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New polling-driven podcast explores the ‘why’ behind public opinion

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Gabriel De Roche, left, and Kyla Ronellenfitsch will co-host the new podcast, Culture Lab, debuting on Feb. 18. He’s ‘the Toronto to Kyla’s Saskatchewan, the opera to Kyla’s Taylor Swift, [but] that contrast turned out to be a strength,' they told The Hill Times.Photographs courtesy of Air Quotes Media

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BY CHRISTINA LEADLAY

February 11, 2026

An Ottawa-based pollster and a former Queen's Park senior adviser turned public-opinion nerd now living in California are mixing up an experimental new podcast launching Feb. 18.

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