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Do we need Ukraine more than Ukraine needs us? Chrystia Freeland makes a business and military case for supporting Ukraine.
@lisang.bsky.social
of New Lines Magazine co-hosts
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Chrystia Freeland’s Ukraine Doctrine
As the Carney government recommits to supporting Ukraine, Freeland argues that we need Ukraine more than it needs us (mostly because of the drones.) Plus, what’s happening with the Ukrainian refugees in Canada?
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3 days ago
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reposted by
Canadaland
Noor Azrieh
5 days ago
It’s one of the last days to vote for the Signal Awards, where I’m up for Best Host: News & Politics! If you’ve enjoyed the show or supported my work this year at
@canadaland.com
, I’d be so grateful if you took a minute to vote. Vote here:
vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting...
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Thunder Bay has been recognized by @ApplePodcasts as one of their Series Essentials.
5 days ago
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Does Canada have a coherent policy in the Middle East?
@lisang.bsky.social
of New Lines Magazine co-hosts
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Greta Thunberg's Dubious Agony in Gaza
Plus, Greta Thunberg makes headlines after she’s detained en route by sea to Gaza. Eyewitnesses allege Israel “treated her like an animal,” but what really happened?
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5 days ago
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What really is involuntary drug treatment? How is it being used? Does it even work?
@noorazrieh.bsky.social
with Mark Page and Alison Ritter.
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BC is Forcing Drug Users into Rehab. Can it Work?
Host Noor Azrieh sits down with legislative reporter Mark Page to unpack what’s happening in B.C., and then goes international to speak with Professor Alison Ritter about what Australia’s experience with involuntary care can teach us.
https://buff.ly/euvkB8d
6 days ago
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 ”You've got a father who never respected you, you've got a family who doesn't respect you, and you have all of this power available to you that your family assumes you will never use.” -Michael Healey, author of Rogers vs. Rogers
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Rogers vs. Rogers
The Rogers family drama was epic. An imperious and secretive billionaire telecom overlord clan loathed across the nation, a ne’er do well heir to the throne and his fashionista wife hanging out at Mar-a-Lago, his secret scheme to seize control of his dead father’s empire exposed by an errant butt dial.
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7 days ago
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Canada banned the Irish group Kneecap, or did it?
@isaacapeltz.bsky.social
co-hosts
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Kneecapping Carney's Anti-Hate Law
There’s still confusion around MP Vince Gasparro’s announcement that Irish rap group Kneecap is banned from Canada, but, at the same time, Carney’s government is moving forward with a new law focused on hate symbols. Is this new approach to hate worth the risk to free speech?
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10 days ago
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We asked you to tell us where we messed up — a few of you caught us off guard. This month on Off The Record, Sam Konnert and Jesse Brown answer your calls to the question, “What should Canadaland NOT have published?”
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BONUS: The Canadaland Call-In Show That Went Wrong
Off The Record is back in its new call-in format.
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11 days ago
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Can Canada Post be salvaged?
@isaacapeltz.bsky.social
co-hosts
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Canada Post is More Screwed Than You Think
Isaac Peltz joins to brainstorm ways to get Canada Post off life support and to explain why coverage in Canada is missing out on the big story of labour in this country.
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12 days ago
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Are Albertans hicks? Is Danielle Smith secretly a genius? Do Albertans actually hate Ottawa? Tune in to a special LIVE Canadaland recording to find out!
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Live from Calgary – WTF is up With Alberta?
Canadaland politics goes on tour with this special live episode in Calgary! Out-of-touch Torontonian Noor sits down with a panel of experts to answer some pressing questions: are Albertans hicks? Is Danielle Smith secretly a genius? Do Albertans actually hate Ottawa?
https://buff.ly/kyjMUaG
13 days ago
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“Leave the country and leave it with your family because you know, if you are at risk, your family's at risk.” -Hinna Asefi Wardak
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What It’s Like To Escape The Taliban
What happens after the men with guns who run your country take aim at you?
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14 days ago
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The Signal Awards have been announced and Canadaland has nominations in two categories this year! 🏆
17 days ago
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Is Carney’s centrism savvy politics or disingenuous pandering? San Grewal of The Pointer hosts with @rmohamed_yow
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In Defence of Carney
Protestors “Draw The Line” as Mark Carney pulls the Liberals towards the center, adopting conservative policies and walking back several Trudeau-era policies on climate, immigration, and social issues.
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17 days ago
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The Jimmy Kimmel saga is a reminder of the crucial role comedy plays in times of political turmoil, so why isn’t there more comedy in Canada right now? San Grewal of The Pointer hosts with the National Post’s
@rmohamedyow.bsky.social
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Canada Takes Its Comedians For Granted
The honorary mayor of Dildo, Newfoundland is back on the air, but the threat to free speech remains.
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19 days ago
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Mark Carney’s made a lot of promises. But he can’t get by on promises alone.
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It's Do or Die Time for Mark Carney
Canada recognized Palestine as a state, Pierre “take me home country roads” Poilievre is back in town, Freeland is on a mission to Ukraine, and the pressure is building on Prime Minister Mark Carney.
https://buff.ly/pakQP5A
20 days ago
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Zombies is good. I like that. The “undead” is actually probably a bit more accurate. -Matthew Church
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Interview With a Guy Who Died
One December night in 2014, Matthew Church died from sudden cardiac arrest. Now, back from the dead, Matthew Church joins us in studio to talk about dying, coming back, and what exactly happened during those eight minutes when his heart stopped beating.
https://buff.ly/XR5aDLb
21 days ago
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Should Ben Mulroney be covering politics for Global News? Plus, Canada is in an existential crisis. Is it time to stop the partisan shenanigans?
@noorazrieh.bsky.social
co-hosts
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Ben Mulroney Says He's Biased and Not a Journalist. He's Global's New Politics Host.
Global News hires a non-journalist to cover politics.
https://buff.ly/JCxpCJ4
24 days ago
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Canadaland Politics is heading to Calgary on Monday, September 22nd! Noor, Sam and Aviva will be visiting with special guests to answer the question: “What is Canada getting wrong about Alberta?”
24 days ago
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Should we be concerned about political violence in Canada?
@noorazrieh.bsky.social
co-hosts
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Canada's Psychotic Codependency with Assassination America
Canadians react to the assasination of Charlie Kirk.
https://buff.ly/66GTFzZ
26 days ago
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Conservative immigration critic Michelle Rempel Garner thinks the Liberals haven’t done enough on immigration. How far would she go? With @noorazrieh.bsky.social
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Michelle Rempel Garner on What Conservatives Want to Do To Immigration
Conservative immigration critic Michelle Rempel Garner sits down with host Noor Azrieh to unpack why she thinks we should scrap the temporary foreign worker program, and how far she’d go to overhaul immigration.
https://buff.ly/t3FG8AR
27 days ago
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The level of incompetence for it not to be corruption would be quite something. -Peter Edwards, Toronto Star crime beat reporter
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Canada's Wildest Prison Break
Rabih (Robby) Alkhalil was in prison for one murder and on trial for another. Then on July 21st, 2022 Alkhalil slipped into a black jumpsuit and a high visibility vest and he walked out the front door of a BC prison. He hopped into a waiting white van and disappeared...
https://buff.ly/6h3CedE
28 days ago
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Will your next vehicle be Chinese? Jan Wong co-hosts
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Let's Flood Canada With Chinese EVs
Carney hits pause on EVs but moves forward on “nation-building” projects.
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about 1 month ago
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You’re invited, then disinvited, then re-invited to TIFF. Jan Wong co-hosts
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Exploiting John Candy
TIFF turns 50 with celebs, controversy, and Carney suggesting that we’re the John Candy of global trade.
https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/1226-exploiting-john-candy/
about 1 month ago
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Donald Trump is bent on achieving and maintaining “unquestioned and unchallenged global technological dominance”. We’re just starting to gear up for the race.
@noorazrieh.bsky.social
with Vass Bednar & Don Lenihan
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What If Trump Shuts Off Canada's Data Servers?
There are only about 300 data centres across Canada. And about HALF of them are run by American tech giants like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. Host Noor Azrieh sits down with Don Lenihan and Vass Bednar and asks whether we can control our digital sovereignty.
https://buff.ly/oEQFZcz
about 1 month ago
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I'm not against making sure that we have a very good military capacity, but if it doesn't include peacekeeping, it means the only thing we're getting ready for is a war, not security, not protection, but war. -Lloyd Axworthy
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Ukraine, Taiwan, Canada
Mark Carney recently made noises about the future possibility of Canadian boots on the ground as part of an international “coalition of the willing” to help guarantee security in Ukraine. In the 1990s Canada had up to 3,000 peacekeepers around the world at any given time. Today we have less than 30. That’s one per cent of what we used to be able to do.
https://buff.ly/jnRPJpc
about 1 month ago
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The NDP is barrelling ahead with a leadership race to replace Jagmeet Singh. Who’s got what it takes to steer the now-rudderless ship?
@taylornoakes.com
co-hosts
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Nobody Wants to Lead the NDP
The race to succeed Jagmeet Singh has begun, but most of the NDP’s big names are steering clear.
https://buff.ly/QHvmZIp
about 1 month ago
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What’s inside the Hudson’s Bay Company’s secret vault of artefacts, and why won’t they reveal the inventory list to Indigenous communities?
@taylornoakes.com
co-hosts
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The Bay has a Secret, Ancient Archive and it’s Being Sold off to Millionaires
The Hudson’s Bay Company is dead.
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about 1 month ago
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A hulking Soviet-era Russian cargo plane is just parked at Toronto’s Pearson Airport. And Canada is trying to do something nobody has ever done before…pull off a legal heist.
@noorazrieh.bsky.social
with
@zakvescera.bsky.social
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The Massive Airplane Canada Seized from Russia
Host Noor sits down with IJF reporter Zak Vescera to talk about why that plane matters, and how far we’re willing to go to keep it.
https://buff.ly/iecVQpL
about 1 month ago
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I think the feeling was just that that talent had been dying to burst out of these kids all this time, and finally, Pow! There they were. -Paul Shaffer
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Paul Shaffer on the Toronto Play That Begat Comedy as We Know It
Three years before the first episode of SNL. Four years before the first episode of SCTV. Martin Short, Eugene Levy, Gilda Radner. Andrea Martin and later Dave Thomas, co-starred in a legendary production of a musical called Godspell at the Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto.
https://buff.ly/F6hzgJH
about 1 month ago
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When it comes to defending your home, Conservatives seem to want “Castle Law.” But is it about a right to self defence or is it about something else? Can the media have nuanced conversations about complex topics? Harrison Lowman co-hosts.
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Intruder! How Violently can we Defend Ourselves?
Doug Ford, Danielle Smith, and Pierre Poilievre all seem to want to make sure we have the right to beat people up in our homes. Only if they aren’t invited, of course.
https://buff.ly/DpA7dke
about 1 month ago
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Pierre Poilievre is BACK baby. But, do people like him? Is he still the same strong party leader from before April’s election? Harrison Lowman co-hosts.
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The Return of Pierre
Pierre Poilievre won his byelection and will be returning to Parliament in September. He’s raring to go, and probably drafting a whole bunch of new catchphrases and slogans.
https://buff.ly/SK7ymUh
about 2 months ago
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We’re not just in ONE trade war, we’re in TWO, and Carney’s elbows are nowhere to be found.
@noorazrieh.bsky.social
with Vina Nadjibulla.
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Wait, We're Also in a Trade War with China?
China’s tariffs on canola seeds would cripple western Canadian farmers. But this tit for tat fight is about more than just canola. Host Noor Azrieh sits down with Vina Nadjibulla who thinks China’s playing us and we shouldn't take the bait.
https://buff.ly/FfzGFma
about 2 months ago
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 Somebody had taken a pound of PCP and dumped it into the chowder, and of course, the theory was that I was such a psycho-maniac that they were trying to get back at me.  But I reject that theory out of hand for obvious reasons. -James Cameron, Titanic Director
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Titanic Mystery! Who Spiked the Chowder?
Parts of the blockbuster were filmed in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, and on the last night of filming there, someone did something. Something that caused director James Cameron to question reality itself
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about 2 months ago
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Carney’s cuts are supposedly coming soon. Is this Canada’s “DOGE” moment? Who will they impact most?
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Are Carney’s Cuts “DOGE” Canada?
In July, Mark Carney made it clear to public workers that there would be a tightening of the belt.
https://buff.ly/uoOHQzX
about 2 months ago
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The most dramatic strike in recent history seemed to sneak up on us without warning. Where was Canada’s labour reporting in the lead up to this past week? San Grewal from The Pointer hosts with Stacy Thomas.
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Why Does Labour Only Get Covered When There's a Strike?
The most dramatic strike in recent history seemed to sneak up on us without warning. Where was Canada’s labour reporting in the lead up to this past week?
https://buff.ly/3mjwZyV
about 2 months ago
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Our kids are broke and seriously unemployed. What happens when young people can't work?
@noorazrieh.bsky.social
asks them.
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Young People Can't Find Work and It's Messing Them Up
We're in the dog days of summer, and for generations, that marked the end of scooping ice cream at the corner shop, pulling espresso shots at the café, or lifeguarding at the local pool.  But for many young Canadians, this isn't the end, cause there was no beginning. This episode, host Noor Azrieh unpacks  what happens when young people can't work.
https://buff.ly/mWBchUX
about 2 months ago
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“I don't think this is destroying democracy. I think this is bringing information, this is bringing facts to the people.” -Saihajpreet Singh
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Ottawa Guy Invents World's Best/Worst A.I. Attack Bot
“I don't think this is destroying democracy. I think this is bringing information, this is bringing facts to the people.” -Saihajpreet Singh
https://buff.ly/Tq3rRCG
about 2 months ago
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Can the Canadian media ecosystem exorcise the ghost of Trudeau? Co-hosted by Ronit Novak of
@thegrainai.bsky.social
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The Gutless Wonder of TIFF
TIFF’s whiff and the legacy of Trudeau’s media policies.
https://buff.ly/uPjkmgN
about 2 months ago
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Becoming a journalist feels like trying to get into a party you weren’t invited to. How do you get an internship? How do you survive on a low salary? Is it even worth it?
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BONUS: Why Canadaland Doesn’t Have Interns
This week, we caught up with past Canadaland fellows to see how they’ve fared. Was their time at Canadaland worth it?
https://buff.ly/KduhGoT
about 2 months ago
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Canada is going all in on AI, but what is the plan, exactly? Co-hosted by Ronit Novak of
@thegrainai.bsky.social
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Evan Almighty: Our A.I. Minister is Glitching
Is Evan Solomon a chatbot? Deciphering the Minister of AI’s jargon-filled tech-speak.
https://buff.ly/UOmP2jN
2 months ago
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📣 CANADALAND POLITICS EPISODE CALLOUT! 📣 Are you Gen Z? Are you between jobs or wondering why every “entry-level” gig wants 5 years’ experience and a master’s degree? We want to hear from YOU. DM our Politics host ‪@noorazrieh.bsky.social‬ or email her at
[email protected]
2 months ago
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You’re not broke due to your shopping addiction. You’re broke because Canada might have a full-blown productivity crisis.
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The Productivity Crisis: are Canadians Just Lazy?
To host Noor Azrieh, that seems dramatic. She says she’s actually quite productive at work. But economists Brian Lewis and Philip Cross say this isn’t about how hard you grind, it’s about how the entire economy turns work into wealth…or, in Canada’s case, doesn’t.
https://buff.ly/UwVyXVz
2 months ago
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“All of this spending that we're talking about, all of it from pistols, drones, to fighter jets and submarines, none of it is going to make sense unless Canadians are willing to  join the armed forces.” - Wesley Wark
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How Carney Can Get You to Serve in the Military
Mark Carney is nation building. To do that, he needs to rebuild the Canadian Armed Forces. Between decades of neglect and the forces’ own goals by way of bad headlines that’s no mean feat.
https://buff.ly/A5h5JEr
2 months ago
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Was the Freedom Convoy a violent uprising or an act of political protest? Co-hosted by
@maxfawcett.bsky.social
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I Was Wrong About The Freedom Convoy
The sentencing of Convoy leaders Tamara Lich and Chris Barber gets political. Plus, sunny skies for solar and the battle over Toronto’s hot dog throne.
https://buff.ly/QzB4esl
2 months ago
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This week, we speak to the people who manipulate and control your emotions. “Manipulate, it sounds like we’re doing something evil…” -Darren Fung
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BONUS: The Most Powerful Tool in Media
It’s not a secret that music makes us feel things, but how does it do it? How do composers create music that makes us happy, sad, confused, emotional, hopeful, scared, and perhaps even make us laugh from time to time?
https://buff.ly/4sVvG1y
2 months ago
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Should Carney take some blame for the ongoing trade war? Co-hosted by
@maxfawcett.bsky.social
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#572 Is Trump Winning Against Canada?
Should Carney take some blame for the ongoing trade war?
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2 months ago
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The Canadian Armed Forces has an extremism problem, and that story has fallen out of the news cycle way too quickly. Are extremists being drawn into our military, or shaped from within?
@noorazrieh.bsky.social
with
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Full Mental Jacket
Plus, the CAF is investigating a private Facebook group where active members shared content deemed “abhorrent” by military leadership.
https://buff.ly/V721eoS
2 months ago
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We went from doing something that would've put us in jail to something that was considered compassionate healthcare almost overnight. -Kerry Bowman, bioethicist
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Live and Let Die - The Battle Over MAID
Canada is now the number one provider of medical assistance in dying in the world per capita. The latest stats, from 2023, show that MAID accounted for almost 5% of all deaths in Canada, or around 15,000 people in that year. And it’s only been legal since 2016.
https://buff.ly/mbSqT20
2 months ago
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What the coverage of the Hockey Canada trial isn’t talking about.
@noorazrieh.bsky.social
hosts with
@arshy.bsky.social
of The Hatchet
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No Penalty for Hockey Goons
An update on Canada’s approach to Palestine and an in-depth discussion of the Hockey Canada Trial and why the coverage isn’t reckoning with the deeper issues within our national sport. Arshy Mann co-hosts.
https://buff.ly/jPG3tdi
2 months ago
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Canada, 1974. A safe and sexy sports car is made entirely in New Brunswick… by an American. Some allege he’s a conman.
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BONUS: The American Who Built Canada’s Car
Why there are no Canadian car companies?
https://buff.ly/KoEWI4b
2 months ago
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