Canada Did What?!
Canada Did What? is a Postmedia podcast that digs into the untold, surprising political stories of the last few decades with host Tristin Hopper. From the metric wars to Morgentaler, from the October Crisis to the abortion debate, we’re unpacking all the wildest political moments you might think you remember — and giving you the real story you never knew. We talk to the politicians, journalists and newsmakers who were right there when history happened. And we have a lot of fun doing it.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 31 minutes
- Episodes
- 6
- Years Active
- 2025
Who killed Canada’s abortion debate?
It wasn’t that long ago that elective abortions were harder to get in Canada than anywhere in the U.S. What changed was one of the most actively forgotten political brawls in our history, sparked by …
00:39:52 |
Tue 01 Apr 2025
Winning the war on le terrorisme
The fashionable way to remember the October Crisis today is to tsk-tsk at a hysterical government overreaction to the FLQ movement and gross violations of civil liberties with the War Measures Act. B…
00:42:54 |
Tue 25 Mar 2025
Canada’s biggest political rockstar
He went out a weird, morbid old man, but John Diefenbaker was indisputably the biggest political sensation this country had ever produced. He won the biggest landslide in Canadian history. He walked …
00:36:28 |
Tue 18 Mar 2025
The metric schism
Canadians measure weather in Celsius but cook using Fahrenheit. We drink alcohol by the ounce and soda by the litre. Why? This unholy amalgam of metric and imperial is the hard-won truce of a chaotic…
00:34:50 |
Tue 11 Mar 2025
I was a commie prime minister
Every democratic leader gets accused of being either a communist or a Nazi at some point. But Canada really did have a prime minister who was unashamed about his love for communist regimes, from Chin…
00:34:28 |
Tue 04 Mar 2025
Introducing Canada Did What?!
Welcome to Canada Did What?! A Postmedia podcast that digs into the untold, surprising political stories of the last few decades with host Tristin Hopper. From the metric wars to Morgentaler, from th…
00:02:17 |
Tue 18 Feb 2025
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