Media Room | Munk Debates

Tonight in Toronto some of the biggest names in U.S. politics and media debated Donald Trump’s candidacy for President of the United States. The result was a surprise victory by Trump’s defenders at the debate, Newt Gingrich and Laura Ingraham over their Democratically minded opponents Robert Reich and Jennifer Granholm.

Newt Gingrich, Laura Ingraham, Robert Reich & Jennifer Granholm convene in Toronto, Canada, to debate the U.S. election.

Louise Arbour, Nigel Farage, Simon Schama, and Mark Steyn convene in Toronto, Canada, to debate the pressing issue of our time.

Malcolm Gladwell, Alain de Botton, Steven Pinker and Matt Ridley convene in Toronto, Canada, to debate the future of progress.

The Munk Debates are announcing today the membership of its national academic advisory council for the first ever election debate on Canada’s foreign policy.

Chaired by Stephen Toope, Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs, the council advised the Debates on the topics and themes that will form the basis of tonight’s election debate. Made up of leading scholars of international affairs from across Canada and overseas, the council also advised the debate’s moderator, Rudyard Griffiths, on the framing of the questions that will be put to leaders at Roy Thomson Hall.