Conservative Senator Hugh Segal recently spoke with Joseph Planta about current political affairs and his new book, The Long Road Back: The Conservative Journey, 1993-2006 (HarperCollins, 2006), an informed book on conservatism in Canada, and the renewed party and its players.

In a fascinating conversation, constitutional scholar and former MP Dr. Edward McWhinney talked with Joseph Planta about his new book The Governor General and the Prime Ministers: The Making and Unmaking of Governments (Ronsdale Press, 2005). Also discussed is the significance of the office in our country’s politics, and the possibility of reform.

University of Toronto political science professor Stephen Clarkson talked with Joseph Planta about his new book, The Big Red Machine: How the Liberal Party Dominates Canadian Politics (UBC Press, 2005).

Harbour Publishing’s Howard White joined Joseph Planta to talk about Raincoast Chronicles Fourth Five, which he’s edited, a large collection of stories, poems and articles on British Columbia identity, culture, and history.

Kim Bolan, the Vancouver Sun reporter who has spent 20 years covering and who sometimes found herself part of the Air India bombing story, talked with Joseph Planta about her new book, Loss of Faith: How the Air-India Bombers Got Away with Murder (McClelland and Stewart, 2005).

Noted historian and bestselling author Jean Barman talked with Joseph Planta about her latest book Stanley Park’s Secret: The Forgotten Families of Whoi Whoi, Kanaka Ranch and Brockton Point (Harbour, 2005), a fascinating book about inhabitants of the park who were displaced in order to create the constructed ideal of an urban oasis.

The independent filmmaker Ali Kazimi talked with Joseph Planta about his new film, Continuous Journey, a documentary about the Komagata Maru incident in Vancouver’s harbour in 1914. It debuts the DOXA Documentary Film and Video Festival in Vancouver on Tuesday, 24 May 2005. It’s a fascinating moment in Canadian history, and a fascinating conversation that’s split into two segments.

Nancy Southam, the author of Pierre: Colleagues and Friends Talk about the Trudeau They Knew (McClelland and Stewart, 2005), talked with Joseph Planta about the new memoir she’s edited about the personal and private side of Pierre Trudeau.

From Ireland, where he’s on holiday, John Aimers, the Dominion Chairman of the Monarchist League of Canada talked with Joseph Planta regarding the wedding of Charles and Camilla; what it means for Canadians, and how times have changed for the Royal Family.

Ray Argyle has observed many political campaigns as a journalist or consultant; and has written a new book, Turning Points: The Campaigns that Changed Canada 2004 and Before (White Knight, 2004), where he examines 15 pivitol elections that have been of great consequence to the country. He spoke with Joseph Planta about his book, and discussed the bold prescriptions he has for Canada in the 21st century, including the designation of a co-capital in Calgary.