Sarah Turnbull and Alex Paterson are joined by former diplomat and Macleans editor-at-large Scott Gilmore for a look back at the week. Topics include investing in cannabis, reactions to the Boston Globe’s #enemyofnone editorial campaign, and how to react to Maxime Bernier’s Twitter rant about multiculturalism.
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/Thread Episode 10 : we’re gonna blow up the moon (week of August 10)
“Absolutely zero adult supervision.”
Aaron Reynolds and Alex Paterson are joined by Sarah Goldfeder and Josh McJannett to talk about the week that just ended. Topics include diplomacy by tweet, Space Force and Canada’s place in space innovation, and Buck-a-Beer backlash. Plus, we play the tweet game.
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/Thread Episode 9 : update your virus protection (week of August 3)
Host Sarah Turnbull is joined by Mike Moffatt, Aaron Reynolds, and Alex Paterson in the Canada 2020 studio to wrap up the week. Topics include Ontario News Now and comparisons to the CBC, and the Liberal government’s track record on gay rights issues. Plus, Alex, Mike, and Aaron face off in the tweet game.
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/Thread Episode 8: fishing with a pitchfork (week of July 27)
Mike Moffatt and Aaron Reynolds join host Sarah Turnbull in the Canada 2020 studio to summarize the week that was. Topics include what Canadians are most afraid of; tweets about handguns, bears, and selfdefence; and something that has been making Mike angry since 1989. Plus, Mike and Aaron face off in the Twitter trivia game.
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/Thread Episode 6: inescapable agent of chaos (week of July 13)
“What’s up, it’s 1998, let’s all watch A Bug’s Life and eat pizza at McDonald’s, it’s 1998”
It’s Friday the 13th, and Maclean’s writer Shannon Proudfoot joined Sarah Turnbull and Alex Paterson in the Canada 2020 studio to summarize the week. Topics included: Ontario’s sex-ed curriculum rollback, deep-state conspiracies in the U.S., and hockey drama in Ottawa.
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/Thread Episode 5: hot metal slide (week of June 6)
“This reductionist thinking that simply believing men and women are equal is enough to qualify you as a feminist is absurd”
Sarah Turnbull and Alex Paterson are joined by human rights lawyer Amy Kishek in the Canada 2020 studio to answer the three questions of the week: what did the news cycle miss, who had the best or worst take, and what are we done with? This week’s topics include the debate over who is and is not a feminist; the conversation between Doug Ford and Justin Trudeau on asylum seekers; and the very Canadian habit of complaining about the weather. Recorded June 6th, 2018.
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/Thread Episode 4: garbage summer (week of June 28)
“You don’t get to call it parody after you got caught trying to pass it off as real”
To wrap up the week that just passed, Alex Paterson, Sarah Turnbull and Aaron Reynolds answer three questions: what did the news cycle miss; who had the best or worst take of the week; and what are we done with? Topics this week include “parody” twitter accounts, 4th of July barbecue party invitations, Facebook’s new fact-checking initiative, and the fish man who almost got everyone killed at the battle of Endor.
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/Thread Episode 3: just don’t do it (week of June 22)
“Political tribalism is stupid.”
To wrap up the week that just passed, June Gleed, Mike Moffatt, and Aaron Reynolds answer three questions: what did the news cycle miss, who had the best or worst take, and what are we done with. Topics this week include breastfeeding in Parliament, Billy Elliot, bureaucratic infighting, playground equipment, and how not to be a garbage person on Twitter.
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/Thread Episode 2: do your homework (week of June 15)
“2 legit 2 quit”
It’s the second episode of our weekly policy and politics wrap-up show, and this week Alex, June and Aaron talk about Caillou, proportional representation in British Columbia, Tom Mulcair’s long goodbye, argument-seeking Twitter bros, live-streaming fails, Canada’s Wikipedia page, and Dennis Rodman’s international cryptocurrency grift.