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Explain Like I’m Five Episode 18: Pipelines, with Sean Kheraj

Sean Kheraj, associate professor of Canadian and Environmental History at York University, joins host Aaron Reynolds to explain energy pipelines in Canada: what they do, why we have them, and how the conversation around them has changed in the last fifty years. Recorded live at Central Cafe in Toronto.
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Wonk with Mike Episode 24: Canada’s Increasing Inequality, with Lars Osberg

Lars Osberg, professor of economics at Dalhousie University, joins host Mike Moffatt to discuss his most recent book The Age of Increasing Inequality: The Astonishing Rise of Canada's 1%.
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/Thread Episode 23: Political sex scandals, U.S. midterms, and photo shoots

Host Sarah Turnbull is joined by iPolitics reporter Marieke Walsh and Buzzfeed’s news curator and social media editor Elamin Abdelmahmoud to discuss political sex scandals, the U.S. midterm elections, and the Maclean’s “resistance” photo shoot.
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2020 Live Episode 10: Q&A with Bob Woodward in Toronto

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

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

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

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

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

“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...
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