Episode 66: Imperial Information Superhighway (feat. @DanjoKaz00ie)

Mamma mia, it's Thanksgiving! Celebrate with your favourite pod. We chat Gritty, Tom Hardy's Oscar bait "Venom," Fight for $15 successes in Alberta and U.S., why exporting natural gas is bad, Paula Simons getting appointed to the Senate and P*ter N*gard having his mansion expropriated by the Supreme Court of the Bahamas.

THEN we interview the marvelous Daniel Joseph (@DanjoKaz00ie on Twitter) about the new NAFTA (USMCA), cultural exemptions, video games, Canadian sovereignty and more. The interview starts at the 44 minute mark if you want to skip to that. The paper that Dan mentions is titled "Canadian Indie Games Between the Global and the Local," authored by Felan Parker and Jennifer Jenson and published in the Canadian Journal of Communication.

Here are some links to Dan's excellent writings.

"Two-Faced: The culture of platform capitalism" -- reallifemag.com/two-faced/

"What should socialists do about the internet?" -- thesparkjournal.tumblr.com/post/175356…he-internet

"The Time Canada Wanted Its Own Internet Because It Thought the US Would Mess It Up" -- motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/…net-in-the-70s

Many thanks as always to Andre Goulet for producing our show (check out his show, Unpacking the News) and Jason Vezina for making our hip, cool theme song (check out his work at @jvezina). And thanks to Ricochet for hosting our pod!

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