Canuck is a Slur

People have been asking a lot of questions about Alberta's recent referendum. We did our best to answer them. A small clarification: this episode was recorded on 21 October 2026. There are some allusions to lower response to certain referendum questions (based on the published results at the time), but with clearer numbers it appears that the number of responses to all of the 9 questions was roughly similar. You can find the most recent official results here.

Please note that there is a version of this episode with slides, if you prefer. You can watch the video on YouTube here.

If you want to read into more detail on some of the points we touched on, here are a few links:

CBC article on whether there is a mechanism for provincial separation

Associated Press article on the growth of Alberta separatism

Elections Alberta website detailing all cases of voting irregularities

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Intro: "The Log Driver's Waltz" by Wade Hemsworth (performed by Kate & Anna McGarrigle)

Outro: "Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Techo" by BKS (featuring Don Cherry)

Upper Canada College is what happens when you look at Mother England and decide you need a horrific boarding school of your very own. Rachel A. Rosen, confirmed Torontonian and co-host of Wizards & Spaceships, brings her experience as a public-school educator to this absolutely wild book: an oral history of the institution by some of its most famous and/or traumatized alumni.

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CONTENT WARNING: Child abuse (verbal, physical, emotional, sexual, all of it), as well as death from suicide and terminal illness.

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Canada is a land of contrasts. So is Pierre Trudeau: a man charismatic enough to date the likes of Barbara Streisand, Kim Cattrall, and Margot Kidder...and yet, still found himself cucked by Fidel Castro. Allegedly. In The Greatest Canadian—itself a land of contrasts—Pierre is presented by a black hole of charisma who got to be on TV for a century anyway: a sentient catcher's mitt named Rex Murphy.

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Intro: "The Log Driver's Waltz" by Wade Hemsworth (performed by Kate & Anna McGarrigle) Outro: "Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Techo" by BKS (featuring Don Cherry)

Victor from Guys Will Be Talking helps break down France's 2005 contest to name the 102 greatest French people of all time. Are there more women or sex pests on it? Tune in to find out!

MINOR CORRECTION: I have conflated current Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov (with the Cybertruck and fake Ukraine combat footage) with his father, Akhmat Kadyrov (colluded with Putin in the Second Chechen War). Apologies for the confusion.

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Francis from What a Hell of a Way to Dad is back to learn about the time the city of Winnipeg surrendered to a decidedly small Wehrmacht unit...and other stunts they pulled in order to sell war bonds.

You can watch the full "If Day" documentary on YouTube or Patreon.

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Intro: "The Log Driver's Waltz" by Wade Hemsworth (performed by Kate & Anna McGarrigle) Outro: "Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Techo" by BKS (featuring Don Cherry)

Major Sources:

"The Patriotic Consensus: Unity, Morale, and the Second World War in Winnipeg" by Jody Perrun (2014)

"If Day: The Nazi Invasion of Winnipeg" dir. Aaron Floresco (2006)

(Also includes the back catalogue of the Winnipeg Tribune and the Winnipeg Free Press from 1939–2022)

Charles Star from the No Homework podcast (and more) stops by on his relentless guest tour to learn about Conrad Black, the only member of the UK's House of Lords to be deported to Canada on a private jet by ICE.

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Intro: "The Log Driver's Waltz" by Wade Hemsworth (performed by Kate & Anna McGarrigle)

Outro: "Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Techo" by BKS (featuring Don Cherry)

Major Sources:

"Life in Progress" by Conrad Black (1993)

"Robber Baron: Lord Black of the Crossharbour" by George Tombs (2007)

"Friends and Enemies" by Barbara Amiel (2020)

"A Conrad Black Timeline" in the Toronto Star, 2007: https://www.thestar.com/news/a-conrad-black-timeline/article_fb3ffc08-0847-5bf7-b2e8-d479a17f0ba6.html

The Odyssey! You can't avoid it. Everyone's been talking about this lately. Not sure why, honestly...I'd never seen it before. There's a kid with a magical head injury? Children rove in gangs of librarians, rollerblading ravers, and fire-bombing terrorists? Ryan Reynolds plays a teenage Nazi general? What is going on

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Jamie Loftus returns to explore the life of "Janey Canuck" (the #74 Greatest Canadian) as a public figure, and all of the issues she encountered: Sexism! Racism! Temperance! Opium! Birth control! Sex work! Alimony! Eugenics! Which ones did she support or oppose? The fun part is finding out :)

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Intro: "The Log Driver's Waltz" by Wade Hemsworth (performed by Kate & Anna McGarrigle) Outro: "Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Techo" by BKS (featuring Don Cherry)

Major Sources:

"Emily Murphy: Crusader" by Byrne Hope Sanders (1945)

"Emily Murphy: Rebel" by Christine Mander (1985)

"The Famous Five" by Barbara Smith (2019)

"The Black Candle" by Emily Ferguson Murphy (1922)

Major Sources that aren't by someone explicitly awful and/or a hack:

"The Persons Case" by Robert J. Sharpe and Patricia I. McMahon (2008)

(Also includes the back catalogue of the The Edmonton [Evening] Journal, of The Vancouver Sun, the CanLII.org legal archive, and the various Emily Murphy collections at the City of Edmonton Archives)

One of the biggest legal battles in Canadian feminist history was orchestrated by "The Famous Five": a group of women's rights activists in early-20th-century Alberta. Jamie Loftus, host of many podcasts and author of Raw Dog, is on the show to learn about their top dog: Emily Murphy. In Part 1: Emily's family and early life, her first books, and her sudden ascension to a position never before held by a woman in the entire British Empire.

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Intro: "The Log Driver's Waltz" by Wade Hemsworth (performed by Kate & Anna McGarrigle) Outro: "Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Techo" by BKS (featuring Don Cherry)

Major Sources:

"Emily Murphy: Crusader" by Byrne Hope Sanders (1945)

"Emily Murphy: Rebel" by Christine Mander (1985)

"The Impressions of Janey Canuck Abroad" by Emily Ferguson Murphy (1902)

"Janey Canuck in the West" by Emily Ferguson Murphy (1910)

Alexander Graham Bell: you know him! Is he Canadian? Kinda! I guess? Not really. But the same man who made the 100 Greatest Americans list, and finished as the #57 Greatest Briton, was voted into the top 10 finalists of the Greatest Canadians in 2004...so they had no choice but to make a TV episode to sell you on it.

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Intro: "The Log Driver's Waltz" by Wade Hemsworth (performed by Kate & Anna McGarrigle) Outro: "Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Techo" by BKS (featuring Don Cherry)