- The incredible, feel-good story of Canada's men's soccer team
Wednesday, February 2nd 2022
For decades, Canada's men's soccer team was irrelevant at best, a punchline at worst. While the women's side went on to Olympic medals and World Cup runs, the Canadian men ... did nothing. Until a few years ago, when the tide began to turn. And then last year, when the unthinkable started to happen.
Now undefeated during qualifying, having beaten both the United States and Mexico, Canada is not only likely headed to the World Cup for just the second time in its history, but the team also looks ready to do some damage when it gets there. How did the unthinkable happen?
GUEST: John Molinaro, veteran Canadian soccer journalist, founder of TFC Republic
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- Who went to Ottawa, why are they still there and what happens now?
Tuesday, February 1st 2022
It was only ever barely about vaccine mandates. As thousands of Canadians took their grievances to Ottawa, some of the ugliest parts of the far-right joined them, distorting a message that was never that clear to begin with. After a weekend of blockades and plenty of bad behaviour, lots of legitimate protesters went home. Those who remain have vowed to occupy Canada's capital, and demand the end of the Liberal government. Who are these people? What happens next? And why are leaders from both sides pouring gas on the fire?
GUEST: Elizabeth Simons, deputy director of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network
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- What happened to Michael Dunahee?
Monday, January 31st 2022
The four-year-old boy, who went missing in 1991, might be Canada's most famous missing person. Thirty years after he vanished from a Victoria, BC playground, a new podcast retraces the investigation, connects with his family and tries to figure out both what happened, and why the case matters so much to so many.
GUEST: Laura Palmer, investigative reporter and host of Island Crime: Missing Michael
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- Are pop culture critics living inside bubbles?
Friday, January 28th 2022
Some critics have declared Harry Potter "over", or Lin-Manuel Miranda "cringe". In the real world, both Potter and Miranda remain enormously popular with people of all ages. Do critics become irrelevant when their views fall out of step with the vast majority of the audience? Or is shifting people's views towards a differing viewpoint part of a critic's job? How do we explain the vast gap between what an elite corner of social media feels is worthy, and what the sales numbers tell us?
GUEST: Yair Rosenberg, Deep Shtetl, The Atlantic
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- Why was Tonga's volcanic eruption so powerful?
Thursday, January 27th 2022
You could hear it as far away as Alaska and the West coast. It was many, many more times powerful than an atomic bomb and the largest volcanic eruption in more than 25 years. What was so unique about the underground volcano that shook the Pacific nation last week? And what can it tell us about the climate and what's to come?
GUEST: Shane Cronin, volcanologist at the University of Auckland
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