#754 Will You Be My Ex? Canada’s Broken Divorce System
What's the word for the scrooge of Valentine's Day? CANADALAND, I guess. Today's episode looks at four stories that show how broken the divorce process is.
Sarah Lawrynuik
Senior Producer
Tristan Capacchione
Audio Editor & Technical Producer
Jesse Brown
Host & Publisher
Kieran Oudshoorn
Managing Editor, Podcasts
Hosted by Jesse Brown
This week’s episode is bursting your love bubble by digging into the dark side of love. You’ll hear four personal stories that show, with increasing intensity, just how broken Canada’s divorce system is. People who were held hostage for years by a slow-moving process that sent them hurdling into debt.
And beyond that, we rarely talk about divorce as a life or death situation, but it certainly can be.
Senior producer Sarah Lawrynuik brings you this one.
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