{"podcast":{"title":"Gloves Off","slug":"gloves-off-7375213","podcast_index_feed_id":7375213,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/684c7e9c6770b65af405168c","website_url":"https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/gloves-off/id1820651848","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/684c7e9c6770b65af405168c/1782341473557-7c91538c-ec2c-4279-956b-c9e4a204b144.jpeg","author":"Insurgentsia Productions","episode_count":15,"summary":"Gloves Off is about the threat to Canada’s sovereignty and how the country can thrive in the new world disorder. Because it’s not just about surviving as a nation. It’s about winning. Hosted by journalist and author Stephen Marche . It’s been a year of the old world order falling apart. The rules-based international order is over. But it’s also been a year of great unthinkable change—change to the way Canada operates, who it trusts, and who it fears. This presents an opportunity for Canada to move away from its decades-long dependency on the US towards something new: a third pole of middle power alliances. Last season on Gloves Off, we wanted to survive as a nation. The question was: Are we going to make it? This season, we’re answering the question: How do we win? Visit gloves-off.ca for more research behind the issues and watch our aftershow Cross Check. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-22T16:19:01.860938+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/gloves-off-7375213"},"episode":{"title":"The Rupture","slug":"the-rupture","published_at":"2026-07-01T07:01:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/gloves-off-7375213/the-rupture","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/gloves-off-7375213","url":"http://gloves-off.ca/","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/684c7e9c6770b65af405168c/e/6a44363d6771af4aa412082b/media.mp3","summary":"A clear eyed assessment of Mark Carney’s vision of middle powers creating a third pole of power, providing alternatives to a fraying reliance on the United States. Since his famous speech at Davos, he has been travelling the world meeting with likeminded politicians to shore up support. But the reception to his idea has raised doubts in Canada. Host Stephen Marche hears bipartisan caution from former Canadian Foreign Ministers Peter MacKay and John Manley, while former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull echoes a chorus of approval heard among many global leaders. Subscribe &amp; follow us on YouTube where you can watch our aftershow Cross Check with Vass Bednar and Jon Shell Thursday. Also visit our website— gloves-off.ca —for more research behind the issues from the Canadian Shield Institute including its Glossary of Trade War Jargon and U.S. Policy Timeline Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"A clear eyed assessment of Mark Carney’s vision of middle powers creating a third pole of power, providing alternatives to a fraying reliance on the Unite…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1638,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/gloves-off-7375213/episodes/the-rupture/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/gloves-off-7375213/the-rupture.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}