Shaun Newman Podcast

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Mashup 175

222 Minutes is on to discuss this week's headlines. We had some technical difficulties today. To find the full episode head to X, YouTube, Facebook or Rumble. To watch the Full Cornerstone Forum: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://open.substack.com/pub/shaunnewmanpodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠Get your voice heard: Text Shaun 587-217-8500Silver Gold Bull Links:Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://silvergoldbull.ca/⁠⁠⁠⁠Email: SNP@silvergoldbull.comText Grahame: (587) 441-9100Bow Valley Credit UnionBitcoin: ⁠⁠⁠⁠www.bowvalleycu.com/en/personal/investing-wealth/bitcoin-gateway⁠⁠⁠⁠Email: welcome@BowValleycu.com Prophet River LinksUse the code “SNP” on all ordersWebsite: ⁠⁠⁠⁠store.prophetriver.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠Email: SNP@prophetriver.comExpat Money SummitWebsite: ⁠⁠⁠⁠ExpatMoneySummit.com

09-12
01:38:34

#955 - David Gosselin

David Gosselin is a Montreal-based poet, translator, linguist, and cultural critic best known for championing a return to classical aesthetics in contemporary art and literature. He is the founder and editor of The Chained Muse (an online journal of traditional poetry), New Lyre Magazine (a print quarterly featuring original classical-style verse and translations), and the New Lyre Podcast. Through his Substack Age of Muses, he publishes original poetry, essays on imagination and metaphor, translations of Romantic poets such as Friedrich Schiller, and in-depth cultural commentary that often critiques modernism, the 1960s counterculture, and the decline of genuine artistic standards. We discuss predictive programming, the entertainment industrial complex, and automatic vs reflective thinking. Tickets to Cornerstone Forum 26’: https://www.showpass.com/cornerstone26/Tickets to the Mashspiel:https://www.showpass.com/mashspiel/Silver Gold Bull Links:Website: https://silvergoldbull.ca/Email: SNP@silvergoldbull.comText Grahame: (587) 441-9100Bow Valley Credit UnionBitcoin: www.bowvalleycu.com/en/personal/investing-wealth/bitcoin-gatewayEmail: welcome@BowValleycu.com Use the code “SNP” on all ordersProphet River Links:Website: store.prophetriver.com/Email: SNP@prophetriver.comGet your voice heard: Text Shaun 587-217-8500

11-20
01:20:14

#954 - Caylan Ford & Bruce Pardy

I’m joined by Caylan Ford and Bruce Pardy to discuss is there a “Common Good”.Caylan Ford is the founder of Canada’s fastest-growing tuition-free classical charter school network, Alberta Classical Academy. A former federal policy advisor with degrees from Calgary, George Washington, and Oxford. She also co-produced award-winning documentaries exposing human rights abuses. In 2019, she was a rising UCP star candidate until a leaked private chat about cultural preservation was weaponized as “white supremacy,” forcing her resignation within hours; she’s now suing for defamation. Bruce Pardy is a Queen’s University law professor, executive director of the law-and-liberty think-tank Rights Probe, and one of Canada’s sharpest classical-liberal critics of the “managerial state.” A former Bay Street litigator and decade-long adjudicator on Ontario’s Environmental Review Tribunal, he now writes and speaks on the front lines of the legal culture war—defending individual autonomy, free markets, property rights, and the rule of law against what he calls the “Unholy Trinity” of bureaucracy, human-rights tribunals, and activist courts.Tickets to Cornerstone Forum 26’: https://www.showpass.com/cornerstone26/Tickets to the Mashspiel:https://www.showpass.com/mashspiel/Silver Gold Bull Links:Website: https://silvergoldbull.ca/Email: SNP@silvergoldbull.comText Grahame: (587) 441-9100Bow Valley Credit UnionBitcoin: www.bowvalleycu.com/en/personal/investing-wealth/bitcoin-gatewayEmail: welcome@BowValleycu.com Use the code “SNP” on all ordersProphet River Links:Website: store.prophetriver.com/Email: SNP@prophetriver.comGet your voice heard: Text Shaun 587-217-8500

11-19
01:13:18

#953 - Chuck Prodonick

Chuck Prodonick spent 20+ years in the Canadian military. He is a retired sergeant who served as a member of the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry and served in 4 tours overseas. We discuss 300,000 public servants into the military, the idea of “whole-of-society" defense and an independent Alberta military. Tickets to Cornerstone Forum 26’: https://www.showpass.com/cornerstone26/Tickets to the Mashspiel:https://www.showpass.com/mashspiel/Silver Gold Bull Links:Website: https://silvergoldbull.ca/Email: SNP@silvergoldbull.comText Grahame: (587) 441-9100Bow Valley Credit UnionBitcoin: www.bowvalleycu.com/en/personal/investing-wealth/bitcoin-gatewayEmail: welcome@BowValleycu.com Use the code “SNP” on all ordersProphet River Links:Website: store.prophetriver.com/Email: SNP@prophetriver.comGet your voice heard: Text Shaun 587-217-8500

11-18
01:53:22

#952 - Bruce de Torres

Bruce de Torres is the author of GOD, SCHOOL, 9/11 AND JFK: The Lies That Are Killing Us and The Truth That Sets Us Free. He spent four and a half years handling marketing for TrineDay Books and now serves as Director of Communications for the American Small Business League, where he exposes how Fortune 500 companies divert federal small-business contracts. As an actor, Bruce has starred in comedies, dramas, and musicals from coast to coast.Tickets to Cornerstone Forum 26’: https://www.showpass.com/cornerstone26/Tickets to the Mashspiel:https://www.showpass.com/mashspiel/Silver Gold Bull Links:Website: https://silvergoldbull.ca/Email: SNP@silvergoldbull.comText Grahame: (587) 441-9100Bow Valley Credit UnionBitcoin: www.bowvalleycu.com/en/personal/investing-wealth/bitcoin-gatewayEmail: welcome@BowValleycu.com Use the code “SNP” on all ordersProphet River Links:Website: store.prophetriver.com/Email: SNP@prophetriver.comGet your voice heard: Text Shaun 587-217-8500

11-17
01:11:06

Mashup 184

222 Minutes is on to discuss this week's headlines.Tickets to Cornerstone Forum 26’: https://www.showpass.com/cornerstone26/Tickets to the Mashspiel:https://www.showpass.com/mashspiel/Silver Gold Bull Links:Website: https://silvergoldbull.ca/Email: SNP@silvergoldbull.comText Grahame: (587) 441-9100Bow Valley Credit UnionBitcoin: www.bowvalleycu.com/en/personal/investing-wealth/bitcoin-gatewayEmail: welcome@BowValleycu.com Prophet River Links:Website: store.prophetriver.com/Email: SNP@prophetriver.comUse the code “SNP” on all ordersGet your voice heard: Text Shaun 587-217-8500

11-14
01:28:41

#951 - Chris Dacey

Chris Dacey is a Canadian independent journalist and founder of Dacey Media, based in Ottawa, Ontario, and a member of the Independent Press Gallery of Canada. Known for his on-the-ground livestreaming and reporting, he gained national attention for covering the 2022 Freedom Convoy protests, which led to him and collaborators being restricted from House of Commons access. In late 2025, his viral coverage of the CFIA-ordered culling of over 300 ostriches at a British Columbia farm—documenting RCMP heavy-handedness, property destruction, and inhumane treatment—drew millions of views and widespread calls for mainstream exposure.Tickets to Cornerstone Forum 26’: https://www.showpass.com/cornerstone26/Tickets to the Mashspiel:https://www.showpass.com/mashspiel/Silver Gold Bull Links:Website: https://silvergoldbull.ca/Email: SNP@silvergoldbull.comText Grahame: (587) 441-9100Bow Valley Credit UnionBitcoin: www.bowvalleycu.com/en/personal/investing-wealth/bitcoin-gatewayEmail: welcome@BowValleycu.com Use the code “SNP” on all ordersProphet River Links:Website: store.prophetriver.com/Email: SNP@prophetriver.comGet your voice heard: Text Shaun 587-217-8500

11-13
41:59

#950 - Barry Kirkham

Barry Kirkham is a prominent Vancouver-based lawyer with over 50 years of experience in civil litigation, specializing in alternative dispute resolution, insurance litigation, and corporate commercial disputes. We discuss the landmark B.C. Supreme Court decision Cowichan Tribes v. Canada and the land claims of Kamlooops, New Brunswick and Quebec.Tickets to Cornerstone Forum 26’: https://www.showpass.com/cornerstone26/Tickets to the Mashspiel:https://www.showpass.com/mashspiel/Silver Gold Bull Links:Website: https://silvergoldbull.ca/Email: SNP@silvergoldbull.comText Grahame: (587) 441-9100Bow Valley Credit UnionBitcoin: www.bowvalleycu.com/en/personal/investing-wealth/bitcoin-gatewayEmail: welcome@BowValleycu.com Use the code “SNP” on all ordersProphet River Links:Website: store.prophetriver.com/Email: SNP@prophetriver.comGet your voice heard: Text Shaun 587-217-8500

11-12
49:49

#949 - Balint Somkuti

Bálint Somkuti is a Hungarian military historian, author and security policy expert with a PhD in military sciences from the National University of Public Service. A former lecturer at NKE and research professor at the Mathias Corvinus Collegium’s Geopolitical Workshop. Tickets to Cornerstone Forum 26’: https://www.showpass.com/cornerstone26/Tickets to the Mashspiel:https://www.showpass.com/mashspiel/Silver Gold Bull Links:Website: https://silvergoldbull.ca/Email: SNP@silvergoldbull.comText Grahame: (587) 441-9100Bow Valley Credit UnionBitcoin: www.bowvalleycu.com/en/personal/investing-wealth/bitcoin-gatewayEmail: welcome@BowValleycu.com Use the code “SNP” on all ordersProphet River Links:Website: store.prophetriver.com/Email: SNP@prophetriver.comGet your voice heard: Text Shaun 587-217-8500

11-11
01:36:34

#948 - Patrik Pavlica

Patrik Pavlica is a business professional based in Calgary, Alberta.. He discusses advanced photocatalytic coatings (FN Nano Technology) designed for air purification, surface protection, and environmental cleaning applications—such as removing pollutants, bacteria, viruses, and odors from air and surfaces in homes, offices, hospitals, and other spaces. FN Nano Technology:https://fnnanowescan.ca/Tickets to Cornerstone Forum 26’: https://www.showpass.com/cornerstone26/Tickets to the Mashspiel:https://www.showpass.com/mashspiel/Silver Gold Bull Links:Website: https://silvergoldbull.ca/Email: SNP@silvergoldbull.comText Grahame: (587) 441-9100Bow Valley Credit UnionBitcoin: www.bowvalleycu.com/en/personal/investing-wealth/bitcoin-gatewayEmail: welcome@BowValleycu.com Use the code “SNP” on all ordersProphet River Links:Website: store.prophetriver.com/Email: SNP@prophetriver.comGet your voice heard: Text Shaun 587-217-8500

11-10
01:07:38

Mashup 183

222 Minutes is on to discuss this week's headlines.Tickets to Cornerstone Forum 26’: https://www.showpass.com/cornerstone26/Tickets to the Mashspiel:https://www.showpass.com/mashspiel/Silver Gold Bull Links:Website: https://silvergoldbull.ca/Email: SNP@silvergoldbull.comText Grahame: (587) 441-9100Bow Valley Credit UnionBitcoin: www.bowvalleycu.com/en/personal/investing-wealth/bitcoin-gatewayEmail: welcome@BowValleycu.com Prophet River Links:Website: store.prophetriver.com/Email: SNP@prophetriver.comUse the code “SNP” on all ordersGet your voice heard: Text Shaun 587-217-8500

11-07
01:34:46

#947 - Martin Sieff

Martin Sieff is a Belfast-born Anglo-Irish-Jewish journalist, historian, and author renowned for his extensive international reporting career spanning over four decades. A graduate of Oxford University with BA and MA degrees in Modern History and postgraduate studies on the Middle East at the London School of Economics, Sieff began his journalism in the early 1980s covering the Northern Ireland conflict for the Belfast Telegraph and News-Letter, later reporting from more than 70 countries and a dozen wars, including hotspots in Israel, the West Bank, Bosnia, Indonesia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and the Baltic states. He served as Chief Foreign Correspondent for The Washington Times (1994–1999), then rose to Managing Editor for International Affairs, Chief News Analyst, Defense Industry Editor, and Chief Political Correspondent at United Press International (1999–2009), earning three Pulitzer Prize nominations for international reporting and leading UPI's coverage of the 2000, 2004, and 2008 U.S. presidential elections. He is the author of seven books, including the bestselling The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Middle East, Shifting Superpowers, Cycles of Change, and Gathering Storm (2015), which explore Middle Eastern geopolitics, U.S.-China-India relations, and recurring cycles in American history. Tickets to Cornerstone Forum 26’: https://www.showpass.com/cornerstone26/Tickets to the Mashspiel:https://www.showpass.com/mashspiel/Silver Gold Bull Links:Website: https://silvergoldbull.ca/Email: SNP@silvergoldbull.comText Grahame: (587) 441-9100Bow Valley Credit UnionBitcoin: www.bowvalleycu.com/en/personal/investing-wealth/bitcoin-gatewayEmail: welcome@BowValleycu.com Use the code “SNP” on all ordersProphet River Links:Website: store.prophetriver.com/Email: SNP@prophetriver.comGet your voice heard: Text Shaun 587-217-8500

11-06
01:55:10

#946 - Caylan Ford & Bruce Pardy

I’m joined by Caylan Ford and Bruce Pardy to discuss the Alberta Teachers Strike.Caylan Ford is the founder of Canada’s fastest-growing tuition-free classical charter school network, Alberta Classical Academy. A former federal policy advisor with degrees from Calgary, George Washington, and Oxford. She also co-produced award-winning documentaries exposing human rights abuses. In 2019, she was a rising UCP star candidate until a leaked private chat about cultural preservation was weaponized as “white supremacy,” forcing her resignation within hours; she’s now suing for defamation. Bruce Pardy is a Queen’s University law professor, executive director of the law-and-liberty think-tank Rights Probe, and one of Canada’s sharpest classical-liberal critics of the “managerial state.” A former Bay Street litigator and decade-long adjudicator on Ontario’s Environmental Review Tribunal, he now writes and speaks on the front lines of the legal culture war—defending individual autonomy, free markets, property rights, and the rule of law against what he calls the “Unholy Trinity” of bureaucracy, human-rights tribunals, and activist courts.Tickets to Cornerstone Forum 26’: https://www.showpass.com/cornerstone26/Tickets to the Mashspiel:https://www.showpass.com/mashspiel/Silver Gold Bull Links:Website: https://silvergoldbull.ca/Email: SNP@silvergoldbull.comText Grahame: (587) 441-9100Bow Valley Credit UnionBitcoin: www.bowvalleycu.com/en/personal/investing-wealth/bitcoin-gatewayEmail: welcome@BowValleycu.com Use the code “SNP” on all ordersProphet River Links:Website: store.prophetriver.com/Email: SNP@prophetriver.comGet your voice heard: Text Shaun 587-217-8500

11-05
01:03:09

#945 - Courtenay Turner

Courtenay Turner is an American podcaster, author, aerial acrobatic performer, and anti-technocracy activist known as a “Congenital Rubella Warrior” who overcame partial blindness, hearing loss, and childhood open-heart surgery to champion cognitive liberty and resistance to global control systems. Launched during the 2020 lockdowns, the Courtenay Turner Podcast features deep-dive conversations on occult geopolitics, Hegelian dialectics, biodigital convergence, and AI surveillance. Tickets to Cornerstone Forum 26’: https://www.showpass.com/cornerstone26/Tickets to the Mashspiel:https://www.showpass.com/mashspiel/Silver Gold Bull Links:Website: https://silvergoldbull.ca/Email: SNP@silvergoldbull.comText Grahame: (587) 441-9100Bow Valley Credit UnionBitcoin: www.bowvalleycu.com/en/personal/investing-wealth/bitcoin-gatewayEmail: welcome@BowValleycu.com Use the code “SNP” on all ordersProphet River Links:Website: store.prophetriver.com/Email: SNP@prophetriver.comGet your voice heard: Text Shaun 587-217-8500

11-04
01:48:01

#944 - Pelle Neroth Taylor

Pelle Neroth Taylor is a Swedish-British journalist, filmmaker, and political writer based in Sweden, renowned for his investigative work on geopolitics, propaganda, political assassinations, and the rise of European populism. Educated at Westminster School and Bristol University, he began his career in the early 1990s reporting for The Economist from the post-communist Baltic States, later editing and contributing to outlets like The Guardian, The Independent on Sunday, The Times, Financial Times, Sunday Times, New Scientist, and The Lancet. As founder of Two Raven Films, he has produced documentaries such as Sweden, Dying to Be Multicultural, a critical examination of Sweden's immigration policies that has garnered over 2 million views on platforms like Amazon Prime and Blckbx TV, and Cancel Nation, addressing censorship and cancel culture. Tickets to Cornerstone Forum 26’: https://www.showpass.com/cornerstone26/Tickets to the Mashspiel:https://www.showpass.com/mashspiel/Silver Gold Bull Links:Website: https://silvergoldbull.ca/Email: SNP@silvergoldbull.comText Grahame: (587) 441-9100Bow Valley Credit UnionBitcoin: www.bowvalleycu.com/en/personal/investing-wealth/bitcoin-gatewayEmail: welcome@BowValleycu.com Use the code “SNP” on all ordersProphet River Links:Website: store.prophetriver.com/Email: SNP@prophetriver.comGet your voice heard: Text Shaun 587-217-8500

11-03
01:24:28

Mashup 182

222 Minutes is on to discuss this week's headlines.Tickets to Cornerstone Forum 26’: https://www.showpass.com/cornerstone26/Tickets to the Mashspiel:https://www.showpass.com/mashspiel/Silver Gold Bull Links:Website: https://silvergoldbull.ca/Email: SNP@silvergoldbull.comText Grahame: (587) 441-9100Bow Valley Credit UnionBitcoin: www.bowvalleycu.com/en/personal/investing-wealth/bitcoin-gatewayEmail: welcome@BowValleycu.com Prophet River Links:Website: store.prophetriver.com/Email: SNP@prophetriver.comUse the code “SNP” on all ordersGet your voice heard: Text Shaun 587-217-8500

10-31
01:32:09

#943 - Sam Cooper

Sam Cooper is a Canadian investigative journalist and bestselling author best known for exposing Chinese Communist Party influence operations, fentanyl trafficking, and money laundering in North America. A University of Toronto graduate with a journalism degree from Langara College, he rose from local Vancouver papers to senior correspondent at Global News, where his 2019 casino laundering series triggered the Cullen Commission. His 2021 book Wilful Blindness detailed elite capture and transnational crime, drawing on RCMP, CSIS, and DEA sources. He founded The Bureau on Substack, now a leading independent outlet on corruption and national security.Tickets to Cornerstone Forum 26’: https://www.showpass.com/cornerstone26/Tickets to the Mashspiel:https://www.showpass.com/mashspiel/Silver Gold Bull Links:Website: https://silvergoldbull.ca/Email: SNP@silvergoldbull.comText Grahame: (587) 441-9100Bow Valley Credit UnionBitcoin: www.bowvalleycu.com/en/personal/investing-wealth/bitcoin-gatewayEmail: welcome@BowValleycu.com Use the code “SNP” on all ordersProphet River Links:Website: store.prophetriver.com/Email: SNP@prophetriver.comGet your voice heard: Text Shaun 587-217-8500

10-31
01:04:00

#942 - John Rich

John Rich is an American country music singer-songwriter, producer, and TV personality best known as one half of the duo Big & Rich. Rising to fame in the early 2000s with hits like "Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)," he previously played bass and sang for Lonestar before forming Big & Rich with Big Kenny in 2003. A prolific songwriter, Rich has penned multiple No. 1 country hits for artists including Gretchen Wilson, Faith Hill, and Jason Aldean, earning three ASCAP Songwriter of the Year awards. Beyond music, he’s released solo albums, produced for various artists, and hosted The Pursuit! with John Rich on Fox Nation. A vocal conservative, entrepreneur, and family man.Tickets to Cornerstone Forum 26’: https://www.showpass.com/cornerstone26/Tickets to the Mashspiel:https://www.showpass.com/mashspiel/Silver Gold Bull Links:Website: https://silvergoldbull.ca/Email: SNP@silvergoldbull.comText Grahame: (587) 441-9100Bow Valley Credit UnionBitcoin: www.bowvalleycu.com/en/personal/investing-wealth/bitcoin-gatewayEmail: welcome@BowValleycu.com Use the code “SNP” on all ordersProphet River Links:Website: store.prophetriver.com/Email: SNP@prophetriver.comGet your voice heard: Text Shaun 587-217-8500

10-30
01:04:05

#941 - Josh On Topic

Josh on Topic is a Canadian content creator and truck driver based in Alberta. He leverages his on-the-road experiences to deliver raw, unfiltered commentary on Alberta and Canadian politics, focusing on issues like provincial sovereignty, federal overreach, immigration, crime, and economic policies affecting everyday people.Tickets to Cornerstone Forum 26’: https://www.showpass.com/cornerstone26/Tickets to the Mashspiel:https://www.showpass.com/mashspiel/Silver Gold Bull Links:Website: https://silvergoldbull.ca/Email: SNP@silvergoldbull.comText Grahame: (587) 441-9100Bow Valley Credit UnionBitcoin: www.bowvalleycu.com/en/personal/investing-wealth/bitcoin-gatewayEmail: welcome@BowValleycu.com Use the code “SNP” on all ordersProphet River Links:Website: store.prophetriver.com/Email: SNP@prophetriver.comGet your voice heard: Text Shaun 587-217-8500

10-29
02:10:18

#940 - Rod Giltaca & Chuck Prodonick

Rod Giltaca is a Canadian entrepreneur, firearms advocate, and media personality, serving as the CEO and Executive Director of the Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights (CCFR), Canada's leading gun rights organization. He hosts and produces CCFR Radio - On The Air on WildTV.Chuck Prodonick spent 20+ years in the Canadian military. He is a retired sergeant who served as a member of the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry and served in 4 tours overseas.Tickets to Cornerstone Forum 26’: https://www.showpass.com/cornerstone26/Tickets to the Mashspiel:https://www.showpass.com/mashspiel/Silver Gold Bull Links:Website: https://silvergoldbull.ca/Email: SNP@silvergoldbull.comText Grahame: (587) 441-9100Bow Valley Credit UnionBitcoin: www.bowvalleycu.com/en/personal/investing-wealth/bitcoin-gatewayEmail: welcome@BowValleycu.com Use the code “SNP” on all ordersProphet River Links:Website: store.prophetriver.com/Email: SNP@prophetriver.comGet your voice heard: Text Shaun 587-217-8500

10-28
01:19:58

Douglas Mcfarlane

they pay the illegals entering Canada to vote liberal or no citizens papers

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peter hessels

6 minutes in finally get to hear what I was after

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Deb Rupertus

It was a great show as always, very informative.

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Agree About Time is a good movie. My favourite thing about that movie is how well they show the love between a father and his son.

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Betty Cecconi

Thankyou for having Barry on your show, I hope you have him back soon. We really need to hear more from people with a heart and vision such as his.

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