Thanks for joining us here for another episode of The Rob Breakenridge Show - lots to cover on this podcast.
Don’t forget, you can subscribe here at our Substack page (robbreakenridge.ca), which is where the podcast is hosted. You can also listen and subscribe on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts and our YouTube channel.
It’s been a busy week, we start the episode with a recap the latest drama on the tariff front. We are back into crisis mode, it now appears, as the US has doubled tariffs on steel and aluminum, now up to a whopping 50 per cent.
We then turn our attention to the situation in Ukraine and a week that began with news of an impressive counterpunch from the Ukrainians against Russia’s strategic bomber fleet - a hugely successful and hugely sophisticated attack dubbed Operation Spider’s Web. So how did Ukraine pull it off, and how significant was the strike? We hear from Marcus Kolga, founder of DisinfoWatch.org and a senior fellow at the Macdonald Laurier Institute Center for Advancing Canada’s Interests Abroad. He is also a senior fellow at the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights.
Also, a closer look at the battle over healthcare reform from the perspective of someone who’s been in the trenches for decades. Dr. Brian Day is founder of the Cambie Surgery Centre. He is also an associate professor in orthopaedic surgery at UBC, a fellow of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of England and Canada, and a past-president of the Canadian Medical Association. He joins us to discuss new book, entitled- “My Fight for Canadian Healthcare - A Thirty Year Battle to put Patients First.”
Plus, there’s been a lot more focus lately on the issue of supply management. It’s certainly been a focal point in much of Canada’s trade talks - including and especially with the United States. The government, though, continues to defend the system and has even vowed that supply management will be off the table in trade talks. But is this a system worth defending? There’s a timely and important new study on this question called “Sacred (cash) cows – The urgent need to eliminate supply management.” We’re joined by the report’s author - Dr. Stuart Smyth, professor in the Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics at the University of Saskatchewan.
Listen on:
Apple Podcasts:
Spotify:
YouTube:
Share this post