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COMMONS

Jesse Brown

A politics show for people who hate politics.

COMMONS Podcast Guide

Listen to COMMONS, a News & Politics podcast by Jesse Brown. Stream 100 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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PANDEMIC 12 - The Most Dangerous Story

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...

48:24Aug 5, 2020

PANDEMIC 10 - Burn It Down

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

35:11Jul 8, 2020

PANDEMIC 9 - Mend the World

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...

37:35Jun 24, 2020

PANDEMIC 8 - Hunger Strike

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...

24:26Jun 17, 2020

BONUS: The Honest Fakery of Wrestling

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...

07:53Jun 10, 2020

PANDEMIC 7 - The Frontline

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...

26:05Jun 3, 2020

PANDEMIC 6 - Northwood

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

31:12May 27, 2020

PANDEMIC 5 - Shirley and Tracy

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...

28:14May 20, 2020

PANDEMIC 4 - Ontario Reaps its Dividends

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...

27:24May 13, 2020

PANDEMIC 3 - McKenzie Towne

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

23:41May 6, 2020

PANDEMIC 2 - When the Plague Came

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...

09:35May 2, 2020

PANDEMIC 1 - 33 Dead in Dorval

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

21:36Apr 29, 2020

An emergency season: PANDEMIC

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...

01:46Apr 27, 2020

RADICALS 3 - The Last Pandemic

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...

52:45Apr 15, 2020

RADICALS 1 - Nazi Island in the Sun

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...

32:29Mar 18, 2020

Our new season: RADICALS

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

01:27Mar 13, 2020

Introducing: Cool Mules

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

36:12Mar 2, 2020

DYNASTIES 9 - The Harts

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

53:22Feb 5, 2020