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Hosted by Unknown Host · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 80 episodes
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A podcast about highly specific Canadian culture & history. Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/CanuckIsASlur Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/RCACQQue28 Watch us on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@CanuckIsASlur Follow our various socials: https://linktr.ee/CanuckIsASlur
Unknown Host hosts Canuck is a Slur, a history show with 80 episodes published.
![The Odyssey [with Cariad Heather Keigher] || CIAS Bonus Preview episode artwork](https://media.rss.com/bornunderpunchs/ep_cover_20260817_042800_cb040152ddf06c123cfa0c7ad5185496.png)
The Odyssey! You can't avoid it. Everyone's been talking about this lately. Not sure why, honestly...I'd never seen it before. There's a kid with a magical head injury? Children rove in gangs of librarians, rollerblading
![Emily Murphy — The Black Candle [with Jamie Loftus] || CIAS #30.2 episode artwork](https://media.rss.com/bornunderpunchs/ep_cover_20260807_224037_acabccf7dc82d42e55bae848d1ec7a0c.png)
Jamie Loftus returns to explore the life of "Janey Canuck" (the #74 Greatest Canadian) as a public figure, and all of the issues she encountered: Sexism! Racism! Temperance! Opium! Birth control! Sex work! Alimony! Eugen
![Emily Murphy — Janey Canuck in the West [with Jamie Loftus] || CIAS #30.1 episode artwork](https://media.rss.com/bornunderpunchs/ep_cover_20260802_073735_00de5876b903666401c389ff29325006.png)
One of the biggest legal battles in Canadian feminist history was orchestrated by "The Famous Five": a group of women's rights activists in early-20th-century Alberta. Jamie Loftus , host of many podcasts and author of R
![Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie the Podcast [with Caitlin Durante] || CIAS #27 episode artwork](https://media.rss.com/bornunderpunchs/ep_cover_20260622_040639_b50c01b75675c36b5fcc1ae4ad64826f.png)
Caitlin Durante from The Bechdel Cast brings you the rare "guest's choice" episode, in order to answer the question: can two goofy white dudes truly make a good movie? The answer may surprise you! Please note that there
Goon (2011) is a bad movie that I decided wasn't worth subjecting an upcoming guest to. However, my partner had already sat through it...so I decided to double down and make her watch Slap Shot (1977), on the promise tha
![Jacques Cartier — The Kingdom of Saguenay [with Billy Wayne Davis] || CIAS #26.2 episode artwork](https://media.rss.com/bornunderpunchs/ep_cover_20260601_100612_7e58cce112b3aa194213df4aaac611d0.png)
Billy Wayne Davis is back for the second half of the voyages of Jacques Cartier, amidst the increasingly absurd promises of a wonderland of riches and mythical creatures...somewhere up the Saguenay River. Will they find
![Jacques Cartier — The Land God Gave to Cain [with Billy Wayne Davis] || CIAS #26.1 episode artwork](https://media.rss.com/bornunderpunchs/ep_cover_20260523_010543_7f9691c0c0ed74d19f6515ea2d320a13.png)
Comedian Billy Wayne Davis brings his expertise to the age-old question: "What if El Dorado was in Québec?" This proposition will carry us through two episodes covering the three 16th-century voyages of the Breton ship c
![Uh-Oh! [with Failure to Launch] || CIAS Bonus Preview episode artwork](https://media.rss.com/bornunderpunchs/ep_cover_20260511_070541_d50c8eedba1cf220f8626f7a023971f7.png)
Chris, Chris and the Goo Gimp from Failure to Launch all enter the sick, twisted world of Twink Yahoo and come out slimier at the end of it. Topics include the Canadian/American goo gap, whether the Goo Gimp was complici
![History Bitten [with Rick Green] || CIAS #25 episode artwork](https://media.rss.com/bornunderpunchs/ep_cover_20260506_040538_6f6a27ca479a488722b76bf114500bdb.png)
Comedian Rick Green (The Frantics), co-creator of The Red Green Show and the creator of History Bites, is on the show to share his experience of trying to make pop history for television. We also talk a little Red Green,
![Canadian Bacon (1995) [with A.J. Ditty] || CIAS #24 episode artwork](https://media.rss.com/bornunderpunchs/ep_cover_20260429_050444_e20c501ab6ef892a8563b0168f3a4a72.png)
A.J. Ditty from The Worst of All Possible Worlds brings his media analysis to the only fictional feature written and directed by American activist filmmaker Michael Moore: Canadian Bacon, in which an unpopular U.S. presi
![Marshall McLuhan [with Jordan Mandel] || CIAS Bonus Preview episode artwork](https://media.rss.com/bornunderpunchs/ep_cover_20260410_070405_0d4da6a90b6d2c09f2ae60f74a4058c5.png)
Musician & writer Jordan Mandel facilitates a crash course on Marshall McLuhan, the 62nd Greatest Canadian. Support us on Patreon for access to the full episode: https://patreon.com/CanuckIsASlur Join our Discord: https:
Nicole (noted friend-, host-, and Nicole-of-the-show) is back for another round of punishment. This time, it's to read a book Kelly found in a trash bag: "Decoy Ops: Fighting Street Crime Undercover", which is about what
!["The Greatest Canadian" Pitch — Sook-Yin Lee for Terry Fox [with Our Stories And Our Selves] || CIAS #22 episode artwork](https://media.rss.com/bornunderpunchs/ep_cover_20260319_060321_44764f456d64a05fadbc2f6ffd23f5fd.png)
In 1980, Terry Fox tried to run across the country on one leg to raise money for cancer research. Can we take this unproblematic, universally beloved, unequivocal hero and still extract a downer episode out of it? Tune i
![Cybercrime 1977 [with Cariad Heather Keigher] || CIAS Bonus Preview episode artwork](https://media.rss.com/bornunderpunchs/ep_cover_20260304_060353_d5ddca9fb4b5bda515b0044755df1f6e.png)
Cariad finishes the story of the first computer crime in Canada, and we discuss its effects on the subsequent evolution of the theft of ones and zeros. Support us on Patreon for access to the full episode: https://patreo
![Keep Your Head Up, Kid: The Don Cherry Story (Part 1) [with Australian Gothic] || CIAS #21 episode artwork](https://media.rss.com/bornunderpunchs/ep_cover_20260217_120204_671f7e283b573e7bb6cba2c52235ff18.png)
Before Shoresy, before even Letterkenny, Jared Keeso was just some unknown hockey-player turned actor...portraying friend-of-the-show Don Cherry in a TV-movie series. And he's looking GOOD doing it, folks. I mean, REALLY
![A Brief History of Computer [with Cariad Heather Keigher] || CIAS Bonus Preview episode artwork](https://media.rss.com/bornunderpunchs/ep_cover_20260207_020256_f23f0e7cb919a0e6f7c59d6f7e74856d.png)
Cariad returns to the show to explain computers to Kelly like he's an idiot (because he is), and answer his questions on why they're evil. This is all to explain how the first-ever computer crime took place at the Univer
It's the Albanian Bunker Episode! It's an episode recorded in a bunker in Albania. Topics include: bunkers, tourism, and animal welfare. Please note that there is a version of this episode with slides, if you prefer. You
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Like many podcasts, we decided to give the public a free bonus episode for the holidays—and there's no holiday more important in the annals of Canuck is a Slur than Orthodox Christmas! Or, more accurately, Christmas acco
![Glyphosate [with Seedpod] || CIAS Bonus Preview episode artwork](https://media.rss.com/bornunderpunchs/ep_cover_20260107_050154_9f2ca3f789e405af41ed7e9eb6b22e3a.png)
The hosts of SeedPod are here to explain the ins and outs of herbicides, including glyphosate—the main target of the "Stop Spraying New Brunswick" campaign. Check out SeedPod wherever you get your podcasts! Support us on
![History of Football — The Horse With No Name [with Beyond the Breakers] || CIAS #19.9 episode artwork](https://media.rss.com/bornunderpunchs/ep_cover_20251225_041203_721ddd8672ce9768fcc8f592f5a2b702.png)
Fresh off of learning about the unmitigated clownshow that was the Las Vegas Posse, we ask the question: "Okay but what if you made it really humid, too? What if you added circus animals?? What if the field tried to kill
Billy Wayne Davis
2 appearances on this show
Rick Green
Executive Editor · Lexington Herald-Leader
1 appearance on this show
Sook-Yin Lee
award-winning filmmaker
1 appearance on this show
Sook-Yin Lee
award-winning filmmaker
1 appearance on this show
Andrew Grant
comedian with a master's in linguistics · Tasman Environmental Markets
1 appearance on this show
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