On the Trail with Isaac Peltz

If you like this work, please check out our work on https://onthetrailmtl.ca ! This week’s headlines, all in one place. Analysis on the kidnapping of Maduro, the murder of Renee Good, Iran in the midst of a revolution, or at least protests, Chrystia Freeland, and Heated Rivalry. One note, during the podcast we did not specify the number of deaths in Iran. That number right now, from verified sourc...

Support us with $5 a month! https://linktr.ee/isaacapeltz Nate Erskine Smith and i hopped on the phone to have a talk about his future, about the new Centrist-direction of Carney and the Liberals, and all the problems that we’re facing in our society. Nate is a long term Liberal member, and has pushed for progressive reforms for a long time. He’s one of the most beloved members of the Liberal cauc...

N’hésitez pas à consulter pivot.quebec pour découvrir d’autres balados et articles passionnants! Aujourd’hui, on revient sur cette année complètement folle qu’on a tous vécue ! De l’arrivée d’un nouveau Premier ministre aux rebondissements politiques qui ont marqué la scène québécoise. Isaac parle des syndicats au Québec et s’interroge sur l’avenir de la province. Peut-on espérer un avenir meilleu...

If you want to give $5 a month, subscribe at https://linktr.ee/isaacapeltz ! Once again we’re back with another episode of the Gab and Isaac show, our premier show, the most popular, well loved show of all time! This week we’re gonna talk about the Federal Conservatives (Again) and whether Poilievre is done for (We’ve talked about this before.) The floor crosser, Michael Ma, did one of the funnies...

Etienne Brisson hopped on the show to talk about a traumatic and harrowing experience that happened in his family, and what it inspired. What does someone do when an AI convinces their family member that they are real sentient beings, and how do we deal with the fallout? As a response to this scenario, Etienne started a company to educate and fight against real hurts caused by AI, and to push the...

Luttez pour la démocratie ! Le gouvernement de la Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) au Québec s’engage dans une descente préoccupante vers l’autoritarisme. J’ai invité un avocat spécialiste du droit constitutionnel et un docteur en droit à discuter avec moi de cette situation. Les utilisations répétées de la clause dérogatoire, les attaques contre la liberté d’expression et la liberté de religion, plu...

Fight for democracy, help us grow! As the CAQ government of Quebec continues its dangerous, anti democratic backsliding, I invited constitutional lawyer and doctor of law to discuss this terrible situation with me. Repeated uses of the notwithstanding clause, attacking freedom of expression and freedom of religion, more than one baîllon per year, expansion of cabinet powers over decision making, d...

If you like these discussions, feel free to give $5 a month on substack, or donate a one time donation! https://linktr.ee/isaacapeltz This is the year that never stops giving! The news won’t stop newsing, and Carney won’t stop moving to the right. This week, the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Carney and Smith may have permanently jeapordized his chances of continuing his reign in Canada...

Best journalism in human history, gimme your cash Rob Ashton, running to be the next leader of the NDP has spent his life as a labourer, and he looks it. He’s the real deal, and it makes sense that he would be running to be the leader of the party who aligns themselves with unions and labour rights. A labour leader, a union boss, and a true west coaster. Rob wants to fundamentally reform Canada to...

ÉCOUTEZ ICI SUR VOTRE APPLICATION DE PODCAST Soutenez les seuls journalistes bilingues de la planète ! (Ce n’est pas vrai.) Bienvenue dans le sixième épisode du Plancher des vaches ! Cette semaine, dans notre balado en français, nous décortiquons les éternels drames et catastrophes de la scène politique canadienne. Le gouvernement fédéral est instable, le budget ayant été adopté de justesse, tandi...

Our opinions are expert. And sometimes kind of dumb. Isaac and Gabrielle are back to discuss this past week of news… which just wouldn’t stop. The parliament passed it’s first budget since the federal election, and the Epstein files are coming out. Isaac splits hairs when they comment on Trump probably not touching little girls, but nonetheless being a serial r*pist. Woops! Simply put he’s a horri...

These are brought to you by YOU Today On the Trail we have Janelle Lapointe and Albert Lalonde from the David Suzuki Foundation who are here to discuss COP30 and its failings. There were some technical problems, but the interview came out beautifully. Enjoy this deep dive into the resistance, the power structures, and the power of hope while fighting off the onslaught of the far right. If you enjo...

Avi Lewis is running to be the leader of the NDP. His views are openly socialist, and pulling the party to the left. His ideas include creating public options for grocery stores, public options for housing, public options for... honestly, just public options for everything. Let’s grow A Social Democrat, he believes that the right thing to do is to actually build things in this country, and he thin...

This week was another insane week in a year that was full of insane weeks. Isaac and Gabrielle break it down in their usual way. If you want to support the work we’re doing, please share this, rate this on your podcast app, or support us with $5 a month. On the Trail is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. The Mayora...

No, it isn’t. (We might regret this statement.) Help us continue to live. That’s what it boils down to. Why? Pretty simple— no one can afford it except the Liberals. They’re currently the only party who has the confidence to win and the money to make a national statement. Not only that, but if anyone votes down the budget and plunges the country into another election, it’s highly likely that the L...

The two of us break down the challenges that Poilievre has been making for himself in the past week. As Poilievre stands to be vetted in January, he’s made a mistake that has cost him a lot of support within his caucus- at least the easterners. As the Conservative Party moves further and further right, the party becomes divided on the viability of this strategy. Do they keep moving in the MAGA dir...

Video, audio and written content all supported by YOU. I was asked, very earnestly, on social media whether voting is a good idea or not, and whether it will truly change something. Yes, obviously it will. There is no such thing as a perfect leader, there is no such thing as a perfect solution. In no occasion and under no circumstance will we ever see a perfect, utopian leader or social system tha...

Subscribe now for the best work you’ve ever seen. This week in the Gab and Isaac Show, we talk about the new Quebec constitution, an inapplicable law that is being presented as something new, and fresh. The polls are saying that more than seventy percent of Quebecois are approving of this idea, versus when the PQ did this exact same thing more than a decade ago. The Law of Laws? Bad news Quebec… T...

Journal Métro is back from the dead… and the news on its site will be written by AI. This is likely a trend that will slowly take over, so let’s take a moment to discuss. Metro, a Montreal daily that was previously one of the best pieces of information for everyone who needed local news, is back from the dead. Covid killed it, and they’ve been resuscitated. But with a twist!? Their articles and ne...

Photo by the Rezayi family. thanks for supporting us with your hard earned cash! The world doesn’t seem too good right now, and we’re here to talk about it. But even more than that, we’re here to talk about how social media is causing observers of world events more trauma in some cases than the very people world events happen to. A study in the national geographic has opened our eyes to the way th...

This week on the docket is an endless slew of news about the winding, eternally collapsing CAQ government. In a shock move, a former minister left the CAQ last week to sit as an independent, saying that Legault has abandoned the regions. Meanwhile, PSPP is climbing in the ranks, and spreading misinformation (which Isaac is pushing back against) and the state of affairs within the Quebec government...

Isaac and Gab talk about what everyone else is talking about, and probably add little to the conversation. The two of them are not deeply familiar with his work, although posthumously have learned much. Why can people not both condemn someone’s beliefs and mourn a horrifying, sickening event? Walking and chewing gum isn’t simple, but it’s about damn time people started doing it. Don’t trust what m...

HELP GAB AND ISAAC GET UNCANCELLED* This week Gab and Isaac break it down once again and discuss the past week of the Quebec government (and briefly talk about Mark Carney). Between the SAAQ-Cliq scandal and the Northvolt scandal, collapsing numbers in Quebec polling, historic potential to not gain a single seat, an overwhelming feeling of the end of a decade in Quebec politics is upon our doorste...

The goal is to make it to double our current subscribers. Will you be one of the ones? CHECK OUT THE VIDEO VERSION HERE Sergio, a beloved Montreal venue owner, is here believing that he might be able to shift the city of Montreal away from the creeping police violence, growing homelessness and unaffordability of the city. Criticising the failed policies of Mayor Valerie Plante's 20/20/20 rules, an...

GIVE ISAAC YOUR MONEY Enjoy the third edition of the Gab & Isaac Show, where we dive deep into the media, the states, journalists, and Quebec. Not in that order. As always, we go right into the hardest questions possible that have no possible answer with no qualms or fear for the consequences. Hopefully Quebec Solidaire is listening, cause we give them some good advice. Enjoy this third episod...