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It’s election time in Newfoundland and Labrador — and beef with Quebec is back on the menu.
This week, host Sam unpacks how a 1969 deal turned Newfoundland’s mighty river into Quebec’s cash cow, earning Hydro-Québec billions while leaving Newfoundland with scraps. Now, decades later, the province says it’s finally taking back control.
Host: Sam Konnert
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Senior Producer), Sam Konnert (Host/Producer), Noor Azrieh (Host/Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Max Collins (Director of Audio) Jesse Brown (Editor), Tony Wang (Artwork)
Guests: Dr. Russell Williams, Senator David Wells
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The Civil Rights Movement of the ‘50s and ‘60s in the United States gave the world iconic, inspiring, and sometimes horrific moments, burned by repetition into the public imagination. Even as a Canadian, you know the sights and sounds of that civil rights fight. You can picture MLK preaching his dream.
But what did the civil rights struggle look and sound like in Canada? Does anything come to mind? Perhaps Viola Desmond, challenging segregation at a cinema in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, recently memorialized on the ten dollar bill.
Why so few images in the collective conscience? Where are the Canadian sights and sounds of the era?
Today’s guest has the answer, and the footage to back it up. Filmmaker Michèle Stephenson has just premiered her new film True North.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor & Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), max collins (Director of Audio), Jesse Brown (Editor and Publisher)
Featured Guest: Michèle Stephenson
Fact checking by Julian Abraham
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Chrystia Freeland makes the business and military case for supporting Ukraine.
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?
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: James Nicholson (Producer), Jules Bugiel (Associate Producer and Fact Checking) Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), max collins (Director of Audio), Jesse Brown (Editor)
Guest: Lisa Goldman
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With new prospects for ceasefire in Gaza led by Trump, is Canada’s approach to the Middle East coherent?
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?
Vote for Noor Azrieh as Best Host of a News and Politics show at the Signal Awards.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: James Nicholson (Producer), Jules Bugiel (Associate producer and Fact Checking) Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Jesse Brown (Editor)
Guest: Lisa Goldman
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British Columbia is rolling back safe supply and decriminalization, and moving toward something very different: forcibly detaining and treating people with severe addictions. Alberta is already doing it. Ontario is considering it. Canada is entering a new era of drug policy, one called involuntary care.
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.
Host: Noor Azrieh
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Senior Producer), Sam Konnert (Producer), Noor Azrieh (Host/Producer), Caleb Thompson (Post Production), Max Collins (Director of Audio) Jesse Brown (Editor), Tony Wang (Artwork)
Guests: Mark Page, Alison Ritter
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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.
If that had happened anywhere else, you bet they'd make a movie about it. But it happened in Canada, eh. So instead of a blockbuster they made a one man play about it. Playwright Michael Healey wrote that play and he joins us today to survey the saga that was Rogers vs. Rogers.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor & Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), max collins (Director of Audio), Jesse Brown (Editor and Publisher)
Featured Guest: Michael Healey
Fact checking by Julian Abraham
Additional music by Audio Network
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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?
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: James Nicholson (Producer), Lucie Laumonier (Associate producer and Fact Checking) Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), max collins (Director of Audio), Jesse Brown (Editor)
Guest: Isaac Peltz
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Off The Record is back in its new call-in format. The question for this week was “What should Canadaland NOT have published?”
Host Sam Konnert sat down with Jesse Brown to field all of your calls for two hours this past Monday and we were honestly quite surprised by how it went.
Host: Sam Konnert
Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Producer), Tony Wang (Executive Producer), max collins (Director of Audio), Jesse Brown (Publisher)
Guests: Jesse Brown
Photo: Tony Wang
Additional music by Audio Network
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Carney says Canada Post is “insolvent,” but is it possible to save it?
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.
Plus, an update on Travis Dhanraj’s issues with the CBC.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: James Nicholson (Producer), Lucie Laumonier (Associate producer and Fact Checking) Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), max collins (Director of Audio), Jesse Brown (Editor)
Guest: Isaac Peltz
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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!
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?
Special thanks to Mount Royal University and the Community Podcast initiative for hosting us.
Host: Noor Azrieh
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Senior Producer), Sam Konnert (Producer), Noor Azrieh (Host/Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Max Collins (Director of Audio) Jesse Brown (Editor), Tony Wang (Artwork)
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