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April 22, 2021 Introducing our new season… Real Estate!
Stories about Canada's real estate obsession.
The first episode drops on April 28, 2021.
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2 min
February 24, 2021 THE POLICE 10 - Portapique
Almost a year after the worst mass shooting in modern Canadian history, Nova Scotians are still in the dark about what exactly happened. A gunman, dressed in an RCMP uniform, driving an RCMP cruiser killed 22 people.
In the months since, the Mounties have been short on answers. And it's left people wondering whether they have something to hide.

Featured in this episode: Stephen Maher, Paul Palango, Sandra McCulloch

To learn more:
“13 deadly hours” from The Fifth Estate by CBC News
“How the Nova Scotia shooting victims' families won a public inquiry into the tragedy,” by Stephen Maher in Maclean's
“The Nova Scotia shooter case has hallmarks of an undercover operation” by Paul Palango, Stephen Maher, Shannon Gormley in Maclean's

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This episode is sponsored by Rotman, Cullen's Foods, and Hello Fresh.
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1 hr 3 min
February 10, 2021 THE POLICE 9 - Northern Patrol
For three decades, much of Northern Ontario has been engaged in an unprecedented experiment in policing. It's called the Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service. And the idea is simple: the old, colonial cops shouldn't be policing Indigenous territory. Instead, Indigenous people should police themselves.
Featured in this episode: Kyle Edwards, Christian Leuprecht
To learn more:
“Inside the impossible work of Canada's biggest Indigenous police force” by Kyle Edwards in Maclean's
“Force 2.0: Fixing the Governance, Leadership, and Structure of the RCMP” by Christian Leuprecht
“Memories of a fire” by Mark Blackburn in APTN News
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This episode is sponsored by Dispatch Coffee, Rotman, Cullen's Foods, and Manscaped.

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35 min
January 27, 2021 THE POLICE 8 - The G20: Fortress Toronto
When John and Susan Pruyn came to Toronto, they were hoping to protest against the G20 and then spend some time with their daughter. Instead, they would be caught up in a whirlwind of police misconduct with few precedents in Canadian history.
Featured in this episode: Jesse Rosenfeld, John Pruyn, Susan Pruyn, Sarah Pruyn.
Jesse Rosenfeld is a Toronto born journalist who has covered the Middle East since 2007. Based in Ramallah, Tel Aviv, Gaza City, Cairo, Beirut, Istanbul, and Athens over the years, he has also reported from Iraq and the Balkans, contributing to The Nation Magazine, The Daily Beast, The Intercept, and Al Jazeera, among others. His work in the region is the basis of the National Film Board of Canada documentary Freelancer on the Front Lines.
To learn more:
“‘'I will not forget what they have done to me'” in The Toronto Star
You Should Have Stayed At Home by CBC's The Fifth Estate
“Rejecting G20's consensus of the few” by Jesse Rosenfeld in The Guardian
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56 min
January 13, 2021 THE POLICE 7 - The G20: Conspiracy
In the first of a two-part series on the G20, two mysterious strangers start volunteering with activist networks in southern Ontario. It's all part of one of the biggest undercover police operations in Canadian history.

To learn more:
“Unmasked: Searching for lessons in Toronto's 2010 G20 debacle” by Andrea Bennett in Maisonneuve
“How police infiltrated groups planning G20 protests” by Adrian Morrow and Kim Mackrael in The Globe and Mail

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48 min
December 23, 2020 THE POLICE 6 - Who Killed Myles Gray?
Myles Gray was an unarmed man who died after seven Vancouver police officers beat him mercilessly. Half a decade after he died, not only does his family not have justice, they don't even know the names of the people who killed him.

Featured in this episode: Bethany Lindsay (CBC Vancouver), Harsha Walia (B.C. Civil Liberties Association), Ronald MacDonald (Independent Investigations Office of B.C.)

To learn more:
“The day Myles Gray died” by Cassidy Olivier in The Vancouver Sun
“Vancouver police officers won't be charged over unarmed man's 2015 death” by Bethany Lindsay in CBC Vancouver
“No charges against officers in case of Myles Gray who died during encounter with Vancouver police” by Amy Judd and Sarah MacDonald in Global News
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35 min
December 09, 2020 THE POLICE 5 - Toronto’s Finest
A Toronto police officer shoots and kills two Black men and is accused of beating another, all within a five-year span. He's never found guilty of committing a crime. And he continues to rise through the ranks.
Featured in this episode: Bruce Livesey, Howard Morton, André Marin, Leora Shemesh

To learn more:
“Above The Law” by Bruce Livesey in BuzzFeed News
“Defence lawyer alleges Toronto officers diverted 7 kilos of meth into her client's car” by Betsy Powell in The Toronto Star
“Shank not guilty of manslaughter” in CBC News
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44 min
November 25, 2020 THE POLICE 4 - Starlight Tours
Even as a teenager, Neil Stonechild was an inspiration to his friends. And then one day, he was found frozen to death outside of Saskatoon. He was last seen alive in the back of a police cruiser. Thirty years later, we know some of what happened to him. But we still don't have justice.
Featured in this episode: Jeffrey Crowe, Donald Worme, Susanne Reber

To learn more:
Report of the Commission of Inquiry Into Matters Relating to the Death of Neil Stonechild
Starlight Tour: The Last, Lonely Night of Neil Stonechild by Susanne Reber and Robert Renaud
Two Worlds Colliding by Tasha Hubbard
Officer 332 by Kaitlyn Van De Woestyne
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This episode is sponsored by Dispatch Coffee, Audible, Missing From the Village and Canadian True Crime.
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1 hr
November 11, 2020 THE POLICE 3 - Dirty Tricks
A teenage boy and his friends start robbing banks in Toronto. A future Prime Minister is deported from Montreal. A Black Panther in Baltimore goes to prison for four decades. And the RCMP is split apart by the biggest scandal in the force's history.
At the heart of it all is one man. He calls himself the General.

Featured in this episode: Ricky Atkinson, David Austin, Robin Philpot, Lennox Farrell, Gary Cristall

To learn more:
The Life, Crimes and Hard Times of Ricky Atkinson, Leader of the Dirty Tricks Gang by Richard Atkinson with Joe Fiorito
Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex & Security in Sixties Montreal by David Austin
Ninth Floor by Mina Shum
Marshall Law: The Life & Times of a Baltimore Black Panther by Marshall “Eddie” Conway

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54 min
October 28, 2020 THE POLICE 2 - The Secret History of the RCMP
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The RCMP is one of the most famous police forces in the world — the red serge and stetson hat are practically synonymous with Canada. But that image obscures the profound power the Mounties have held throughout Canadian history. And the dark legacy of ethnic cleansing and genocide at their core.
Featured in this episode: Jean Teillet, Sean Carleton, Steve Hewitt
To learn more:
The North-West Is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel's People, the Métis Nation by Jean Teillet
Clearing the Plains by James Daschuk
Riding to the Rescue: The Transformation of the RCMP in Alberta and Saskatchewan by Steve Hewitt
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39 min

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COMMONS is a documentary podcast that proves Canada is anything but boring. Each season, host Arshy Mann guides you through the country’s dark underbelly, bringing you stories about…