Health Minister Jane Philpott says the restored heath care benefits Syrian refugees will be receiving as of April 1 is not the "gold-plated care some critics have said," but that she's proud of the decision to restore the benefits to pre-2012 levels.

EIP - 02-18-16 - Jane Philpott Interview

MPs Bill Blair, Kellie Leitch and Murray Rankin debate pot legalization after the federal court ruled the Marijuana for Medical Purposes Regulations violate medical marijuana growers' charter rights and struck down the laws.  

EIP - 02-24-16  - MPs on legalizing pot

Investor and former Dragon on Dragon's Den Kevin O'Leary says Conservative MP for Beauce Maxime Bernier must be a separatist for suggesting O'Leary is a tourist to Quebec or Canada. 

EIP - 02-29-16 - Kevin O'Leary Interview

Senior Editor of the Atlantic David Frum gives his winners and losers of Super Tuesday and looks ahead to what's to come in the U.S. race to the White House.

EIP - 03-02-16 - David Frum Interview

Maclean's Magazine digital editor Adrian Lee talks about Canada's "cool factor," the growing bromance between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and President Barack Obama and the Canadian cultural invasion of music and the impact it's having on Canada-U.S. relations

EIP - 03-09-16 - Adrian Lee Interview

Grand Chief Serge "Otsi" Simon of the Mohawk of Kanesatake says if the Canadian government won't follow the law with regards to pipelines on First Nations land, then maybe First Nations shouldn't follow the laws either. He says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hasn't consulted enough with First Nations along the pipeline and that the National Energy Board is stacked in the energy industry's favour. 

EIP - 03-14-16 - Grand Chief Serge "Otsi" Simon

Turkish Ambassador Selcuk Unal says Turkey will wait and see what Syria peace talks in Geneva produce and whether Russia will pull out all its resources from Syria and whether bombings of civilians will cease.

EIP - 03-14-16 - Turkish Ambassador Selcuk Unal

Sophie Harkat, wife of Mohamed Harkat who has been the subject of a security certificate since 2002 for alleged ties to Al Qaeda, fears her husband may be deported back to Algeria where he may face persecution and is appealing to Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale to keep him in Canada.

EIP - 03-21-16 - Sophie Harkat Interview

Christian Leuprecht, Professor of Political Science at the Royal Military College of Canada and Senior Fellow at the Macdonald Laurier Institute says authorities can only hold a terror suspect for 24 hours in Belgium and are struggling with available tools. He also says authorities underestimated the threat of terrorism in Brussels.

EIP - 03-23-16 - Christian Leuprecht Interview

Alison Azer says she feels like she failed her children in keeping them safe and in Canada now that their father has had them in Iraqi Kurdistan for eight months but is it the system in Canada meant to protect children that actually failed the four Azer kids?

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