Date
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Topic
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Pro
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Con
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Winner
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Swing
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Venue
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May 26, 2008
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Be it resolved, the world is a safer place with a Republican in the White House…
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Charles Krauthammer and Niall Ferguson
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Samantha Power and Richard Holbrooke
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Pro
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17%
|
Royal Ontario Museum
|
Dec 1, 2008
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Be it resolved, if countries like Sudan, Somalia and Burma will not end their man-made humanitarian crises, the international community should…
|
Gareth Evans and Mia Farrow
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John Bolton and Rick Hillier
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Con
|
9%
|
Royal Ontario Museum
|
June 1, 2009
|
Be it resolved, foreign aid does more harm than good…
|
Hernando de Soto Polar and Dambisa Moyo
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Stephen Lewis and Paul Collier
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Pro
|
2%
|
Royal Ontario Museum
|
Dec 1, 2009
|
Be it resolved, climate change is mankind’s defining crisis, and demands a commensurate response…
|
George Monbiot and Elizabeth May
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Bjørn Lomborg and Nigel Lawson
|
Con
|
8%
|
The Royal Conservatory of Music
|
June 7, 2010
|
Be it resolved, I would rather get sick in the United States than Canada…
|
Bill Frist and David Gratzer
|
Howard Dean and Robert Bell
|
Con
|
7%
|
The Royal Conservatory of Music
|
Nov 26, 2010
|
Be it resolved, religion is a force for good in the world…
|
Tony Blair
|
Christopher Hitchens
|
Con
|
13%
|
Roy Thomson Hall
|
June 17, 2011
|
Be it resolved, the 21st century will belong to China…
|
Niall Ferguson and David Daokui Li
|
Henry Kissinger and Fareed Zakaria
|
Con
|
22%
|
Roy Thomson Hall
|
Nov 14, 2011
|
Be it resolved, North America faces a Japan-style era of high unemployment and slow growth…
|
Paul Krugman and David Rosenberg
|
Lawrence Summers and Ian Bremmer
|
Con
|
19%
|
Roy Thomson Hall
|
May 25, 2012
|
Be it resolved, the European experiment has failed…
|
Niall Ferguson and Josef Joffe
|
Daniel Cohn-Bendit and Peter Mandelson
|
Con
|
17%
|
Roy Thomson Hall
|
November 26, 2012
|
Be it resolved, the world cannot tolerate an Iran with nuclear weapons capability…
|
Amos Yadlin and Charles Krauthammer
|
Fareed Zakaria and Vali Nasr
|
Con
|
18%
|
Roy Thomson Hall
|
May 30, 2013
|
Be it resolved, tax the rich (more)…
|
George Papandreou and Paul Krugman
|
Newt Gingrich and Arthur Laffer
|
Pro
|
12%
|
Roy Thomson Hall
|
November 15, 2013
|
Be it resolved, men are obsolete…
|
Hanna Rosin and Maureen Dowd
|
Caitlin Moran and Camille Paglia
|
Pro
|
28%
|
Roy Thomson Hall
|
May 2, 2014
|
Be it resolved, state surveillance is a legitimate defence of our freedoms….
|
Michael Hayden and Alan Dershowitz
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Glenn Greenwald and Alexis Ohanian
|
Con
|
13%
|
Roy Thomson Hall
|
November 5, 2014
|
Be it resolved, Obama’s foreign policy is emboldening our enemies and making the world a more dangerous place…
|
Bret Stephens and Robert Kagan
|
Anne-Marie Slaughter and Fareed Zakaria
|
Con
|
11%
|
Roy Thomson Hall
|
April 10, 2015
|
Be it resolved, the West should engage not isolate Russia…
|
Stephen F. Cohen and Vladimir Pozner
|
Anne Applebaum and Garry Kasparov
|
Con
|
10%
|
Roy Thomson Hall
|
Sept 28, 2015
|
The Munk Debate on Canada’s Foreign Policy
|
Stephen Harper, Tom Mulcair, Justin Trudeau
|
–
|
–
|
Roy Thomson Hall
|
November 6, 2015
|
Be it resolved, humankind’s best days lie ahead…
|
Steven Pinker and Matt Ridley
|
Alain de Botton and Malcolm Gladwell
|
Pro
|
2%
|
Roy Thomson Hall
|
April 1, 2016
|
Be it resolved, give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…
|
Louise Arbour and Simon Schama
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Nigel Farage and Mark Steyn
|
Con
|
22%
|
Roy Thomson Hall
|
September 30, 2016
|
Be it resolved, Donald Trump can make America great again…
|
Newt Gingrich and Laura Ingraham
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Robert Reich and Jennifer Granholm
|
Pro
|
6%
|
Roy Thomson Hall
|
April 28, 2017
|
Be it resolved, the liberal international order is over…
|
Niall Ferguson
|
Fareed Zakaria
|
Con
|
5%
|
Roy Thomson Hall
|
October 12, 2017
|
Be it resolved, American democracy is in its worst crisis in a generation and Donald J. Trump is to blame…
|
Andrew Sullivan and E.J. Dionne
|
Newt Gingrich and Kimberly Strassel
|
Con
|
3%
|
Roy Thomson Hall
|
May 18, 2018
|
Be it resolved, what you call political correctness, I call progress…
|
Michael Eric Dyson and Michelle Goldberg
|
Stephen Fry and Jordan Peterson
|
Con
|
6%
|
Roy Thomson Hall
|
November 2, 2018
|
Be it resolved, the future of western politics is populist not liberal…
|
Steve Bannon
|
David Frum
|
Tie*
|
0%
|
Roy Thomson Hall
|
May 9, 2019
|
Be it resolved, China is a threat to the liberal international order…
|
H. R. McMaster and Michael Pillsbury
|
Kishore Mahbubani and Wang Huiyao
|
Con*
|
2%
|
Roy Thomson Hall
|
December 4, 2019
|
Be it resolved, the capitalist system is broken. It’s time to try something different…
|
Katrina Vanden Heuvel and Yanis Varoufakis
|
Arthur Brooks and David Brooks
|
Con
|
2%
|
Roy Thomson Hall
|
May 12, 2022
|
Be it resolved, ending the world’s worst geopolitical crisis in a generation starts with acknowledging Russia’s security interests…
|
John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt
|
Michael McFaul and Radosław Sikorski
|
Con
|
34%
|
Roy Thomson Hall
|
November 30, 2022
|
Be it resolved, don´t trust Mainstream Media
|
Douglas Murray and Matt Taibbi
|
Malcolm Gladwell and Michelle Goldberg
|
Pro
|
39%
|
Roy Thomson Hall
|
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