Canada’s most startling political history podcast is back for another season, as host Tristin Hopper brings you the wildest Canadian stories you might think you remember and revealing what you haven’t been told. We talk to the politicians, journalists and newsmakers who were right there when history happened — and have a lot of fun along the way.

Canada Did What?!
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Canada’s most startling political history podcast is back for another season, as host Tristin Hopper brings you the wildest Canadian stories you might think you remember and revealing what you haven’t been told. We talk to the politicians, journalists and newsmakers who were right there when history happened — and have a lot of fun along the way.
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Recent Episodes

April 14, 2026
The curse of the Rob Ford crack video (Bonus episode)
Host Evan Solomon explores the bizarre saga of the Rob Ford crack video and its far-reaching consequences for Toronto's political and criminal underworld.

April 7, 2026
A boy genius turns to international villainy
He was an all-Canadian whiz kid, a celebrated rocket-engineering prodigy, who wanted to make this country a serious player in the 1960s space race. But when science sidestepped Gerald Bull’s plan to build gargantuan guns that could launch projectiles into orbit, he just … broke. He turned his brilliance in missile design to darker pursuits, building horrible weapons for sinister regimes. If it sounds like a spy novel, it ends like one too, with Bull meeting a violent, mysterious end of his own.

March 31, 2026
The Charter was a huge mistake
It’s lionized by politicians but, in the real world, Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms has proved less a symbol of democratic liberty than an agent of destruction. Since becoming constitutional law, the Charter has run roughshod over Canadian democracy, weaponized in the courts to overturn popular and vital policies. In 1982, there were plenty of people on the left and the right who tried to warn us of the coming devastation before it happened. It ended up being worse than they imagined.
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