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Canada Did What?!

Canada Did What?!

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Canada’s most startling political history podcast is back for another season, as host Tristin Hopper brings you the wildest Canadian stories you might think you remember and revealing what you haven’t been told. We talk to the politicians, journalists and newsmakers who were right there when history happened — and have a lot of fun along the way.© Postmedia Network Ciencia Política Mundial Política y Gobierno
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  • The curse of the Rob Ford crack video (Bonus episode)

    The curse of the Rob Ford crack video (Bonus episode)
    Apr 14 2026
    There are layers within layers to the outlandish stories of Rob Ford, but one of the most bizarre is that of the “crack video” showing the late Toronto mayor smoking cocaine in a seedy suburban basement. The gangbanger who filmed it tried selling it in hopes of getting out of Toronto’s thug life but set off a circus that engulfed a city. It put police, gangsters and the mayor’s minions in hot pursuit of a tape everyone wanted, but everyone connected to would eventually suffer for.
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    36 m
  • A boy genius turns to international villainy

    A boy genius turns to international villainy
    Apr 7 2026
    He was an all-Canadian whiz kid, a celebrated rocket-engineering prodigy, who wanted to make this country a serious player in the 1960s space race. But when science sidestepped Gerald Bull’s plan to build gargantuan guns that could launch projectiles into orbit, he just … broke. He turned his brilliance in missile design to darker pursuits, building horrible weapons for sinister regimes. If it sounds like a spy novel, it ends like one too, with Bull meeting a violent, mysterious end of his own.
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    40 m
  • The Charter was a huge mistake

    The Charter was a huge mistake
    Mar 31 2026
    It’s lionized by politicians but, in the real world, Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms has proved less a symbol of democratic liberty than an agent of destruction. Since becoming constitutional law, the Charter has run roughshod over Canadian democracy, weaponized in the courts to overturn popular and vital policies. In 1982, there were plenty of people on the left and the right who tried to warn us of the coming devastation before it happened. It ended up being worse than they imagined.
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    49 m
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