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Love's Legacy PodcastEp. 20- Smoke and Fears - Political EditionEp. 20 - Smoke & Fears - Political EditionIn this conversation we get into Canadian Politics … which is a charged, triggering topic right now in all of North America. The purpose of this episode is not to divide but to bring together by offering information that might encourage you to do some digging/reflecting of your own.Sandy shares what she’s come to realize about her participation in the freedom convoy, particularly her ignorance around what it represented, learning more about the bigger implications and acknowledging how far away from her own value system it is. ...
2025-04-081h 58
CANADALANDPierre Poilievre Won’t Ride With JournalistsPoilievre bans journalists from travelling with him on the campaign trail, but did he get a free ride in the press so far? Dougald Lamont joins San Grewal to discuss coverage of Poilievre heading into the next election. Host: San Grewal Credits: James Nicholson (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Sam Konnert (Fact Checking), max collins (Director of Audio), Jesse Brown (Editor)Guest: Dougald Lamont Further Reading On Our Website Sponsors: Douglas: Douglas is giving our listeners a FREE Sleep B...
2025-03-2134 min
CANADALANDTrade War Economics in Mark Carney's CanadaMark Carney’s visit to Europe signals Canada’s new approach to the trade war with the US. Dougald Lamont joins The Pointer’s San Grewal to discuss the economic reality behind the trade war theatrics. Plus, pulling the plug on Doug Ford’s electrical fiction. Host: San Grewal Credits: James Nicholson (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor), Sam Konnert (Fact Checking), max collins (Director of Audio), Jesse Brown (Editor)Guest: Dougald Lamont Further Reading On Our Website Sponsors:Fizz...
2025-03-1926 min
Bulwark+ TakesBulwark on Sunday: Will Things Ever Go Back To Normal?This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.comBulwark Managing Editor Sam Stein joined Bill Kristol to discuss Trump's meeting with Zelensky, the DOGE purge impact on global health and why incremental change might be better than radical moves.Thank you Dougald Lamont, Lorene Sauro, Jessica Smock, Denise Wakeman, Jeff Giesea, and many others for tuning in.Read more from the conversation:Listen to Shield of The Republic: Oval Office AmbushDeadly Effects of USAID …
2025-03-0212 min
Clean Slate: New Ideas for Justice & DemocracyEpisode 13: Everything Sucks Because No One Knows What They Are DoingFor 50 years, governments have been doing exactly what conservatives wantThe reason the economy and the world are so incredibly messed up, and that people are so angry, and divided and desperate, and that nothing seems to change no matter who gets elected is not because governments haven’t listened to neoclassical rules, it’s because they have.The idea that the problem with the economy is the government’s fault for spending too much ignores the fact that for 50 f*****g years, politicians havebeen doing exactly what businesses, and conservative voters have been asking them t...
2024-12-281h 09
Clean Slate: New Ideas for Justice & DemocracyIf Modern Monetary Theory is wrong, why is it so much better at predicting the economy - and economic disaster?Proponents of Modern Monetary Theory have predicted many of the crises that neoclassical economists completely whiffed on, because they actually measure and include data in their model that orthodox economics does not.What is even more egregious, however, are the superficial criticisms of MMT deployed to criticize it, which amount to not understanding it, because they can’t see how it fits in with their own view. That, however, is the point. It doesn’t “fit in” with their view, it replaces it with a different one.Links:Original article: https://open.sub...
2024-12-1355 min
Clean Slate: New Ideas for Justice & DemocracyFar-right extremism is rising because Canada, the U.S., UK & Europe are making the same mistakes as Social Democrats in Germany after 1929There is plenty of hand-wringing, and not much else, about the rise of far-right extremism in “the West”. Of course, there have always been such elements, but there is genuine and bitter hatred as societies splinter into tribal factions, some of them blatantantly lawless violent criminals. Authorities like police are often unable to cope with these disturbances, because from a practical point of view, they are not equipped to. Governments and police forces in Canada are not prepared for massive surges in protestors who are also breaking the law.While the factions blame each other, or government, the...
2024-12-071h 27
Clean Slate: New Ideas for Justice & DemocracyVIDEO: The Truth of Residential Schools is Still Being DeniedI’ve done a video about Residential Schools and Residential School denialism, because it's becoming a bigger issue.Angus Reid, who's a pollster, ended up leaving Twitter, talking about churches being burned and about claims around Residential schools.And it's really important because the sad - the really tragic part about this is that we're not actually fighting about history. The history is actually not in question.In, 1907 Dr. Peter Bryce, Canada’s First Chief Medical Officer issued a report detailed the fact that First Nations students at Residential schools were dying in appa...
2024-10-1359 min
Clean Slate: New Ideas for Justice & DemocracyIt’s the Private Economy that’s Broken, not the Federal GovernmentRead the original post here: https://dougaldlamont.substack.com/publish/post/143346997 Canada has a housing crisis - a private market crises. Builders, lenders, investors. We have a debt crisis attached to the housing crisis. But it’s all private sector. So why is the Federal Government being asked to intervene? Because the private market is broken. Canada also has a productivity problem - a private sector problem, often solved by investing in new capital machinery that makes employees more productive, with higher wages and greater output. That hasn’t happened, because private banks loane...
2024-04-2548 min
Clean Slate: New Ideas for Justice & DemocracyPrices aren't just about supply and demand. They're about control over supply and demandThings don’t have prices, people do. When we buy something : we are paying people to release it to us.It's easy enough to chalk up problems to and prices to "supply and demand" - when the actual interaction between buyer and seller has one more, really important dimension: control. Prices are affected by how much control over supply, and control over demand that each side has. To show the difference - we look at the real-world famous case of the economy of a Prisoner of War Camp. There, prices moved up and down smoothly - because no...
2023-11-3025 min
Clean Slate: New Ideas for Justice & DemocracyTruth, lies, and understanding tools of mass deceptionLarry Wilmore is a complete genius. I like him for lots of reasons - he is a truly brilliant and hilarious award-winning writer, producer, comedianHe has some of the most incredible insights you have ever heard into communication, and politics.On Larry’s podcast - Black on the Air - from January 16, 2021 - just ten days after the January 6 assault on the US Capitol, he helped explain communications and even political propaganda in a way that was incredibly powerful and perceptive, based on insights derived from the deliberate deception that is crafted as part of...
2023-11-0930 min
Clean Slate: New Ideas for Justice & DemocracyBetter Understanding Modern Monetary Theory Get full access to Dougald Lamont’s Substack at dougaldlamont.substack.com/subscribe
2023-11-0832 min
Clean Slate: New Ideas for Justice & DemocracyHow the Cure for Scurvy was Lost, then FoundSome years ago, I stumbled across a post by a man named Maciej Ceglowski, where he told the story of how the world forgot the cure to a deadly disease.Ceglowski was re-reading The Worst Journey in the World, the account of Robert Falcon Scott’s failed 1911 expedition to the South Pole. You can read Ceglowski's excellent post here: https://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htmLearning the right lessons has always been the challenge of all human knowledge, and especially of scientific endeavour. We can defy reason, and gravity, but only for so long. As...
2023-11-0711 min
Clean Slate: New Ideas for Justice & DemocracyThe History of Hyperinflation in Germany after WWI is Dangerously Wrong. Here's Why That Matters.The hyperinflation in Germany is one of the best known such episodes in history. To give an indication of the level of inflation, a loaf of bread that cost 160 marks at the end of 1922 cost 200,000,000,000 (200 billion) marks a year later.Many economists, historians and news articles will seek to explain the dangers of hyperinflation by citing the German government, but the history is almost entirely wrong. The Nazis did not come to power until more than half a decade after the hyperinflation had come to an end. The explosion in money-printing in Germany in 1922 and 1923...
2023-10-3112 min
Clean Slate: New Ideas for Justice & DemocracyThe Only Time Inequality Ever Got Better“The middle-class society I grew up in didn’t evolve gradually or automatically. It was created, in a remarkably short period of time, by FDR and the New Deal. As the chart shows, income inequality declined drastically from the late 1930s to the mid 1940s, with the rich losing ground while working Americans saw unprecedented gains. Economic historians call what happened the Great Compression, and it’s a seminal episode in American history.”How it happened is even more remarkable - during a period of scarcity, inflation, recycling, rationing, regulation and high government spending had the result of marki...
2023-10-2519 min
Clean Slate: New Ideas for Justice & DemocracyThe Single Most Important Thing We Can do to Address Canada’s Economic ChallengesWelcome to our first podcast! Sorry about any issues with audio quality. This is the audio version of our first printed article - The Single Most Important Thing We Can do to Address Canada’s Economic Challenges, in podcast format for your convenience. While some economic indicators in Canada are ripping higher, the struggles Canadians are facing are undeniable, and the current policies of the Bank of Canada massively adding stress to Canadian businesses and families alike, in the name of fighting inflation.The Bank of Canada is punishing Canadian borrowers who are being crushed by inflation th...
2023-10-2026 min
The True North Eager Beaver MAINA Teaching Opportunity? -- The Daily Beaver Morning ShowHey Kits!Weekdays at 7-ish Eastern, we livestream a (sometimes) quick take on the news, in addition to our usual formats.TODAY WE TALK ABOUT:More Calls to Release Info2 Donations, 2 ReactionsDougald LamontOPS LearnsLandfill SearchFood PricesToronto Maple JaysNobel NewsOur morning show is the purrr-fect thing for busy Kits who are on-the-go, but still want to stay engaged.This is episode 223 of the Daily Beaver Morning Show.___________________________________________________If you wish to encourage us to do m...
2023-10-061h 04
The Great Canadian Talk ShowOct 4 2023 - Wab’s Waffle to the Right WinsThe cult of personality - and what used to be called a high 'Q' factor - helped propel Wab Kinew and the NDP to a majority government on Tuesday.
In Episode 16, Marty Gold looks at the Manitoba election, the winner's careful steps to the right on key platform issues and how a compliant media - as we discussed here - was all-in for their former cohort.
Kinew of course, was never described as “heartless” for never apologizing to the cab drivers he ripped off and fought, and he was never described as “heartless” for never apologizing...
2023-10-0654 min
PrimeTime Politics with Michael SerapioManitoba Votes, New Speaker of the House of Commons – October 3, 2023Mary Agnes Welch, principal with Manitoba-based polling firm Probe Research, previews the ridings to watch and discusses which party has the better ground game leading into tonight's provincial election.
Manitoba Liberal Party Leader Dougald Lamont takes stock of his campaign in the final hours before Manitobans head to the polls.
Steve Lambert, a provincial politics reporter with The Canadian Press, outlines the issues that defined Manitoba's provincial election campaign as voters prepare for a historic vote.
Rory McLeod, a press secretary with the Manitoba NDP, reviews the party's provincial election campaign strategy just hours before the polls close.
Geoff Regan...
2023-10-0429 min
The StartYou're Going To Need A Bigger PodHealth care as an election issue / Bob Irving & the Football Hall of Fame (0:30); MOVIE QUOTES! The ones you use regularly, ones that have had an impact on your life?? (5:30); "You talking to me?" "Here's Johnny!" A guide to the best movie quotes (16:15); Movie quotes (22:55); Dougald Lamont: Is Health Care THE issue? Alot of promises have been made...how will they put them in action? (25:45); Bob Irving into the Manitoba Football Hall of Fame! (37:50); Winning story on movie quotes (44:10); BRITTLESTAR... Welcome to the Stupidpocalypse: Survival Tips for the Dumbageddon (47:45).
2023-09-281h 02The StartCancel; Culture DaysNo more covid lockdowns? Why are some of the leaders promising this? (1:40); CANCELLATIONS! Ever been disappointed by a cancellation? Or have you cancelled something important? (8:50); Protests and counter protests (16:30); Some cancellation stories (22:15); Feedback from teacher on the protest/counter-protest (24:40); Knickers and Kickers with Siloam Mission (31:40); DOUGALD LAMONT: If elected, what would you do for mental health and addictions issues? (39:15); Continued discussion on the protest... What exactly ARE they teaching in schools? What kind of supports are being offered?? (52:05); Winning story on cancellations (59:00); Nuit Blanche Winnipeg returns on Saturday to kick off Culture Days Manitoba (1:03:15).
2023-09-211h 16
The Writ PodcastEp. #109: Early moves in Manitoba's campaignManitoba’s election campaign is underway and is setting up to be a close contest between Heather Stefanson’s Progressive Conservatives and Wab Kinew’s New Democrats — so close, in fact, that Dougald Lamont’s Liberals could end up with the balance of power.To discuss this first stage of the Manitoba campaign, I’m joined by Curtis Brown, principal at Probe Research, Ian Froese, the CBC’s provincial affairs reporter in Manitoba, and Kelly Saunders, associate professor in the department of political science at Brandon University.As always, in addition to listening to the episode in you...
2023-09-1533 minThe WritEp. #109: Early moves in Manitoba's campaignManitoba’s election campaign is underway and is setting up to be a close contest between Heather Stefanson’s Progressive Conservatives and Wab Kinew’s New Democrats — so close, in fact, that Dougald Lamont’s Liberals could end up with the balance of power.To discuss this first stage of the Manitoba campaign, I’m joined by Curtis Brown, principal at Probe Research, Ian Froese, the CBC’s provincial affairs reporter in Manitoba, and Kelly Saunders, associate professor in the department of political science at Brandon University.As always, in addition to listening to the episode in you...
2023-09-1533 min
Winnipeg Crime Stoppers PodcastEpisode 10: Leader of the Manitoba Liberal Party Dougald Lamont Talks Crime ReductionIn Episode 9, our special guest was Leader of the Manitoba New Democratic Party and Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba - Wab Kinew.Ahead of the provincial election October 3rd 2023 & in fairness as a board, we reached out to the leaders of the other provincial political parties. This episode features the Leader of the Manitoba Liberal Party & MLA of St. Boniface - The Honorable Dougald Lamont. He talks about the Manitoba Liberal Party's stance on crime reduction & prevention as well as human trafficking, anti-gang measures & illicit drugs. C...
2023-09-1122 minWinnipeg Crime Stoppers PodcastEpisode 11: Manitoba Minister of Justice Kelvin Goertzen Talks Crime ReductionThis episode wraps up our interviews with the Province of Manitoba's three parties that have seats in the legislature ahead of the election October 3rd 2023. Episode 9 featured the Leader of the Manitoba New Democratic Party and Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba - Wab Kinew. Episode 10 featured the Leader of the Manitoba Liberal Party & MLA of St. Boniface - The Honorable Dougald Lamont. This special guest on this episode is Manitoba’s Minister of Justice, Attorney General and Government House Leader as well as the co-chair of the Mi...
2023-09-1118 min
The Great Canadian Talk ShowSept 10 2023 - Obby Khan Ready For Election SeasonTGCTS continues our series of interviews with candidates in the 2023 Manitoba election. Our first of Season 3 is a chat with Obby Khan, who held the Fort Whyte seat for the governing PC's in a 2021 byelection and eyes a return to the Legislature.
Marty Gold talks with Khan about his background in the CFL, in business and with public safety, and about his stint as a Cabinet minister in the Stefanson administration.
"I'm a community guy, bringing people together".
At the door, he says the themes are consistent around the province- affordability and growing...
2023-09-1013 min
Niigaan and the Lone RangerThe man who would be kingmaker? A chat with Liberal Leader Dougald LamontNiigaan and Dan return from summer hiatus by putting Grit leader Dougald Lamont on the hot seat. The fellas talk to Dougald about his party's chances in the 2023 election and whether the Liberals could hold the balance of power in a minority legislature. And a tribute to Bob Barker.
2023-09-081h 10
The Great Canadian Talk ShowAug 28 2023- Kinew Shies Away From Media Scrum, While Lamont Accepts The Risk
A chance sighting of Wab Kinew, and his as-yet unexplained refusal to take media questions after a campaign announcement this weekend, propelled the topic of Part 1 of Episode 51: The Perils of Media Scrums.
As NDP poll support plummeted, the party has been drawn off the 'single issue ballot' approach emphasizing health care, with multiple headlines in the Winnipeg Sun all over the policy map; but the NDP returned to their core issue this weekend with the old "but think of the children" narrative. Critics voiced sharp rebuttals to the Kinew platform: "I'm tired of...
2023-08-2945 min
The Great Canadian Talk ShowAug 21 2023 - Family Speaks Out After Killer Of Paul Radocaj Dies in CustodyPajo (Paul) Radocaj, 83, was born in Croatia and was a retired construction worker living in the North End. Last August 15, new neighbours moved in. As you will hear, his daughter Vera got a call the next day that something was wrong at her dad's house.
This special edition of the Crime Courts and Public Safety update brings the story of a family whose elderly father was brutally murdered last summer, by a killer who will never face justice.
Roman Demczyszak, a friend of the new neighbours, was arrested in December and charged with 2nd degree...
2023-08-2127 min
The Great Canadian Talk ShowAug 18 2023 - Dougald Lamont: "We Want to Do Something Different"After a press conference last week, Manitoba Liberal leader Dougald Lamont took a few minutes for an interview with TGCTS.
Lamont is in a dogfight to retain his seat in St. Boniface and he defines the top issues in the riding: cost of living, crime, and healthcare.
His seat, and those of his two fellow caucus members Dr. Jon Gerrard (River Heights) and Cindy Lamoureux (Tyndall Park) are being targetted by the NDP as they try to claw their way past the Tories and reach a bare majority of 29 members to attain government.
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2023-08-1809 min
The Great Canadian Talk ShowAug 13 2023 - Lamont Banks on Economic Policy to Fuel Campaign MomentumAfter decades in the political doldrums, the Manitoba Liberal Party is trying to parlay dissatisfaction with the two leading parties into creating a safe harbour for voters. Leader Dougald Lamont, MLA for St. Boniface, set out an economic development plank at a press conference on Friday that he hopes will convince voters there’s a third way.
“The NDP aren’t very good socialists and the PC’s aren’t very good capitalists”, Lamont insisted, “because even with the launch of their venture capital fund, many entrepreneurs aren’t able to get any kind of financing at all.” He said th...
2023-08-1427 min
The Great Canadian Talk ShowMarch 12 2023 - Free Press Scrapped Headline Smearing Manitoba PremierProvincial budget coverage ain't what it used to be: Tom Brodbeck's column in the Free Press was full of funny backtracks compared to his pre-budget burial of the 'Hail Mary' playbook of the PC government. Is he a comedian? "It's unlikely she'll find a receptive audience" for "a decent budget" that increases key spending -and puts money back in Manitoban's wallets? What about the 'buffoonery' he predicted in his Feb. 27 column?
10:15 With leader Dougald Lamont trying to horn in on NDP turf, the Manitoba LIberal Party budget response also earns a laugh or two. Hear what really has...
2023-03-1442 min
The Two Idiots PodcastTwo Idiots 136: Uphill Battles feat. Trevor KirczenowWe’re joined this episode by Trevor Kirczenow (political scientist, musician, activist, and author), Provencher’s Liberal MP Candidate, and we have a great conversation about how he got into politics, dealing with transphobic vandalism, positive doorknocking, defending Trudeau, climate change and farmers, bridging the growing divides in Canadian politics, Ojibwe horses, expanding the chest feeding academic literature, favourite Prime Ministers and other political Rapid Fire questions, and more! We hope you enjoy learning a bit more about one of your candidates! Go vote!
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2021-09-161h 16
The Two Idiots PodcastTwo Idiots 94: Messages from the FrontlineWith Covid cases spiking across Manitoba, and specifically in our community, we decided to compile this behemoth of an episode. We hear testimonies from local healthcare workers dealing with Covid on the frontlines, the perspective from "essential" retail staff, the Regional Medical Officer of Health for Southern Health, Dr Davinder Singh rejoins the show, and Wab Kinew and Dougald Lamont join us to give their views from the political side. We discuss the strain and struggles our healthcare workers are facing, the community supports, the new "normals", and the impatient customers. As well as vaccine news, more Covid mythbusting...
2020-12-032h 37The Two Idiots PodcastTwo Idiots 73: A New Way Forward feat. Dougald LamontThis week the Idiots are joined by Manitoba Liberal leader, and honorary Third Idiot, Dougald Lamont! We chat about the provincial Liberals being separate from the Feds, favourite books, gun laws, voting reform, Liberal Premiers, Manitoba Hydro, Manitoba's financial worries, Irish illegal mustache executions, and more! Definitely looking forward to having Dougald back on the show soon; enjoy!
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2020-07-091h 14
Jeff McArthurDougald Lamont Liberal opposition leader in Manitoba on CERBDougald Lamont Liberal opposition leader in Manitoba talks about that province offering incentive for people to drop the CERB and go back to work
2020-06-2412 min
Connecting Winnipeg with Hal AndersonFood On The Go!Jeff Traeger, President, UFCW 832 (0:30); Lila Knox, Director, Northwest Community Food Centre (8:45); Dougald Lamont, Leader, Manitoba Liberal Party (16:50); Carolyn Klassen, Conexus Counselling (27:30).
2020-04-2338 min
WinnipegFreePressNFA Ep. 4: The Home StretchFree Press reporters Jessica Botelho-Urbanski and Maggie Macintosh pose the same five questions to three of Manitoba's four main political leaders before voters head to the polls Tuesday. (PC Leader Brian Pallister chose not to participate.) Wab Kinew (NDP), Dougald Lamont (Liberal) and James Beddome (Green) offer some insights, including which issues they wish they'd brought up during the campaign and who they'd vote for if they couldn't vote for themselves. Columnist Dan Lett hosts.
2019-09-0922 min
The News on CJOBDecision Manitoba 2019: The Leaders - Dougald LamontOn this episode of "Decision Manitoba 2019", Richard Cloutier speaks with the leader of the Liberal Party of Manitoba, Dougald Lamont
2019-09-0625 min
Connecting Winnipeg with Hal AndersonHave You Not Heard?Sherrie Versluis from the Preferred Perch (1:10); Dougald Lamont (16:30); Carolyn Klassen on how was offload our pain on others (24:55).
2019-06-2137 min
Connecting Winnipeg with Hal AndersonBudget Time!Charles Adler (1:15); Colin Fast from the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce (16:25); and Manitoba Liberal Leader Dougald Lamont (27:15).
2019-02-2836 min