The Boys in Short Pants is Canada's newish political podcast, taking a second look at the goings-on of Canadian politics.
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Episode 129 - Science Policy Smorgasbord
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The Boys are joined by Dr. Frederic Bouchard, Dean of Arts and Sciences at the University of Montreal, to discuss his work chairing a recent federal advisory panel on research and science policy.Av The Boys in Short Pants
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Episode 128 - A Journey to the Coast
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The Boys join Politicoast for a crossover on the cabinet shuffle and Various National Security Issues.Av The Boys in Short Pants
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Episode 127 - Budgets and Platforms with Tyler Meredith
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The Boys are joined by Tyler Meredith (@tylermeredith), former budget policy and platform impresario of the Liberal government.Av The Boys in Short Pants
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Robin Shaban and Keldon Bester of the Canadian Anti-Monopoly Project join Laurent for a chat about competition policy.You can check out/submit to ISED's consultation here: https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/strategic-policy-sector/en/marketplace-framework-policy/competition-policy/consultation-future-competition-policy-canada…
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The Boys welcome to the pod former chief of staff to the Conservative Whip, Sean Murphy, to discuss all things whip.Av The Boys in Short Pants
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Episode 124 - Legislative Dysfunction
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The Boys return! Poilievre, inflation and the new anxieties of hybrid parliament.Av The Boys in Short Pants
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Episode 123 - French Civil Law on the Moon
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The Boys discuss the Liberal-NDP accord and the recent federal budget.Av The Boys in Short Pants
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Episode 122 - Codes of Conduct
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The Boys discuss the Emergencies Act, the Conservative leadership race, and whether drink tickets are too complicated a system to be implemented in the real world.Av The Boys in Short Pants
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Episode 121 - The Unbearable Lightness of Being Leader of Canada's Conservatives
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The Boys discuss the latest in Conservative leadership tumult and what it all means.Av The Boys in Short Pants
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The Boys discuss the opportunity costs of slow starts, Halo 3, and if the Liberal agenda is more like a steamroller or a lawnmower. (It's an Albany thing).Av The Boys in Short Pants
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Episode 119 - Communications Breakdown feat. Paul Wells
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The boys are joined by Paul Wells of Maclean's Magazine to discuss the past, present and future of political communications.Av The Boys in Short Pants
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Episode 118 - 'Interview a Fan' Contest Winner 2021
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The Boys sit down with a special guest to discuss the furniture situation in Canada's official residences and other issues.Av The Boys in Short Pants
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Episode 117 - The Art of Cabinetry
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The Boys discuss the ins and outs of the new Cabinet.Av The Boys in Short Pants
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Episode 116 - The Day After the Morning After the Day After
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The Boys talk about the results of Canada's 44th general election.Av The Boys in Short Pants
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Episode 115 - Mostly Unsolicited Career Advice
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The Boys dispense some mostly unsolicited career advice, review the state of the election, and talk platforms a bit.Av The Boys in Short Pants
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Episode 114 - Pre-Election Short Snapper
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The Boys take a quick look at the federal election landscape and assign you all some summer reading - namely, Eddie Goldenberg's The Way It Works: Inside Ottawa.Av The Boys in Short Pants
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Episode 113 - Summer Mailbag 2021
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The Boys dive back into the mailbag filled to the brim with your questions!Av The Boys in Short Pants
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Episode 112 - On the Necessity of Tonsuring One's Political Rivals
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The Boys talk Green Party omnishambles, legislative update (also omnishambles) and Sheriff-Commissioner Dion's Morneau Report.If you want to submit a question for our Q&A episode, you can DM our twitter account (@shortpantspod) or email us at shortpantspod at gmail dot comAv The Boys in Short Pants
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Episode 111 - Sharing the Wealth w/ Angella MacEwen
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CUPE economist Angella MacEwen (@amacewen) joins the Boys to discuss her new book co-written with NDP policy director Jonathan Gauvin as well as childcare and industrial policy.The book mentioned was Alain Deneault's "Canada: A New Tax Haven: How the Country that Shaped Caribbean Offshore Jurisdictions is Becoming One Itself."Angella and Jonathan's…
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Episode 110 - Inflated Expectations
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Professor Kevin Milligan of UBC joins us once more for a discussion of his time at the Privy Council Office during the pandemic and a quick look at the macroeconomic outlook.Av The Boys in Short Pants
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Episode 109 - This is the Winter of our Content
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Made glorious summer by this sun of podcasting. The Boys are joined by Open Media's Laura Tribe (@ltribe) to talk about what's going on with Bill C-10.Note re factual error: Hansard blues are in fact available 'live'... but only from the Parliamentary precinct, an important fact that Laurent forgot about…
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Episode 108 - Points Card Trailblazers
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The boys discuss budget, O'Toole Bucks, and pandemic response.Av The Boys in Short Pants
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Episode 107.5 - Special Edition - Wonks and War Rooms
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Special cross over episode with the Wonks and War Rooms podcast:"Where political communication theory meets on the ground strategy. Host, Professor Elizabeth Dubois, picks a political communication theory, explains it to a practitioner, and then they have a chat about whether or not it makes sense at all out in the world of politics and communicati…
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Episode 107 - The Woopsie of the Millennium
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The Boys talk Lobbying Act, the Auditor General's pandemic preparedness report, and the weird accountability vacuum at the heart of government.Av The Boys in Short Pants
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Episode 106 - The Case for an Electromagnetic Pulse Strike on Political Data
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The Boys mark the one year pandemicversary, and talk about why political data operations should be EMP'd. Also other stuff in between.Av The Boys in Short Pants
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Episode 105 - Pellet Guns and Housing Runs
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The Boys take aim at a strange change made in the new firearms bill and a whiffed call by the CMHC.Av The Boys in Short Pants
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Episode 104 - Hard Now to Accept Reassurances That We Are Prepared
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The Boys talk Tories, Greens, Bloc and the cutting insight of Dr. Marcus Powlowski, MP.Av The Boys in Short Pants
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Episode 103 - A Tale of Two Premiers
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It was most definitely the worst of times. The Boys talk the shuffle and what it means for Liberaldom, the prospect of a coming election, and the governing and political styles of Jason Kenney and Doug Ford.Av The Boys in Short Pants
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Episode 102 - Full Grinch Mode
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Laurent and Etienne go full Grinch mode with a blistering listener Q&A episode.This is probably the last one of the year.http://www.clioscurrent.com/blog/2015/9/8/vfj07rtg8hm8edjnxjckz47xa6pux4Av The Boys in Short Pants
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Episode 101 - One Too Many Dalmatians, Frankly
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The Boys talk video games, the fall economic statement, government HR, and vaccines.Av The Boys in Short Pants
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The Boys discuss the absence of a fiscal update/mandate letters, a suggestion to radically empower provincial public officers, some new bills, and more.Av The Boys in Short Pants
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The Boys talk Parliamentary trench warfare.Av The Boys in Short Pants
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Episode 98 - Hail to the Space Queen
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The Boys talk Speech from the Throne, testing (again), the Green Party leadership and what's on in Parliament.Av The Boys in Short Pants
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The Boys talk Wave 2 and the Tories' new Shadow Cabinet.Av The Boys in Short Pants
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Episode 96 - Conservative Leadership - A Boys in Short Pants Short
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Join the Boys for their first-ever actually shorter episode about the Conservative leadership race results.Av The Boys in Short Pants
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The Boys talk WE, Morneau, and surprise prorogation. We don't talk about New Brunswick - sorry!Av The Boys in Short Pants
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The Boys discuss the state of Ottawa summer, WE, and lobbying arcana.More about kveik, if you're interested https://www.goodbeerhunting.com/blog/2019/7/22/a-fire-being-kindled-the-revolutionary-story-of-kveik-norways-extraordinary-farmhouse-yeast?fbclid=IwAR2_zAoBRErLo7C3yEmpjyMuzjkAm-lHhTYa3ndmOZ5qOINWVky9edVKzvI…
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This week, the Boys allegedly discuss the fiscal snapshot, the RCMP/policing, and the WErfuffle. Allegedly.Av The Boys in Short Pants
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Episode 92 - Security Council, Insecurity Complex
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The Boys are joined by uOttawa PhD candidate Caroline Dunton (@caredunton) to discuss what happened with Canada's Security Council bid. Was it a vanity project? What would the upside have been? All this and more, answered!Re Etienne's constant allusions to Global Affairs' crystal supply, in 2018, the Canadian Taxpayers' Federation learned through A…
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Etienne's yard work obligations have stretched out our recording windows out of all reason - our apologies (really just Etienne's). The Boys talk the Deal, the Tory leadership race, and the Rainville-Carbonneau Political Staffer Persistence Theory (or 'Roach Theory').Av The Boys in Short Pants
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Episode 90 - Short, Rump, and Barebones: Canada's Virtual Parliament
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The Boys talk Virtual Parliament, the WHO and the value of expertise, and what's going on with provincial reopening plans.Av The Boys in Short Pants
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Episode 89 - Where In The World Is The Minister of National Revenue?
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The Boys talk administrative capacity, accountability, and perils and pitfalls of city living.Av The Boys in Short Pants
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Episode 88 - Podcasting in the Time of COVID
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The Boys talk uhhh what do you thinkAv The Boys in Short Pants
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Episode 87 - Canada's Tokugawa Period
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The Boys talk House of Commons Committees, the Conservative leadership race, and the emerging displacement of Emperor Trudeau by his Shogun, Chrystia Freeland.'Hustings' comes from Old English through Old Norse, and means "house thing," where "thing" means an assembly.Av The Boys in Short Pants
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Episode 85 - Resumption of Regular Service
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We're back! Again! Not a lot has happened. We talk about the CPC leadership race and some other stuff.Av The Boys in Short Pants
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Episode 84 - The Big Shift in 20/20 Hindsight
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The Boys, in the last episode of the decade, discuss the Conservative leadership race and the state of the putative Big Shift.Av The Boys in Short Pants
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Episode 83 - Everyone's a Critic
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Episode 82 - Cabinet and Those Working Hard to Join It
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The Boys break down the new Liberal Cabinet in this first part of an exciting two-part presentation of the lay of the federal land ahead of the beginning of the 43rd Parliament.We don't actually talk about parliamentary secretaries as implied in the title, sorry.(Laurent flubs the episode number right at the beginning, also sorry.)…
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Episode 81 - Parliament's Not-All-That Seedy Underbelly
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Paul Thomas joins us to discuss all-party groups of all sorts.Av The Boys in Short Pants
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