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[1 Jun 2010]

The author and historian John Boyko discusses his biography of R.B. Bennett, Canada’s 11th Prime Minister: Bennett: The Rebel Who Challenged and Changed a Nation (Key Porter, 2010), Bennett’s legacy, the Great Depression, as well as comparisons of Stephen Harper with Bennett, with Joseph Planta.

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[19 May 2010]

The bestselling author, economist, and managing director of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute Brian Lee Crowley talks to Joseph Planta about the new book he’s co-authored with Jason Clemens and Niels Veldhuis, The Canadian Century: Moving Out of America’s Shadow (Key Porter, 2010).

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[17 May 2010]

The journalist and author Marci McDonald discusses her new book The Armageddon Factor: The Rise of Christian Nationalism in Canada (Random House, 2010), with Joseph Planta.

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[20 Nov 2009]

SFU communications professor Donald Gutstein discusses his book Not a Conspiracy Theory: How Business Propaganda Hijacks Democracy (Key Porter, 2009), with Joseph Planta; highlighting some of the notable think tanks in Canada and their relationships with big business, and just how they in turn influence what’s reported in the media.

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[8 Oct 2009]

‘One of Canada’s top five political minds,’ the conservative commentator Gerry Nicholls, former vice president of the National Citizen’s Coalition, talks to Joseph Planta about Stephen Harper, the Harper government, conservatism in Canada, and the Libertas Post, which Nicholls is editing.

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[30 Sep 2008]

Nelson Wiseman, an associate professor in the Political Science department at the University of Toronto talks to Joseph Planta about the current federal election campaign, and what to expect at this week’s leaders debates.

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[29 Sep 2008]

Conservative political analyst and operative, editor and CEO of grandcentralpolitical.com Rachel Marsden talks to Joseph Planta about the economic crisis, the presidential and upcoming vice presidential debates, as well as the Canadian political campaign.

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[14 Apr 2008]

Tom Zytaruk, a staff reporter at the Now newspaper in Surrey talks to Joseph Planta about his new book, Like a Rock: The Chuck Cadman Story (Harbour, 2008), and the controversy that’s ensued with regards to the insurance policy the Conservative Party offered to the late Surrey North MP who died of cancer in 2005.

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[20 Nov 2007]

Author and Toronto Star columnist Richard Gwyn talks to Joseph Planta about his biography of Canada’s first prime minister, John A: The Man Who Made Us (Random House, 2007).

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[22 Oct 2007]

Tom Flanagan talks to Joseph Planta about his new book Harper’s Team: Behind the Scenes in the Conservative Rise to Power (McGill-Queen’s, 2007), and the central role he played in Stephen Harper’s political campaigns.