November 4, 2021
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#726 The Right To Be Awful
The 'saying-stuff business' gets some clarity from different courts regarding what one can and cannot express online; the results may surprise you. And former prime minister Jean Chrétien gets the media to let him off the hook for his involvement with residential schools for a brief moment. 
Jesse Brown
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Tiffany Lam
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Tristan Capacchione
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Columnist and Canadaland’s French-language correspondent Emilie Nicolas co-hosts.

Links:

  • Full Tout le monde en parle Jean Chrétien segment here (14~ min mark for the discussion re: residential schools);
  • Full Tout le monde en parle author Michel Jean segment here (where Jean challenges some of Chrétien’s comments at 3:30~);

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