March 30, 2022
SHARE
COMMONS
WAR #1 – Last Plane Out of Kabul
The true story of the end of one of the forever wars through the eyes of the people who were there.
Arshy Mann
Host & Producer
Jordan Cornish
Producer
Noor Azrieh
Producer
Kieran Oudshoorn
Managing Editor, Podcasts

Support us at www.commonspodcast.com

 

The War in Afghanistan was Canada’s longest war. More than 40,000 Canadian troops served. And countless Canadian civilians went to work in the country. But after twenty years, billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives lost, Afghanistan is worse off than before.

When the Taliban marched into Kabul last August, the world watched as Afghans clung to planes in an attempt to escape. We bring you the true story of the end of one of the forever wars through the eyes of the people who were there.

 

Featured in this episode: Wasai Rahimi, Ghousuddin Frotan, Brian Castner, Mohammed Sharif Sharaf, Matthieu Aikins

 

To learn more:

“Inside the Fall of Kabul” by Matthieu Aikins in New York Times Magazine

“Escape from Afghanistan” by Mark MacKinnon in The Globe and Mail

“Horror at Kabul’s gate to freedom” by Nick Paton Walsh, Sandi Sidhu, Julia Hollingsworth, Masoud Popalzai, Sitara Zamani, Abdul Basir Bina, Katie Polglase & Gianluca Mezzofiore in CNN

 

Additional music from Audio Network

 

This episode is brought to you by Rotman’s Risk Management Program, Oxio, Escaping Denver, and Ground News

 

If you listen on Apple, subscribe to Canadaland Politics for $2.99/month for ad-free episodes of COMMONS, Wag the Doug and The BackBench.

https:/apple.co/3wjxaRW

More from this series
In this bonus episode, COMMONS producer Jordan Cornish sits down with Jashvina Shah to talk about her book, Game Misconduct: Hockey's Toxic Culture and How to Fix It. 
September 6, 2023
In this bonus episode, COMMONS producer Jordan Cornish sits down with host Arshy Mann to discuss our recent season on hockey. 
August 2, 2023
Fighting was just his job. But it would end up taking everything from him.
July 5, 2023
The Hockey Canada scandal has become one of the biggest stories in the country. And now, hockey appears to be in the middle of a reckoning. But this isn’t the first time. There was another moment, just like this one.
June 28, 2023
Mike Danton was playing in the Stanley Cup playoffs for the St. Louis Blues. And at the same time, he was trying to hire a hitman to kill his agent, David Frost.
June 21, 2023
Hockey exacts a heavy toll on many boys and young men — on their minds and their bodies. And then they’re told not to talk about any of it outside the locker room.
June 14, 2023
The NHL likes to call Willie O’Ree the Jackie Robinson of hockey. And no one can deny how significant it was when he became the first Black player on the ice in an NHL game in 1958.  But what the league doesn’t like to talk about is what happened next. 
June 7, 2023
The Coloured Hockey League wasn’t just a sideshow to the main event of white hockey. And the way that league was targeted by the white establishment is reflective of the racism that Black players faced over the next century.
May 31, 2023
all podcasts arrow All Podcasts
COMMONS