Gloves Off

About Gloves Off

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 (https://www.stephenmarche.com/). 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 (http://www.gloves-off.ca/) for more research behind the issues and watch our aftershow Cross Check. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

Publisher

Gloves Off with Stephen Marche

Category

government · news · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

14 Jun 2025

Latest episode

23 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

22 of 33 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   23 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Is the U.S. Abandoning Its Allies? Julianne Smith on NATO, Canada and the New World Order

   Stephen Marche interviews Julianne Smith, former U.S. Ambassador to NATO, about America's shifting alliances and the potential for middle powers to forge a new global order.

2. 

   12 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Ukraine and the Future of Warfare: Drone Technology, Defence, and What Canada can Learn

   Host Stephen Marche interviews Tim Mak, Editor of The Counteroffensive, exploring Ukraine's drone warfare innovation and its lessons for Canada's defense spending.

3. 

   9 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The Trade Bazooka: How Canada and Europe Can Stand Up to the U.S.

   Stephen Marche interviews Anthony Dworkin about how Canada and Europe can build a middle power alliance and resist economic coercion.

Inside a recent episode

Is the U.S. Abandoning Its Allies? Julianne Smith on NATO, Canada and the New World Order

Published 23 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] There are other relationships that are unfolding around the globe, not just in the Euro kind of Atlantic area with the Canadians, but we see Japan developing closer ties with the European Union. All of this serves as a hedge. And it's giving these countries just in essence an insurance policy. If things go completely off the rails with the United States and we have an even greater rupture in the economic space, the security space, this allows those countries to look elsewhere. But these little, I guess I would call them mini lateral relationships ultimately cannot replace the big monsters on the scene, the heavyweights like the NATO alliance and like the trade relationship between Mexico, Canada and the United States, although that's obviously going through a bit of a transition at the moment. […]

Who has been a guest on Gloves Off

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Julianne Smith
• Tim Mak
• Anthony Dworkin
• Gil Durán
• Jonathan Cheng

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.7 / 5

38 ratings

Spotify

4.6 / 5

109 ratings

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