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Episode 277: Reciprocity 2.0
1911. Desperate for a distraction from the Navy Question, Wilfrid Laurier is presented with a golden opportunity to fulfill a decades-long ambition b…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
Episode 276: A Situation Disgraceful to the Country
1911. A damning report from a public health official sparks a national conversation on the future of the Indian Residential Schools program.
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7 months ago
Episode 275: Fiasco Canadense
As a growing pile of Canadian capital seeks new investment opportunities, a group of entrepreneurs, engineers, and corporate lawyers descend on the f…
7 months, 1 week ago
Episode 274: A Tin Pot Navy
1910. When Britain calls on Canada to help fund its naval arms race with Germany, Wilfrid Laurier faces his greatest political test since the Boer W…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 273: The Fishermen's Advocate
1910. Disillusioned with the governance provided by the elites of St. John's, Newfoundland's outport fishermen form their own political and social mo…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 272: Coal and Steel
1910. Nova Scotia enters the industrial age with ambitions to become an international steel-making power. However, by extension, the province also e…
8 months ago
Episode 271: Strangers Within Our Gates
1909. Canadians grapple with the implications of large scale migration from continental Europe, and begin a long-running debate on how so-called "New…
8 months, 1 week ago
Episode 270: Lord Beaverbrook
1909. A hustler from New Brunswick exemplifies a novel class of stock brokers and promoters who transform Canada's financial environment, and usher i…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 269: Degraded by Yankee Professionalism
1908. In southwestern Ontario, oilmen, brewers, and cabinet-makers forge a complicated relationship with a different nation-defining sport - baseball…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 268: The Athletic War
1908. From Montreal and Toronto, to the mines of Timiskaming and old Rat Portage, Canadians battle over the soul of the nation's most important insti…
9 months ago