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Trish Wood is Critical

Feb 23, 2024

The technical team is off this week and Trish is exploring the podcast's future. What better ways are there to serve listeners in an expanding and complex indy media environment. How do we turn off the noise but gain knowledge and information that will help guide us through increasignly difficult post-Covid times?...


Feb 17, 2024

This is a sad week as we remember the invocation of the Emergencies Act. Trish looks back on some of the Prime Minister’s controversial statements that divided the country and brought about a crisis. Special guests are Karl Harrison and Shaun Rickard — two brave men who fought the travel mandates in one of the most...


Feb 10, 2024

Many people are addicted to their cellphones. It is a digital hypodermic needle of dopamine that keeps us tethered to it — ignoring our families, friends and neighbors as we walk, outsourcing our sense of direction and memory to this little hard-drive that has taken over for much of our daily cognition. We are losing...


Feb 7, 2024

Now out of custody for the first time in two years, Jerry Morin and Chris Lysak have gone home. They’ve both agreed to a plea deal involving gun crimes with the more serious charge of conspiracy to murder RCMP officers withdrawn — begging the question — what was the Crown's actual case? The men, plus two others,...


Feb 3, 2024

A new fad is sweeping North America — adult children refusing any contact with their parents — many of them because they are now “living their truth”. One in four families are estranged in significant ways that feel like a kind of sad ghosting. Part cultural phenomenon and part a result of trends in...