Month: November 2018

Explain Like I’m Five Episode 20: The Canadian Security Intelligence Service, with Dick Fadden

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“In some countries, if the minister of the interior or the president doesn’t like you, they can ask the secret service to just go out and investigate you and make a nuisance. In this country, that’s absolutely forbidden. You need a threat to national security.”

Dick Fadden, former director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and national security advisor to the prime minister, joins host Aaron Reynolds to explain what CSIS is, how it operates, what it’s comparable to internationally, and why security threats look a lot different today.


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Quality Content Episode 12: The Secret Life of Canada

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“We really wanted to tell the stories of Indigenous people, women, and black and brown Canadians that had contributed so much to our history but we certainly didn’t learn about ourselves in school.”

Host Alex Paterson is joined by Falen Johnson and Leah-Simone Bowen, hosts of the indie turned CBC hit podcast The Secret Life of Canada. They talk about where the idea for the show came from, how they go about taking a look between the lines of Canadian history, and why it’s important to prioritize Indigenous and racialized stories.

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/Thread Episode 25: Tax competitiveness, media bailouts, and where hypermasculinity meets abuse

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“It’s really important to remember, we’re 11 months out from the federal election and [the government] is trying to check a number of boxes and save some of those other items for the larger federal budget.”

Host Sarah Turnbull sits down to chat about the week that was with Mary Anne Carter of Earnscliffe Strategy Group and Marco Vigliotti of iPolitics. The group dives into the fall fiscal update, delivered by Finance Minister Bill Morneau on Wednesday, including tax breaks for corporate Canada and government media bailouts. Also discussed: abuse allegations at St. Michael’s College School where six teens have been charged with sexual assault.

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Explain Like I’m Five Episode 19: Canadian Immigration, with Andrew Griffith

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“We always understood that it was about integration, it was about reserving a space for peoples’ identities, but again always within that Canadian construct of laws and values.”

Andrew Griffith, former director general of citizenship and multiculturalism at Citizenship and Immigration Canada, joins host Aaron Reynolds to talk about how the Canadian immigration system works, the pressures it faces, and the philosophies that shaped it.

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Wonk with Mike Episode 25: Ten years after the financial crisis, with Wayne Swan

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“A senior person said to me: ‘This is not the end, this is not the beginning of the end, it’s just the end of the beginning.’ And I thought that sounds serious.”

Wayne Swan, former Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer of Australia during the Great Recession, joins Mike Moffatt to discuss Australia’s response to the financial crisis with the benefit of a decade of hindsight.

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/Thread Episode 24: Amazon HQ2 bid, Facebook drama, and Celine Dion’s clothing ad

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“Canada historically has had a pretty competitive corporate tax position. The Trump tax cuts turned what had been on average an eight point advantage to a seven point deficit. So we went from being far better than them to far worse than them overnight.”

Host Sarah Turnbull is joined by National Post reporter Marie-Danielle Smith and The Logic reporter Murad Hemmadi to break down a few of the week’s top headlines. Topics include: Toronto’s failed Amazon HQ2 bid and tax competitiveness, alleged Facebook coverups, and Celine Dion’s bizarre TV advertisement promoting her new gender neutral kids clothing line.

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Explain Like I’m Five Episode 18: Pipelines, with Sean Kheraj

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“Success and failure in any kind of large scale complex envirotechnical system – they’re not always opposite from one another. In some cases failure is a symptom of success.”

Sean Kheraj, associate professor of Canadian and Environmental History at York University, joins host Aaron Reynolds to explain energy pipelines in Canada: what they do, why we have them, and how the conversation around them has changed in the last fifty years. Recorded live at Central Cafe in Toronto.

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Wonk with Mike Episode 24: Canada’s Increasing Inequality, with Lars Osberg

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“The inequality story looks pretty different at the very top, in the middle, and at the bottom of Canada’s income distribution.”

Lars Osberg, professor of economics at Dalhousie University, joins host Mike Moffatt to discuss his most recent book The Age of Increasing Inequality: The Astonishing Rise of Canada’s 1%.

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