Episodi

  • 119 - Keeping the content machine going
    Dec 15 2025

    Giving you one last episode before the new year! Wherein we look back on the last year, both as a podcast and a country.

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    1 ora e 2 min
  • 117 - Antisemitism and Earth & High Heaven
    Nov 17 2025

    In which we talk about antisemitism in Canada, with a brief segue into Gwethalyn Graham's novel Earth & High Heaven (1944).

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    Sources/Further Reading

    • Abella, Irving. None is Too Many, 1970.

    • Graham, Gwethalyn. Earth and High Heaven, 1944.

    • Moss, John. A Reader's Guide to the Canadian Novel, McClelland and Stewart, 1981

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    47 min
  • 116 - Theories of Canada's foundation
    Oct 27 2025

    Is this episode early for next week or late from last week? Who's to say... but it is about various theories that were offered in mid-twentieth century Canada about what was the most crucial aspect to its foundation was. Naturally, it devolves into discussing beavers.
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    54 min
  • 115 - Norman Bethune
    Oct 6 2025

    In which Patrick rides solo for a brief overview of Norman Bethune's rock n' roll life.
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    Further Readings

    • Bock, Dennis. The Communist's Daughter, 2007.

    • Tse-Tung, Mao. "In Memory of Norman Bethune." December 21, 1939.

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    33 min
  • "Letters to Kafka": A Conversation with Christine Estima
    Sep 22 2025

    In which I talk to writer Christine Estima about her debut novel, Letters to Kafka. The novel conjures the voice of Milena Jesenská, the absent interlocutor to Franz Kafka's posthumously published Letters to Milena, in a vivid portrayal of a stifled intellectual whose spirit and ambition outpace the role of women in her time.

    Find the book here or at your local bookstore.
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    54 min
  • 114 - William Lyon Mackenzie King, Part 2 (ONE YEAR LATER!)
    Sep 8 2025

    After one year, we are hear to finish our exploration of the man who has widely been called the greatest PM of Canadian history. Of course we'll laugh at him!

    Cartoons referenced:

    • Cartoon 1

    • Cartoon 2

    • Cartoon 3

    • Cartoon 4

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    1 ora e 24 min
  • Max Brault on an building an 'Accessible Canada'
    Aug 11 2025

    In which Patrick talks to Max Brault about The Race to the Starting Line, which details his public and private work as an accessibility activist, as well as his being one of the drivers of Canada's recent "Accessible Canada Act."

    You can find out more about Max and his book here!
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    1 ora e 12 min
  • 113 - Superman!
    Jul 28 2025

    In which we talk about the creation of the Man of Steel and why he matters.
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    1 ora e 10 min