Federal party leaders tend to spend their summers on the barbecue circuit, glad-handing voters from coast to coast, always within reach of a hamburger and never far from an audience. Maclean’s and its Rogers broadcast partners plan to disrupt the dog days of summer with a hefty dose of substantive politics. Maclean’s political editor Paul Wells will pull the leaders into a spirited national leaders’ debate on Aug. 6 from 8 to 10 p.m. ET.
Canadians won’t have to go far to find the debate, which will offer voters their first glimpse this year of four federal party leaders—Stephen Harper, Thomas Mulcair, Justin Trudeau and Elizabeth May—on the same stage. It will be recorded in City’s Toronto studio and air live, commercial-free and with closed captioning, on City, OMNI.1, OMNI.2, and CPAC. It will also stream live at Macleans.ca, Citytv.com, CityNews.ca, OMNItv.ca, CPAC.ca, Facebook, YouTube, and on Rogers Radio stations at 680News.com, 570news.com, 660News.com, 1310News.com, News1130.com and News957.com. CPAC’s broadcast of the English-language debate will provide simultaneous translation into French, but the audience will reach beyond Canada’s official languages. OMNI will translate the proceedings into Italian, Mandarin, Cantonese and Punjabi in real time.
Canadians won’t have to go far to find the debate, which will offer voters their first glimpse this year of four federal party leaders—Stephen Harper, Thomas Mulcair, Justin Trudeau and Elizabeth May—on the same stage. It will be recorded in City’s Toronto studio and air live, commercial-free and with closed captioning, on City, OMNI.1, OMNI.2, and CPAC. It will also stream live at Macleans.ca, Citytv.com, CityNews.ca, OMNItv.ca, CPAC.ca, Facebook, YouTube, and on Rogers Radio stations at 680News.com, 570news.com, 660News.com, 1310News.com, News1130.com and News957.com. CPAC’s broadcast of the English-language debate will provide simultaneous translation into French, but the audience will reach beyond Canada’s official languages. OMNI will translate the proceedings into Italian, Mandarin, Cantonese and Punjabi in real time.
