Archives: Episodes

#72 GenZ’s Political Apathy-ocalypse

September 5, 2023

The tale generally goes like this: Gen Z is disconnected, disinterested, and buried so deep into their screens that they don’t care about the politics going on around them.

#916 Chantal Hébert

September 4, 2023

It’s possible that Chantal Hébert’s journalism once held Canada together. She joins Jesse for a discussion about what’s appropriate in political news coverage, and what (if anything) needs to change.

#20 Redéfinir la famille traditionnelle

September 2, 2023

Pourquoi dépeint-on si souvent la vie familiale de façon dépolitisée, alors que la famille est le premier lieu où l’on comprend les hiérarchies ? Les co-animatrices abordent aussi une question brûlante que le Canada anglais se pose depuis longtemps : pourquoi le Québec est-il si bizarre ? Réponse courte : parce que la France est bizarre.

#915 Parents, Peterson and the Pronoun Panic

August 31, 2023

With more provinces jumping aboard the prejudiced pronoun panic, Jesse and Karyn pick apart the misleading narratives that are helping fuel it.

#914 Stock Buybacks: How Grocers Eat Themselves

August 28, 2023

Canada’s biggest grocery chains spent nearly 2 billion last year buying up their own stocks.

#913 Yellowknife’s Cabin Radio Fever

August 24, 2023

With Canadians in the North and West fleeing their homes to escape the encroaching infernos, wouldn’t it be great if there were places online they could congregate to share news? 

#71 Backbench Catch Up

August 22, 2023

It’s summer time, and Parliament’s been out of session for 2 months. For this episode of the Backbench, host Mattea roach is joined by an all-star panel of Riley Yesno, Emilie Nicolas, David Moscrop.

#912 Is The Foreign Interference Scandal Overblown?

August 21, 2023

Foreign Interference by the Chinese government into Canadian politics is probably the biggest news story of the year, and yet we know so little about it. What was the interference? Why did it occur? Did it work? Who was involved?

#19 Rentrée scolaire féministe

August 19, 2023

Les choses ont-elles vraiment changé ? À l’occasion de la rentrée scolaire 2023, Léa Clermont-Dion se joint à Emilie pour réfléchir à l’évolution de la culture du viol, tant sur les campus scolaires qu’au cinéma.

#911 Pierre Don’t Care

August 17, 2023

Does Pierre Poilievre touting conspiracy theories count as news?