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Ep.44 - Canada's Arms Deals: Beyond Saudi Arabia
Canada’s arms deal with Saudi Arabia has raised a lot of controversy, but they’re not the only ones getting our weapons or weapons parts. Supriya wants to know who else Canada is s...
Ep.43 - Rogue Senators
A group of Senators says partisan activity has "seriously eroded the credibility and reputation” of their workplace. So they’ve formed a non-partisan working group to try to fix it...
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Ep.42 - Live From U of Ottawa: Refugees Welcome, But Bad News About the Job Market...
Andray and Desmond host a live panel asking how cities are preparing refugees to fend for themselves in a year’s time and how they can get on their feet in our terrible job market....
Ep.41 - Legal Weed is Bad for Poor People
Canada has had a marijuana industry for a long time. It just hasn’t always been legal. People in the business have ended up in prison, barred from crossing the border or denied fut...
Ep.40 - George Elliott Clarke: A Polyphony of Canadian Blacknesses
George Elliott Clarke has been appointed as Canada’s seventh poet laureate. His wide-ranging conversation with Desmond touches on how working for a trailblazing black MP led him t...
Ep.39 - Don't Let Harper Happen Here: Wab Kinew on Entering Politics
“I think it would be a real shame if we got rid of Harper at the federal level and then we brought in somebody who wants to take our province in a similar direction,” Wab Kinew tel...
Ep.38 - The Government Finally Admitted They Illegally Spy On Us and Nobody Cares
Canada's electronic spy agency broke privacy laws by collecting metadata about Canadians, then sharing it with other countries. The issue was exposed in a watchdog report that was ...
Ep.37 - Michelle Rempel on Heckling
Most workplaces discourage yelling and jeering among co-workers. But the government has their own way of doing things. Desmond and Supriya talk to Calgary - Nose Hill Conservative ...
Ep.36 - What Is a Post-Harper Conservative?
After the end of Harper's decade-long rule, Conservatives have to figure out what they stand for. The next leadership race is still a long way away, but people are starting to camp...
Ep.35 - White Men Gotta Speak On This
Former BC Premier Ujjal Dosanjh recently wrote an editorial called “The Silencing of the White Men of the West." In it, he argues that political correctness stifles powerful white ...
Ep.34 - A senator on mischief, mutiny and men's rights
As a child, Andray was taught to look up to Anne C. Cools, the first black person to join Canada’s Senate. Born in Barbados, she spent her early life as a social worker and pioneer...
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