The Paul Wells Show

Interviews with leaders and thinkers on war, peace, democracy and governance AI summary

The Transition Accelerator Visit website › News · EN · 121 episodes · latest 2026-11-11

Rank 3481

0 upvotes, 0 downvotes

Embed a widget with this podcast’s standing on your website

What it is about

Veteran journalist Paul Wells interviews the leaders and thinkers tackling the world's big problems — war and peace, democracy and dictatorship, making governments and communities work. Paul draws on decades of experience as a reporter and columnist at Macleans, the Toronto Star and elsewhere to bring you smart, intimate conversations with newsmakers and people who deserve a higher profile.The Paul Wells Show is produced by Antica. Season 3 is supported by McGill University’s Max Bell School of Public Policy.

Publisher’s own description, taken unchanged from the podcast feed.
© 2026 The Paul Wells Show

Listen

Available at these services — the RSS feed works in any podcast app.

Apple Podcasts

Latest episodes

Kyla Ronellenfitsch on Canada's Breakup With America

2026-11-11 · 53 min · Season 4, episode 9

Are Canadians simply waiting for Donald Trump to leave office, or has their faith in the United States been fundamentally shaken? Pollster Kyla Ronellenfitch shares surprising findings about Canada's national mood, Mark…
Eliot Pence on building a new defence industry for Canada

2026-11-04 · 51 min · Season 4, episode 8

Can Canada build a world-class defence industry of its own? Elliot Pence, founder and CEO of the gigantic startup Dominion Dynamics, explains how he plans to bring Silicon Valley's entrepreneurial approach to Canadian…
Lucy Hargreaves: What is Build Canada, anyway?

2026-10-28 · 1 hr 8 min · Season 4, episode 7

What is Build Canada, and how does it hope to change the country's economic future? Lucy Hargreaves, the CEO of the newfangled think tank, discusses her break with the Trudeau government's economic policies, her ideas…
Trouble Man: A Canadian diplomat's life in the world's hot spots

2026-10-21 · 1 hr 12 min · Season 4, episode 6

Paul Wells interviews Ben Rowswell, whose 25-year diplomatic career saw him work in a bunch of the world's toughest conflict zones. He was in Somalia as a student while a UN peacekeeping effort was falling apart. He…
Michael Wernick: "There's no saviour coming"

2026-10-14 · 52 min · Season 4, episode 5

Michael Wernick, the longtime senior civil servant who served as Clerk of the Privy Council under Justin Trudeau, shares his thoughts on Canada in the era of Donald Trump. "It's very different dealing with an…
Wayne Eyre on warcraft in a time of crisis

2026-10-07 · 55 min · Season 4, episode 4

Canada's retired Chief of the Defence Staff has a new memoir out, describing a military career that lasted 40 years, from Army Cadets to wars in Afghanistan and Ukraine. He's got choice words for the office of his…
Thank you, Alberta

2026-10-02 · 1 hr 48 min

Here's how the Paul Wells Road Show: Calgary went. On Sept. 28, Paul Wells was at the sold-out Martha Cohen Theatre in Calgary to celebrate Alberta's unique place in Canada and ponder its uncertain future. Guests…
Anne Applebaum on Donald Trump’s global shakedown

2026-09-30 · 45 min · Season 4, episode 3

Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and author Anne Applebaum joins Paul Wells to discuss her Atlantic magazine cover story, "Empire of Grift." She argues that Donald Trump's foreign policy now has two engines: ideologues…
Jill Lepore on AI and democracy

2026-09-23 · 43 min · Season 4, episode 2

Paul Wells interviews Jill Lepore, Harvard historian, New Yorker staff writer and Pulitzer Prize winner about The Rise and the Fall of the Artificial State, her latest bestseller. "Few grand transformations have been…
NATO's James Appathurai on sabotage and zombie viruses

2026-09-16 · 53 min · Season 4, episode 1

Toronto-born James Appathurai is one of the top civilians in the administration of NATO, the Western military alliance. As Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Innovation, Hybrid, and Cyber, he helps the alliance…

Episode details from the publisher’s feed. Playback happens at the publisher.

Publisher details

Oldest episode in feed: 09/2022 · over 4 years
Typical length: 42 min
Format: Episodic Newest first, episodes stand alone

The Paul Wells Show in the rankings

The best News podcasts The best English-language podcasts All rankings ›

For podcasters

Is this podcast yours? Verify it — afterwards you can correct details, get the widget for your website, and we let you know when your podcast is nominated or wins.

Without an account you can use an email address on your show’s own domain — we create the account along the way. The other methods need a login.