Steve Paikin

A beautiful column by one former @UN ambassador & former @OntarioNDP leader about another: @BobRae48 on Stephen Lewis, and their last phone call just before Lewis died: "I shall see you on the other side and shall greet you warmly,” Lewis said. bobrae48.substack.com/p/stephen-lewi…

I think this is my favourite interview with Stephen Lewis. It's 12 yrs ago, & we spoke about Pres. John F. Kennedy on the 50th anniversary of his assassination, because Lewis had debated Kennedy at @UofT, & JFK helped get Lewis elected: youtube.com/watch?v=IqxXtA… #onpoli #uspoli

🚨🍊Kathleen Monk (@kathleenmonk) joins the Everything Political crew, Martha Hall Findlay and @TonyclementCPC, to talk all things NDP. 🔸Is @avilewis the right choice? 🔸Can he rebuild the party? 🔸Can the @NDP be relevant again? 🔸“Factory floor or faculty lounge”? 🔸Where do the NDP go from here? YouTube: youtu.be/8wpLBNO1InY Apple: apple.co/4dwx1At Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/348e6A… #cdnpoli

🚨📲Calling all smart people who want to know things about the world. We're doing a mailbag episode for next week's World on Edge with Janice Stein. Got any questions for Janice? Can be anything foreign affairs and geopolitics. Fire away! And we'll get to as many as we can.

Some more thoughts on the great #StephenLewis on this morning's "Paikin on Politics" on @breakfasttv with @carynceolin. youtube.com/watch?v=FUmhiz… #cdnpoli @OntarioNDP @NDP @avilewis

What I learned from Stephen Lewis tvo.org/article/what-i… #onpoli #cdnpoli @UN @avilewis @OntarioNDP @NDP

A couple former premiers, @Kathleen_Wynne and Philippe Couillard, join the pod, along with Allen Sutherland and @ObamaFoundation scholar Victoria Kuketz. ➡️Populism rising ➡️Is it a threat to democracy? ➡️Low levels of trust in government? ➡️The Young and the Resentful? ➡️What’s the fix? YouTube: youtu.be/Foe6y6Qk8zI Apple: apple.co/41DmpIz Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3zCIZ0… #cdnpoli

Thanks to @CBCNews and @andrewcbc for letting me talk about the great #StephenLewis, who died today at age 88. The former @OntarioNDP leader was the greatest orator I've ever seen in Canadian politics: cbc.ca/player/play/vi… #cdnpoli @UNHumanRights @UN

Does anyone remember Nathan Phillips? tvo.org/article/does-a… #topoli #toronto

On @breakfasttv this morning, @carynceolin and I talked about @avilewis's impressive first ballot win for @NDP leader...and the huge challenges that lie ahead for him: ottawa.citynews.ca/video/2026/03/… #ndp #cdnpoli

Thanks Wayne. Happy 75th in advance to Brother Tom.

@TDotResident They didn't suck. And that 2025 ALCS championship banner looks pretty good, eh?

Nice seats, Steve!

@arruda_j @Homeplate_Lady I do.

@Homeplate_Lady @spaikin Steve do you have the pics from 1977

Annoying glittery jacket guy ✅ Geddy Lee ✅ Biceps ✅ Real estate guy ✅ Is that @spaikin ? What new characters will we add this season? #bluejays

Here's this week's #onpoli podcast in which @jm_mcgrath and I review the 2026 #ontario #budget and chat with Finance Minister @PBethlenfalvy: youtu.be/zCooBrcCLdM?si… #FinanceGoals

Brilliant job by @CityNewsTO producer Todd Hayes, who put together this piece on our family's attendance at the first ever @BlueJays Opening Day in 1977. Such great memories: toronto.citynews.ca/video/2026/03/… #bluejays @MLB @Larby33

🚨🌐Arif Lalani (@ArifZLalani) , former Canadian Ambassador to Jordan, Iraq, Afghanistan and the United Arab Emirates, joins World on Edge. ➡️Could Trump Learn from Bush’s Gulf War in 1990? ➡️An incoherent and “shambolic” war? ➡️Trump saw 🇮🇷 as another 🇻🇪? ➡️Exit strategy? Off-ramps? YouTube: youtu.be/BoAapi3PHTY Apple: apple.co/4lS77ZS Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7b78sB… #IranWar‌

Perhaps the best budget tradition at Queen’s Park, the pages delivering the document at record speed to MPP’s.

We have had many metric TONNES of comments on our YouTube videos and otherwise. So we had an AI scrawl all the comments and find the biggest things or themes you are all talking about -- and turn them into questions for Steve. Here is one of them. FULL episode: youtu.be/O78noVqJoXI #cdnpoli

@DerekCoole75959 @ThePaikinPod I guess you thought wrong. Sorry, not sorry.

@ThePaikinPod @spaikin I thought this old conservative prick retired ?

🚨🚨Alright folks, here it is, the first ever edition of “Paik’s Takes.” @spaikin aka 'Paik' gives you his take – and answers a few questions from the mailbag. Then former Ottawa Chief of Police, Peter Sloly, joins to give his take on the Freedom Convoy. ➡️Most dangerous era in Steve's career? ➡️Political athletes? ➡️Canada’s middle power mirage? ➡️Thinking fast and Sloly YouTube: youtu.be/O78noVqJoXI Apple: apple.co/4c4QVkA Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3LQCak…

@GeoffyPJohnston @MapleLeafs @StanleyCup My favourite song of theirs. So haunting. Makes me choke up every time I hear it. God bless Bill Barilko.

@spaikin @MapleLeafs @StanleyCup ‘Bill Barilko disappeared that summer He was on a fishing trip The last goal he ever scored Won the Leafs the cup They didn't win another till nineteen sixty two The year he was discovered’ The Tragically Hip - Fifty-Mission Cap (Audio) - YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=AOxHRM…

99 years ago today, the man who scored the greatest goal in @MapleLeafs’ history was born. Bill Barilko scored in overtime of game 5 to win the Leafs the @StanleyCup. He died in a tragic plane crash a few months later. I’m part of a team making a doc about this Leaf legend.