Monday, January 31st 2022

It's a story about deception, coverups, and some say, about murder. This is a story about Groundhog Day. The true story of Wiarton Willie.

CANADALAND Editor Jonathan Goldsbie digs into the shell game of dead groundhogs that spans decades. 

Featured in this episode: Liam Casey, a reporter/editor in the Ontario bureau for the Canadian Press; Frank Gunn, a national photographer for the Canadian Press

Further reading:

• Yet another Wiarton Willie is dead. Here's a look at the strange history behind the beloved groundhog, Liam Casey, Canadian Press/CBC
  

• The legend of Wiarton Willie lives on (2011), Toronto Star
  

• Frank Gunn's photo of 1999 Wiarton Willie funeral, Canadian Press/Toronto Star

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Thursday, January 27th 2022

How many anti-vax trucker convoys were there?! And people are making the case to break up the CBC again.
Canadaland contributing editor Danielle Paradis cohosts. 
Further reading & links:

• GoFundMe actually froze money for the convoy's campaign
• Tom Hooper's investigation into Pride Toronto and the misuse of money from the federal government
• The Narwhal's story on the maple syrup meltdown

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Monday, January 24th 2022

Canada has a nuclear problem... a nuclear waste problem. Since the dawn of nuclear power technology, solutions to waste have all been remarkably temporary given the longevity of the danger the material presents. 

For decades, the hunt for a solution has spanned across provinces — even across countries. But the hope is that by 2023 Canada will have found a home - and permanent solution - for all of the country's nuclear waste.

This endeavor is pitting neighbour against neighbour — community against community. And the stakes are high for the future of the nuclear industry.

CANADALAND senior producer Sarah Lawrynuik ventures to Northwestern Ontario to bring you this story.

Further reading:

• Small northwestern Ontario town considers if it's willing to house nuclear waste from across Canada, CBC News
• Holding in the deep: What Canada wants to do with its decades-old pileup of nuclear waste, The Narwhal
• Nuclear's Role in Canada's Low-Carbon Future?, Energy vs Climate podcast
• 30,000 shipments of nuclear waste would move through Ontario cities, farmland under draft plan, CBC News
• How to build a nuclear warning for 10,000 years' time, BBC News

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Thursday, January 20th 2022

The hunger for stories about Toronto's snow backfires. And when a story is about a hostage situation at a synagogue, why is there reluctance to call it antisemitism?

Canadaland contributing editor Danielle Paradis co-hosts.

Links: 

• A tribute to CBC Edmonton's radio host Adrienne Pan
• CBC's piece on Texas Synagogue Hostages

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Monday, January 17th 2022

There's a mystery disease that's plaguing people in New Brunswick. It starts with some muscle pain or spasms, before basic tasks like reading become impossible. For many, the disease progresses to full-blown dementia. For patients and families, government response has proven to be lackluster and desperation and frustration is taking hold as the search for answers drags on.

Further reading:

• Whistleblower warns baffling illness affects growing number of young adults in Canadian province, Leyland Cecco, The Guardian
  

• New Brunswick monitoring more than 40 cases of unknown neurological disease, CBC News
  

• N.B. health minister questions validity of mysterious neurological disease after report, Global News
  

• New Brunswick's Mystery Disease: Why Did the Province Shut Out Federal Experts?, The Walrus

• No longer a sure thing: Records show how N.B. investigation into mystery illness changed over time, CBC News

• Help Gabrielle battle unknown neurological disease, GoFundMe
  

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