December 26, 2023
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Canadaland Politics
#80 2023 Was the Year of Political Nonsense
This year has been one hell of a political rollercoaster.
Aviva Lessard
Senior Producer
Noor Azrieh
Host/Producer
Caleb Thompson
Audio Editor
Karyn Pugliese
Editor-in-Chief

Host, Mattea Roach, sits down with Riley Yesno, Nick Taylor-Vaisey, and Kyle Duggan to make sense of key political moments of this year, and to make predictions of their future implications. They unpack everything from Canada’s foreign interference problem and the controversial carbon tax, to the housing crisis and the NDP-Liberal confidence agreement. 

 

Host:  Mattea Roach

Credits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Noor Azrieh (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)

Guests: Nick Taylor-Vaisey, Riley Yesno, Kyle Duggan

 

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Sponsors: oxio, Douglas 

 

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