@spaikin.bsky.social
https://stevepaikin.com Host, "The Paikin Podcast" Co-host, the "#onpoli podcast" Columnist, http://TVO.org Columnist, Toronto Star Host, TVO Today Live Host, Ontario Chronicle Author of 9 books. Pathologies: Leafs, Red Sox, Ticats.
My interview with finance minister Francois-Philippe Champlain in the eve of a big vote on his first ever budget: “Nostalgia is not a really good strategy.
FULL interview: youtu.be/x6o-_MXCPpg
Apple: apple.co/4m81G7K
All the others: linktr.ee/thepaikinpod...
Will anyone miss fixed election dates? www.tvo.org/article/anal... #onpoli
17.11.2025 19:38 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
"China is shaping the world in ways as profound as climate change, and in many respects, it's doing it faster than we are able to adapt to it with our political system," @kovrig.bsky.social tells @spaikin.bsky.social in a feature 1x1 for TVO Today Live.
@crisisgroup.org @therundowntvo.bsky.social
My latest @torontostar-rss.bsky.social columm: "What is it with the courts in the U.S. anyway?" asks Mme. Justice Rosalie Abella, on where we learned democratic rights: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... #justice #courts #SCOTUS
16.11.2025 15:55 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
On #onpoli with @spaikin.bsky.social
and @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social:
• Better Call Paul?
• Ford answers a veterans’ challenge
• Ontario’s fiscal future
• Lessons from former premiers
• Cyclist ruling shakes rural Ontario
🎧 On YouTube & podcast feeds
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWIl...
Keep an eye out next week for our 1x1 interview on @thepaikinpodcast.bsky.social with Canada's finance minister, Francois-Philippe Champagne. We talk about his first budget, but so much more as well. #cdnpoli @liberalca.bsky.social
15.11.2025 22:11 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Here's a sneak peek of our TVO interview with Michael Kovrig, who spent more than 1,000 days in a Chinese prison on bogus, trumped up charges. What he has to say about China is worth listening to. Airs on TV on Dec. 12. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WviF... #China
15.11.2025 21:43 — 👍 32 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0
🚨🇨🇦NEW on @thepaikinpodcast.bsky.social: former CPC leader Erin O'Toole on:
➡️Our large bump in military spending
➡️Should we buy new submarines?
➡️The threat Russia and China pose
➡️Arctic sovereignty
YouTube: youtu.be/OVgtfpwNdv4
Apple: apple.co/49j7dpd
All the others: linktr.ee/thepaikinpod...
Somebody's put together a pretty terrific video on @bobrae.bsky.social's time as Canada's ambassador to the United Nations. Apparently there is life after being premier. Watch to the end for a fun smile. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jSM...
11.11.2025 18:52 — 👍 15 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0Here’s what I learned interviewing all of Ontario’s former premiers: www.tvo.org/article/i-sa...
The Premier Files youtube.com/playlist?lis... #onpoli
Am looking forward to this: nowtoronto.com/event/exclus... #MiddleEast #October7 #Documentary
09.11.2025 11:58 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The NDP leadership race is on and Avi Lewis thinks he's got what it takes to help fix Canada. Here's this week's @thepaikinpodcast.bsky.social #cdnpoli #ndp
YouTube: youtu.be/P1SQJtz56Hg
Apple:https://apple.co/4oZXgSk
The rest: linktr.ee/thepaikinpod...
After months of cross-border tension and trade woes, the "Buy Canadian" and #ElbowsUp movements urge Canadians to skip U.S. goods and travel. On TVO Today Live @spaikin.bsky.social asks @laura-babcock.bsky.social and Peter Shurman if snowbirds should bypass the U.S. this season.
31.10.2025 19:48 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 1
U.S. government official refers to Doug Ford as ‘Prime Minister of Ontario’ during TV interview www.thestar.com/news/ontario...
Prime Minister Doug Ford? There was a time when Ontario premiers were called prime minister, explains @spaikin.bsky.social, but why? www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnBD...
Bless you, boys, for being a team anyone could fall in love with www.tvo.org/article/bles... @bluejays.com #mlb #WorldSeries #WANTITALL
03.11.2025 22:00 — 👍 37 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
🚨🎙️NEW episode: Darrell Bricker and @johnibbitson.bsky.social on "Breaking Point."
➡️Trudeau’s failures
➡️Immigration
➡️Angry young people
➡️Tensions in Quebec and the Prairies
➡️How to fix it
YouTube: youtu.be/7WJ0y7s_BZ8
Apple: apple.co/4nzNt4c
All the others: linktr.ee/thepaikinpod...
🚨🎙️Our latest episode of World Edge
➡️Could Trump’s Israel-Hamas peace deal work?
➡️Disarming Hamas?
➡️An international stabilization force?
➡️What happens next?
YouTube: youtu.be/8-XigMDVY3c
Apple: apple.co/49uU9wV
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4y2u...
#Gaza #israelhamaswar #GazaCeasefire
The Premier Files: he was sworn in as Ontario's 24th premier 22 years ago this month. Dalton McGuinty brought in full day kindergarden, rid us of coal-fired energy plants, & had his share of troubles. youtu.be/HSDqaWdE3kQ?... #onpoli @ontliberal.bsky.social
29.10.2025 17:20 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Saying farewell to the most talented MPP you’ve never heard of www.tvo.org/article/sayi... @ontarioliberal.bsky.social #onpoli @cfl.ca @ticats.bsky.social @uoftpress.bsky.social @canadapostcorp.bsky.social @yorkuniversity.bsky.social @oecd-ocde.bsky.social @viarailcanada.bsky.social
29.10.2025 16:26 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0On #onpoli with @spaikin.bsky.social and @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social:
• Seating plan drama at Queen’s Park
• Why local politics matter
• Residency hurdles for international medical grads
• Is it time for a public grocer?
• Can municipalities & developers get along?
🎧 youtu.be/Vz1okbAdZeE?...
Irrespective of what happens in the World Series, all baseball fans are invited to join our SABR Hanlan's Point Chapter autumn event with award-winning Canadian journalist (and huge baseball fan), STEVE PAIKIN @spaikin.bsky.social. November 9 12pm in Toronto. Contact us for registration details!
24.10.2025 22:05 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Full-day kindergarten, health care, the establishment of the Greenbelt — and the gas plant scandal. Dalton McGuinty reflects on the policies and politics that defined his decade in office. Watch The Premier Files with @spaikin.bsky.social
27.10.2025 15:35 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
What a joy talking to the funniest guy I've ever met. Here's @martinshort.bsky.social on @thepaikinpodcast.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qss4... #comedy
28.10.2025 20:04 — 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0I witnessed Joe Carter’s historic home run in 1993. The memories just came flooding back www.tvo.org/article/i-wi... #MLB @bluejays.com #WorldSeries
28.10.2025 06:55 — 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0"Do I bear responsibility for [eHealth, Ornge, gas plants]? Of course, that's how our democracy works." — Dalton McGuinty talks to @spaikin.bsky.social on The Premier Files, Oct. 24 at 8pm on @wearetvo.bsky.social | Producer: @carrletta.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f2T...
“Pierre Poilievre is dismantling the principled, serious and credible Conservative Party,” wrote Dimitri Soudas, former senior advisor to Stephen Harper. Are the knives out for Pierre Poilievre?
Our latest episode of Everything Political: youtu.be/fgoCG-mDHfc
Listen: apple.co/4m81G7K
#cdnpoli
What is a news desert? Learn more about this growing trend this Sunday, Oct. 26 at 8 p.m.: https://www.tvo.org/big-if-true 📺
22.10.2025 15:07 — 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 2Want to solve the housing crisis? Try a marriage counsellor www.tvo.org/article/anal... #onpoli @carolynparrish.bsky.social #housing #HousingCrisis #HousingMarket
21.10.2025 21:58 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
PM Carney wants to ramp up investments in defence significantly, but what does that mean?
🔴New F-35 fighters from the US?
🔴Ice breakers for the Arctic?
🔴Joining Trump’s Golden Dome?
🎙️NEW episode: Canadian defence in a changing world order.
YouTube: youtu.be/Z00JoIYq5vU
Apple: apple.co/4nVNNeA
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