No Nonsense with Pamela Wallin

With Covid cases peaking across the country and conflicting news on the progress of a vaccine, Dr. Gerdts gives some clear, honest answers on where Canada's at with trials, supply and testing. Follow Pamela Wallin on Social Media: https://twitter.com/NoNonsensePW https://twitter.com/SenatorWallin https://www.facebook.com/SenPamelaWallin/ VIDO-InterVac online: https://twitter.com/VIDOInterVac...

Why didn’t the rising tide of Globalization lift all boats? Canadian economist and best-selling author Jeff Rubin says the middle class got screwed by globalization in his new book The Expendables .  Follow Pamela Wallin on Social Media: https://twitter.com/NoNonsensePW https://twitter.com/SenatorWallin https://www.facebook.com/SenPamelaWallin/ Jeff Rubin Online: https://twitter.com/JeffRubin Buy...

An outspoken parliamentarian, military member and indigenous advocate. A conversation with Robert-Falcon Ouellette on indigenous rights and UNDRIP, holding governments to account and why politics is still a respectable calling. Follow Pamela Wallin on Social Media: https://twitter.com/NoNonsensePW https://twitter.com/SenatorWallin https://www.facebook.com/SenPamelaWallin/ Robert-Falcon Online: htt...

In part two of our Remembrance Week conversation with military historian Tim Cook, we look at the Canadian military landscape since World War II and what it really means to be patriotic. Follow Pamela Wallin on Social Media: https://twitter.com/NoNonsensePW https://twitter.com/SenatorWallin https://www.facebook.com/SenPamelaWallin/ Music in this podcast is used under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC3.0...

This Remembrance Week, I sat down for a two-part interview with renown military historian Tim Cook to discuss the battles and moments that defined Canada as a nation. Part 2 later this week will focus on Canada's military and patriotism in the 21st century. Follow Pamela Wallin on Social Media: https://twitter.com/NoNonsensePW https://twitter.com/SenatorWallin https://www.facebook.com/SenPame...

The Polls have been proven wrong, yet again, as the U.S election ballot counting continues. Darrell Bricker on 'conditioning the voter' and the impact of bias. Follow Pamela Wallin on Social Media: https://twitter.com/NoNonsensePW https://twitter.com/SenatorWallin https://www.facebook.com/SenPamelaWallin/ Darrell Bricker online: https://twitter.com/darrellbricker https://munkschool.utoro...

A follow-up conversation with York U's Charles McMillan on changing demographics, agriculture, and the future of the Canadian economy. Follow Pamela Wallin on Social Media: https://twitter.com/NoNonsensePW https://twitter.com/SenatorWallin https://www.facebook.com/SenPamelaWallin/ Music in this podcast is used under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC3.0 License https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Cha...

Dignified lives must be allowed to have dignified ends- especially in a pandemic. A conversation with Helen Long on improving assisted dying laws and the state of MAID in the time of Covid. Follow Pamela Wallin on Social Media: https://twitter.com/NoNonsensePW https://twitter.com/SenatorWallin https://www.facebook.com/SenPamelaWallin/ Dying With Dignity online: https://www.dyingwithdignity.ca/ htt...

Former Parliamentary Budget Officer and University of Ottawa professor Kevin Page on debt levels,  public policy in the time of COVID,  and a new fiscal anchor. Hosted By Greg MacDougall and Steve Saunders of Government Analytics Inc. Follow Pamela Wallin on Social Media: https://twitter.com/NoNonsensePW https://twitter.com/SenatorWallin https://www.facebook.com/SenPamelaWallin/ http://governmenta...

How does Parliament really work? Do MPs and Senators actually vote to represent their ridings or provinces? Two very sharp minds  - Alex Marland and Jean-Francois Godbout - on the politics behind the politics. Follow Pamela Wallin on Social Media: https://twitter.com/NoNonsensePW https://twitter.com/SenatorWallin https://www.facebook.com/SenPamelaWallin/ Find Lost on Division by Jean-François Godb...

Can Japanese economic problems indicate future trends for Canada? Economist and Professor Charles McMillan on how to prevent 'monetary death spirals.' Follow Pamela Wallin on Social Media: https://twitter.com/NoNonsensePW https://twitter.com/SenatorWallin https://www.facebook.com/SenPamelaWallin/ Music in this podcast is used under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC3.0 License https://freemusic...

A long-form conversation with fellow former journalist Tyler Brûlé on the state of media, Canadian identity and living life from warzones to Wallpaper. Follow Pamela Wallin on Social Media: https://twitter.com/NoNonsensePW https://twitter.com/SenatorWallin https://www.facebook.com/SenPamelaWallin/ Monocle Online: https://twitter.com/MonocleMag https://twitter.com/Monocle24 https://monocle.com/ Mus...

Lee Valley is known not just for their reliable and innovative products, but for how they do business. Founder Leonard Lee's son Robin talks ethical capitalism, the value of manual work, and how a medical tool ended up in kitchens across the country.  Follow Pamela Wallin on Social Media: https://twitter.com/NoNonsensePW https://twitter.com/SenatorWallin https://www.facebook.com/SenPamelaWall...

Reconciliation, decolonization, indigenization. What do these terms really mean? Can the ideas really be implemented? VP indigenous engagement Jacqueline Ottmann on the U of S's approach to addressing race relations. Follow Pamela Wallin on Social Media: https://twitter.com/NoNonsensePW https://twitter.com/SenatorWallin https://www.facebook.com/SenPamelaWallin/ Follow Jacqueline Online: https...

Is online learning the new normal? Can brick-and-mortar campuses survive? And will ‘Freedom of Zoom Speech’ become a thing? University of Saskatchewan President Peter Stoicheff unpacks the biggest challenges facing academia. Follow Pamela Wallin on Social Media: https://twitter.com/NoNonsensePW https://twitter.com/SenatorWallin https://www.facebook.com/SenPamelaWallin/ University of Saskatchewan O...

For decades, these four gathered on screen and off through constitutional battles, election campaigns and seismic political shifts. This was the Thursday morning political panel Canadians dared not miss. Stories, laughs and anecdotes from four friends. ‘Golden oldies’ but still sharp as ever! Follow Pamela Wallin on Social Media: https://twitter.com/NoNonsensePW https://twitter.com/SenatorWallin h...

Saskatchewan is Canada’s best kept secret for innovation, research and applied technology. Mike Crabtree on how the Saskatchewan Research Council is creating the future for biotech, rare earth minerals and a “radical center” approach to climate change. Follow Pamela Wallin on Social Media: https://twitter.com/NoNonsensePW https://twitter.com/SenatorWallin https://www.facebook.com/SenPamelaWallin/...

Are we in a second wave? And what does herd immunity really mean? Dr. Volker Gerdts, who is leading the search for a Canadian vaccine, is back to keep us from panicking! 😷 Follow Pamela Wallin on Social Media: https://twitter.com/NoNonsensePW https://twitter.com/SenatorWallin https://www.facebook.com/SenPamelaWallin/ VIDO-InterVac online: https://twitter.com/VIDOInterVac https://www.vido.org/ Mus...

She is a social media pioneer, author, entrepreneur and a Pied Piper to businesses trying to navigate the unpredictable world of social media marketing. And what happens when your 'product' is a politician? Can the Covid disruption become an accelerant for change? The Whuffie factor explained! Follow Pamela Wallin on Social Media: https://twitter.com/NoNonsensePW https://twitter.com/Sena...

He’s WEALTHY but he ain’t no BARBER. Fortunately, he’s smart as a whip when it comes to cash. Home-schooler and funnyman, David Chilton on living life in the post-COVID economy. Follow Pamela Wallin on Social Media: https://twitter.com/NoNonsensePW https://twitter.com/SenatorWallin https://www.facebook.com/SenPamelaWallin/ David Chilton online: https://twitter.com/wealthy_barber http://www.wealthy...

One scribe calls him the 'Mister Rogers of Murder.' But I know him as a friend and colleague. DATELINE'S Man of Mystery, Keith Morrison on journalism (and being a Saturday Night live caricature), his Saskatchewan roots and why he's been coming home for 25 years. Follow Pamela Wallin on Social Media: https://twitter.com/NoNonsensePW https://twitter.com/SenatorWallin https://www....

What's NEXT for Canada? Declining populations, power shifting West, and no Covid baby bump, who will lead us through the chaos? Pollster, author Darrell Bricker sheds light. Follow Pamela Wallin on Social Media: https://twitter.com/NoNonsensePW https://twitter.com/SenatorWallin https://www.facebook.com/SenPamelaWallin/ Darrell Bricker online: https://twitter.com/darrellbricker https://munksch...

Knowles, Perehudoff, Lindner, Kenderdine, Bornstein. If you’re from Saskatchewan, these are names you know and revere. Or perhaps you’ve never heard of them. Sandra Fraser, Curator of Collections at the Remai Modern Art Museum in Saskatoon helps unveil the not-so-secret history of Saskatchewan art. Follow Pamela Wallin on Social Media: https://twitter.com/NoNonsensePW https://twitter.com/SenatorWa...

Snubbed both before and during the pandemic spending spree, Prairie agriculture and energy have long paid more than their fair share to the federal equation. Meet the brains behind the Buffalo Project and hear their case for a new place for the prairies in politics.  Follow Senator Wallin on Social Media: https://twitter.com/NoNonsensePW https://twitter.com/SenatorWallin https://www.facebook.com/S...