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One of the most brutal fronts in the escalating war in the Middle East right now is in Lebanon. Israel’s ground troops have crossed the border into the south of the country, and th…

U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is one of the figures central to the ongoing war in Iran. Critics say that the former Fox News host is both dangerous and completely out of his d…

U.S. intelligence reports this week show that, despite U.S and Israeli strikes, very little has changed about the Iranian regime’s grip since the start of the war. The Islamic Rev…

Nunavut MP Lori Idlout crossed the floor this week, becoming the first New Democrat to defect to Prime Minister Carney’s Liberals. With three byelections coming up next month, thi…

Amidst communications blackouts and rising casualties, Jayme Poisson reaches a resident in Tehran to discuss the war, Trump, the Iranian regime, and his pessimistic view about wher…

The world could face one of the most severe shocks to energy markets since the 1970s as we enter week two of the war in the Middle East. The strait of Hormuz, the artery for 20 pe…

Images coming out of Tehran over the weekend were apocalyptic, with oil refinery fires burning and massive clouds of black smoke turning day into night. Meanwhile, Iran continues…

For decades we have been hearing about the possibility of AI-driven warfare, and now it’s here. Anthropic's AI platform Claude has been reportedly central to the U.S.-Israeli war…

Today on the show, we wanted to bring on Robert Pape. He is a political scientist with the University of Chicago. And we’ve been following his work on his substack “The Escalation…

On Tuesday, Prime Minister Mark Carney reaffirmed his support for the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. Carney spoke about the need to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons and thre…

In 1953, the United States helped stage a coup to overthrow Iran’s democratically elected prime minister, largely a response to the Iranian leader’s nationalization of the oil indu…

This weekend after weeks of threats and tense negotiations, the U.S. and Israel began a war with Iran. The developments have been incredibly consequential, from the assasination of…

As Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand travels with Prime Minister Mark Carney to India, a feature conversation with Anand on the reset of the Canada-India relationship, the U.S.…

This week OpenAI’s head of U.S. and Canada policy and partnerships Chan Park was hauled in front of a meeting with Canada’s AI minister Evan Solomon after it was revealed that Jess…

Over the last week or so the debate over Canada’s immigration policy has come to the forefront. In Alberta, Premier Danielle Smith has promised to put a series of restrictive new…

Mass violence broke out on Sunday in Mexico after a military raid killed the most wanted, and feared, cartel boss in the country — a man known as El Mencho. We take a closer look…

From two heartbreaking hockey losses to the fiery debate over whether the men’s gold medal curling team was cheating, Milano Cortina 2026 was a dramatic one for Team Canada. The ga…

On Thursday, former Prince Andrew was arrested by U.K. police. After years of controversy, scandal and allegations of sexual assault, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was taken into cus…

Prime Minister Mark Carney and the Liberals welcomed a third Conservative floor crosser on Wednesday – Edmonton MP Matt Jeneroux. And with three by-elections coming up, two from…

Looksmaxxers are a community of young men dedicated to the pursuit of maximizing their physical appearance, often at great personal cost. Many are spending thousands of dollars on…