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I had the pleasure of interviewing former Research & Communications director for the NDP Jamey Heath about his new book Dead Centre: Hope, Possibility and Unity for Canadian Progressives.
Mr. Heath was great at answering questions succinctly so we were able to cover a lot of ground. Topics included what does "dead centre" mean, what exactly is a "progressive", how many Liberals and Blocquites are progressive? Also covered was the new class frame, working-class versus middle-class or Tories vs. Tommy. Was Pat Martin right about this next election being make or break for the NDP and what is with Elizabeth May?

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I had the pleasure of interviewing Toronto Star National Affairs columnist Chantal Hébert regarding her recent book French Kiss: Stephen Harper's Blind Date with Quebec.
Topics included why the 10 seats the Conservatives won in 2006 were so important, how the Liberals became, in effect, the Ontario party, should there be a progressive merger and could they shed their centralist ways and how is the current Quebec election affecting Stephen Harper's election plans.

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Paul Wells, discussing his new book Right Side Up. Topics include the new, post-1998 Stephen Harper and his ability to focus on the long-game. Paul Martin and “the board” attempting to become a change agent when change agents (within the same political party) so often fail. The 2004 election foreshadowing the 2006 election. Little known stories from the 2006 campaign, consensus wisdom and Paul Wells getting yet another plug in for Stephane Dion.

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Update: Thanks to Kate McMillan for the link. Be sure to check out the political week in review podcast - The Bloggers Hotstove.

Bob Plamondon, discussing his new book Full Circle. Topics include the differences between the PC and CPC, what Progressive meant in the Progressive Conservative party, the roles of Joe Clark and Preston Manning in making the merger take longer than it should have, vote-splitting on the left and proportional representation. Feel free to join the discussion in the comments section.

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Adam Daifallah, co-author of Rescuing Canada’s Right discussing the Conservative spending cuts to advocacy groups such as Status of Women Canada and the Court Challenges Program.

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Gerry Nicholls of the National Citizens Coalition discussing his op-ed in the Globe and Mail entitled “Why the CAW (really) left the NDP behind and the CAW convention paper “In the Eye of the Storm: The CAW and the Re-Making of Canadian Politics.”

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Exclusive podcast interview with Federal Liberal leadership candidate Martha Hall Findlay discussing what it means to be a “Liberal”, moving past strawmen and seriously debating issues such as private delivery of health care and the environment and Canada’s role in the world.

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Exclusive podcast interview with Federal Liberal leadership candidate Stephane Dion discussing the situation in Lebanon/Israel, Economic Policy, his leadership platform and whether or not Mr. Dion is the correct candidate to lead the Liberal Party in Quebec.

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Romeo St Martin of PoliticsWatch discussing the “bunker mentality” of PM Harper, the replacement of Communications Director William Stairs with Sandra Buckler and the role of the Communications Director in a Prime Minister’s Office.

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Michael Taube of the Toronto Sun discussing his latest column entitled Buzz may sting NDP.

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Gerry Nicholls of the National Citizens Coalition discussing the fallout of the appointment of former Liberal Minister David Emerson to Cabinet, Michael Fortier to the Senate and then to Cabinet, Senate Reform and the propects of the CPC passing all of their key 5 platform planks

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