Ep.198 - Punching Nazis... With The Law!
Who thought we'd have a Nazi problem in 2017? Richard Warman did. Years before the current "Should I punch a Nazi" debate took off, he was taking neo-Nazis to court. As a human rights lawyer, Richar...
11 Sep 201748min
Enough About Antifa, Let's Fight Fascists
Post columnists pen truly offensive shit; another media outlet lays off workers; Donald Trump has us all scrambling. Another day, another 81¢ (rounded for inflation). The team of our Commons podc...
7 Sep 201743min
I Don't Speak Sports
It's clear that sports journalism is facing many of the same issues as other facets of the industry: declining ad revenues, job insecurities, and too much content vying for too few eyeballs. It also h...
5 Sep 201747min
Mommy, Where Do Feelings Come From?
Americans are debating the removal of monuments to problematic historical figures, so I guess we are too. Old folks don't want to hear sad stories about feelings on their CBC. Young folks do, apparen...
31 Aug 201736min
Ezra's Very Bad Week
It's been, to put it mildly, a shit week for Rebel Media's self-styled 'Rebel Commander' Ezra Levant: - Following the tragedy in Charlottesville last weekend, Rebel Media co-founder Brian Lilley, and ...
21 Aug 201755min
SHORT CUTS #130 - Rebel Meltdown
A growing list of contributors and politicians are cutting ties with far right website The Rebel after their coverage of the white nationalist protest in Charlottesville. Meanwhile, "Rebel commander"...
17 Aug 201738min
Bleeding Edge Outrage Meme Generators
The term 'fake news'has been popularized, bastardized, and now wholly appropriated. What was previously defined as 'A deliberate untruth published strictly for monetary or political gain,' has now com...
14 Aug 201755min
Arctic DNA
Joseph Boyden has emerged from his winter burrow like a collared lemming (it's an arctic mammal -- look it up!) to plug his forthcoming book weigh in again on questions of his Indigenous ancestry. Des...
10 Aug 201746min
