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Dec 07 2024 53 ep. 14 mins 6

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Leaving Canadaland

Dec 07 2024 30 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.readtheorchard.orgFor the past six years, Arshy Mann has been the voice of COMMONS. When I heard that Mann and his producer Jordan Cornish recently decided to leave Canadaland and start their own project, the Hatchet, I knew I wanted to interview Arshy about the state of independent Canadian media.We spoke about his

What went wrong at COP29?

Nov 30 2024 23 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.readtheorchard.orgThe consensus on COP29 is that it was a flop. Delegates to the annual climate summit, held this year in Baku, Azerbaijan, reached an agreement to provide $300 billion (USD) in financing to transition developing countries off of fossil fuels by 2025, a target which climate campaigners say barely scra

Making Sense of the 2024 U.S. Election

Nov 16 2024 31 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.readtheorchard.orgDonald Trump will be returning to the White House in January after defeating Kamala Harris in a landslide, in which he won every single major swing state—Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada. Trump also obtained control over both Houses of Congress, meanin

Why Chrystia Freeland's Nazi Grandfather Matters

Nov 09 2024 24 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.readtheorchard.orgWhen Chrystia Freeland’s grandfather, whom she’s repeatedly cited as a political influence, was outed as a Nazi collaborator to Canadian media in 2017, much ink was spilled defending his wartime activities as an act of sheer survival. A new book reveals that narrative to be totally bunk. Mikhayl

What is Samidoun?

Oct 26 2024 30 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.readtheorchard.orgOn Oct. 15, the U.S. and Canadian governments announced that they were declaring Samidoun, a registered Canadian charity also known as the Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, as a terrorist entity. The designation was based on a vague assertion that Samidoun is funnelling money intended for Pal

The Political Economy of American Football

Oct 19 2024 36 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.readtheorchard.orgIt’s no secret that American (and Canadian) football puts players at great physical risk by the very nature of the game. There’s a reason teams play games weekly and a player suiting up for every game of the season is a rarity. While players put their bodies on the line for our entertainment, ad

Canada's $7.5-million Nazi Monument

Oct 12 2024 27 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.readtheorchard.orgCanada’s troubled Victims of Communism Memorial is back in the news. It turns out that more than 330 of the 553 names slated to be inscribed on the Ottawa monument, which was first proposed by then-secretary of state for multiculturalism Jason Kenney in 2008, belong to outright Nazis and Nazi coll

What the hell is going on in B.C. politics?

Sep 21 2024 6 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.readtheorchard.orgThe campaign for British Columbia’s upcoming provincial election has already featured arguably the most stunning development in Canadian provincial politics since Danielle Smith temporarily sabotaged her political career by crossing the floor to the PC government benches in 2014. In late August, l

The Rise and Fall of Canada's Social Safety Net

Sep 14 2024 9 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.readtheorchard.orgConservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is fond of calling Canada “broken,” and he’s not wrong. Health care, housing, affordability — they’re all in crisis. But while Poilievre blames these problems on “woke” policies and “Big Government,” Nora Loreto has published the first book in a

How Israel Weaponizes the Holocaust

Sep 07 2024 5 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.readtheorchard.org“There’s no business like Shoah business,” former Israeli deputy prime minister Abba Eban is reported to have once said. Anyone who follows developments in Israel and Palestine, even casually, knows how frequently Israeli political and military leaders invoke the Holocaust to justify their act