Stay ConnectedCOMMONS is a documentary podcast that proves Canada is anything but boring. Each season, host Arshy Mann guides you through the country’s dark underbelly, bringing you stories about crime, corruption and all manner of misdeeds.
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The Oka Crisis was the biggest military confrontation on Canadian soil in more than a century. On its face, it was about a golf course expansion. But for the Mohawks who took up arms, it was the culmination of a centuries-long fight for recognition of their sovereignty and their land.
Featured in this episode: Thaioronióhte Dan David, Loreen Pindera, Geoffrey York (Globe and Mail)
To learn more:
People of the Pines: The Warriors and Legacy of Okaby Loreen Pindera and Geoffrey York
Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistanceby Alanis Obomsawin
Rocks at Whiskey Trenchby Alanis Obomsawin
“The Oka Crisis — looking forward after 30 years” by Thaioronióhte Dan David in CBC News
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This episode is sponsored by Dispatch Coffee, Value(s) by Mark Carney and BankSwitch.
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Real estate mania is at an all time high in this country. And in no place is this more true than in Vancouver. But nobody can even agree on what went wrong.
Have snooty property owners, overreaching bureaucrats, and gutless politicians allowed the housing supply to dwindle to nothing?
Or has a network of transnational criminals turned Vancouver into a narco-capital built on dirty money?
Featured in this episode: Frances Bula, Sam Cooper, Lindsey Murphy, Jesse Donaldson
To learn more:
“Vancouver's affordable housing announcements remain unfulfilled years later” by Frances Bula in The Globe and Mail
Wilful Blindness: How a Network of Narcos, Tycoons and CCP Agents Infiltrated the West by Sam Cooper
“Inside Vancouver City Hall's Housing Wars” by Doug Ward in The Tyee
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Vancouver is obsessed with real estate. But what most people don't realize, is that it's been this way from the beginning.
Three stories of the swindlers, segregationists and profiteers that made Terminal City what it is.
Featured in this episode: Jesse Donaldson, Jordan Stanger-Ross, Michael Abe, Stephen Learey
To learn more:
Land of Destiny: A History of Vancouver Real Estate by Jesse Donaldson
Landscapes of Injustice: A New Perspective on the Internment and Dispossession of Japanese Canadians edited by Jordan Stanger-Ross
“Expo 86 evictions: remembering the fair's dark side” by Rafferty Baker in CBC News
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Africville was one of Canada's oldest Black settlements, a proud community of more than 400 people. And then the City of Halifax decided to utterly obliterate it.
There was one man who simply refused to leave. Eddie Carvery may not have been the best man for the job. But for half a century, he has never stopped fighting for his home.
Featured in this episode: Eddie Carvery, Jon Tattrie
To learn more:
The Hermit of Africville: The Life of Eddie Carvery by Jon Tattrie
Remember Africville by Shelagh Mackenzie
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The Bridle Path is one of the most exclusive neighbourhoods in Canada, home to the ultra-wealthy and the famous. But behind their locked gates, some of Canada's elite try to scheme their way into even greater wealth on the property market — not always legally. And their ambitions have a way of becoming problems for the rest of us.
Featured in this episode: Kozeta Izeti, Norma Walton
NOTE: The original version of this episode contained an additional story, which we will publish separately.
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Stories about Canada's real estate obsession.
The first episode drops on April 28, 2021.
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Almost a year after the worst mass shooting in modern Canadian history, Nova Scotians are still in the dark about what exactly happened. A gunman, dressed in an RCMP uniform, driving an RCMP cruiser killed 22 people.
In the months since, the Mounties have been short on answers. And it's left people wondering whether they have something to hide.
Featured in this episode: Stephen Maher, Paul Palango, Sandra McCulloch
To learn more:
“13 deadly hours” from The Fifth Estate by CBC News
“How the Nova Scotia shooting victims' families won a public inquiry into the tragedy,” by Stephen Maher in Maclean's
“The Nova Scotia shooter case has hallmarks of an undercover operation” by Paul Palango, Stephen Maher, Shannon Gormley in Maclean's
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This episode is sponsored by Rotman, Cullen's Foods, and Hello Fresh.
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For three decades, much of Northern Ontario has been engaged in an unprecedented experiment in policing. It's called the Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service. And the idea is simple: the old, colonial cops shouldn't be policing Indigenous territory. Instead, Indigenous people should police themselves.
Featured in this episode: Kyle Edwards, Christian Leuprecht
To learn more:
“Inside the impossible work of Canada's biggest Indigenous police force” by Kyle Edwards in Maclean's
“Force 2.0: Fixing the Governance, Leadership, and Structure of the RCMP” by Christian Leuprecht
“Memories of a fire” by Mark Blackburn in APTN News
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When John and Susan Pruyn came to Toronto, they were hoping to protest against the G20 and then spend some time with their daughter. Instead, they would be caught up in a whirlwind of police misconduct with few precedents in Canadian history.
Featured in this episode: Jesse Rosenfeld, John Pruyn, Susan Pruyn, Sarah Pruyn.
Jesse Rosenfeld is a Toronto born journalist who has covered the Middle East since 2007. Based in Ramallah, Tel Aviv, Gaza City, Cairo, Beirut, Istanbul, and Athens over the years, he has also reported from Iraq and the Balkans, contributing to The Nation Magazine, The Daily Beast, The Intercept, and Al Jazeera, among others. His work in the region is the basis of the National Film Board of Canada documentary Freelancer on the Front Lines.
To learn more:
“‘'I will not forget what they have done to me'” in The Toronto Star
You Should Have Stayed At Home by CBC's The Fifth Estate
“Rejecting G20's consensus of the few” by Jesse Rosenfeld in The Guardian
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In the first of a two-part series on the G20, two mysterious strangers start volunteering with activist networks in southern Ontario. It's all part of one of the biggest undercover police operations in Canadian history.
To learn more:
“Unmasked: Searching for lessons in Toronto's 2010 G20 debacle” by Andrea Bennett in Maisonneuve
“How police infiltrated groups planning G20 protests” by Adrian Morrow and Kim Mackrael in The Globe and Mail
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