Scott Thompson Show

The Scott Thompson Show Podcast With the election underway, we check in with David Akin, to get the lay of the land. Guest: David Akin, Chief Political Correspondent for Global New - The statue of John A. Macdonald was toppled and defaced in Gore Park over the weekend. Statues and monuments have become part of the headlines, but we do not want the larger story of Indigenous people's history and reconciliation to get lost at a time when we must listen to perspectives that have been historically pushed to the sidelines. Guest: Dr. Paulette Steeves, Cree-Metis Indigenous Archaeologist, Associate Professor of Sociology, Canada Research Chair in Healing & Reconciliation at Ontario’s Algoma University - Canada has temporarily suspended diplomatic missions in Afghanistan and evacuated the embassy. The Taliban has declared victory, saying that the war in the nation is over.Guest: Christian Leuprecht, Professor at both the Royal Military College of Canada and Queen's University, and a Fellow at the Macdonald La