Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEP 188: Vicky Nguyen on Her Journey From Boat Baby to the Today Show
As we all navigate a period rife with political tensions on both sides of the Canada/U.S. border, we wanted to bring you an incredible story that cel…
1 year, 5 months ago
EP 187: Phoebe Maltz Bovy on Heteropessimism
Throughout the Canadian federal election, we’re taking weekly breaks to think and talk about other things. On today’s program, in light of ongoing de…
1 year, 5 months ago
EP 186: Election 2025 - Melanie Paradis on Women's Fertility
Women’s fertility is a third rail in Canadian politics. We all learned this again last week, when Pierre Poilievre made a comment about biological cl…
1 year, 5 months ago
EP 185: Adam Gussow on Interracial Family Life in America's South
During the 2025 Canadian election season, we’ll be pausing from time to time to take a breather and to think about other issues — often interesting n…
1 year, 5 months ago
EP 184: Election 2025 - Brian Dijkema on the Collapse of Support for the NDP
One of the big stories in the Canadian federal election so far has been the collapse of support for the NDP. New polling from Ipsos shows support for…
1 year, 5 months ago
EP 183: Election 2025 - Laurent Carbonneau on Canada's 'Corporate Welfare Bums'
As election season builds steam, here at Lean Out we are focused on the question of why daily life in Canada has become so expensive and so dysfuncti…
1 year, 5 months ago
EP 182: Ann Bauer on Booksellers' Moral Contract
With the Canadian federal election now underway, we’re going to have a lot of political content for you in coming weeks. But today, we wanted to chan…
1 year, 5 months ago
EP 181: Election 2025 - Tom Korski
After much speculation, Prime Minister Mark Carney has called a snap spring election, and Canadians will be heading to the polls on April 28. To kick…
1 year, 5 months ago
EP 180: Dave Snow on DEI in Federal Granting Agencies
In the wake of President Trump’s executive order on DEI, debates in America have renewed a conversation around DEI in this country. And while the bas…
1 year, 6 months ago
EP 179: Andrew Potter on the End of the Trudeau Era
With Mark Carney in his first week in office as Canada’s new Prime Minister, the Justin Trudeau era is quickly fading in the rearview mirror. But bef…
1 year, 6 months ago