Politics and General Culture

Recording Date: October 8 The Eager Beaver and Mr. Grizzly discuss interesting/trivia tidbits about the election results and about the Eager Beaver's first experience working at a polling place on election day. Also, in this episode, we have a snippet of our extended interview with Conservative Party of Council Member Bert Chen, who was the first to publicly call for an expedited review of Erin O'Toole's leadership post-election. Since our interview, Mr. Chen has been suspended/silenced for 6...

Recording date: October 9, 2021 The Eager Beaver Pod asks its guests if they're willing to provide an extended interview, so that we may better get to know them/what makes them tick. When they agree, we package it together and present to you as part of this series. This week's guest made headlines by being among the first to call for a post-electoral review of Conservative Party of Canada Leader Erin O'Toole's leadership... and he put his money where his mouth is by openly circulating a petitio...

A break down of the results of election 44.

Our ongoing discussion about election 44.

Our on going discussion about election 44...

In this Episode we discuss the recent English Language debate.

In our ongoing discussion about election 44, we do a deep dive into some issues that we are passionate about, and raise concern on the direction of the nation.

Our further ongoing discussion about the upcoming Federal election.

Off the cuff discussion about the current federal election.

(recording date, August 21st) Six days into Canada’s 44th election, your intrepid duo of the Eager Beaver and Mr Grizzly share their general impressions of the election’s opening days. This is the first in our new format for the elections, in which we try to bring you more frequent, much less scripted, but potentially shorter episodes we’ll call “Beaver Bites”, so that we may bring you Election 44 coverage with fewer delays. Now, turns out that because we waited a few days, this episode turne...

(recording dates, August 14th and 17th) On today’s episode… It’s election time!!! And for political junkies, this is that for which we live. We have for you a pre-election Coast to Coast to Coast COVID Round Up, a discussion on how the table had been prepared for this election call (including a Hello/Goodbye to those who cleared the decks or joined teams in preparation), and a discussion about the state of the major parties prior to the call that also touches upon a few things that took plac...

The Eager Beaver Pod asks its guests if they're willing to provide an extended interview, so that we may better get to know them/what makes them tick. When they agree, we package it together and present to you as part of this series. This week's guest is one of Canada’s most gifted sports reporters and currently is in Tokyo bringing us all of the drama and glory of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Devin Heroux, shares with us interesting stories about his path and provides insight into not o...

On today’s episode… It’s still all about Pride! Welcome to The True North Eager Beaver Pride Episode, Part Deux: 2 Proud 2 Curious As you likely know June was Pride Month and the 53rd anniversary of the Stonewall Riots which took place from June 28th to July 3rd, 1969, so we’ll be presenting a collection of rainbow-themed stories over the course of the two parts of this episode. In this second half of the episode, we’ll have our Coast-to-Coast-to-Coast COVID update. Our discussion this week i...

On today’s episode… It’s all about Pride! As you likely know June was Pride Month and the 53rd anniversary of the Stonewall Riots which took place from June 28th to July 3rd, 1969, so we’ll be presenting a collection of rainbow-themed stories over the course of the two parts of this episode. In this half of the episode, our Coast-to-Coast-to-Coast COVID update is back. Our main story is the inexplicable and nonsensical decision of the Conservative Party of Canada to hold up legislation bannin...

Warning: This episode touches on, among other subjects, residential schools. If you are feeling triggered, the National Indian Residential School Crisis Hotline can be reached at 1-866-925-4419. The Eager Beaver Pod asks its guests if they're willing to provide an extended interview, so that we may better get to know them/what makes them tick. When they agree, we package it together and present to you as part of this series. This week's guest is Indigenous Activist Bryson Syliboy from the Mi’...

Warning: This episode touches on, among other subjects, residential schools. If you are feeling triggered, the National Indian Residential School Crisis Hotline can be reached at 1-866-925-4419. The Eager Beaver Pod asks its guests if they're willing to provide an extended interview, so that we may better get to know them/what makes them tick. When they agree, we package it together and present to you as part of this series. This week's guest is Indigenous Activist Bryson Syliboy from the Mi’...

Warning: This episode touches on, among other subjects, residential schools. If you are feeling triggered, the National Indian Residential School Crisis Hotline can be reached at 1-866-925-4419. Given that the question of how well, or rather how poorly, Canada has treated Indigenous Peoples over the decades is, and rightly so, the top news story of these times… and as Monday was National Indigenous Peoples Day, we here at the True North Eager Beaver have prepared a special episode that features ...

After a few weeks away, it was time to catch up on the cross-Canada COVID update. A lot has happened, so we had a lot to share, and thus we’ve dedicated this episode to the subject. Enjoy and please be kind to, and gentle with, yourselves, Your Eager Beaver

In this “lost” episode** we’ll have our usual cross-Canada COVID update (things are looking up). Our lead story this week, is undeniably the biggest Canadian news story in some time, the discovery of an unmarked burial site at a residential school in British Columbia. We will also do a round-up of recent bits of news of interest to us but for which we hadn’t yet found time or room in previous episodes And we’ll finish the show with a shout out to our patrons, listener feedback, and some impor...

In this special episode, the Eager Beaver and Mr Grizzly have an in-depth discussion about the the national mish mash of COVID-related lockdowns and how, Canadians, who are typically long to anger, have made quite well known their displeasure with their provincial governments’ handling of the pandemic. The four biggest COVID outbreaks in the country are still in Manitoba, Alberta, Ontario, and Saskatchewan. Not-coincidentally, those four provinces happen to be led by ideologically Conservative...

The Eager Beaver Pod asks its guests if they're willing to provide an extended interview, so that we may better get to know them/what makes them tick. When they agree, we package it together and present to you as part of this series. This week's guest is community builder Amy Caruso, founder and CEO of The Mental Health Gala, being held in Ottawa, and online, Saturday, May 29th, 2021 (https://thementalhealthgala.com/). Join us as we speak about anxiety, depression, her passion for community ser...

In this episode, the Eager Beaver and Mr. Grizzly present a cross-Canada COVID update; we’ll chat about all kinds of men behaving badly, following yet more recent sexual impropriety allegations in the Canadian Armed Forces; and we’ll gloat about the Conservatives’ grift on Bill C-10 coming to a rather embarrassing end. We will also have a deeper discussion about whether Conservative leadership is bad for our health. This week, the Beaver Lodge interview guest is community builder Amy Caruso, f...

In this episode, the Eager Beaver and Mr. Grizzly touch upon four current hot, sticky messes affecting the country: First, some News You Can use about the state of the COVID pandemic in Canada (and it’s not good); then we touch upon the evolving science from NACI on the AstraZeneca vaccine; that’s followed by a dive into the sexual impropriety scandal involving former CDS General Vance; and finally, we discuss ‘politicians behaving badly’ on Bill C-10. Also in the show, the Beaver Lodge welcome...

The Eager Beaver Pod asks its guests if they're willing to provide an extended interview, so that we may better get to know them/what makes them tick. When they agree, we package it together and present to you as part of this series. This week's guest is the man with the cuttingly sharp-tipped pen who caught the world's attention with four words: "Doug Ford Must Resign". David Moscrop, shares with us interesting stories about his path, tell us why it is necessary for the Premier of Ontario to...