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Episode 280: The Best Safeguard of the Faith Dec 17, 2025

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1912. New regulations on the use of French in Ontario public schools galvanizes the province's growing francophone population and sets off a fresh round of French Canadian nationalism in Quebec.
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Episode 279: Not Asked For Nor Wanted Dec 10, 2025

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1911. A panic over black settlers moving into western Canada sparks a heated debate on Canada's immigration laws, and the country's racial politics.
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Episode 278: A Parting of the Ways Dec 03, 2025

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September 1911. An unlikely partnership of conservative imperialists and French Canadian nationalists bring an end to Wilfrid Laurier's fifteen-year rule in Ottawa.
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Episode 277: Reciprocity 2.0 Nov 26, 2025

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1911. Desperate for a distraction from the Navy Question, Wilfrid Laurier is presented with a golden opportunity to fulfill a decades-long ambition by developments in Washington.
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Episode 276: A Situation Disgraceful to the Country Nov 19, 2025

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1911. A damning report from a public health official sparks a national conversation on the future of the Indian Residential Schools program.
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Episode 275: Fiasco Canadense Nov 12, 2025

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As a growing pile of Canadian capital seeks new investment opportunities, a group of entrepreneurs, engineers, and corporate lawyers descend on the fast growing coffee economy of Brazil.
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Episode 274: A Tin Pot Navy Nov 05, 2025

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1910. When Britain calls on Canada to help fund its naval arms race with Germany, Wilfrid Laurier faces his greatest political test since the Boer War.
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Episode 273: The Fishermen's Advocate Oct 29, 2025

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1910. Disillusioned with the governance provided by the elites of St. John's, Newfoundland's outport fishermen form their own political and social movement.
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Episode 272: Coal and Steel Oct 22, 2025

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1910. Nova Scotia enters the industrial age with ambitions to become an international steel-making power. However, by extension, the province also enters a new, modern age of conflict between the forces of labour and capital.
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Episode 271: Strangers Within Our Gates Oct 15, 2025

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1909. Canadians grapple with the implications of large scale migration from continental Europe, and begin a long-running debate on how so-called "New Canadians" fit into the national story.
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