May 11, 2020
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#325 Should We Stop Naming Killers?
Prime Minister Trudeau said naming the Nova Scotia mass shooter was giving him "the gift of infamy"
Jesse Brown
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Andréa Schmidt
Managing Editor, Podcasts

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Romayne Smith Fullerton investigates how different democracies cover crime, and what that reveals about our relationship to government, and to each other.

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