turn for the worse, and daytime TV host Megyn Kelly’s “blackface” apology that went nowhere.

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Quality Content Episode 11: On The Podium, with Alexander Shelley

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“For some people when they hear the words symphony or classical music, a wall goes up. They feel like there’s a tent that they’re not in and that they don’t know enough for some reason. It’s really so important to me to invite people into that tent.”

The National Arts Centre Orchestra’s Music Director, Alexander Shelley joins Sarah Turnbull in the The 2020 Network studios to discuss his upbringing in Germany studying conducting, what attracted him to the podium, and what led him to Ottawa where he’s now transforming the country’s orchestral persona.

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Wonk with Mike Episode 22: “You Can’t Do Nothing” about Climate Change, with Chris Ragan

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“It’s easy to say we don’t like taxes. It’s easy to say all taxes are bad but it’s not so easy to offer an alternative. So let’s actually make sure that people who are opposed to a carbon price are putting something forward as an alternative.”

Host Mike Moffatt sits down with economist Chris Ragan to chat about the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s most recent report about the need for global climate action and why carbon taxing is a good first step.

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