#6 Pandering Season

July 13, 2021

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#6 Pandering Season

More and more election season tropes have revealed themselves recently, particularly in Quebec, Alberta and Tiktok. And the mutiny against the Green Party leader Annamie Paul reaches its final stage next week - How did we get here?

Tiffany Lam

Producer

Kevin Sexton

Producer

Tristan Capacchione

Audio Editor & Technical Producer

This week’s contributors: Murad Hemmadi, Jason Markusoff, Emilie Nicolas

A special thank you to the Toronto Star’s Alex Ballingall, whose reporting on the Green Party helped inform this episode.

You can also listen to The Sprawl’s conversation with Prime Minister Trudeau here.

This episode is supported by Simplii Financial and Aussie Hair.

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