Money Mark or Concession Carney?
A report in the Globe and Mail says Canada is offering concessions to get a trade deal. Canadians and pundits aren’t happy with the idea. Is it just a trial balloon or is Carney willing to pay the pol...
12 Aug 27min
Prediction Markets Come to Canada via Wealthsimple. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Wealthsimple just launched its new betting platform, but for now, Canadians can only bet on the economy, financial markets, and the weather.So what happens when we start betting on politics?Host Sam K...
11 Aug 28min
Repugnant Markets: Where Blood is Sold and Kidneys Swapped
They’re shamed, banned, or driven underground but “repugnant markets” have a way of surviving. Organ sales, MAID, even blood sales fall into the category. Nobel Prize-winning economist Alvin Roth come...
10 Aug 24min
Does Canada have Israel Derangement Syndrome?
Last Wednesday, Foreign Policy CAN tweeted that "Canada condemns the ongoing violence in the West Bank..." So later that day, the Embassy of Israel in Canada responded with "Israel condemns the ongoin...
7 Aug 34min
BONUS: Three Interviews We Never Aired, and Why
Last year, we published an episode about all the tape that didn’t make it into one of our shows. Today is different… but similar. Here are three interviews we did that just never made it to air. And w...
6 Aug 1min
Wet Hot Libel Summer: the Caylan Ford/Press Progress Fiasco
Seven years in, we're looking at what might just be the longest and most involved media defamation trial in Canadian history: former Alberta United Conservative Party candidate Caylan Ford is suing Pr...
5 Aug 33min
Mark Carney Wants You to Send Cash for his Home Reno
Stories about The Prime Minister’s residence at 24 Sussex just won’t die. Lumber barons, dead brides, Trudeau’s secret pool, nacho machines, you name it.But now, the Prime Minister’s crumbling, rat-in...
4 Aug 47min
A Palestinian Activist on What's Wrong With the Pro-Palestine Movement
Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib is a Palestinian-American writer who grew up in Gaza City. When he was eleven years-old he survived an Israeli airstrike that killed two of his friends and left him with permanent...
3 Aug 47min
