Whipped coming soon to CPAC

June 28, 2026

I’m extremely pleased to announce CPAC, the Cable Public Affairs Channel, has licensed Whipped: the secret world of party discipline. That means the channel will be airing the documentary on television and broadcasting it online. Dates haven’t been determined. But please watch this space, like Whipped‘s Facebook page and check out CPAC’s own Website for […]

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A Current topic

June 27, 2026

The Current is CBC Radio’s flagship current affairs show. So I’m pleased to let you know I’m scheduled to make an appearance on that show this Friday. I’ll be talking about my documentary Whipped: the secret world of party discipline with host Rick MacInnes-Rae. But if you live in Thunder Bay, you don’t have wait […]

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Whipped’s crack Heard on the Hill

June 24, 2026

When I was a journalism student at Carleton University, my great ambition was work at the Hill Times after graduating. That didn’t happen. Instead, I started up my own political insider publication in British Columbia. But I’m excited my work is now being covered by the capital city newsweekly. Deputy editor Bea Vongdouangchanh included an […]

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Do voters want a “sentient person or a trained seal” as their MP?

June 23, 2026

“You’d think a film called Whipped would be the kind of thing that you’d watch after the kids are asleep. But Sean Holman’s new documentary didn’t come in the 21st century equivalent of a plain brown package. Still, it provokes certain emotions that might leave you a bit shaky.” That’s Ottawa Magazine contributing editor Mark […]

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A cure for what ails us?

June 21, 2026

“A good diagnosis, but no cure.” That’s University of Toronto political science PhD candidate Paul Edwin James Thomas‘s summary of Whipped: the secret world of party discipline. In a thoughtful critique posted following last night’s screening of the documentary in Ottawa, Thomas - who is studying theories about MP behaviour - writes that Whipped “raises […]

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The governing party united will never be defeated

June 18, 2026

The song Whip It is an eighties icon. But, based on the voting records of federal MPs, it could also be the theme song for Canada’s House of Commons. According to an exclusive analysis of data provided by Cory Horner - the founder of the now defunct Website How’d They Vote - just 0.7 percent […]

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How Whipped is your MP?

June 18, 2026

Less than two weeks ago, Edmonton-St. Alberta MP Brent Rathgerber quit the Tory caucus to sit as an independent, refusing to be a “cheerleader” for the government. A few months before that, a complaint by fellow Conservative MP Mark Warawa touched off a debate about how much individual freedom our elected representatives have to speak […]

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Whipped screening in Thunder Bay

June 11, 2026

Thunder Bay residents will have a chance to see Whipped: the secret world of party discipline on June 27. The city has been added to the list of the documentary’s Ontario screenings, which start on June 20 in Ottawa. The screening is being co-sponsored by Independent MP Bruce Hyer.

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Whipped screening in Ontario

June 10, 2026

Today, I’m pleased to announce Whipped: the secret world of party discipline will be screening in Ontario later this month. This timely documentary exposes - via candid interviews with past and present politicians - the forces that prevent our elected representatives from standing up for their constituents or even their own conscience in Canada’s legislatures. […]

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On the hunt for trained seals

June 6, 2026

“We have to take a stand that we’re not going to read these talking points that are written by PMO staffers, that we’re not going to vote like trained seals based on how they tell us,” he said. “Too many backbench MPs do willingly what the Prime Minister’s Office wants them to do because they […]

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