Highlights and lowlights of 2024, Our relationship with buttons, A turning point in Syria, Katherine Rundell
Host Piya Chattopadhyay speaks with Rob Russo, Stephanie Levitz and David Staples about the highlights and lowlights of the year in Canadian politics, researcher Rachel Plotnick explores what the rise, fall and return of buttons can teach us about the human-machine relationship, Bessma Momani and K…
Digital Diasporas, Messaging Apps and the Transnational Disinformation Threats
In this episode of Human Rights Talks, Shelly Ghai Bajaj (University of Waterloo) talks about the use of chat apps by diaspora communities in Canada. Shelly explores the flow, spread, and transfer of mis/disinformation on private chat and closed direct messaging apps among ethnocultural diasporic c…
Will Foreign Policy Shape Canada's 2025 Election?
Whether it's Canada's trade war with the U.S., NATO spending, or our relations with China and India, whichever party forms Canada's next government is going to have a slew of challenges to deal with. To better understand where the major parties might take Canadian foreign policy, host Steve Paikin …
What the Heck is Happening in America? With Canadian Political Economist Bessma Momani
In this episode, host Dustyn Lanz engages with Dr. Bessma Momani, Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo, to explore the current political landscape in the US from a Canadian perspective. The potential implications for democracy, and whether MAGA sentiments can proliferate in …
What's the Future of Populism in Canada?
In 2022, the Freedom Convoy brought the nation's capital to standstill. In 2025, so-called technocrat Mark Carney and the Liberals triumphed in the federal election. How have populist movements and impulses changed - and in what ways could they shape our politics going forward? To discuss, we're jo…
Drama plagued Canada’s last G7 summit. Can Carney avoid repeating it?
A lot is at stake at this week’s G7 summit in Alberta. Prime Minister Mark Carney will be looking for a deal on tariffs, and avoiding the kind of drama that roiled the meeting last time Canada hosted it. CBC journalist JP Tasker walks us through the challenges Carney faces at this meeting, while Pe…
How Do We Not Lose The Information War?
In 2013, a Russian journalist walked into a St. Petersburg startup looking for a job. What he found was the frontline of a new kind of war—an information war fought not with bullets but with online chaos.
Today, those tactics have gone global. Online disinformation floods our social feeds, shapes o…
Is Mark Carney correct about the rupture of the world's rules-based order?
The world's rules-based order is ruptured, says Canada's prime minister Mark Carney — in a speech at Davos that avoided mentioning the US president. Donald Trump hit back — but Carney's words have been widely praised and analysed. So, is he right?
In this episode:
Lionel Barber, Former Editor…
Iran names supreme leader's son as his successor
Iran announced Monday that the late supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's son, Mojtaba Khamenei, will be his successor. The Stimson Center's Randa Slim and NATO Defense College fellow Bessma Momani discuss how the selection of a hardliner with 'revenge intentions' could impact Iran's approach to …
With war in the Middle East, what is Carney’s foreign policy?
CBC's Chief Correspondent Adrienne Arsenault reports from Saudi Arabia on how the U.S.-Israel war with Iran is reverberating throughout the region; plus foreign policy experts Bessma Momani and Roland Paris reflect on an eventful and tumultuous year for Prime Minister Mark Carney on the world stage…
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