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[8 Jun 2012]

In anticipation of Mad Men’s fifth season finale this Sunday on AMC, Christine Hall, Director of Communications of the Competitive Enterprise Institute and fan, talks to Joseph Planta about the show, its impact and the storylines and characters.

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[21 May 2012]

The writer Greg Campbell discusses his new book Pot, Inc. Inside Medical Marijuana, America’s Most Outlaw Industry (Sterling, 2012), with Joseph Planta.

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[21 May 2012]

The author and artist Michael Kluckner discusses Vancouver and the changes its undergone as narrated in his new book, Vanishing Vancouver: The Last 25 Years (Whitecap, 2012), with Joseph Planta.

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[5 Apr 2012]

The biographer and bestselling author Anne Sebba discusses her book That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor (St. Martin’s Press, 2012), with Joseph Planta.

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[28 Mar 2012]

The author and historian Allan Levine discusses his recent biography King: William Lyon Mackenzie King, A Life Guided By the Hand of Destiny (Douglas & McIntyre, 2011), with Joseph Planta.

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[19 Mar 2012]

The legendary journalist and historian Stanley Karnow discusses his years covering the Philippines, the book that won him the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1990, In Our Image: America’s Empire in the Philippines (Random House, 1989), and reflects on the Filipino people, as well as the historical figures he covered, with Joseph Planta.

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[15 Mar 2012]

The Sun News Network personality, author and activist Ezra Levant discusses his new book The Enemy Within: Terror, Lies and the Whitewashing of Omar Khadr (McClelland & Stewart, 2012), with Joseph Planta.

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[24 Jan 2012]

The journalist and author Richard Gwyn discusses the second volume of his biography of Macdonald, Nation Maker—Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times (Random House, 2011), Macdonald’s legacy and how he shaped Canada, with Joseph Planta.

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[22 Dec 2011]

The editor of Canada’s History magazine, Mark Reid, discusses a new book, 100 Days That Changed Canada (HarperCollins Canada, 2011), with Joseph Planta.

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[1 Dec 2011]

Peter C. Newman discusses his new book When the Gods Changed: The Death of Liberal Canada (Random House, 2011), Michael Ignatieff, and the future of the Liberal Party of Canada, with Joseph Planta.