It’s not a secret that music makes us feel things, but how does it do it? How do composers create music that makes us happy, sad, confused, emotional, hopeful, scared, and perhaps even make us laugh from time to time?

This week on Off The Record, producer Tristan Capacchione chats with his old colleagues and associates about the secrets of music and gives you a bit of insight into how we choose and use music at Canadaland.

Host: Sam Konnert

Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Writer and Producer), Tony Wang (Executive Producer), max collins (Director of Audio), Jesse Brown (Publisher)

Guests: Darren Fung, Erica Procunier, Adrian Ellis

Photo: Ashlea Wessel

Additional music by Tristan Capacchione, Adrian Ellis, Darren Fung, Erica Procunier, and Audio Network

Further Reading:

• Stinky Rice Studios — Darren Fung
• Erica Procunier
• Adrian Ellis
• The Great Human Odyssey — Handful of Films
• Mount Royal Audio — Tristan Capacchione

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Canada can’t cut a deal, but Carney’s political honeymoon continues. 

Should Carney take some blame for the ongoing trade war? 

Plus, why real estate developers in BC apparently need foreign money and a misleading image on the New York Times front page causes controversy. 

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: James Nicholson (Producer), Lucie Laumonier (Associate producer and Fact Checking), max collins (Director of Audio, Mixing and Mastering), Jesse Brown (Editor)

Guest: Max Fawcett

Further reading

This episode uses generative AI for the following purposes: Episode tile art, voice cloning of host Jesse Brown, Adobe Enhance Speech function on the recording of guest Max Fawcett.

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The Canadian Armed Forces has an extremism problem, and that story has fallen out of the news cycle way too quickly. Just recently, four men have been arrested in an alleged violent extremist plot to reclaim land near Quebec City. Plus, the CAF is investigating a private Facebook group where active members shared content deemed “abhorrent” by military leadership.

Host Noor Azrieh talks to Andy Knight about his explosive report on white supremacy in the military, and whether extremists are being drawn in, or shaped from within.

Host: Noor Azrieh

Credits: Sam Konnert (Producer), Noor Azrieh (Host/Producer), Caleb Thompson (Post Production), Jesse Brown (Editor), Tony Wang (Artwork)

Guests: Andy Knight

Background reading:

• Report finds deep-rooted white supremacism lurks in Canadian military
• Ideologically motivated violent extremism: four individuals charged
• Extremism a threat to Canadian army’s trust and credibility, commander says – The Globe and Mail
• Charging a soldier with terrorism may be a first, but Canadian military has history of extremism in its ranks – CBC News
• Army members’ Facebook group under investigation for ‘abhorrent’ content – Global News

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Canada is now the number one provider of medical assistance in dying in the world per capita. The latest stats, from 2023, show that MAID accounted for almost 5% of all deaths in Canada, or around 15,000 people in that year. And it’s only been legal since 2016.

MAID was introduced for patients who were experiencing intolerable suffering, irreversible decline and whose death was foreseeable. Within a few years it was expanded to cover people who are not close to death but who are living with chronic illness or disabilities and facing intolerable suffering.

Canada’s number one spot on the global stage and the expansion of MAID eligibility has attracted the attention of the United Nations. The UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities issued a report that raised questions about access to housing, social support, and healthcare, especially for people with disabilities. It noted that the suffering that qualified these people for the recent expansion to MAiD is suffering that might have been avoided if their needs were met by the Canadian government.

Today we're going to meet four people, all with experience on the front lines of the debate, some of whom have been in the room witnessing firsthand death by MAID.

Further Reading: 

Life After Film 

Katie Engelhart NY Times Article 

Kerry Bowman

United Nations Report 

Credits:

Host: Jesse Brown

Julian Abraham (Reporter)

Caleb Thompson (Post Production), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), max collins (Director of Audio), Jesse Brown (Editor and Publisher)

Fact checking by Lucie Laumonier

Additional music by Audio Network

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An update on Canada’s approach to Palestine and an in-depth discussion of the Hockey Canada Trial and why the coverage isn’t reckoning with the deeper issues within our national sport. Arshy Mann co-hosts. 

Host:  Noor Azrieh

Credits: James Nicholson (Producer), Lucie Laumonier (Associate producer and Fact Checking) Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), max collins (Director of Audio), Jesse Brown (Editor)

Guest: Arshy Mann

Photo: Noor Azrieh

Additional music by Audio Network

Further reading: 

• Canada plans to recognize Palestinian state in September | CBC News
• COMMONS: Hockey - CANADALAND [Podcast]
• #1162 Inside the Lurid Hockey Canada Trial - CANADALAND [Podcast]
• Opinion | Judge in Hockey Canada sex assault trial came out swinging in her verdict, and she got it right - Toronto Star
• Court worked as it's designed to in the Hockey Canada case. That's the problem, survivors and lawyers say | CBC News 
• Sports fans 'flabbergasted' after Sportsnet announces double-digit price hike | CBC News
• Rogers aims to dominate Canadian sports scene with NHL media rights extension - Sports Business Journal
• Ontario ordered five Toronto safe injection sites to close. Here’s what’s been happening on the streets since then - Toronto Star

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When working on one of our episodes of the Politics edition about tariffs, senior producer, Aviva Lessard wondered why there are no Canadian car companies.

This question felt like too much of a digression for the episode about tariffs, but in doing some research on it, Sam learned that we actually used to have Canadian car companies going all the way back to Confederation in 1867.

So buckle up for the bumpy road that Canada's cars have traveled. Producers Aviva and James Nicholson join Sam in the backseat as he tells them all about it.

Host: Sam Konnert

Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Producer), Tony Wang (Executive Producer), max collins (Director of Audio), Jesse Brown (Publisher)

Guests: Aviva Lessard, James Nicholson, Dimitry Anastakis

Photo: Courtesy of Dimitry Anastakis and UT Press

Additional music by Audio Network

Further Reading:

• The Bricklin — CBC Archives
• The Bricklin, Documentary — History
• Dream Car, by Dimitry Anastakis — UT Press
• Visionary Vehicles 
• Project Arrow

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More statements about Israel/Palestine from Carney’s government, but does Canada have the courage to take action? Arshy Mann joins Noor Azrieh to assess Canada’s rhetoric on Gaza. 

Plus, Netanyahu sits down with Canada’s Nelk Boys. Would Noor or Arshy interview him, if they had the opportunity? 

Host: Noor Azrieh

Credits: James Nicholson (Producer), Lucie Laumonier (Associate producer and Fact Checking) Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), max collins (Director of Audio), Jesse Brown (Editor)

Guest: Arshy Mann

Further reading: 

• Canada weighs whether to follow U.K. position on Palestinian statehood - The Globe and Mail
• Report suggests arms still flow from Canada to Israel despite denials | CBC News 
• Anand says Ottawa’s trucks of humanitarian aid ready to enter Gaza Strip - National | Globalnews.ca 
• Canada pledges $30-million in Gaza aid, $10-million for Palestinian Authority to work toward statehood - The Globe and Mail
• The Benjamin Netanyahu Interview | NELK BOYS [YouTube]   
• Rise of the Idiot Interviewer - Current Affairs 
• How to Spot North Korean Scammers in the American Workforce: Look for Minions – The Wall Street Journal
• Mark Carney: The Big Daddy of Canadian Politics | TikTok 

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Over 200 candidates, a riding bigger than Switzerland and an immense amount of pressure on the leader of the opposition. To find out who (and what) Pierre is up against, host Sam Konnert travels to the riding to meet the candidates taking him on.

Host: Sam Konnert

Credits: Sam Konnert (Host/Producer), Noor Azrieh (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Max Collins (Director of Audio) Jesse Brown (Editor), Tony Wang (Artwork)

Guests: Bonnie Critchley, Sarah Spanier, Monte Solberg, Michael Harris, Jayson Cowan

Background reading:

• Independents up against Poilievre say they’re ‘standing up’ for their community – CTV News
• Poilievre wants bill to stop 'longest ballot scam' introduced this fall – CBC News
• Alberta byelection candidates reported 'potentially threatening' comments: RCMP – CBC News
• Poilievre has to contend with Alberta separatists as he vies for a Commons seat – CBC News
• Falice Chin: A tale of two (Poilievre) ridings – The Hub

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For over 40 years Burtynsky’s camera has captured mountain ranges scarred and scooped from mining operations, roiling tar sand tailing ponds, and fractal river systems alight with red industrial sludge. His work is a catalogue of the awesome destructive power at the root of our industrial culture.

And yet, Burtynsky’s images are beautiful. That contradiction of beautiful destruction has fuelled the praise and criticism around Burtynsky for decades.

Ed Burtynsky’s is probably the biggest deal this country has every produced in terms of landscape photography. He’s won countless awards, he has nine honorary doctorate degrees, he’s an Officer of the Order of Canada, his work is collected and displayed in galleries around the world.

He joins us to unpack that career and the critique that frames his photography.

Credits: 

Host: Jesse Brown

Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), max collins (Director of Audio), Jesse Brown (Editor and Publisher)

Fact checking by Julian Abraham

Additional music by Audio Network

Further Reading

Ed Burtynsky Website

Inside China EV Factory - CNN

Earth’s Poet of Scale - New Yorker

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Jordan Peterson sold his Toronto home, but what’s the next move for Canada’s biggest media export? 

Tracing the arc of Peterson’s ambitions from media-hungry U of T prof to global media personality. J.J. McCullough joins to explain why Peterson is leaving Canada and trying to take over the world. 

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: James Nicholson (Producer), Lucie Laumonier (Associate producer) Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), max collins (Director of Audio and Fact Checker), Jesse Brown (Editor)

Guest: J.J. McCullough 

Additional music by Audio Network

Further reading: 

• Jordan Peterson's house in Toronto up for sale as he and his wife relocate to the U.S. - National Post 
• Jordan Peterson’s free speech ideology drew them to his online academy. Then they were expelled for speaking out - Toronto Star 
• The Takeover podcast | Canada's National Observer: Climate News 
• I Spent 3 Days at Jordan Peterson’s Anti-Climate ARC Conference. Here’s What I Saw. - DeSmog 
• Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke calls on social media to ban violence | Vancouver Sun
• Federal report warns of rise in antisemitic incidents against children in schools - The Globe and Mail  

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