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The OrchardcastElection Update - Week 5Over the past five weeks, the Orchard has been releasing weekly election update podcasts with a different guest each episode. Joining me this week is Nora Loreto, a Quebec City-based independent journalist and author who likely needs no introduction. Nora’s latest book, the second part of her series on Canadian decline for Dundurn Press, Corporate Control, comes out May 6. Related Links* Corporate Control (Dundurn, 2025)* Carney says Trump raised ’51st state’ during their call but ’the president says a lot of things’, Radio-Canada* 'DOGE' and 'DOGE-lite': Public service unions react to c...2025-04-2839 min
The OrchardcastThe Rise and Fall of Canada's Social Safety NetThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.readtheorchard.orgConservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is fond of calling Canada “broken,” and he’s not wrong. Health care, housing, affordability — they’re all in crisis. But while Poilievre blames these problems on “woke” policies and “Big Government,” Nora Loreto has published the first book in a series that explains the causes and consequences of Canada’s decline. That first bo…2024-09-1409 min
Big Shiny TakesWe Might Have Committed Some Light Treason (Ft. Nora Loreto)Fancying himself some sort of Judge Dredd of protecting Canadian culture, Christopher Dummitt writes in a special to the National Post how such actions as land acknowledgments or taking a plaque down in an art gallery are giving China an edge. Canadian patriot Nora Loreto joins us to explain why having a deep-seated sense of national pride probably doesn't matter that much.Plugs and RecsNora Loreto | SubstackA political podcast. Just Listen. | Sandy & Nora Talk Politics (sandyandnora.com)Reserve The Social Safety Net – Canada in Decline Bo...2024-08-0958 min
Sandy and Nora talk politicsDN - 150 markers found at fmr residential school, LCBO workers strike and Jeremy Corban wins (ok, labour too)Story 1 - 150 anomalies have been found at the site of the former residential school at Pimicikmamak.Story 2 - Strike at the LCBO for the first time in the Crown's history. Story 3 - Pro-Palestinian protesters at Western refuse to leave. Story 4 - Israel moves to make the biggest land grab in the West Bank since the Oslo Accords. Story 5 - With a small percentage of the popular vote, Labour careens to victory in the UK. Get bonus content on Patreon H...2024-07-0507 minBig Shiny TakesSpin Doctors (ft. Nora Loreto)Nora Loreto makes her triumphant return to BST and she's got a new book! As the title suggests, Spin Doctors: How Media and Politicians Misdiagnosed the COVID-19 Pandemic deals with how the media created a sea of confusion that obscured the major fault lines of the pandemic. To illustrate Nora's case, we brought an absolutely reprehensible column from Matt Gurney at the website Ontario's public broadcaster, TVO. He wants you to know that he cares about COVID deaths, he really does, but at the end of the day people die of all sorts of causes, and that's a...2021-12-191h 46
Harbinger Society PresentsFailed Federalism in a Pandemic YearOn a new episode the panel buries Federalism as writer Nora Loreto (Sandy and Nora Talk Politics), chemist Ada McVean and podcaster extraordinaire Aliya Pabani (We Are Not the Virus) join host Andre Goulet to discuss what the colliding crises in long-term care, homelessness and academia tell us about the limitations of government in an increasingly fake country after almost a year of pandemic trauma.Plus: Atlantic correspondent James Brown gets something off of his 'chess' and Forgotten Corner hosts Jeremy Appel, Scott Schmidt and Dr. Roberta Lexier weigh in on the insane possibility of a spring federal...2021-07-0457 minBig Shiny TakesHackabuski (ft. Nora Loreto)PULL THE EMERGENCY BRAKE, IT'S TIME FOR ANOTHER EPISODE OF BIG SHINY TAKES! Marino, Eric and Jeremy are joined by the great Nora Loreto to review columns by two incredibly talentless hacks: Konrad Yakabuski and Kelly McParland. Yakabuski covers Quebec in a completely addled column which is both infuriating and disorienting. He manages to jam in references to Mordecai Richler, Matt Green, Amir Attaran, The University of Ottawa, The Bosnian War, and a specific word that he seems particularly annoyed about not being allowed to say, but he doesn't seem to know what point he's t...2021-04-031h 20
Harbinger Showcase(UNLOCKED) Failed Federalism in a Pandemic Year (Harbinger Society Presents ep9)On an unlocked new episode of Harbinger Society Presents the panel buries Federalism as writer Nora Loreto (Sandy and Nora Talk Politics), chemist Ada McVean and podcaster extraordinaire Aliya Pabani (We Are Not the Virus) join host Andre Goulet to discuss what the colliding crises in long-term care, homelessness and academia tell us about the limitations of government in an increasingly fake country after almost a year of pandemic trauma.Plus: Atlantic correspondent James Brown gets something off of his 'chess' and Forgotten Corner hosts Jeremy Appel, Scott Schmidt and Dr. Roberta Lexier weigh in on the insane...2021-02-2757 minHarbinger Showcase(UNLOCKED) Failed Federalism in a Pandemic Year (Harbinger Society Presents ep9)On an unlocked new episode of Harbinger Society Presents the panel buries Federalism as writer Nora Loreto (Sandy and Nora Talk Politics), chemist Ada McVean and podcaster extraordinaire Aliya Pabani (We Are Not the Virus) join host Andre Goulet to discuss what the colliding crises in long-term care, homelessness and academia tell us about the limitations of government in an increasingly fake country after almost a year of pandemic trauma.Plus: Atlantic correspondent James Brown gets something off of his 'chess' and Forgotten Corner hosts Jeremy Appel, Scott Schmidt and Dr. Roberta Lexier weigh in on the insane...2021-02-2757 min