The Really Big Show with Jim Csek &Iain Burns

The Canadian military flew a signals intercept aircraft over the Freedom Convoy protesters in Ottawa in 2022, lied about it when journalists asked, changed their story when the tail number was identified, and have been blocking ATIP requests ever since. Brian Isted, a former Canadian Army captain, military intelligence analyst, and founder of True Patriot Love Media, explains what he found when he...

Canada's housing market does not need to crash dramatically to destroy a generation of wealth. It just needs to stay exactly where it is. Ron Butler, founder of Angry Mortgage and one of Canada's most widely followed mortgage analysts, joins Jim Csek and Iain Burns for a conversation that covers everything the government does not want Canadians to hear about what is actually happening to t...

Alberta is holding a referendum on whether to hold a referendum on independence. Fourteen of Carney's own MPs say he is tearing apart the environmental legacy that held the Liberal coalition together. And the pipeline he is offering Alberta comes with conditions his own industry analysts say cannot work. That pipeline's $16.5 billion carbon capture requirement is not economically viable wi...

Nearly half of Canadians distrust their own federal government. Only 1 in 4 trust politicians. And the Privy Council's own research confirms it. Today Jim Csek and Iain Burns ask how a government governs when it has lost the consent of the governed.

The BC Conservatives pick a new leader on May 30th. Jim and Iain had Peter Milobar on tos discuss why he thinks he is right to lead the Conservatives into forming the next govt of BC.

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Beyond the ballot: Does the Government know best?

A pipeline deal that may cost more than it delivers, a $25 billion fund with no legislation, no governance and no disclosed borrowing costs, and a Buy Canadian policy with no enforcement deadline and no Canadian ownership requirement. B.C. is furious it was cut out of the Alberta pipeline negotiations entirely. The Liberals' own caucus is in revolt over climate concessions. And while Carney te...

Canada's oldest military partnership with the United States has been quietly suspended. The UN has walked back its worst-case climate scenario. And Alberta has a signed pipeline agreement with a construction date. Jim Csek and Iain Burns work through the latest developments in a Canada-U.S. relationship that is deteriorating in real time, from the suspension of the oldest bilateral military bo...

Canada's oldest military partnership with the United States has been quietly suspended. The UN has walked back its worst-case climate scenario. And Alberta has a signed pipeline agreement with a construction date. Jim Csek and Iain Burns work through the latest developments in a Canada-U.S. relationship that is deteriorating in real time, from the suspension of the oldest bilateral military bo...

On this episode of The Really Big Show, Jim Csek and Iain Burns break down the high cost of being "slow" in a fast-moving world. We look at the massive housing deficit—where Canada needed 82,000 homes just for new arrivals—and the alarming tech exodus as companies like Apple and Meta warn that Bill C-22 will turn their devices into government surveillance tools.

Beyond the Ballot with Renee Merrifield and Jim Csek

On this episode of The Really Big Show, Jim Csek and Iain Burns analyze the potential "deal with the devil" between Danielle Smith and Mark Carney regarding the Pacific pipeline. Is the promised infrastructure worth the $130 per tonne industrial carbon tax that industry warns will kill the sector anyway? We dive into Adrian Dix's wind power gamble in B.C., the slow-motion death of th...

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Trump is sitting across from Xi. Reform UK just wiped out Labour in Wales. And Canada's biggest energy opportunity in a generation is stalled over a carbon tax negotiation. The world is moving. Today on The Really Big Show, Jim Csek and Iain Burns ask why Canada isn't. Not every story today is a scandal. Canada's skilled trades sector is positioned for a decade of demand, Canadian-owne...

On this episode of The Really Big Show, Jim Csek and Iain Burns tackle the absurdity of a "Buy Canada" policy that allows the Bank of China to qualify as a local supplier while actual Canadian energy firms "build big" in the U.S. to escape domestic gridlock. We look at the "poop show" of European diplomacy versus the reality of Musk and Rubio heading to China with Tru...

The pipeline may be moving, the Chinese Communist Party is making bomb threats in Canadian cities, the Prime Minister had a closed-door dinner with Barack Obama and Alex Soros, and Ottawa is blacklisting journalists it doesn't like. The gap between what this government is saying and what Canadians are actually living has never been wider. A lot happened this weekend, Jim Csek and Iain Burns ar...

2.2 million Canadians visited a food bank in a single month. 112,000 jobs gone in four months. Youth unemployment at 14.3%. Jim Csek and Iain Burns ask how much worse it has to get before Ottawa admits the truth. The data is in and it tells a story the government refuses to acknowledge. While Liberals point to polls and promise deals that never arrive, Canadians are lining up for food, losing full...

A decade of broken promises, quietly corrupted institutions and policies designed for everyone but ordinary Canadians has left the country hollowed out and its people on their knees. Jim Csek and Iain Burns are not letting it slide. The bills are in. The committees are closed. The contracts went to the connected and the man promising fiscal restraint just opened an embassy in Fiji. Today's sho...

Canada is losing investments it never built, stalling pipelines it promised, and writing surveillance laws that could turn every connected device in your home into a listening post. Jim Csek and Iain Burns cut through the noise today on The Really Big Show. From a $15 billion Honda plant going dark to a surveillance bill that could turn your smart fridge into a listening device, from Jasper's...

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Canada is being sold a pipeline that doesn't exist, Chinese EVs built by forced labour, and a sovereign wealth fund that does nothing the stock market doesn't already do. Jim Csek and Iain Burns get into all of it today on The Really Big Show. Today's show covers: -Politico reports it was Joly's threats to sue Stellantis, not Ontario's Reagan ad, that killed U.S.-Canada trade t...

Beyond the Ballot: Why do we continue to squander our natural riches?

Canada is hemorrhaging sovereignty, cash, and credibility and the Carney government is writing cheques it can't explain. Today's show covers: -Carney becomes the first non-European leader at the European Political Community summit in -Armenia, pledging ~$270M to Ukraine and raising Canada's total support to $25.8B -Canada's deficit sits at $66.9B for 2025-26, down from $78.3B, not...