The Vassy Kapelos Show
The top newsmakers, political headlines, your go-to daily debrief. Vassy loves politics and she’ll make sure you do too. The Vassy Kapelos Show will keep you informed through hard-hitting interviews with the major players, entertaining analysis and debate with your favourite pundits and all the details and context you need on breaking news as it comes into our newsroom.
Episodes
Free For All Friday - Hour 1.
Amanda Galbraith breaks down the biggest stories of the day with Canada's top newsmakers.
On today's show:
- Garry Keller - Vice President, Strategy Corp on the Pierre Poilievre housing video.
- Gabor Lukacs, President, Airline Passenger Rights on flight safety in Canada
- Kevin Laramee - Host of Soccer Today to reflect on the career of Christine Sinclair.
Free For All Friday - Hour 2.
Ho...
Ola Alanqar is a Canadian with family members stranded in Gaza as Israel’s war against Hamas continues and expands into the south of the Strip. She tells Vassy Kapelos the government needs to do more to help displaced families escape.
On today’s show:
- Danielle Smith, Premier of Alberta, on addressing clean electricity dispute with feds.
- Dan Riskin, CTV Science and Technology Specialist for his segment 'Talk Science To Me' ...
St. Stephen declares state of emergency over homelessness after man's death.
Mayor Allan MacEachern joins Vassy to help understand that decision.
On today’s show:
- Pedro Antunes, Chief Economist, The Conference Board of Canada helps breakdown what the rate decision means.
- Lieutenant-General M.A.J. Jennie Carignan on the significant increase in sexual misconduct in the Canadian Armed Forces.
- The Daily Debrief Panel with S...
Randall Bartlett, senior director of Canadian economics at Desjardins, joins the show to break down the report and discuss the impact on housing affordability.
On today’s show:
- Sylvain Charlebois, Senior Director of the Agri-food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University discusses Canadas grocery retail sector
- Tara Kiran, a family physician at St. Michael's Hospital breaks down a report she authored regrading lack of primary c...
VKS: Conservatives open up their largest lead yet in an Abacus Data poll
Eddie Sheppard, Vice President, Insights, Abacus Data joins Vassy to examine what these numbers mean.
On today’s show:
- Robert Benzie and Laura Stone break down Bonnie Crombies Liberal leadership win
- Eddie Sheppard, Vice President, Insights, Abacus Data joins Vassy to breakdown the latest numbers in recent Abacus Data poll
- The Daily Debrief Panel wit...
Michael Bernstein, executive director of Clean Prosperity, joins the Vassy Kapelos Show to discuss Canada’s global commitments and what he’d like to see happen at COP28.
On today’s show:
- Pascale St-Onge, Minister of Canadian Heritage, on the federal government’s news deal with Google
- Talk Science to Me with Dan Riskin
- The Daily Debrief Panel with Robert Benzie, Queen’s Park Bureau Chief for the Toronto Star, Marieke Walsh...
Mayor of Toronto Olivia Chow says the federal government wants Toronto to do more in exchange for housing cash. She tells Vassy Kapelos why she's ready.
On today’s show:
- A one-on-one with Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow.
- Randy Boissonnault, Minister of Employment, on Alberta’s invocation of the Sovereignty A
- Jennifer Flanagan, co-founder, president, and CEO of Actua, on s
- The Daily Debrief Panel with Scott Reid, CTV News polit...
Retired Major-General David Fraser, CTV military analyst, tells Vassy Kapelos extended the truce further could demand further justification for Israel's commitment to restarting the war against Hamas given the destructive costs.
On today’s show:
- Danielle Smith, Premier of Alberta, on using the province’s sovereignty act addressing clean electricity dispute with feds.
- Jen Easterly, director of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Inf...
Maayan Shavit says it's been a "cruel, cruel rollercoaster" balancing the hope and joy of family reunification while she waits for her cousin, along with her cousin's wife, to also be freed.
On today’s show:
- Sanjay Kumar Verma, India’s High Commissioner to Canada, on relations between the two countries and refuting India’s involvement in the killing of a Sikh activist
- The Daily Debrief Panel with Sabrina Grover, Principal,...
Free For All Friday - Hour 1.
Amanda Galbraith breaks down the biggest stories of the day with Canada's top newsmakers.
On today's show:
- Retired Major-General Denis Thompson, former commander of the Multinational Force and Observers in the Sinai for 2014-17, and fellow at the University of Manitoba’s Centre for Defence and Security Studies, on the hostage release and the Israel-Hamas pause
- Michael Geist, Canada Research C...
Vassy Kapelos speaks with Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland about the details of the Liberals’ new plan.
On today’s show:
- NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and Conservative Finance Critic Jasraj Singh Hallan respond to the fall economic statement
- The Daily Debrief Panel with Scott Reid, CTV News political commentator, and former communications director for Prime Minister Paul Martin and Kory Teneycke, former Director of Communicat...
Irek Kusmierczyk, MP for Windsor-Tecumseh and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Employment, Workforce Development could not confirm to Vassy Kapelos how many Korean employees that would be, but laid out some of the expertise they will bring and why it is needed.
On today’s show:
- John Manley, Senior Business Advisor at Bennett Jones and former federal finance minister and Stephen Poloz, former governor of the Bank o...
Oxfam Canada policy manager Ian Thomson tells Vassy Kapelos that money could be redirected to green initiatives.
On today’s show:
- Bill Blair, Minister of National Defense, on Trudeau’s comments regarding restraint by Israel in Hamas war and potential humanitarian pauses
- Jimmy Jean, vice-president and chief economist at Desjardins, on tomorrow’s fall economic statement
- Jérémie Harris, the co-founder of Gladstone AI, an AI ...
Free For All Friday, hosted by Amanda Galbraith, features top talent across the iHeart radio talk network. Hosts from all over the country join the roundtable to discuss the five biggest stories of the week.
This week's show features panelists Tom Mulcair, CTV Political Analyst and Former NDP Leader and Shachi Kurl, President of the Angus Reid Institute.
Topics:
- What does the PMs reception at the APEC summit say about our...
The U.S. and Chinese presidents met ahead of the APEC Summit this week.
Brettt Bruen, a former U.S. diplomat joins Vassy Kapelos with reaction on today’s VKS.
On today's show:
- The Founder of Generation Squeeze Paul Kershaw, joins Vassy to discuss the first World Intergenerational Fairness Day.
- Talk Science to Me with Dan Riskin, CTV Science and Technology Specialist
- The Daily Debrief Panel with Robert Benzie, Queen's Par...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is preparing for three days of meetings at the APEC summit in California, but all eyes will be on the meeting between U.S. President Biden and the President of China. Vassy discusses what is at stake.
On today’s show:
- A one-on-one with housing minister Sean Fraser on the housing crisis in Canada and the federal government’s upcoming fall economic statement.
Vassy Kapelos speaks with two people who knew Vivian Silver, a Canadian who was murdered by Hamas on Oct. 7.
On today's show:
- A conversation with Irwin Cotler, former Justice Minister and Attorney General of Canada. He was also Canada's first Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism.
- We play Vassy's full conversation with Christian Lindmeier, a spokesperson at the World Health Organiza...
Michael Mostyn, the CEO of B’nai Brith Canada, tells Vassy Kapelos they want to see more action from politicians and leaders.
On today’s show:
- Romeo Dallaire reflects on the Israel-Hamas conflict and Remembrance Day in Canada.
- Justice Mary Moreau on her appointment to the Supreme Court of Canada.
- The Daily Debrief with Elliot Hughes, Political commentator and senior associate at Summa Strategies, Tom Mulcair, CTV Politic...
Free For All Friday - Hour 1.
Amanda Galbraith breaks down the biggest stories of the day with Canada's top newsmakers.
On today's show:
- Eta Yudin, Quebec Vice-President for the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, on rising anti-Semitism and recent incidents in Montreal
- Retired Major-General David Fraser, CTV Military Analyst and Former Commander of NATO Southern Coalition Troops, Afghanistan 2006, on Israel establishin...
Louis Dumas, Canada’s Ambassador to Egypt, tells Vassy Kapelos there’s no concrete information on how many more may get out in the coming days
On today’s show:
- Prof. Casey Babb, a former policy adviser to Canada's former minister of defense and now an International Fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, and Instructor at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, on rising anti-Semitis...
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