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DON'T CRY BECAUSE IT'S OVER, SMILE BECAUSE IT HAPPENED
We celebrate a VERY nice episode with the return of Drew, who announces some VERY special news (the release of the ep is a tiny bit delayed because the announcement got pushed back, sorry!) We also talk about that terrifying, nauseating Buzzfee
Tannara and James chat about Ontario's rent control situation and activism updates from Winnipeg and Toronto before interviewing with friend & comrade Vyas Saran (@vyassaran on Twitter) about the B.C. electoral reform referendum and the Vancouv
Canada's Troika of Tyranny chat CBC's unbelievably shoddy coverage of Jair Bolsonaro's win, Marge having never heard of the classic 1987 Stanley Kubrick movie "Full Metal Jacket," Canada's growing use of deportations, THAT Munk Debate, Steven G
Mamma mia, it's Thanksgiving! Celebrate with your favourite pod. We chat Gritty, Tom Hardy's Oscar bait "Venom," Fight for $15 successes in Alberta and U.S., why exporting natural gas is bad, Paula Simons getting appointed to the Senate and P*t
WE'RE BACK. Sorry for going AWOL on you. Tannara and James started grad school and are already having their butts kicked by it. The crew discuss that, student walk-outs, the McDonalds strike, the Ghomeshi essay, pipeline drama, Winnipeg's spine
tannara goes to a liberal rally for democracy(!?), james rambles about the "hat" "incident," marge gives us an update about abortion signs, we muse about what it means that bernier & rempel are going full pepe, and we chat about a VERY creepy p
we apply the classic nycu analysis to owls, saudi arabia threatening to 9/11 the cn tower, doug ford cancelling the basic income pilot, a bizarre situation with a survivor in a shelter filing a human rights complaint because her roommate was a
the three russkiteers discuss all your favourite topics. weather. racism. gun violence. climate policy. vancouver transit. border "security." lots more. thank you always to Andre Goulet and Jason Vezina.
BONUS EP. James chats with Mieke Ruth AKA @sex_marxist about NAFTA, supply management and other bourgeois bullshit. Mieke is an undergraduate student in politics and economics at the University of Winnipeg, situated on occupied Anishinaabek t
our comrade drew returns to the pod! he No Longer Cares and is Very Mad Online about canadian pundits. in addition to that, the gang of four talk about bonsai trees and drew’s gardening prowess, unbearable heat, ice packs in underwear, u of t’s
boy oh boy have we got a doozie for you. we discuss, debate, comment, criticize AND misexplain the following topics: the world cup, ongoing horrors in the united states (and canada's "response"), bike helmets, marge's relationship with her ther
we chat about the horrific election results from Ontario, what went wrong with the NDP, the Steven Galloway payout and ensuing media response, Postmedia's (successful) attempts to crush a union drive, and muuuuuuuuch more.here is Tannara's pi
folks......,,,,,,,,,we've got it all. pipelines (the one we bought), divorce law (handy tips and tricks), james detailing how he took a shower when his water heater broke (not good), ireland repealing the abortion ban (very, very good) and the
rent! non-binary birth certificates! grimes & elon! the iran nuclear deal! wow that's a lot of stuff hey.many thanks to Andre Goulet and Jason Vezina, as always, for production and our theme song.article about rent: https://www.huffingtonpo
it's brand new UCP:TH:NYCU!!! this episode, we chat about the David Suzuki "scandal" at the University of Alberta, pro-cop framing in the wake of the tragic van attack in Toronto & trucking regulations relating to the Humboldt bus crash. Marge
News You Can Use 2.0 is HERE. Endless thanks to Jason Vezina for our theme song! And to Andre Goulet for producing and Chris Hernandez at Studio Petit Palais in Montreal for mastering.In this episode, we chat about Canada's response to the U.
peter munk DEAD, whitewashing media ACTIVATED, university protests GOOD, public funding of fundamentalist curriculums BAD, bringing a pre-cooked egg in a tupperware container to a local burger joint to make an ad-hoc breakfast STILL UP FOR DEBA
WE'RE BACK. well, three of us. Drew is on hiatus, trimming his bonsai trees. but that's ok. we chat about STRIKES (York / Carleton) and PROTESTS (Kinder Morgan) and ABORTION DRAMA and CHOCOLATE MILK and HARVEY'S and HUNGER STRIKES (Regina Provi
Tannara, Drew & James chat about Justin Trudeau's bizarre trip to India, the Rebel Media's low-key and not at all sketchy retirement fund, why most journalists have terrible takes on government funding of media, and more. Many thanks as always
It's a good one, folks.Tannara, Drew & James chat about the epic Alberta and B.C. stand-off, Trudeau's town halls, Scott Gilmore's shockingly good suggestion about the military, a CBC interview with Jordan P and which song should be Canada's
items discussed: DECLARING FEALTY TO MARGE and GOOGLE SIDEWALK and CBC SUCKING and AZIZ & CONSENT and SOME GOOD NEWS and MORE.many THANKS to Andre Goulet for helping to produce the pod! be sure to check out his own pod: "Unpacking the News,"
the entire crew is BACK. we discuss bonsai trees, Ontario's new minimum wage and the disgusting capitalist backlash from our namesake (SHAME), Toronto's awful homelessness crisis, quitting Twitter, being happier, and more.here's a video of Er
marge, tannara & james chat about the b.c. ndp approving the continued construction of site c, the growing trade war between alberta and saskatchewan over......license plates, abortion doulas, tax havens and muuuuuuuuuch more.subscribe for mo
content warning: discussion about sexual violence.tannara, marge & james chat about abusers and predators in leftist spaces in the wake of revelations about the likes of sam kriss, lana del raytheon and emmett rensin. what should we do with s
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