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The Boys in Short Pants
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
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 a...
Episode 128 - A Journey to the Coast
The Boys join Politicoast for a crossover on the cabinet shuffle and Various National Security Issues.
Episode 127 - Budgets and Platforms with Tyler Meredith
The Boys are joined by Tyler Meredith (@tylermeredith), former budget policy and platform impresario of the Liberal government.
Episode 126 - Feeling Competitive
Robin Shaban and Keldon Bester of the Canadian Anti-Monopoly Project join Laurent for a chat about competition policy.
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Episode 125 - Whip It!
The Boys welcome to the pod former chief of staff to the Conservative Whip, Sean Murphy, to discuss all things whip.
Episode 124 - Legislative Dysfunction
The Boys return! Poilievre, inflation and the new anxieties of hybrid parliament.
Episode 123 - French Civil Law on the Moon
The Boys discuss the Liberal-NDP accord and the recent federal budget.
Episode 122 - Codes of Conduct
The Boys discuss the Emergencies Act, the Conservative leadership race, and whether drink tickets are too complicated a system to be implemented in th...
Episode 121 - The Unbearable Lightness of Being Leader of Canada's Conservatives
The Boys discuss the latest in Conservative leadership tumult and what it all means.
Episode 120 - Steamed Rolls
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 th...
Episode 119 - Communications Breakdown feat. Paul Wells
The boys are joined by Paul Wells of Maclean's Magazine to discuss the past, present and future of political communications.
Episode 118 - 'Interview a Fan' Contest Winner 2021
The Boys sit down with a special guest to discuss the furniture situation in Canada's official residences and other issues.
Episode 116 - The Day After the Morning After the Day After
The Boys talk about the results of Canada's 44th general election.
Episode 115 - Mostly Unsolicited Career Advice
The Boys dispense some mostly unsolicited career advice, review the state of the election, and talk platforms a bit.
Episode 114 - Pre-Election Short Snapper
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: Ins...
Episode 113 - Summer Mailbag 2021
The Boys dive back into the mailbag filled to the brim with your questions!
Episode 112 - On the Necessity of Tonsuring One's Political Rivals
The Boys talk Green Party omnishambles, legislative update (also omnishambles) and Sheriff-Commissioner Dion's Morneau Report.
If you wan...
Episode 111 - Sharing the Wealth w/ Angella MacEwen
CUPE economist Angella MacEwen (@amacewen) joins the Boys to discuss her new book co-written with NDP policy director Jonathan Gauvin as well as child...
Episode 110 - Inflated Expectations
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 th...
Episode 109 - This is the Winter of our Content
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...
Episode 108 - Points Card Trailblazers
The boys discuss budget, O'Toole Bucks, and pandemic response.
Episode 107.5 - Special Edition - Wonks and War Rooms
Special cross over episode with the Wonks and War Rooms podcast:
"Where political communication theory meets on the ground strategy. Host...
Episode 107 - The Woopsie of the Millennium
The Boys talk Lobbying Act, the Auditor General's pandemic preparedness report, and the weird accountability vacuum at the heart of government.
Episode 106 - The Case for an Electromagnetic Pulse Strike on Political Data
The Boys mark the one year pandemicversary, and talk about why political data operations should be EMP'd. Also other stuff in between.
Episode 105 - Pellet Guns and Housing Runs
The Boys take aim at a strange change made in the new firearms bill and a whiffed call by the CMHC.
Episode 104 - Hard Now to Accept Reassurances That We Are Prepared
The Boys talk Tories, Greens, Bloc and the cutting insight of Dr. Marcus Powlowski, MP.
Episode 103 - A Tale of Two Premiers
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 gove...
Episode 102 - Full Grinch Mode
Laurent and Etienne go full Grinch mode with a blistering listener Q&A episode.
This is probably the last one of the year.
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Episode 101 - One Too Many Dalmatians, Frankly
The Boys talk video games, the fall economic statement, government HR, and vaccines.
Episode 100 - Second Wave Blues
The Boys discuss the absence of a fiscal update/mandate letters, a suggestion to radically empower provincial public officers, some new bills, and mor...
Episode 98 - Hail to the Space Queen
The Boys talk Speech from the Throne, testing (again), the Green Party leadership and what's on in Parliament.
Episode 96 - Conservative Leadership - A Boys in Short Pants Short
Join the Boys for their first-ever actually shorter episode about the Conservative leadership race results.
Episode 95 - Prorogued!
The Boys talk WE, Morneau, and surprise prorogation. We don't talk about New Brunswick - sorry!
Episode 94 - Dog Days
The Boys discuss the state of Ottawa summer, WE, and lobbying arcana.
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Episode 93 - RCMP to WE
This week, the Boys allegedly discuss the fiscal snapshot, the RCMP/policing, and the WErfuffle. Allegedly.
Episode 92 - Security Council, Insecurity Complex
The Boys are joined by uOttawa PhD candidate Caroline Dunton (@caredunton) to discuss what happened with Canada's Security Council bid. Was it a vanit...
Episode 91 - CORVEE-19
Etienne's yard work obligations have stretched out our recording windows out of all reason - our apologies (really just Etienne's).
The...