Archives: Episodes

#972 The Witch Trials Of Andy Mills

March 18, 2024

Andy Mills’ podcasting work for The New York Times won a Peabody Award and a Pulitzer Prize citation. Then he lost it all.

#34 Journalisme cathartique

March 16, 2024

Comment amener les gens à s’intéresser à ce qui se passe dans le reste de la planète ?

How do you get people to care about what is going on in the rest of the planet?

#971 Just For Death

March 14, 2024

The laughter has stopped at the Just For Laughs festival, as ownership applies for creditor protection and cancels the Montreal and Toronto 2024 festivals.

#85 The Hate U Post

March 12, 2024

Richard Warman used to take neo-nazis he found online to the human rights commission. He used an obscure provision called Section 13, which was repealed in 2014. 

#970 How Work Got So Sh*tty

March 11, 2024

Twenty years of school gets you what… An unpaid internship? An e-bike to deliver ramen? And some sort of side hustle? How did we get here? Today we look at work in Canada.

#969 Mulroney: One of Canada’s Most Divisive Prime Ministers

March 7, 2024

As the obituaries and puff pieces roll in, the Canadian media seems to have forgotten that Brian Mulroney was – in fact – divisive. Correcting the record on “Conservative Titan” Brian Mulroney. 

Introducing our new season… Work

March 6, 2024

This season of COMMONS will dig into the fascinating history and ever-changing present of what it means to be a worker in Canada.

#968 The Conservative Decade Ahead

March 4, 2024

If the polls are anywhere near correct Pierre Poilievre is on track to be our next Prime Minister. And he may be in that job for a long time. So today we’re going to dare to speculate: what would years of Conservative rule look like?

#33 Bordel en tout genre

March 2, 2024

Les nouvelles politiques d’identité de genre annoncées en Alberta mélangent le droit des enfants avec le droit des parents dans un contexte où les corps et esprits des personnes trans sont déjà sous contrôle social, familial, politique, médical et juridique, et leur sentiment le plus profond par rapport à leur identité, constamment délégitimisé.

#967 The VICE Guide to Losing $5.7 Billion

February 29, 2024

Vice Media was once valued at 5.7 billion dollars – This week it closed its doors.