• The Secret Life of Canada

  • By: CBC
  • Podcast

The Secret Life of Canada

By: CBC
  • Summary

  • The country you know and the stories you don't. Join hosts Leah-Simone Bowen and Falen Johnson as they reveal the beautiful, terrible and weird histories of this land. New episodes every second Thursday.


    Visit us at www.cbc.ca/secretlife for show links, transcripts and more!


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Episodes
  • Introducing: Don't Drink the Milk | Witch hunts – The medieval conspiracy that just won't die
    Oct 31 2024

    Don't Drink the Milk – The curious history of things from DW is a podcast that traces the unexpected backstories of everyday things that have traveled the world, by force, by chance, or by choice. In this episode, host Rachel Stewart unravels the history of witch hunts from deadly conspiracies in medieval Europe to use of the term today by powerful figures like Donald Trump. Why is it important to remember this history and how has the power shifted?


    More episodes of Don't Drink the Milk – The curious history of things can be found at: https://pod.link/1704462801

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    43 mins
  • S6: Canada's historic Palestinian immigration program you probably haven't heard of
    Oct 24 2024

    In 1955, Canada’s immigration officials began a special experimental program to bring in Palestinian refugees through Pier 21. Falen and Leah take a look back at this historic port of entry that saw almost a million immigrants and refugees arrive in Canada and then find out what has changed since Pier 21’s heyday. And then they try to find out if we are currently better or worse at responding to refugees in crisis zones like Gaza and Sudan.


    With special guests Jan Raska from the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 and Gauri Sreenivasan from the Canadian Council for Refugees.


    Related episodes:

    Crash Course on Ukrainian Canadians

    The Halifax Donair

    The province of Jamaica


    For more links and more about this episode visit us at cbc.ca/secretlife.


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    19 mins
  • S6: I see dead people (in Winnipeg)
    Oct 10 2024

    In honor of spooky season, Falen and Leah are joined by producer Eunice Kim to learn why Winnipeg became known around the world for communicating with the dead. Together they’ll light some candles and find out why, in the mid-1900s, holding seances became sought after and then how that popularity inspired one of the most famous supernatural comedy films of all time — Ghostbusters.


    For more links and more about this episode visit us at cbc.ca/secretlife.

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    21 mins

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