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There’s a secret club in Canada. And trust me, you don’t want to be a member. 

If you’re in this club, your first response when you hear news about bombs and death and carnage in the Middle East is not to hop onto Twitter or Facebook to post your political opinion about it. Your first response is to make a long-distance phone call to try to find out if your family and friends over there are still alive. 

Lebanese Canadians are in this club, Palestinian Canadians are in this club, Jewish Canadians are in this club. And last week, hundreds of thousands of Iranian Canadians joined the club too. 

Today we talk to two Iranian-Canadians with very different perspectives about what’s happened since Israel attacked Iran last week and what it could mean in the future. 

Credits:

Host: Jesse Brown

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

Fact checking by Max Collins

Additional music by Audio Network

Follow Our Guests: 

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Kaveh Shahrooz Twitter

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Rescinding an almost 50-year-old coal mining moratorium to get out of lawsuits, Greenbelt FOI code words, mayoral power-fuelled bike lane challenges…the latest transparency breaches from provincial and municipal governments across Canada are almost too numerous to count. Does democracy mean nothing in this country?

Host: San Grewal

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

Co-host: Cole Bennett

Photo: James Wheeler (modified)

Further reading: 

• Alberta Premier Danielle Smith faces raucous, angry town hall on province's coal policy - CBC
• Ontario’s Greenbelt: Access to information and government transparency - IPC report
• Former chief of staff to Alberta Premier lived in home owned by Sam Mraiche’s sister - The Globe & Mail
• Please Advise! Have National Post Editors Gone Too Far? - The Tyee

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From chatting about pancake toppings, to kissing boys, to fixing America’s public schools, kids are turning to podcasts to say what’s on their minds. But is that a good thing?

Child podcasting is exploding, but children in entertainment is fraught with complexities. Are they being controlled by exploitative parents, production companies or shadowy forces?

This week, the team dives deep into the world of tweens cosplaying adults on mic.

Host: Sam Konnert

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

Guests: Julian Abraham, Noor Azrieh

Photo: Murry Lee

Additional music by Audio Network

Further Reading:

• The Only Men Allowed to Podcast Are Tween Boys — The Cut
• The Future of Children’s Television Isn’t Television — Wired
• Kids, Inc. — The New York Times

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Remember when you were a little kid and the first 100 days of school was a huge landmark? Well, yesterday Carney celebrated that milestone in his Liberal party leadership — but instead of learning the alphabet and how to get along with his classmates, he cancelled the carbon tax, tried to rush two problematic bills through parliament, and reinvited the already uninvited Modi to G7. Where are this guy’s Value(s) headed?

Host: San Grewal

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

Co-host: Cole Bennett

Additional music by Audio Network

Further reading: 

• Carney’s project legislation threatens climate, democracy and Indigenous rights, says Elizabeth May - APTN News
• Carney under pressure from human-rights, prodemocracy groups to highlight Jimmy Lai’s case at G7 - The Globe & Mail
• This senator wants to make it harder to use the notwithstanding clause - iPolitics
• Police in schools debate revived by proposed Ontario legislation - CBC

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Canada is hosting the G-7 in Alberta, one of the most consequential meetings yet. Is this Carney’s moment to become a world leader, reorient our economy, and possibly the world order? 

With the predictably unpredictable Trump, growing regional wars, rampaging wildfires, and some controversial invitations, there’s a lot of room for error. Could Carney play the role of global power broker? 

And the latest on Pierre Poilievre’s one-on-one phone calls, our rekindling relationship with India, and another Liberal bill rushing through.

Host: Noor Azrieh

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

Guests: Matthew Holmes

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A couple silver foxes from the Mink Mile took Jesse Brown for a ride. They said their names were Walter and Beverly. The Mink Mile, for those of you who aren’t from Toronto or don’t regularly drop three figures for socks, is a strip of upscale boutiques in the city’s downtown. Anyway, the characters claiming to be Walter and Beverly offered to sell Mr. Brown an elegant cardigan. But that’s not what he got.

Credits:

Host Jesse Brown

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

Fact checking by Julian Abraham

Additional music by Audio Network

This episode makes use of generative A.I. for the following purposes: Text-to-speech generation.

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A flock of BC ostriches becomes a far-right circus.

Why do RFK, Dr Oz, and an American billionaire want to save our ostriches? A BC Ostrich farm garners international attention after resisting a call to cull over 400 birds following an Avian flu outbreak.

Host: Jesse Brown

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: Jan Wong 

Photos: Adriaan Greyling & Pixabay

Additional music by Audio Network

 Further reading: 

• Compensation for Destroyed Animals and Things Regulations - Government of Canada
• How the fate of a herd of ostriches on a small B.C. farm caught the attention of the Trump administration - CBC
• How a BC Ostrich Farm Sparked a Far-Right Crusade - The Tyee
• Canadian Political Commentators – Partisanship Ratings - S. Noble on GitHub

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Not all interviews go according to plan. Even on a show that has over 500 episodes and the host has recorded over a thousand interviews. So what do you do? Air it anyway? What if the content of that episode is questionable, objectionable, or problematic in some other way? 

Well, sometimes the simplest answer is to just can it.

And that’s what happened a few weeks ago on the media criticism edition of CANADALAND. For the first time in its history, the show ran without its classic segment “Duly Noted” because host Jesse Brown and co-host Cenk Uygur were eventually just screaming at one another. And more than that, Jesse didn’t feel that material could be published. At least, not without the right context.

So today, host Sam Konnert brings us through what happened on that day, and then follows up with Jesse and Cenk after the fact, to see what they thought went wrong. And why it’s ok to publish it now.

Host: Sam Konnert

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

Guest: Cenk Uygur

Additional music by Audio Network

Further Reading:

• U.S. Aid to Israel in Four Charts — Council on Foreign Relations
• 'All Jewish Americans are questioning their security' after violent antisemitic attacks — BBC
• Canada, Western allies sanction two Israeli lawmakers for incitement of ‘extremist violence’ — The Globe & Mail

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On the day of Trump’s spectacular public breakup with Elon Musk, news broke of phone calls and texts between Carney and Trump. Is a bromance blossoming?

Jan Wong joins to unpack the ongoing conversations between Trump and Carney, and how to navigate a relationship with a narcissist.

Plus, what else is Carney sneaking by us during his political honeymoon? 

Host: Jesse Brown

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: Jan Wong

Additional music by Audio Network

Further reading: 

• Carney and Trump holding direct talks on trade and security, U.S. envoy says - The Globe & Mail
• Why the Musk and Trump relationship is breaking down – a psychologist explains - The Conversation         
• Border security bill would give law enforcement access to internet subscriber information without a warrant – The Globe & Mail
• ‘Pretendian’ or ‘victim’: Inside this would-be Ontario lawyer’s attempt to remake a life built on fraud - The Toronto Star
• Cabinet Minister Rebecca Chartrand Apologizes for Facebook Post after Findings that she “Humiliated” and “Harassed” an Employee - Canadaland 
• Manitoba cabinet minister harassed college employee in past job, external investigation concluded - CBC
• What happens when you go "gray rock"? — Doctor Ramani

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The Liberals’ first piece of legislation, Bill C-2 is a sweeping 139-page omnibus bill.

It would allow police to open and inspect mail from Canada Post, restrict cash transfers over $10,000, bolster surveillance, and expand what law enforcement can do…without a warrant.

But it will also overhaul our asylum-seeking process. And with the riots below the border, we can’t but ask: are we going down the same path?

Host: Noor Azrieh

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

Guests: Adam Sadinsky

Background reading:

• Experts warn of Bill C-2 as ’anti-refugee’ and ’anti-immigrant’ giving Canada ’unchecked powers’ like the U.S. – Radio Canada
• Opinion | Border bill primed to give Mark Carney's government sweeping new powers. Who asked for this? - Toronto Star
• Montrealers protest against border security Bill C-2 – CTV
• Why the ‘language of loopholes’ should be avoided if Trump cracks down on the Canada-U.S. border – The Conversation 
• Ontario’s Bill 5 has passed. Here’s why it has sparked conflict with First Nations – The Canadian Press

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