The Andrew Lawton Show

Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland has had nothing to say about Rebel News journalist David Menzies’ arrest, which took place while he was questioning her on her way into a Richmond Hill event. Freeland’s silence is particularly curious given how she’s taken up the press freedom cause in the past, even co-hosting a media freedom conference with her then-counterpart in the United Kingdom. True...

Rebel News reporter David Menzies was arrested for “assaulting a police officer” while he was attempting to question Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland at a Richmond Hill, Ont. event yesterday. While he was released without charges, the incident was a brutal overreach given the video footage shows no assault. The police were effectively serving to protect Freeland from uncomfortable questions...

The same Toronto Police Service whose horses trampled an Indigenous woman during the Freedom Convoy protests saw some of its officers serving coffee to anti-Israel protesters who blocked a bridge in a Jewish neighbourhood on the weekend. Toronto police chief Myron Demkiw has apologized and launched a “thorough review” of the day’s events. True North’s Andrew Lawton says the police have clearly pic...

Conservative MP Leslyn Lewis has sponsored a petition calling on Canada to withdraw from the United Nations and the World Health Organization, saying Canada’s membership in these bodies has undermined the “health rights and freedom of Canadians.” Liberal and NDP MPs have accused Lewis and the Conservatives of being dangerous conspiracy theorists as a result. What do you think? True North’s Andrew...

Harvard president Claudine Gay has resigned after countless examples of plagiarism were exposed by independent journalists. Now that she’s out, the media is blaming it all on conservatives, with one commentator going so far as to say exposing Gay’s plagiarism was an “attack on diversity.” True North’s Andrew Lawton weighs in. Plus, starting this year, Saskatchewan isn’t collecting the carbon tax o...

Justin Trudeau is starting off 2024 defiant. In one of his year-end interviews with the legacy media, Trudeau said his declining popularity in the polls has nothing to do with him. He has been steadfast in his commitment to lead the Liberals into the next election. Do you think he’ll be able to hold onto his leadership all year? True North’s Andrew Lawton weighs in. Also, Saskatchewan is no longer...

The year 2023 has come and gone – and it was a busy one for True North journalists. In this edition of The Andrew Lawton Show, the last of the year, Andrew checks in with True North journalists Sue-Ann Levy, Rachel Emmanuel, and Cosmin Dzsurdzsa on their favourite stories from the year past. They discuss the re-election of Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, the Million Person March for parental right...

Of the few certainties in the world, one is that government spending, left unchecked, will continue to grow. 2023 was no exception, with the Canadian government getting bigger than ever and Canadian taxpayers footing the bill. In this year-end edition of the show, Andrew Lawton checks in with the Canadian Taxpayers Federation's Kris Sims and Franco Terrazzano on the worst and zaniest examples of t...

Justin Trudeau once claimed Canada was a post-national country, and later that Canada was a genocidal nation. Canada and Canadian identity have been under attack by the left – and many of its harshest critics have taken over key institutions including academia and the media. Does Canada have a positive future? True North's Andrew Lawton discusses with Aristotle Foundation founder Mark Milke in a c...

Sheila Gunn Reid has become a star independent journalist in Canada, but a decade ago she wasn't all that political and never would have imagined a job in media. Now the editor-in-chief of Rebel News, Gunn Reid got her start by making trouble for Liberal candidates on Twitter, and soon found she had a knack for journalism the legacy media wasn't doing. She joins True North's Andrew Lawton to talk...

While the Covid era has come to an end, the courts are still filled with cases of people who were targeted by the Orwellian regime that covered Canada for the better part of three years. In many cases, constitutional challenges have fallen on deaf ears, with courts giving wide latitude to governments. In this edition of The Andrew Lawton Show, Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms president J...

It’s the holiday season, so why not shake up the format a bit? In this edition of The Andrew Lawton Show, True North’s Andrew Lawton takes questions live from show listeners on anything and everything. Plus, a breakdown of yesterday’s interview with Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pierre Poilievre is just about to conclude his first full year as leader of the Conservative Party of Canada. In this year-end interview on True North's The Andrew Lawton Show, Poilievre sits down to discuss the past year and offer a bit of a glimpse at what may come in the year ahead. In this wide-ranging interview, he and Lawton discuss inflation and housing, legal and illegal immigration, Israe...

Renowned psychologist and author Jordan Peterson had jokingly offered to take over as Harvard president following a plagiarism scandal embroiling the Ivy League school’s current president, Claudine Gay, and backlash to the school’s light touch when it comes to rampant on-campus antisemitism. In a post on X, Peterson hinted that he has a “proven academic track record, a now-international reputation...

Countries at the United Nations’ COP28 climate summit have agreed to “transition away” from oil and gas, which Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault is trumpeting as a “global consensus” for clean energy. True North’s Andrew Lawton says the UN and Canada are in lockstep when it comes to harming the Canadian economy and killing jobs while doing nothing for the climate. He discusses with ClimateDep...

Jagmeet Singh and the NDP are doing a victory lap after the Liberals unveiled a plan to provide dental insurance for up to nine million low-income, uninsured Canadians. However, the program is an exapnsion of an existing one that already covered children. Moreover, the "universal national pharmacare" plan laid out in the NDP/Liberal supply and confidence agreement is still nowhere to be found. Jag...

Nearly 250,000 people have signed a viral House of Commons petition calling for a vote of non-confidence in Justin Trudeau’s government. These petitions are non-binding, but they do reflect growing frustration with the Liberal government at a time when Trudeau’s poll numbers have been dwarfed by Pierre Poilievre’s. Did you sign the petition? Also, after two months, Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie...

She’s back! True North founder and editor-in-chief Candice Malcolm has returned from maternity leave, relaunching The Candice Malcolm Show and gearing up for some big plans for True North. In this edition of the Andrew Lawton Show, Candice and Andrew talk about the decline of legacy media, the rise of independent media and what the future likely holds for both. Learn more about your ad choices. Vi...

Andrew Tate is a self-described manipulator, pimp, and pornographer, yet he’s also become a curious hero for some on the right who see him as a victim of cancel culture. The truth, True North’s Andrew Lawton says, is that the enemy of your enemy isn’t always your friend. He discusses with journalist and author Jonathon Van Maren. Also, the federal government is still considering a criminal ban on...

Canada’s first ever citizen-led inquiry, the National Citizens Inquiry into the country’s Covid-19 response, has come to a close, issuing its commissioners’ final report this morning. The report exposes harms caused by lockdowns, vaccine mandates, and other Covid interventions by the government, calling on the government to put civil liberties front and centre moving forward. While the inquiry is...

Another day, another tense press conference featuring Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and the legacy media. Poilievre challenged a Canadian Press reporter’s question in an exchange that has legacy media talking heads calling him a “bully” and predicting he’ll lose the election. They’re used to no one challenging them, True North’s Andrew Lawton says. These are the journalists Justin Trudeau j...

The Liberals delivered their fall fiscal update yesterday, painting a grim picture of Canada’s finances despite Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland’s claim that Canada is not and never has been “broken.” The update shows more spending, more deficits, and more taxes, with millions more going to bailing out Canadian journalists and ballooning debt servicing costs. True North’s Andrew Lawton disc...

The Canadian Human Rights Commission has been quiet on six weeks of rampant antisemitic hate and calls for violence against Jews and Israelis, but has published a discussion paper taking aim at the real source of discrimination – Christmas and Easter. The human rights commission says Christmas and Easter being holidays is discriminatory against non-Christians, making Canada a religiously intoleran...

An analysis of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s daily itineraries by journalist Glen McGregor reveals that in Trudeau’s eight years in office, he’s taken 22 months – nearly two years – of “personal” days. This is 24 per cent of his term that has been days off, with no public events or publicly disclosed meetings. True North’s Andrew Lawton weighs in. Legacy media journalists are criticizing Conserv...

Former Reform Party leader Preston Manning was tapped by the Alberta government to lead an inquiry into Alberta's legislative response to Covid. The panel found that Albertans need better protection against infringements on their rights and freedoms and that Alberta's emergency management agency – not public health officials – should take the lead on emergency response. The panel also recommends a...