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When Chanel Pfahl started teaching at an Ontario public school she didn’t expect the curriculum to include lessons about how everything is racist, including math. When she told her Facebook followers about her disagreement with what she considered the indoctrination of students into critical race theory, she found herself under investigation by the Ontario College of Teachers. Pfahl joins Full Comment host Brian Lilley to discuss why she’s worried about what she sees being taught to Canadian kids, the refusal to allow parents and teachers to question it, and how she’s working to change it. (Recorded March 21, 2023)

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Canadian lawyer Dan Bilak didn’t expect his legal career to end up with him training to fight Russian soldiers invading Ukraine, but here he is. Bilak joins host Brian Lilley this week to explain the unlikely story of how he went from practising corporate law to practising clearing booby-trapped houses. And he discusses why he thinks the stakes of this war are so high for the western world, why he believes so strongly in the cause, and why he believes his fellow Canadians should, too. (Recorded March 10, 2023)
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Project Sidewinder, a joint CSIS and RCMP report, found evidence of Canadian politicians under Chinese influence, Beijing’s agents funnelling money to Canadian political parties, and communist spies infiltrating Canadian assets and institutions. That was back in 1997. With fresh allegations of China’s electoral interference in Canada, Michel Juneau-Katsuya, the former CSIS intelligence officer behind Project Sidewinder, joins host Brian Lilley to discuss how China has managed to penetrate Canadian politics at every level — and in every party. Juneau-Katsuya also explains why the Sidewinder allegations were ignored, and how Canada can finally get serious about China’s interference. (Recorded March 10, 2023)
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Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe is a big believer in Confederation, he tells host Brian Lilley . But he thinks it only works when the provinces are strong and Ottawa respects the rules of the game — something he says the Trudeau government isn’t doing. Moe joins Brian to discuss how his province’s Saskatchewan First Act can prevent Trudeau from using environmental excuses to stomp all over Saskatchewan’s constitutional rights to develop its resources. And why he’s determined to frustrate Ottawa’s plans to pit province against province, and make Canada a place where we celebrate our successes from east to west. (Recorded February 23, 2023)
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The Trudeau government convinced inquiry commissioner Paul Rouleau that it was justified in invoking the Emergencies Act during the Freedom Convoy. But vindicating the Liberals’ claims the act can be used to limit damage to the economy sets a worrisome precedent for a tool with such sweeping powers to suspend people’s rights, as Cara Zwibel from the Canadian Civil Liberties Association discusses with host Brian Lilley. And Rouleau’s suggestion that the definition of “emergency” should be redefined could just make it easier for Ottawa to do again. (Recorded February 23, 2023)
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A mysterious syndicate of private soldiers, many brutal Russian convicts, is doing the dirtiest work for Putin in Ukraine, Syria and Africa. Yevgeny Prigozhin, an enigmatic ex-con who built a business empire from a hot dog stand, rents his Wagner Group mercenary army to Putin in exchange for lucrative mining and oil assets. Prigozhin has a history of hiring U.S. and U.K. lawyers to legally demolish journalists who get too close to his business. Some journalists have ended up dead. That hasn’t stopped investigative reporter Miles Johnson from digging into Prigozhin’s convoluted operation. Johnson joins host Brian Lilley to explain what the Wagner Group is all about, and the truth about Prigozhin that is now finally being exposed. (Recorded February 10, 2023)
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