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Depending on which headline you read, you might think Canada announced two different immigration plans. Are we staying the course on “taking back control”? Or is Mark Carney lying to us?

Host Noor Azrieh is joined by Dr. Rupa Banerjee to unpack the numbers behind the outrage, and the people getting lost in the math. From the Conservatives’ advance instructions to reporters to the Globe and Mail’s barrage of opinion pieces, how did a badly explained policy become a story about deception?

Plus: a viral Carney misclip, a Globe correction, and David Cochrane’s accusation that Noor invented a quote.

Host: Noor Azrieh
Credits: James Nicholson (Senior Producer), Julian Abraham (Producer), Noor Azrieh (Host/Producer), Caleb Thompson (Mixing & Mastering), Harrison Lowman (Managing Editor), Jesse Brown (Editor & Publisher), Tony Wang (Artwork)
Guest: Rupa Banerjee

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Further reading:
Mark Carney cranks up immigration again, while pretending not to – The Globe and Mail
Poilievre accuses government of cooking books on immigration – CityNews Toronto
Why Ottawa’s move to grant 200,000 temporary residents permanent status is facing backlash – The Globe and Mail
The Liberals’ immigration numbers game – The Globe and Mail
The Carney government’s immigration targets are a fib and a dodge – The Globe and Mail
Tasha Kheiriddin: Carney's immigration subterfuge a threat to his nation-building project – National Post
Conservatives: Seven Reporting Issues To Watch For In Today’s Immigration Levels Plan – Michelle Rempel Garner
Mark Carney Announces Highest Permanent Immigration in Canadian History, Tries to Hide It – Michelle Rempel Garner

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Mark Carney’s budget expands support for the news industry, including opening a newsroom salary tax credit to audio and video journalism. Former Calgary Herald publisher and CRTC vice-chair Peter Menzies calls it a disaster for press independence. Host Noor Azrieh wants to know what happens to the reporters—and the reporting—if that support disappears. And what a possible end to Meta’s news ban could mean for the industry?

Plus: who put CBC in charge of Canada’s Eurovision ambitions? And the Blue Jays’ painfully vague response to Anthony Santander’s Islamophobic reposts.
Host: Noor Azrieh

Credits: James Nicholson (Senior Producer), Julian Abraham (Producer), Noor Azrieh (Host/Producer), Caleb Thompson (Mixing & Mastering), Harrison Lowman (Managing Editor), Jesse Brown (Editor & Publisher)

Guest: Peter Menzies

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Further reading:
EXTRA! EXTRA! Canada budget ensures all but a handful of journalists depend on the feds – Peter Menzies
From Making Web Giants Pay to Paying Media Giants: Budget 2026 Replaces the Government’s Internet Platform Strategy With $1.5 Billion in Taxpayer Dollars for Culture and News – Michael Geist
CBC/Radio-Canada welcomes Budget 2026 investment in public service media – CBC
Canada's new budget proposes $5B for culture. Here's where it would go – CBC News
Ottawa boosts journalism tax credit by $501M, extends eligibility to broadcasters – CTV News
Blue Jays response to Santander’s Islamophobic reposts ‘not enough’ for some fans – CBC News

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Canada is the only Five Eyes country without a foreign intelligence service like the CIA or MI6, but that might be about to change.

Last week’s federal budget gave CSIS $6 billion over ten years, and the Prime Minister’s top security adviser said the government plans to change the law so CSIS can spy abroad.

Managing editor Harrison Lowman talks to Phil Gurski, a 32-year veteran of Canadian intelligence, who has spent years arguing that Canada needs its own CIA. Do we even need a foreign intelligence service? What would spying abroad actually look like? And should Canada be tapping the phones of its allies?

Plus: a former Desjardins CEO runs to replace Steven Guilbeault, Carney skips Washington and COP31 for a global summit tour that ends in China, and Elizabeth May backs a petition to legalize non-sexual public nudity.

Host: Sam Konnert
Credits: Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Sam Konnert (Host/Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and post production), Jesse Brown (Editor in Chief), Tony Wang (Artwork)

Guests: Phil Gurski

Background reading:
Canada’s military and spy agency are getting spending boosts in Budget 2026 (Global News)
The Plan for a Stronger Canada: National Security for Canadians (Privy Council Office)
Internal memo flags the promise and pitfalls of expanding CSIS’s foreign spy role (The Canadian Press)
Debate over a foreign spy service for Canada influenced by allies, money: study (The Canadian Press, via CTV)
Phil Gurski: Canada needs its own CIA (The Hub)

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Today, we're talking about medical assistance in dying. Should you be able to ask for it in advance for a time when you can no longer consent? And is it wrong to exclude people whose only condition is mental illness?

We’re speaking with two people who testified before Parliament this spring and see this very differently.

NOTE: This episode includes a discussion of suicide and medical assistance in dying. If that’s hard to listen to, it’s okay to skip this one.

Host: Archie Matlow
Credits: Aviva Lessard (Senior Producer), Tristan Capacchione (Producer), Julian Abraham (Fact Check), Harrison Lowman (Managing Editor), Jesse Brown (Editor and Publisher), Tony Wang (Artwork)
Guests: Jocelyn Downie, Dr. Ramona Coelho

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Background reading:
Dying with Dignity
Medical assistance in dying: Overview — Government of Canada
The faces of MAID — The Globe & Mail

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Scott Robertson is a real guy watching an alarming amount of Canadian political television, and hand-clipping the two minutes that will end up on your social media feeds.

Noor Azrieh meets the man behind the viral clips of Mark Carney, Pierre Poilievre and Doug Ford to talk bias, his MeidasTouch job, and why CBC’s David Cochrane isn’t thrilled about being clipped.

Host: Noor Azrieh
Credits: James Nicholson (Senior Producer), Julian Abraham (Producer), Noor Azrieh (Host/Producer), Caleb Thompson (Mixing & Mastering), Harrison Lowman (Managing Editor), Jesse Brown (Editor & Publisher)
Guest: Scott Robertston

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