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Carney travels to India and strikes a landmark deal with Modi, but what about all those allegations of foreign interference by Indian agents in Canada?

A senior official in Carney’s government says India is no longer targeting Canadians, but CSIS and other Liberal MPs insist it’s still ongoing.

Plus, a new Globe and Mail investigation offers a detailed portrait of the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar.

Correction:

In a previous version of this episode, the driver of the Humboldt Broncos bus, Jaskirat Singh Sidhu, was referred to as a temporary foreign worker. He was a permanent resident at the time of the accident.

Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: James Nicholson (Producer), Kallan Lyons (Associate Producer and Fact Checking), Caleb Thompson (Mixing and Mastering), Jesse Brown (Editor)
Guest: Rupa Subramanya

Further reading:
Carney and India’s Modi strike new energy partnership - National | Globalnews.ca
Evidence links Indian officials at Vancouver consulate to killing of Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar - The Globe and Mail
Indian government no longer targeting Canadians, senior official says on eve of PM’s visit - National | Globalnews.ca
Indian foreign interference ‘continuing,’ say Liberal MPs | Globalnews.ca
Foreign Interference Indictment - US District Court [PDF]
‘Our community can’t afford more silence’: Sikhs targeted by Indian-backed criminal groups demand action | The Pointer
Brookfield 'strategic partner' wins big in India deal - Investigative Journalism Foundation
John Manley: Man responsible for Humboldt Broncos crash paid his debt to society and should not be deported - National Post
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As journalists, our job is to dig deep into stories. And sometimes, we dig far deeper than we ever thought possible. And those deep dives will often become our most interesting stories.

And finding those stories usually follows a pattern.

Something catches your eye, it draws you in. You start doing a little research on it.

Then you find something that makes us go, “Huh…”

You start pulling the thread, follow the bread crumbs, and slowly you find out just how deep the rabbit hole goes.

And so we wanted to know, what rabbit holes all of you have gone down? We thought it might be things like wellness influencers, grifts, maybe some MLM scheme. But, the reality was both a lot more normal, and to be honest, a little bit weirder.

Host: Sam Konnert
Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Producer), Tony Wang (Executive Producer), max collins (Director of Audio), Jesse Brown (Publisher)
Photo: Tony Wang
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Carney’s support of the US and Israel’s attack on Iran raises questions around Canada’s “principled pragmatism” approach to foreign policy. Is it consistent with what he said at Davos?

Plus, the Iranian-Canadian response to the killing of Ali Khamenei isn’t as mixed as the headlines suggest.

Correction: in a previous version of this episode, a statement was erroneously attributed to Quebec’s Minister of Education, Sonia Lebel. It was made by Parti Quebecois MNA Pascal Paradis.

Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: James Nicholson (Producer), Kallan Lyons (Associate Producer and Fact Checking), Caleb Thompson (Mixing and Mastering), Jesse Brown (Editor)
Guest: Rupa Subramanya


Further reading:
Statement by Prime Minister Carney and Minister Anand on the situation in the Middle East
Lloyd Axworthy: Canada once rejected America's aggressive, unlawful foreign policy. Today Mark Carney embraced it - Toronto Star
Carney picks a realpolitik side on Iran war - The Globe and Mail
India reset, Iran regime change with Minister Anita Anand | Front Burner | CBC Podcasts
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dead at 86, ending his iron grip on Iran | CBC News
Iranian-Canadians celebrate Khamenei's death, but many criticize the foreign intervention and fear for what comes next - The Globe and Mail
‘It’s crazy’: Thornhill gym of Iranian-Canadian activist hit by bullets - CTV News
Europe needs to learn the art of the trade deal - Financial Times
Education minister investigating reports of IDF soldiers speaking at Jewish schools in Montreal - Montreal Gazette

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More than 24,000 federal public servants have received notices that their jobs could be at risk. That is on top of the 9800 public service employees who were already let go last year. Host Sam Konnert takes us inside the government, specifically, inside a single lab within Environment and Climate Change Canada. A lab tasked with making sure our water is clean and our food is plastic-free. A lab that could go from nine PhD-level scientists, down to one.

What happens to the country when these workers get cut, and entire labs are decimated? Who pays the price?

Host: Sam Konnert
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Senior Producer), Sam Konnert (Host/Producer), Noor Azrieh (Host/Producer), Mia Johnson (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Max Collins (Director of Audio) Jesse Brown (Editor), Tony Wang (Artwork)

Guests: Shirley Tagalik, Christine Bishop

Background reading:
25,000 public servants warned their jobs could be at risk. Here is the latest on federal job cuts – CTV News
Five charts to help visualize public service job cuts – Ottawa Citizen
Feds target hundreds of Environment and Climate Change Canada workers putting 'public safety and the environment at risk' – Canada’s National Observer
Carney’s government is cutting hundreds of environment and science jobs. Here’s what that means for Canadians – CBC News

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By some estimates Canada will soon be short thousands of trained aircraft mechanics. The people who keep our flights safe. The government came up with $25 million dollars to help.

A whistleblower came to Canadaland to allege that the money bought training materials that were plagiarized, then run through ChatGPT. Those materials resulted in AI slop that included AI hallucinations.

Our reporter Gemma Boothroyd brings us her investigation.

Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Gemma Boothroyd (Reporter), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), max collins (Director of Audio), Jesse Brown (Editor and Publisher)

Fact checking by Julian Abraham
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Grants and Contributions: Industry Led Training for the Aviation and Aerospace Sector — Government of Canada

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