# Yaroslav Baran

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Canada’s Indo-Pacific Pivot: Strategic Signals and Bilateral Motion

We’re unpacking Canada’s evolving Indo-Pacific strategy: what it means, where it’s headed and why it matters now more than ever. This week Yaroslav Baran is joined by two luminaries of foreign policy and trade with a particular expertise in the Asia-Pacific region: Vina Najibulla is Vice-President…

Canada`s Final Confidence Vote on the Budget - Just How Close Was It?

Pendulum's Heather Bakken and Yaroslav Baran break down the narrow but decisive passage of Canada’s federal budget — a vote that hinged on the Green Party's unexpected support for the Liberals and the abstentions of some opposition MPs. Baran explains the political theatre and narrows in on parliam…

Canada's Frozen Russian Assets

On this episode of The Swing, we dive into one of the most consequential, and least understood, aspects of the war in Ukraine: Russia’s frozen state assets. Roughly $300B USD were seized by the G7 and EU in 2022 and have been sitting in financial deep-freeze. The Belgian securities depository, Euro…

Canada`s Political Year in Review and What`s Ahead in 2026

Closing out season one on The Swing, Pendulum`s Yaroslav Baran and Heather Bakken discuss the political year that was: who`s up and who`s down, communications wins and losses, and what actually got done. The Liberals made the biggest comeback in Canada`s electoral history and the new prime minister…

War in Ukraine: Canadian Support for Humanitarian Aid

This week marks four years since the most recent unprovoked attack on Ukraine by Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Ukrainians have been at war for 12 years and have spent the last four shedding blood, tears, and the stability they once enjoyed to defend the freedoms and values of their democracy. It was – a…

Is the Strait of Hormuz a Straitjacket for Democracy?

This episode host Heather Bakken is joined by Pendulum colleagues Jennifer Irish and Yaroslav Baran to discuss how the seemingly unplanned aspects of U.S. strategy in Iran are actually playing out geopolitically and what impact it has on Canada. The trio unpacks what the war reveals about great pow…

HANNAFORD: Carney, Smith and the people who hold them back

On the two occasions that Premier Danielle Smith has met with Prime Minister, they have seemed far more cordial than observers in Alberta might have imagined or expected. Why? With the answer tonight on Hannaford, is Ottawa political consultant Yaroslav Baran: "They need each other."

HANNAFORD: Is Carney benefiting from Canada’s trade failure?

Nigel Hannaford speaks with Yaroslav Baran about the breakdown in Canada-U.S. trade talks, Donald Trump’s tariff strategy and whether Mark Carney can still deliver the deal Canadians were promised. Baran explains how Canada is targeting politically sensitive U.S. exports with retaliatory tariffs, w…

HANNAFORD: Carney has until Christmas to deliver the goods

Nigel Hannaford speaks with Yaroslav Baran about how long Prime Minister Mark Carney’s strong polling can last without concrete results. They discuss Carney’s major-projects agenda, the Canada-U.S. trade relationship, federal spending and the political case for calling a snap election while his app…