True North's Andrew Lawton is once again live from Davos on day three of the World Economic Forum's 2023 annual meeting. Today, Andrew was given the cold shoulder by John Kerry, Tony Blair, and Chrystia Freeland. Freeland refused to answer whether her position with WEF puts her in a conflict of interest as a cabinet minister. But the day in Davos brought other developments, such as the Moderna CEO blaming public debate for low vaccination rates and an oil and gas CEO calling for higher carbon pr...
Jan 18, 2023•36 min
For the first time ever, The Andrew Lawton Show is live from Davos. True North's Andrew Lawton is in the Swiss mountain village reporting on the World Economic Forum annual meeting. He's already encountered Klaus Schwab, four presidents and prime ministers, and countless other global elites who claim they're here to find solutions to the world's problems through "cooperation." In this special edition of the show, Andrew talks about what he's seen on the ground in Davos, and also takes some of yo...
Jan 17, 2023•48 min
The theme of this year's World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos is "cooperation in a fragmented world." The WEF says there are numerous crises unfolding, and world leaders need to gather together "in the spirit of improving the state of the world." True North's Andrew Lawton will be on the ground in Davos reporting on the meeting, which WEF founder Klaus Schwab says will have "unprecedented" attendance from world leaders, including Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, former Bank of Ca...
Jan 11, 2023•35 min
When the billionaires and global elites gather in the Swiss Alps next week, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland will be among them. Freeland, who sits as a World Economic Forum trustee, will be an honoured guest at this year's WEF Annual Meeting in Davos. True North's Andrew Lawton will also be there reporting on some of the "solutions" being proposed in response to the world's problems. Also, the federal government is doing a trial run of its gun confiscation plans in Prince Edward Island, ...
Jan 10, 2023•36 min
Canadians had to withstand record inflation throughout 2022. Instead of offering a reprieve, the Liberal government hiked carbon taxes, kept printing money, and more importantly kept spending money. Canadian Taxpayers Federation federal director Franco Terrazzano joined True North's the Andrew Lawton Show for a wide-ranging chat about the last year and the year ahead through the lens of government accountability and respect for the taxpayers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/...
Jan 04, 2023•37 min
It's the beginning of a new year, so True North's Anthony Furey and Andrew Lawton team up to talk about what's happening in politics and media in the coming year. Will Jagmeet Singh pull his support of the Liberal-NDP coalition? Will there be a federal election? Will the legacy media acknowledge why Canadians don't trust them? Plus, a preview on what's on True North's radar in 2023. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 03, 2023•34 min
When Sun News Network went off the air in 2015, it looked like the end of conservative media in Canada. But Ezra Levant launched a new company from his living room. Nearly eight years later, Rebel News has 50 staff in sites around the world, and has influenced a wave of independent media. In this interview with True North's Andrew Lawton, Levant talks about why he chose media over politics, why Rebel has succeeded where Sun News failed, and why independent media is the future. Learn more about y...
Dec 28, 2022•44 min
The last three years have not been great for civil liberties in Canada, but this year takes the cake with the government invoking the Emergencies Act to crackdown on peaceful protesters in Ottawa. Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms president John Carpay joined True North's Andrew Lawton to talk about the state of civil liberties in Canada in 2022 and what's on the horizon in 2023. Carpay and Lawton also talk about the big picture issues like freedom, individual autonomy, and why the left...
Dec 27, 2022•40 min
It's been almost a year since the first leg Freedom Convoy set out for Ottawa from Delta, British Columbia in a weeks-long protest culminating in the federal government's invocation of the Emergencies Act and a swift expulsion of the protesters from Ottawa. This fall, the Public Order Emergency Commission convened to investigate the circumstances leading to the emergency declaration. While the Commission was about fact-finding, for some of the parties and witnesses it was about face-saving. Jour...
Dec 21, 2022•36 min
Ottawa's police chief has said he will not allow a repeat of the Freedom Convoy as several people involved in the original trucker-led protest earlier this year say they want to return to Ottawa in February. Do you think it's possible to replicate the Convoy – and should people even try? True North's Andrew Lawton, author of a #1 bestseller about the convoy, shares his thoughts. Plus, the City of Oshawa has fined a woman for giving the homeless food and necessities on the weekend. Ashley Wickett...
Dec 21, 2022•32 min
From Bill C-11 to the redefinition of “hate speech” to a plan to ban online “harmful content,” the Liberals are firing on all cylinders to regulate and restrict internet freedom. Elon Musk tweeted this morning that it sounds like Justin Trudeau is trying to “muzzle” Canadians. True North’s Andrew Lawton says Canadians need to pay attention, as C-11 is just the tip of the iceberg. OpenMedia.org campaigns director Matt Hatfield joins the show to share his thoughts. Learn more about your ad choices...
Dec 14, 2022•32 min
Since taking over Twitter, Elon Musk has released troves of files documenting how Twitter personnel worked behind the scenes to suppress the New York Post’s story about Hunter Biden’s laptop, shadowban conservative accounts, and ultimately ban Donald Trump from the platform. True North’s Andrew Lawton says Elon Musk’s commitment to free speech warrants a stand against Justin Trudeau’s efforts to regulate and censor the internet. Also, what yesterday’s Liberal by-election win means for the Conser...
Dec 13, 2022•41 min
Longtime political activist Benjamin Dichter was one of the faces of the Freedom Convoy, adopting a strategy that eschewed legacy media and focused on telling the story of the convoy through social media and independent media outlets such as True North. He’s also been critical of some convoy figures in the months since the protests ended. Dichter has written about the convoy in a new book, Honking for Freedom: The Trucker Convoy that Gave Us Hope. He joins True North’s The Andrew Lawton Show liv...
Dec 07, 2022•49 min
After a record-setting year for inflation, there's no immediate reprieve in sight. A new report into Canada's food prices anticipates a five to seven per cent increase in food prices next year. For a family of four, grocery bills could rise by $1,000 to over $16,000. One of the report's researchers, University of Saskatchewan professor Stuart Smyth, joins The Andrew Lawton Show live to discuss why it's happening and what, if anything, can be done about it. Also, the Liberals are promising to rev...
Dec 06, 2022•30 min
In his first appearance on True North since becoming leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, Pierre Poilievre sat down with Andrew Lawton for a wide-ranging interview about his agenda and priorities. Poilievre and Lawton discuss the Public Order Emergency Commission and broader implications of Justin Trudeau’s invocation of the Emergencies Act. They also discuss the drug epidemic sweeping Canadian communities, Liberal gun bans and Alberta’s new sovereignty act, among other things. Learn more...
Nov 30, 2022•24 min
After six weeks of testimony, the Public Order Emergency Commission has wrapped its fact-finding phase. Canadians have been able to hear from themselves that there simply was no national emergency of any kind, let alone one that needed such an extreme measure to address, True North's Lawton Lawton argues. In this edition of the show, Andrew breaks down the highlights from Justin Trudeau's and Chrystia Freeland's testimony and talks about the big themes and memorable moments to emerge from the he...
Nov 29, 2022•40 min
Documents published by the Public Order Emergency Commission show cabinet ministers Marco Mendicino and David Lametti talking about sending in Canadian Armed Forces tanks to deal with the Freedom Convoy – though Lametti said this was just "banter" between friends. True North's Andrew Lawton said the 'just kidding' defense doesn't pass muster when the government ended up using wartime powers to deal with the protest. Also, the Liberals are trying to expand their gun ban to include all semi-automa...
Nov 24, 2022•45 min
Tensions ran high during today’s Public Order Emergency Commission hearing as Commissioner Paul Rouleau ejected Freedom Convoy lawyer Brendan Miller while Miller attempted to raise issues regarding outstanding motions about the government’s redaction of documents. True North’s Andrew Lawton discusses the explosive turn in the proceedings in this live edition of The Andrew Lawton Show. Also, world leaders descended on Egypt for COP27 – or the big Sharm El-Sheikhdown. ClimateDepot.com‘s Marc Moran...
Nov 22, 2022•52 min
China is operating overseas police stations, spending trillions on infrastructure in the developing world, infiltrating institutions, and influencing elections around the world. Canada is not immune from this, with numerous examples of Chinese espionage and influence from the last few years alone. This morning, Chairman Xi Jinping dressed down Justin Trudeau at the G20 summit and got only talking points in return. We need to take the China threat seriously, True North's Andrew Lawton says. Conse...
Nov 17, 2022•38 min
As of next March, people suffering from mental illness will be eligible for assisted suicide in Canada. True North's Andrew Lawton wrote a column yesterday warning of the consequences of Canada going this down road, written from his perspective as a suicide survivor who might have sought out an assisted death during his own struggle with depression more than a decade ago. Also, The Democracy Fund's Mark Joseph joins the discuss the latest from the Public Order Emergency Commission, including the...
Nov 15, 2022•38 min
In a phone call between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ontario Premier Doug Ford days before the federal government invoked the Emergencies Act, Trudeau told Ford no additional legal powers were needed for police to clear the Ambassador Bridge blockade. True North's Andrew Lawton discusses the revelation with lawyer Mark Joseph of The Democracy Fund. Also, author and Canada Strong and Free Network president Jamil Jivani joins the show to discuss how refusing to go woke cost him his job with o...
Nov 09, 2022•40 min•Ep. 287
After telling Canadians that cutting the $11.99/month Disney+ subscription is a tool to fight inflation, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland has acknowledged her "privilege." Freeland's comments come as her fall fiscal update paints a rosier portrait of the government's deficit projections than the Parliamentary Budget Office's numbers support. Canadian Taxpayers Federation federal director Franco Terrazzano joins True North's Andrew Lawton to discuss. Also, the latest from the Public Order Emerg...
Nov 08, 2022•41 min•Ep. 286
Convoy organizer Tom Marazzo testified before the Public Order Emergency Commission for several hours, but the clip that’s going viral is him refusing to talk to legacy media outlets, which he accuses of “lying for three years.” Marazzo called out the lack of political leadership during Covid, which triggered the convoy protest in the first place. Also up today was Convoy lawyer Keith Wilson, who questioned when the protest became “unlawful” in a country that supposedly upholds the right to prot...
Nov 03, 2022•51 min•Ep. 285
Text messages between staffers in Justin Trudeau's and Marco Mendicino's offices reveal in the early stages of the convoy the Liberal government was focused on the convoy's "narrative" rather than any purported threat to national security. These messages were published by the Public Order Emergency Commission yesterday, and support the idea that the protest was a political opportunity and not a national emergency, True North's Andrew Lawton says. Also, convoy organizers have finally been able to...
Nov 02, 2022•44 min•Ep. 285
Danielle Smith has been premier of Alberta for less than three weeks but has already made headlines around the world for her apology to unvaccinated Albertans and her Alberta-first approach to governing. In this interview with True North’s Andrew Lawton, Premier Smith discusses the process of unifying the United Conservative Party caucus, priorities for the fall legislative session, moving beyond vaccine discrimination, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 30, 2022•21 min•Ep. 284
In what’s becoming a daily recurrence at the Public Order Emergency Commission, another senior police official said today that law enforcement didn’t ask for the Emergencies Act and had a plan in place to deal with the convoy without it. Day after day, the federal government’s narrative about the Emergencies Act is crumbling, yet Trudeau and his ministers are still insistent their response was justified. True North’s Andrew Lawton discusses the latest from the hearings. Also, a lawyer is putting...
Oct 26, 2022•42 min•Ep. 283
Last week, Ontario Premier Doug Ford said he wasn't testifying before the Public Order Emergencies Commission. This week, the Commission said Ford has been asked numerous times and has declined, prompting a legal summons to be issued, which Ford is not fighting in court. True North's Andrew Lawton asks why Doug Ford is so afraid of appearing before the Commission under oath when he was a supporter of the Emergencies Act. Convoy lawyer Keith Wilson joins the show live to discuss the latest from t...
Oct 25, 2022•42 min•Ep. 282
Evidence filed before the Public Order Emergency Commission confirms what most Canadians knew, even if CBC and the Trudeau government didn't – that the Freedom Convoy was an organic and grassroots movement, not an operation launched by foreign actors or fuelled by foreign funding. This CSIS finding is one of many revelations published in a trove of commission documents yesterday. In this edition of The Andrew Lawton Show, True North's Andrew Lawton discusses the latest from the commission. Also,...
Oct 19, 2022•38 min•Ep. 281
We're on the fourth day of hearings into Justin Trudeau's invocation of the Emergencies Act and so far no one has provided any evidence of an actual emergency. Last week, witnesses testified about phantom honking and microaggressions. This week, we've so far heard finger-pointing between different levels of government and agencies, but nothing to justify the heavy-handed emergency power the federal government granted itself. In this edition of The Andrew Lawton Show, True North's Andrew Lawton t...
Oct 18, 2022•41 min•Ep. 280
At Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s first press conference, she condemned vaccine discrimination and vowed that Alberta will never return to lockdowns or segregation based on vaccine status. This comes the same day a Pfizer executive admitted the drug company had to release the vaccine “at the speed of science” and thus didn’t study its effect on transmission. True North’s Andrew Lawton says the vaccine passport regime was based on a premise that has crumbled. Also, a look ahead at the Public Or...
Oct 12, 2022•34 min•Ep. 279
