The Swing

This episode host Heather Bakken is joined by Pendulum colleagues Jennifer Irish and Yaroslav Baran to discuss how the seemingly unplanned aspects of U.S. strategy in Iran are actually playing out geopolitically and...

This week marks four years since the most recent unprovoked attack on Ukraine by Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Ukrainians have been at war for 12 years and have spent the last four shedding blood, tears, and the stability...

Closing out season one on The Swing , Pendulum`s Yaroslav Baran and Heather Bakken discuss the political year that was: who`s up and who`s down, communications wins and losses, and what actually got done. The Liberals...

On this episode of The Swing , we dive into one of the most consequential, and least understood, aspects of the war in Ukraine: Russia’s frozen state assets. Roughly $300B USD were seized by the G7 and EU in 2022 and...

How do you clear a path for peace using a blueprint for capitulation? In this episode of The Swing , Pendulum's Heather Bakken, Yaroslav Baran and Balkan Devlen (also an internationally renowned geopolitical strategist)...

Pendulum's Heather Bakken and Yaroslav Baran break down the narrow but decisive passage of Canada’s federal budget — a vote that hinged on the Green Party's unexpected support for the Liberals and the abstentions of...

Canada's long awaited budget will be tabled on November 4th. It's the first one in 18 months and will lay out the new Carney government's agenda from a dollars and cents perspective. What are the signals it will send to...

We’re unpacking Canada’s evolving Indo-Pacific strategy: what it means, where it’s headed and why it matters now more than ever. This week Yaroslav Baran is joined by two luminaries of foreign policy and trade with a...

After four years advising two Prime Ministers of Canada on foreign policy, Oz Jungic breaks his silence with Pendulum . Jungic is moving on to another role outside of the political sphere and sat down with host Yaroslav...

As Canada doubles down on resource development and infrastructure through its new Major Projects Office (MPO) and Bill C-5 (An Act to Enact the Free Trade and Labour Mobility in Canada Act and the Building Canada Act)...

The House is back! This week on The Swing , we examine Canada’s return to Parliament and the political tone-setting that will shape the months ahead. Parliamentary committees are structured groups of MPs drawn from all...

This episode offers sharp insights into how Ottawa is preparing for its toughest test yet. Canada's lawmakers will be returning to the House next week in what promises to be a high-stakes fall sitting of Parliament...

This week on The Swing , Yaroslav Baran, Balkan Devlen, and host Heather Bakken unpack three pivotal developments shaping Canada’s political and economic trajectory. A Cabinet Planning Forum sets the stage for a...

Hop on The Swing to look at Canadian politics through a wider, global lens. This week, Yaroslav and Heather break down Prime Minister Mark Carney’s scrapping of U.S. tariffs, his surprise stop in Kyiv with nearly $2B in...

This week on The Swing , Yaroslav and Heather unpack three developments that reveal just how unpredictable, and globally entangled, Canadian politics has become. The August 1 trade deadline came and went without a deal...