November 11, 2024
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#1055 The Copernic Affair: Chapter One
Is he a terrorist? Or a scapegoat?
Jesse Brown
Host & Publisher
Julie Shapiro
Executive Producer & Editor
Noor Azrieh
Host/Producer

Canadaland has made a point of reporting and publishing complicated, difficult and nuanced stories that other media can’t or won’t — Thunder Bay, The White Saviors, Cool Mules. Pretendians. Our latest investigation is no different.

Acclaimed journalists Dana Ballout and Alex Atack have been working for years on our latest investigative series The Copernic Affair. It is a big, decades spanning investigation about how Hassan Diab, an unassuming sociology professor in Ottawa, ended up the prime suspect in a terrorism investigation that French authorities have been trying to solve since the 1980s.

Is he a terrorist? Or a scapegoat?

 

The Copernic Affair launches in late-January, but we are bringing you the first episode today.

Canadaland supporters can listen to the first two episodes right now and the rest of it, each week. 

Canadaland is offering early access to supporters. If you aren’t a supporter yet, it’s easy to become one. Just go to https://canadaland.com/join/ 

You’ll be enabling great journalism and ensuring it remains accessible and free for everybody.

 

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You can listen ad-free on Amazon Music—included with Prime.

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