From door knocks to landline calls, online clicks to AI, someone always wants to know what you think.  

With election season on the minds of Ontarians and Canadians, are your opinions accurately being reflected in the public opinion polls you see splashed all over the headlines?  

Host Melanie Ng speaks with veteran pollster, political strategist and consultant, John Wright to talk methodology and why these polls aren’t going anywhere.  

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DeepSeek took the stock market by storm this week, with the Chinese start-up causing a huge market meltdown on Monday.  

It has huge implications for the world of A.I, but what does it mean for Canada?  

Host Kris McCusker does a deep dive on the Chinese-based app with Graham Dobbs, Senior Economist, The Dais, at Toronto Metropolitan University.

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The Liberal leadership race lost a candidate over the weekend.  

Ottawa MP Chandra Arya has been kicked out of the race to replace Justin Trudeau as Liberal leader and as Prime Minister, however the party is keeping mum on the reasons for denying Arya a chance to be a candidate in this campaign.  

Host Cormac Mac Sweeney examines the move with Greg MacEachern of KAN Strategies, as well as membership challenges for the party, the endorsement battle, the Trump effect, and the possibility the new leader launches an election shortly after they take the helm.

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It can be found in some of your favourite candies, baked goods and beverages: red dye no. 3.  

The FDA has recently banned the synthetic dye from food (by 2027) and oral medication (by 2028) in the United States, but Health Canada says they won’t be following suit. So what’s the real danger behind this colour additive compared to others we ingest?

Host Melanie Ng takes a deep dive into the research with Dr. Emma Allen-Vercoe, Professor and Canada Research Chair with the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Guelph. 

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If you weren't sure what was going to happen with interest rates with the new U.S. administration in place, you're not alone.  

We're just days ahead from the first policy announcement from the Bank of Canada and it's to be interesting to see where it goes.

Host Mike Eppel speaks with Royce Mendes, Managing Director and head of Macrostrategy at Desjardins Capital Markets.  

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Donald Trump wants to ‘Make America First in AI’. He has announced a $500 billion deal with Silicon Valley to accelerate AI development in America.

At stake in this technological arms race?  Human rights, national security and the rules-based global world order.

What’s Trump’s agenda?

Host David Smith speaks with Don Lenihan, an expert on how digital technology shapes society and governments, about how artificial intelligence is poised to shape Trump’s second term.

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It's only been 5 days since Donald Trump has been president, but you'd be right to feel like we've been through many news cycles since then and dozens of headlines.  

The governing Liberals, while dealing with its own leadership race and pressures to dissolve Parliament, are working through the very real threats of the U.S. government about tariffs and becoming the 51st state.  

To make sense of what the government is doing and feeling about week 1 of the new Trump era, host Cormac Mac Sweeney speaks with Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry of Canada, François-Philippe Champagne.  

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The United States banned TikTok. But Donald Trump says it can still operate in America, for now.  

The Executive Order that Trump signed on his first day in office only protects TikTok for 75 days.

170-million users, billions of dollars and U.S. national security are at stake.

What happens next?

Host David Smith is joined by tech analyst and journalist Carmi Levy to break down what we know, and don’t know, about the TikTok ban.

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Donald Trump has been sworn in as U.S. president for a second time – but this term is likely to look different than the first one.

Especially if the inauguration speech is any indication.  

Host Kris McCusker speaks to Wayne Petrozzi, Professor Emeritus, department of Politics and Public Administration at Toronto Metropolitan University about how Trump could change the game in the next four years – and how Canada and Canadians should prepare.

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Donald Trump has been inaugurated as the 47th President of the United States. But he chose not to follow through on his threat of tariffs on Canadian imports on his first day in office.

What does that mean? And what happens next? Do we still need to worry?  

Host David Smith speaks with Xavier Delgado, expert on the Canada-US relationship and Senior Associate at the Woodrow Wilson Centre’s Canada Institute in Washington, D.C..

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The two frontrunners vying to replace Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister and Liberal Party leader have officially launched their campaigns.

Both Mark Carney and Chrystia Freeland’s launch events could have gone better.  Carney’s inexperience on the political stage showed in Edmonton, while Freeland was the target of protestors in Toronto.

Host David Smith breaks down how the two candidates performed, and what the keys to success will be for their respective campaigns.

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