Author Liesje Wagner joins Tod to share the story of her parents’ childhood under Nazi occupation in the Netherlands, the hunger and fear they endured, and the day Canadian soldiers arrived and changed everything.

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This week in town, Mayor Hans starts a scavenger hunt to lift the town through a dark winter. As the clues unfold, so does the story of a boy saved by strangers, still trying to return the light he was once given.

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This week in town, Maureen Smith makes a mistake. Suddenly, council is scrambling, reporters are circling, and a small town discovers that sometimes the box you check by accident is the one that matters most.

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This week in town, a new highway sign goes up and somehow becomes the most important thing that’s happened all year. Old grudges resurface, neighbours get creative, the fine Canadian tradition of pettiness escalates into art. Welcome to the tiny Vancouver Island town of Mirror Falls. Take your time. ❤️

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Welcome to Mirror Falls, a place with decent people, complicated pasts, and a mystery hiding in plain sight.

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Mirror Falls' theme song is "Myself and I" by Niklas Gabrielsson with Martin Landström & his orchestra,

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During the Second World War, the Allies dreamed up something that sounds impossible — an aircraft carrier made of ice and sawdust. Not a metaphor, not a Canadian stereotype, but a real, bulletproof iceberg ship, built in secret on a frozen Alberta lake.

This is the story of Project Habakkuk, the bizarre wartime invention that could have changed the war. We’ll travel to Jasper National Park, where pacifists worked under RCMP guard to build the prototype, and to the meeting rooms where Winston Churchill became giddy at the thought of a floating fortress.

It’s a tale of wild ingenuity, Canadian resourcefulness, and a legacy that still shapes Arctic engineering today. Sometimes, wartime courage isn’t about storming beaches — it’s about building an iceberg and seeing if it floats.

In this episode:

• Why the Allies needed a floating mid-Atlantic airbase
• How Canadian scientists turned ice and sawdust into bulletproof pykrete
• The strange role of conscientious objectors in the project
• Why the ship never sailed, and how its legacy lived on

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If Alberta wants to leave Canada, fine. But they’re not going alone. I made a packing list. It includes some national treasures we probably don’t need anymore. From dial-up-speed Senators to the world’s saddest coffee coupons, this is what I’d send along with them. Call it tough love, Canadian style.

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Air Canada flight attendants are striking, and I get it. Imagine doing 35 hours of unpaid labour every week, while being responsible for safety at 35,000 feet. 

In this episode, I break down why this strike is long overdue and how Canada’s outdated regulations keep letting airlines off the hook. 

Disclosure: An earlier version of this episode, up for about 30 minutes, had a significant factual error in it. This version of the video has removed that part of the script.

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She wasn’t a spy. She wasn’t in the military. Judy Feld Carr was a Canadian mother of six who used whispers, money, and Torah messages to save thousands. Her quiet mission reveals something profound about Canada’s past—and raises urgent questions about our present immigration system. This is the moment we decide what our values really mean.

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