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Inside Policy Talks

Inside Policy Talks

Inside Policy Talks is the premier video podcast of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, Ottawa's most influential public policy think tank.

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147 episodesEN

Show overview

Inside Policy Talks has been publishing since 2023, and across the 3 years since has built a catalogue of 147 episodes. That works out to roughly 110 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.

Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 31 min and 55 min — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language News show.

The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed yesterday, with 38 episodes already out so far this year. Published by Macdonald-Laurier Institute.

Episodes
147
Running
2023–2026 · 3y
Median length
44 min
Cadence
Weekly

From the publisher

Inside Policy Talks is the premier video podcast of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, Ottawa's most influential public policy think tank. The Macdonald-Laurier Institute exists to make bad public policy unacceptable in our nations capital.

Latest Episodes

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Yves Giroux: Governments always find a crisis to justify debt

Nov 3, 20261h 2m

Zineb Riboua: The West is facing rising third-worldism

Oct 29, 202638 min

Jacqueline Leighton: Self-censorship kills learning

Oct 23, 202658 min

Jean-Guy Forgeron: Public service reform must come from the top

Oct 16, 20261h 6m

Heather Mason: I was incarcerated with male sex offenders

Oct 9, 202646 min

Jerome Gessaroli: Solving Canada’s competitiveness problem with investment

Oct 2, 202650 min

Mark Mancini and Asher Honickman: How judges became policymakers

Sep 17, 202656 min

Étienne-Alexandre Beauregard: Making the case for the common good

Sep 10, 20261h 10m

Eric Kaufmann: How diversity requirements reduced productivity for Canada's research chairs

Sep 4, 202657 min

Sylvain Charlebois: Canada's dairy industry in decline

Aug 21, 202652 min

Lt.-Col. Joel Maley: Deterrence is cheaper than defence

Aug 14, 202650 min

Rainer Knopff and Ted Morton: Canadian judges ran amok with the Charter

Aug 6, 20261h 2m

Carl Trueman: Euthanasia, transgenderism, and transgression

Jul 30, 20261h 4m

Garry Clement: Foreign actors see Canada as the lane of least resistance

Jul 23, 202651 min

Rob Henderson: Stigma and expectations will make your life better

Jul 16, 20261h 1m

Christine Van Geyn and Ryan Alford: Canadian courts imagine wild scenarios to avoid punishing criminals

Jul 9, 202649 min

Joel Bilt: The 3 stages of the AI revolution

Jun 25, 20261h 5m

Michael Bonner: Liberalism is in crisis

Jun 11, 20261h 18m

Christopher Dummitt: Canada must teach its national story

Jun 4, 202644 min

BONUS EPISODE: Rob Henderson in live conversation with Brian Lee Crowley

May 28, 20261h 22m
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