Julian Fantino may be the most famous cop in Canadian history. He was the chief of four different police forces. And for decades, he was one of the most influential voices in law enforcement. But during his rise, people critical of the police had a way of finding themselves in the crosshairs. They were smeared, surveilled, intimidated and arrested. The police are a singularly powerful institution in this country. How far are the cops willing to go to keep it that way? Featured in this episode: Lennox Farrell, Jerry Amernic, Susan Eng, Derek Finkle.   To learn more: “Toronto Police Farce” by Derek Finkle in Eye Weekly Dudley Speaks for Me by Ngardy Conteh George Hogtown: The Politics of Policing by Min Sook Lee The Trials of London by Max Allen in CBC Ideas Duty: The Life of a Cop by Julian Fantino and Jerry Amernic Additional music from Audio Network. This episode is sponsored by Dispatch Coffee, Audible, and Manscaped.   

This is the story of Canada’s first-ever video game union. And the lengths that the industry went to try to stop it in its tracks

The huge rise in international students in Canada — most of them from Punjab, India — has become one of the biggest stories in the country.

She expected to face opposition from tech companies and governments that are hostile to workers. But what she didn’t anticipate was that one of the biggest obstacles in her path would be a labour union. 

Mandalena Lewis is one of far too many flight attendants who have been harassed or assaulted on the job. And her story is just one example of a culture of sexism and abuse that she alleges pervades the airline industry.

In 2006, Zakaria Amara was arrested and imprisoned for planning what could have been one of the deadliest terror attacks in Canadian history. A ringleader of the so-called “Toronto 18,” he’s one of the most infamous Canadian convicts of the last few decades. 

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Not only do Canadian prisoners work for for-profit businesses, but they’re sometimes doing the most dangerous and nauseating work around