The Nations of Canada

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Episode 230: A Community of Language Jan 22, 2025

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A bill to excise the French language from Manitoba's government and schools sparks a debate on what kind of nation Canada is.
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Episode 229: This Bastard Nationality Jan 15, 2025

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The passage of a bill regarding the Jesuit Order in Quebec's legislature sparks a heated debate on the kind of nation Canadians have been building since confederation.
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Episode 228: The Wrong of '67 Jan 08, 2025

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The new premier of Quebec, Honore Mercier, hosts his colleagues from across the country as they fashion a constitutional program that puts the provinces, not Ottawa, at the centre of confederation.
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Episode 227: The Knights of Labor Jan 01, 2025

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A new wave of labour unrest hits Canada, culminating in a battle over Toronto's public transit.
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Episode 226: Made One People By the Road Dec 25, 2024

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The Canadian Pacific Railway completes its trans-continental line, revolutionizing the economy, demographics, and politics of British Columbia
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Episode 225: A Vaccine More than Suspect Dec 18, 2024

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A public health crisis in Montreal spins out of control, the product of mistrust between the mostly Protestant, Anglophone municipal officials and the French Catholic population of the city.
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Episode 224: The Regina Trials Dec 11, 2024

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In the aftermath of the fighting, the meaning and legacy of 1885 is determined in a series of trials in Regina.
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Episode 223: A Human Hornet's Nest Dec 04, 2024

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The Canadian militia arrives in the northwest to suppress a Metis rebellion, but finds the situation there more complicated than anyone in the east imagined.
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Episode 222: They Have Taken My Name Away From Me Nov 27, 2024

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While the Canadian government organizes a military response, and the Metis provisional government contemplates its next move, the initiative in the northwest passes to the Cree chiefs of Treaty Six territory, especially Poundmaker and Big Bear.
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Episode 221: Duck Lake Nov 20, 2024

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The mounting tension in the Northwest is finally released, as violence breaks out between the Northwest Mounted Police and a group of Metis.
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