Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRE-RELEASE: Trudeau’s Liberals promised to end the blood ban. Now they say it’s “complicated”.
Episode 1109
We've gained some new subscribers recently, and over the next few Sundays we want to help welcome them to the show by re-releasing some of our favour…
1 year, 9 months ago
Mental Health Crisis?! In This Economy?!
Episode 1106
Patrick's family member is diagnosed with bipolar disorder and addicted to cocaine stimulants. Patrick and his wife have been trying to fund treatmen…
1 year, 9 months ago
Has decriminalization failed in BC?
Episode 1111
More than a year ago, BC decriminalized possession of small amounts of certain drugs. Earlier this month, they asked the federal government to recrim…
1 year, 9 months ago
How we're learning the true prevalence of incest
Episode 1108
Recent movements, and brave survivors, have helped to shine light on some of the abuses that happen behind closed doors. But there's one that is stil…
1 year, 9 months ago
We live in the age of boycotts. But which ones work?
Episode 1107
We're in the middle of a month in which thousands of Canadians have sworn to boycott any store or product produced by Loblaw Companies Ltd. That incl…
1 year, 9 months ago
A look inside Ottawa's extremely strange book festival
Episode 1105
On the surface, it was just another writer's festival, with perhaps some local food vendors. But as soon as the Ottawa International Food and Book Ex…
1 year, 9 months ago
A solution to the crisis in long-term care?
Episode 1104
Ask anyone how they want to spend their final years, and nobody will say "in a long-term care facility." And that was true ever before the pandemic s…
1 year, 9 months ago
RE-RELEASE: Inside the huge casino bust that went bad
Episode 1101
We've gained some new subscribers recently, and over the next few Sundays we want to help welcome them to the show by re-releasing some of our favour…
1 year, 9 months ago
Why do basic income pilots never become permanent?
Episode 1100
In 2017, the Ontario Liberal government instituted a basic income pilot where participants across the province would receive $1,400 a month for three…
1 year, 10 months ago
The long, strange trip that ended with Tim Hortons pizza
Episode 1103
Tim Hortons. Coffee, donuts and Canadian identity. What more could you possibly want? Well, maybe quenchers? Chilli? Beef lasagna casserole? Pulled p…
1 year, 10 months ago