Archives: Episodes

#1081 Payday Loans: the Cost of Being Poor

December 24, 2024

Starting January 1st, the criminal interest rate on predatory lending will be lowered, meaning it should be safer to take out payday and installment loans. But these businesses have a tendency to skirt the law, adding unexpected fees and insurance rates to keep borrowers in the hole.

#1080 That Time We Bombed the Aurora Borealis

December 23, 2024

“…you have this attempt to actually change the Aurora Borealis. to affect it physically. This was called Project Waterhole. So they sent up a rocket with 100 kilograms of explosives, and exploded it in the Aurora Borealis band. Within two seconds, they had created a 40 kilometer wide hole in the Aurora Borealis.” – from The Forgotten Need to Probe the Sky

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December 22, 2024

#54 Récap 2024

December 21, 2024

Pour ce dernier épisode de Détours, Emilie Nicolas fait le point sur l’année 2024 avec la chroniqueuse et humoriste Manal Drissi. For the last episode of Détours, Emilie Nicolas takes stock of the year 2024 with columnist and comedian Manal Drissi.

#1079 Trudeau’s Next Move, and the Truth About the Gig Economy

December 20, 2024

What Toronto Star got wrong about UberEats, plus an update on the shaky Trudeau government. 

#1078 Overthrown for the Holidays

December 18, 2024

Justin Trudeau won’t walk in the snow.

#110 The Undoing of Justin Trudeau

December 17, 2024

It was a hell of a day for the Liberals yesterday, as Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland abruptly abandoned her post. Now, all fingers are pointed at one man: Justin Trudeau.

#1076 The Great Darkness

December 16, 2024

“Here’s something that not many people know about the baby business.  There are ‘leg-men.’ We call them ‘leg-men’ though some of them are women, who make it their business to find pregnant women who are not married. The leg-men look for them in a million and one places. They meet them in bars and parks and cafes and all over. They hear things.”

 – Eugene Moyneur (ex-wrester, ex-bodybuilder, baby-smuggler)

#1075 Did Trudeau Just Hand Trump Canada’s Arctic?

December 13, 2024

What’s the deal with the “North American Arctic”?

#1074 A Canadian Politician Just Admitted to Taking Orders From India

December 11, 2024

Testifying in Parliament last week, Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown revealed how India affected his 2022 bid to lead the Conservative Party of Canada