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We're in the Fight of Our Lives Oct 20, 2025

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Host: Jesse Brown

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Episode 6: Finesse Jul 09, 2025

"Who just wants to be a nice guy?"

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Episode 5: DOs and DON’Ts Jul 02, 2025

"I think this podcast is a bad idea."

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Episode 4: You Should Be Thankful Jun 25, 2025

"At that point it's really just survival mode."

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Episode 3: Heavy Hitters Jun 19, 2025

"It sounded like a multi-level marketing scheme. But for drug trafficking."

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Episode 2: Move That Dope Jun 11, 2025

"This sounds like easy money."

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Episode 1: Bob's Your Oyster Jun 04, 2025

"They pay you in coolness."

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Capitalism: Market Failure | Canadaland Investigates x Scene On Radio Apr 02, 2025

Today we’re bringing you something a bit different, made by our friends at Scene On Radio: the debut episode of their seventh season, Capitalism.

The world’s dominant economic system is on trial as it hasn’t been for at least half a century. Millions, young people especially, now see capitalism as the problem, not the solution. Others fear throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

By John Biewen, with co-host Ellen McGirt. Interviews with John Fullerton, Cassandra Brooks and Charlene Brooks.

Story editor: Loretta Williams. Music by Michelle Osis, Lilli Haydn, Alex Symcox, and Goodnight, Lucas. Music consulting by Joe Augustine of Narrative Music. Art by Gergo Varga and Harper Biewen.

“Capitalism” is a production of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, in partnership with Imperative 21.

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Episode 6: The Trial Feb 19, 2025

Back in Canada, Hassan Diab’s life is hanging in limbo. He may be arrested at any moment, and Canada’s government won’t ensure his safety. What does justice mean for the victims of the Copernic attack, and what does it mean for Diab and his supporters?

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Episode 5: The Detention Feb 12, 2025

Hassan Diab faces a new reality in Europe’s largest maximum security prison. But when Marc Trévidic is replaced by new investigative judges, the case is thrown into uncertainty - and Hassan's fortunes begin to shift.

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Episode 4: The Extradition Feb 05, 2025

France requests that Hassan be brought to Paris to stand trial. One of Canada’s most respected lawyers takes the case and fights the extradition. As the hearings drag on for years, more people start to question the French evidence against Diab.

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Episode 3: The Professor Jan 29, 2025

Hassan Diab, a sociology professor living in Ottawa, is finishing up his classes for the day when he learns that he is the primary suspect in France’s investigation into the Copernic synagogue bombing. At first, he doesn't believe this. But he begins to sense that he’s being surveilled. Then early one morning, he hears an unexpected knock on his door.

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Episode 2: The Investigation Jan 22, 2025

After decades of dead ends, a young and ambitious judge - known for finding new ways to interpret old evidence - takes over the Copernic synagogue case. He narrows his search down to one man who he finds living a quiet life in the capital city of Canada.

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Episode 1: The Attack Jan 22, 2025

Just before 6:30 pm on October 3rd, 1980, Oron Shagrir’s mother, Aliza, was walking down Rue Copernic in Paris, looking to buy some figs. Minutes later, she was killed, along with three others, in an explosion that still haunts France today.

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Introducing: The Copernic Affair (Official Trailer) Dec 17, 2024

A sociology professor’s quiet life in Canada gets turned upside down when he is accused of carrying out a 1980 bomb attack on a synagogue in Paris. Hassan Diab says he is innocent — but French investigators are determined to prove otherwise.

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In Lakota Nation, People Are Asking: Who Does a Language Belong To? | Pretendians x Code Switch Nov 20, 2024

Today we’re bringing you something a bit different, made by our friends at NPR’s long-running, award-winning podcast, Code Switch.

Many Lakota people agree: It's imperative to revitalize the Lakota language. But how exactly to do that is a matter of broader debate. Should Lakota be codified and standardized to make learning it easier? Or should the language stay as it always has been, defined by many different ways of writing and speaking? We explore this complex, multi-generational fight that's been unfolding in the Lakota Nation, from Standing Rock to Pine Ridge.

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The Lifeblood of Navajo Nation | Pretendians x Reclaimed Nov 11, 2024

Today we’re bringing you something a bit different: the season premiere of “Reclaimed: The Lifeblood of Navajo Nation”.

Currently, the Navajo Nation has no guaranteed right to use the water that flows in and around their reservation. But this year, that may change — and the future of the tribe will be decided. A long-awaited settlement may be reached between the tribe, their neighboring states and the U.S. government — one that could secure an allocation of the much-contested Colorado River. This series will place the fight for water equity in its historical context, tracing back as far as the creation of the Navajo reservation in the 1800s. It will follow the journey of a Navajo journalist as she strives to understand how this historical fight ties into her family’s personal history.

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Introducing: The Worst Podcast Sep 12, 2024

Canadaland has launched its first ever celebrity interview podcast and it’s not great. It’s The Worst Podcast.

Celebrities are always talking about their bests. Now hear them at their worst.

Join award-winning filmmaker and noted curmudgeon Alan Zweig for refreshingly honest conversations with “notable people” about the worst things in life.

Alan has no interest in best-selling books or Hollywood triumphs, and doesn’t know (or care) much about his guests.

He’s looking for real conversations that dig deep and get to the worst things: nagging fears, embarrassing secrets and haunting regrets. And he’ll no doubt share a few of his own along the way.

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Kudos and Karendians | Pretendians (Bonus) Jul 15, 2024

Robert and Angel take listeners under the hood of season one of Pretendians. They dig deep into the positive feedback, unexpected outcomes, as well as the criticism of the show so far. They discuss topics for future seasons and reveal what they missed in the first six episodes.

Includes updates on “Grand Chief” Guillaume Carle (episode 1), the definition of a “Karendian” (episode 4), and why AI makes the best songs about Pretendians.

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Indigenish | Pretendians #6 Jun 18, 2024

What makes people fake being Native? How do they explain it once the truth comes out? And is there any way to be not Native, but….Native adjacent? We talk to three people who lived it.

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Johnny Depp and the Hollywood Phonies | Pretendians #5 Jun 11, 2024

There are no shortage of stories about movie stars who played Native and kept the act going even after the cameras stopped rolling. Iron Eyes Cody, Sacheen Littlefeather, and Johnny Depp – being a Pretendian is a Hollywood tradition! A history of how they did it, and how well they were paid for it.

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Pretendian Hunters | Pretendians #4 Jun 04, 2024

What happens when Pretendian investigations go wrong? Robert talks to Jacqueline Keeler, the person behind the “Alleged Pretendians List". Then, he talks to Kiros Auld, whose name appeared on that controversial list. The problem? Kiros is legitimately Native.

Editors Note - An earlier version of this episode stated that "the Pamunkey Indian Tribe is the only federally recognized tribe in the state of Virginia" Since publishing it was brought to our attention that The Pamunkey Indian Tribe is one of seven federally recognized tribes in the state of Virginia.

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Make Native America Great Again | Pretendians #3 May 28, 2024

Oklahoma's Republican governor Kevin Stitt is a card-carrying member of the Cherokee Nation. So why is he also considered the most "anti-Native governor" in history? A look at his family history reveals some wild surprises, and shows how Indigenous identity can be used as a weapon against Native nations.

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Pretending in Prison | Pretendians #2 May 21, 2024

Marvin "Casper" Ouimet was your ordinary terrifying Hells Angel mob boss until he was sent to prison for conspiracy to commit murder. That's where he declared himself to be Indigenous. The prison asked no questions, and granted him access to a special program for Native inmates, in which prisoners get private cells, spiritual guidance, better food and ultimately – reduced sentences. But what about the real Natives in these programs?

Hosts: Robert Jago & Angel Ellis

Credits: Jesse Brown (Publisher, Executive Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor, Mixer), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)

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Interview with a Pretendian | Pretendians #1 May 14, 2024

Why do people pretend to be Native? Hosts Robert Jago (Kwantlen First Nation and Nooksack Indian Tribe) Angel Ellis (Muscogee (Creek) Nation) begin their journey by asking someone who has been doing just that.

He’s not just your average imposter – "Grand Chief" Guillaume Carle is the king of the “pretendians", a French Canadian who made a small fortune creating his own fake First Nation and issuing phony Indian Status Cards to thousands of other identity thieves.

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Coming Soon: Pretendians (Official Trailer) May 07, 2024

What do some of the most prominent and successful Indigenous artists, leaders and thinkers have in common? They aren’t Indigenous.

From major universities, to the halls of power, to Hollywood, there are people claiming to be Indigenous in the interest of power, money, and status. There are dozens of outrageous cases of Indigenous identity fraud that we know about, and likely thousands that we do not.

So why do these so-called “Pretendians” do it? How do they pull it off? And what happens when they are exposed?

Find out on Tuesday, May 14.

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Audacious fraudsters and Indigenous identity theft — introducing Canadaland’s latest show Apr 16, 2024

Thunder Bay host Ryan McMahon pops in to tell you about a new podcast you’re going to want to know about – launching right here on May 14th.

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Burners | Thunder Bay Chapter 5 Nov 26, 2018

What if Thunder Bay isn't broken?

What if it's working just as it's supposed to?

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The Ruthless Game | Thunder Bay Chapter 4 Nov 12, 2018

Agnew Johnston was a lawyer who represented the state against criminals. But he was a criminal himself, paying underage girls for sex. His defence? Everybody in Thunder Bay is doing it, so why are you picking on me? The story of a case that implicated Thunder Bay's elite.

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Deathly Low Priority | Thunder Bay Chapter 3 Oct 29, 2018

Nine teenagers died. There is evidence of foul play. There are suspects. There are motives. There have even been confessions. But nobody has ever been charged. In a town with no consequences, it will happen again.

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Clowns | Thunder Bay Chapter 2 Oct 22, 2018

A dark, grainy, cellphone video leads to criminal charges against the mayor, his wife, the chief of police, and a multimillionaire lawyer turned convicted sex offender, whose wife disappeared years ago.

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There Is A Town In North Ontario | Thunder Bay Chapter 1 Oct 22, 2018

Locals call it Murder Bay.

It might be the most dangerous city for Indigenous youth in the world. But to others, it's their white nirvana.

Host Ryan McMahon wants to know - not who killed all those kids, but what killed them. This is Thunder Bay.

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Introducing: Thunder Bay (Trailer) Oct 12, 2018

The highest homicide and hate crime rates in the country. A mayor charged with extortion. A police chief who faced trial for obstruction of justice. Nine tragic deaths of Indigenous high schoolers. Why does it all happen here?

Thunder Bay debuts on October 22, 2018.

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