Hosted by one of Canada’s most respected journalists, Steve Paikin’s new podcast is featured here every Saturday morning in cooperation with Village Media<\/p>\n
Jim Balsillie knows a thing or two about economics.<\/p>\n
The now-retired CEO of Research in Motion \u2014 the company behind BlackBerry \u2014 took an idea and turned it into $20-billion in global sales. He has since\u00a0co-founded\u00a0the Council of Canadian Innovators and the Digital Governance Council, and was the driving force behind the Centre for Digital Rights, the Balsillie School of International Affairs\u00a0and the Arctic Research Foundation.<\/p>\n
A guest on\u00a0The Paikin Podcast<\/a>, Balsillie explains why he thinks Canada is sabotaging its own economy, how we\u00a0have consigned ourselves to being a low value-added petro state, and why Canada is\u00a0operating from an outdated playbook.<\/p>\n He also lays a plan for\u00a0a real made-in-Canada approach, why foreign investment is overrated, and how to create a more sovereign future for Canada.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n In another podcast episode that dropped this week, Paikin convenes his “Everything Political” panel:\u00a0former federal MPs Martha Hall Findlay and Tony Clement.<\/p>\n They discuss the new mayor of New York, his \u201cbig hairy audacious goals,\u201d the fight for the soul of the Democratic Party in the United States, and if a left-wing populism could tap into the same anger and frustrations that Donald Trump has.<\/p>\n They also talk about Pierre Poilievre\u2019s response and support for\u00a0Trump\u2019s actions in Venezuela, what this all means for Canada and its oil industry, and what the biggest story will be in 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n One of Canada’s most respected journalists, Steve Paikin\u00a0spent 19 seasons as anchor of TVO’s The Agenda.\u00a0He now hosts his own podcast, which you can find\u00a0HERE<\/a>\u00a0or wherever you listen to your favourite shows.<\/p>\n In cooperation with Village Media, The Paikin\u00a0Podcast also runs every Saturday morning on this local news site.<\/p>\n Want to hear more about Paikin’s latest venture? Check out his recent appearance<\/a> on our\u00a0Closer Look<\/a> podcast.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hosted by one of Canada’s most respected journalists, Steve Paikin’s new podcast is featured here every Saturday morning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46,169340],"class_list":{"0":"post-401490","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-village-mediadonald-trumpsteve-paikinthe-paikin-podcast"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}