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Episode 33 – The City-State of Montréal with Beryl Wajsman and Brent Tyler

  • September 29, 2018
  • Tagged as: city states, city-state, dreams, Montreal, politics, Quebec

Montréal is a special city. It’s a unique mix of English and French, and the home to migrants from all over the globe. And on this episode of The Goldwaters, Anne-France Goldwater wonders, should Montréal…

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Episode 30 – Polls, Damned Polls, and Aggregators with Philippe J. Fournier

  • July 15, 2018
  • Tagged as: canada, fake news, news, politics, polls, Quebec

It’s tough out there for a news consumer. If you consume any political news, you’re going to be inundated with news about polls — who’s up, who’s down, who’s going to win, and who’s going…

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Episode 29 – Millennials aren’t so bad with Karl Moore

  • June 24, 2018
  • Tagged as: business, learning, millennials, politics

Millennials are the most entitled generation of young people the world has ever seen. They spend all their money of avocado toast and hand-crafted lattes. They live in their parents basements taking selfies and tweeting…

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Épisode 28 – Le hijab ostentatoire avec Sondos Lamrhari

  • June 10, 2018
  • Tagged as: Hijabs, Islam, Policing, politics

This week, The Goldwaters present a special episode in French. English text follows. Pour beaucoup de Québécois, le débat sur le port de symboles religieux est un débat abstrait. Pour Sondos Lamrhari, c’est très réel.  …

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Episode 27 – White Power and the JQ

  • April 22, 2018
  • Tagged as: America, Jewish people, nationalisim, podcast, politics, Trump, white supremacy

One of the more distressing things to emerge in our current political moment is the rise of white nationalism. Look around the United States, in particular, and you’ll find people no longer frightened or ashamed…

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Support for BSL might be fading in Quebec’s National Assembly

  • April 19, 2018
  • Tagged as: animal rights, BSL, dogs, Montreal, pit bulls, pitbulls, politics, Quebec
Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante talks to Anne-France Goldwater and Marie-Hélène Dubé.

It seems that there isn’t the support there once was for a ban on pit bull-type dogs in Quebec’s National Assembly.

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Épisode 25 – Valérie Plante, Mairesse de Montréal (FR/EN)

  • March 25, 2018
  • Tagged as: Montreal, polcan, politics, polqc, Valérie Plante

Cette semaine, The Goldwaters sera à l’Hôtel de ville de Montréal pour une séance bilingue avec la mairesse de Montréal, Valérie Plante, la première femme à occuper ce poste depuis les 375 ans d’histoire de…

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Episode 22 – SEX PANIC

  • February 11, 2018
  • Tagged as: #MeToo, dating, politics, relationships, sex

It wasn’t long after the #MeToo moment began that people started to wonder if North American society was in the midst of a sex panic. Values are shifting rapidly as we all deal with the…

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Episode 21 – Comedy on Trial with David Heti

  • January 28, 2018
  • Tagged as: #MeToo, comedy, free speech, podcast, political correctness, politics, society, swears

Is comedy funny anymore? This might seem like a silly question. But, at the moment, everything seems political. And as politics has seeped into every part of culture, so has political correctness. So, Samantha Goldwater-Adler…

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Episode 20 – Dr. Samantha breaks down Daniel’s neoconservative past

  • December 31, 2017
  • Tagged as: 9/11, neoconservativism, politics

In the early 2000s, neoconservatism was the dominant strain of political thought on the right. Bush the younger was president in the U.S. and The West was under attack by Osama Bin Laden. And it…

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