Change My Mind

Do you feel like your cellphone, internet or cable bill keeps climbing without explanation? Do you ever wonder how much of what you’re paying for you actually need? For many Canadians, those services, particularly internet connection or a cellular phone, are essential. Yet Canada's telecom market is dominated by a small handful of major companies, raising important questions about competition, con...

We make a choice. We mark a ballot. We know how to vote. Once we cast that vote, we start thinking about what it might mean. Will the candidate we chose win? Which party will form government? What will the result mean for our community, province or country? What we might think about less is the system that turns those individual choices into political representation.  With municipal and provincial...

Canada is having a complicated moment. The country is experiencing increasingly destructive wildfires, extreme heat, floods and drought, while at same time pushing ahead with plans for more oil pipelines and LNG development. So what do we do with that contradiction? On this episode of Change My Mind , Lynda Steele sits down with award winning author and journalist John Vaillant, whose book Fire We...

Disagreement is part of everyday life. We disagree about politics, public health, immigration, climate change, foreign affairs and increasingly, just about everything else. Even family dinners and workplace conversations can become battlegrounds. The problem isn't disagreement itself. In fact, democracies depend on it. The problem is what happens when disagreement hardens into polarization. When t...

AI is moving faster than most of us can process. While it promises breakthroughs in everything from healthcare to productivity, there’s increasing unease about what happens when the technology moves faster than our ability to understand or control it. Lynda Steele, the host of Change My Mind, has mixed feelings about AI. She can see the enormous potential, but she’s also worried about deepfakes, t...

Many of us grew up trusting the media. It was a pillar of democracy, a source of information and a way to understand the world around us. Today, that trust is being tested like never before. Why? And more importantly, what does the future of journalism look like? In this episode of Change My Mind, Lynda Steele is joined by award-winning journalist and communications leader Jennifer Burke for an ho...

For generations, Canadians have viewed the United States as our closest ally, largest trading partner and trusted neighbour. But in the wake of President Donald Trump's increasingly confrontational approach to Canada, including tariffs and annexation rhetoric, many are asking a question that once seemed unimaginable:Can our relationship ever be the same? In this episode of Change My Mind, Lynda St...

What does it mean to be conservative in Canada today? Is the political movement still defined by fiscal responsibility and limited government, or has it evolved into something else? In this episode of Change My Mind , Lynda Steele sits down with Brian Lee Crowley, founder of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, to explore the issue through the lens of a longtime conservative public policy thinker. Tog...

The FIFA World Cup is one of the biggest sporting events on the planet. But for host cities, it's about far more than what happens on the pitch. Hosting a global event of this scale comes with enormous public investment, high expectations and no shortage of debate. Is it money well spent? Or could those dollars be better used elsewhere? In this episode of Change My Mind, Lynda Steele is joined by...

Social media was supposed to bring us together. Instead, many people now describe it as exhausting, divisive but also impossible to escape. In this episode of Change My Mind , Lynda Steele examines her own complicated relationship with social media and asks a question that feels increasingly relevant: is staying online still worth it? Joined by technology analyst and journalist Carmi Levy, the con...

Ozempic arrived and suddenly the conversation around obesity changed. New medications known as GLP-1 receptor agonists are transforming how many people think about weight, health and obesity. But they are also raising difficult questions about access, stigma, personal responsibility and the role of public health systems. In this episode of Change My Mind, Lynda Steele sits down with Dr. Ali Zentne...

What does it mean to force someone to get better — and does it work? In this episode, host Lynda Steele sits down with Guy Felicella, a harm reduction advocate and addiction educator, whose life story resists easy categorization. Over nearly two decades, Guy cycled through addiction, homelessness, gang involvement and incarceration, surviving six overdoses before finding his way to recovery. Today...

This episode of Change My Mind with Lynda Steele explores one of the most current and complex questions in Canadian healthcare: should Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) be available when a psychiatric disorder is the sole underlying condition? Rather than debating whether MAID and mental illness belong together, this conversation with Claire Brosseau — a writer, actor and advocate living in palli...

It’s called Change My Mind — but not in the way you think. In this first episode, Lynda Steele introduces the podcast and the kind of conversations she is trying to create — thoughtful, curious and grounded in listening. Along with her producer, she explores what’s driving division and why it matters to talk things through instead of diving into polarizing noise. They share stories about how we've...