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Repugnant Markets: Where Blood is Sold and Kidneys Swapped
Episode 1414
They’re shamed, banned, or driven underground but “repugnant markets” have a way of surviving. Organ sales, MAID, even blood sales fall into the cate…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Does Canada have Israel Derangement Syndrome?
Episode 1413
Last Wednesday, Foreign Policy CAN tweeted that "Canada condemns the ongoing violence in the West Bank..." So later that day, the Embassy of Israel i…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
BONUS: Three Interviews We Never Aired, and Why
Episode 21
Last year, we published an episode about all the tape that didn’t make it into one of our shows. Today is different… but similar. Here are three inte…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Wet Hot Libel Summer: the Caylan Ford/Press Progress Fiasco
Episode 1412
Seven years in, we're looking at what might just be the longest and most involved media defamation trial in Canadian history: former Alberta United C…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Mark Carney Wants You to Send Cash for his Home Reno
Episode 1411
Stories about The Prime Minister’s residence at 24 Sussex just won’t die. Lumber barons, dead brides, Trudeau’s secret pool, nacho machines, you name…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
A Palestinian Activist on What's Wrong With the Pro-Palestine Movement
Episode 1410
Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib is a Palestinian-American writer who grew up in Gaza City. When he was eleven years-old he survived an Israeli airstrike that ki…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Minority vs Minority Racism is Exploding
Episode 1409
San Grewal and Rahim Mohamed discuss Robyn Urback's opinion piece in the Globe and Mail, titled, “Like a bad ex, Donald Trump is accidentally making …
1 month, 4 weeks ago
Is Doug Ford Dead in the Water?
Episode 1408
After the Premier's meeting in PEI last week hosts San Grewal and Rahim Mohamed look at who got the media's attention, who didn't, and what strategie…
2 months ago
Mexico is Giving Trump What he Wants. Is it Working?
Episode 1407
Canada's relationship with Donald Trump feels like it's one big, messy, public fight. Meanwhile, Mexico seems... strangely calm. Has President Claudi…
2 months ago
Fastened to a Dying Animal: How to Survive the Collapse of the U.S. Empire
Episode 1406
Is the American empire officially in its "dying animal" era? Author and cultural critic Stephen Marche certainly thinks so and for the first time in …
2 months ago