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Migrant farm workers aren't the only temporary foreign workers who have been largely forgotten and failed during the pandemic. Producer Sula Greene brings us the voices of workers some of us see every day but who nevertheless often remain invisible. What do these women endure to become Permanent Residents of Canada, and is that goal even possible given our current system?
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Torstar publishes pro-gambling content now. And the Rogers family vacation at Mar-a-Lago. Data journalist David Weisz co-hosts.
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In 1972, the government funded an absurd study to measure the impact of cannabis on productivity.
Show Notes: Young women were sequestered in a hospital ward for 98 days and administered daily doses of super-potent, government-grown marijuana. They smoked 2 joints a day while weaving macrame belts for money.
Their story is the subject of a new indie film, The Marijuana Conspiracy
But it was first told to reporter Diana Zlomislic by Doreen Brown, who now bring it to us.
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Media reacts to a perplexing Court decision on Bill 21, Quebec's law banning some public servants from wearing religious symbols. And Rebel News is facing new scrutiny. CANADALAND's French language media correspondent Emilie Nicolas co-hosts.
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Ever since the Canadian government announced recommendations that adults from Indigenous and racialized communities should be given priority for a COVID-19 vaccination, accusations of reverse racism have filled comment sections and social media posts.
Now, racial minorities with vaccine priority are facing racism and other structural barriers to getting the jab.
Our new reporter, Cherise Seucharan, has been trying to find out exactly why these policies are needed, how they're working out — and whether the Canadian public is willing to back them.
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As provinces fail spectacularly to control the third wave of the pandemic, is the press adequately holding them to account, or making things worse? And what are the ethics of publishing a a picture of a nude MP accidentally caught on Zoom?
Freelance journalist Justin Ling co-hosts.
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Filmmaker Daniel Lombroso spent four years following Lauren Southern, Richard Spencer, and Mike Cernovich with a camera, as their stars rose and the bigotry and xenophobia they championed went mainstream.
The result is White Noise, a feature-length documentary produced by The Atlantic.
And though they're less prominent these days, and we might be eager to forget about Southern, Spencer, Cernovich and their alt-right acolytes, Lombroso warns us that we do so at our peril.
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GraceLife Church and Montreal riots against public health directives had us wondering why mainstream narratives about vaccine hesitancy focus so much on racialized communities. And journalists are officially hella tired. Freelance journalist Fatima Syed and Torstar Editor Evy Kwong co-host.
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The Landlord Credit Bureau lets landlords review their tenants and report their payment habits. The information is shared with other landlords, and it can damage a tenant's credit rating.
But is that legal?
In the midst of the pandemic, Hamilton resident Joey Nicol and her partner found they'd been signed up for the Landlord Credit Bureau by their landlord. Fearing eviction, they started to investigate.
Jesse speaks with Nicol about her family's experience. Then he talks to MPP Jessica Bell, housing critic for the Ontario NDP, and to privacy lawyer David Fraser.
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An uprising of frontline workers forces change to COVID policies. And with a major merger in the works, a telecom giant makes the case that less competition is good for Canada. Freelance journalist Nora Loreto co-hosts.
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