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COMMONS episodes

April 10, 2018 Ep. 92 - Canadian History X
As a teen, Elisa Hategan joined Canada's most notorious and well-organized white supremacist group, the Heritage Front. She later turned on the group and helped to take them down. What can we learn from the past about how white supremacists operate today? And what do we do about all these Nazis?

Elisa's book about her time in the Heritage Front is called Race Traitor.
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35 min
March 27, 2018 Ep. 91 - Stories From Solitude
The final episode of our two-parter on solitary confinement in Canada. In this episode, we hear two personal stories about the impacts that solitary confinement can have. Featuring Yusuf Faqiri and Dan Parlow.
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39 min
March 13, 2018 Ep. 90 - Unconstitutional Solitude
A two part series in which we explore the conditions and consequences of solitary confinement use in Canada. Featuring Chris Jackel, a correctional officer who works in a maximum security Ontario prison, and lawyer/professor Lisa Kerr.
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44 min
February 27, 2018 Ep. 89 - Finding A Fix: Our Opioid Overdose Crisis
There's a well known narrative about the opioid epidemic: pharmaceutical companies and doctors over-prescribed addictive drugs on patients. But there's an important policy story here too, and we need to talk about it. Featuring longtime opiate user and activist, Garth Mullins, and lawyer, Caitlin Shane.
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43 min
February 27, 2018 Ep. 89 - Finding A Fix: Our Opioid Overdose Crisis
There's a well known narrative about the opioid epidemic: pharmaceutical companies and doctors over-prescribed addictive drugs on patients. But there's an important policy story here too, and we need to talk about it. Featuring longtime opiate user...
43 min
February 13, 2018 Ep. 88 - Our Mis(education): the Erasure of Blackness in Canadian Schools
Robyn Maynard is the author of Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present. We chat with Robyn about what she calls our (mis)education: Canada's amnesia to its history of slavery and segregation, and about the ways in which Canadian classrooms are still rife with anti-black racism.
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44 min
February 13, 2018 Ep. 88 - Our Mis(education): the Erasure of Blackness in Canadian Schools
Robyn Maynard is the author of Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present. We chat with Robyn about what she calls our (mis)education: Canada's amnesia to its history of slavery and segregation, and about the ways in which Canadian classrooms are still rife with anti-black racism.
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44 min
February 06, 2018 A Brief Announcement
Back next week with a new episode! In the meantime, check out a new CANADALAND show, Oppo.
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2 min
February 06, 2018 A Brief Announcement
Back next week with a new episode! In the meantime, check out a new CANADALAND show, Oppo.
2 min
January 23, 2018 Ep. 87 - Unknown Road: Inside Immigration Detention
Canada's immigration system has a human rights problem. Each year, thousands of people are indefinitely jailed in prisons without any criminal charges. Babou was one of them.

This episode features Babou Jobe and Subodh Bharati.
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41 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…