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The Vassy Kapelos Show

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  • Summary

  • The top newsmakers, political headlines, your go-to daily debrief. Vassy loves politics and she’ll make sure you do too. The Vassy Kapelos Show will keep you informed through hard-hitting interviews with the major players, entertaining analysis and debate with your favourite pundits and all the details and context you need on breaking news as it comes into our newsroom.

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Episodes
  • Free For All Friday
    Jun 7 2024

    Free For All Friday - Hour 1.

    Guest host Scott Reid breaks down the biggest stories of the day with Canada's top newsmakers.

    On today's show:

    • Arthur Milnes, a public historian who specializes in the lives and legacies of all 23 Canadian Prime Ministers on how Ottawa is considering a foundation to honour Brian Mulroney.
    • Scott recaps historical moments that have happened on June 7th throughout history.

    Free For All Friday - Hour 2.

    Hosts from all over the country join the roundtable to discuss the five biggest stories of the week. This week's show features panelists Tom Mulcair, CTV Political Analyst and Former Federal NDP Leader and Karen Gordon, Principal, Gordon Strategy.

    1. Ford cabinet shuffle
    2. Foreign Agents
    3. Interest rate cut and if it changes anything politically
    4. Strikes, strikes and strikes. As well as some Stanley Cup predictions.
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    1 hr and 18 mins
  • Calgary Liberal MP opposed to deportation of truck driver in Humboldt Broncos bus crash
    Jun 6 2024

    Calgary Liberal MP George Chahal says he is opposed to the deportation of the truck driver responsible for the Humboldt Broncos bus crash in 2018. He joins Vassy to discuss how is trying to rally support among his colleagues to block the deportation of Jaskirat Singh Sidhu.

    On todays show:

    • Listen to Vassy's full conversation with a panel of MPs as they discuss the bombshell report on MPs 'wittingly' taking part in foreign interference and the RCMP's statement on it.
    • Dan Riskin, CTV Science and Technology Specialist with his weekly segment 'Talk Science To Me'.
    • The Daily Debrief Panel with Robert Benzie, Marieke Walsh, and Hannah Thibedeau.
    • Terry Copp, Canadian Military Historian, Director Emeritus, Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada on the importance of D-Day in a Canadian context.
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    1 hr and 16 mins
  • Bank of Canada cuts key rate for first time in more than 4 years
    Jun 5 2024

    Jimmy Jean, Vice-president and chief economist at Desjardins joins Vassy to discuss what the cut to the key rate means moving forward.

    On todays show:

    • Procurement Parliamentary Secretary Charles Sousa joins Vassy to give his reaction to the auditor general's concerns on the awarding of federal contracts to McKinsey.
    • Jon Krohn, host of the Super Data Science podcast / Chief Data Scientist at the machine learning company Nebula answers this weeks 'The Explainer' question.
    • The Daily Debrief Panel with Marieke Walsh, Scott Reid, and Kory Teneycke.
    • Tim Cook, Chief Historian at the Canadian War Museum, editor and author of 18 books on Canadian military history joins Vassy to discuss the 80th anniversary of D-Day and the importance of remembering Canadian history.

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    1 hr and 18 mins

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