COMMONS
261 episodes - English - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★ - 69 ratingsCOMMONS is a documentary podcast that proves Canada is anything but boring. Each season, host Arshy Mann guides you through the country’s dark underbelly, bringing you stories about crime, corruption and all manner of misdeeds.
This season will unmask the ever-present war on workers. And the many, many ways that workers have banded together to fight back against it.
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Monopoly 3 - The Hudson’s Bay Company
November 23, 2022 08:05 - 27 minutes - 25.3 MBToday, it’s a department store where you might go to buy perfume or cookware. But the Hudson’s Bay Company was Canada’s first, and its most powerful, monopoly. It grew from a largely insignificant enterprise into one of the most dominant forces in North America. The story of the HBC reveals just how deeply embedded monopoly is in Canada’s very fabric. Featured in this episode: Stephen R. Bown, Jean Teillet To learn more The Company: The Rise and Fall of the Hudson’s Bay Empire by Step...
Monopoly 2 - Big Milk
November 16, 2022 08:03 - 28 minutes - 26.2 MBSome say that they’re a shadowy group that are the true power behind our elected officials, wielding enormous influence that they use to either benefit their friends or crush their enemies. Others claim that they’re a bulwark against oligopolies, ensuring that rural Canada doesn’t turn into an empty, corporatized hellscape. But what’s not up for debate is that Big Milk is a big deal. Featured in this episode: Marlene Haley, Justin Ling, Bruce Muirhead To learn more “Cheddargate” by Just...
Monopoly 1 - Lost in the Supermarket
November 09, 2022 08:37 - 32 minutes - 29.3 MBCanadians are being squeezed at every end. When it comes to cell phone bills, grocery bills, housing, entertainment, we’re all paying more than ever before. But a small number of companies that dominate their industries are reaping in enormous profits. This season of COMMONS we’ll be digging into all of the monopolies, oligopolies and cartels that dominate our lives. And for our first stop, we head to the supermarket. Featured in this episode: Vass Bednar, Marco Chown Oved (Toronto Star)...
Introducing our new season… Monopoly
November 02, 2022 07:25 - 2 minutes - 1.84 MBFrom broadband to banking to blueberries (yes, even blueberries), life in Canada is ruled by monopolies. In the latest season of COMMONS, host Arshy Mann and producers Jordan Cornish and Noor Azrieh will bring you the stories of how these monopolists bullied their way to the top, strangled their rivals, and cornered their markets with help from the government. Our new season launches on November 9th. If you’re a Canadaland supporter, you can listen to the first episode now! Become a suppo...
Introducing our new series: Ratfucker
October 27, 2022 12:40 - 42 seconds - 1.29 MBMeet David Wallace, political fixer. After decades in the game he says he’s getting out, telling all, and dumping his files in public. The result is the viral "Klondike Papers" theory of conspiracies, conservatives, and cults. But are the allegations true? And why is he really implicating himself, and so many others? A wild, true story. Series launches October 31st. Subscribe now (link). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
WAR 8 - Who Pays the Price?
July 06, 2022 09:37 - 39 minutes - 36.1 MBAfghanistan has endured more than four decades of almost ceaseless war. But since the Taliban takeover, Afghans have been abandoned by the global community and are now facing an unprecedented humanitarian crisis. What was all of this for? And is Afghanistan destined for yet another cycle of violence? Featured in this episode: Rangina Hamidi, Mohsin Amin, Stephen M. Saideman To learn more: “Americans nurtured Afghanistan’s economy. Now they’re gutting it” by Mohsin Amin in The Washi...
WAR 7 - The Long, Slow Death
June 22, 2022 09:23 - 46 minutes - 42.6 MBStuart Langridge was a model soldier. But when he returned from a tour in Afghanistan, his family noticed that something was off. He was suffering from PTSD. But instead of providing him the treatment he needed, Stuart was punished and humiliated by the Canadian Forces. Like too many Afghan veterans, Stuart ended up taking his own life. And when his parents began to ask questions about what had happened to their son, the Canadian military went to war against them. Featured in this ep...
WAR 6 - Tortured Pasts
June 08, 2022 07:19 - 52 minutes - 48.1 MBThe Afghan Detainee scandal became the defining story of Canada's war in Kandahar. It exposed Canada's complicity and direct involvement in war crimes. And it helped fuel the insurgency that eventually brought down the Afghan government. Despite repeated denials by senior government and military officials, there's evidence that many Canadians knew they were sending Afghans to be tortured. So why did so few people do anything to stop it? And what role did Harjit Sajjan, Trudeau's first Mini...
WAR 5 - The Narcokings of Kandahar
May 25, 2022 09:04 - 46 minutes - 43 MBDuring the Afghan War, it was clear who the enemy was. The Taliban were a group of religious zealots who harboured terrorists, killed with fervour and enslaved women. But then why did so many Afghans join with the Taliban during the years that Canada was fighting in Kandahar? And if the Taliban were our enemies, who exactly were our friends and allies? In many cases, they were torturers, rapists and murderers themselves. Featured in this episode: Rangina Hamidi, Matthieu Aikins, Ahmad...
WAR 4 - Medusa
May 11, 2022 09:42 - 46 minutes - 42.7 MBOperation Medusa has become the most celebrated battle in recent Canadian history. It was hailed as a stroke of military genius that may have vanquished the Taliban once and for all. But the soldiers and commanders on the ground have a different story to tell. A rushed battle. Flawed intelligence. And generals putting political considerations ahead of Canadian lives. And even though Canada had defeated the Taliban on the battlefield, that didn't mean they were winning the war. Featur...
WAR 3 - Tarnak Farms
April 27, 2022 07:37 - 44 minutes - 40.6 MBBill Wilson and Chris Kopp were two of the first Canadian soldiers deployed to Afghanistan. One night in April 2002, they were at a training exercise at Tarnak Farms, Osama Bin Laden's old hideout outside of Kandahar. All of a sudden, they see a blast, and chaos surrounds them. What happens next would change their lives — and the Canadian military — forever. Featured in this episode: Chris Kopp, Bill Wilson, Michael Friscolanti, Eugene Lang To learn more: Friendly Fire by Michael ...
WAR 2 - Lords of War
April 13, 2022 09:53 - 47 minutes - 43.2 MBIn the days after 9/11, Canada joined in the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan. Right away, it became painfully obvious that we didn't understand the country, its people, or its history. That would have profound consequences. Within months, Canadian special forces were participating in secret operations at the behest of some of the most sinister men in the country. Our actions in the early days of the war would go on to endanger the lives of Afghans and Canadian soldiers alike in th...
WAR 1 - Last Plane Out of Kabul
March 30, 2022 10:35 - 52 minutes - 48.3 MBThe War in Afghanistan was Canada's longest war. More than 40,000 Canadian troops served. And countless Canadian civilians went to work in the country. But after twenty years, billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives lost, Afghanistan is worse off than before. When the Taliban marched into Kabul last August, the world watched as Afghans clung to planes in an attempt to escape. We bring you the true story of the end of one of the forever wars through the eyes of the people who ...
Introducing our new season… War
March 25, 2022 10:00 - 2 minutes - 2.23 MBNarcolords in league with the government. Hundreds of millions of dollars that vanish into thin air. Arrogant decision-making that leads to the deaths of Canadians and Afghans alike. This season of COMMONS will bring you the war stories that Canada wants you to forget. First episode drops March 30, 2022. Support COMMONS: http://commonspodcast.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
MINING 8 - The Crying of Lot 8
February 02, 2022 11:00 - 48 minutes - 44.4 MBIn 2007, the small Guatemalan village of Lote Ocho, Spanish for Lot 8, was burned to the ground by military, police and security for a Canadian-owned mine. Eleven women claim they were raped during the evictions. A few years later, a prominent community activist is murdered in broad daylight by the head of security for the mining company. These are just some of the many crimes that Canadian mining companies have been accused of committing in this region over the last 60 years. Many Canad...
MINING 7 - Barrick and the Cruelty of Gold
January 19, 2022 12:00 - 53 minutes - 49 MBPapua New Guinea is a part of the world that few Canadians ever think about. But for the people of Porgera, their lives have been shaped by the decisions of Canadian companies. It's hard to wrap your head around the atrocities that people in Porgera have suffered over the last thirty year. Environmental devastation. Murder as a matter of course. Hundreds of women and girls who have been raped. So why is Barrick Gold, the company that has operated the mine for the last decade and a half...
MINING 6 - Diamonds of Attawapiskat
December 22, 2021 11:00 - 40 minutes - 37.6 MBSupport us at www.commonspodcast.com Attawapiskat has become famous across Canada and around the world. Not for the natural beauty that surrounds it, or for the Cree culture of the people who live there. Instead, it's become a byword for the toxic legacy of Canadian colonialism. But while Attawapiskat faced crisis after crisis, the community was sitting on a literal diamond mine run by the world's most famous mining company. So why is it that a community rich in diamonds is so poor? And ...
MINING 5 - The North’s Giant Monster
December 08, 2021 11:00 - 44 minutes - 40.9 MBSupport us at www.commonspodcast.com A monster has been haunting the North. Giant Mine may be a big reason why Yellowknife exists. But for seven decades, it's been a unique source of suffering for the people in the region. Three stories from this uniquely haunted place: the damage it did when it opened, the bloodiest labour dispute in Canadian history, and the toxic legacy that may remain for thousands of years. Featured in this episode: Morgan Tsetta, Arn Keeling, John Sandlos, L...
MINING 4 - The Westray Disaster
November 24, 2021 11:00 - 45 minutes - 41.9 MBSupport us at www.commonspodcast.com Twenty-six men were working underground when an explosion tore through the Westray Mine in Nova Scotia. Their friends and colleagues went into the wreckage to try to save them. The story of Westray is one of managerial malice and the heroism of everyday people. But why is it that governments let this happen over and over again, at the expense of so many lives? Featured in this episode: Vernon Theriault, Tom Sandborn To learn more: Westray: My Journey...
MINING 3 - Before Bitcoin, Bre-X
November 10, 2021 13:28 - 46 minutes - 42.7 MBSupport us at commonspodcast.com A tiny Canadian mining company discovers the largest gold deposit in human history. But when the company's chief geologist falls out of a helicopter over the Indonesian jungle, it was all revealed to be a mirage. Bre-X was a national obsession that made many overnight millionaires. It also happened to be the biggest fraud in the history of mining. But questions still remain. Why did no one go to jail? And did that geologist actually die falling from a hel...
MINING 2 - Life and Death in Asbestos, QC
October 27, 2021 10:00 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MBSupport us here: http://commonspodcast.com/ For a century, Canada was one of the world's leading exporters of asbestos, most of it mined from the small town of Asbestos, Quebec. But during that time, governments and corporations in Canada did everything they could to hide the fact that asbestos is deadly. They went to extraordinary lengths — secret organ smuggling, corporate-supervised police torture — to keep the ugly truth from the world. Today, there's no longer a town called Asbestos,...
MINING 1 - The Myth of the Klondike
October 13, 2021 10:00 - 46 minutes - 43 MBWhen gold was discovered in the Yukon, 100,000 people desperately tried to make it to a small patch of land in one of the most remote environments on the continent. Few made it all the way. The Klondike Gold Rush was many things: a media conspiracy, a ponzi scheme, a land grab. But above all, it was a humanitarian disaster that stretched over much of the Pacific Northwest. Featured in this episode: Brian Castner, Deb Vanasse To learn more: Stampede: Gold Fever and Disaster in the ...
Introducing our new season… Mining
October 07, 2021 10:21 - 1 minute - 1.48 MBStories about the dirty business of Canadian mining. First episode drops October 13, 2021. Support COMMONS: http://commonspodcast.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Introducing The White Saviors
August 11, 2021 07:05 - 4 minutes - 3.98 MBOver 25 years, WE built a golden brand by inspiring children to rally around their charismatic leader. But behind the scenes, employees experienced a cult-like culture and a troubling blur of charitable and commercial activities. In the aftermath of a national scandal, thousands of donors and volunteers (and dozens of ‘celebrity ambassadors') are left wondering where the money went, and whether the savior industry creates a constant need for victims. From CANADALAND, the news company that e...
REAL ESTATE 8 - The Last White Rajah
August 04, 2021 10:00 - 53 minutes - 49.2 MBThe destruction of Borneo's rainforests has been called the greatest environmental crime of our time. But journalists and NGOs have long alleged that one man, Abdul Taib Mahmud, has benefitted from that destruction to the tune of billions of dollars. If that's true, it's one of the worst acts of corruption in the modern era. And for over a decade, those same campaigners have argued that Taib's empire isn't limited to Malaysia. They claim that its tendrils extend deep into Canada. Featu...
REAL ESTATE 7 - The Ballad of Eddy Haymour
July 21, 2021 10:59 - 45 minutes - 41.9 MBEddy Haymour has been called a lot of things in his life. Immigrant success story. Kidnapper. Terrorist. Folk Hero. But the long saga of Eddy Haymour is at its heart a story of obsession. About a man who became consumed by his dreams for a piece of land. And about a government equally determined to stop him at any cost. Featured in this episode: Omar Mouallem, Greg Crompton To learn more: Eddy's Kingdom by Greg Crompton “The Kingdom of Haymour” by Omar Mouallem in EDify Magazine “Ed...
REAL ESTATE 6 - Canada’s Biggest Slumlord
July 07, 2021 10:32 - 40 minutes - 37.2 MBThe Toronto Community Housing Corporation is the biggest landlord in Canada, and the second biggest in all of North America. But government after government has allowed social housing in Toronto to fall apart. It's not just the buildings that they've let rot. It's also our moral obligation to the most vulnerable in our society. Featured in this episode: Joe Fiorito, John Sewell, Susan Gapka To learn more: “Al Gosling is now homeless at 82” by Joe Fiorito in The Toronto Star “Oust...
REAL ESTATE 5 - Oka
June 23, 2021 10:59 - 59 minutes - 54.4 MBThe Oka Crisis was the biggest military confrontation on Canadian soil in more than a century. On its face, it was about a golf course expansion. But for the Mohawks who took up arms, it was the culmination of a centuries-long fight for recognition of their sovereignty and their land. Featured in this episode: Thaioronióhte Dan David, Loreen Pindera, Geoffrey York (Globe and Mail) To learn more: People of the Pines: The Warriors and Legacy of Oka by Loreen Pindera and Geoffrey York ...
REAL ESTATE 4 - City of Glass
June 09, 2021 10:35 - 45 minutes - 41.3 MBReal estate mania is at an all time high in this country. And in no place is this more true than in Vancouver. But nobody can even agree on what went wrong. Have snooty property owners, overreaching bureaucrats, and gutless politicians allowed the housing supply to dwindle to nothing? Or has a network of transnational criminals turned Vancouver into a narco-capital built on dirty money? Featured in this episode: Frances Bula, Sam Cooper, Lindsey Murphy, Jesse Donaldson To learn m...
REAL ESTATE 3 - Terminal City
May 26, 2021 09:04 - 33 minutes - 30.8 MBVancouver is obsessed with real estate. But what most people don't realize, is that it's been this way from the beginning. Three stories of the swindlers, segregationists and profiteers that made Terminal City what it is. Featured in this episode: Jesse Donaldson, Jordan Stanger-Ross, Michael Abe, Stephen Learey To learn more: Land of Destiny: A History of Vancouver Real Estate by Jesse Donaldson Landscapes of Injustice: A New Perspective on the Internment and Dispossession of Ja...
REAL ESTATE 2 - The Last Man in Africville
May 12, 2021 10:00 - 47 minutes - 43.8 MBAfricville was one of Canada's oldest Black settlements, a proud community of more than 400 people. And then the City of Halifax decided to utterly obliterate it. There was one man who simply refused to leave. Eddie Carvery may not have been the best man for the job. But for half a century, he has never stopped fighting for his home. Featured in this episode: Eddie Carvery, Jon Tattrie To learn more: The Hermit of Africville: The Life of Eddie Carvery by Jon Tattrie Remember Afr...
REAL ESTATE 1 - The Bridle Path
April 28, 2021 10:00 - 23 minutes - 21.5 MBThe Bridle Path is one of the most exclusive neighbourhoods in Canada, home to the ultra-wealthy and the famous. But behind their locked gates, some of Canada's elite try to scheme their way into even greater wealth on the property market — not always legally. And their ambitions have a way of becoming problems for the rest of us. Featured in this episode: Kozeta Izeti, Norma Walton NOTE: The original version of this episode contained an additional story, which we will publish separately...
Introducing our new season… Real Estate!
April 22, 2021 11:01 - 1 minute - 1.49 MBStories about Canada's real estate obsession. The first episode drops on April 28, 2021. Support COMMONS: http://commonspodcast.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
THE POLICE 10 - Portapique
February 24, 2021 10:44 - 1 hour - 57 MBAlmost a year after the worst mass shooting in modern Canadian history, Nova Scotians are still in the dark about what exactly happened. A gunman, dressed in an RCMP uniform, driving an RCMP cruiser killed 22 people. In the months since, the Mounties have been short on answers. And it's left people wondering whether they have something to hide. Featured in this episode: Stephen Maher, Paul Palango, Sandra McCulloch To learn more: “13 deadly hours” from The Fifth Estate by CBC News ...
THE POLICE 9 - Northern Patrol
February 10, 2021 11:37 - 34 minutes - 31.5 MBFor three decades, much of Northern Ontario has been engaged in an unprecedented experiment in policing. It's called the Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service. And the idea is simple: the old, colonial cops shouldn't be policing Indigenous territory. Instead, Indigenous people should police themselves. Featured in this episode: Kyle Edwards, Christian Leuprecht To learn more: “Inside the impossible work of Canada's biggest Indigenous police force” by Kyle Edwards in Maclean's “Force 2.0: Fixing ...
THE POLICE 8 - The G20: Fortress Toronto
January 27, 2021 11:14 - 55 minutes - 50.4 MBWhen John and Susan Pruyn came to Toronto, they were hoping to protest against the G20 and then spend some time with their daughter. Instead, they would be caught up in a whirlwind of police misconduct with few precedents in Canadian history. Featured in this episode: Jesse Rosenfeld, John Pruyn, Susan Pruyn, Sarah Pruyn. Jesse Rosenfeld is a Toronto born journalist who has covered the Middle East since 2007. Based in Ramallah, Tel Aviv, Gaza City, Cairo, Beirut, Istanbul, and Athens over ...
THE POLICE 7 - The G20: Conspiracy
January 13, 2021 12:25 - 47 minutes - 43.4 MBIn the first of a two-part series on the G20, two mysterious strangers start volunteering with activist networks in southern Ontario. It's all part of one of the biggest undercover police operations in Canadian history. To learn more: “Unmasked: Searching for lessons in Toronto's 2010 G20 debacle” by Andrea Bennett in Maisonneuve “How police infiltrated groups planning G20 protests” by Adrian Morrow and Kim Mackrael in The Globe and Mail Additional music from Audio Network Support...
THE POLICE 6 - Who Killed Myles Gray?
December 23, 2020 09:41 - 34 minutes - 31.6 MBMyles Gray was an unarmed man who died after seven Vancouver police officers beat him mercilessly. Half a decade after he died, not only does his family not have justice, they don't even know the names of the people who killed him. Featured in this episode: Bethany Lindsay (CBC Vancouver), Harsha Walia (B.C. Civil Liberties Association), Ronald MacDonald (Independent Investigations Office of B.C.) To learn more: “The day Myles Gray died” by Cassidy Olivier in The Vancouver Sun “Va...
THE POLICE 5 - Toronto’s Finest
December 09, 2020 08:04 - 43 minutes - 40 MBA Toronto police officer shoots and kills two Black men and is accused of beating another, all within a five-year span. He's never found guilty of committing a crime. And he continues to rise through the ranks. Featured in this episode: Bruce Livesey, Howard Morton, André Marin, Leora Shemesh To learn more: “Above The Law” by Bruce Livesey in BuzzFeed News “Defence lawyer alleges Toronto officers diverted 7 kilos of meth into her client's car” by Betsy Powell in The Toronto Star ...
THE POLICE 4 - Starlight Tours
November 25, 2020 10:55 - 59 minutes - 54.4 MBEven as a teenager, Neil Stonechild was an inspiration to his friends. And then one day, he was found frozen to death outside of Saskatoon. He was last seen alive in the back of a police cruiser. Thirty years later, we know some of what happened to him. But we still don't have justice. Featured in this episode: Jeffrey Crowe, Donald Worme, Susanne Reber To learn more: Report of the Commission of Inquiry Into Matters Relating to the Death of Neil Stonechild Starlight Tour: The Last, L...
THE POLICE 3 - Dirty Tricks
November 11, 2020 14:16 - 53 minutes - 48.6 MBA teenage boy and his friends start robbing banks in Toronto. A future Prime Minister is deported from Montreal. A Black Panther in Baltimore goes to prison for four decades. And the RCMP is split apart by the biggest scandal in the force's history. At the heart of it all is one man. He calls himself the General. Featured in this episode: Ricky Atkinson, David Austin, Robin Philpot, Lennox Farrell, Gary Cristall To learn more: The Life, Crimes and Hard Times of Ricky Atkinson, Lea...
THE POLICE 2 - The Secret History of the RCMP
October 28, 2020 09:54 - 38 minutes - 35.3 MBSupport us: canadaland.com/join The RCMP is one of the most famous police forces in the world — the red serge and stetson hat are practically synonymous with Canada. But that image obscures the profound power the Mounties have held throughout Canadian history. And the dark legacy of ethnic cleansing and genocide at their core. Featured in this episode: Jean Teillet, Sean Carleton, Steve Hewitt To learn more: The North-West Is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel's People, the Métis Nation...
We Need Your Support
October 21, 2020 03:00 - 12 minutes - 11.5 MBCanada is a big, interesting, and complicated place and COMMONS is committed to bringing you thoughtfully crafted and illuminating stories that will challenge everything you think you know about this country. This past year, we have brought you stories from all across the country. We told your stories about some of Canada's most powerful families. We launched an emergency season to cover the COVID-19 crisis in long-term care. And right now, we're taking a hard look at how the police operate...
THE POLICE 1 - Julian Fantino
October 14, 2020 08:58 - 51 minutes - 47.6 MBJulian Fantino may be the most famous cop in Canadian history. He was the chief of four different police forces. And for decades, he was one of the most influential voices in law enforcement. But during his rise, people critical of the police had a way of finding themselves in the crosshairs. They were smeared, surveilled, intimidated and arrested. The police are a singularly powerful institution in this country. How far are the cops willing to go to keep it that way? Featured in this epis...
Introducing our new season...
October 07, 2020 11:00 - 1 minute - 1.78 MBStories about the power that police wield in Canada, and about the lengths they're willing to go to hold on to it. First episode drops Wednesday, October 14. Support COMMONS: http://commonspodcast.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
PANDEMIC 12 - The Most Dangerous Story
August 05, 2020 10:03 - 47 minutes - 43.2 MBSupport us at commonspodcast.com In the final episode in our series about the COVID-19 pandemic and the crisis in long-term care, we’re going to tell you a different kind of story. A story of hope. About how the people we treat as disposable, can have lives of joy and dignity. And about one place where they were given exactly that. COMMONS: Pandemic is currently focusing on how COVID-19 is affecting long-term care in Canada. Featured in this episode: Moira Welsh (Toronto Star),...
PANDEMIC 11 - It Didn’t Have To Be Like This
July 22, 2020 08:13 - 24 minutes - 22.6 MBSupport us at commonspodcast.com Four months after the first outbreak in a Canadian nursing home, over 7000 long-term residents have died of COVID-19. But if you look at the news or social media or our political debates, it seems like we’ve already moved on. Maybe that’s because it feels like this kind of tragedy was inevitable during a pandemic. It wasn’t. And we know that because in some places in Canada, politicians and public health officials made decisions that saved hundreds, if not ...
PANDEMIC 10 - Burn It Down
July 08, 2020 09:09 - 31 minutes - 29 MBSupport us at commonspodcast.com Jonathan Marchand is one of the thousands of young disabled people living in long-term care. But Marchand doesn’t want to fix the system. He doesn’t think it can be reformed. Marchand is an abolitionist. For a century and a half, Canada has hidden away disabled people in institutions where they were neglected and abused. Is long-term care just the latest incarnation of this dark history? COMMONS: Pandemic is currently focusing on how COVID-19 is a...
PANDEMIC 9 - Mend the World
June 24, 2020 10:52 - 35 minutes - 32.9 MBSupport us at commonspodcast.com After a stroke left him locked in his own body, Rabbi Ronnie Cahana has found ways to lead an incredibly full life. Then the pandemic came. It swept through Quebec, leaving a trail of devastation. Today, Rabbi Cahana is one of the thousands of Quebeckers left stranded in the middle of one of the worst disasters in modern Canadian history. COMMONS: Pandemic is currently focusing on how COVID-19 is affecting long-term care in Canada. Featured in t...
PANDEMIC 8 - Hunger Strike
June 17, 2020 06:34 - 22 minutes - 20.7 MBSupport us at commonspodcast.com Innis Ingram’s mother is his hero. But today, she’s living in one of the worst hit long-term care homes in Ontario. She has a terminal illness. Dozens and dozens of people around her have died, including her friend and roommate. And she’s had minimal human contact for three months. But even though he can’t be there with her, Innis is determined to get her the care she needs. COMMONS: Pandemic is currently focusing on how COVID-19 is affecting long-ter...