COMMONS
CANADALANDCOMMONS 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Introducing: The Copernic Affair
Jan 22 • 3m
The Last COMMONS Ever / Introducing: The Hatchet
Nov 28, 2024 • 6m
Introducing The Worst Podcast
Sep 12, 2024 • 2m
Inside Kabul Ep. 9 - June: Meeting with Marwa
Aug 29, 2024 • 17m
Inside Kabul Ep. 8 - May: “Wish me luck”
Aug 28, 2024 • 36m
Inside Kabul Ep. 7 - April/May: New Spaces
Aug 21, 2024 • 28m
Inside Kabul Ep. 6 - April: First Ramadan in Kabul
Aug 14, 2024 • 22m
Inside Kabul Ep. 5 - February: Revolt Before Zombieland
Aug 7, 2024 • 30m
Inside Kabul Ep. 4 - December/January: "Vampire Diaries"
Jul 31, 2024 • 24m
Inside Kabul Ep. 3 - October: Take Back Control
Jul 24, 2024 • 27m
Inside Kabul Ep. 2 - September: Relearning Everyday Life
Jul 17, 2024 • 26m
Inside Kabul Ep. 1 - August: stay or go?
Jul 17, 2024 • 31m
WORK 16 - Boss Fight
Jul 3, 2024 • 47m
WORK 15 - Canada’s New Underclass
Jun 26, 2024 • 43m
WORK 14 - The Colossus of Roads
Jun 19, 2024 • 38m
Introducing A Field Guide to Gay Animals
Jun 15, 2024 • 42m
WORK 13 - Flying Under the Radar
Jun 12, 2024 • 38m
WORK 12 - The Crucible of Confinement
Jun 5, 2024 • 35m
WORK 11 - The Way the Music Died
May 29, 2024 • 32m
WORK 10 - Prison Labour Industrial Complex
May 22, 2024 • 35m
WORK 9 - Working Behind Bars
May 15, 2024 • 38m
Introducing Pretendians
May 14, 2024 • 15m
WORK 8 - Make and Break Harbour
May 8, 2024 • 35m
WORK 7 - Merchants of the Rock
May 1, 2024 • 27m
WORK 6 - Emptying an Ocean
Apr 24, 2024 • 44m
WORK 5 - The Westray Disaster
Apr 17, 2024 • 48m
WORK 4 - Reaping the Whirlwind
Apr 10, 2024 • 41m
WORK 3 - Bitter Harvest
Apr 3, 2024 • 34m
WORK 2 - State of Emergency Rooms
Mar 27, 2024 • 28m
WORK 1 - The War on Workers
Mar 20, 2024 • 32m
Introducing our new season… Work
Mar 6, 2024 • 2m
Bonus - Everybody Loves Romana
Feb 7, 2024 • 25m
CANADALAND #914 Stock Buybacks: How Grocers Eat Themselves
Jan 3, 2024 • 38m
RATFUCKER Chapter Two: The Brethren
Dec 27, 2023 • 38m
CULTS 10 - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fandom
Dec 20, 2023 • 27m
CULTS 9 - Romana’s Reign
Dec 13, 2023 • 36m
CULTS 8 - The Eye of the Pyramid
Dec 6, 2023 • 47m
CULTS 7 - Hey #Bossbabe!
Nov 29, 2023 • 33m
CULTS 6 - Being a Blackmore
Nov 22, 2023 • 49m
CULTS 5 - Alien Superstar
Nov 15, 2023 • 34m
CULTS 4 - The Cult Wars
Nov 8, 2023 • 43m
CULTS 3 - MKUltra
Nov 1, 2023 • 42m
CULTS 2 - Brother XII
Oct 25, 2023 • 31m
CULTS 1 - Speak in Tongues
Oct 18, 2023 • 31m
The End of Canadaland
Oct 5, 2023 • 16m
Introducing our new season… Cults
Oct 4, 2023 • 2m
Bonus - Game Misconduct
Sep 6, 2023 • 26m
Bonus - Overtime
Aug 2, 2023 • 17m
HOCKEY 7 - Blood on the Ice
Jul 5, 2023 • 46m
HOCKEY 6 - The Problem Hockey Won’t Name
Jun 28, 2023 • 30m
HOCKEY 5 - The Boys from Brampton
Jun 21, 2023 • 45m
HOCKEY 4 - The Lonely End of the Rink
Jun 14, 2023 • 35m
HOCKEY 3 - Iced Out
Jun 7, 2023 • 36m
HOCKEY 2 - The Birth of Black Hockey
May 31, 2023 • 30m
HOCKEY 1 - The Best Game You Can Name
May 24, 2023 • 25m
Introducing our new season… Hockey
May 10, 2023 • 2m
BONUS: Cory Doctorow knows why monopolies are killing art
Apr 12, 2023 • 51m
Bonus - Do Not Pass Go
Mar 15, 2023 • 19m
Monopoly 17 - Food Fight
Mar 8, 2023 • 29m
Monopoly 16 - Amazon’s Empire
Mar 1, 2023 • 31m
Monopoly 15 - Movie Monster
Feb 22, 2023 • 31m
Monopoly 14 - Where the Sidewalk Ends
Feb 15, 2023 • 39m
Monopoly 13 - The Irvings
Feb 8, 2023 • 36m
Monopoly 12 - Overdrawn
Feb 1, 2023 • 20m
Monopoly 11 - Flight Risk
Jan 25, 2023 • 30m
Monopoly 10 - The Way the Music Died
Jan 18, 2023 • 30m
MONOPOLY 9 - Diamonds of Attawapiskat
Jan 11, 2023 • 42m
Monopoly 8 - Raining Cats and Dollars
Jan 4, 2023 • 21m
Trailer: COMMONS
Jan 2, 2023 • 1m
CANADALAND #725 The Rogers Family Compact
Dec 28, 2022 • 59m
Monopoly 7 - Canada’s Competition Cop
Dec 21, 2022 • 28m
Monopoly 6 - The Urge to Merge
Dec 14, 2022 • 23m
Monopoly 5 - Against the WIND
Dec 7, 2022 • 31m
Monopoly 4 - Teleconned
Nov 30, 2022 • 31m
Monopoly 3 - The Hudson’s Bay Company
Nov 23, 2022 • 27m
Monopoly 2 - Big Milk
Nov 16, 2022 • 28m
Monopoly 1 - Lost in the Supermarket
Nov 9, 2022 • 32m
Introducing our new season… Monopoly
Nov 2, 2022 • 2m
Introducing our new series: Ratfucker
Oct 27, 2022 • 42s
WAR 8 - Who Pays the Price?
Jul 6, 2022 • 39m
WAR 7 - The Long, Slow Death
Jun 22, 2022 • 46m
WAR 6 - Tortured Pasts
Jun 8, 2022 • 52m
WAR 5 - The Narcokings of Kandahar
May 25, 2022 • 46m
WAR 4 - Medusa
May 11, 2022 • 46m
WAR 3 - Tarnak Farms
Apr 27, 2022 • 44m
WAR 2 - Lords of War
Apr 13, 2022 • 47m
WAR 1 - Last Plane Out of Kabul
Mar 30, 2022 • 52m
Introducing our new season… War
Mar 25, 2022 • 2m
MINING 8 - The Crying of Lot 8
Feb 2, 2022 • 48m
MINING 7 - Barrick and the Cruelty of Gold
Jan 19, 2022 • 53m
MINING 6 - Diamonds of Attawapiskat
Dec 22, 2021 • 40m
MINING 5 - The North’s Giant Monster
Dec 8, 2021 • 44m
MINING 4 - The Westray Disaster
Nov 24, 2021 • 45m
MINING 3 - Before Bitcoin, Bre-X
Nov 10, 2021 • 46m
MINING 2 - Life and Death in Asbestos, QC
Oct 27, 2021 • 39m
MINING 1 - The Myth of the Klondike
Oct 13, 2021 • 46m
Introducing our new season… Mining
Oct 7, 2021 • 1m
Introducing The White Saviors
Aug 11, 2021 • 4m
REAL ESTATE 8 - The Last White Rajah
Aug 4, 2021 • 53m
REAL ESTATE 7 - The Ballad of Eddy Haymour
Jul 21, 2021 • 45m
REAL ESTATE 6 - Canada’s Biggest Slumlord
Jul 7, 2021 • 40m
REAL ESTATE 5 - Oka
Jun 23, 2021 • 59m
REAL ESTATE 4 - City of Glass
Jun 9, 2021 • 45m
REAL ESTATE 3 - Terminal City
May 26, 2021 • 33m
REAL ESTATE 2 - The Last Man in Africville
May 12, 2021 • 47m
REAL ESTATE 1 - The Bridle Path
Apr 28, 2021 • 23m
Introducing our new season… Real Estate!
Apr 22, 2021 • 1m
THE POLICE 10 - Portapique
Feb 24, 2021 • 1h 2m
THE POLICE 9 - Northern Patrol
Feb 10, 2021 • 34m
THE POLICE 8 - The G20: Fortress Toronto
Jan 27, 2021 • 55m
THE POLICE 7 - The G20: Conspiracy
Jan 13, 2021 • 47m
THE POLICE 6 - Who Killed Myles Gray?
Dec 23, 2020 • 34m
THE POLICE 5 - Toronto’s Finest
Dec 9, 2020 • 43m
THE POLICE 4 - Starlight Tours
Nov 25, 2020 • 59m
THE POLICE 3 - Dirty Tricks
Nov 11, 2020 • 53m
THE POLICE 2 - The Secret History of the RCMP
Oct 28, 2020 • 38m
We Need Your Support
Oct 21, 2020 • 12m
THE POLICE 1 - Julian Fantino
Oct 14, 2020 • 51m
Introducing our new season...
Oct 7, 2020 • 1m
PANDEMIC 12 - The Most Dangerous Story
Aug 5, 2020 • 47m
PANDEMIC 11 - It Didn’t Have To Be Like This
Jul 22, 2020 • 24m
PANDEMIC 10 - Burn It Down
Jul 8, 2020 • 31m
PANDEMIC 9 - Mend the World
Jun 24, 2020 • 35m
PANDEMIC 8 - Hunger Strike
Jun 17, 2020 • 22m
BONUS: The Honest Fakery of Wrestling
Jun 10, 2020 • 7m
PANDEMIC 7 - The Frontline
Jun 3, 2020 • 22m
PANDEMIC 6 - Northwood
May 27, 2020 • 28m
PANDEMIC 5 - Shirley and Tracy
May 20, 2020 • 22m
PANDEMIC 4 - Ontario Reaps its Dividends
May 13, 2020 • 25m
PANDEMIC 3 - McKenzie Towne
May 6, 2020 • 21m
PANDEMIC 2 - When the Plague Came
May 2, 2020 • 9m
PANDEMIC 1 - 33 Dead in Dorval
Apr 29, 2020 • 20m
An emergency season: PANDEMIC
Apr 27, 2020 • 1m
RADICALS 3 - The Last Pandemic
Apr 15, 2020 • 48m
RADICALS 2 - They Buried Her Heart at Wounded Knee
Apr 1, 2020 • 55m
RADICALS 1 - Nazi Island in the Sun
Mar 18, 2020 • 29m
Our new season: RADICALS
Mar 13, 2020 • 1m
Introducing: Cool Mules
Mar 2, 2020 • 36m
DYNASTIES 9 - The Harts
Feb 5, 2020 • 51m
DYNASTIES 8 - The Regans
Jan 22, 2020 • 42m
DYNASTIES 7 - The Olands
Jan 8, 2020 • 42m
DYNASTIES 6 - The Desmarais
Dec 11, 2019 • 39m
DYNASTIES 5 - The Sahotas
Nov 27, 2019 • 49m
DYNASTIES 4 - The Rizzutos
Nov 12, 2019 • 37m
COMMONS Needs Your Help
Oct 29, 2019 • 14m
DYNASTIES 3 - The Fords
Oct 15, 2019 • 40m
DYNASTIES 2 - The Irvings
Oct 1, 2019 • 35m
DYNASTIES 1 - The Stronachs
Sep 17, 2019 • 27m
Our new season: DYNASTIES
Sep 12, 2019 • 1m
CRUDE 10 - The Apocalypse is Now
Aug 20, 2019 • 30m
CRUDE 9 - Tar Teck: The Final Frontier
Aug 6, 2019 • 22m
CRUDE 8 - Spies, Lies and Private Eyes
Jul 23, 2019 • 21m
Introducing Wag The Doug
Jul 9, 2019 • 41m
CRUDE 6 - The Devil in the Deep Blue Sea
Jun 11, 2019 • 26m
CRUDE 5 - A Town, Annihilated
May 28, 2019 • 28m
CRUDE 4 - Orphan Wells: Citizen Con
May 14, 2019 • 26m
CRUDE 3 - Let the Bastards Freeze in the Dark
Apr 30, 2019 • 31m
CRUDE 2 - Bombs, Blood & the Battle of Trickle Creek
Apr 16, 2019 • 41m
CRUDE 1 - Smell This Town
Apr 2, 2019 • 21m
Introducing Our New Season: CRUDE
Mar 28, 2019 • 1m
CORRUPTION 10 - The Canadian Company Accused of Using Slaves Today
Feb 19, 2019 • 32m
CORRUPTION 9 - Victoria's Secrets
Feb 5, 2019 • 24m
CORRUPTION 8 - Hockey's Hall of Shame
Jan 22, 2019 • 26m
CORRUPTION 7 - The Only Canadian Imprisoned for Insider Trading
Jan 8, 2019 • 26m
CORRUPTION 6 - Charlottetown's Web
Dec 11, 2018 • 30m
CORRUPTION 5 - The King of Cabbagetown
Nov 27, 2018 • 24m
CORRUPTION 4 - Papa Pump and the Small Town Shakedown
Nov 13, 2018 • 23m
CORRUPTION 2 - How Vancouver Became A Money Laundering Paradise
Oct 16, 2018 • 20m
CORRUPTION 1 - The Most Crime-Ridden Neighbourhood In Canada
Oct 3, 2018 • 25m
Ep. 97 - What The Hell Is A Fairness Letter?
Jun 19, 2018 • 39m
Ep. 96 - Canada Is Not Racist... According To The Stats
Jun 5, 2018 • 29m
Ep. 95 - What Do Peacekeepers Actually Do?
May 22, 2018 • 38m
Ep.94 - Life In Canada Without Clean Water
May 8, 2018 • 30m
Ep. 93 - The All-White Jury In Canada
Apr 24, 2018 • 28m
Ep. 92 - Canadian History X
Apr 10, 2018 • 34m
Ep. 91 - Stories From Solitude
Mar 27, 2018 • 38m
Ep. 90 - Unconstitutional Solitude
Mar 13, 2018 • 43m
Ep. 89 - Finding A Fix: Our Opioid Overdose Crisis
Feb 27, 2018 • 42m
A Brief Announcement
Feb 6, 2018 • 1m
Ep. 87 - Unknown Road: Inside Immigration Detention
Jan 23, 2018 • 40m
Ep. 86 - Throwing Shade at 2017: A Political Awards Show
Jan 9, 2018 • 26m
Ep 85. - Invisible Victims: The Quest for Police Accountability
Dec 19, 2017 • 41m
Ep. 83 - No Protest is Genteel: On Antifa
Nov 21, 2017 • 40m
As If They Were Pets: The Sixties Scoop
Nov 7, 2017 • 35m
On NAFTA And Niqabs
Oct 24, 2017 • 45m
BONUS EPISODE -- Jagmeet Singh - The Full Interview
Oct 3, 2017 • 23m
Ashton, Angus & Singh - Oh My!
Sep 26, 2017 • 1h 5m
Guy Caron, Guaranteed Income And Climate Refugees
Sep 12, 2017 • 55m
The Rise Of The Right
Jul 4, 2017 • 35m
Ep.76 - Amy Goodman/The Constitutional Clusterf**k
Jun 13, 2017 • 1h 5m
Ep.75 - Drink Like A Conservative
May 30, 2017 • 48m
Ep.74 - Cultural Appropriation Is An Inherently Political Act
May 16, 2017 • 52m
Ep.73 - That's Why We Live In A Democracy
May 2, 2017 • 55m
Ep.72 - Commons Gets High
Apr 18, 2017 • 33m
Ep.71 - Being Icky Is The Job
Apr 4, 2017 • 34m
Ep.70 - You Have No Rights At The Border
Mar 21, 2017 • 32m
Ep.69 - "I'm Ashamed Of Myself For Being Afraid"
Mar 8, 2017 • 36m
Ep.68 - Strong Hearts To The Front
Feb 21, 2017 • 35m
COMMONS returns!
Feb 13, 2017 • 2m
COMMONS host search
Oct 25, 2016 • 1m
A Message About the Future of COMMONS
Oct 18, 2016 • 12m
Ep.67 - A Hodge Podge of Political Hacks: Inside the War Room
Oct 11, 2016 • 31m
Ep.66 - A Hat Trick of Deceit: First Nations and the LNG Project
Oct 4, 2016 • 25m
Ep.65 - Drunk on Liberal Power / Kellie Leitch on Anti-Canadian Values
Sep 27, 2016 • 37m
Ep.62 - When Your Councillor Spams You on Facebook
Sep 6, 2016 • 25m
Ep.61 - When CSIS Comes Knocking pt. 2
Aug 23, 2016 • 36m
Ep.60 - MMIW: What Justice Means for a Family Member
Aug 9, 2016 • 24m
Ep.59 - Canadian Police Are Racist Too
Jul 26, 2016 • 29m
Ep.58 - When CSIS Comes Knocking
Jul 12, 2016 • 24m
Ep.57 - Buy Gold and Raisin Bran: The Brexit and Canada
Jul 5, 2016 • 32m
Ep.56 - Naming a Genocide
Jun 21, 2016 • 26m
Ep.55 - Cheri DiNovo on How to Fix the NDP
Jun 14, 2016 • 32m
Ep.54 - This Is Not Canada: Living as a Migrant Farm Worker
Jun 7, 2016 • 27m
Ep.53 - Celebrating Defeat: Dispatches from the Conservative Convention
May 31, 2016 • 25m
Ep.52 - Are Libertarians Conservatives?
May 17, 2016 • 29m
Ep.51 - How to Make Poor People Disappear (Census Edition)
May 10, 2016 • 25m
Ep.50 - Debating Same-Sex Marriage and Other Ways to Stay Irrelevant
May 3, 2016 • 34m
Ep.49 - Can a Conservative Be a Feminist?
Apr 26, 2016 • 28m
Ep.48 - Parliament Needs More Women's Bathrooms
Apr 19, 2016 • 24m
Ep.47 - Should This Old Indian Guy Lead the Conservatives?
Apr 12, 2016 • 27m
Ep.46 - Tom Mulcair: Hot Prosecutor or Wet Napkin?
Apr 5, 2016 • 27m
Ep.45 - Police in Canada Get Away With Killing Black People
Mar 29, 2016 • 30m
Ep.44 - Canada's Arms Deals: Beyond Saudi Arabia
Mar 22, 2016 • 23m
Ep.43 - Rogue Senators
Mar 15, 2016 • 20m
No Episode This Week
Mar 8, 2016 • 7s
Ep.41 - Legal Weed is Bad for Poor People
Feb 23, 2016 • 27m
Ep.40 - George Elliott Clarke: A Polyphony of Canadian Blacknesses
Feb 16, 2016 • 35m
Ep.39 - Don't Let Harper Happen Here: Wab Kinew on Entering Politics
Feb 9, 2016 • 34m
Ep.37 - Michelle Rempel on Heckling
Jan 26, 2016 • 28m
Ep.36 - What Is a Post-Harper Conservative?
Jan 19, 2016 • 30m
Ep.35 - White Men Gotta Speak On This
Jan 12, 2016 • 40m
Ep.34 - A senator on mischief, mutiny and men's rights
Jan 5, 2016 • 31m
Ep.33 - Canada's Climate Game (of Thrones)
Dec 22, 2015 • 36m
Ep.32 - Families of MMIW: "What Can We Do Tomorrow?"
Dec 15, 2015 • 32m
Ep.31 - Bringing Refugees To The Rockies
Dec 8, 2015 • 33m
Ep.30 - Electoral Reform, or How New Zealand Got a Rastafari MP
Dec 1, 2015 • 31m
Ep.29 - The Beaverton
Nov 24, 2015 • 29m
Ep.28 - Paris: Backlash Against Canadian Muslims?
Nov 17, 2015 • 27m
Ep.27 - How the Cabinet is like Wu-Tang Clan
Nov 10, 2015 • 27m
Ep.26 - Losin' Ain't Easy
Nov 3, 2015 • 24m
Ep.25 - Canada's 1st MP of Somali descent
Oct 27, 2015 • 38m
Ep. 24 - Live on Election Night
Oct 20, 2015 • 42m
Ep. 23 - The Choice for Progressives
Oct 12, 2015 • 33m
Ep.22 - A Conservative Makes Their Case
Oct 6, 2015 • 33m
Ep.21 - What are women's issues, anyway?
Sep 29, 2015 • 28m
Ep.20 - Knock Knock
Sep 22, 2015 • 29m
Ep.19 - Campaign Ads (are for grandmas)
Sep 15, 2015 • 32m
Ep.18 - A Historic Election
Sep 8, 2015 • 31m
Ep.17 - Kids These Days
Sep 1, 2015 • 30m
No New Episode This Week
Aug 24, 2015 • 25s
Ep.16 - Survey Says!
Aug 18, 2015 • 27m
Ep.15 - CANADALAND: COMMONS Guide To Debates
Aug 11, 2015 • 29m
Ep.14: Cash Rules Everything Around Me
Aug 4, 2015 • 32m
Ep.13 - Migrant Detention
Jul 28, 2015 • 29m
Ep.12 - Debts and Deficits
Jul 21, 2015 • 31m
Ep.11 - Can I Kick It?
Jul 14, 2015 • 24m
Ep.10 - Diversity or tokenism?
Jul 7, 2015 • 25m
Ep.9 - The Senate, what it do?
Jun 30, 2015 • 31m
Ep.8 - Barbaric cultural practices
Jun 23, 2015 • 29m
Ep.7 - Crossing the floor
Jun 16, 2015 • 29m
Ep.6 - Residential Schools
Jun 9, 2015 • 30m
Ep.5 - Sex work in Canada
Jun 2, 2015 • 25m
Ep.4 - The PMO, what it is?
May 26, 2015 • 27m
Ep.3 - Elizabeth May
May 19, 2015 • 28m
Ep.2 - What happened in Alberta?
May 12, 2015 • 29m
Ep.1 - Who's in charge?
May 5, 2015 • 24m
Preview #1. Series launch on May 5th
Apr 8, 2015 • 1m
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