The Paikin Podcast

The Paikin Podcast

Facts are facts but every issue has multiple sides, and Steve Paikin wants to hear them all. From Canadian politics to seismic global changes to signature one-on-one interviews and redline debates on the most hot-button issues, The Paikin Podcast helps you understand the world today, with balance and context.

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August 7, 2025 45 mins

If the American empire collapses, what happens to Canada?

Stephen Marche joins this episode of World on Edge with Janice Stein to discuss the threat America poses to Canadian sovereignty, if we are prepared for Trump’s new world order, how we can learn from Ukraine and Finland, and how we can defend ourselves both economically and militarily. 

Marche is the author of “The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the Americ...

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On episode two of “Everything Political,” Steve and former MPs Martha Hall Findlay and Tony Clement discuss PM Carney’s decision to recognize Palestine as a state at the U.N. General Assembly in September, the politics behind this historic decision, Canada-U.S. trade tensions, if a deal with Trump is shaping up, and what’s next for Justin Trudeau. 

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In the debut episode of “World on Edge,” Steve talks with Janice Stein about why she thinks the world is a more dangerous place than during the Cold War and even the Cuban Missile Crisis, if Israel has become a pariah state, if China will invade Taiwan, the on-going war in Ukraine, and the rising risk to Canada in a world on edge.

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In the debut episode of Everything Political, Tony Clement, Martha Hall Findlay, and Steve Paikin discuss Danielle Smith and Alberta’s “Brexit Moment,” the premiers meeting in Huntsville and their continuing response to Trump’s tariff threats and Prime Minister Mark Carney’s performance nearly three months since the federal election. 


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In the debut episode of The Paikin Podcast, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith sits down with Steve Paikin to discuss Alberta’s sovereignty act, if this could be Alberta’s Brexit moment and if any part of her wants to become the first Prime Minister of an independent Alberta. 

They also discuss Doug Ford’s particular brand of conservatism, getting “Jason Kenneyed,” meeting with Trump at Mar–a-Lago during the federal elect...

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July 13, 2025 48 secs

You don’t have to have an opinion on everything. In fact, Steve Paikin hasn’t had an opinion since 1976. It was about Frank Sinatra. On The Paikin Podcast, he explores provincial and federal politics, seismic global changes, hot-button cultural issues and the arts, all with his usual balance and context and all in search of maybe, one day, having an opinion again.

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