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    HANNAFORD: Immigration, inflation and Canada's fading Carney romance

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 10, 2025 22:28


    As Parliament prepares to resume on September 15 after a three-month recess, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is sharpening his attack on Prime Minister Mark Carney over immigration levels, the cost of living, and ballooning deficits — issues he argues the Liberal government has mishandled since day one.

    THE PIPELINE: Keeping (taxpayer-funded) porn out of schools

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 9, 2025 47:05


    Derek Fildebrandt, Nigel Hannaford, and Cory Morgan are joined by Alise Mills to examine Alberta's battle to keep pornographic materials out of school libraries, discuss the dismissal of a volunteer coach over his personal views on trans ideology, and look at the growing dispute over race-based land use.

    CORY MORGAN SHOW: The battle to remove porn from Alberta school libraries

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 8, 2025 46:23


    Cory talks about how the left has used the preservation of porn in children's libraries as a hill to die on in fighting against Danielle Smith.

    HANNAFORD: Your non-existent right to defend your home

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 31, 2025 22:34


    Speaking on Hannaford tonight, constitutional and criminal lawyer Hatem Kheir says the answer is simple; unlike in the U.S., there is no right to self defence in Canada. You're on your own. Whether or not you face prosecution for defending your home is then a decision made by police, on the spot.

    THE PIPELINE: Where the f*** is Nenshi's NDP?!

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 30, 2025 48:44


    Derek Fildebrandt, Nigel Hannaford and Cory Morgan discuss the cancellation of Ottawa Pride amid pro-Palestinian protests, the light sentencing for migrant offenders, and the apparent absence of Naheed Nenshi's NDP.

    CORY MORGAN SHOW: Canada must close the immigration floodgates now!

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2025 46:16


    Cory talks about how mass immigration is crushing Canada.

    HANNAFORD: American advice for Canada's PM - 'Get rid of DEI!'

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2025 22:18


    How Mark Carney could fix Canada, in two sentences… “Give up the net-zero scams. Give up the ESG and DEI programs — they're luxury beliefs that don't mix with manufacturing.” Thus Andrew Hale, tonight's guest on The Hannaford Show. Hale is a senior trade-policy analyst at the Washington-based Heritage Foundation. And while he speaks for a conservatively inclined organization, plenty of Canadian Liberals would tell Carney the same thing.

    THE PIPELINE: Defending your home is a crime in Canada

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 23, 2025 48:22


    Derek Fildebrandt, Nigel Hannaford and Cory Morgan discuss why defending a home can be treated as a crime in Canada, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's return to the House of Commons, and new claims of mass graves making headlines in the mainstream media.

    CORY MORGAN SHOW: Another day, another residential school mass grave hoax

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 22, 2025 46:37


    Cory talks about how the hoax of mass graves at residential schools is spreading while causing social and economic damage.

    HANNAFORD: Crunch coming between government control and your rights

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2025 25:15


    The Liberal government will face 'intense' U.S. pressure to push Bill C-2 — the Strong Borders Act — through Parliament, according to political strategist Yaroslav Baran, tonight's guest on Hannaford.

    THE PIPELINE: Why is the PPC supporting Alberta independence?

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 17, 2025 50:12


    Derek Fildebrandt, Nigel Hannaford, and Cory Morgan talk about the federal government's migration issues, the controversy over Nova Scotia's wildfire activity ban on non-Indigenous residents, and the People's Party of Canada's apparent support for Alberta independence.

    CORY MORGAN SHOW: The horrors of communism are being forgotten

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 17, 2025 46:16


    Cory talks about how new generations don't understand where communism leads.

    HANNAFORD: Ottawa's eternal quest to shape what Canadians say and think

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 13, 2025 26:09


    Is it an exaggeration to say Canada's Liberal government uses newspaper subsidies and internet regulation to control what Canadians read and say? Host Nigel Hannaford puts the question to former CRTC commissioner and one-time Calgary Herald publisher Peter Menzies: “I don't think you're overstating the situation at all,” says Menzies. 

    THE PIPELINE: Carney: A decision if necessary, but not necessarily a decision

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2025 49:41


    Derek Fildebrandt, Cory Morgan, and Nigel Hannaford are joined by Erika Barootes to discuss Prime Minister Mark Carney's move to recognize a Palestinian state, debates pipeline involving First Nations consultation, and a federalist supporter's action on the removal of the Alberta flag.

    CORY MORGAN SHOW: Alberta's success paints a target on its back

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 8, 2025 46:16


    Cory talks about how Carney's Canada won't let Alberta stay prosperous for much longer.

    HANNAFORD: Raped by the system

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2025 23:16


    Trudeau-era law lets male convicts who identify as women enter female prisons — crusading lawyer says inmates are paying the price in fear and trauma.

    THE PIPELINE: Jessica Yaniv has great genes

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2025 47:34


    Derek Fildebrandt, Nigel Hannaford, and Cory Morgan are joined by Alise Mills to weigh in on issues regarding Jessica Yaniv, free speech controversies sparked by Sean Feucht's Canadian tour, and the latest ruling in the Tamara Lich case.

    CORY MORGAN SHOW: Junkies aren't harmless

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2025 47:16


    Cory talks about how a refusal to speak openly on tough issues is putting people at risk.

    HANNAFORD: It's worth looking at who gets unbanked and what they do to not deserve it

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 27, 2025 6:37


    It's not unheard of for banks to fire clients. However, when somebody like high-profile lawyer Eva Chipiuk gets unbanked, it should catch your attention. The details are somewhat opaque and protected by client confidentiality. According to the correspondence from the Royal Bank of Canada that Ms. Chipiuk released, the situation was triggered by a Bitcoin transaction. And if transactions appear suspicious, banks are actually required by law to take action. On the other hand, lots of people buy and sell Bitcoin. So, that was all it was? And it was nothing to do with Ms. Chipiuk's public support for the Freedom Convoy, and her counter-establishment political views? Well, nobody's saying that. So, perhaps we shouldn't say it, either.

    THE PIPELINE: Could Alberta pull out of dairy supply management?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 26, 2025 49:35


    Nigel Hannaford, Cory Morgan, and Erika Barootes ask: 'Could Alberta pull out of dairy supply management?' They also discuss Parks Canada's cancellation of a Christian concert, the latest in the Tamara Lich trial, and opposition from BC Coastal First Nations to northern pipelines.

    CORY MORGAN SHOW: Alberta could crash Canada's dairy supply management system

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 25, 2025 46:42


    Cory talks about how Alberta's exit from supply management could bring down the national system.

    EXCLUSIVE HANNAFORD: Smith's save now, spend later plan gets a boost

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2025 19:00


    With today's $2.8 billion contribution announced earlier today by a clearly elated Premier Danielle Smith, Alberta's Heritage Fund reached $30 billion — almost double what it was five years ago. For the premier, this is an old goal — she was writing 25 years ago that instead of spending resource revenues as they are received, Alberta should build up a fund to make up for when those resources, and the funds they generate, are exhausted.

    HANNAFORD: Can independence solve Alberta's 'Ottawa problem?'

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2025 25:25


    “Be careful what you wish for.” If you are one of those Albertans who say, “Let's vote for independence and then see what sort of a better deal we can get out of Ottawa,” you're playing a dangerous game, says Erika Barootes, tonight's guest on Hannaford.

    THE PIPELINE: NDP faces financial apocalypse

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2025 50:31


    Derek Fildebrandt, Nigel Hannaford, and Cory Morgan discuss Danielle Smith's Alberta Next panel, the growing calls from Alberta Conservatives for a party-wide independence vote, and the financial apocalypse looming over the NDP.

    CORY MORGAN SHOW: The Canadian justice system is in terminal condition

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2025 46:39


    Cory talks about how rights and safety of citizens has been lost in Canada's system.

    HANNAFORD: What remains? Inside Dr. Frances Widdowson's expedition to Kamloops

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2025 34:09


    Political analyst Dr. Frances Widdowson, who was terminated from her tenured role at Mount Royal University for questioning baseless claims bodies of 215 indigenous children were found on the grounds of a residential school in Kamloops, BC, joins Hannaford this week to discuss her investigation into the matter.

    THE PIPELINE: Alberta wants constitutional amendments (that will never happen)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2025 48:28


    Derek Fildebrandt, Nigel Hannaford, and Cory Morgan talk about Alberta Next's push for constitutional amendments, a CBC news anchor being ‘forced to resign,' the RCMP calling a shift to traditional values could be a red flag for extremism, and how they're all lying about Jeffrey Epstein.

    CORY MORGAN SHOW: The mess in municipalities is our own fault

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2025 46:23


    Cory talks about how voter apathy has created the mess we see in cities.

    HANNAFORD: Christian political leaders launch Alberta summer tour

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2025 25:01


    This week's episode of Hannaford guest hosted by Jen Hodgson, features Michael Clark, executive director of the Christian Impact Network. Clark and other political leaders are organizing a multi-city tour across Alberta designed to equip and encourage aspiring and current political leaders. 

    FILDEBRANDT: German politician's Alberta freedom tour

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 4, 2025 57:37


    Christine Anderson, German Member of the European Parliament with the Alternative für Deutschland (AFD), joins Derek Fildebrandt to discuss the rise of populism in Europe, her viral clash with Justin Trudeau, mass migration, and the growing Alberta independence movement, offering a wide-ranging perspective on the political divides between Canada and Europe.

    THE PIPELINE: Carney folds to Trump

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 4, 2025 47:56


    Derek Fildebrandt, Nigel Hannaford, and Cory Morgan sit down to discuss Mark Carney's reversal on the Digital Services Tax, the return of the old Alberta PC Party, and the decision to award Bonnie Henry and Theresa Tam the Order of Canada.

    CORY MORGAN SHOW: Dying on the hill for Quebec's dairy industry

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2025 46:27


    Cory talks about how the government obsession with protecting supply management is hurting all Canadians.

    HANNAFORD: Fighting woke, see something, say something

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2025 26:35


    Shine the light. Tell someone. When somebody is under the yoke of woke ideology, facing unreasonable — possibly illegal — demands that they sign off on something they don't believe to keep their job, make sure people know what is going on. Powerful though woke-ism is, courageous individuals have forced major corporations to back down from woke advocacy, says Simon Hankinson, tonight's guest on Hannaford.

    THE PIPELINE: Canada is arming back up

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2025 48:19


    Derek Fildebrandt, Nigel Hannaford, and Cory Morgan discuss what the recent by-elections really say about the support for independence in Alberta, Danielle Smith's Alberta Next move, and why Canada is suddenly arming back up.

    CORY MORGAN SHOW: Alberta Republicans set back the independence movement

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2025 46:15


    Cory talks about how a partisan approach to independence hinders the movement.

    HANNAFORD: Israelis agreed on finishing the job in Iran

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2025 32:12


    Nigel Hannaford talks with Vivian Bercovici, former Canadian ambassador to Israel, to discuss the current state of affairs in the Middle East.

    THE PIPELINE: Not our war?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2025 48:21


    Derek Fildebrandt, Nigel Hannaford, and Cory Morgan talk about the growing MAGA divide over striking Iran, what Trump's G7 early exit says about the future of global summits, and Alberta's decision to make COVID boosters out-of-pocket for recipients.

    CORY MORGAN SHOW: Government COVID policies have fed Canada's measles outbreak

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2025 46:05


    Cory talks about how mistrust created by COVID 19 vaccine mandates has led to vaccination decline.

    FILDEBRANDT: Energy politics, immigration, and the crisis of the West

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2025 66:19


    Tony Abbott, former Prime Minister of Australia, weighs in on energy and climate policy, mass immigration in the West, and the future of conservative leadership — drawing key parallels between Canada and Australia — in this exclusive interview with Derek Fildebrandt.

    HANNAFORD: Eby says 'yes' to pipeline

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2025 16:27


    BC Premier David Eby  just said 'yes' to a pipeline across the northern part of the province, to bring gas to the proposed KsiLisims LNG plant slated for Nisga's territory in northwest BC.

    THE PIPELINE: One Big Beautiful Oil Show

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2025 47:10


    Derek Fildebrandt, Cory Morgan, and Nigel Hannaford take seat on the floor of the Global Energy Show Canada 2025 talking about pipelines, the Trump-Musk feud, the upcoming G7 Leader's Summit and the 'migrant riots' in Los Angeles.

    CORY MORGAN SHOW: The federation is broken

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2025 44:33


    Cory talks about how Carney's selective application of the constitution make the federation pointless.

    HANNAFORD: To win, Conservatives must take back the culture

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2025 24:17


    In tonight's special edition of Hannaford, he talks in depth about the intellectual malaise that has turned Canada into a 'woke' shadow of its formerly robust character — and the depressing consequences of the failure of Canadian conservatives to address it.

    HANNAFORD: What Carney says and what Carney does, just don't line up

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 6, 2025 23:28


    If Carney lifted the emissions cap, Gwyn Morgan would take Carney seriously on his plan to make Canada an energy superpower... but a pipeline to Churchill? No thanks!

    THE PIPELINE: No budget for you!

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2025 48:58


    Derek Fildebrandt, Nigel Hannaford, and Cory Morgan break down Mark Carney's careful pipeline dance at the First Ministers' Meeting, the consequences of Trump's new tariffs, and the Liberals' failure to table a budget in this episode of The Pipeline.

    CORY MORGAN SHOW: Hamas has become a North American problem

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 4, 2025 46:13


    Cory talks about how extremists inspired by Hamas in North America must be contained.

    CORY MORGAN SHOW: The House of Commons is finally back in session. Nothing has changed.

    Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2025 69:31


    Cory talks about how people should take some time to watch question period to see just who runs their lives.

    HANNAFORD: Sex cartoon books in the school library? Ottawa is the enabler

    Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2025 23:15


    The bizarre combination of interests that puts sexually explicit graphic novels in Alberta libraries...

    THE PIPELINE: Throne Speech — was this a unifying message?

    Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2025 47:31


    Cory Morgan, Nigel Hannaford, and Dave Naylor discuss King Charles III's speech at the opening of Canada's Parliament and whether it delivered a unifying message. Dave also shares stories from his recent trip to Israel, and the panel weighs in on the controversy surrounding pornographic books in school libraries.

    CORY MORGAN SHOW: Why should Alberta stay?

    Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2025 47:01


    Cory talks about how federalists had best change their tune if they want to keep Alberta in the fold.

    CORY MORGAN SECOND TAKE: Canada is still broken

    Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2025 62:57


    Cory talks about how nothing has changed under Carney.

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