The Really Big Show with Jim Csek &Iain Burns

Canada is shut out of CUSMA talks while the U.S. and Mexico hold a second round of negotiations. Industry Minister Joly is flying to Shanghai to convince Chinese automakers to build in Canada, a move U.S. officials have repeatedly warned would trigger tariff retaliation. And a 1992 CSIS memo warning that Islamic extremists would bypass security checks by filing refugee claims has resurfaced alongs...

PM Carney gives different speeches to different audiences? Which one is to be believed? Does this serve Canada?

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Investigative journalist Sam Cooper joins The Really Big Show to expose the deep networks of foreign interference, transnational crime, and elite capture threatening national sovereignty. From the critical gaps in federal oversight commissions to controversial trade deals and the mainstream media's failure to ask tough questions, Cooper lays out a sobering blueprint of how Western institutions...

Canadians want cheaper gas, a government that tells the truth about the economy, and a future worth staying for. Ottawa is offering a digital safety commission with the power to censor political content, a central bank governor who prefers the word "weak" to "recession," and a high speed rail project with 13 vice presidents and no train. The Bank of Canada held rates for a 5th...

Jasmin Laine: The Liberal war on truth

On this episode of The Really Big Show, Jim Csek and Iain Burns tear into the layers of institutional incompetence piling up across the country. We break down the absolute shocker out of the aviation sector, where an Air Canada pilot managed to fly commercial wide-body jets for nearly 17 years without a valid commercial license right under the nose of Transport Canada regulators. We also dive into...

Liberal Party now link criticism of their party unpatriotic

Today is Tax Freedom Day, arriving later than ever, as Canadians spend more of their income on taxes than on food, shelter and clothing combined. Canadian officials are privately telling Reuters that the only real card Canada holds in trade talks is tariff-free access to the American market through CUSMA, the same relationship Carney spent a year telling Canadians he was pivoting away from. The Fi...

Canada sits on the world's third largest oil reserves, runs a supply-managed dairy system to protect domestic food security, and has enough agricultural land to feed a continent. Grocery prices are up 30% since 2019, food banks are at record levels, and a Crown corporation with 13 vice presidents is spending $1.6 million advertising a train that does not exist. The groceries benefit being deposite...

►The PBO has cut Canada's 2026 growth forecast to 1.1%, with Scotiabank projecting 0.8% and BMO projecting 0.5%, as real GDP per capita remains below pre-pandemic levels, labour productivity has been flat or negative since 2021 and business investment has fallen for 5 consecutive quarters►Statistics Canada reports Canada added 88,000 jobs in May and unemployment fell to 6.6%, driven entirely b...

Every failure in today's show has a price tag and Canadians are the ones paying it. The per capita recession nobody told them about. The infant formula plant their tax dollars built that ships 85% of its product to China. The groceries benefit that is just a renamed tax credit. Development charges averaging $195,300 per new home in Toronto. And a national AI strategy unveiled the same week the...

Liberals are polling at 50% while Canada sits in recession, Signal is threatening to abandon the country over Bill C-22, and a Crown corporation with no train has handed out $2.7 million in bonuses while the Finance Minister's partner sits on its board. South Korea just signed a 30-year LNG commitment with Canada. One of these things suggests a country with a future. The others suggest a gover...

Canada is in a recession its own government refuses to acknowledge. The Prime Minister skipped Question Period for the 4th consecutive day to wear a hard hat at a photo opportunity. And China's intelligence-linked state newspaper is celebrating Carney's pivot away from the United States in language nearly identical to his New York speech. Jim and Iain make sense of it all today on The Real...

The day before Statistics Canada confirmed Canada had entered a technical recession, Mark Carney told New York business leaders Canada would have the second-fastest growth in the G7 this year. Carney has yet to comment on the recession data. Poilievre is calling for an emergency parliamentary debate. And Canada's food banks are asking Ottawa to modernize an Employment Insurance system built fo...

Canada is in a technical recession. The Prime Minister was in New York telling Americans that "Canada Strong will help make America great again." And the first Chinese-made EVs under Carney's 49,000-vehicle tariff deal have arrived off the coast of Vancouver. Join Jim and Iain as they wrap up the week with the latest in Canadian news. Real GDP has now failed to grow for 2 consecutive...

Beyond the Ballot with Renee Merrifield and Jim Csek

The Prime Minister's in-flight food bill for 3 trips was $195,400. It’s been confirmed that Canadians will never be told what is in the security agreement Carney signed with China. And Canada has fallen from 2nd to 19th in the U.S. News Best Countries rankings, dropping behind the United States for the first time. The contradictions are stacking up faster than the explanations. The cost per as...

Steven Guilbeault resigns from the Liberal caucus today. China's foreign minister arrives in Canada tomorrow for the first visit in 10 years. And Ottawa is announcing an LNG deal with Germany from a facility that has not yet made a final investment decision. Join Jim Csek and Iain Burns as they make sense of it all. The Liberal coalition is fracturing over climate, the trade relationship with...

The Liberal coalition is cracking, the housing market is hitting a financial inflection point, and Parliament just voted to leave property rights unprotected after a court ruling that has B.C. homeowners asking whether their homes are safe. Jim Csek and Iain Burns are here to bring you the day's news. The cracks are showing on multiple fronts simultaneously. Steven Guilbe ault may be days away...

Catherine Swift: Canada’s economy in a ‘nut’ shell

95% of Canadians are feeling financial pressure. 52% of the average household's income now goes to shelter. And 47% say the country is on the right track, the highest figure since 2017. Jim Csek and Iain Burns try to make sense of a country where the numbers tell completely different stories depending on which ones you look at. The gap between how Canadians feel about their own lives and how t...

Martha Hall Findlay is not your typical energy commentator. She is a former Liberal MP, former chief sustainability officer at Suncor, one of the architects of the Pathways carbon capture project, and now director of the School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary. She ran for the Liberal leadership on a platform of building the Northern Gateway pipeline. She spent years championing carbo...

The Really Big Show sat down with Conservative deputy leader Melissa Lantsman for a conversation covering the state of Canada in 2026: antisemitism on the rise, a military without backpacks, a media that serves the government, an immigration system that stopped working, and an economy strangled by ideology. We spoke about:► The Canadian military readiness crisis: 20,000 personnel short of full com...