@davidwcochrane.bsky.social
Host of Power and Politics on CBC News Network. M-F 5 pm eastern. Homesick Newfoundlander. Go Niners
Where else are you going to see a show that includes Elizabeth May, Tony Wakeham, Richard Gere, and Rick Bell?
18.11.2025 01:04 — 👍 137 🔁 5 💬 13 📌 1Nope. I’m tired. Really really really tired
18.11.2025 00:22 — 👍 28 🔁 2 💬 5 📌 0Broken blood vessel. Looks awful. But I will live.
13.11.2025 00:21 — 👍 69 🔁 2 💬 5 📌 0I don’t have to stop saying this. Because I’ve never said this. A series of byelection defeats, caucus revolt; Freeland resignation That’s why. Be accurate.
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The oldest is standing in front of the tv doing a fake news report from a crime scene. 9 run innings can do that.
25.10.2025 02:40 — 👍 163 🔁 3 💬 8 📌 0At the point in the Jays game where I’m just letting the kids swear when they’re excited with no consequences. Because that was an EXPLETIVE DELETED inning.
25.10.2025 02:38 — 👍 503 🔁 29 💬 16 📌 4
My favourite player with my kids’ favourite player.
21.10.2025 03:22 — 👍 307 🔁 19 💬 4 📌 0WOW
21.10.2025 03:01 — 👍 100 🔁 4 💬 5 📌 0I didn’t say what you claimed I said. We also don’t post the entire show on YouTube. You made a claim. The claim was wrong. Just accept you made a mistake.
07.09.2025 02:13 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0I didn’t say this on the show. I think you need to check the tape.
05.09.2025 15:53 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
Vacation is over. We’re live at 5.
02.09.2025 20:23 — 👍 97 🔁 3 💬 18 📌 1I didn’t ask that. I wasn’t at the presser.
24.08.2025 20:07 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
You were saying?
youtu.be/_jT3WnQqiuI?...
We are live from the G7 at 5 eastern.
16.06.2025 20:24 — 👍 81 🔁 5 💬 11 📌 0
ICYMI: my interview with Prime Minister Mark Carney from the day the King delivered the Speech from the Throne.
open.spotify.com/episode/79kS...
If the King and Queen had stayed in Ottawa for one more day there could’ve been a royal walkabout at Rib Fest.
28.05.2025 17:51 — 👍 232 🔁 14 💬 6 📌 0
Full interview here
youtube.com/watch?v=_jT3...
You can catch the interview here if you’re away from your TV
www.youtube.com/live/e8VSXrk...
You can catch the interview here if you’re away from your TV
www.youtube.com/live/e8VSXrk...
Today on Power and Politics
27.05.2025 11:17 — 👍 180 🔁 28 💬 11 📌 2
Tuesday on Power and Politics.
26.05.2025 21:04 — 👍 189 🔁 31 💬 13 📌 2Bad day for conspiracy theorists.
23.05.2025 19:23 — 👍 181 🔁 16 💬 16 📌 0In Canada, the Leafs fall in the spring.
19.05.2025 02:21 — 👍 475 🔁 50 💬 32 📌 4Yup. For Sure. Pretty much all media calling the April 28th outcome the greatest political comeback in modern Canadian politics has really been downplaying it. It’s crazy how calling something historic or unprecedented is selling it short.
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I’ve seen closer.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
After a judicial recount the riding of Terrbonne has flipped back to the Liberals from the Bloc. The margin of victory is a single vote. One. Vote. LPC now at 170 seats with three more ridings being recounted this week. (LPC holds two of them so they could drop from 170 or go as high as 171)
10.05.2025 23:07 — 👍 820 🔁 241 💬 48 📌 71Subscribe to GEM or add cbc news network to your cable package and you can watch the whole show live.
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Our podcast on the day after the big meeting in the Oval Office.
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/p...
