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Support us at commonspodcast.com In the final episode in our series about the COVID-19 pandemic and the crisis in long-term care, we're goin...

Support us at commonspodcast.com Four months after the first outbreak in a Canadian nursing home, over 7000 long-term residents have died of...

Support us at commonspodcast.com Jonathan Marchand is one of the thousands of young disabled people living in long-term care. But Marchand d...

Support us at commonspodcast.com After a stroke left him locked in his own body, Rabbi Ronnie Cahana has found ways to lead an incredibly fu...

Support us at commonspodcast.com Innis Ingram's mother is his hero. But today, she's living in one of the worst hit long-term care homes in...

Support us at commonspodcast.com We take a break from our PANDEMIC season with an extended interview with Damian Abraham, a guest from our e...

Support us at commonspodcast.com Long-term care workers are in the vanguard in the war against COVID-19. They're not the kinds of workers wh...

$5/month for-adree COMMONS by clicking here . Over the last two months, Nova Scotians have endured tragedy upon tragedy. The worst mass murd...

Here's where you can support us: commonspodcast.com Tracy Rowley lost her surrogate mother to COVID-19 in a long-term care facility. But she...

Over 1700 Ontarians have already been killed by COVID-19. And the vast majority of them died in long-term care. But if you live in a private...

The McKenzie Towne Continuing Care Centre has experienced the deadliest COVID-19 outbreak in Alberta. But some people say that their loved o...

Why did Commons drop everything and focus in on long-term care? Because the vast majority of deaths are happening in those homes. Because we...

They were found abandoned in the facility. The conditions were described as "akin to a concentration camp." Within two weeks, over thirty of...

COVID-19 has upended everything, and forced us to change plans. From here on out, COMMONS will be bringing you stories about the people and...

It began as a mysterious disease from a far off place. It turned into the deadliest plague humanity has faced since the Black Death. AIDS ha...

There have been books and songs and plays written about Anna Mae Aquash. But she was no folk hero — she was flesh and blood. A young Mi'kmaq...

It's one of the most audacious plots in North American history. Turn a Caribbean island nation into a criminal state — then use the money to...

Our new season is about the people on the extremes. The activists, the terrorists, and the revolutionaries who took things right to the edge...

A new investigative series about the cocaine smuggling ring inside Vice Media. To hear episode 2 right now, subscribe to Cool Mules. Or get...

The Harts are Canada's first family of professional wrestling and one of the most famous dynasties the country has ever produced. And sure,...

Gerald Regan was the premier of Nova Scotia, the founder of a powerful political dynasty, and one of the most prolific sexual predators in C...

For 150 years, the Olands have been one of Canada's most prominent brewing dynasties, the makers of Moosehead Beer. But in the last decade,...

The Desmarais family is by far the most influential Canadian dynasty of the last half-century. But if you don't live in Quebec, chances are...

The Sahotas are Vancouver's most notorious slumlords. For decades they've let their buildings rot, leaving their tenants to live in filth an...

The Rizzutos are Canada's first family of crime. For decades, they dominated Montreal's underworld with an iron fist. With the help of corru...

Canada is a big, interesting, and complicated place and COMMONS is committed to bringing you thoughtfully crafted and illuminating stories t...

They call themselves the Canadian Kennedys. And they're one of the most famous political dynasties to ever exist in this country. But the ri...

For almost a century, the Irving family has run New Brunswick like a personal fiefdom. They own the newspapers, the industry, and, according...

Canada is a country ruled by dynasties — political, commercial and criminal. In the first episode of our new series, we bring you the story...

Stories about the rich and powerful families who run Canada.

Canoe-borne bandits strike an underwater town. A new generation of wealthy lobstermen is minted. An island disappears. And hellfire engulfs...

Teck Resources just got approval to build the largest tar sands operation ever. The Frontier mine would have serious and permanent consequen...

Ever get the feeling someone is watching you? If you've been to an environmental protest recently, you might be right. Private intelligence...

In the past few weeks, Ontario Premier Doug Ford was loudly booed at the Raptors' victory parade, demoted a bunch of star members of his Cab...

Has Canada been a casualty of a nefarious campaign by foreign-funded radicals to landlock our country's energy resources? Is Big Oil the vic...

An unspeakable tragedy occurs off the coast of Newfoundland. But this isn't just a story about a nautical disaster. It's about what happens...

The Lac-Mégantic rail disaster was a calamity like we've never seen before. The families of the victims never got justice. But the condition...

What happens when the oil wells run dry? Environmental damage, government bailouts and a scheme that some are comparing to the subprime mort...

The Alberta oil sands. It's a cold patch of land (which we once almost nuked into oblivion) that's become Canada's economic engine. Governme...

A family poisoned in their homes. Bombs going off in the night. Shots fired and inside jobs. The story of Wiebo Ludwig is There Will Be Bloo...

If you don't understand oil, you can't understand Canada. We take you to a place unlike anywhere else in the world, where the booms and bust...

Last season Commons covered corruption in Canada. This time around we're talking about Canada's relationship with the oil industry. The good...

Canadian companies have committed all kinds of wrongdoing abroad. But this is on a different level. One Vancouver-based company has been acc...

Tens of thousands of dollars in suits, luggage, magazines and mustard. An epic booze heist from the legislature. An undercover legislator ex...

Canada is hockey crazy. But at the heart of the sport is a system of unpaid labour that scars some boys for life. And the teams and leagues...

One of Canada's most notorious white-collar criminals speaks about his crimes.

It might be small, but it when it comes to graft, Prince Edward Island plays in the big leagues: a secret off-the-books committee, conflicts...

For twenty years, he's controlled public institutions from behind the scenes. He brags about his connections to organized crime. And he's co...

In the eleven years that Marolyn Morrison was the mayor of Caledon, Ontario, she faced down deep-pocketed developers, mafia enforcers and co...

The Panama Papers revealed to the world just how deeply enmeshed tax havens are in the global economy. And for 100 years, Canadian banks, bu...