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Jesse Brown is Fired!

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Introducing: What Is Happening Here (Official Trailer)

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We're in the Fight of Our Lives

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What Are You Still Doing Here?!

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Looking for The Backbench? We’ve moved!

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Meet the Liberal MP Who Went Against Carney (and Who Might Take Out Doug Ford)

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G7! The One Where Trump Bounces

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Is Carney’s Bill C-2 ‘Much Worse Than Trump’?

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When Politics Ruins Friendships

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Endangered Species – an Interview with an NDP MP

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Can Carney Run Canada Like a CEO?

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Is Carney Actually Tough on Crime?

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Bruce Fanjoy - The Liberal Who Took Pierre's Riding

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It’s Poiliover

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Sault Ste. Marie, ON: So effin good (ft. Douglas Soltys)

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BONUS: The Candidates Caught on Doorbell Cams

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Will Canada Split if Carney Wins?

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BONUS: The Loose Moose Candidate

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Political Animals in the Wild (a Field Report from Ottawa)

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BONUS: The Garfield Porn Guy Running for Parliament

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Is Pierre Actually a Girl's Girl?

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BONUS: The Hams for Terrorism MP

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Pardon His French? Quebec's Crush on Carney

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How Poilievre Went From Top Dog to Underdog

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Why AI Isn't Going To Steal Our Election

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None of That 51st State Sh*t

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Mark Carney — the Less We Know, the Better

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Is There Going to Be a War Over the Arctic?

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Jagmeet Singh On Why He Won't Step Down

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Man of Steel, Nation of Bloat

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Three Businesses Jerked Around by Trump

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Did Jagmeet Singh Miss His Big Chance?

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Introducing: The Copernic Affair

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Trump Almost Forgot to Bully Us

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Interview With a Young Lefty

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The Long Goodbye: Trudeau’s Not Gone Yet

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Payday Loans: the Cost of Being Poor

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The Undoing of Justin Trudeau

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Interview with a Conservative Bro

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Does Trudeau Know How to Deal with Trump?

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The Government Deadlock Nobody Knows About

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Danielle Smith's All You Can Eat Alberta-Style Freedom

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UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, the Canadaland Interview

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How Canadian Voters Could Sway the U.S. Election

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Trudeau, Trump, Poilievre, Harris: What Do Voters Even Want?

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India’s “Horrific Mistake” in Canada

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B.C.’s Batsh*t Election

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Trump Says Canada Doesn’t Pull Its Weight in NATO—He’s Right

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Canada's Gutless Palestine Policy

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Parliament is Back and More Childish Than Ever

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Introducing The Worst Podcast

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What Trudeau's Housing Minister Has to Say for Himself

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Politics and Violent Threats: It’s Getting Worse

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How Poilievre Will Win YOUR Vote

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Can Kamala Save Canada from Trump?

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Introducing: The Secret Life of Canada | Sorry not Sorry

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Introducing A Field Guide to Gay Animals

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The Spy Who Loved MPs

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Flip-Flopping on Decriminalization

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Stop, Students What’s That Sound

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Introducing Pretendians

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Canada’s Exploited Foreign Workers Program

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Conservative Comic-Con

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State of Emergency Rooms

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The Convoy Keeps Rolling

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The Hate U Post

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Failing Universities 101

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Why Are Conservatives Obsessed With Trans People?

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Could Canada Be Complicit in a ‘Plausible Genocide’?

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Selling Sunset, Buying Stress

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2023 Was the Year of Political Nonsense

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The Food Bank Industrial Complex

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Roots of Tension in Canada’s Israel-Palestine Discourse

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Yukon's Path to Indigenous Self-Governance

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Israel, Palestine and Canadian Foreign Policy

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Would You Listen to a Government Regulated Podcast?

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The End of Canadaland

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Where Anti-Sikh Press Leads Us & Manitoba Marks the Ballot

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Students in Strip Malls

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GenZ’s Political Apathy-ocalypse

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Backbench Catch Up

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The Controversial Carbon Tax

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What’s Up With Canada’s Political Left?

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The Musical Voice of the Nation

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A Conversation With Erin O’Toole

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These Rights Are Precarious: A History of LGBTQ+ Liberties

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Ctrl+Alt+Regulate: Can Canada's AI Act Save Us?

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Alberta’s Wildfires Meet an Even Wilder Election

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PSAC Strike and the Future of Labour

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Who Benefits From Public Safety?

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The Federal Budget: Betting on Clean Tech

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Welcome to The Backbench

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Food Costs Soar, Banks Collapse

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A Ruckus at Roxham Road

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99 Spy Balloons & 1 Rouleau Report

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Bail Reform And National Reconciliation

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Should Canada Intervene In Haiti?

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Flatlining On Healthcare

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The Backbench Live: A Year in Review

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A Matter Of Life And Death