The Strategists

Corey Hogan and Stephen Carter talk about the possible airline bailout and sabre rattling by conservatives around Line 5's looming deadline to end operations. Should the...

Corey Hogan and Stephen Carter talk about leader brand - how it's established, how it's applied and how it fits in with political tactics. How do you keep your brand current to...

Corey Hogan and Stephen Carter talk about budgets in the times of Covid-19 through a deep dive into Alberta's "frankenbudget". What's the story the Government is trying to...

Corey Hogan and Stephen Carter talk about the Commons vote on the Uyghur genocide before being subjected to the return of grab-bag favourite "Fine, Fabulous or F**ked" and the...

Corey Hogan and Stephen Carter tackle the week's headlines before launching into a deep dive on modern campaign structures. What's changed? What's stayed the same? And if you...

Corey Hogan and Stephen Carter talk vaccines and Trump's acquittal. Should the federal government pour more money into a "third-wave" response? Is Mitch McConnell a great...

Corey Hogan and Stephen Carter talk shadow cabinets, reversing direction and managing an unruly caucus, and Canada's "vaccine certainty". Do Erin O'Toole's choices for shadow...

Corey Hogan and Stephen Carter talk about the federal NDP's long-term care policy release, the creation of new political parties and the Republicans eating their own in...

Corey Hogan and Stephen Carter talk about attacks on political staff and the pros and cons of staffing your office with people who aren't from your jurisdiction. Why do people...

Corey Hogan and Stephen Carter dig deep into Alberta's inquiry into "Anti-Energy Campaigns", using the issue as a launching pad to talk about the political art of burying your...

Corey Hogan and Stephen Carter talk vaccine roll-out, the possibility of a spring election and Biden's first few days. Are the Liberals in trouble with all the vaccine roll-out...

Corey Hogan and Stephen Carter break down Biden pulling the presidential permit for KXL, the Trudeau government's vaccine woes and then critique the Alberta government's recent...

Corey Hogan and Stephen Carter talk about the DRAMA AT RIDEAU HALL in this very special, very substantive emergency episode of The Strategists. Zain Velji, as always, picks the...

Corey Hogan and Stephen Carter talk about the possibility of an upcoming federal election, Joe Biden dropping the hammer on the Keystone XL pipeline and get tortured by Zain in...

Corey Hogan and Stephen Carter talk about the strategic fallout of the US Senate race and Trump insurrection before returning to Canada with the crowd favourite "Fine, Fabulous...

Corey Hogan and Stephen Carter build on - and rapidly revise in real time - takes from Episode 906. Did Jason Kenney pay a high enough price in firing a minister and his chief...

Corey Hogan and Stephen Carter talk about the vacations - both literal and from their senses - that politicians across Canada took during these times of Covid-19. Did Doug Ford...

Put on your best turtleneck, sit on your most bear skin rug and listen to some cool jazz with The Strategists, as they unpack the year that was. Corey Hogan and Stephen Carter...

Corey Hogan and Stephen Carter unpack government COVID advertising, future federal carbon tax hikes and the Georgia special elections. Does the gang love Alberta's "Covid...

Corey Hogan and Stephen Carter rate coast-to-coast COVID-19 strategies and then dive deep on government strategy for vaccine distribution. How does government convince the...

Corey Hogan and Stephen Carter talk about one wild week in Alberta: Canada's Covid-19 heartland. Did Alberta's Covid-19 restrictions go far enough? Was Jason Kenney's lecture...

Corey Hogan and Stephen Carter talk about the surge of Covid-19 cases and silence in times of crisis. Why do politicians sometimes avoid the spotlight in a crisis? How do you...

Corey Hogan and Stephen Carter talk about how the federal government and provinces are responding to spikes in Covid-19 numbers and rate recent political (and "apolitical")...

Corey Hogan and Stephen Carter talk about Trump's newly lame-duck presidency, the Biden transition and the short-lived Whole Foods poppy ban. Will Trump strip the copper out of...