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What happens after the men with guns who run your country take aim at you?
Last year reporter Molly Thomas traveled to Pakistan for Canadaland to file a series of reports on one of the world's biggest refugee crises. There are currently somewhere between 1.5 and 3 million Afghans who have fled the Taliban and who are now stuck in limbo in Pakistan. Many have been trying to get to Canada.
Molly's series was called Dear Taliban and one of her stories featured a young woman who called herself Haya.
Haya and her family fled from Kabul to Pakistan where they found themselves stranded and that's where her story ended for us. That was until we heard that Haya had finally made it out and reached Canada
Journalists rarely get this kind of opportunity to follow up on a story that happened halfway around the world. To come back to someone who was stuck with countless other refugees in limbo. To be able to actually answer the question: what happened next? But today we can do that because Haya is here in our studio.
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: Hinna Asefi Wardak
Fact checking by Julian Abraham
Additional music by Audio Network
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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.
Is Carney’s centrism savvy politics or disingenuous pandering?
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Host: San Grewal
Credits: James Nicholson (Producer), Lucie Laumonier (Associate producer and Fact Checking) Caleb Thompson (Post Production), max collins (Director of Audio), Jesse Brown (Editor)
Guest: Rahim Mohamed
Further Reading on Our Website
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The honorary mayor of Dildo, Newfoundland is back on the air, but the threat to free speech remains.
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?
Plus, an update on the Alberta separatist movement.
Host: San Grewal
Credits: James Nicholson (Producer), Lucie Laumonier (Associate producer and Fact Checking) Caleb Thompson (Post Production), max collins (Director of Audio), Jesse Brown (Editor)
Guest: Rahim Mohamed
Additional music by Audio Network
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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. Host Sam Konnert sits down with Mickey Djuric to break down what’s happened this fall sitting, who’s in, who’s out, and if the Carney honeymoon phase is over.
Host: Sam Konnert
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)
Guests: Mickey Djuric
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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.
Credits:
Host: Jesse Brown
Caleb Thompson (Post Production), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), max collins (Director of Audio), Jesse Brown (Editor and Publisher)
Fact checking by Julian Abraham
Additional music by Audio Network
Further Reading
Zola’s Story in the Purina Hall of Fame
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Global News hires a non-journalist to cover politics.
Plus, parliament is back and it’s business as usual. With Canada in an existential crisis, is it time to stop the partisan shenanigans?
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: James Nicholson (Producer), Lucie Laumonier (Associate Producer and Fact Checking) tom sayers (Audio Editor), max collins (Director of Audio), Jesse Brown (Editor)
Guest: Noor Azrieh
Additional music by Audio Network
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Canadians react to the assasination of Charlie Kirk.
The killing of a prominent US conservative dominates Canadian headlines and online comments trigger partisan debates, doxing, and threats of violence.
Should we be concerned about political violence in Canada?
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: James Nicholson (Producer), Lucie Laumonier (Associate Producer and Fact Checking) tom sayers (Audio Editor), max collins (Director of Audio), Jesse Brown (Editor)
Guest: Noor Azrieh
Further reading on our website.
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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.
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: MP Michelle Rempel Garner
Credit to Film Mission and Joe Anidjar for footage from the Canada First Protest.
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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. And for the last three years Alkhalil has stayed, at least, one step ahead of the law.
Alkhalil made new headlines last week. A series of news reports claimed he'd been arrested in Qatar. The RCMP scheduled a press conference and promised an update on the case.
Then something weird happened.
The RCMP announced that three men had been charged in connection with helping Alkhalil escape, but the RCMP would neither confirm nor deny that he was arrested in Qatar.
Was his escape the most audacious in recent Canadian history? Was it a stunning display of the prison authority’s incompetence or corruption? And why won’t the RCMP confirm or deny his capture in Qatar?
Veteran crime beat reporter Peter Edwards joins us to try and make sense of the escape and manhunt of Robby Alkhalil.
Credits:
Host: Jesse Brown
Caleb Thompson (Post Production), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), max collins (Director of Audio), Jesse Brown (Editor and Publisher)
Fact checking by Julian Abraham
Additional music by Audio Network
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Carney hits pause on EVs but moves forward on “nation-building” projects.
With Canola farmers being hit hard by Chinese tariffs, is the solution to drop the 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs? Scott Moe and Danielle Smith think so.
Plus, a goodbye to Franklin, Babar, and The Magic Schoolbus.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: James Nicholson (Producer), Lucie Laumonier (Associate Producer and Fact Checking) tom sayers (Audio Editor), max collins (Director of Audio), Jesse Brown (Editor)
Guest: Jan Wong
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