The kinder, gentler Emergencies Act should not be underestimated. And framing the convoy as foreign-funded and US-inspired does more harm than good. Writer Nora Loreto co-hosts.

UPDATE: An earlier version of this episode included a partial comment without proper context. The comment has been removed.

Links:

• Nora's piece in Passage that she took heat for
• Jimmy Thomson's tweets

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This week's episode is bursting your love bubble by digging into the dark side of love. You'll hear four personal stories that show, with increasing intensity, just how broken Canada's divorce system is. People who were held hostage for years by a slow-moving process that sent them hurdling into debt. 

And beyond that, we rarely talk about divorce as a life or death situation, but it certainly can be. 

Senior producer Sarah Lawrynuik brings you this one.

For people who are living with family violence, don't struggle alone. Here is a list of resources available to you in your area. Or the Assaulted Women's Helpline is 1-866-863-0511.

Further reading:

• What a 4-year-old's death says about Ontario's strained family courts, Toronto Star
• Divorce in the rich world is getting less nasty, The Economist
• Broken marriages becoming pandemic's other toll, CBC News
• Calls for a unified family court system and further changes to Canada's Divorce Act, CTV News
• The Family Law System in Canada is "Broken" says veteran Family Lawyer, News Wire

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Angry, bias-confirming echo chambers seem evident this week when it comes to the Freedom Convoy. And "a Toronto star at the Toronto Star" dies this week and Jesse dares to speak ill—or at least some truth—of the dead. Maclean's senior writer Paul Wells co-hosts. 
Links:

• Richard Martineau's piece in Le Journal de Montréal
• News editor Jonathan Goldsbie's tweet re: Faith Goldy's face during the land acknowledgement

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CANADALAND has spent a lot of time in Thunder Bay exploring the deep-rooted racism in the city and the stories of Indigenous people who live there, not to mention the stories of the Indigenous people who have died there. 

In 2018, the Office of the Independent Police Review Director released the Broken Trust report, concluding that Thunder Bay's police service was a home for systemic racism. The civilian oversight board and the police force executive leadership was cleared and new people were brought in. But the outcome of the staffing changes and all the reports - at least to this point - is not a success story. The cycle of denial has continued.

This story is reported by Thunder Bay-based journalist and producer on the Thunder Bay series, Jon Thompson.

Further reading:

• Thunder Bay police board member details Ontario human rights complaint, calls for new leadership, CBC News
• Thunder Bay Police Service on the ‘brink of collapse' says board member, APTN
• Thunder Bay deputy police chief suspended pending investigation, Globe and Mail
• Local police officer files human rights complaint against TBPS, Chief, TB News Watch

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The media may have missed the Freedom Convoy plot yet again. And as several Canadian artists pull their music from the platform, Spotify wades into publisher territory as they work towards content advisories for select podcasts. National Observer columnist Sandy Garossino co-hosts.

UPDATE: This episode says there's been a vacuum of information on Canadian truckers stuck at the Alberta-Montana border at Coutts, AB. Since recording this episode, journalists have reported that one lane has opened in each direction.

UPDATE 2 (Feb 9, 2022): In this episode, Jesse referenced a clip where a protester asked another attendee whether they were a white supremacist to which they responded yes. Jesse says that this was the moment the first protester was made aware that they were among extremists and he hoped they would up and leave. Since publishing, it has been brought to our attention that the person who said they were a white supremacist was likely a person of colour and they may have been joking. 

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It's a story about deception, coverups, and some say, about murder. This is a story about Groundhog Day. The true story of Wiarton Willie.

CANADALAND Editor Jonathan Goldsbie digs into the shell game of dead groundhogs that spans decades. 

Featured in this episode: Liam Casey, a reporter/editor in the Ontario bureau for the Canadian Press; Frank Gunn, a national photographer for the Canadian Press

Further reading:

• Yet another Wiarton Willie is dead. Here's a look at the strange history behind the beloved groundhog, Liam Casey, Canadian Press/CBC
  

• The legend of Wiarton Willie lives on (2011), Toronto Star
  

• Frank Gunn's photo of 1999 Wiarton Willie funeral, Canadian Press/Toronto Star

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How many anti-vax trucker convoys were there?! And people are making the case to break up the CBC again.
Canadaland contributing editor Danielle Paradis cohosts. 
Further reading & links:

• GoFundMe actually froze money for the convoy's campaign
• Tom Hooper's investigation into Pride Toronto and the misuse of money from the federal government
• The Narwhal's story on the maple syrup meltdown

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Canada has a nuclear problem... a nuclear waste problem. Since the dawn of nuclear power technology, solutions to waste have all been remarkably temporary given the longevity of the danger the material presents. 

For decades, the hunt for a solution has spanned across provinces — even across countries. But the hope is that by 2023 Canada will have found a home - and permanent solution - for all of the country's nuclear waste.

This endeavor is pitting neighbour against neighbour — community against community. And the stakes are high for the future of the nuclear industry.

CANADALAND senior producer Sarah Lawrynuik ventures to Northwestern Ontario to bring you this story.

Further reading:

• Small northwestern Ontario town considers if it's willing to house nuclear waste from across Canada, CBC News
• Holding in the deep: What Canada wants to do with its decades-old pileup of nuclear waste, The Narwhal
• Nuclear's Role in Canada's Low-Carbon Future?, Energy vs Climate podcast
• 30,000 shipments of nuclear waste would move through Ontario cities, farmland under draft plan, CBC News
• How to build a nuclear warning for 10,000 years' time, BBC News

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The hunger for stories about Toronto's snow backfires. And when a story is about a hostage situation at a synagogue, why is there reluctance to call it antisemitism?

Canadaland contributing editor Danielle Paradis co-hosts.

Links: 

• A tribute to CBC Edmonton's radio host Adrienne Pan
• CBC's piece on Texas Synagogue Hostages

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There's a mystery disease that's plaguing people in New Brunswick. It starts with some muscle pain or spasms, before basic tasks like reading become impossible. For many, the disease progresses to full-blown dementia. For patients and families, government response has proven to be lackluster and desperation and frustration is taking hold as the search for answers drags on.

Further reading:

• Whistleblower warns baffling illness affects growing number of young adults in Canadian province, Leyland Cecco, The Guardian
  

• New Brunswick monitoring more than 40 cases of unknown neurological disease, CBC News
  

• N.B. health minister questions validity of mysterious neurological disease after report, Global News
  

• New Brunswick's Mystery Disease: Why Did the Province Shut Out Federal Experts?, The Walrus

• No longer a sure thing: Records show how N.B. investigation into mystery illness changed over time, CBC News

• Help Gabrielle battle unknown neurological disease, GoFundMe
  

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