The Munk Debates Podcast
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The Munk Debates Podcast
The Munk Debates podcast is an extension of the main stage events - in subject, speaker selection, tone and format. It will introduce the iconic brand - and its engaging debates about significant issues of our time. Audiences will hear strong and passionate arguments from both sides of an issue so t...
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539 episodis
Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: Trump faces off with NATO allies over Greenland
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Friday Focus: Canada enters a 'new world order' and Trump threatens to invoke the Insurrection Act
Become a Munk Donor ($50 annually) to watch and listen to full episodes of Friday Focus with Janice Stein. Your donor membership comes with other grea...
Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: Jerome Powell stands up to Trump and why the West is reluctant to intervene in Iran
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Friday Focus: Mass demonstrations in Iran and Trump sets his sights on Greenland and Latin America
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Friday Focus: Mass demonstrations in Iran and Trump sets his sights on Greenland and Latin America
Rudyard and Janice begin today’s show discussing the ongoing protests in Iran and whether they pose more of a threat to the regime than previous demon...
Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: Trump's hard power doctrine alienates allies and sets a destabilizing precedent
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Friday Focus Emergency Episode: Trump's military operation in Venezuela replaces the dictator but not the dictatorship
The full length edition of this special Friday Focus episode is being made available to all paying and non-paying subscribers.
In this special e...
Friday Focus: Putin derails peace talks and Iranian protesters take to the streets
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Friday Focus: the people and events that changed the world in 2025
In the last Friday Focus of 2025 Rudyard and Janice share their picks on the biggest newsmakers and events of the year and offer some geopolitical pre...
Friday Focus: Trump defies all norms and a civil war on the right takes centre stage
Rudyard and Janice begin today's show unpacking Trump's increasingly erratic behaviour. A Truth Social post attacking Rob Reiner was followed by the T...
Friday Focus: Why America's new national security strategy has Ottawa on edge
The full length edition of this week's' Friday Focus podcast is being made available to all paying and non-paying subscribers.
America's new nat...
Munk Debate on the Two-State Solution: Opening Statements
On this special podcast episode we are sharing the opening statements from the Munk Debate on the Two-State Solution which took place on December 3rd...
Friday Focus: protesters fail to disrupt the Munk Debate on the Two-State Solution and Putin threatens Europe with war
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The sh...
Friday Focus: Back to a Russia-Ukraine stalemate and Mark Carney gets a standing ovation in Alberta
To find out how to purchase tickets to the Munk Debate on the Two-State Solution (or to access the livestream) go to www.munkdebates.com
Rudyard...
Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: Ottawa and Alberta agree to energy deal and why two-tier care is not the solution to Canada's healthcare problems
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Friday Focus: leaked peace plan for ending the war in Ukraine demands major concessions from Zelensky
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To sign up to wat...
The MAGA coalition is coming apart and Mark Carney's government underwhelms voters
To listen to the full episode consider becoming a donor to the Munk Debates for as little as $50 annually, or $1.00 per episode. Canadian donors recei...
Friday Focus: The Canadian military's shocking plan to train civil servants and will new Epstein revelations affect Trump's hold over the Republican Party?
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To acce...
Friday Focus: Important lessons from Mamdani's victory and a U.S. government shutdown holds the public hostage
This special episode of Friday Focus was recorded in front of a live audience at the Hot Docs Curious Minds Festival and the full length edition being...
An uninspiring budget and Carney's government inches closer to a majority
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Friday Focus: Munk Debate on the Two-State Solution and China's chokehold on the U.S.
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Trump's trade tantrum and will Mark Carney's first federal budget meet the moment?
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Friday Focus: Trump cancels trade talks with Canada and targets Russia with sanctions
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The sh...
Putin's hold over Trump and Pierre Pollievre makes a stunning accusation
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Friday Focus: Hamas's public executions and Zelensky presses Trump for Tomahawk missiles
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The sh...
Trump's Middle East diplomacy and why Canada should re-evaluate its auto sector subsidies
To listen to the full episode consider becoming a donor to the Munk Debates for as little as $25 annually, or $.50 per episode. Canadian donors receiv...
Friday Focus: Trump's Gaza deal, the details that could derail it, and the Middle East's new power players
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The sh...
Trump sends in the National Guard (again) and Mark Carney goes to Washington
Rudyard and Andrew react to the deployment of U.S. National Guard troops to American cities, specifically guards from red states being sent into blue...
Friday Focus: Trump gives Hamas an ultimatum and how "AI slop" is working against productivity
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The sh...
Trump's military speech ramblings should concern every Canadian
Rudyard and Andrew unpack the speeches made this week by U.S. Secretary of Defense Hegseth and President Trump to over 800 military generals. Trump in...
Friday Focus: Trump's warning to European countries, and what Canada should learn from their mistakes
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The sh...
Carney's Palestinian statehood recognition comes without conditions and the powerful companies benefiting from Trump's authoritarianism
What should we make of Canada's formal recognition of Palestinian statehood at the UN? What happened to the conditions the government had originally t...
Friday Focus: ABC capitulates to Trump and what to expect in Canada's upcoming federal budget
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The sh...
Friday Focus: Charlie Kirk's assassination points to a democracy in trouble and a debate about Israel's strike in Qatar
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The sh...
Trump is stuck in a dangerous spiral feedback loop and Rudyard and Andrew debate Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker program
Donald Trump's AI image to threaten "war" on the city of Chicago is further evidence that he is stuck in a spiral feedback loop with his followers, in...
Friday Focus: China's great power performance and Mark Carney's bad budget messaging
This week's SCO summit in China projected a series of powerful images about the rise of China and the cleaving of the world into two power blocs. Puti...
A public display of friendship between China, Russia, and India is a searing indictment of Trump's foreign policy
Rudyard and Andrew start the show talking about this week's China summit with 20 leaders of non-Western countries, including India, Russia, Iran, and...
Friday Focus: Trump takes aim at the CDC and Putin is undeterred
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The sh...
Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: the US slides towards dictatorship and Carney clings to Canada's peacemaking past
In the past week alone there has been an FBI raid on John Bolton's home and a threat to investigate former New Jersey governor Chris Christie due to h...
Friday Focus: Trump is a foreign policy wrecking ball, and Carney goes from elbows up to elbows down
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The sh...