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The Backbench — 234 episodes
Introducing: What Is Happening Here (Official Trailer)
We're in the Fight of Our Lives
What Are You Still Doing Here?!
Looking for The Backbench? We’ve moved!
Meet the Liberal MP Who Went Against Carney (and Who Might Take Out Doug Ford)
G7! The One Where Trump Bounces
Is Carney’s Bill C-2 ‘Much Worse Than Trump’?
When Politics Ruins Friendships
Endangered Species – an Interview with an NDP MP
Can Carney Run Canada Like a CEO?
Is Carney Actually Tough on Crime?
Bruce Fanjoy - The Liberal Who Took Pierre's Riding
It’s Poiliover
Sault Ste. Marie, ON: So effin good (ft. Douglas Soltys)
BONUS: The Candidates Caught on Doorbell Cams
Will Canada Split if Carney Wins?
BONUS: The Loose Moose Candidate
Political Animals in the Wild (a Field Report from Ottawa)
BONUS: The Garfield Porn Guy Running for Parliament
Is Pierre Actually a Girl's Girl?
BONUS: The Hams for Terrorism MP
Pardon His French? Quebec's Crush on Carney
How Poilievre Went From Top Dog to Underdog
Why AI Isn't Going To Steal Our Election
None of That 51st State Sh*t
Mark Carney — the Less We Know, the Better
Is There Going to Be a War Over the Arctic?
Jagmeet Singh On Why He Won't Step Down
Man of Steel, Nation of Bloat
Three Businesses Jerked Around by Trump
Did Jagmeet Singh Miss His Big Chance?
Introducing: The Copernic Affair
Trump Almost Forgot to Bully Us
Interview With a Young Lefty
The Long Goodbye: Trudeau’s Not Gone Yet
Payday Loans: the Cost of Being Poor
The Undoing of Justin Trudeau
Interview with a Conservative Bro
Does Trudeau Know How to Deal with Trump?
The Government Deadlock Nobody Knows About
Danielle Smith's All You Can Eat Alberta-Style Freedom
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, the Canadaland Interview
How Canadian Voters Could Sway the U.S. Election
Trudeau, Trump, Poilievre, Harris: What Do Voters Even Want?
India’s “Horrific Mistake” in Canada
B.C.’s Batsh*t Election
Trump Says Canada Doesn’t Pull Its Weight in NATO—He’s Right
Canada's Gutless Palestine Policy
Parliament is Back and More Childish Than Ever
Introducing The Worst Podcast
What Trudeau's Housing Minister Has to Say for Himself
Politics and Violent Threats: It’s Getting Worse
How Poilievre Will Win YOUR Vote
Can Kamala Save Canada from Trump?
Introducing: The Secret Life of Canada | Sorry not Sorry
Introducing A Field Guide to Gay Animals
The Spy Who Loved MPs
Flip-Flopping on Decriminalization
Stop, Students What’s That Sound
Introducing Pretendians
Canada’s Exploited Foreign Workers Program
Conservative Comic-Con
State of Emergency Rooms
The Convoy Keeps Rolling
The Hate U Post
Failing Universities 101
Why Are Conservatives Obsessed With Trans People?
Could Canada Be Complicit in a ‘Plausible Genocide’?
Selling Sunset, Buying Stress
2023 Was the Year of Political Nonsense
The Food Bank Industrial Complex
Roots of Tension in Canada’s Israel-Palestine Discourse
Yukon's Path to Indigenous Self-Governance
Israel, Palestine and Canadian Foreign Policy
Would You Listen to a Government Regulated Podcast?
The End of Canadaland
Where Anti-Sikh Press Leads Us & Manitoba Marks the Ballot
Students in Strip Malls
GenZ’s Political Apathy-ocalypse
Backbench Catch Up
The Controversial Carbon Tax
What’s Up With Canada’s Political Left?
The Musical Voice of the Nation
A Conversation With Erin O’Toole
These Rights Are Precarious: A History of LGBTQ+ Liberties
Ctrl+Alt+Regulate: Can Canada's AI Act Save Us?
Alberta’s Wildfires Meet an Even Wilder Election
PSAC Strike and the Future of Labour
Who Benefits From Public Safety?
The Federal Budget: Betting on Clean Tech
Welcome to The Backbench
Food Costs Soar, Banks Collapse
A Ruckus at Roxham Road
99 Spy Balloons & 1 Rouleau Report
Bail Reform And National Reconciliation
Should Canada Intervene In Haiti?
Flatlining On Healthcare
The Backbench Live: A Year in Review
A Matter Of Life And Death
TL;DR – Emergencies Act Inquiry
Lost In Inflation
Who's Afraid Of A Contested Election?
Introducing our new series: Ratfucker
Guns And Wild Roses
NDP - New Dental Plan
Picking Apart Pierre's Populism
Meet Mattea Roach, Our New Host! (Teaser)
Fatima’s Last Episode
Leaders Who Don't Lead
The Catastrophe Commissioner
Why Don’t Women Run For Office?
All Policing Is Political
Justinflation Or Chrystia Frecession
Does Voting Have To Suck?
Notes From a Young Progressive Conservative
A Jason Kenney-Sized Hole
Is Canada Ready to Decriminalize Drugs?
What Do Women Want? Sexual Healthcare
Confessions Of An International Student
A Generation-Defining Inquiry
The Conservative Candidating Game
Can Government Fix Housing?
An Audience With The Pope
Screaming Children, Dying Planet
Justin And Jagmeet's Experiment In Democracy
A Shit Ton of Energy Insecurity
A Conversation With Bob Rae
Teaser: We're going weekly!
Contradictions In Conflict
In Case of An Emergency
Maximum Chaos
The NDP's Progressive Struggles
The So-Called Era Of Reconciliation
Economy As Entertainment?
A Bill That's Ideally Never Used
A Cynical Guide To COP26
A Money Manel: Equalization & Inflation
Two Former MPs Dish On China & Climate
Truth, Reconciliation and China
A Conversation With A PPC Voter
An Unconsequential Election
Fairy Tales & Picture Books
An Emergency, But First An Election
Health Vs. Healthcare
Afghanistan & Affordability
Teaser: An Election Means A Weekly Backbench
Introducing The White Saviors
Erin O'Toole Doesn't Want to Fight
Border Politics
Pandering Season
Ep. 5 - A Two-Dose Election?
Ep. 4 - The Politics Of Genocide: Kamloops Fallout
Ep. 3 - Big Telecom, Big Quebec
Ep. 2 - Justin Trudeau Has No Friends
Ep. 1 - Every Province For Itself
Introducing Our New Show: The Backbench
Ep. 77 - Mao's Love Poetry and Chinese QAnon
Ep. 76 - Biden's Clean Break
Ep. 75 - What's The Point Of The NDP?
Ep. 74 - The Pre-U.S. Election Anxiety Show
Ep. 73 - Made In Canada Without Pride
Ep. 72 - Snap Election Clapback, CERB Forever!
Ep. 71 - Fall Political Preview
Ep. 70 - Who's Afraid Of The COVID Alert App?
Ep. 69 - QAnon Comes To Canada
Ep. 68 - Why Working Moms Are Dreading September
Ep. 67 - Everybody Else Is Abolishing The Police, So Why Can’t We?
Ep. 66 - Get Me Outta Scheer
Ep. 65 - Stuck In the Middle With Meng Wanzhou
Ep. 64 - An Epidemic Of Racism
Ep. 63 - Under Cover Of Covid
Ep. 62 - Why This Recession Is Hitting Women Harder
Ep. 61 - White Trash Hello Kitty
Ep. 60 - A Virus Designed To Test Society’s Weak Points
Ep. 59 - Double Trouble: Oil's Burst Bubble
Introducing: Cool Mules
Ep. 58 - A Seizure of Political Power In Wet'suwet'en Territory
Ep. 57 - Peter MacKay's Yoga Tweet Apology Tour
Ep. 56 - A Huawei Executive Defends Their Record
Ep. 55 - Canada Gets Kicked In The Teeth
Ep. 54 - The Biggest Resignation Of The Year
Ep. 53 - OPPO Goes Nuclear
Ep. 52 - The Guy Behind Ontario Proud
Ep. 51 - Ministry Of Pandering
Ep. 50 - 50 Things We Want From The 43rd Parliament
Ep. 49 - Lisa Raitt’s Conservative Party Autopsy
Ep. 48 - Useful Losers
Ep. 47 - Is Scheer Done?
Ep. 46 - About Last Night
Ep. 45 - We Haven't Gotten To Truth Yet
Ep. 44 - OPPO's Big Queer Foreign Policy Extravaganza!
Ep. 43 - The First Official Leaders' Debate
Ep. 42 - Coasts With The Mosts
Ep. 41 - Let's Talk Tech! ... And Blackface
Ep. 40 - A Modest Plan To Eat The Rich
Ep. 39 - Who Has The Whitest Candidates? (It’s Not The PPC!)
Ep. 38 - Our House In The Middle Of An Election
Ep. 37 - Is Jason Kenney Stoking Aberta Separatism?
Ep.36 - Fake News Election Panic
EP. 35 - How Alberta Got Weed Right
Ep.34 - Does Québec Get A Pass On Racism?
Ep.33 - Don't Worry Britain, Stephen Harper Will Fix Brexit
Ep.32 - You Have No Constitutional Right To An Abortion
Ep.31 - Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott
Ep.30 - The Best And Worst Election Ads So Far
Ep.29 - The Case For Guns In Canada
Ep.28 - Provinces At War
Ep.27 - Bozo Volcano
Ep.26 - Jason Kenney's $60,000 Problem
Ep.25 - Trudeau's OTHER Festering Scandal
Ep.24 - Everybody Loves Raybould
Ep.23 - This Scandal Will Live And Die In February
Ep.22 - The Political Parties' Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week
Ep.21 - Sino The Times
Ep.20 - Where's Jagmeet Singh? He's On OPPO!
Ep.19 - All I Want For Christmas Is A New Justice Minister
Ep.18 - OPPO Flop House
Ep.17 - The Fascists Are Calling From Inside The House
Ep.16 - The Canadian Military's Radicalism Problem
Ep. 15 - Sure Climate Change Is Bad, But Do We Need Florida?
Ep.14 - The Liberals Are Doing An Awful Job On Justice
Ep. 13 - CAQ-Blocked
Ep.12 - Weekend At Bernier's
Ep.11 - This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: The Year In Review
Ep.10 - Why'd You NAFTA Go And Make Things So Complicated?
Ep.9 - Ontario Election Spectacular!
Ep.8 - Quebec Explained and Antagonizing David Frum
Ep.7 - Convicted Criminal, Fraudster, Financial Bandit
Ep.6 - Decentralized Hot Mess
Ep.5 - Can You Tell Me How to Get to Sussex Street?
Ep.4 - Counter-PsyOps is a Good Place to Start
Ep.3 - Oh Great, A Trade War
Ep.2 - Patrick Brown Goes Full Sh**storm
So about those Justin Trudeau rumours...