“47% believed the lie.”
Nik Nanos, author of The Age of Voter Rage, joins Alex Paterson in the Canada 2020 studio to talk about populism, the similarities between Donald Trump and Justin Trudeau’s campaign tactics, the unfulfilled promise of the Internet as a fact-checking tool, and professional wrestling.
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Author: Sophia Thomas
Quality Content Episode 5: On the Wire, with Heather Scoffield
“Donald Trump has changed our business deeply. There are things that fly at us that we don’t expect and we don’t anticipate.”
Heather Scoffield, Ottawa Bureau Chief for the Canadian Press, joins Alex Paterson to discuss the changing face of Canadian political journalism and the value of wire services.
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Quality Content Episode 4: The Canada 2020 Story, with Tim Barber
“The think-tank for the Government of Canada used to be the Government of Canada.”
Tim Barber joins Alex Paterson to talk about the role of think-tanks, marketing new ideas, and Canada 2020’s origins.
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Quality Content Episode 3: Building Bridges, with Chloe Ferguson
“I became totally obsessed with the core brain story and child development”
Chloe Ferguson of the Martin Family Initiative joins Alex Paterson in the Interac Podcast Lounge to talk about her experiences in First Nations communities across the country — what we’re getting right, what we’re getting wrong, and what we’re missing.
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Quality Content Episode 2: Culinary Diplomacy, with Stephen Beckta
“When we are born we get a smile, a hug, and a warm meal, and we are connected to that emotionally for the rest of our lives”
Award-winning restaurateur Stephen Beckta joins Alex Paterson in the Canada 2020 studio to talk about the passing of Anthony Bourdain, the nature of our relationship with food, culinary diplomacy, and Canada’s food identity.
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Quality Content Episode 1: In Your Face Lester Pearson, with Mike Moffatt
“You start to wonder: who are your friends?”
Canada and the United States have entered into a good old fashioned trade war, so Alex Paterson is joined by Mike Moffatt in the Interac Studio to talk about what that really means. Plus, Mike explains how real world trade is not like Settlers of Catan, and Alex breaks a promise to himself by reading some of Donald Trump’s tweets out loud.
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/Thread Episode 6: inescapable agent of chaos (week of July 13)
“What’s up, it’s 1998, let’s all watch A Bug’s Life and eat pizza at McDonald’s, it’s 1998”
It’s Friday the 13th, and Maclean’s writer Shannon Proudfoot joined Sarah Turnbull and Alex Paterson in the Canada 2020 studio to summarize the week. Topics included: Ontario’s sex-ed curriculum rollback, deep-state conspiracies in the U.S., and hockey drama in Ottawa.
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/Thread Episode 5: hot metal slide (week of June 6)
“This reductionist thinking that simply believing men and women are equal is enough to qualify you as a feminist is absurd”
Sarah Turnbull and Alex Paterson are joined by human rights lawyer Amy Kishek in the Canada 2020 studio to answer the three questions of the week: what did the news cycle miss, who had the best or worst take, and what are we done with? This week’s topics include the debate over who is and is not a feminist; the conversation between Doug Ford and Justin Trudeau on asylum seekers; and the very Canadian habit of complaining about the weather. Recorded June 6th, 2018.
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/Thread Episode 4: garbage summer (week of June 28)
“You don’t get to call it parody after you got caught trying to pass it off as real”
To wrap up the week that just passed, Alex Paterson, Sarah Turnbull and Aaron Reynolds answer three questions: what did the news cycle miss; who had the best or worst take of the week; and what are we done with? Topics this week include “parody” twitter accounts, 4th of July barbecue party invitations, Facebook’s new fact-checking initiative, and the fish man who almost got everyone killed at the battle of Endor.
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